Saturday 3 June 2017

LotFP Late Edo Period Samurai Classes

And now for something completely different. This is for a project I am working on over the summer, provisionally titled "Samurai Survival Horror Module". Further details will follow in due course. I am just testing these ideas out for now.

Late Edo Period Samurai Classes

Samurai classes all use the following experience table:


Saving Throws
Level/AB
Experience Points
Hit Points
Paralyze
Poison
Breath Weapon
Magical Device
Magic
1/+1
0
1d8
14
12
15
13
16
2/+2
2000
+1d8
14
12
15
13
16
3/+3
4000
+1d8
14
12
15
13
16
4/+4
8000
+1d8
12
10
13
11
14
5/+5
16,000
+1d8
12
10
13
11
14
6/+6
32,000
+1d8
12
10
13
11
14
7/+7
64,000
+1d8
10
8
9
9
12
8/+8
128,000
+1d8
10
8
9
9
12
9/+9
256,000
+1d8
10
8
9
9
12

Noble - The noble has a stern and regal bearing as befits a member of a cadet branch of his lord's family. He gains an additional +1 AB when using a sword. He can also command a human target using his august charisma once a day (the subject has a saving throw). The target loses the saving throw when the noble is at 4th level. 

Foot Soldier - The foot soldier trains continually for war in the service of his lord. While unremarkable in any other way, in this regard at least he is honed like the finest steel. He gains an additional +1 AB when using a spear. He can also, once a day, seize the moment and force his way to the top of the initiative order for one round of combat. He can do this twice at 4th level. 

Brute - The brute has the strength, size, weight and mass of fat and muscle to make him a perfect wrestler and hence blessed. He gains an additional +1 AB when using a naginata, and can cause fear in undead spirits once a day through stamping (the subject has a saving throw). The target loses the saving throw when the brute is at 4th level.

Aesthete - The aesthete's appreciation for the beauty in each passing moment allows him to forget both the future and the past. He gains an additional +1 AB when using a bow, and can utter poetry to aid concentration once a day, allowing him to automatically succeed in the next dice roll (but only if given time to concentrate). At 4th level he can do this twice a day. 

4 comments:

  1. I bet you can make this a little simpler. Did you see my fighting man?

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  2. Would Noh performers fall under the Aesthete?

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  3. Haha, I actually love this. Not ultimately sure why, though. Perhaps the simplicity (unified table, one favored weapon, one special ability which improves at lvl4)?

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