Admiral Squish
2010-12-17, 06:15 PM
Titan-Souled
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Titan-souled are warriors, first and foremost. A distant relative of gnomes, the titan-souled live in walled cities on the plains, where they practice their warrior's craft. they are valuable mercenaries, but their temperament makes them somewhat risky to deal with.
Personality:
The titan-souled are a strict, militaristic people. However, this hasn't cost them their individuality. The titan-souled are efficient and courageous when it comes to warfare or battle of any kind, but once they relax they become fun-loving and extremely loyal friends, especially with those they fight alongside. They have little tolerance for disrespect, and anyone making a short joke is likely to lose a toe or two by way of a warning. Those around them quickly learn to avoid such comments.
Physical Description:
The titan-souled stand about three feet tall, give or take a few inches, and usually weigh between 80-100 pounds. Their bodies are extremely dense with a subtle muscle, and their bones are nearly diamond. Their skin looks slightly rosy, and it's soft to the touch, but it proves to be remarkably resilient to damage. both males and females are known to have hair of bizarre colors, from pink to blue to green to snowy white, even red or black. Both males and females favor elaborate styles when they go out to have fun, but they also wear their hair practically when getting ready for combat. Most are mature by age 50, and naturally, they can live up to 750 years old. Very few reach that age, however, dying in battle of some sort.
Relations:
Titan-souled get along pleasantly with dwarves who share their lawful and logical approach to combat as well as their militaristic lifestyle, but they generally disconnect on the social aspects, though sometimes dwarves can loosen up enough to keep up with a titan-souled in a social setting. Most titan-souled can have a little trouble with the taller races at first, though those who know of them generally are smart enough to avoid the short comments.
Alignment:
Most titan-souled are lawful good. Their society strongly emphasizes the good of the community over the good of the individual, and most titan-souled find work in the military, or, failing that, as mercenaries. The titan-souled believe in personal strength and strongly dislike showing weakness or dependence on others.
Titan-Souled Lands:
Titan-souled live in walled, fortified cities on the plains, their stone walls crenelated, with massive gates and numerous defenses in place. The titan-souled offer military alliances to their neighbors in exchange for positive trade arrangements. Those who come to visit are rarely allowed into the inner city, where the military installments are placed, and they often keep an close eye on them. Titan-souled who settle outside their own lands are often exiles or mercenaries.
Religion:
The titan-souled worship their own pantheon of gods who focus on the community of the titan-souled, war, and strength. They also worship a number of powerful earth-elemental beings.
Language:
The titan-souled speak a dialect of gnomish and write with dwarven script. Their language has many words relating to combat and battle. There are many different words to describe strikes and parries, as well as different tactical maneuvers.
Names:
Titan-souled have a more logical system of names than their gnomish cousins. First names and family names are given at birth, and used until a titan-souled comes of age, where a titan-souled chooses an adult name. As they progress though life, they gain a number of other names or titles based on their accomplishments. A formal introduction for an accomplished titan-soul can take several minutes.
Adventurers:
Most titan-souled adventurers are mercenaries of one sort or another, or exiles. A great many titan-souled adventurers become martial adepts, usually warblades or swordsages. Most take the path of adventurer because it's the fast track to both wealth and recognition, and it aligns nicely with their martial talents.
Titan-Souled
+4 Strength, +4 Constitution, -2 Intelligence -4 Wisdom: Titan-souled are incredibly strong and tough for their size, but they aren't particularly intelligent and they lack foresight.
Small: As a Small creature, a titan-souled gains a +1 size bonus to Armor Class, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, and a +4 size bonus on Hide checks, but he uses smaller weapons than humans use, and his lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters of those of a Medium character.
Titan-souled base land speed is 20 feet.
Low-light Vision: A titan-souled can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
Natural Armor: titan-souled have +4 natural armor due to their tough skin.
Leverage: The incredible strength and special training of a titan-souled lets him function in many ways as if he were one size category larger. Whenever a titan-souled is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for an opposed check (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the titan-souled is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. A titan-souled can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject’s size category.
Favored Class: Warblade. A multiclass titan-souled warblade's class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty.
Level Adjustment: +1
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So, this was my attempt to produce a playable race based off the idea of the Cute Bruiser. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteBruiser)
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2009/364/9/4/Dwarf_by_vielmond.png
Titan-souled are warriors, first and foremost. A distant relative of gnomes, the titan-souled live in walled cities on the plains, where they practice their warrior's craft. they are valuable mercenaries, but their temperament makes them somewhat risky to deal with.
Personality:
The titan-souled are a strict, militaristic people. However, this hasn't cost them their individuality. The titan-souled are efficient and courageous when it comes to warfare or battle of any kind, but once they relax they become fun-loving and extremely loyal friends, especially with those they fight alongside. They have little tolerance for disrespect, and anyone making a short joke is likely to lose a toe or two by way of a warning. Those around them quickly learn to avoid such comments.
Physical Description:
The titan-souled stand about three feet tall, give or take a few inches, and usually weigh between 80-100 pounds. Their bodies are extremely dense with a subtle muscle, and their bones are nearly diamond. Their skin looks slightly rosy, and it's soft to the touch, but it proves to be remarkably resilient to damage. both males and females are known to have hair of bizarre colors, from pink to blue to green to snowy white, even red or black. Both males and females favor elaborate styles when they go out to have fun, but they also wear their hair practically when getting ready for combat. Most are mature by age 50, and naturally, they can live up to 750 years old. Very few reach that age, however, dying in battle of some sort.
Relations:
Titan-souled get along pleasantly with dwarves who share their lawful and logical approach to combat as well as their militaristic lifestyle, but they generally disconnect on the social aspects, though sometimes dwarves can loosen up enough to keep up with a titan-souled in a social setting. Most titan-souled can have a little trouble with the taller races at first, though those who know of them generally are smart enough to avoid the short comments.
Alignment:
Most titan-souled are lawful good. Their society strongly emphasizes the good of the community over the good of the individual, and most titan-souled find work in the military, or, failing that, as mercenaries. The titan-souled believe in personal strength and strongly dislike showing weakness or dependence on others.
Titan-Souled Lands:
Titan-souled live in walled, fortified cities on the plains, their stone walls crenelated, with massive gates and numerous defenses in place. The titan-souled offer military alliances to their neighbors in exchange for positive trade arrangements. Those who come to visit are rarely allowed into the inner city, where the military installments are placed, and they often keep an close eye on them. Titan-souled who settle outside their own lands are often exiles or mercenaries.
Religion:
The titan-souled worship their own pantheon of gods who focus on the community of the titan-souled, war, and strength. They also worship a number of powerful earth-elemental beings.
Language:
The titan-souled speak a dialect of gnomish and write with dwarven script. Their language has many words relating to combat and battle. There are many different words to describe strikes and parries, as well as different tactical maneuvers.
Names:
Titan-souled have a more logical system of names than their gnomish cousins. First names and family names are given at birth, and used until a titan-souled comes of age, where a titan-souled chooses an adult name. As they progress though life, they gain a number of other names or titles based on their accomplishments. A formal introduction for an accomplished titan-soul can take several minutes.
Adventurers:
Most titan-souled adventurers are mercenaries of one sort or another, or exiles. A great many titan-souled adventurers become martial adepts, usually warblades or swordsages. Most take the path of adventurer because it's the fast track to both wealth and recognition, and it aligns nicely with their martial talents.
Titan-Souled
+4 Strength, +4 Constitution, -2 Intelligence -4 Wisdom: Titan-souled are incredibly strong and tough for their size, but they aren't particularly intelligent and they lack foresight.
Small: As a Small creature, a titan-souled gains a +1 size bonus to Armor Class, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, and a +4 size bonus on Hide checks, but he uses smaller weapons than humans use, and his lifting and carrying limits are three-quarters of those of a Medium character.
Titan-souled base land speed is 20 feet.
Low-light Vision: A titan-souled can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
Natural Armor: titan-souled have +4 natural armor due to their tough skin.
Leverage: The incredible strength and special training of a titan-souled lets him function in many ways as if he were one size category larger. Whenever a titan-souled is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for an opposed check (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the titan-souled is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. A titan-souled can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject’s size category.
Favored Class: Warblade. A multiclass titan-souled warblade's class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty.
Level Adjustment: +1
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So, this was my attempt to produce a playable race based off the idea of the Cute Bruiser. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteBruiser)