Once More You Dogs, Into The Breach! (NPC Class)

[BRC]

The Officer (NPC Class)
Hit Die
D6
Skill points at 1st level
(3+int modifier)x4
Skill points at each additional level
3+int modifier
Class Skills
The Officer’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Climb (Str), Diplomacy (Cha),Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Ride (Dex), Sense Motive (Wis) Spot (Wis) and Swim (Str)

Level	BaseAttack Bonus	FortSave	Ref Save	WillSave	Special
1st	+0	+2	+0	+2	inspire courage +1
2nd	+1	+3	+0	+3
3rd	+2	+3	+1	+3	Inspire competence
4th	+3	+4	+1	+4
5th	+3	+4	+1	+4
6th	+4	+5	+2	+5
7th	+5	+5	+2	+5
8th	+6/+1	+6	+2	+6	Inspire courage +2
9th	+6/+1	+6	+3	+6	Inspire greatness
10th	+7/+2	+7	+3	+7
11th	+8/+3	+7	+3	+7
12th	+9/+4	+8	+4	+8
13th	+9/+4	+8	+4	+8
14th	+10/+5	+9	+4	+9	Inspire courage +3
15th	+11/+6/+1	+9	+5	+9	Inspire heroics
16th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10
17th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10
18th	+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+11
19th	+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+11
20th	+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+12	Inspire courage +4

Features:
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: An Officer is Proficient in all simple and martial weapons and with all armor and shields.
Inspire Courage: This ability, along with all other Officer special abilities function exactly like the Bard abilities of the same names with a few changes. Instead of using Perform the Officer uses Intimidate or Diplomacy, In addition the Officer can only inspire characters with a character level less than or equal to the Officer’s class level plus her charisma bonus. These abilities do not stack with any other inspiration abilities from Bards or other Officers.

Any Comments/Questions?

[reorith]

is inspire heroics the same as the bard class feature? cuz that would be nifty.
edit:oh man how did i miss that.

[BRC]

Originally Posted by reorith

is inspire heroics the same as the bard class feature? cuz that would be nifty.

As I specified, all the features are identical to the bard class features except that they use diplomacy or intimdate instead of Perform and it only works on characters whose character level is equal to or less than the Officer's class level plus her charisma bonus.

[BRC]

I assume from the lack of comments that nobody thinks it's unbalanced?

[Zenos]

Originally Posted by Bloddyredcommie

I assume from the lack of comments that nobody thinks it's unbalanced?

Doesn't seem so. It's practicaly a bard who can walk around in full plate and doesn't have any bardic knowledge or anything. Could work out fine if your guys have an army udner their disposal/as allies.

[Xefas]

Originally Posted by Zenos

Doesn't seem so. It's practicaly a bard who can walk around in full plate and doesn't have any bardic knowledge or anything. Could work out fine if your guys have an army udner their disposal/as allies.

It isn't much close to the Bard at all. It has half the skill points, and a worse selection of class skills (no Use Magic Device, Bluff, or Tumble, to name a few). Though, the biggest difference is obviously that it has no arcane magic.

That said, it would still be the best NPC class in almost any combat situation, save for those when you're completely alone and the other side has melee combatants. (Even alone and against casters, it's better than the others because of the extra save.)

[BRC]

Originally Posted by Xefas

It isn't much close to the Bard at all. It has half the skill points, and a worse selection of class skills (no Use Magic Device, Bluff, or Tumble, to name a few). Though, the biggest difference is obviously that it has no arcane magic.

That said, it would still be the best NPC class in almost any combat situation, save for those when you're completely alone and the other side has melee combatants. (Even alone and against casters, it's better than the others because of the extra save.)

Hmm, How abouts I lower all the saves to be more on-par with the warriors save and maybe reduce the proficiency to medium armor instead of all.

[Zenos]

Originally Posted by Xefas

It isn't much close to the Bard at all. It has half the skill points, and a worse selection of class skills (no Use Magic Device, Bluff, or Tumble, to name a few). Though, the biggest difference is obviously that it has no arcane magic.

That said, it would still be the best NPC class in almost any combat situation, save for those when you're completely alone and the other side has melee combatants. (Even alone and against casters, it's better than the others because of the extra save.)

I was trying to say it hasn't got any of the fun stuff the bard has, like arcane magic, a good supply of skill points and fascinate and such...

[Learnedguy]

I'd lower his BAB and fortitude save. But otherwise, pretty nifty