Hulking Brute for OSE

This is a new class with obvious inspiration. It also leans more silver age than golden age, but I thought it would be fun. The class is powerful, but also requires a lot more experience to level up and has some drawbacks.

Hulking Brute

Requirements: None

Prime requisite: WIS

Hit Dice: 1d6

Armour: Leather, no shields

Weapons: Any

Languages: Native tongue

The hulking brute leads two lives. They are mild-mannered individuals until a specific type of outside stimuli transforms them into a brutish form capable of causing great destruction. Whether they were changed by scientific experimentation, magical curses, or nuclear accident, their savage strength and decreased wits make them incredible, but dangerous allies.

Transformation: 

A hulking brute has a stimulus that will bring out its monstrous brutish form. This is often a strong emotional trigger, such as anger or fear. They can resist it by making a death/poison saving throw with a -3 penalty. The hulking brute may automatically choose to fail the saving throw. It takes one round to transform into brute form and any armor or clothing worn is shredded and rendered useless.

Brute Form: While transformed into their brute form, the hulking brute gains the following benefits and drawbacks:

·         Strength score is increased by 6 points and Intelligence score is decreased by 6 points (minimum 3)

·         Natural AC of 3 [16].

·         Only takes half damage (minimum 1) from nonmagical attacks.

·         Unarmed attacks do 1d6 damage, can throw debris that does 1d4 damage (use Spear missile ranges)

·         Once per day the hulking brute can do a thunderous clap that creates a 15’ cone originating from the hulking brute, all creatures in the cone must make a breath weapon saving throw or take 1d6 damage. The hulking brute gains another use of this ability at 4^th level and 8^th level

·         +3 to attacks, damage, and saving throws, this increases to +4 at 5^th level and +5 at 10^th level

·         Movement rate of 180’ (60’) and in combat can leap up to one half of their base movement.

·         Perform feats of extreme strength (such as lift a car or smash through a wall) by making an Open doors roll.

·         2-in-6 chance to enter berserker rage when taking damage, being unable to make a distinction between villain, bystander, or hero for 1d4 rounds.

·         If reduced to 0 hit points, the hulking brute returns to their normal form, is unconscious and at 1 hit point

·         Can end transformation if outside of combat or triggering situation

 

Combat: 

While in their natural form, hulking brutes rely on light armor and weapons like any other person. In their brute form they will occasionally use improvised weaponry but tend to rely on their unarmed attacks and natural armor to win confrontations.

After Reaching 8^th-Level: 

At 8^th-level, the hulking brute has gained the friendship and loyalty of a small group of normal individuals that look after them, whether in normal or brute form. They gain 2d6 1^st level friends of classes chosen by the gamemaster. Even in berserker rage, the hulking brute will never willingly harm one of these friends. Due to the time it takes to form their bond with the hulking brute, these followers cannot be replaced.

 

LEVEL	XP	HD	THAC0	D	W	P	B	S
1	0	1d6	19 [0]	13	14	13	16	15
2	4,000	2d6	19 [0]	13	14	13	16	15
3	8,000	3d6	19 [0]	13	14	13	16	15
4	16,000	4d6	19 [0]	13	14	13	16	15
5	32,000	5d6	17 [+2]	12	13	11	14	13
6	64,000	6d6	17 [+2]	12	13	11	14	13
7	120,000	7d6	17 [+2]	12	13	11	14	13
8	250,000	8d6	17 [+2]	12	13	11	14	13
9	400,000	9d6	14 [+5]	10	11	9	12	10
10	600,000	9d6+2*	14 [+5]	10	11	9	12	10

*Con Modifiers no longer apply

D: Death/poison; W: wands; P: Paralysis/petrify’ B: Breath attacks; S: Spells/rods/staves