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Drunken Master HD:1d8
Starting Skill, roll 1d6: 1-2 [Drunk], 3-4 [Soldier], 5-6 [Sailor]
Starting Equipment: Leather Armor, Medium Weapon, 4 Bottles of Ale
Drunk
1. You were a lowlife who collected endless tabs to buy endless drinks. Start with a bad sense of money and a free Liquor
2. You were a gladiator who usually spent all their money on drinks, but one day forgot to not get drunk before a fight. Start with 5sp for winning that fight drunk.
3. You were the owner of a bar a strange person agreed to teach you to fight, but only if both of you were drunk. Start with a bar which is a continent away but may mail you quality drinks each time you level up.
4. You have been searching for the greatest alcoholic beverage your entire life. Start with a dream of finding it and 3 extra days of rations.
5. You participated in fight clubs and learned to deal with the pain by getting drunk. Your hands now deal equivalent damage of 2 handing a medium weapon.
6. You were a member of priest order. It was really an excuse to get money out of people and buy drinks. Start with a priest medallion and if you pout your eyes and and speak well you might be able to squeeze some copper pieces from people.
Soldier
1.You served in the army and became a drunkard, you start with an extra 5sp from your time in battle.
2. You commandeered a lot of alcohol while stationed on the border. You always know when a merchant is holding out some merchandise from you.
3. When splitting the loot from a raid you were originally granted 1gp, but your friend was given a wonderful bottle of liquor, they offered a trade and you made the right decision. Start with an extra bottle of liquor.
4. You impressed your commander when you entered battle while drunk and survived. Your commander secured you a hefty bonus of 5sp for this.
5. You were given orders to locate and kill a local hedge witch, while searching in their cottage you drank what you thought would be a nice beverage but was actually enchanted beer. Every morning you start with 1 drunkenness point.
6. You learned how to be drunk and disguise it from your superiors while deployed. Start with a sense of laziness and start with the skill “Hidden Drunk”
Sailor
1. You were skilled in sneaking into warehouses and stealing their rum. Start with the “Stealth” skill and drunkenness points do not impact your stealth checks.
2. You went too far while drunk one night. You made out with the captains lockbox. You have no clue what’s in it but you know it’s incredibly difficult to open and if attempted to be opened improperly it will never open again. Plus your captain is still looking for you.
3. Your crew were all killed by mermaids who pulled everyone except you down into the ocean. You don’t really remember it much because you were downing your 10th bottle of rum at the time.
4. During an assault on an oceanic fort things were going well. Especially when you snuck away from the fighting and into the storage room to drink all their rum. Get a +1 to all rolls when you leave your allies to do your own thing while they fight the enemy.
5. You learned that the best way to survive when boarding another ship was to stay back near your bow. Start with a bow and a bundle of arrows, you also your drunkenness points do not impact your ranged attacks
6. You helped the captain navigate dangerous waters and find the treasure chest marked with an X on the map. He gave you an extra 5sp for your efforts.
Archetypes
A. Drunk Fighting, Pain Killers
B. Beer Goggles
C. This Stuff is like Magic
D. Burp of Burps, Your Brain’s made out of this Stuff
Drunk Fighting
The normal penalties to being drunk no longer apply to melee attacks but it’s still applied normally to everything else.
Pain Killers
Each point of drunkenness increases your HP by 1, to a maximum of 4. You can still have more than 4 points of drunkenness. This can boost your HP above 20.
Beer Goggles
Before making an attack roll you can choose to endure the normal penalties of being drunk but you also get to add an amount of damage equal to your drunkenness. The penalty to hit and the boost to damage can only be a minimum/maximum of -4 and +4 respectively.
For example: If you have 5 drunkenness points, and you activate Beer Goggles, you take a -4 to hit, and a +4 to damage.
2. You commandeered a lot of alcohol while stationed on the border. You always know when a merchant is holding out some merchandise from you.
3. When splitting the loot from a raid you were originally granted 1gp, but your friend was given a wonderful bottle of liquor, they offered a trade and you made the right decision. Start with an extra bottle of liquor.
4. You impressed your commander when you entered battle while drunk and survived. Your commander secured you a hefty bonus of 5sp for this.
5. You were given orders to locate and kill a local hedge witch, while searching in their cottage you drank what you thought would be a nice beverage but was actually enchanted beer. Every morning you start with 1 drunkenness point.
6. You learned how to be drunk and disguise it from your superiors while deployed. Start with a sense of laziness and start with the skill “Hidden Drunk”
Sailor
1. You were skilled in sneaking into warehouses and stealing their rum. Start with the “Stealth” skill and drunkenness points do not impact your stealth checks.
2. You went too far while drunk one night. You made out with the captains lockbox. You have no clue what’s in it but you know it’s incredibly difficult to open and if attempted to be opened improperly it will never open again. Plus your captain is still looking for you.
3. Your crew were all killed by mermaids who pulled everyone except you down into the ocean. You don’t really remember it much because you were downing your 10th bottle of rum at the time.
4. During an assault on an oceanic fort things were going well. Especially when you snuck away from the fighting and into the storage room to drink all their rum. Get a +1 to all rolls when you leave your allies to do your own thing while they fight the enemy.
5. You learned that the best way to survive when boarding another ship was to stay back near your bow. Start with a bow and a bundle of arrows, you also your drunkenness points do not impact your ranged attacks
6. You helped the captain navigate dangerous waters and find the treasure chest marked with an X on the map. He gave you an extra 5sp for your efforts.
Archetypes
A. Drunk Fighting, Pain Killers
B. Beer Goggles
C. This Stuff is like Magic
D. Burp of Burps, Your Brain’s made out of this Stuff
Drunk Fighting
The normal penalties to being drunk no longer apply to melee attacks but it’s still applied normally to everything else.
Pain Killers
Each point of drunkenness increases your HP by 1, to a maximum of 4. You can still have more than 4 points of drunkenness. This can boost your HP above 20.
Beer Goggles
Before making an attack roll you can choose to endure the normal penalties of being drunk but you also get to add an amount of damage equal to your drunkenness. The penalty to hit and the boost to damage can only be a minimum/maximum of -4 and +4 respectively.
For example: If you have 5 drunkenness points, and you activate Beer Goggles, you take a -4 to hit, and a +4 to damage.
For example: If you have 3 drunkenness points, and you activate Beer Goggles, you take a -3 to hit, and a +3 to damage.
This Stuff is like Magic
When you take a long lunch to restore HP you can choose to expel drunkenness points up to your level and regain that much HP, on top of the usual recovery during a long lunch.
The Burp of Burps
As an action you can choose to expel an amount of drunkenness of your choosing into the ultimate burp. This is a cone shape with a range of 30ft. It deals damage equal to the drunkenness points expelled to a maximum of 4.
Your Brain’s made out of this Stuff
Drunkenness points no longer detracts from your initiative roles.
This Stuff is like Magic
When you take a long lunch to restore HP you can choose to expel drunkenness points up to your level and regain that much HP, on top of the usual recovery during a long lunch.
The Burp of Burps
As an action you can choose to expel an amount of drunkenness of your choosing into the ultimate burp. This is a cone shape with a range of 30ft. It deals damage equal to the drunkenness points expelled to a maximum of 4.
Your Brain’s made out of this Stuff
Drunkenness points no longer detracts from your initiative roles.
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I like this class because it introduces a whole new resource for the player to track.
I'm a little concerned that the abilities Pain Killers and Beer Goggles aren't good enough but overall I like the class and making the names for the abilities was fun.
