My latest DCC campaign is influenced by the Santo film,
La Furia de los Karatecas. I wanted to include some type of monk (which DCC does not have), so I turned to the OSR Monk class from Venger Satanis'
The Islands of Purple-Haunted Putrescence. There is a fairly basic monk there that would work for my purposes, but I also do not want two things to happen:
- los karatecas should not be significantly cooler than characters
- los karatecas are henchmen of the real bad guys, and should not outshine them
So, I am making them scalable.
- AC is 11 + 1/2 hit dice (level), rounded down
- Hit Dice: 1d6 per "level"
- No armor
- Simple weapons
- Los karatecas get a deed die, as a warrior of the same "level", which can be used as follows:
- Every round el karateca gets to concentrate on an opponent they roll a deed die; on four successes (3 or better) they have found a weakness they can exploit for
- double damage on next damage roll
- knock opponent prone
- reduce a physical ability by 1
- Alternately, they may (on a successful deed) distract opponents, allowing an ally advantage on their next attack, or an ally may flee combat freely
- Karatecas may "dual wield" as normal, but do not gain the below benefits.
Los Karatecas get the following per "level" with open hand attacks
- d20 action die, 1d4 damage
- d20 action die, 1d6 damage
- d20 action die, 1d8, d14 action die, 1d4 damage
- d20 action die, 1d10 damage, d14 action die, 1d6 damage
- d20 action die, 1d12 damage, d16 action die, 1d6 damage
- d20 action die, 2d6+1 damage, d16 action die, 1d8 damage
- d20 action die, 2d4 damage, two attacks per round from here on
- d20 action die, 2d6 damage, attacks count as magical
- d20 action die, 2d8 damage, 1 in 6 chance of stunning for 1d4 rounds
- d20 action die, 2d10 damage, 1 in 3 chance of stunning for 1d4 rounds
2 comments:
Cool, hoss. Thanks for taking inspiration from The Purple Islands!
I always forget to check for comments :-)
I like the class a lot, I still need to see how this one plays out at the table.
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