Mercenary (3.5e Class)

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Date Created:	10/13/2010
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Balance:	Fighter

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{{#set:Allowed Alignments=Lawful Evil}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Neutral Evil}}

Mercenary

A lack of morals, a thirst for power, and the training and brute force of a kiler, these are the aspects that define a mercenary. Heartless murderers, mercenaries do what benefits them and don't care who gets killed in the process. Mercenaries will be paid assassins when enough gold is involved, but they are just as likely to save time by killing their employer and taking the cash.

Making a Mercenary

Mercenaries are skilled combatants and mediocre spellcasters. Although the moras of good-aligned characters disgust them, they will team up with others when it fits their needs.

Abilities: As a combat-oriented class, mercenaries value strength and constitution. A mercenary's skill comes from training and research, and many of a their special abilities are tied to intellegence. Wisdom increases the power a mercenary's spellcasting.

Races: Humans are ambitious, as well as a little greedy, and are the most common mercenaries. Elf mercenaries are stealthy assassins who treat murder as an art. Some gnome and halfling mercenries exist, but they are rare, outcasts of their race. Dwarves are to honorable to be mercenaries, and half-orcs usualy do not show the focus necessary to become mmercenaries.

Alignment: Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil.

Starting Gold: 6d4×10 gp (150 gp).

Starting Age: As fighter

Table: The Mercenary

Hit Die: d10

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Spells per Day
		Fort	Ref	Will		1st	2nd	3rd	4th
1st	+	+	+	+	Aura of Evil, Deathwatch, Deadly Precision 1/day	—	—	—	—
2nd	+	+	+	+	Honed Reflexes, Syphon Soul	—	—	—	—
3rd	+	+	+	+	Aura of Courage, Lethal Acuracy	—	—	—	—
4th	+	+	+	+	Rebuke Undead	0	—	—	—
5th	+	+	+	+	Deadly Precision 2/day, Special Mount	0	—	—	—
6th	+	+	+	+	Slay Living 1/week	1	—	—	—
7th	+	+	+	+		1	—	—	—
8th	+	+	+	+		1	0	—	—
9th	+	+	+	+	Slay Living 2/week	1	0	—	—
10th	+	+	+	+	Deadly Precision 3/day	1	1	—	—
11th	+	+	+	+		1	1	0	—
12th	+	+	+	+	Slay Living 3/week	1	1	1	—
13th	+	+	+	+		1	1	1	—
14th	+	+	+	+		2	1	1	0
15th	+	+	+	+	Deadly Precision 4/day, Slay Living 4/week	2	1	1	1
16th	+	+	+	+		2	2	1	1
17th	+	+	+	+		2	2	2	1
18th	+	+	+	+	Slay Living 5/week	3	2	2	1
19th	+	+	+	+		3	3	3	2
20th	+	+	+	+	Deadly Precision 5/day	3	3	3	3
Class Skills (Skill Points::2 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) <-class skills (and key abilities), simply delete those skills which your class does not have as class skills from the complete list below. -> Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (Int), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Mercenary.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Mercenaries are proficient in all simple and martial weopones, with all types of armor, and with shields (except tower shields).

Spells: Beginning at fourth level, a trained mercenary may know how to cast a small number of arcane spells (the same type of spells available to wizards and sorcerers), which are drawn from the mercenary spell list below. However, there are many differences between mercenaries and other spellcasters.

Spells Known: To learn a spell, a mercenary must have an intellegence score equal to at least 10 + the spell's level. In addition, he must spend 24 hours studying without interuption. A mercenary may know a total number of spells equal to his intellegence modifier.

Casting Spells: Like other spellcasters, a mercenary can only cast a certain number of spells each day. A mercenary with a wizard's spellbook may prepare and cast spells in the same way a wizard would. Unlike wizards, a mercenary does not gain new spells for his spellbook at new levels. He may, however, write spells he already knows (see Writing a New Spell into a Spellbook, p179). Note that this costs 100 gp per spell. A mercenary casting spells this way may choose and prepare spells spells from his spellbook ahead of time each day equal to his base daily spell allotment. He prepares spells by getting a good night's sleep and spending 1 hour studying his spellbook.

Some mercenaries, however, have the inborn skill to cast simple spells without preparation. A mercenary can cast an unprepared spell if he has a wisdom score of at least 3 x the spell level +10, asuming he has already trained to know the spell. For example, a mercenary needs a wisdom score of at least 16 to cast unprepared 2nd level spells. If a mercenary has not prepared spells of a level, he may cast unprepared spells of that level until he has reached his base daily spell allotment for spells of that level. Otherwise, each unprepared spell cast replaces a prepared spell of the same level. A mercenary cannot cast a spell if he has already cast spells of the same level (prepared or unprepared) equal to his base daily spell allotment for spells of that level.

Spell Modifiers: A mercenary recieves bonus spells each day if he has a high enough wisdom score (see Ability Modifiers and Bonus Spells, page 8). The difficulty class for a saving throw against a mercenary's spell is 10 + the spell level + the mercenary's wisdom modifier. Through 3rd level, a mercenary has no caster level. At 4th level and higher, his caster level is one-half his mercenary level.

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