Tortoise Folk Paragon (3.5e Racial Paragon Class)

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Date Created:	June 14/10
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Tortoise Folk Paragon

Known for their limitless endurance, tortoise paragons are a powerful force to be reckoned with. Many of them practice a tradition of mercantile arts, while others may use their strengths for more brutal efforts.

Making a Tortoise Folk Paragon

Abilities: Constitution is the most important ability score to tortoise paragons. Their combat tactics are highly defensive and they are able to soak up a huge amount of damage before they fall.

Races: Tortoise folk, obviously.

Alignment: Any.

Table: The Tortoise Folk Paragon

Hit Die: d8

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special
		Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+1	+2	+0	+0	Powerful Lineage
2nd	+2	+3	+0	+0	Steely Carapace
3rd	+3	+3	+1	+1	Ability Boost (+2 Con)
Class Skills (Skill Points::4 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Gather Information (Cha), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Profession (Wis), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), Tumble (Dex), Use Rope (Dex).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the tortoise folk paragon.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Tortoise folk paragons are proficient with all simple and martial weapons, with light, medium, and heavy armor, and with shields (but not with tower shields).

Powerful Lineage (Ex): Tortoise folk paragons have powerful traits from deep within their lineage. They gain an additional racial ability from the list of racial abilities they chose at character creation (such as snapper).

Steely Carapace (Ex): Tortoise folk paragons have a shell so strong that its outermost area is as strong as steel. A tortoise folk paragon can have their shell count as a metal armor of their choice. Once chosen, this descision cannot be changed. The shell can be enchanted like normal magic armor, but it does not count as carried weight by the tortoise. The material defaults as masterwork steel, but the tortoise folk paragon can spend the cost difference of another material to treat his shell with magical oils that make it behave like the other material (so he could pay for it to act like mithral armor by paying 1,000 gp, 4,000 gp, or 9,000 gp depending on the type of armor he chose his shell to act as). It can only have the properties of one material.

Furthermore, when the tortoise reaches 5 HD, he can have his shell enchanted with the light fortification property for 3,000 gp instead of the usual +1 modifier.

When the tortoise reaches 10 HD, he can have his shell enchanted with the moderate fortification property for 15,000 gp instead of the usual +3 modifier.

When the tortoise folk reaches 15 HD, he can have his shell enchanted with the heavy fortification property for 35,000 gp instead of the usual +5 modifier.

Ability Boost (Ex): Tortoise folk paragons are extremely resilient and increase their Constitution score by 2.

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