Temptress Multiclassing Options The temptress class is a versatile concept in Conan the Roleplaying Game. The skill rules in Conan the Roleplaying Game further permit customisation by allowing any skill points realised from high Intelligence scores to be spent on any skill as though it were a class skill. Still further, temptresses can take levels in other classes to compliment their own combat mastery or further expand their skills and special qualities. This chapter presents possible ways to combine the temptress with the rest of the classes presented in Conan the Roleplaying Game, presenting advice on feat and racial choices and other options available when the character gains new abilities from new levels in alternative classes.
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With any sort of multiclassing, the character will lose access to the high level abilities of the temptress character class. All of these combinations include this inherent weakness. These character concepts lose additional sneak attacks, Above Suspicion, Use Weakness as Strength, Veiled In Darkness, Secret and Glorious. This book assumes that the character’s main focus is the temptress aspect, taking levels in other classes to alter their basic temptress concept slightly. Other character classes taking levels in temptress to compliment their primary focus will be covered in later chapters or in future Conan the Roleplaying Game supplements. The advancement rates offered herein are not to be taken as the final word on the subject but merely as guidelines to meet a particular character concept.
Manhunter
�Temptress/Barbarian�
The manhunter is a temptress who has added barbarian levels to her class. These women are both alluring and frightening. Manhunters can be located anywhere in the Hyborian world, hiding anonymously as small cults or social groups, enigmatic and unknown to the world around them, although there is a fully-fledged culture of these women deep in the Black Kingdoms known as Amazons. Manhunters are not exactly anti-male; instead they view men as inferior and as having no obvious purpose beyond breeding. Manhunters exude superiority over men, which in maledominated societies can be alarming and even a bit offensive. They view men as chattel and will openly comment on their
virtues or flaws. Confident warriors, they will always defend oppressed women and, in doing so, exhibit a defined set of barbaric ethics and savage nobility.
Strengths
A manhunter gains a number of benefits from adding barbarian levels to her temptress class, the following being the most important for the role of the manhunter: Much Stronger Fortitude Save: The manhunter is tough and rigorous. She has a much tougher Fortitude save than a straight class temptress.
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