PRESTIGE CLASSES
CHAPTER 5
Gnome Traits: Gnomes have a +1 racial bonus on attack Barbarians, rangers, and rogues are the classes most likely rolls against kobolds and goblinoids. Gnomes have a +4 to have the combination of stealth and fighting prowess racial bonus to Armor Class against giants. necessary to become a goliath liberator. A few fighters and *Gnomes have a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against druids take a level or two of the prestige class as well. illusions. When a goliath liberator is on the trail of captured goliLesser Tremorsense (Ex): Kyliki has the tremorsense aths, she brooks no opposition or delay, but she’s often willability with a range of 10 feet. ing to enlist whatever allies happen to be available. NPC Link with Companion (Ex): Kyliki can handle her goliath liberators sometimes strike up deals with adventuranimal companion as a free action, or push it as a move ers, lending their strength to an assault on a giant fortress as action, with a +4 bonus on wild empathy checks made while long as they can free any goliath prisoners in the process. If dealing with that animal. giants ever capture the PCs, their best hope for rescue might Resist Nature’s Lure (Ex): Kyliki gains a +4 bonus on take the mottled, musclebound form of a goliath liberator. saving throws against the spell-like abilities of fey. Adaptation: While this prestige class is specific to goliShare Spells (Ex): Kyliki may have any spell she casts aths, it can be converted into a different giant-fighting class on herself also affect her animal companion if the latter is with little difficulty. If you do so, balance giant-specific within 5 feet at the time. She may also cast a spell with a class features (such as favored enemy) with class features target of “You” on her animal companion. that are useful against giants but more broadly applicable Trackless Step (Ex): Kyliki leaves no trail in natural sur(such as avoid thrown weapons). roundings and cannot be tracked. Hit Die: d10. Wild Shape (Su): Kyliki can change into a Small or Medium animal and back again three times per day, as with Requirements the polymorph spell. This ability lasts for 7 hours or until she To qualify to become a goliath liberator, a character must changes back. fulfill all the following criteria. Woodland Stride (Ex): Kyliki can move through natural Race: Goliath. thorns, briars, overgrown areas, and similar terrain at her Base Attack Bonus: +7. normal speed and without damage or other impairment. Skills: Hide 5 ranks, Move Silently 5 ranks. However, thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that are magiFeats: Track. cally manipulated to impede motion still affect her. Special: The character must have participated in the sucDruid Spells Prepared (6/5/5/4/4/2); save DC 14 + spell cessful rescue of captives held by giants, or must have been imprisoned by giants and escaped. level): 0—detect magic (2), detect poison, know direction, light, read magic; 1st—cure light wounds, entangle, longstrider, obscuring mist, speak with animal; 2nd—animal messenger, barkskin, Class Skills The goliath liberator’s class skills (and the key ability for delay poison, hold animal, tree shape; 3rd—cure moderate each skill) are Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Heal (Wis), Hide wounds, plant growth, speak with plants, stone shape; 4th—con(Dex), Jump (Str), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Search trol water, cure serious wounds (2), spike stones; 5th—flame (Int), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), and Use Rope (Dex). See strike, wall of thorns. Chapter 4 of the Player’s Handbook for skill descriptions. Possessions: +1 hide armor, masterwork light wooden shield, Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier. masterwork club, periapt of Wisdom +2, cloak of resistance +2, amulet of natural armor +1, ring of protection +1, Quaal’s feather token (tree), potion of blur, scroll of cure serious wounds, scroll of Class Features All of the following are class features of the goliath liberator reincarnate, wand of cure light wounds (50 charges), 1 pp. prestige class. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Goliath liberators gain proficiency with martial weapons and with light and medium armor. Giants—especially frost and hill giants—sometimes kidnap Favored Enemy (Giant) (Ex): A goliath liberator has and enslave goliaths, putting them to work performing menial giants as a favored enemy. Due to her extensive study of labor in their mines or camps. Particularly evil giants might giants and training in the proper techniques for combateven capture goliaths for the cook-pot or the sacrificial altar. ing such creatures, the liberator gains a +2 bonus on Bluff, When goliaths don’t return to camp, the entire tribe mobiListen, Sense Motive, Spot, and Survival checks when using lizes to find them. If the tribe is fortunate, it has one or more these skills against giants. Likewise, she gets a +2 bonus on goliath liberators among its members to lead the rescue. weapon damage rolls against such creatures. Goliath liberators are experts at infiltrating giant dwellThese bonuses stack with those gained from the favored ings, freeing the captives within, then exacting revenge on the giants while the freed goliaths escape. Many are their enemy (giants) class feature of other classes (such as ranger), tribe’s best soldiers and hunters, and they have honed their but this ability does not increase those classes’ other favored combat techniques against giants through bitter experience. enemy bonuses. For instance, if a 5th-level ranger/1st-level Fully half of all goliath liberators have spent time in the goliath liberator has already selected giants as one of her chains of giants. ranger favored enemies, this +2 bonus would stack with
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