Chaos Monk hack for HyperboreaFrom the excellent Hill Cantons and the perfervid imagination of Chris Kutalik:
http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-ll-class-chaos-monk.html
Also written up in Hill Cantons Compendium II and expanded in the forthcoming What Ho, Frog Demons! from the Hydra Cooperative.
Hyperborean version:
Chaos Monk
Attribute Requirements: Constitution 12. Either Wisdom or Intelligence must be below 10
Prime Attribute: Constitution
Hit Die Type: d5
Alignment: CHAOTIC (you can say Good or Evil, but you're just holding him back, man!)
Armour Allowed: None
Shields Allowed: None
Favoured Weapons: Anything that seems like a ninja weapon: bo and jo sticks (club, light), nun-chucks [sic] (horseman's flail), clubs, man catchers (whip), bowie knives (dagger), and throwing stars (dart)
Saving Throw Modifiers: Avoidance +2, Transformation +2
Fighting Ability: As Monk
XP: As per original post:
0 :1
1,251: 2
2,501: 3
5,001: 4
10,001: 5
20,001: 6
40,001: 7
80,001: 8
Class Abilities:
* Accurate Strike: As AS&SH monk (+1 dmg./3 lvls.)
* Block missile As AS&SH monk (1/lvl./rnd. w/avoid. save)
* Cell adjust (heal 2 HP/lvl., 1/day)
* Defensive ability: Stacks with DEX!
* Empty hand (As AS&SH monk): +1 to hit; weapon dmg.; as magic wpn. at 5th lvl.; on 19 or 20, save. vs . death or stun; quivering palm of death is really just a cool rumor
* Sup. willpower(As AS&SH monk): +2 vs. mental effects
* Kung fu kick: At 2nd level, d5 attack, +1/level
* Speak with fungi: At 3rd lvl.
* Flip: At 4th lvl,: Flip over the back of opponent while making a high-pitched scream. Kiai!
* Confusion: At 6th lvl., as spell, centered on self
* Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique: 8th lvl. Effects unclear but rumored to be badass!
* BADASS: Use fighter critical hit table
Last edited by Handy Haversack (4/17/2016 10:02 am)