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Blood Of The Rose

Recently my players have been asking if there are any more classes aside from the quintessential four I've made for my Oddhack. So, I've been making a few more classes. My goal is to have all the classes that 5e has, except with different more free-form mechanics to allow for player customization. I present:

The Barbarian & The Druid
(Jakub Rebelka) 

I've also got a few notes and credits as always:

- The barbarian was heavily inspired by this barbarian from this amazing blog, check them out but don't try to pronounce the name because you may get a headache. The first draft of mine was almost a complete rip of their barbarian. I later made the conduit part a bit more minor and the rage less complex and slightly less powerful.

- The druid was heavily inspired by my own gibberish in my last post. It's basically a ripped version of the mask's ability, but made less powerful, and with less damning consequences. Of course, if you think that this class is too tame, you could always add back the consequence that they are stuck in their transformation.

- I'm reworking the thief and the cleric, it will be posted once I'm done with them. I realized that I'm falling into this weird design trap of having pretty much two types of classes. Ones that have one singular ability that is really versatile and ones that can choose from multiple abilities and are stuck with whatever they choose. I don't like the latter. These kinds of classes end up not using all of their abilities and end up being really hard to digest since the multiple abilities tends to form a giant wall of text that scares off players. I figure that if I can't find a way to fit in some player customization that I will add a kind of secondary ability that allows for further customization. I did this sort of with the barbarian and their sin. I could have completely left out the whole sin bit and the class would be mechanically the same, but I really want players to feel like they had some decision over their character. I'll let you all know how my reworking goes.

- If you're playing online, I've got two google docs that you can copy and use. Here's the barbarian and here's the druid.

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