Giantbrother

[Kaodi]

Giantbrother Prestige Class
Requirements:
Race - Dwarf, Human or Orc; +5 BAB, +5 Fort, Great Fortitude, Power Attack, Improved Unarmed Strike, Intimidate 8 ranks
Special: Must have defeated a creature of the giant type in single combat.

Hit Dice: d8
Skills: 2 + Int/level; Climb, Craft, Intimidate, Jump, Listen, Spot, Swim

Level	BAB	Fort	Ref	Will	Special
1	+0	+2	+0	+0	+2 Str
2	+1	+3	+0	+0
3	+2	+3	+1	+1	+2 Con, +1 Natural
4	+3	+4	+1	+1
5	+3	+4	+1	+1	+2 Str
6	+4	+5	+2	+2
7	+5	+5	+2	+2	-2 Dex, Powerful Build
8	+6	+6	+2	+2
9	+6	+6	+3	+3	+2 Str
10	+7	+7	+3	+3	
11	+8	+7	+3	+3	+2 Con, +1 Natural
12	+9	+8	+4	+4
13	+9	+8	+4	+4	+2 Str
14	+10	+9	+4	+4
15	+11	+9	+5	+5	Giant Apotheosis

Giant Apotheosis - Lose the powerful build ability gained at level 7 and gain large size, low light vision and the giant type. Also, you gain a slam attack that does 1d4 damage.

 

[Tyonisius]

I like the idea a lot. The class seems a little weak to me. I'd probably try compacting it into a 10 level progression and maybe increasing the HD or the BAB. The gains are fairly powerful but you can get something similar by applying the half-dragon template to your character and that's for a 4 level adjustment (I think). Instead of the giant-type, size increase, and slam attack you get the dragon-type, natural weapons, and a breath attack. So over all, I think the progression may be a little to slow.

 

[DiceGolem]

I dunno... while I do think it's a little under-worthy, the stat gains are still pretty nifty.

 

[Kaodi]

Condensed into 10 levels I think would be way too powerful.

The tradeoff between a pure fighter and a fighter/giantbrother would then be:

Fighter: +3 BAB, 5 Fighter Feats, 55 + Base Con HP
Giantbrother: +8 Str, -2 Dex, +4 Con, +2 Natural Armour, Large Size, Low-Light Vision, 65 + Base Con HP

Who in their right mind wouldn't make that tradeoff?

 

[Tyonisius]

My point isn't that it's not better than being a straight figher, my point is that you can sub in another race, such as the half-dragon, and only lose 3 levels. Lets make a level 17 fighter with the half-dragon template (for an ECL of 20)... I'll use human as the base race, but you could use many others for even better stat gains.

Str +8, Con +2, Int +2, Cha +2, +4 Natural Armor, Low-light vision, Dark Vision, Immunity to sleep, paralysis, and one element (depending on the dragon-type). 1d4 Natural Claw Attacks, 1d6 Natural Bite, Breath weapon of your choice.

You'd end up with a bab of +17, base Fort of 10, Ref of 5, Will of 5. 9 fighter feats. And thats for 3 levels of trade off. Too me, this shows that the Giantbrother is a bit of a weak tradeoff. You could make the build above even more killer by making the base race Goliath (making the level adjustment 4 instead of 3) and You'd gain even more kick-ass-ness. Anyway, it's just my suggestion that you make it a 10 level progression. If you don't want to do that, I'd give it some other fun stuff. Maybe some throwing feats, Giants like to throw stuff.