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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 7198921" data-attributes="member: 57383">Updating the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6908201#post6908201" target="_blank">Paper Warrior Working Draft</a>.A Bushi is basically a Fighter. The name literally means fighter or warrior in Japanese - it has the same root as the words Bushido (&quot;Code of the Warrior&quot;) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%C5%8D" target="_blank">Budō</a>, or (&quot;Martial Arts&quot;).&nbsp;In the 1E AD&amp;D Oriental Adventures a Bushi is an actual class that's basically a fighter with a few abilities tacked on - a level-based AC bonus, the ability to scrounge equipment and pick pockets, and a 1/day ki ability that effectively gives them two extra levels of fighter for 10 rounds once per day.None of those seem very appropriate for the &quot;Bee Warrior&quot;, so I think we can just stat him as a Warrior with regular weapons and armour. The original has AC 8 (which it gets from its Dex alone) and does 1d6 damage (shortspear?) but that seems a bit feeble.Maybe give it the equivalent of, say, a +1 shortsword&nbsp; and +1 composite shortbow [+2 Str] for a bit more &quot;sting&quot;? It doesn't have any special attack abilties so like the Viper or Pinwheel, so giving it 1d6+3 damage and a ranged attack would balance that out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 7198921, member: 57383"] Updating the [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=6908201#post6908201"][B]Paper Warrior Working Draft[/B][/URL]. A Bushi is basically a Fighter. The name literally means fighter or warrior in Japanese - it has the same root as the words Bushido ("Code of the Warrior") and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud%C5%8D"]Budō[/URL], or ("Martial Arts"). In the 1E AD&D [I]Oriental Adventures[/I] a Bushi is an actual class that's basically a fighter with a few abilities tacked on - a level-based AC bonus, the ability to scrounge equipment and pick pockets, and a 1/day [I]ki[/I] ability that effectively gives them two extra levels of fighter for 10 rounds once per day. None of those seem very appropriate for the "Bee Warrior", so I think we can just stat him as a Warrior with regular weapons and armour. The original has AC 8 (which it gets from its Dex alone) and does 1d6 damage (shortspear?) but that seems a bit feeble. Maybe give it the equivalent of, say, a [I]+1 shortsword[/I] and [I]+1 composite shortbow[/I] [+2 Str] for a bit more "sting"? It doesn't have any special attack abilties so like the Viper or Pinwheel, so giving it 1d6+3 damage and a ranged attack would balance that out. [/QUOTE]

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