Desert Slave Warrior Class

[IanB]

The Martin guys are called Unsullied, not Unbound, and are certainly inspired partially by the mameluks anyway.

 

[Darklone]

I do know the Mameluks... still I can't recall reading once about them and unarmed combat... (at least not more or less unarmed combat than every medieval European knight learned).

 

[exempt]

Too many feats up front and a slave class should not be a 20-level core class. It should be a 5-level class, tops. Ranger or scout for easiest entry.

Yeah, they get almost a feat a level for the first ten, and sometimes two per level. Why would you ever want to take fighter over this?

I'd also quetsion the alignment... a slave-owning society seems LE to me. But the slaves themselves may be perhaps any alignment. Still, if you want what Souljourner was talking about, then LN or LE and maybe even LG sounds right, just as long as LG gets to question evil orders.

One way to build some downsides in this is to require them to obey, even to the death, orders from their masters, though this is more of a roleplay fix than a rules fix.

 

[boolean]

Is there any reason this isn't just a fighter, with a standard list of feats that all warriors trained the same way take in the same order?

 

[Piratecat]

Off to House Rules. Vrroom!

 

[The Souljourner]

The Martin guys are called Unsullied, not Unbound, and are certainly inspired partially by the mameluks anyway.

Doh... got that mixed up. Thanks for clearing that up.

-Nate

 

[Waylander the Slayer]

Is there any reason this isn't just a fighter, with a standard list of feats that all warriors trained the same way take in the same order?

Vroom indeed. I had thought about that; however the GM insists that the class is sort of a monk(yeah it sounds crazy)/warrior hybrid and I do think it is modelled on the mamaluk. She seems to be a creative GM but english is not her native language- I think some ideas might be getting lost in translation.