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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prophet2b" data-source="post: 3472411" data-attributes="member: 36476">Wow, thanks for the responses!  There's some good stuff here, now.  In retrospect, I suppose I could try to get it down to LA +0 and see how it turns out...How about this?• Medium: As Medium creatures, Valadeen humans have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.• Valadeen Human base land speed is 30 feet.• Trackless Step (Ex): A Valadeen human leaves no trail in natural surroundings and cannot be tracked.  He may leave a trail if so desired.• +2 to Hide, Jump, and Tumble.• +4 to saves against fear and compulsion effects.• Weapon Proficiency: Dagger, Spear, Scimitar.• Automatic Language: Common. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic).• Favored Class: Ranger or Swordsage (must choose one or the other, not both).  (I know this is non-traditional to have two, but those are both their primary forces.  I might try my hand at a Bo9S Ranger, though, instead of the straight PHB spellcasting one.)LA +0, or still a weak +1?Idea behind these guys: Back when the five nations were first united under the first king, he gave the monks of the Endworld Mountains the task of guarding the Nine Swords (considered then to be holy relics, and tied to the Prophecy that the dragons had spoken of.  It was then that the monks set about studying the fine art of combat.  It wasn't long after this that the people quit being "monks" - though much of the mental prowess and discipline still remains to this day.About 100 years later, a demon lord ended up visiting the (former) monastery and tried to get the Valadeen to give him the swords.  They resisted and forced him to flee - but that wasn't the last time he came.  For the next couple hundred years, he visit off and on and try to find some weakness.  Finally, when the Last War broke out and the Valadeen were called away to defend their homes (camps in the desert) from invading elves and halflings, the demon lord made his move.  The Nine Swords were taken.All of the Valadeen's thought has been on finding and retrieving the swords.  Thus, that is what every man, woman, and child trains for.  The day they find the swords, the entire people are ready to go to war.They are a very, very martial society.  But they believe in strategy and tactics over brute force.  Enter Fremen, Aiel, Spartans.To represent that even more, though, I think I'll take XCorvis' idea of making non of them NPC classes.Thanks, again! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> What do you think?</blockquote>

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