New Class -- Historian (think Indiana Jones / Tomb Raider)

[Inlicere]

** MAJOR EDIT **

For those who are coming to this thread for the first time... The Historian is an adventuring class based off of characters like Indiana Jones, Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) and Flynn Carsen (The Librarian). It is a complete class, formatted in the same manner as the published WotC classes.

January 5th, 2009 -- A MAJOR update to the class has been posted, which has increased the PDF from 18 pages to 37 pages! The goal of this update was to add new build options, powers, paragon paths and feats to keep the Historian 'on par' with the published martial classes now that the Martial Powers book has been released. This update also incorporates some of the feedback received from these forums.

The Historian PDF is here.

The google group for my "Heaven Emptied" campaign is here.

 

[ziegander]

Reminds me of the Factotum. No role is listed and it does seem hard to peg. It's almost a combination defender leader, but with the ability to maneuver the field like a striker, and finally with its esoteric knowledge can play controller with some multiclassing. I assume this was precisely the goal - a 4E Factotum?

Regardless, I love it, and am very excited to try one out.

 

[Inlicere]

Reminds me of the Factotum. No role is listed and it does seem hard to peg. It's almost a combination defender leader, but with the ability to maneuver the field like a striker, and finally with its esoteric knowledge can play controller with some multiclassing. I assume this was precisely the goal - a 4E Factotum?

Regardless, I love it, and am very excited to try one out.

I'm glad you like it... thanks!

(However, I have to admit I don't have the slightest idea what the Factotum is. I did a quick google search, and came up with a reference to a class that uses "inspiration points".)

 

[Rowe]

How do you make a PDF like that. I want to convernt all my Word documents into PDF's that look like campaign PDFs that WOTC makes

 

[ziegander]

Ah, lol, wow, you had no idea what a Factotum was and you came up with a role-less class with much of the same fluff as a Factotum! The Factotum in 3.5 was an Intelligence based class who's job it was to do everything, albeit not perfectly. He was THE jack-of-all-trades. When one party member was failing the Factotum stepped in to fill his shoes, but of course the Factotum could only do this for so long (Inspiration points - some abilities refreshed each encounter, others, spells, each day).


Your version feels very much the same, a plucky, intelligence adventurer with the ability to perform many, many roles, sometimes multiple roles at a time. I find it excellent!

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

I LOVE this class! It has the true "Indiana Jones" type of explorer that would be fit for either a fantasy or modern game.

 

[Inlicere]

How do you make a PDF like that. I want to convernt all my Word documents into PDF's that look like campaign PDFs that WOTC makes

I use MS Publisher to do all the layout, then "print" it to PDF format using a free utility. It's not that hard if you already have Publisher and know how to use it.

Your version feels very much the same, a plucky, intelligence adventurer with the ability to perform many, many roles, sometimes multiple roles at a time. I find it excellent!

I LOVE this class! It has the true "Indiana Jones" type of explorer that would be fit for either a fantasy or modern game.

Wow! Much appreciated!

Hmm... who do I have to sell my soul to, to get nominated on the "fan creation pick of the week" thread?

 

[generalhenry]

Hmm... who do I have to sell my soul to, to get nominated on the "fan creation pick of the week" thread?

You have to sell your soul to the wiki.

to quote Morrus

Hmm.. that's a good point. My Fan Creation of the Week item - I'm going to select it from the Wiki only from now on. I think if you're happy to have it on the front page, you can hardly object to it being in the Wiki. So, if you want to be considered - copy and paste that sucker!

 

[Inlicere]

You have to sell your soul to the wiki.

to quote Morrus

Thanks for the tip! I've put the links to the appropriate threads on the wiki.

Now I just have to wait for the Grim Wiki to come collect.

 

[generalhenry]

mind if I engage is a grim copy paste hack job to put it in directly?