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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krug" data-source="post: 2010563" data-attributes="member: 2141">Power Classes VIII - Explorer is the eighth book in Mongoose Publishing's Power Classes line; 16-page mini books that detail a new core class.The Explorer, despite the Lara Croft inspired cover image, is more of a rogue + expert + bard combination. It has a d8 HD, some cross-class skill abilities and has a base of 4 + int mod for skills. Oddly enough, it doesn't have a set of skills I thought would be core for an explorer; disabling devices, open lock and use rope. Surely all this would come in handy when you're navigating ancient tombs. (though they do get to choose two cross-class skills to become class skills at 11th level) Neither does it have evasion abilities.What it does have is an additional 10' movement rate, an ability called Honeyed Words that give a bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidate checks and an Iron Constitution, which equates to immunty to all diseases, including magical ones such as mummy rot and lyncanthrophy. The actual details of the class run 10 mini pages, and then we get a section detailing new use for old skills and a few new feats, such as Poison resistance. I found this of mild interest. Some details of Explorer-related eqpt would have been nice.Overall, this class doesn't look interesting enough for most players to want to take up. It seems conflicted about what it wants to be. I would have thought a class that's similar to the rogue, , retaining the skill levels, removing the sneak attack bonuses, maybe throwing in some bardic knowledge like features would be sufficient. The new abilities just aren't persuasive enough to convince one to take up this as a core class.</blockquote>

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