What class is Indiana Jones?

[Crust]

Is this before or after he drank the blood of the Kali?

 

[DM-Rocco]

I didn't have d20 Past handy, or I probably would have included Explorer. I don't think Indy is particularly fast -- he's not acrobatic like Lara Croft for instance, and tends to suck up damage rather than avoid it. The reason I chose Dedicated is because it seemed the Aware and Cool Under Pressure talents seemed to suit him. Infiltrator and possibly one level of Daredevil (for the Fearless feature) works well too, tho.

As for 10th level, Indy always struck me as being in a pretty low-key setting so I put an arbitrary level cap on.

-The Gneech

Actually, I think he also has the slippery mind rogue class ability, making him at least a 10th level rogue, although I like the version I already posted best, it fits him more over all.

Actually, if you really wanted to talk D&D classes, I think that would have to be in there. Bard/Rogue/Barbarian, maybe, since he doesn't usually fight unless he gets mad, but when he's mad he's really mad.

Of course, when he does fight it's with his fists, so maybe fighter with unarmed combat feats -- I can't see him taking any levels in monk.

-The Gneech

I don't think he was ever a barbarian, except in a min/max situation. Even as a youth he was well educated, thus he never was illiterate and I doubt he took a barbarian level after that.

He's a college professor - so he'd be middle to upper-middle class.

That is why the education feat fits him perfect. Although, if you are just using core books, he would need expert levels instead.

 

[Khairn]

Adventuring Scholar from Monsternomicon 1

 

[Darklone]

Savant Bard. Whip proficiency, skills, not too eager to fight, perform (pantomime).

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Wouldn't that be AE terms?


In Spycraft terms, he'd be an Explorer. No remixing required.

Heh, with the right Talent, Specialty, and feats you can recognize him by 2nd level.

You'd almost think that the class was built around him or something.

The Auld Grump, who really thinks that it was....

 

[WhatGravitas]

Keith Baker once said that, to him, Indy would be a Bard/Extreme Explorer with no ranks in Perform.

Or a bard with this feat:

Heroic Soundtrack
You bardic music permeates your surroundings in heroic situations.
Prerequisites: Bardic music, named after a dog, snake phobia.
Benefit: In dramatic situations, your bardic music activates on its own, requiring no action on your part. Your bardic music (often a catch tune) permeates the surroundings of yours. The DM adjucates if a situation is dramatic enough to activate this feat.


Sorry.