Amazon Warrior OCC

(Version 1.00 - Last Modified: 12/09/2004)

The Yin-Sloth jungle is one of the most deadly places in the world. With powerful monsters, savage demons, inhospitable terrain, the place can and often is a death trap for the unprepared and foolhardy. However, there are some groups of people that eek out a living in the jungles. One of these groups are the Amazons. A matriarchal society that grew out of a group of Human refugees escaping the Elf-Dwarf wars, the Amazons have grown into a series of tribes and settlements struggling to survive against the other inhabitants of the jungles. In the millenia since their arrival, the Amazon tribes have grown to know the jungle and to live in it, but the tribes owe their survival to the fearless Amazon Warriors. Trained in mystical arts, the Amazon Warriors are more then simple soldiers, more then simple longbowmen, they are capable of killing a man faster and further away then many believe possible.

The Amazon Warriors focus in three different schools of training. The first is dedicated to bows and crossbows, with their longer range and impressive rate of fire. The second school is dedicated to spears and javelins, which, while not as long ranged as bows or crossbows, inflict more damage and can be reused more easily. The third school is dedicated to mystical skills that enhance the Amazon Warrior in many different ways and bring her closer to the gods that make up the Amazon tribes' pantheon.

The Amazon's are harsh warriors, reflecting the harsh kill or be killed reality of the jungle in which they live. While they have a strong support structure within the tribes and settlements, they are very weary of outsiders and have little tolerance for people trespassing on their territory, unintentional or not. While there has been almost no contact with outside groups, soldiers from the Western Empire have begun to hear stories of these warrior women and their mystical powers. The leaders of the Western Empire believe that these stores are simply faerie tales, they have increased the frequency and depth of their scouting missions and it is only a matter of time before the two groups collide. Unfortunately for the Amazon Warriors, the Western Empire would have little respect for their way of life and would try to capture the women to put them on display and to fight in arenas, while the warrior women would reject the male dominated and decadent society that is the Western Empire.

O.C.C. Abilities:

1. Area of Specialization
   An amazon begins at zero level in each of the areas of specialization, and at each level of experience, including the first level, the amazon can improve his level in two of the areas by one. This means that it is impossible for an amazon to have 15^th level of experience in all three categories. Amazons use their level in an area of specialization as their level of experience for abilities and spells granted by that area of specialization. For example, a fifteenth level Amazon that has six levels in Bow and Crossbow Skills, uses those abilities as a sixth level character.
   
   
   • Mystical Combat Skills:
     The Mystical Combat Skills are generic and affect how the Amazon behaves in combat without being specific to a certain weapon, unlike the other areas of specialization. One of the most powerful abilities of an Amazon, her ability to summon a powerful fighting spirit, is available only through these combat skills. At first level, the amazon can select a combat skill from the following list: Critical Strike, Dodge, or Inner Sight. At third level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the list given above or from the following list: Avoid, Slow Missiles, or Penetrate. At fifth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Create Decoy, Evade, or Pierce. At eighth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Summon Valkyrie. At eleventh level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above. At thirteenth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above. At fifteenth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above. See Amazon Warrior Combat Skills for more details on the powers of this area of specialization.
     
     
   • Javelin and Spear Skills:
     The Javelin and Spear Skills specialization, as its name suggests, focuses on skills that can be used with a javelin or a spear. While an Amazon is not prevented from using other types of weapons, after a number of levels are chosen in the specialization, she will likely use few other weapons. At first level, the amazon can select a combat skill from the following list: Jab, Poison Javelin, or Power Strike. At third level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the list given above or from the following list: Impale. At fifth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Lightning Bolt. At eighth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Charged Strike or Plague Javelin. At eleventh level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Fend or Lightning Strike. At thirteenth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Lightning Fury. At fifteenth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above. See Amazon Warrior Combat Skills for more details on the powers of this area of specialization.
     
     
   • Bow and Crossbow Skills:
     The Bow and Crossbow Skills specialization, as its name suggests, focuses on skills that can be used with a bows and crossbows. Typically more powerful then the Javelin and Spear specialization, the Amazon Warriors have a long tradition with the bow and the introduction of the crossbow in the last century, has provided the Amazons with another powerful weapon. At first level, the amazon can select a combat skill from the following list: Fire Arrow or Magic Arrow. At third level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the list given above or from the following list: Cold Arrow or Split Shot. At fifth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Exploding Arrow. At eighth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Guided Arrow or Ice Arrow. At eleventh level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Immolation Arrow or Multiple Shot. At thirteenth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above or from the following list: Freezing Arrow. At fifteenth level, the amazon can select an additional combat skill from the lists given above. See Amazon Warrior Combat Skills for more details on the powers of this area of specialization.


2. Dodge & Parry Arrows
   The amazon can try to dodge or parry attacks from bows, crossbows, thrown spears, thrown javelins, and similar thrown projectiles. Any such attempt is performed with a penalty of -3; normally a penalty of -10 is incurred when trying to parry or dodge such a projectile.


3. Amazons & Armor
   Most Amazons prefer to wear armor that allows them to remain mobile, so they usually limit themselves to light armor or half suits of heavy armor. The amazon suffers the usual penalties for wearing armor: -5% to prowl, swim, and climb in light armor, -10% to prowl, swim, or climb in chain or scale mail and half suits, and -15% to prowl and -20% to climb / scale walls or swim in full splint or plate armor. Wearing armor has no effect on the amazon's combat skills.


4. Permanent P.P.E. Base
   The amazon warrior begins with a low amount of PPE compared to a real spellcaster. Amazon warriors receive 4D6 PPE plus their PE attribute x2 at first level and an additional +2D4 per level of experience. Due to how an amazon understands PPE and magic, they cannot draw PPE out of ley lines as a normal spellcaster can, but she can still draw PPE from creatures and PPE batteries normally.


5. Bonuses
   Amzon Warriors receive +1D6 to PP attribute, +1 to PE, +1D4 to Spd, +2D6 to S.D.C., +3 to save vs. all types of toxins, +2 to save vs. disease, and +1 to save vs. horror factor at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15.

Attribute Requirements:

• PP of 14 and PE of 10.

O.C.C. Skills:

• Language: Native Tongue (at 98%)
• Language: One of choice (+5%)
• Athletics (General)
• Sniper
• Math: Basic (+5%)
• Land Navigation (+10%)
• Wilderness Survival (+15%)
• Wilderness: Two of choice (+5% to each)
• W.P.: Archery (all types of bows)
• W.P.: Targeting
• W.P.: One of choice
• Hand-to-Hand Combat: Basic (Hand-to-Hand combat can be improved to Expert at the cost of one OCC Related Skill or to Martial Arts at the cost of two OCC Related Skills, but this can only be done at first level)

O.C.C. Related Skills:

• Select four other skills. Select one additional skill at level 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15. All new skills start at a level one proficiency.
• Communications: Sign Language only
• Domestic: Any (+5%)
• Espionage: Detect Ambush, Detect Concealment & Traps, Escape Artist, and Track Humanoids only (+10%)
• Horsemanship: General or Exotic only
• Medical: Holistic Medicine only (+10%)
• Military: Any except Heraldry and Military Etiquette (+5%)
• Physical: Any except Boxing and Wrestling (+5% where applicable)
• Rogue: None
• Science: Astronomy & Navigation only
• Technical: Any (+5%)
• W.P.: Any
• Wilderness: Any (+10%)

Secondary Skills:

• The Amazon Warrior can select three secondary skills from the list of available skill categories at level one and an additional two skills at levels 4, 8, 12, and 15. Secondary skills do not receive any bonuses listed above and all new skills start at a level one proficiency.

Standard Equipment:

• Weapons: Starts with a knife, a long bow, quiver with 32 arrows, and either a javelin or a spear; all are basic weapons of good quality.
• Armor: A suit Studded Leather Armor (AR of 13, S.D.C. of 38).
• Other: Two sets of traveling clothes, hooded cape or cloak, boots, a pair of gloves, a belt, a backpack, a medium-sized to large purse / satchel, two small sacks, a water skin, 30' (9.1 m) of rope, and a tinder box.

Money:

• The character starts with trade goods worth 4D6x10 in gold. Additional money will come from services rendered and/or the acquisition of booty. Most Amazons prefer to live off the land and have little need or desire for vast wealth and no need for property like a house and servants.

Experience Table:

Level:	XP Range:
1	0000 - 1860
2	1861 - 3720
3	3721 - 7440
4	7441 - 14,880
5	14,881 - 23,880
6	23,881 - 34,880
7	34,881 - 48,880
8	48,881 - 68,880
9	68,881 - 92,880
10	92,881 - 124,880
11	124,881 - 166,880
12	166,881 - 212,880
13	212,881 - 272,880
14	272,881 - 324,880
15	324,881 - 384,880