HeyJaredIn Search of the Unknown
My personal Substack as I learn to DM in a lesser known tradition of D&D. Wargaming
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Neanderthal Warrior (opens the original)
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I was tempted to make the class name something more flavored. Cave Warrior. Glacial Warrior. Something like that, but let’s keep it simple name wise. I’ve also once again been persuaded by Arbrethil of the Annals of the Frozen North that this class is more in line with Barbarian rather than Fighter and thus this class has a bend to it. For the Judges and Players a forewarning is thought necessary. While this racial class seems simple on the surface, it is not, as it’s particularities mean that i
ACKS Neanderthal Build V2 (opens the original)
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So after having released my previous racial build and attempting to make a class with it, I have come to realize an error. As I was building the RV, I went purely off from the Racial building rules in the Judges Journal to guide me, occasionally taking the cost of powers such as Night vision and Cold Resistance from the Monster Manual but otherwise not taking note of the HD costs involved. This was corrected by the great Arbrethil at the wonderful Annals of the North substack, that I had instead
ACKS Neanderthal Build (opens the original)
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So recently in my game, there was a wonderfully odd combination of an Empowering Place and a Neanderthal tribe, sparking the idea of natural magics and combat in the depths of the wilderness. This has sparked a want in me to do some solo gaming in my own campaign world, and I thought it’d be prudent to make a way to play Neanderthals as class, not as Monster in ACKS. Below you’ll first find the build, and then the reasoning below that for the choices selected. I may revisit with Neanderthal clas
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