Monster Hunter

[GuardianTempest]

Homebrew Class: Monster Hunter

Characteristics: Strength, Constitution, Composure
Skills: Acrobatics, Animal Ken, Athletics, Ballistics, Crafts, Common Lore, Intimidation, Scrutiny, Stealth, Tech-Use, Weaponry
Sword Schools: Lion Heart, Stone Dragon
Gun Kata: Crisis Zone, Silent Scope
Bonus for Completion: +1 to the amount of Fatigue you can take before passing out

Rookie
Level: 1
Prerequisites: Perception 2, Animal Ken 2
Feats:
Carving King
Heightened Senses (Sight OR Hearing)
*Peer (Hunter Association)
*Sound Constitution
Armor Proficiency (Light)
Weapon Proficiency (Basic)

Tracker
Level: 2
Prerequisites: Perception 3, Animal Ken 2, Carving King
Feats:
Expert Tracker
Far Shot OR Furious Assault
*Power Attack OR Steel Rain
*Sound Constitution
Armor Proficiency (Medium)
Weapon Proficiency (Melee 3 OR Ranged 1)

Pro Hunter
Level: 3
Prerequisites: Perception 3, Animal Ken 3, Expert Tracker
Feats:
Crack Shot OR Crushing Blow
Evasion
*Good Reputation (Hunter Association)
*Sound Constitution
Wild Empathy
Armor Proficiency (Heavy)
Weapon Proficiency (Any)

Ace Hunter
Level: 4
Prerequisites: Perception 4, Animal Ken 3, Carving King, Wild Empathy
Feats:
Hardy
Double Tap OR Swift Attack
Giant Slayer
*Sound Constitution
Armor Proficiency (Extreme)
*Weapon Proficiency (Any)

Apex Hunter
Level: 5
Prerequisites: Perception 5, Animal Ken 4, Giant Slayer
Feats:
Fearless
King of Monsters
*Sound Constitution
True Grit
Armor Proficiency (Power)
Weapon Focus (Any)
*Weapon Specialization (Any)


UNIQUE FEATS

Carving King
After you slay an enemy, you may make a TN (Monster's Size x 5) Crafts test on it's corpse. If this TN is successful, you gain a chunk of usable material from this monster. This gives you a +10 on the next Wealth/Acquisition/Crafting check you make, if you expend the usable material, and make an item using the monster's parts which makes the item a Best Quality version. You may only successfully carve one part from a monster, though as many people up to the monster's Size may also carve parts before the monster is considered picked clean.

Giant Slayer
If an enemy's Size is twice your own or greater, gain +1k1 to attack and damage rolls against them.

King of Monsters
You may use Animal Ken to use Social Attacks on non-sapient wild animals and monsters. If you manage to reduce a monster's Resolve to 0, you can begin to use Breaking Alignment (the monster's devotion being equal to it's level) to start increasing it's disposition towards you. If you manage to make a monster's Disposition reach the Fanatical Level towards you, you may spend a Hero Point to have it bond to you and act as an animal companion. You gain the monster as an Ally with dots equal to level. If it's disposition towards you ever goes lower than Friendly, you lose it as an animal companion and an Ally and must make it Fanatical towards you again before you can re-bond with it, spending another Hero Point to do so. This does not work on anything with the Elder Wyvern, Mindless, Machine, or Undead traits. Monsters require the equivalent support of it's Level in dots in things like Followers, Backing, Wealth, Holdings, or something of the sort equal to level or disposition will drop one step per day.

[GuardianTempest]

Yes, it's really based on the Monster Hunter games.

Aside from using Core schools instead of the homebrew ones (apart from Lion Heart), the one key difference in this iteration compared to the one in the old forum is that Competent Gunblader was originally written as "Weapon Proficiency (Trigger)", which is a bit confusing. I did ask Methodia that time and the intention was that you apply your proficiency to the activation of the weapon's Trigger mechanism.

Anyway, further changes to come when I figure out what to add

[GuardianTempest]

Removed Competent Gunblader, which is a RAI version of Weapon Proficiency (Trigger). It might seem like "Apply your Proficiency to weapons with the Trigger Property" but its creator (Methodia) meant it to apply your proficiency when activating Trigger mods...which you already do.

When Kwak first came up with Trigger weapons, his "Sample Play" implied that you apply your Proficiency to the Trigger mechanism based on the weapon you're using (or the Combiweapon inside it). Methodia thought otherwise by adding Weapon proficiency (Trigger)/Competent Gunblader to this class, which meant that you don't apply your proficiency normally. That confused me and a few other folks wgeb it came up in a game recently.

I've decided that the guy who created the subsystem takes priority over the guy who created something that interacts with it.

[methodia]

I apologize for the confusing trigger proficiency stuff. It's always been a mess, but I didn't help that any more.

[GuardianTempest]

Well, now that you're here,if you've got any further changes I don't mind editing this.