The Butcher: Meat is Murder, You're good at Murder.

[yackronin]

Homebrew Class: The Butcher


"Meat is Murder, You're good at murder."

Characteristics: Strength, Dexterity, Composure
Skills: Animal Ken, Athletics, Ballistics, Brawl, Crafts, Command, Common Lore, Intimidation, Scrutiny, Weaponry
Sword Schools: Setting Sun, Stone Dragon, Executioner’s Calling, Dread Crown
Bonus for Completion: +1 Attack Penetration.

Flesher
Level: 1
Prerequisites: Athletics 1, Craft 1, Weaponry 2
Feats:
*Bear Hug
Butchery I
*Carving King
Crushing Blow
*Frenzy
*Sound Constitution
Jaded
Hardy

Boner
Level: 2
Prerequisites: Weaponry 3, Craft 2, Butchery I
Feats:
*Butchery I
Cleave
Nerves of Steel
Swift Attack
*Iron Jaw
*Improved Back Stab
Power Attack

Butcher
Level: 3
Prerequisites: Weaponry 3, Craft 3, Butchery I, Cleave
Feats:
Butchery II
*Crushing Bear
Danger Sense
Fearless
Sound Constitution
*Hatred

Slaughterer
Level: 4
Prerequisites: Weaponry 4, Craft 3, Butchery II
Feats:
*Butchery II
Heightened Senses
Powerful Charge
True Grit
Iron Curtain
*Sound Constitution
*Arcane Blade

Carnifex
Level: 5
Prerequisites: Weaponry 4, Craft 4, Butchery II, Heightened Senses
Feats:
*Battle Rage
Butchery III
Blademaster
Strong Mind
Sound Constitution
*Heightened Senses
*Worf Effect



New Feat:


Butchery I
Butchery: Take a freshly-killed corpse and, in ten minutes, turn it into a Cut you’ve learned. Any character can eat a Cut to get its effects. The rest of the creature can be consumed as mundane meals. Uneaten Cuts go stale, and all eaten Cuts’ effects wear off, at the end of the day.
Each rank of Butchery acts as a prerequisite to the following rank. Purchasing another rank allows you to choose another Cut.

Pick one:
Trotters: Double your movement speed.
Marrow: Heal 1 HP.
Sweetmeats: Immediately save to cure one chosen disease, poison, or other condition currently afflicting you.
Shank: This Cut is a melee weapon that deals 3k1 damage.
Forebrain: You gain +1 to a random skill the monster possessed in life.
Offal: Poison dealing 1k1 damage an hour. Can be applied to weapons or surfaces, or covertly slipped into food.

Butchery II
Pick one:
Paté: You become highly suggestible, as under the effects of a Charm Person spell.
Lard: When carefully applied over an area (takes 10 min), acts as a Web spell. Flammable
Tongue: You can speak to and understand creatures of this type.
Sirloin: Gain +1 to a Characteristic representative of the source (eg. Spider > Dexterity).
Stewed Head: All who gaze upon your twisted visage make a TN15 fear test (including allies).
Blood Pudding: Exsanguinates from inside-out. -2 to all Physical Characteristics.

Butchery III
Pick one:
Raw Dripping Heart: You instantly enter a state of Frenzy for 5 rounds.
Hindbrain: You get the fractured, dizzying memories of the creature’s last day.
Bone Stew: Your nails and teeth become long and wicked sharp, giving you a 3k3 R Pen 2 natural weapon.
Soul Food: You can ask one question of the monster’s spirit before it passes on. It must answer truthfully, though may answer maliciously (you are eating it, after all).
Corpse Rendering: Instead of making a Cut, you can take an hour and use a large cauldron of boiling water to render a corpse into thaumaturgical lard, which allows the butcher to do minimal spellcasting. Monsters render into spells relevant to their place in the ecosystem or their abilities (ex. giant spider ==> Web,, bandit captain → command). Spellcasters render into a random spell they knew in life.

[lanugo1984]

Hi!

Love the class, I just wanted to ask a few questions.

1. Do the effects stack?

2. If they do/just in general, doesn't trotters seem like a much stronger effect than all of the other abilities? EVerything else gives a +1, but Trotters doubles your speed.

3. Do you think that there should be a saving throw for the cuts that poison/how do they work.

4. Could Stewed Head not just give the Fear (1) trait (that is, if the effects do not stack, in which case your wording is fine)

5. if the effects do stack, a day is a pretty long time.

6. I love corpse rendering, by the way.

7. Is the +1 to a skill a dot or a static bonus?

Thanks for the class! I think it is awesome.

[yackronin]

Mar 11, 2020 20:29:31 GMT -6 lanugo1984 said:

1. Do the effects stack?

2. If they do/just in general, doesn't trotters seem like a much stronger effect than all of the other abilities? EVerything else gives a +1, but Trotters doubles your speed.

3. Do you think that there should be a saving throw for the cuts that poison/how do they work.

4. Could Stewed Head not just give the Fear (1) trait (that is, if the effects do not stack, in which case your wording is fine)

5. if the effects do stack, a day is a pretty long time.

6. I love corpse rendering, by the way.

7. Is the +1 to a skill a dot or a static bonus?

1. Sometimes, but the process takes 10 min, can only harvest one cut per victim, and disappears at the end of the day. so if your plan is to sit down for an hour and cut 6 people into Marrow to spread around then theoretically you could, but it would also leave you open for a whole hour. also it depends on the cut (you can't stuff 2 offal into a meal to get twice the bonus)

2. Trotters is a passive bonus, and, to my thought at least, won't really affect much due to the general utility of speed, remember, you're choosing getting it instead of healing or an instant cure-all.

3. Probably, but that would reduce the effectiveness of the cut. ultimately, if your SM thinks there should be, there should be. i can probably write up the save if there's demand for it.

4. Effects stack, in theory

5. It is, but unless you're doing a mega-death dungeon crawl and stopping every 20 min to carve up a monster you're going to need to rest sooner rather than later. aditionally, the frequency of enemies greatly varies depending on your game and SM. I should probably also change the wording to after a long rest to make it clearer.

6. thank you, it was pretty sharply toned don from the first draft and i still don't think i got it just right.

7. Static bonus.