Forest Giant
| Table: Forest Giant | HD: d8 |
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Attack
Bonus | | +0 | | +1 | | +2 | | +3 | | +3 | | +4 | | +5 | | +6 | | +6 | | +7 | | +8 |
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Fort
Save | | +2 | | +3 | | +3 | | +4 | | +4 | | +5 | | +5 | | +6 | | +6 | | +7 | | +7 |
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Ref
Save | | +0 | | +0 | | +1 | | +1 | | +1 | | +2 | | +2 | | +2 | | +3 | | +3 | | +3 |
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Will
Save | | +0 | | +0 | | +1 | | +1 | | +1 | | +2 | | +2 | | +2 | | +3 | | +3 | | +3 |
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Special | | Forest Giant Body, Powerful Build, Initiate Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Adept Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Advanced Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Growth, Throw Stone, Catch, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Trample, Mistress Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Lady Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Superior Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Greater Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Queen Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Empress Natural Raider, +1 Str, +1 Con | | Goddess Natural Raider, Path of the Wild, +1 Str, +1 Con |
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Skills: 4+int modifier per level, quadruple at first level. Class skills: Bluff, Climb, Concentration, Craft (Any one), Diplomacy, Jump, Intimidate, Knowledge(any), Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Perform, Profession (any) Sense Motive, Survival, Spot, Swim and Use Rope
Proficiencies: All simple and martial weapons and her own natural weapons, plus light armor.
Features:Forest Giant body: The Forest Giant loses all other racial bonuses, and gains giant traits (mainly low light vision), a base speed of 30 feet, two natural slam attacks doing 1d4+Str each and a +1 racial bonus on thrown rocks. Lastly, she gains natural armor equal to her Con bonus.
Ability score increase: a Forest Giant gains +1 Str and +1 Con for each level in this class, up to a total of +11 Str and +11 Con at 11th level.
Powerful Build: At first level, a Forest Giant gains Powerful Build. The physical stature of Giants lets them function in many ways as if they were one size category larger. Whenever the Giant is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for an opposed check (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the Giant is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. A Giant is also considered to be one size larger when determining whether a creature’s special attacks based on size (such as improved grab or swallow whole) can affect him. A Giant can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject’s size category.
Natural Raider: Most giants have connections with the raw elements, but Forest Giants bond with the forest. At 1st level pick one of the following, which decides what bonus you gain.
Initiate- The Forest Giant can use her Str bonus instead of Dex for attack rolls with bows and gains a racial bonus of 2+1/4 HD to hide in forested areas.
Adept-At 2nd level the Forest Giant never risks poisoning herself when applying poison to arrows or spears. With one hour of work in an area with plenty of wood she can improvise a bow, spear and 2d12 arrows. If she has the corpse of an animal of her size she can also improvise leather armor during that time from it. She also learns how to repair any amount of destroyed non-magic arrows with 1 hour of work. Either way although such improvised/repair items shoddy work and only hold for 24 hours, then need another hour of work from the Forest Giant to get back into shape.
Advanced-At 3rd level the Forest Giant can take 1 hour cooking any amount of vermins or animals to produce a meal that when consumed (a fullround action provoking attacks of opportunity for most creatures, or move action that doesn’t provoke for the Forest Giant) acts as a Cure Light wounds plus grants the benefit of either Bull’s Strength (if Str was the victim’s highest ability score), Cat’s Grace (if Dex was highest), Bear’s Endurance (if Con was highest), Spider Climb (if they had a Climb speed) or Endure Elements for the monster’s native area. Either way CL=monster’s HD. The Forest Giant can cook more than one monster simultaneously, combining their HD for CL, but they must all share the same special property to be granted, otherwise the proccess is ruined. If the meal is not consumed whitin 24 hours it becomes basic food anyway. Consuming such a meal while the effect of a previous is still going cancels the previous one.
Mistress-At 5th level the Forest Giant can repair magic arrows too, and make any of her improvised equipment masterwork by taking twice as long.
Lady-At 6th level the Forest Giant learns how to brew a special poison from inexpensive materials easily obtainable from any forested area. With one hour of work 2d12 portions are produced, each making victims become unconscious for 4d4 rounds with Fort DC 10+1/2 HD+Con mod. Such poison however can only be properly applied by the Forest Giant and even then only in spears and arrows. In other natural areas with some plant life this poison may be prepared by taking twice as long, and even in desolate/urban areas the forest giant can scrap by by taking triple time. This poison isn’t very durable and will become inert in 24 hours. The poison also becomes inert by cooking the meat, leaving behind a nice seasoning.
Superior-At 7th level the Forest Giant’s advanced meals now replicate Cure Moderate Wounds instead of Cure Light Wounds, increase the enhancement bonus by 2, or add +10 movement speed for Spider Climb, or add a Resist Energy effect appropriate to the native creature’s natural enviroment (cold for cold, fire for hot, electricity for aquatic areas, acid for forested/jungle areas, sonic otherwise).
Greater-At 8th level the Forest Giant can gob up her advanced meals as a swift action.
Queen-At 9th level At 7th level the Forest Giant’s advanced meals now replicate Cure Serious Wounds instead of Cure Moderate Wounds, increase the enhancement bonus by another 2, or increase movement speed by 20 feet for Spider Climb, or add a Protection from Energy effect appropriate to the native creature’s natural enviroment (cold for cold, fire for hot, electricity for aquatic areas, acid for forested/jungle areas, sonic otherwise).
Empress-At 10th level each hour of cooking from the Forest Giant now produces 2d12 portions.
Goddess-At 11th level the Forest Giant’s advanced meals now replicate Cure Critical wounds instead of Cure Serious wounds and she can combine two of the other effects per meal by mixing two different valid types of animals/vermin.
Spells gained by this path have DC 10+1/2 HD+Str mod (if any)
Initiate- Choose a 1st level druid spell. The Forest Giant can use it as a SLA 1/minute with CL=HD. If it would have a duration higher than 1 minute, reduce it to 1 minute.
Adept-At 2nd level animals, vermin and fey will not willingly attack the Forest Giant unless compelled by some other force, in which case they must succeed on a Will save with DC 10+1/2 HD+Str mod or instead run away. Fey can attack back with no problem if the Forest Giant attacks them first.
Advanced-At 3rd level choose a 2nd level druid spell. The Forest Giant can use it as a SLA 1/minute with CL=HD. If it would have a duration higher than 1 minute, reduce it to 1 minute.
Mistress-At 5th level Choose a 3rd level druid spell. The Forest Giant can use it as a SLA 1/minute with CL=HD. If it would have a duration higher than 1 minute, reduce it to 1 minute.
Lady-At 6th level the Forest giant can use Str instead of Cha for all Cha—based checks with animals, vermin and fey.
Superior-At 7th level Choose a 4th level druid spell. The Forest Giant can use it as a SLA 1/minute with CL=HD. If it would have a duration higher than 1 minute, reduce it to 1 minute.
Greater-At 8th level the Forest Giant can as a standard action use one of her druidic SLAs and make one basic attack with a bow, club or spear.
Queen-At 9th level Choose a 5th level druid spell. The Forest Giant can use it as a SLA 1/minute with CL=HD. If it would have a duration higher than 1 minute, reduce it to 1 minute.
Empress-At 10th the Forest Giant can turn the bones of a dead animal into a necklace or set of earrings that grants the same benefit as any neck or head-slot wondrous item that demands a druid spell to craft as long as the needed CL is the same as the forest giant’s HD and the slain animal’s HD or lower. Such bone items take 8 hours to build with no need or extra costs but are only good for forest giants and naturally wear down in 1d12 years.
Goddess-At 11th level Choose a 6th level druid spell. The Forest Giant can use it as a SLA 1/minute with CL=HD. If it would have a duration higher than 1 minute, reduce it to 1 minute.
At third level, the Forest Giant finishes growing to large size but loses Powerful Build. Her AC, bonus to hit, slam damage, grapple and skills change accordingly, but she doesn't get any ability score bonus or penalties. Her base movement speed increases by 5' (This movement boost occurs again at 11HD and 19HD, as the giant increases in size again).
The Forest Giant continues to grow throughout her life:
At 7HD, the Forest Giant reacquires Powerful Build, granting partial benefits of Huge size.
At 11HD, the Forest Giant grows to Huge size and loses Powerful Build.
At 15HD, the Forest Giant reacquires Powerful Build, granting partial benefits of Gargantuan size.
At 19HD, the Forest Giant grows to Gargantuan size and loses Powerful Build.
Throw Rock: At fourth level, the Forest Giant may begin throwing boulders or other large objects. A giant of at least Large size can hurl rocks weighing 40 to 50 pounds each (Small objects) up to 600 feet. A Huge giant can hurl rocks of 60 to 80 pounds (Medium objects). A Gargantuan giant can hurl rocks of 90 to 120 pounds (large objects). Inanimate objects of similar size and heft may be used as well, but they deal the same damage as a rock of same weight.
Catch: At fourth level, a giant that would normally be hit by a rock can make a Reflex save to catch it as a free action. The DC is 15 for a Small rock, 17 for a Medium one, and 19 for a Large one. (If the projectile provides a magical bonus on attack rolls, the DC increases by that amount.) The giant must be ready for and aware of the attack in order to make a rock catching attempt.
Trample: At fifth level, as a full-round action, The Giant can move up to twice her speed and literally run over any opponents at least one size category smaller than herself. The Giant merely has to move over the opponents in its path; any creature whose space is completely covered by the Giant’s space is subject to the trample attack. If a target’s space is larger than 5 feet, it is only considered trampled if the Giant moves over all the squares it occupies.
A trample attack deals bludgeoning damage (the Giant’s slam damage + 1½ times its Str modifier).
Trampled opponents can attempt attacks of opportunity, but these take a -4 penalty. If they do not make attacks of opportunity, trampled opponents can attempt Reflex saves to take half damage.
The save DC against the Giant’s trample attack is 10 + ½ creature’s HD + Giant’s Str modifier. The Giant can only deal trampling damage to each target once per round, no matter how many times its movement takes it over a target creature.
Path of the Wild: At 11th level, Forest Giant levels now stack with Ranger for determining favored enemy bonus, or druid for the purpose of CL and learning new spells (but does not retroactively grants the spell slots of a 11th level druid).
Done this one because just look at that smug pose. Also Forest Giant fluff is awesome, they sweep forests clean of animals and feys still love them and want to hunt with them.
Anyway couldn't decide between forest magic or focusing on hungry hunter so wrote both and made them separate paths.
So if you want to play a big hunter, the Forest Giant's for you!
