Do you guys know splatterhouse? The extremely gory game from both the
Sega Genesis era and its remake for XBOX 360? In resume, it's a game
where you have to save the girl you love, Jen, who was taken by evil
forces inside a dark Mansion (the aforementioned 'Splatterhouse').
For that, you join forces with the Horror Mask which transforms you
in a Jason-like figure while you smashes and splatter through a horde
of abominable and grotesque monsters, with more blood spilled than in
all Mortalk Kombat games combined (maybe I'm exaggerating a little
bit, eh?).
Nevertheless, it's a very gory game and, if you like splatter fiction
(like the books of Clive Barker or Slasher horror films), you might
be interested in those games. As I was re-watching some scenes of
those games, I could not help to think about how amusing it would be
to play something like that in a tabletop rpg. You know, playing as a
savage hulking beast capable of destroying enemies into pieces and
stuff like that.
And that is exactly what I bring you folks here. A new character
class if you want to play a very gory, brutal and violent warrior,
capable of mangling foes left and right. The Splatter Beast:
Splatter Beast
By some work of unknown forces, you were changed. Now you are a
vessel of some source of energy hard to control and even harder to
conceive, that gives you an instinctively understanding on the
workings of skin and bones and flesh and blood. But not that boring
kind of understanding related to lab coats, emaciated bodies and
weary eyes of studies. No, your knowledge runs on a much more primal
basis of fear and force, brutality and violence. You are a master of
gore and all that is meat and bones bow to your skill. And it doesn't
matter if you are happy or not with your current state – the power
does not care. Do it for good, do it for evil. It's pointless. You
are a Splatter Beast.
Requirements: ST 12, CON 10
HD: 1d10/level
Attack: +1/ 2 levels (+1 at
2 nd, +2 at 4 th, +3 at 6 th etc.)
Saving Throws: As a dwarf (1
st edition) or a paladin (2 nd edition)
XP progression: As a dwarf
(1 st edition) or a paladin (2 nd edition)
Weapons and Armor: You may
use any weapon and any armor.
Alignment: Any. Although one
could think that the Splatter Beast is irrevocably evil, that is not
true. In fact, many of those fighers bestowed with this gift of power
become broken souls, unable to deal with what they've become. Many
will use this power for good, others for evil. The powers do not care
much
Special:
. Splatter Die: The main
feature of the Splatter Beast is the Splatter Die. It starts as 1d3-1
at level 1, becoming 1d4 at level 4, 1d6 at 6, 1d8 at 8, 1d10 at 10,
1d12 at 12 and 1d20 at 18. Every time you make a melee attack, you
also roll the Splatter Die and add it to your attack roll. However,
besides adding to your attack roll, the Splatter Die also has other
abilities. If you roll equal or higher than a creature's HD near you
(at the range of your physical attack), you may choose one of the
options below:
. Splatter Kill
(Mutilate): You outright kill
the creature in a flashy and fleshy way. If the creature is too big
or powerful, the GM might deny this option. Instead, consider that
you mutilate it and cause extra damage equal to the value rolled in
your splatter die. Optionally, instead of extra damage, the GM may
allow you to cause some affliction to the creature, making it blind,
slow or something else.
. Rumble: You trample
through the battlefield, smashing against the monsters and throwing
them into one another. You cause your splattter die damage in an area
near you. As an option, and if it is possible, you may also throw a
monster against other monsters, causing an area attack (relative to
the monster's size, the GM will decide) where the monster lands,
causing your splatter die of damage.
For example. a 4 th level Splatter
Beast would have +2 Attack and a 1d4 Splatter Die. Let suppose it is
attacked by 9 kobolds (1 HD each, 4 with short bows at distance and 5
surrounding the beast). During its turn, the splatter beast attacks
the kobolds near it. Rolling 13 at the attack, + 4 as the splatter
die, the beast chooses to Rumble and causes 4 damage at all kobolds.
Since all of them had 4 or less hp, they are all dead in a shower of
trampling and stomping. On its next turn, the Splatter Beast could
take one of the corpses and throw it at the other kobolds, causing
damage in area and probably wiping out the feeble enemies.
. Weapons of flesh: When you
use a body part as a weapon during a melee attack aginast a single
opponent, your damage caused is equal to your splatter die. At level
6, the flesh weapons count as +1, at level 12, as +2 and at level 18
as +3. You can't combine this option with Rumble or Mutilate.
. Blood feed: The Splatter
Beast needs blood to survive. Per day, it must drink as much blood as
it needs water, or they will suffer the same effects for dehydration.
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And that is the Splatter Beast. I
hope you folks enjoyed it. I have some other ideas for new gory
character classes that I'd like to share with you in case you like
this one.
Until next time
Valete
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