AX&X: More Classes

New Classes

These four extend the core six. Each is built on one of the three progression tracks, so read them exactly as the core classes: the track sets attack bonus and XP, the class adds a Hit Die, a save boon, a kit, and a signature. Nothing here changes a track. A character is one class, as ever.

• Druid: Priest, d6. Neutral by calling. Wooden and stone weapons, leather armor and a wooden shield, no metal. +2 Body. Prepares nature spells through mistletoe, below. Speaks with beasts, moves through brush unhindered, and is immune to the charm of woodland folk. Kit: sickle, sling, leather, wooden shield, a sprig of mistletoe.
• Paladin: Warrior, d8. Lawful only, sworn to an oath; a broken oath strips these boons until atonement. Any weapon and armor. +2 Will. Lay on Hands heals twice your Level in HP a day by touch, or cures one disease. Senses Chaos at will and is never sick. Allies within Near gain +1 on saves against Chaotic magic. Kit: weapon, shield, medium armor, holy symbol.
• Monk: Specialist, d6. No armor, simple weapons, fights unarmed. Unarmored and unburdened, your AC is 10 + half Level plus any DEX edge, and bare hands strike for 1d6. Once a fight a hit can stun: the foe makes a Body save or is dazed a round. You fall safely any height beside a wall, and move 10 ft faster. Kit: staff, simple weapon, traveling clothes, a begging bowl.
• Bard: Specialist, d6. Light and medium weapons, light armor. +2 Will. Loremaster: a Class Check recalls a useful truth about a monster, relic, or place, and on a good roll names its weakness. Song: while you play and do nothing else, allies within Near gain +1 to attacks and saves and shrug off fear; it ends if you stop or take a wound. A performance can sway a crowd, +2 to its reaction. Kit: an instrument, a light weapon, light armor, a book of tales.

Druid Spells

A Druid prepares spells as a Cleric does, up to the slots the Priest track grants, choosing from the list below. The focus is a sprig of mistletoe: cut fresh by moonlight it gives full effect; dried or bought, it still works, at −2. A Druid may also prepare Cure Light Wounds from the Cleric list. The same list is printed in the Spellbook.

Level 1

• Animal Friendship. Over a day of feeding and care, win a wild beast as a loyal companion. Keep one such beast per two Levels.
• Detect Snares and Pits. Sense deadfalls, pits, and crude or natural traps, and unsafe footing, within 40 ft for 6 turns.
• Entangle. Grass and root seize everyone in a Near patch. A Dodge save or held fast, with a new save each round to tear free. One fight.
• Faerie Fire. Ring a target in pale light for one fight. Attacks against it gain +1 and it cannot hide.
• Goodberry. 1d6 berries, each heals 1 HP and feeds a traveler for a day. They spoil at next dawn.
• Invisibility to Animals. Natural beasts cannot see, hear, or smell the warded creature for 6 turns, unless it attacks.
• Locate Animals or Plants. Sense the nearest of a named beast or plant within a mile, and its direction, for 6 turns.
• Pass Without Trace. You and your band leave no track or scent for 6 turns, +4 to shake pursuit in the wild.
• Predict Weather. Know the coming day's weather for a few miles around, as sure as the season allows.
• Purify Water. Make a barrel of foul water or a day's spoiled rations clean and safe, or foul them.
• Shillelagh. A staff or club becomes a magic weapon, +1 to hit and 1d8 damage, for one fight.
• Speak with Animals. Talk with natural beasts for 6 turns. They answer as their nature allows and may grant a small favor on a good reaction.

Level 2

• Barkskin. A target's skin turns to bark: +2 AC for 6 turns.
• Charm Mammal. A warm-blooded beast takes you for a friend. Will save resists; a failed one lasts until you harm it or a day passes.
• Create Water. Call clean water from the air, enough for a party and its mounts for a day.
• Feign Death. A willing creature falls into a deathlike trance for 6 turns, stiff and cold, taking half from blows and immune to drain while under.
• Fire Trap. Ward a box, door, or body. The next to open it unbidden takes 1d4 + Level fire, Dodge for half. Holds until sprung.
• Heat Metal. Metal a target wears turns scalding for 1d4 rounds: 1d4 a round until dropped. Great mass or cold iron resists.
• Hold Animal. Freeze up to 1d4 natural beasts. Each rolls a Will save; the held are Helpless for 1d4 rounds.
• Obscuring Mist. A damp fog fills a Near space for 6 turns. Past 5 ft, sight and missiles fail.
• Produce Flame. A flame sits in your palm for 6 turns. Hurl it to Near as an attack for 1d6 fire, and it sets tinder alight.
• Speak with Plants. For 6 turns, question the local growth. It answers simply and may part a path or tangle a foe.
• Trip. A vine, root, or your staff whips out: a moving target in reach saves Dodge or falls prone.
• Warp Wood. Bend and split wooden items within Near, one per two Levels: a spear shaft, a bow, a plank, a door.

Level 3

• Call Lightning. Under a storm sky, call a bolt once a round for 6 turns: Near, 1d6 per two Levels, Dodge for half. Needs a storm overhead.
• Cure Disease. A touch ends one disease or rot. Reverses to Cause, a wasting sickness on a failed Body save.
• Hold Plant. Shamblers, vine horrors, and like growth within Near stop still. Each rolls a Will save; the held are Helpless for 1d4 rounds.
• Neutralize Poison. Draw the venom from one creature or dose: ends Poisoned, or renders a poison inert. Can instead foul good food.
• Plant Growth. Brush and briar burst across a wide space, near impassable. Lasts until cut back.
• Protection from Fire. A target ignores ordinary fire and halves magical fire for 6 turns, until it soaks 12 damage.
• Pyrotechnics. Spend a nearby fire as blinding fireworks (watchers Dodge or blind a round) or a choking smoke cloud.
• Snare. Weave a cord, vine, or root into a near-invisible trap. The first to tread it is bound or yanked up, Dodge negates. Holds until sprung.
• Stone Shape. Mold a block of stone no larger than you like clay: a rough door, a niche, a crude span. One shaping.
• Summon Swarm. A swarm of biting insects fills a Near space for one fight. Those within take 1 a round and act at -2.
• Tree. Take the seeming of a tree for up to a Day, aware and unharmed by ordinary notice. End it at will.
• Water Breathing. Up to two creatures breathe water for 6 turns, or you breathe air underwater the same span.