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    The document introduces a new class for roleplaying games called the Tomb Raider. Tomb Raiders are well-educated adventurers who explore lost tombs and uncover ancient secrets. They have skills related to exploration such as finding traps and secret doors. Tomb Raiders receive bonuses when using whips and quarterstaffs. The class is inspired by archetypes like Indiana Jones and encourages naming characters after places in the game's setting.

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    The document introduces a new class for roleplaying games called the Tomb Raider. Tomb Raiders are well-educated adventurers who explore lost tombs and uncover ancient secrets. They have skills related to exploration such as finding traps and secret doors. Tomb Raiders receive bonuses when using whips and quarterstaffs. The class is inspired by archetypes like Indiana Jones and encourages naming characters after places in the game's setting.

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    A new class from Land of Nod.

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    The document introduces a new class for roleplaying games called the Tomb Raider. Tomb Raiders are well-educated adventurers who explore lost tombs and uncover ancient secrets. They have skills related to exploration such as finding traps and secret doors. Tomb Raiders receive bonuses when using whips and quarterstaffs. The class is inspired by archetypes like Indiana Jones and encourages naming characters after places in the game's setting.

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    Raiders of Lost Tombs [New Class]

    http://matt-landofnod.blogspot.com/2012/09/raiders-of-lost-tombs-new -class.html?m=1 September 4, 2012

    I love new classes for games – anyone who reads the blog
    knows this, but I have to qualify that statement. I love new
    classes that excite the imagination. Not because they have
    kickass new powers – though sometimes because
    somebody finds a clever way to spin an old rule or concept
    – but because they scratch a certain itch for some
    archetype – and maybe even an archetype I didn’t know I
    wanted to play. I’m a big fan of basing a new class on a
    character, rather than a general occupational concept, much
    as the AD&D ranger is really just an Aragorn (and I wish
    they could have called it that – far cooler to say “I’m a
    chaotic good 8th level Aragorn”).

    I’ve done this several times now – the she-devil is Red Sonja, the puritan is Solomon Kane and the
    beastmaster is Tarzan – using the character as a basis for the class (and throwing in some weird
    specifics, to me, is fun – i.e. the way rangers can use crystal balls), but going a bit further afield when
    necessary. With this in mind, I present …

    The Tomb Raider


    Tomb raiders distinguish themselves from common thieves and plunderers by their mental faculties. In
    many ways, they are sages who have abandoned the staid and safe halls of learning for the field,
    venturing out into the wilderness to discover firsthand the secrets of the ancients.

    Requirements: Dexterity and Intelligence 13+

    Hit Dice: d6 to 10th level, +2 hit points per level thereafter

    Armor Permitted: Leather armor, no shields or bucklers

    Weapons Permitted: Club, crossbow (hand or light), dagger, dart, light mace, light pick, pistol,
    quarterstaff, short sword, whip

    Skills: Break Down Doors, Decipher Codes, Escape Bonds, Find Secret Doors, Find Traps, Jump,
    Open Locks, Remove Traps

    Tomb raiders are well-educated men and women, and are capable of using the same legend lore
    ability that bards possess.

    Although they are not as practiced as thieves with robbing the living, they do have a great deal of
    experience at avoiding traps left to guard the dead, and enjoy a +2 bonus to save against the effects of
    traps, mundane and magical.

    Tomb raiders have learned from experience the value of two particular weapon/tools to their chosen
    profession – the whip and the quarterstaff. When employing these weapons, a tomb raider enjoys not
    only a +1 bonus to attack, but also a +2 bonus on task checks when using those weapons, such as
    attempting to vault over a chasm using a quarterstaff or slam a door closed using a whip to grab the
    handle, and with special maneuvers when using the weapon.

    Tomb raiders have to finance their activities, but they shy away from pawning objects of historical value.
    Such items, they believe, belong in libraries, museums or universities. A tomb raider that allows such
    an important item to be sold or kept for private use is immediately cursed by a quest spell to retrieve
    that item and see it placed in the hands of the proper academic authorities.

    Note: If you don't name your tomb raider after one of the nations or city-states in your campaign, i.e.
    Greyhawk Jones or Waterdeep Smith, you really aren't getting the full experience this class provides.

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