Babylonian
Feats and Common Traits
Feats
- Desert Dweller: You
lived since your youth in the desert, your travelled the golden sands.
Your body can take more and ignore less. Prerequisite: Must be raised
in any hot desert.
Benefit: You become immune to fatigue, any effect which would leave you
exhausted leaves you fatigued instead. Additionally you gain a +4 Bonus
on Fortitude saves against Hot Weather. Special: This feat can only be
taken at first level.
- Heat Endurance:
Either as a result of growing up in the Sea
of Dust, or by training your
mind and body to ignore the effects of searing heat, you can exist with
ease in high-temperature environments. Prerequisite: Base Fortitude
save +2. Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against fire
effects. You can exist comfortably in temperatures up to 120° F
without having to make Fortitude saves (see Heat Dangers). Your
protection against heat is level 1 (see Protection against Heat).
- Lion Tribe Warrior:
You have learned how to pounce on your foes, like the lion that roams
your land. Benefits: You may make a full attack with a single light
weapon as part of a charge action. If you have light weapons in both
hands, you can instead strike with each weapon once, using the normal
rules for fighting with two weapons.
- Luck of Heroes:
Your land is known for producing heroes. Through luck, determination,
and resilience, you survive when no one expects you to make it through.
PRE: Must be raised in Babylon.
Benefits: You receive a +1 luck bonus on all saving throws and a +1
luck bonus to Armor Class.
- Militia:
Your people rely on a well-trained and well-armed militia to defend
their land. You're no stranger to the use of weapons. Benefits: You
gain proficiency with all martial weapons.
- Sexually Open Society:
You
come from an area where sex and sexuality are open and acknowledged
aspects of existence. In such a society, clothing is used ornamentation
and allure, not to hide breasts and genitals. Sexual topics are valid
and frequent topics for discussion. Benefits: You gain a +2 bonus on
all Perform (sexual techniques) checks and sexually-oriented knowledge
checks.
- Silver Palm:
You grew up in a culture based on haggling and the art of the deal.
Benefits: You get a +2 bonus on all Appraise, Bluff, and Sense Motive
checks.
- True Believer:
The entire founding
population of 43,000 has this
feat.
Traits
- Acceptance:
You get a +2 reaction roll adjustment when dealing with any diverse
culture, due to knowing how to better deal with and understand cultures
other than your own.
- Climate Sense:
This trait provides you with an inate sense of impending (within 1
hour) changes in the weather. In addition, you gain a +2 bonus to all
Survival checks when severe weather conditions are a concern.
- Victorious:
You are the darling of the goddess
of war. Somehow, when it seems
like you
are doomed to fall in battle, you can summon up incredible reserves of
strength to strike your opponents down, if only you can get through
their defenses. Once per game session, you may activate this feat,
after you have made
a possible critical threat on an opponent, but before rolling to
confirm it. By using this feat, the attack becomes an automatic
critical.