Dweorco

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Standard Racial Traits

• Ability Score Racial Traits: Dweorco are brutal and savage. They gain +2 Strength, +2 Wisdom, and –4 Charisma.
• Type: Dweorco are humanoids with the orc and dwarf subtype.
• Size: Dweorco are Medium creatures and thus have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Base Speed: Dweorco have a base speed of 30 feet.
• Languages: Dweorco begin play speaking Common and Orc or Dwarven. Dweorco with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Dwarven, Giant, Gnoll, Goblin, Undercommon, Orc. See the Linguistics skill page for more information about these languages.

Defensive Racial Traits

• Hardy: Dweorco gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison, spells, and spell-like abilities.
• Stability: Dweorco gain a +4 racial bonus to their Combat Maneuver Defense when resisting a bull rush or trip attempt while standing on the ground.

Offense Racial Traits

• Self-loathing: Choose either Orc or Dwarf. Dweorco’s gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC against the race selected and a +2 racial bonus on combat maneuver checks made to grapple creatures of that type.
• Weapon Familiarity: Dweorco treat any weapon with the word “orc” or “dwarf” in its name as a martial weapon.
• Orc Ferocity: Once per day, when a Dweorco is reduced to fewer than 0 hit points but is not killed, it can fight on for 1 more round as if disabled. At the end of its next turn, unless brought to above 0 hit points, it immediately falls unconscious and begins to die.

Senses Racial Traits

• Darkvision: Orcs can see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet.

Alternate Racial Traits

The following alternate racial traits may be selected in place of one or more of the standard racial traits above. Consult your GM before selecting any of these new options.

• Orcish Acceptance: On rare occasions, a Dweorco may be accepted by their native people. Growing up as an Orc, the Dweorco is trained and treated like one. They recieve a +3 bonus to survival and +2 diplomacy when dealing with orcs. This racial trait replaces Self-loathing and Stability.
• Dwarven Acceptance: On rare occasions, a Dweorco may be accepted by their native people. Living as a dwarf he learns the trades and knowledge of his people. They recieve a +3 bonus to craft +2 bonus to Knowledge (history) and +2 diplomacy when dealing with dwarves. This racial trait replaces Self-loathing and Orc Ferocity.
• Ancient Enmity: Dwarves have long been in conflict with elves, especially the hated drow and the Dweorco have adopted this hatred. Dweorco with this racial trait receive a +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against humanoid creatures of the elf subtype. This racial trait replaces Self-Loathing.
• Feral: Some Dweorco were abandoned by their parents. Having needed to hunt bugs and tiny animals for food to survive while still infants, feral Dweorco fight all the harder to survive when at the brink of death. Dweorco with this racial trait gain Survival as a class skill and gain a +1 racial bonus on melee weapon attack and damage rolls when at negative hit points. This racial trait replaces the orc’s weapon familiarity and automatic languages. Dweorco without additional languages due to high Intelligence scores or ranks in Linguistics can only communicate with grunts and gestures.
• Reckless Climber: Mountain-dwelling Dweorco thrive on taking insane risks to prove themselves. They gain a +4 racial bonus on Climb checks without rope and on Acrobatics checks to maintain balance. This racial trait replaces orc ferocity.
• Smeller: Dweorco with this racial trait gain a limited scent ability with half the normal range. This racial trait replaces orc ferocity and weapon familiarity.
• Squalid: Some Dweorco exist in surroundings so filthy and pestilent that even other orcs would have difficulty living in them. Dweorco with this racial trait gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws made to resist nausea, the sickened condition, and disease. This racial trait replaces ferocity.
• Healthy: Dweorco with this racial trait gain a +2 racial bonus on saves against disease and poison, and they need one fewer consecutive successful save (minimum 1) to be cured of diseases and poisons. This racial trait replaces hardy.
• Relentless: Dweorco are skilled at pushing their way through a battlefield, tossing aside lesser foes with ease. Dweorco with this racial trait receive a +2 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to bull rush or overrun an opponent. This bonus only applies while both the dwarf and his opponent are standing on the ground. This racial trait replaces stability.

Favored Class Options

Alchemist: Add +10 minutes to the duration of the alchemist’s mutagens.

Arcanist: Add +1/4 to the arcanist’s effective class level when determining the effects of the arcane barrier and arcane weapon arcanist exploits.

Barbarian: Add +1 to the barbarian’s total number of rage rounds per day.

Bard: Reduce arcane spell failure chance for casting bard spells when wearing medium armor by +1%. Once the total reaches 10%, the bard also receives Medium Armor Proficiency, if he does not already possess it.

Bloodrager: Increase the bloodrager’s total number of bloodrage rounds per day by 1.

Brawler: Reduce the hardness of any object made from clay, stone, or metal by 1 whenever the object is struck by the brawler’s unarmed strike (minimum 0).

Cavalier: Add +1 to the cavalier’s CMB when making bull rush or overrun combat maneuvers against a challenged target.

Cleric: Select one domain power granted at 1st level that is normally usable a number of times per day equal to 3 + the cleric’s Wisdom modifier. The cleric adds +1/2 to the number of uses per day of that domain power.

Druid: Add +1/2 to the damage dealt by the druid’s animal companion’s natural attacks.

Fighter: Add +2 to the Fighter’s Constitution score for the purpose of determining when he dies from negative hit points.

Gunslinger: Reduce the misfire chance for one type of firearm by 1/4. You cannot reduce the misfire chance of a firearmbelow 1.

Hunter: Gain a +1/2 bonus on wild empathy checks the hunter makes to influence animals and magical beasts that live underground.

Inquisitor: Add +1/2 to the inquisitor’s level for the purpose of determining the effects of one type of judgment.

Investigator: Gain a +1/4 bonus on Perception checks when underground and +1/2 bonus to the investigator’s trap senseability regarding stone traps.

Kineticist: Add 1/3 point of damage to earth element blasts that deal damage. Source

Magus: Select one known magus arcana usable only once per day. The magusadds +1/6 to the number of times it can be used per day. Once that magus arcanais usable twice per day, the magus must select a different magus arcana.

Medium: Gain a +1/2 bonus on saving throws against possession and a +1/2 bonus on saving throws to end haunt channeler, location channel, and spacious soul.

Mesmerist: Increase painful stare’s damage by 1/4 point.

Monk: Reduce the Hardness of any object made of clay, stone, or metal by 1 whenever the object is struck by the monk’s unarmed strike (minimum of 0).

Occultist: Gain a +1/3 bonus on Appraise and Use Magic Device checks involving stone and metal objects.

Oracle: Reduce the penalty for not being proficient with one weapon by 1. When the nonproficiency penalty for a weapon becomes 0 because of this ability, the oracle is treated as having the appropriate Martial or Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat with that weapon.

Paladin: Add a +1 bonus on concentration checks when casting paladin spells.

Paladin: Choose a creature type (and subtype, if necessary) from the ranger’s favored enemies list. Add a +1/2 bonus on Knowledge checks to identify creatures of that type. You can choose the same creature type up to six times; if you choose the same creature type six times, add 1 point of damage when smiting creatures of that type.

Psychic: When casting psychic abjuration spells, add 1/2 level to the effective caster level of the spell, but only to determine the spell’s duration.

Ranger: Add +1 hit point to the ranger’s animal companion. If the ranger ever replaces his animal companion, the new animal companion gains these bonus hit points.

Rogue: Add a +1/2 bonus on Disable Device checks regarding stone traps and a +1/2 bonus to trap sense regarding stone traps.

Shaman: Add +1/4 to the natural armor bonus of the shaman’s spirit animal.

Skald: Reduce the arcane spell failure chance for casting skald spells when wearing heavy armor by 1%. Once the total reduction reaches 10%, the skald also receives Heavy Armor Proficiency (if the skald does not already possess it).

Slayer: Gain a +1/3 bonus on Knowledge (dungeoneering) checks and on Survival checks when underground. If the slayer has a +1 bonus on Knowledge (dungeoneering) checks from this ability, he is also considered trained in that skill.

Sorcerer: Add +1/2 to acid and earth spell or spell-like ability damage.

Spiritualist: Add 1/6 to the shield bonus granted by the 3rd-level ectoplasmic bonded manifestation ability.

Spiritualist: Add a +1/4 bonus on weapon damage rolls with the slam attacks from ectoplasmic bonded manifestation.

Summoner: Add a +1/4 natural armor bonus to the AC of the summoner’s eidolon.

Swashbuckler: Add +1/4 to the swashbuckler’s effective class level to determine the extra damage she deals because of the precise strike deed when wielding a light pick or a heavy pick. If the swashbuckler has the Slashing Grace feat or another similar effect, she can treat the battleaxe or handaxe as a one-handed piercing melee weapon, and she gains this benefit when wielding the appropriate weapon for the feat as well.

Vigilante: Increase the bonus from social grace on Craft skills by +1/2.

Warpriest: Add +1/3 to the number of times per day the warpriest can use blessings, but he can only use these additional uses on blessings that affect weapons or armor.

Witch: Add one spell from the witch spell list to the witch’s familiar. This spell must be at least one level below the highest spell level she can cast. If the witch ever replaces her familiar, the new familiar knows these bonus spells.

Wizard: Select one item creation feat known by the wizard. Whenever he crafts an item using that feat, the amount of progress he makes in an 8-hour period increases by 200 gp (50 gp if crafting while adventuring). This does not reduce the cost of the item; it just increases the rate at which the item is crafted.