The Quintessential Barbarian
The Quintessential Barbarian cover
| Author | Robert Schwalb |
| Series | Quintessential Series |
| Publisher | Mongoose Publishing |
| Publish date | 2003 |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 1-903980-92-5 |
| OGL Section 15 | qbbn |
The material below is considered Open Game Content
Presence (General)
You are naturally intimidating and frightening to behold.
Prerequisite: Intimidation 9 ranks.
Benefit: You receive a +2 competence bonus to all Intimidation checks. In addition, you may bully your foes. Using the ‘bullying in combat’ ability is similar to feinting with the Bluff skill. You can also use Intimidate to strike fear into an opponent in combat so he cannot dodge attacks effectively. Performing this action is considered a miscellaneous standard action that does not draw an attack of opportunity. You make an Intimidation check against your opponent’s Will save roll. Whoever has the higher result wins. If you
are successful, the next attack you make against the target forfeits his Dexterity bonus to Armour Class (if any). You must make this attack on or before your next turn. Just as with feinting, bullying against a nonhumanoid is difficult as it is harder to read a strange
creature’s body language; you suffer a –4 penalty. Against a creature of animal Intelligence (1 or 2) it is even harder; thus you suffer a –8 penalty. You cannot bully a non-intelligent creature.
