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 |
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Wilderness Defender
Mysterious and dangerous, these rare elves embrace the anger of their people’s decline. They feel humans are irresponsible and
uncaring of the plight of the non-human species. Self-exiled from their normally peace-loving people, these characters will often band
with other like-minded creatures and declare war against those who would seize their lands. Their ire extends beyond the simple ignorance of humans; they equally hate goblinoids, orcs, trolls and the rest. Their sole purpose is to preserve the land from the abominations of civilisation and those who would despoil it for their own sinister purposes.
Adventuring: Wilderness defenders seize a life of adventure from the start. Never accepted in their homeland due to their thirst for battle, they have lost the innately peaceful nature of their typical elven counterparts. As they disdain the complacent life of their brethren, they are isolated and have little connection with other intelligent people. Thus, they will usually ally themselves with druids and rangers who have similar dispositions. Though they typically abhor human company, they are intelligent enough to realize not all humans are culpable of the crimes against nature. So, on some occasions they will band with their enemy to fight the greater evil.
Roleplaying: Intolerance is the root of the wilderness defender’s personality. He despises the irreverent, hates the wicked and always embraces the destruction of his enemies. Many often view such adherence to high-minded morality and egalitarianism as utopian and silly. They have little regard for the restrictive order of most societies and embrace their free will to the highest extent.
Benefits: Due to their virulent hatred of those they hold to blame for the decline of elven lands, they may choose a Favoured Enemy from the following list: humans, orcs, goblinoids or trolls. Functionally like the ranger special ability, it stacks with any other instance of Favoured Enemy for determining the bonus to skill checks and damage.
Penalties: Wilderness defenders are completely inept in social situations, as their fervour for their beliefs often interferes. Thus, wilderness defenders have a -2 competence penalty to all checks involving Charisma.
