4e:Golden Age - Races

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Human ✦ Jedhu ✦ Kett ✦ Myrmidon ✦ Pari ✦ Salamander ✦ Vanara

Human

Human

Ambitious explorers, driven leaders, eager to master the world

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 5' 6" – 6' 2" Average Weight: 135 – 220lb. Ability Scores: +2 to one ability score of your choice Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares Vision: Normal Languages: Common, choice of one other Bonus Feat: You gain a bonus feat at 1st level. You must meet the feat's prerequisites. Bonus Skill: You gain training in one additional skill from your class skills list. Human Defense Bonus: You gain a +1 racial bonus to Fortitude, Reflex, and Will. Heroic Effort: You have the heroic effort power. Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Heroic Effort		Human Racial Utility Power
Your grim focus and unbridled energy means that failure is not an option.
Encounter

No Action

Personal

Trigger: You miss with an attack or fail a saving throw.

Effect: You gain a +4 racial bonus to the attack roll or the saving throw.,

Human Feats

Human Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a human utility power of the same level or lower.

Jedhu

Jedhu

Offshoots of the Tree of Life, blessed with both compassion and righteousness

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 5' 10" – 6' 6" Average Weight: 170 – 240lb. Ability Scores: +2 Constitution; +2 Intelligence or Wisdom Size: Medium Speed: 5 squares Vision: Normal Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Healing, +2 Nature Strong Timber: You have a +1 racial bonus to Fortitude. Verdant Vigor: You have one additional healing surge. Well-Rooted: When an effect forces you to move—through a pull, a push, or a slide—you can move 1 square less than the effect specifies. This means an effect that normally pulls, pushes, or slides a target 1 square does not force you to move unless you want to. In addition, when an attack would knock you prone, you can immediately make a saving throw to avoid falling prone. Blossom Balm: You have the blossom balm power. Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Blossom Balm		Jedhu Racial Utility Power
The soothing nature of your efflorescence lightens a weary spirit.
Encounter ✦ Healing

Minor Action

Melee touch

Target: One creature

Effect: You spend a healing surge but regain no hit points. Instead, the target regains hit points as if it had spent a healing surge. You must have at least one healing surge remaining to use this power.

Jedhu Feats

Jedhu Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a jedhu utility power of the same level or lower.

Kett

Kett

Hunters of the desert sands, scrappy and often underestimated

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 3' 0" – 3' 8" Average Weight: 45 – 80lb. Ability Scores: +2 Dexterity; +2 Wisdom or Charisma Size: Small Speed: 7 squares Vision: Low-light Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Acrobatics, +2 Stealth Cat's Grace: You have a +1 racial bonus to Reflex. Claw Fighter: You possess vicious claws, which you can use as weapons with a +3 proficiency bonus and 1d6 damage. For purpose of powers and feats, you can treat your claws as light blades, and you are considered to have a weapon in each hand. You may enchant and disenchant your claws. When you disenchant your claws, they do not turn to dust. Natural Leaper: You are always considered to have a running start when jumping. On Your Feet: You subtract 20 feet from the total distance fallen before determining damage after a fall. Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Kett Feats

Can't Catch Cats	Kett Racial Feat
Benefits: When you are grabbed by an enemy, you can make an escape attempt with a +2 feat bonus against that grab as an instant reaction.

Longclaw	Kett Racial Feat
Benefits: Your claws increase from 1d6 damage to 1d8 damage. In addition, for purpose of powers and feats, you can choose to treat your claws as a heavy blade, instead of a light blade.

Scamper	Kett Racial Feat
Prerequisites: 11th level
Benefits: You can move through the space of a creature two or more sizes larger than you (Large or larger) without provoking opportunity attacks from that creature. You don't provoke when you leave an adjacent square to enter the target creature's space, or when you leave the target creature's space to enter an adjacent square. You still provoke attacks from other creatures. You can't end your move in another creature's space.

Kett Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a kett utility power of the same level or lower.

Myrmidon

Myrmidon

Wayward creations of brass and black iron, fiercely loyal to the bitter end

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 6'8 – 7'2 Average Weight: 300 – 350lb. Ability Scores: +2 Strength; +2 Constitution or Wisdom Size: Medium Speed: 5 squares Vision: Normal Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Intimidate, +2 Perception Encumbered Speed: You move at your normal speed even when it would normally be reduced by armor or a heavy load. Other effects that limit speed (such as difficult terrain or magical effects) affect you normally. Living Construct: You are a living construct. You do not need to eat, drink, breathe or sleep. You never make Endurance checks to resist the effect of starvation, thirst or suffocation. All other conditions and effects affect you normally. Multiple Arms: Once per turn, you can draw or sheathe a weapon (or retrieve or stow an item stored on your person) as a free action instead of a minor action. Resolute Construction: You have the resolute construction power. Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Resolute Construction		Myrmidon Racial Utility Power
Through sheer physical resilience, you shrug off an effect that would daunt a softer creature.
Encounter

No Action

Personal

Trigger: You start your turn.

Effect: You end any ongoing damage or any dazed, slowed, stunned, or weakened condition currently affecting you.

Myrmidon Feats

Myrmidon Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a myrmidon utility power of the same level or lower.

Pari

Pari

Beguiling scions of an ancient arcane dynasty, imbued with the elemental powers of air

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 4' 10" – 5' 8" Average Weight: 130 – 180lb. Ability Scores: +2 Charisma; +2 Dexterity or Intelligence Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares Vision: Normal Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Arcana, +2 Insight Defiant Will: You gain a +1 racial bonus to your Will defense. In addition, you gain a +2 racial bonus to saving throws against effects that daze, dominate, or stun. Djinnblood: Your ancestors were kin to the djinn, so you are considered an immortal creature for the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin. Whispers on the Wind: You can communicate silently with any creature within 5 squares of you that shares a language with you. Command the Winds: You have the command the winds power. Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Command the Winds		Pari Racial Attack Power
The winds whip up around you, and send everything surrounding you spinning away.
Encounter

Minor Action

Close burst 1

Target: Each creature in burst

Attack: Charisma +2 vs. Reflex

Hit: You slide the target 1 square.

Increase to +4 bonus at 11th level, and to +6 bonus at 21st level.

Pari Feats

Protection of the Winds	Pari Racial Feat
Benefits: The first time you are bloodied during an encounter, you can use your command the winds racial power as an immediate reaction, even if you had already used it during this encounter.

Stormdancer	Pari Racial Feat
Benefits: Your dervish racial power becomes a burst 2 instead of a burst 1.

Upon the Winds	Pari Racial Feat
Prerequisites: 11th level
Benefits: After using your command the winds racial power, you gain flying until the end of your turn.

Whirlwind Escape	Pari Racial Feat
Benefits: You can use your command the winds racial power as an immediate reaction when grabbed, immobilized, or restrained.

Pari Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a pari utility power of the same level or lower.

Salamander

Salamander

Stout and sturdy, the inheritors of flame

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 4' 2" – 4' 10" Average Weight: 110 – 170lb. Ability Scores: +2 Constitution; +2 Strength or Wisdom Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares Vision: Low-light Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Athletics, +2 Perception Fire Resistance: You have resist fire 5 + one-half your level. Inner Flame: You can use your second wind as a minor action instead of a standard action. Torpor: Rather than sleep, salamanders enter a torpid state. You need to spend 4 hours in this state to gain the same benefits other races gain from taking a 6-hour extended rest. While in a torpor, you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal. Tonguelash: You have the tonguelash power. Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Tonguelash		Salamander Racial Attack Power
Your prehensile, sticky tongue entangles around your opponent's limb and holds them fast.
Encounter

Minor Action

Melee 1

Target: One creature

Attack: Constitution +2 vs. Reflex

Hit: You grab the target.

Increase to +4 bonus at 11th level, and to +6 bonus at 21st level.

Special: You do not need to have a hand free.

Salamander Feats

Dragontongue	Salamander Racial Feat
Benefits: Any target grabbed by your tonguelash racial power takes poison damage at the start of its turn equal to half your level.

Longtongue	Salamander Racial Feat
Benefits: Your tonguelash racial power becomes melee 2 instead of melee 1. Additionally, when you grab the target, you pull it into an adjacent space.

Stronglash	Salamander Racial Feat
Prerequisites: Str 15
Benefits: You can sustain any grab made using your tonguelash racial power as a free action.

Hot to the Touch	Salamander Racial Feat
Benefits: Any creature that grabs you takes fire damage at the start of its turn equal to half your level.

Salamander Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a salamander utility power of the same level or lower.

Vanara

Vanara

Free-spirited primates who match curiosity with pride

RACIAL TRAITS Average Height: 5' 2" – 5' 10" Average Weight: 140 – 200lb. Ability Scores: +2 Wisdom; +2 Dexterity or Strength Size: Medium Speed: 6 squares Vision: Normal Languages: Common, choice of one other Skill Bonuses: +2 Acrobatics, +2 Athletics Ape Grip: When you make an Athletics check to climb, you climb your speed. Prehensile Tail: Once per round, you can spend a free action to use your tail to draw or stow an object weighing up to 1 pound. This does not give you the ability to make attacks with your tail. You can use your tail to make Thievery checks when your hands are otherwise occupied. Your tail can even use thieves' tools. Mimicry: You can mimic sounds and voices. A successful Insight check opposed by your Bluff check allows a listener to determine that the effect is faked. Wild Step: You ignore difficult terrain when you shift (even if you have a power that allows you to shift multiple squares). Make an Example Example Racial Utility Power You provide a demonstration of your might. Encounter No Action Personal Trigger: You roll. Effect: You gain a +0 racial bonus to the roll.

Vanara Feats

Vanara Utility Powers

When your class grants you a utility power after 1st level, you can forgo taking that power. Instead you can take a vanara utility power of the same level or lower.