SteelOrochu (3.5e Race)

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SteelOrochus

Personality

SteelOrochus have strange personalities, capable of disciplined training and nonsensical tomfoolery within the same day. While many find them strange and are unable to comprehend them fully, they are basically devoted to their interests and lighthearted on many subjects.

Physical Description

Strong and Dexterous, SteelOrochus are about six feet tall and 160 pounds. They have brown eyes.

Relations

Other races admire a SteelOrochu's strength and agility, following them into battle and glory.

Alignment

Oftern either chaotic or lawful, but not generally neutral. Members of this race tend towards the extreme.

Lands

SteelOrochus lice on gaming forums and in dojos, training as fighters and gamers to temper the mind and the body.

Religion

Most SteelOrochus worship Thyton.

Language

SteelOrochus have their own language, SteelOrochese, which they speak with other SteelOrochus, but they learn Common to communicate with the humanoids they often live around.

Names

Many names of SteelOrochus are normal, slightly exotic names, from Arthmos to Vincent, from Sora to Relic.

Racial Traits

• +2 Strength, +4 Dexterity, −2 Charisma: SteelOrochus are powerful fighters, graceful in form; however, their dexterity does not extend into social grace.
• Humanoid (Orochu): While Humanoid, SteelOrochus are definately a race of their own.
• Medium: A SteelOrochu gains no advantages or disadvantages from being medium.
• SteelOrochu base land speed is 40 ft.
• Martial Prowess (Ex): A SteelOrochu is treated as having the Improved Unarmed Strike feat, and has the damage progression of a Monk, but deals unarmed damage as a monk of half his ECL.
• Dick when I want to be (Ex): Should a SteelOrochu fail a charisma-based check or roll, they are not treated as normal for having simply failed a roll, but are treated as having rolled a natural one, and receive the effects of the critical failure result.
• Automatic Languages: Common, SteelOrochese. Bonus Languages: Elven, Dwarven, Gnome.
• Favored Class: Paladin.

Vital Statistics

Table: SteelOrochu Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
14 years	+1d4	+2d4	+3d4

Table: SteelOrochu Aging Effects

Middle Age1	Old2	Venerable3	Maximum Age
35 years	60 years	80 years	+1d20 years
At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

Table: SteelOrochu Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	5' 6"	+2d6	145 lb.	× (1d4) lb.
Female	4' 10"	+2d8	135 lb.	× (1d4) lb.

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