Potestas: a D&D3E supplement

Chapter Three: Classes

Aristocrat (DMG, upgraded for PCs)

Description

Aristocrats are usually educated, wealthy individuals who are either born to high station or who actively seek to better themselves. They concentrate their attentions on the traditional interests of the upper classes, including the arts of combat, good manners and governance.

Game Rule Information

• Person of Quality: an aristocrat gains a +2 circumstance bonus at 1st level to any Charisma-based skill check where their elevated social standing has some weight unless they bring shame on themselves. This bonus increases by +1 at 3rd level and every three levels thereafter.
• Favour: starting at 2nd level, aristocrats can use their personal connections and influence to call in favours. By succeeding at a Charisma ability check, modified by their standing as a person of quality, the aristocrat can borrow equipment, obtain documents, or draw on credit. If the DM considers the favour reasonable, they set the Difficulty Class of the check based on how difficult, dangerous and/or risky it is for others to provide the favour. A safe and easy favour which entails little risk is DC 10, while a difficult and risky favour (such as borrowing enough money to finance a sailing ship for a voyage of discovery) is DC 20 or more. The aristocrat can make one attempt a week to call in favours for every two aristocrat levels, but can only make one attempt each week for a specific favour.
• Shaming Yourself: aristocrats who are publicly known to act in a disreputable, ignoble or common manner bring shame upon themselves, losing their stature as a person of quality until they redeem their good name. They can still attempt to call in favours.
• Bonus Combat Feats: the aristocrat gets a bonus combat feat at 2nd level, 4th level, and every three levels thereafter.
• Leadership: an aristocrat gains Leadership as a bonus feat at 5th class level.

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