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Friday, 10 December 2021

Basic Expert: The Thief as an isekai protagonist

I consider the B/X Thief the ideal Isekai protagonist with a Skill framework into which 'other' skills might be inserted to replace unappealing thief skills.
Crack open a manga comic and jot down OP character skills like 'absorb' (a monster skill which gives your pc the capacity to pick up those special skills mentioned in the preamble to the monsters section in b/x). Imagine your thief absorbing dragon breath (breath damage equal to hp 3×day) having consumed its flesh and saved vs poison.

The price is you start with one skill (Absorb) which we put in slot 7.

Scavenger
Level   Title                          Exp.         Hit
                                               Points     Dice
     1      Bottom Feeder               0      1d4
     2      Flesh Eater               1200      2d4
     3      Scavenger                2400      3d4

Special Abilities
Level   Slot 1   Slot 2    Slot 3   Slot 4   Slot 5   Slot 6   Slot 7
    1        15%      10%      20%     20%     87%     10%      1-2
    2        20%      15%      25%     25%     88%     15%      1-2
    3        25%      20%      30%     30%     89%     20%      1-3

Slot 7: Absorb (1-2 in 1d6 or 33% chance of absorbing a skill from a monster by killing it and consuming its flesh*).
*save v. Poison or die.

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