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Brownie
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| Alignment Restrictions:
Neutral |
| Required
Main Race(s): Elf |
| Favored class:
rogue
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| Class
Restrictions: Bard, druid, Rogue, Sorcerer or Wizard and Arcane archer.
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| Prestige
Class Restrictions:
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Ability
Adjustments: +1 Wis, +1 Int, -2 str, Bonus Feat: Dodge,
Darkvision, Hide +2, Move Silent +4 |
Special
abilities from item: (racial token reduce size.)
Cast Spell: Confusion (10) 1 Use/Day, Entangle (5) 1 Use/Day,
Invisibility (3) 1 Use/Day, Lesser Dispel (5) 1 Use/Day
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| Notes:
Can only use tiny or small weapons. (TINY - dagger,
dagger assassin, katar, kukri, sai, shuriken SMALL - dart, goad,
hand axe, kama, light crossbow, light hammer, light mace,
light mace2, light pick, nunchaku, sap, short sword, sickle, sling,
throwing axe, torch, whip),
Can only wear clothing Armour. Can only use a small shield.
*NOTE: Do not craft as a
Brownie it will bug your items. Have others normal size
craft your items. Brownies can not ride horse.
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Description:
The creature resembles a very small elf, shorter than
a halfling and very slim, with brown hair. It wears brightly
colored garments and it carries a belt full of artisan's
tools.
Brownies are benign and exceedingly nimble creatures that
may be related very distantly to halflings. Peaceful and
friendly, brownies live in pastoral regions, foraging and
gleaning their food.
A brownie stands no taller than 2 feet and weighs about 6
pounds. Their garments are usually made of wool or linen and
dyed bright colors and decorated with elaborate embroidery
or trimmed with silver or gold studs and buttons.
Brownies live in rural areas, making their homes in small
burrows, hollow trees, or abandoned buildings. They often
live close to or on farms, since they are fascinated by farm
life.
Brownies live by harvesting wild fruits and gleaning grain
from farmers' fields. Brownies are basically vegetarians who
live very comfortably on the gleanings of agricultural life.
They make efficient use of leftovers that are too small for
humans to notice. When brownies glean from fields, they
usually do so after harvest, gathering grains and fruits,
which might otherwise be wasted. When they can harvest a few
morsels earlier, they often do so if they can without
spoiling the harvest.
Being honest to the core, brownies always perform some
service in exchange for what they take. For example, a
brownie might milk a farmer's cows and take only a small
portion for itself.
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Some brownies go so far as to become house brownies. They observe
the families in a given area, and if one meets their high moral
standards, these brownies secretly enter the household. At night,
while the residents are asleep, they perform a variety of helpful
tasks: spinning, baking bread, repairing farm implements, keeping
foxes out of the hen house, mending clothes, and performing other
household tasks. If a thief creeps silently into the house, they
make enough noise to awaken the residents. Watchdogs and domestic
animals usually consider brownies friendly and almost never attack
or even bark at them (a result, no doubt, of their ability to calm
or influence animals).
All brownies ask in exchange for their labor is a little milk,
some bread, and an occasional bit of fruit. Etiquette demands that
no notice be taken of them. If the residents boast about the
presence of a brownie, the brownie vanishes.
Brownies are not greedy, but they often have small hoards of
treasure, which they have taken from evil monsters or received as
gifts from humans. A brownie sometimes leaves his treasure in a
location where a good person in need is bound to find it.
Brownies quickly note strangers that come to the area where they
dwell. They keep careful watch on the newcomers until their
motives are established. If the brownies decide that a stranger is
harmless, he is left in peace. If not, the brownies unite and
drive the intruder out.
Brownies know every nook and cranny of the areas where they live,
and thus make excellent guides, if they can be persuaded to serve.
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