Cosplayer (3.5e Class)
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| —Mathias, Half-Elf Cosplayer | ||
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Cosplayer
A master of costumes, cosplayers don the outfit they need, as they need it for the situation.
Alignment: Any.
Starting Gold: 5d4 x 10
Starting Age: Moderate
Class Features
All of the following are class features of the Cosplayer.
Cosplay: As a cosplayer, you have a number of costumes available to you at any one time; each of these have their own advantages and abilities, some of which are chosen upon first putting on the costume. Costumes can be changed after resting for six hours, or using one of the Costume Change (see below). Upon changing a costume, anyone within sight range can make a Spot check opposed by the cosplayer Bluff check to notice that something suspicious is going on, and discern that the cosplayer is changing roles, along with what costume they are donning and a vague understanding of what the costume can do.
The following costumes are available to the Cosplayer:
- Healer
- Magician
- Soldier
- Telepath
- Thief
Upon putting on a costume, the Cosplayer gains all the abilities listed below under Costumes. Your effective costume level for the purpose of your costumes is equal to your cosplayer HD, removing one for every three levels you possess in the class. Thus, a level 7 cosplayer would have a costume level of 5. For the purpose of abilities that work off of your HD, your HD for costume abilities is equal to your costume level + levels in any non-cosplayer class. Thus, a level 10 costplayer with the Magician costume would gain no benefits from Practiced Caster (CA), but a Cosplayer 10 / Fighter 4 certainly would.
Disguise Path (Ex): You create the most extraordinary costumes, fooling even those with a keen eye. At first level, you gain a +10 bonus to Bluff and Disguise checks to fool others as to your actual class and abilities, causing them to believe that your only abilities are in fact those of the costume you have chosen.
For example, if your current costume is Magician, you gain the bonus to make them believe you are actually a wizard or sorcerer, while if your current costume is that of the Soldier, they may believe that you are simply a fighter, swashbuckler, or other mundane weapon-user. On the other hand, if you are using both the Magician and Soldier costumes (as per Meld Costume), they may believe that you are a bladesinger, duskblade, or multiclassed wizard-fighter.
Costume Change (Ex): As you become practiced with your costumes, you slowly gain a greater understanding of how to quickly switch costumes, at one moment appearing to be one thing and minutes later having completely different abilities. At second level, you may change your current costume by taking one minute to change, though this has all the stipulations of Cosplay if someone sees you. If you have more than one costume, you may only change one of your costumes. You can use this ability only once per day, gaining an additional use at level ten, and another at level 18.
Note that any daily abilities that you use do not come back unless you rest for eight hours, even if you switch out a costume and switch it back in later.
Mimic Ability (Ex): As your form and practice become more perfected, you pick up small tricks and abilities of other classes, allowing you to more effectively become the role you pretend to enact. At third level, once per day you may choose any of the following abilities as an immediate action and gain its effects for one round:
- You gain damage reduction 5/--. If you are level 11 or higher, this improves to damage reduction 10/--.
- You gain immunity to fear, and add your Charisma modifier to the next attack roll and your Cosplayer level to the next damage roll you make while this ability is active. If you are 11th level or higher, any ally who can see you gains a +4 bonus to Will saves against fear effects.
- You gain the Improved Unarmed Strike feat and deal unarmed damage as a monk of your costume level, and the next unarmed attack you make during the duration of this ability has a chance to stun your target (as per Stunning Blow).
- You gain the Bardic Knowledge ability as a bard of your costume level.
- You gain the Evasion ability. If you are level 11 or higher, you also gain Improved Evasion.
- You gain the Mettle of Fortitude ability. If you are level 11 or higher, you also gain Improved Mettle of Fortitude.
- You gain the Mettle of Will ability. If you are level 11 or higher, you also gain Improved Mettle of Will.
- You gain the Track feat and the Endurance feat. If you are level 11 or higher, you also gain the Swift Tracker ability. This lasts for one hour (rather than one round).
- You gain the Uncanny Dodge ability. If you are level 11 or higher, you also gain the Improved Uncanny Dodge ability.
- You gain the Wild Empathy and Trackless Step abilities. If you are level 11 or higher, you also gain the Woodland Stride ability. This lasts for one minute (rather than one round).
At every other level after third, you gain another use of this ability.
Floating Feat: In order to model your costumes well, sometimes you need to pick up an extra trick or two. At levels four and twelve, you get a bonus feat. However, unlike normal feats, this feat may not be used as a prerequisite for any class, feat, or ability, and you may change them to any other feat after resting for six hours. You must qualify for the feats chosen, and cannot choose an Item Creation feat for any of your floating feats.
Quick Change (Ex): Your mastery of changing costumes is so deeply ingrained that you can switch them at a moment's notice. At level eight, you may take a full round action once per day to switch your costume around as per Costume Change, though there is no chance that anyone will notice your costume change.
Meld Costume (Ex): You slowly become more adept at switching costumes, gaining the ability to combine various costumes into a smorgasbord of different colors and abilities. At eleventh level, you may have two costumes active at any time.
Rapid Change (Ex): The way that you change change costumes is simply not to be believed; at level 20, you can use Costume Change at will, though this only takes a single minute.
Ultimate Costume (Ex): You reach the pinnacle of the cosplayer, combining your costumes into their ultimate form; at level 20, you can have three costumes active at any one time.
Advancement: If you take levels in a class that would increase your spellcasting or psionic manifesting in this class, count every increase as though you gained a level of Cosplayer for the purpose of the abilities gained from your costumes, your costume level, and nothing else.
Prerequisites: Since D&D 3.5 doesn't explicitly say about qualifications for feats and prestige classes, this is the simplest explanation that the system hints at:
If at any time you were able to qualify for a feat, prestige class or other ability, you are able to take it. However, unless you fulfill the prerequisites of the ability without taking the ability itself (or anything that uses the ability as a prerequisite) into account, the feat or class is unusable and gives no benefits to the character. The only exception is for prestige classes, and the only benefits you get from those when you do not fulfill the prerequisite are the HD, skills, and base attack bonus derived from the class. That said, if you ever do not fulfill the requirement for a feat or prestige class, its benefits apart from HD, skills, and BAB immediately disappear and are unusable until you once more fulfill that ability's prerequisites.
Costumes
Magician
Soldier
Telepath
Thief
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| Article Balance | High + |
| Author | Ghostwheel + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Class + |
| Rating | Unrated + |
| Skill | Balance +, Bluff +, Climb +, Concentration +, Craft +, Diplomacy +, Disguise +, Escape Artist +, Forgery +, Gather Information +, Jump +, Listen +, Perform +, Profession +, Ride +, Sense Motive +, Spot +, Survival +, Swim + and Use Rope + |
| Skill Points | 4 + |
| Summary | A jack of all trades who changes roles and abilities at the drop of a hat. + |
| Title | Cosplayer + |
