Battlesmith

(PRESTIGE CLASS)
A battlesmith is a skilled dwarf armorer and weaponsmith who uses her experience in battle, as well as her masterful weaponsmithing and armorsmithing abilities, to create deadly items for her kinsmen to wield in defense of their homes. While typically only spellcasters can craft magic items, dwarven ingenuity has found a number of ways to make skill serve where nondwarves must rely on magic. Aside from her incredible skill crafting items of war, a battlesmith is equally capable of raining down death and destruction in combat. After all, no one knows her creations - or how to most effectively use them - better than the battlesmith herself, and she did not live to retire from the front lines by being anything less than the best.

Fighters and paladins are well served by becoming battlesmiths. Spellcasters are less likely to find benefit in the profession, since they typically find little time to continue their more traditional mystical studies while working in the heat of the forge. That said, a number of clerics of Moradin take up the mantle of the battlesmith.

- Hit Die: d10
- Proficiencies: A battlesmith gains no additional proficiencies
- Skill Points: 2 + Int Modifier.

REQUIREMENTS:

Race: Dwarf
Feats: Armor Proficiency (Heavy), Endurance, Weapon Focus (Warhammer)
Skills: Craft (Weapons) 10
Base Attack Bonus: +5

Skills

Class Skills Cross-Class Skills

Abilities, Bonus Feats, and Saving Throws

Level BAB Fortitude Reflex Will Abilities Feats Granted Bonus Feat
1 1 2 0 0
  • One With the Hammer - Wisdom to damage for Warhammers
  • Secrets of the Forge - Craft magic arms and armor at 3x class level
 0
2 2 3 0 0
  • Flesh of my Flesh - +1 armor in heavy armor
 0
3 3 3 1 1
  • Forged in Fire - Ignore exhaustion and fatigue
 0
4 4 4 1 1
  • Flesh of my Flesh - +2
  • --
 0
5 5 4 1 1
  • Tempered in Blood - Ignore 50% physical damage for one round
 0