Bender, Variant (3.5e Class)

Bender

Elemental Bender is a Utility fighter. Like a cross between a rogue and a sorcerer. They use their own energy to bend and shape the elements of the world around them. While able to enter combat and go into the heart of the fray Benders prefer to use their minds and their bending to defeat opponents and protect their allies.

Benders are individuals from their respective races, having a connection to a plane of an element. This connection grants them abilities with their element and gives them an interesting form of combat. The benders have often left their homes and made enclaves of individuals of people with the same abilities.

Making an Elemental Bender

When creating an elemental bender one should always bear in mind the nature of the elements in the world and which they wish their character to reflect, while also remembering that this class allows no multi classing and that once they set down the path of a bender they are committed. The base elements are Fire, Earth, Wind, Water and Lightning.

Elemental benders are good within combat due to their ability at later levels to use any element in their defense or to make most any terrain into a weapon. This holds true only so long as the Elemental Bender retains Chi Points in reserve to use their bending skills. The weakness of this class comes when in another plane where their elements are limited and especially in the astral plane where they can not bend at all. If they should use all their chi points and have none in reserve they are more vulnerable to attack and so rash or flashy players will often leave themselves open. This Class should work well as a jack of all trades in a group being able to assist in healing fighting and utility purposes outside of combat.

Abilities: The most important ability for this class in order is Dexterity and Intelligence. The bending must act like spells of Wizards or Sorcerers or Clerics.

Races: Any race may contain elemental benders within it. The closer linked to nature a given race is however, the more likely they are to produce an elemental bender.

Alignment: Any, But If the character has deity she can't oppose the alignment of their chosen deity.

Starting Gold: starting gold; 2d6×10 gp average starting gold.

Starting Age: As Rogue.

Table: Elemental Bender

Hit Die: d8

Level	Base Attack Bonus			Saving Throws			Special	Unarmed Damage	Mana Points/Day
	A	B	C	Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+1	+0	+0	+0	+2	+0	Ability 1, Arte 1, Weapon Choice, First Base Element	1d4	2
2nd	+2	+1	+1	+0	+3	+0	Turn / Rebuke	1d4	4
3rd	+3	+2	+1	+1	+4	+1	Arte 2	1d4	6
4th	+4	+3	+2	+1	+4	+1	Second Base Element	1d6	8
5th	+5	+3	+2	+1	+5	+1	Ability 2	1d6	10
6th	+6/+1	+4	+3	+2	+5	+2	Arte 3	1d6	12
7th	+7/+2	+5	+3	+2	+6	+2	Arte 4	1d6	14
8th	+8/+3	+6/+1	+4	+2	+6	+2	Arte 5, Third Base Element	1d8	16
9th	+9/+4	+6/+1	+4	+3	+7	+3		1d8	18
10th	+10/+5	+7/+2	+5	+3	+7	+3	Ability 3	1d8	20
11th	+11/+6/+1	+8/+3	+5	+3	+8	+3	Arte 6, Fourth Base Element/ Advanced Element (Low)	1d8	22
12th	+12/+7/+2	+9/+4	+6/+1	+4	+8	+4		2d4	24
13th	+13/+8/+3	+9/+4	+6/+1	+4	+9	+4	Arte 7	2d4	26
14th	+14/+9/+4	+10/+5	+7/+2	+4	+9	+4		2d4	28
15th	+15/+10/+5	+11/+6/+1	+7/+2	+5	+10	+5	Ability 4, Arte 11, Fifth Base Element/ Advanced Element (Mid)	2d4	30
16th	+16/+11/+6/+1	+12/+7/+2	+8/+3	+5	+10	+5	Arte 8	2d6	32
17th	+17/+12/+7/+2	+12/+7/+2	+8/+3	+5	+11	+5		2d6	34
18th	+18/+13/+8/+3	+13/+8/+3	+9/+4	+6	+11	+6	Arte 9	2d6	36
19th	+19/+14/+9/+4	+14/+9/+4	+9/+4	+6	+12	+6	Arte 10	2d6	38
20th	+20/+15/+10/+5	+15/+10/+5	+10/+5	+6	+12	+6	Ability 5, Energy Bending/ Advanced Element (High)	2d8	40
Class Skills (6 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Heal (Wis), Hide (Dex), Jump (Str), Knowledge (History) (Int), Knowledge (Geography) (Int), Knowledge (Local) (Int), Knowledge (Nature) (Int), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Perform Dance (Cha), Ride (Dex), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), and Tumble (Dex).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Bender.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Benders are proficient with light armor only. A Bender wears no armor to light armor when bending. This is so that they can perform all of the stomatic components of their artes. A bender is also trained in a single weapon which allows for them to use that weapon while bending as well. All benders are trained in unarmed combat and are treated as dealing damage like a monk. This includes that damage can be lethal damage; changing the blow to come from hands, elbows, knees, or feet; there is no off-hand when using an unarmed strike; and this counts as a natural and manufactured weapon for magical affects. A bender is trained in different styles based on his element, and each element has a variety of weapons. A bender's weapon dictates his Base Attack Bonus. A bender who dual wields, must wield two of one weapon. The weapons will be displayed as thus: Bending Element: Weapon 1 (BAB), Weapon 2 (BAB),...

All Elements: Unarmed (B)

Fire: Dagger (A), Short Spear (C), Short Sword (B), Scimitar (B), Falchion (C), Bastard Sword (C)

Earth: Heavy Mace (B), Morning Star (B), Battleaxe (C), Long Sword (B), Great Axe (C), Great Sword (C)

Water: Light Mace (B), Short Sword (B), Scimitar (B), Trident (C), Halberd (C), Long Sword (B)

Lightning: Dagger (A), Short Spear (C), Kukri (A), Short Sword (B), Rapier (B)

Wind: Dagger (A), Quarter Staff (C), Kukri (B), Rapier (B), Nunchaku (A)

Mana Points/Day: A Bender’s ability to manifest powers is limited by the Mana Points he has available. His base daily allotment of Mana Points is given on Table: Bender. In addition, he receives bonus Mana Points per day if he has a high Constitution score (see Table: Ability Modifiers and Bonus Mana Points). His race may also provide bonus Mana Points per day, as may certain feats and items. Benders recover Mana Points by resting; full recovery for a full rest cycle, half recovery if fatigued before resting, and one-quarter recovery if exhausted before resting. If a bender uses all of his points in a single day, he becomes fatigued. If he is already fatigued, then he becomes exhausted. If a bender is fatigued, he cannot use his highest three ranks of artes. If a bender is exhausted for any reason, he cannot bend.

Elements: Bender chose two base elements and one advanced element or all five base elements and Energy Bending. Energy bending can remove/restore other person's bending ability.

List of advanced elements:

Enhanced Fire
Enhanced Water
Enhanced Lightning
Enhanced Earth
Enhanced Wind
Boil = Fire + Water
Combustion = Fire + Lightning
Magma = Fire + Earth
Scorch = Fire + Wind
Storm = Water + Lightning
Mud = Water + Earth
Cloud = Water + Wind
Magnet = Earth + Lightning
Sand = Earth + Wind
Jet= Wind + Lightning

Artes Known: A Bender gain artes as he levels; each new arte giving him more power. Each arte also differs between elements. Artes are spell like abilities and are treated as spells. Each arte is treated as though it were a spell of a level as shown in this chart

0—Trip/Touch Attack (Arte 1)

1st—Projectile, Element Attack (Arte 2, Arte 3)

2nd—Movement (Arte 4)

3rd—Wall, Defensive Skill (Arte 5, Arte 6)

4th—Storm Ability, High Defensive Move (Arte 7, Arte 8)

5th&mdashGrand Ability (Arte 9)

6th—Final Arte (Arte 10)

Maximum Power Level Known: This column determines the highest level power he can learn at this level.

To learn or manifest a power, a Bender must have an Constitution score of at least 10 + the power’s level.

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Ex-Benders

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Epic Bender

Table: The Epic Bender

Hit Die: d

Level	Special
21st
22nd
23rd
24th
25th
26th
27th
28th
29th
30th
+ Int modifier skill points per level.

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Bonus Feats: The epic Bender gains a bonus feat (selected from the list of epic Bender bonus feats) every levels after 20th.

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Human Bender Starting Package

Weapons: Kukri (1d4, 18-20 crit. x2, 2 lbs., light)

Skill Selection: Pick a number of skills 4 + Int modifier.

Skill	Ranks	Ability	Armor Check Penalty
Balance	4	Dex	0
Concentration	4	Con	—
Escape Artist	4	Dex	0
Hide	4	Dex	0
Jump	4	Str	0

Feat: Dodge

Bonus Feats: Weapon Finesse

Gear: Leather Armor, traveler's outfit,back pack, bedroll, 3 days worth of rations, map of the local area, 50 ft. of Silk Rope, and flask.

Gold: 3d4

Playing a Bender

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Benders in the World

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Bender Lore

Characters with ranks in can research Benders to learn more about them. When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

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Benders in the Game

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