ICONIC CLASSES

THEFOOL
“d20s? I never touch ‘em...”
THE FOOL
Overview
Play Style: The Fool is kind of a joke class. A
playable joke, but a joke nonetheless. Think of
The Fool as the melee-focused counterpart of
the Chaos Mage, or the chaotic counterpart to
the Occultist. This class is simple to pick up
and play but has some odd features, so
beware… things may not be like you are used
to. Also, playing this class online is tricky—a
lot relies on minis, physical dice, and similarly
solid ephemera.
Ability Scores: You gain a +2 bonus to an
attribute of your choosing, but not the same
attribute you increased with your racial bonus.
Races: Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Anybody can be a fool, but only The Fool is
The Fool.
Backgrounds: Here are some background ideas
for The Fool: a true myth, deeply superficial, filled
with sweet sorrow, genuine fake shemp, honest
thief, knower of an open secret, natural actor,
painfully beautiful, the only choice, weirdly normal,
wielder of the dark light.
Icons: See class features.

The Fool Multiclassing

Sure, The Fool can multiclass. The deal is this—
you create two versions of your character,
possibly of two different races, and one is The
Fool and the other one is of a different class. At
the start of each day roll randomly to discover
which class, attributes, etc. you have for that
day.
Gear Armor
At 1st level, The Fool will have the usual basic The Fool prefers fighting in light armor, the
adventuring equipment: dagger, rope, a lantern, better to run around doing foolish things.
a walking staff, tent, blanket, etc. and some The Fool Armor and AC
sturdy clothing. They’ll also have armor (usually Type Base AC
light armor) and a weapon (usually a sword, None 10
axe, or a comically big mallet). The Fool will also Light 14
have a couple of minor oddities—trick dice, a Heavy (-2 attk) 16
rubber chicken, strange bottles, a jester’s stick
Shield (-1 attk) +1
(that is secretly the sheaf for a concealed
dagger).
Weapons
The Fool likes to carry big weapons into fights,
The Fool starts with 1d100-1d100 gp. If this
The Fool might be a fool but they are no idiot.
means The Fool starts with negative money they
have a handful of copper coins and a debt that
The Fool Melee Weapons
they need to pay or face the consequences. One-Handed Two-Handed
Small
1d4 1d6
weighted jester’s juggling club,
ribbons, dagger staff
Light or Simple
Basic Attacks 1d6 1d8
shortsword, spear
Melee Attack
hand axe
At-Will
Heavy or Martial
Target: One enemy
1d8 1d10
Attack: Strength + Level vs. AC longsword, greatsword,
Hit: WEAPON + Strength damage big axe huge mallet
Miss: Level The Fool Ranged Weapons
Thrown Crossbow Bow
Ranged Attack Small
At-Will 1d4 1d4
—
Target: One enemy throwing hand
Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC knife crossbow
Hit: WEAPON + Dexterity damage Light or Simple
Miss: — 1d6 1d6 1d6
javelin, light crossbow shortbow
juggling club
Heavy or Martial
1d8 1d8
—
hvy crossbow longbow
The Fool Level Progression
The Fool Level-Up Damage Bonus
Total Feats Talents
Level Ability Bonuses from Ability Score
Level 1
1 adventurer 1 ability modifier
Multiclass
Level 1 1 adventurer 1 ability modifier
Level 2 2 adventurer 1 ability modifier
Level 3 3 adventurer 1 ability modifier
Level 4 4 adventurer 1 +1 to 3 abilities ability modifier
4 adventurer
Level 5 1 2 x ability modifier
1 champion
4 adventurer
Level 6 1 2 x ability modifier
2 champion
4 adventurer
Level 7 1 +1 to 3 abilities 2 x ability modifier
3 champion
4 adventurer
Level 8 3 champion 1 3 x ability modifier
1 epic
4 adventurer
Level 9 3 champion 1 3 x ability modifier
2 epic
4 adventurer
Level 10 3 champion 1 +1 to 3 abilities 3 x ability modifier
3 epic

The Fool Stats

+2 Strength or Constitution
Ability Bonus Recoveries 8
(different from racial bonus)
(1d4+1d6 x Level) + CON
Initiative DEX mod + Level Recovery Dice
mod
Armor Class 14 + middle of 8 points, max 5 in any one
Backgrounds
(light armor) CON/DEX/WIS + Level background
10 + middle of Icon
Physical Defense See class features
STR/CON/DEX + Level Relationships
10 + middle of INT/WIS/CHA
Mental Defense Talents See class features
+ Level
Hit Points See class features Feats 1 per Level

Class Features
The Fool has the following class features:
The Only One
There are many fools, but only one The Fool in
any campaign. You are it.
No d20s!
Instead of d20s you roll 2d10. Attack rolls? 2d10.
Saves? 2d10. Skill checks? 2d10. If the rules ever
say you should roll a d20, you roll 2d10 instead.
Crits: A natural 20 (a 10+10) is a crit, and any
melee attack that rolls a double (1+1, 2+2, 3+3,
etc.) is also a critical hit.
Natural 1s: As you can’t roll a 1 on 2d10, you
can never roll a natural 1 on for what other
classes would be a d20 roll—which means on
skill checks you always have the option of
failing forwards.
The Talentless Fool
The Fool has no talents. Instead you take one
talent from another class. The rub is that if
somebody from that class is in your party or
joins it, you lose the talent. Not to worry, you
can immediately gain another talent from
another class, provided it isn’t a class that is in
the party.
If you spend feats on the talent from another
class and lose the talent, you get to respend
them immediately.
And by immediately, I mean you can do this
mid-battle if a new character joins the party.
You can also change your talent for a new one
whenever you level up.
Hit-Point Flux
The Fool starts each day with maximum hit-
points equal to the following chart:

Eclectic Mystic The Fool Level Total Hit-Points

As The Fool you are in touch with the flows of Level 1 Multiclass 5d12
the universe, have been kicked out of dozens of Level 1 5d12
cults and religions, and learn new magics easily.
Level 2 7d12
You can spend feats to learn at-will spells,
Level 3 9d12
utility spells, cantrips, etc. from other classes,
spells that you cast at your Level. You can also Level 4 11d12
spend feats on those spells. Level 5 14d12
You can’t learn recharge spells, cyclic spells, Level 6 17d12
per-battle spells, daily spells, etc. as you just Level 7 20d12
don’t have the patience for deep study. You also Level 8 27d12
can’t take more than one spell from any one
Level 9 34d12
class (champion: two spells per class; epic: three
Level 10 41d12
spells per class)—if you learn a wizard at-will
spell at 1st Level you have to wait until 5th Level You could choose to take the average of some
to learn another wizard at-will spell. or all of the dice, but where’s the fun in that?

Uncork the Folly! Fickle Fool

You have ten foolish spells known as follies. You
start each day with access to no follies. Every
time you roll a 2d10 note the results, as one or
two of the spells just became available to you (if
the 2d10s were the same result, you only uncork
the folly that relates to that number).
Casting a folly usually expends it for the day,
they are daily spells. If you uncork that folly
again, you can’t use it if it is expended.
Every time you uncork a new spell it recorks
any spells you’ve previously uncorked.
At the start of each day you gain a new 4-point
positive icon relationship with an icon that you
haven’t recently had a relationship with (you
pick who), and you lose all other icon
relationships. You quickly fall out of favor, but
make new friends easily.
Heaven Protects Fools
The Fool always automatically passes death
saves and last gasp saves. The Fool can still be
killed outright through taking enough damage.
Follies
To use a folly it must be uncorked. To have a
folly uncorked your last 2d10 skill roll, attack
roll, save, etc., must have had a d10 that showed
the number of the folly, and you must not have
already expended it’s daily use that day.
Uncorking
Folly
Number
1 Fool’s First Gambit
2 Coinwalking
3 Three Fools Rush In
4 Use the Fours
5 The Fifth Fool’s Quarrel
6 Wall of Six
7 Sevenfold Crown of Folly
8 Eight Realignments
9 Nine Infectious Follies
10 Tenfold Dodecahedron of Power
Fool’s First Gambit
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: The ally that is furthest away from you
Effect (good): The target doubles their next d20
roll, using the doubled roll as their natural d20
result. For example, if they roll a 5 it counts as a
natural 10, if they roll a 7 it counts as a natural 14,
and if they roll a 16 it counts as a natural 32! If the
target normally crits on a 20, then for this roll
they crit on a ‘natural’ 20+.
Effect (bad, but not for you): Until the start of
their next turn the target has a penalty to all
their defenses equal to the undoubled d20 roll.
Yep, this folly gives your allies a really good
thing, and a sharp downside. Allies who don’t
want to be targeted with this spell should stick
close to you.
Coinwalking
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: You
Effect (good): Until the end of the battle you fly
by levitation. Stack coins under your mini, to
represent how high you are levitating.
Special: The coins just represent how high you
are, they aren’t really part of the battlefield.
You can only fly as high as you (the player)
have coins in your pocket, wallet, purse, etc.
and if the stack falls over The Fool also crashes
out of the air and takes damage as determined
by the GM—so beware of stacking too high!
Three Fools Rush In
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: You
Effect (good): Until the end of the battle you
cannot be targeted by attacks while moving,
and have a +1 bonus to your defenses (AC, PD,
and MD) if you are engaged with the toughest
enemy that the party is facing (champion +2;
epic: +3).
Aftereffect: 1d3 times per battle when you
charge into engagement, up to two allies next
to you can move along with you as a free
action.
Use the Fours
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Effect: Drop four d4s anywhere over onto the
play area, from a height of four inches. Keep
picking up any that didn’t roll a 4 and
dropping them again. Leave the d4s that show
4 whenever they land, provided they didn’t
bounce out of the battlefield. Until the end of
the battle you can teleport from next to one d4
to another as a move action.
Special: These dice are physical things for you
and others on the battlefield, appearing as
giant indestructible objects. Any miniatures or
scenery accidentally moved by the falling d4s
are moved in the game too.
The Fifth Fool’s Quarrel
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: You
Effect (good): The Fool loudly argues that
reality doesn’t work a certain way, and
provided your explanation has some twisted
logic to it for a brief moment reality gets
confused. For example, you could argue that if you
hum at the right pitch you should be able to vibrate
trough a solid door, or if you run fast enough you
should be able to run sideways on a wall, or that if
you beat silver coins together you get gold. If there
is doubt that what you are trying to trick
reality into accepting would work, roll a save
(2d10, naturally), and on an 11+ it works.
Effect (weird): There are strange side effects if
the GM doubts what you are trying and asks
you to roll the save, and you roll less than 11.
You’ve confused reality, but not in a way that
benefits you. It might be bad or not, but it will
be bizarre.
Wall of Six
Daily
Effect: Roll six d6s, and keeping those numbers
face-up stack them in a straight or curved wall
(either a wall of six dice, a wall two dice high and
three dice long, a wall two long and three high, or a
column of six dice). When you or an ally are next
to one of the d6s that doesn’t have a d6 under
it, as a free action you can remove it and add
the d6 result to a save or disengage check.
Special: These dice are physical things for you
and others on the battlefield, appearing as
giant indestructible objects. You, your allies,
and your enemies can climb on the d6s.
Sevenfold Crown of
Folly
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: You
Effect (good): The next time an ally makes an
attack, as a free action you can make the same
attack—using whatever feats, talents, class
features, spells, magic item bonuses, etc. they
used, and using their attack roll and damage.
The only difference is that the attack originates
with you, and you get to pick the targets. If the
attack misses, the daily use of this folly isn’t
expended.
Effect (strange): You take on an aspect of the
ally you copy—maybe you gain their eye
color, or hair color, or your clothing shifts
slightly to be like theirs. Its always minor stuff,
and mostly temporary changes (unless you
decide otherwise).
Eight Realignments
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: You
Effect (good): As a free action cast a daily spell
of your Level from another class.
Effect (might be good or bad): Normally this
game doesn’t use alignments, but this spell
does. Roll a d8, and switch alignment until the
end of the day or until an ally slaps you hard
enough that you are forced to spend a
recovery (1= Lawful Good, 2 = Neutral Good, 3=
Chaotic Good, 4= Chaotic Neutral, 5= Chaotic Evil,
6= Neutral Evil, 7= Lawful Evil, 8= Lawful
Neutral).
Special: When you cast this spell place the d8
anywhere on the battlefield. This die is a
physical thing for you and others on the
battlefield, appearing as a giant indestructible
object. You, your allies, and your enemies can
climb on the d8.
Nine Infectious Follies
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Target: One nearby ally
Effect (good): Pick a daily spell from a class not
represented in the party, on their next turn the
ally can cast that spell as a free action.
Effect (bad): If the ally doesn’t cast the spell, or
is unable to (due to being unconscious,
hampered, etc.), the ally loses a recovery.

Tenfold Dodecahedron
of Power
Close-quarters spell
Daily
Effect: Place a d12 on the battlefield next to your
character. Any time a character next to the d12
moves or uses a move action (including trying
to climb on it), before they move you flick the
d12. Any enemies that the d12 comes to rest
next to take force damage equal to the d12
result (champion: 2x the result; epic: 3x the
result). If you flick the d12 off the battlefield it
vanishes. You can flick the dodecahedron of
power up to ten times during the battle, and
can choose not to flick it when a creature next
to it moves.
Special: This die is a physical thing for you and
others on the battlefield, appearing as a giant
glowing orb of destructive energy.
 THE FOOL
Name: One Unique Thing:
Race:
Level: Backgrounds
& icon
Strength Mod: Mod+lvl: relationships

Constitution Mod: Mod+lvl:

Dexterity Mod: Mod+lvl:

(initiative)
Intelligence Mod: Mod+lvl:

Wisdom Mod: Mod+lvl:

Charisma Mod: Mod+lvl:

Melee attack Ranged attack

Attack roll: Attack roll:
(Str+Lvl vs AC) (Dex+Lvl vs AC)
Hit damage: Hit damage:
(WEAPON+Str) (WEAPON+Dex)
Miss damage: Miss damage:
(Level) (—)
Weapon & Notes: Weapon & Notes:

Current Talent: Used

Uncorking Number Folly today?
1 Fool’s First Gambit

2 Coinwalking

3 Three Fools Rush In

4 Use the Fours

5 The Fifth Fool’s Quarrel

6 Wall of Six

7 Sevenfold Crown of Folly

8 Eight Realignments

9 Nine Infectious Follies

10 Tenfold Dodecahedron of Power
 THE FOOL
FEATS TALENT
Extra human feat:
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EQUIPMENT

RACIAL POWER(S)

ADVENTURE NOTES, FOLLIES PERFORMED, GODS INSULTED, CAPERS AND SHENANIGANS


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