d20 Goodman Games Demon Hunter's Handbook.pdf

Writer

Patrick Younts

Cover Artist

homas Denmark

Interior Artists

Alex Kosakowski

Doug Kovacs

Claudio Muniz

Mat Morrow

Mikolaj Ostapiuk

Editor

Joseph Goodman

Graphic Designer

Duncan Fielden

N o campaign theme is more gripping than a batle against the minions of

hell! his jam-packed sourcebook brings to the table everything you’ll

need to run a fantasy campaign centered around demon hunters. From

puritanical holy men ighting for their gods to crazed warriors only one step away

from damnation themselves, every classic archetype is covered — with new ones

introduced as well. he handbook focuses not only on new classes, races, and

feats, but also covers ways to tailor the existing d20 canon to a demon-hunter

theme. It includes rules for possession and exorcism, organizations both pure and

demonic, and guidelines for creating truly villainous demons to hunt.

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Contents

Chapter One: Characters

Exorcism and Possession

Despair, Grief, and the

What is Possession?

Dying of the Light

Introduction

How do Demons Choose

he Merry Demon Hunters

Alignment

their Victims?

Demon Hunter Opponents

Spoting Victims

Roleplaying

Lone Demon Opponents

he Possession Atempt

Divine Races

Steward Archon

he Hordes of Hell

Conducting an Exorcism

Campaign Issues

New Demon Hunter Domains

Aasimar

he Seeds of Adventure

Exorcism

Demon Hunters of Every Class

Barbarian

Wilderness/Rural

Purity

Urban Adventure Seeds

Righteousness

Bard

New Demon Hunter Spells

Chapter Four: Organizations

Types of Organizations

Cleric

Celestial Chains

Variant: Planar Cleric

Celestial Chorus

Druid

Cults

Corruption’s Sustaining Flow

Fighter

Religious Organizations

Destiny’s Spear

Monk

Secular Organizations

Final Vengeance

Paladin

Building an Organization

Heavenly Bells

Ranger

Determining Secondary Goals

Heaven’s Tears

Rogue

Determining an

Holy Berries

Sorcerer

Organization’s Size

Nature’s Champion

Wizard

Determining an

Nature’s Retribution

he Bound Spellcaster

Organization’s Resources

Sense Fiends

he Preserver

Sin Pox

Sample Organizations

he Glorious Brotherhood

Soul Poison

he Righteous Sword

of Transcended Flesh 75

Sampsa, She Who Walks Alone 76

he Broken Dolls

Terrible, Beautiful Angel

he Reformed Cultist

he Rack

Chapter Two:

Demon Hunter Abilities

New Demon Hunter Feats

Vengeance of the Lost

Black Gate Orphanage

Wings of Glory

Witch Hammer

Chapter Five:

Allies and Enemies

Of Demons and Devils

Demon Hunter Equipment

Dead Inside

New Armor

Demon Slayer’s Insight

New Weapons

Dominant houghts

New Equipment

he Sin Eater

Fading Spirit

Sacred and Magical Oils,

he Curse Bearer

Fractured Angel

Candles, and Essences

Improved Exorcism

he Corrupt King

Sacred Holy Symbol

Indomitable Will

Materials

Shell Vessel (Template)

Imposing Manner

Trophies from the Kill

Unique Features of

Inspirational Bulwark

Magical Weapon and

Demons And Devils

Living Sword of

Armor Properties

Non-Player Charaters

Heaven’s Vengeance

Potions and Oils

Adelaide Sphrorazza

Mortal Coil

Other Magical Items

Jeremy King

Slave to Heaven’s Mandate

Creating Charaters

Deacon Gideon Krug

New Skill Uses

Magdalena

Chapter Three: The Campaign

Demon Hunter

Knowledge (arcana)

he Crimson Bishop

Knowledge (religion)

Councilman Gerhart

Spellcrat

Campaign hemes

VonStock

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Chapter One: Characters

Introduction

consumes those who answer it. But until that last

day, when the demon hunter rasps inal curses at

the devil rending his heart in two, a demon hunter

is a spiritual warrior without peer. For good, for evil,

or solely for revenge: the call of the demon hunter

cannot be ignored.

In some ways, demon hunters are like any other

adventurers. hey quest across the width and breath

of the world, they raise sword and ire against evil,

and they grow more powerful through the accu-

mulation of magic items and other, less magniicent

treasures. In other ways, however, they could not be

more diferent. he demon hunter does not adven-

ture for personal glory, or to gain power and inlu-

ence in the world. Instead, he quests because he feels

a compulsion to pit himself against the machina-

tions of evil outsiders and the cults that follow them.

He adventures because he knows that without his

ations, no mater how insigniicant they seem, the

world would fall prey to darkness, sin,

and corruption.

It is the demon hunter’s duty and

his curse to stand against the forces

of darkness, to ight alone against the

limitless hordes of demons, devils, and

other evil, lower planar beings who seek

to spread their black shadow across the

mortal realm. Whether the demon

hunter takes up the path because of

religious conviction, because of some

demon related tragedy in his past, or

simply out of a sense of duty to his fel-

low man, he faces a lifetime of thankless

toil, of hardship, of grief, and of terror,

with no hope of escape except through

inevitable, oten agonizing death. For

this reason, those who have any choice

in the mater should think long and

hard before stepping foot on the demon

hunter’s path. Of course, rare is the one

who does have the choice.

his chapter opens with a discussion

of demon hunter charaters, their am-

bitions, their skills, their methods and

their abilities. It closes with four new

prestige classes, which are peciically

designed with the themes of a demon

hunter campaign and the needs of a

demon hunter charater in mind.

Contrary to what some might tel you, I do have friends

outside of this caling. Wizards, wariors, those of less

honest vocations, but adventurers al, yes, for I ind it

diicult to relate to those who cannot understand the

primal fear of combat, of piting one’s strength against

another, unto the point of death. Most of my friends

have helped me in my chosen mission, at leat a few

times, and for that I am grateful. But to be honest,

even they cannot truly understand what it is that I do.

hey ight demons when they choose to, not because

they must. hey cannot understand how I burn for the

hunt, how much I need the kil. None but the demon

hunter can.

T his is a book about demon hunters. Demon

hunters can be of any class, race, or alignment. It

is a calling rather than a profession which ultimately

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Chapter One

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Characters

Alignment

the PHB, neutral demon hunters are not lacking in

commitment, at least not so far as the destruction

of demons is concerned. Instead, neutral demon

hunters are oten hollow shells, men and women so

scarred by their encounters with demons that there

is litle emotion, of any sort, to be found in them.

More so than any others, neutrally aligned

demon hunters are frightening. hey care about

nothing but the hunt and the kill, and would sac-

riice anything or anyone in pursuit of their quest

to destroy evil outsiders. he church inquisitor who

oversees the cleansing of a cult infeted town, giving

no mercy to any touched by demonic inluence, is

a good example of a lawful neutral demon hunter,

while a charater who culls evil outsiders because

of their ability to inluence the world to an undue

degree is a good example of a true neutral demon

hunter.

Evil: hough very few in number, evil demon

hunters do exist. Some evil demon hunters take up

the calling because they cannot stand the idea of be-

hough the demon hunter’s calling is a noble one,

which requires him to put not just his lesh but his

immortal spirit at risk, not all demon hunters are

of good alignment. To be sure, the vast majorities

are, for it takes a fundamental belief in the ability of

the mortal spirit to overcome evil to even contem-

plate confronting demons, devils and their allies, but

there are some few demon hunters who are neutral,

or even atively evil.

A demon hunter’s alignment plays a large part

in determining both his methods, and his choice of

opponents, as described below.

Good: Good aligned beings make up the vast ma-

jority of demon hunters. Good aligned demon hunt-

ers take up sword, ire and pell in defense of others,

because they feel great empathy for those who are

prey to demons and great rage at the blasphemy

represented by demons and devils. Good aligned

demon hunters throw themselves into

batle without hesitation, directly put-

ting themselves in harm’s way so that

demonic forces do not endanger other,

weaker beings. hey can and do feel

pity for those who succumb to the se-

ductive power of demons, but do not

allow this to still their hand when the

time comes to mete out retribution.

In many ways, the demon hunter’s

concept of “good” is more harsh and

uncompromising than the “good” of

other adventurers, as those who pursue

this vocation for long ind it increas-

ingly diicult to maintain hope and

compassion in the face of unrelenting,

overwhelming despair and evil. By

the end of their careers, many good

demon hunters have had all traces of

mercy, forgiveness, and hope burned

out of them; these demon hunters are

“good” only in that they do not need-

lessly kill others, and still raise their

blades in defense of the weak, if for no

other reason than they know no other

way of life.

Neutral: Neutrally aligned demon

hunters are stern judges and ex-

ecutioners, unburdened by the twin

weaknesses of compassion and malice.

Unlike the description of neutrality in

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