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Anarch

Edward, iconic anarch

"Your world and your rules cannot contain me."

Freedom, randomness, entropy - these are the essences of Chaos, in the Trinity sense. While the Blue is constricting with its memories and insistence that cause precedes effect, and Time's assures that all things move forward in lockstep unless otherwise told, Chaos is the memory that can't stay put, the time that can't be pinned down. Chaos laughs in the face of causality, and mocks the certainty of the passage of time.

For the anarch, Chaos is supreme. Too many Forces are insistent that there are rules to be followed, or none to be broken in the first place - but Chaos would demand otherwise. Nothing can be contained forever, nothing goes on forever. The anarch grabs a hold of all these wildly disparate concepts that Chaos is composed of and mashes them together, wielding the power of uncertainty and lawlessness to whatever end seems best at the moment.

Game Rule Information

Anarchs have the following game statistics.

Force Alignment: Chaos.

Force Resistances: UO 5 + level, TO 5 + level.

Abilities: Charisma is the most important ability for an anarch. To laugh in the face of causality requires a good deal of strength of personality, of certainty in the self. Wisdom is also important, as it allows the anarch to pull forth more raw power from the Chaos.

Special: If using the Luck ability score, the anarch's avaos are based off of Luck, rather than Charisma (in essence, whenever you see "Charisma," replace it with "Luck").

Hit Die: d6.

Class Skills: The Anarch’s class skills are Avaocraft (Int), Balance (Dex), Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Gather Information (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Open Lock (Dex), Search (Per), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), and Tumble (Dex).

Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int.

Alignment: Any chaotic.

Starting Age: As a rogue.

Starting Gold: 4d4 x 10gp.

Favored By: None.

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the anarch.

Weapons and Armor Proficiency: Anarchs are proficient with simple weapons and light armor, but not shields.

Anarch Talent: At tenth level, and every two levels thereafter, the anarch's ability to bend reality to his whim improves. He may select one of the following talents.

• Can't Touch This (Ex): You gain evasion.
  • No, Really, Can't Touch This (Ex): You gain improved evasion. (Prerequisites: Can't Touch This)
  • The Jitters (Ch): You gain immunity to the immobilize status. (Prerequisites: Can't Touch This)
    • Can't Stand Still (Ch): You gain immunity to the paralyzed status. (Prerequisites: Can't Touch This, The Jitters)
    • Only One Speed (Ch): You gain immunity to the slow status. (Prerequisites: Can't Touch This, The Jitters)
• Do What I Want (Ex): You gain mettle, but only in respect to Will saving throws.
  • Mad As A Hatter (Ex): You gain improved mettle, but only in respect to Will saving throws. (Prerequisites: Do What I Want)
  • I'm Already Confused (Ch): You gain immunity to the confusion status. (Prerequisites: Do What I Want)
    • Can't Forget What I Don't Know (Ch): You gain immunity to the amnesia status. (Prerequisite: Do What I Want, I'm Already Confused)
    • Talking Past Each Other (Ch): You gain immunity to the babel status. (Prerequisite: Do What I Want, I'm Already Confused)
• Free Will (Ch): Effects that attempt to ascertain your future, either by predicting or predetermining it, fail unless their user can make a Force-user check against DC 11 + your anarchist level.
  • Where Am I? (Ch): Creatures that attempt to scry upon you or use similar means of remote viewing must make a Force-user check against DC 11 + your anarchist level, or else the attempt fails; a creature that fails cannot attempt to scry upon you again for 24 hours. (Prerequisites: Free Will)
  • Who Are You? (Ch): Creatures that attempt to ascertain facts about you (such as via creature loresight) via non-mundane means must make a Force-user check against DC 11 + your anarchist level, or else the attempt fails to return any useful information. A creature that fails this check cannot attempt to use such means to learn information about you again for 24 hours. (Prerequisites: Free Will)
  • What Year Is This? (Ch): Creatures that attempt to gain access to your memories, learn of events for which you were present, or glean information regarding your personal timeline must make a Force-user check against DC 11 + your anarchist level, or else the attempt fails; a creature that fails cannot attempt to access your memories, learn of events for which you were present, or glean information regarding your timeline for 24 hours. (Prerequisites: Free Will)
  • Where Are My Pants? (Ch): Creatures that attempt to learn information from items that have been in your possession for at least 24 hours (such as by using object loresight) must make a Force-user check against DC 11 + your anarchist level, or else the attempt fails. A creatures that fails to learn information from such an item cannot attempt to learn information regarding that item for 24 hours. (Prerequisites: Free Will)
  • You're Not My Real Mom! (Ch): Effects that would force the anarch to behave in a certain manner (such as charm person) fail unless their origin can make a Force-user check against DC 11 + your anarchist level. A creature that fails at such an attempt cannot attempt to use abilities to force the anarch to act or otherwise control his actions for 24 hours. (Prerequisites: Free Will)
• Gamble (Ch): When you use the causal use of an avao, you can choose to expend an additional number of trigger slots equal to half the number required to activate that use (rounded up, minimum 1). If you do, flip a coin and call it: if you win, you can activate the causal use of that avao twice in response to the single stimulus, and you can make different choices for the second activation; if you lose, you expend the trigger slots, but nothing happens.
• Infinite Chaos (Av): Choose one active use of an avao you can access with a duration measured in minutes or higher. When you activate that avao, its effect lasts for 24 hours. You can choose this talent more than once; each time you do, choose a new avao.
  • When Will It Stop? (Av): Choose one active, causal, or precausal use of an avao you can access with a duration measured in rounds. When you activate that avao, it lasts for an additional 1d6 rounds/four anarch levels. You can choose this talent more than once; each time you do, choose a new avao. (Prerequisites: Infinite Chaos)
• My Rules (Av): You gain access to the my rules avao. (Prerequisites: Anarchist level 16th+, must be able to access Overwhelming avaos)
• Need More Juice (Ch): When you would allocate your active avao slots, you may choose to not fill any number of active slots. For every slot not filled, you gain bonus trigger slots equal to one-half the trigger slots required to use an avao of that grade (subtle slots count as half, thus you need to leave two subtle slots unfilled to gain +1 trigger slot).
• Surprise (Av): When you could make an attack of opportunity, you may instead use an active use of an avao.
• Feat: The anarch may gain a bonus feat in place of a talent.

Anarch Avaos

Subtle Avaos

Lesser Avaos

Greater Avaos

Overwhelming Avaos

Feats

The following are a selection of feats that are relevant to anarchs.

Design Notes

Ah, the anarch. Much discussion was had over how to make this class work, back in the day. Good times.

I am disliking the trigger slot system. It feels too... reliable. Significantly too reliable. I suspect that this class has an issue similar to what the voidchild had back when the voidchild used slots, then a traditional "full cup" resource: it simply didn't carry the right feel. For the void, it had no sense of danger; here, for the anarch, it doesn't seem to carry any sense of randomness.

Of course, that's starting ... well, but it's not, because an anarch would still have the active avaos. Trigger slots are the real power, but active avaos are still useful in their own ways, and are probably sufficient to carry an anarch when their random abilities are being less helpful.

An idea is percolating.