Rilkan Pathfinder

Description


What’s the point of incarnum if you’re not going to have a little fun with it?

- Tarrenta Willet, Rilkan Bard

Rilkans are rakish entrepreneurs and daredevils of fortune. They believe in drinking deep from the cup of life. For the rilkans, the skarn  and dragon goal of “perfection of form” is a false idol. They believe that perfection is to be found in the journey, not the destination, and they seek to relish every moment that they are alive. According to the skarns, it was this heterodoxy that thwarted the dragons’ efforts toward perfection, and the skarns have resented the rilkans for it ever since. In keeping with their reverence for gold and song, rilkans count numerous bards, merchants, and rogues among their number.

Racial Traits

 * Ability Score Racial Traits: +2 Charisma, +2 Dexterity, -2 Strength
 * Size: Rilkans are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
 * Type: Rilkans are humanoids with the reptilian and incarnum subtypes.
 * Base Speed: Rilkans have a base speed of 30 feet.
 * Languages: Rilkans begin play speaking Common and Draconic. Rilkans with high Intelligence scores can choose from any other languages.
 * Racial Knowledge: The rilkan race is linked through the power of incarnum to the accumulated knowledge of their entire people. This manifests in two ways:
 * First, all Knowledge checks are treated as trained skill checks for rilkans, regardless of whether they actually have ranks in the skill. Even without formal instruction, a rilkan naturally absorbs learning from the accumulated knowledge of her people.
 * Second, rilkans gain a competence bonus on all Knowledge checks. This bonus is +1, but increases by an additional +1 for every two soulmelds currently shaped by the rilkan, since each soulmeld contains a small portion of the collected souls of the rilkan race.
 * Skill Bonus: Rilkans gain +2 bonus to bluff and diplomancy checks; Rilkans always count diplomacy as a trained skill.
 * Aid: Rilkans link themselves with other members of their race and, in rare circumstances, non-rilkan important to them. At any time that a rilkan succeeds in using the aid another action to assist, she adds +3 to the ally’s roll, rather than +2.