Judoka

The art of Grappling and Throwing

You avoid strikes using gripping techniques, throws and grappling to destroy your opponents. Armor is just a burden to you. You control the space around you as if it is your domain throwing and knocking down enemies with complex moves honed over years of training.

Role: Controller        Power Source: Psionic

Key Abilities: Dexterity, Strength, Wisdom

Armor Proficiencies: Cloth

Weapon Proficiencies: Unarmed Strike, Grab, Grip Fighting

Implements: Ki Focuses, Weapons with which you are proficient

Bonus to Defense: +1 Fortitude, +1 Reflex, +1 Will

Hit Points at 1st Level: 12+ Constitution Score

Hit Points per Level Gained: 5

Healing Surges: 7+ Constitution Modifier

Trained Skills: From the class skills list below, choose 4 trained skills at 1st level.

Class Skills: Acrobatics (Dex), Athletics (Str), Diplomacy (Cha), Endurance (Con), Heal (Wis), Insight (Wis), Perception (Wis), Religion (Int), Stealth (Dex), Thievery (Dex)

Class Features: Kata, Grip Fighting, Unarmored Defence, Unarmed Combatant

Creating a Judoka:

You can choose any powers you want, though your choice of Kata is likely to influence your choices. Dexterity is the most important ability for Judoka, since all Judoka attacks rely on it. Depending on your Kata you might favour Wisdom or Strength as your second ability score.

Ne Waza Kata

You specialise in taking an opponent to the ground and once there applying pinpoint pressure to limbs and bodies to inflict maximum pain and severe damage. Dexterity should be your highest score, Wisdom should be your second and Strength can be your third, since you will probably want to select a mix of powers that use Wisdom and Strength.

                Class Feature: Ne Waza

                Suggested Feat: Inescapable Hold

                Suggested Skills: Perception, Athletics, Acrobatics, Insight

                Suggested At-Will Powers: Tai Otoshi, Osoto Gari

                Suggested Encounter Power: Juji Gatame

Suggested Daily Power: Uchi Mate

Tachi Waza Kata

The floor is your weapon. Using your opponent’s momentum you slam them into the ground, breaking bones.

Class Feature: Tachi Waza

                Suggested Feat: Improved Grab

                Suggested Skills: Acrobatics, Athletics, Endurance, Perception

                Suggested At-Will Powers: Ippon Seionage, Kumikata

                Suggested Encounter Power: Tomae Nage

Suggested Daily Power: Tsurikomi Goshi

KATA TRADITION:

Judoka train for hours each day honing their bodies to become the perfect fulcrum, a living pivot that destroys and dissipates oncoming force. Choose either Ne Waza or Tachi Waza as your Kata. The choice grants you an offensive and defensive benefit.

Ne Waza

The Ne Waza Kata focuses on honing your awareness of the weak points of an assailant to better pin them to the ground. The Kata teaches you to control them with minimum effort for maximum gain.

                Ne Waza: You gain the Ne Waza power.

                Mental Equilibrium: You gain +1 bonus to Fortitude. This bonus increases to +2 at 11^th level and +3 at 21^st Level.

Ne Waza:

You throw the opponent to the ground, prone you apply a hold pinning them in one place and applying increasing damage:

At Will * Psionic

No Action   Melee 1

Trigger: You hit with an attack during your turn

Target: One creature

Level 11: +1d6 damage

Level 21: +2d6 damage

Effect: The Target takes damage equal to 2+ your Wisdom Modifier and is prone and grabbed. Save Ends. On a failed Save takes 2 + your Wisdom Modifier and a -2 Penalty to the next Saving throw. 3 Failed Saves and opponent is unconscious.

Special: You can use this power only once per round.

Tachi Waza

The Tachi Waza Kata focuses on hurling the opponent bodily as far as possible. The Kata teaches the use of pivotal strength applied as a fulcrum to maximise distance.

                Tachi Waza: You gain the Tachi Waza Power

                Mental Bastion:  You gain +1 bonus to Will. This bonus increases to +2 at 11^th level and +3 at 21^st Level.

Tachi Waza

You throw your opponent with force and control causing them to collide with solid objects disabling them.

At Will * Psionic

No Action   Melee 1

Trigger: You hit with an attack during your turn

Target: One creature

Level 11: +1 Squares

Level 21: +2 Squares

Effect: The Target takes damage equal to 3+ your Strength modifier and is pushed a further 1 square taking 1d4 damage per square (1d6 at 11^th level and 2d4 at 21^st level)

Special: You can use this power only once per round.  Damage includes the original square you pushed them through.

GRIP FIGHTING

You gain a +2 bonus to Grab Attacks and can grab creatures equal to your size and 2 larger. Increases to +3 at 11^th level +4 at 21^st level.

UNARMED COMBATANT

You can make unarmed attacks with much greater effectiveness than most combatants can. When you make a weapon attack such as a melee basic attack, you can use the judoka unarmed strike, which is a weapon in the unarmed weapon group. This weapon has the off-hand weapon property and a +3 proficiency bonus, and it deals 1d8 damage. You must have a hand free to use your judoka unarmed strike, even if you’re kicking, kneeing, elbowing, or head-butting a target. Also, your judoka unarmed strike can benefit from a magic ki focus if you have one (see “Implements” below).

UNARMORED DEFENSE
While you are wearing cloth armor or no armor and aren’t using a shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC.

IMPLEMENTS

Judoka usually channel their psionic energy through an item called a ki focus, which is a wooden practice weapon, prayer beads, a manual of lore, or some other object a judoka studies or uses during training or meditation. After you attune yourself to a ki focus, you can use it as an implement when it is on your person (see the “Ki Focuses” sidebar).

When you wear or hold your ki focus, you can add its enhancement bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls of judoka powers and judoka paragon path powers that have the implement keyword. You can also add its enhancement bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls of weapon attacks you make using a weapon with which you’re proficient.

You can also use a weapon with which you’re proficient as an implement. When wielding the weapon as an implement, the weapon’s characteristics—proficiency bonus, damage die, and weapon properties like defensive or high crit—are irrelevant to your implement powers.

If you have both a magic ki focus and a magic weapon, you choose before you use an attack power whether to draw on the magic of the ki focus or the weapon. Your choice determines which enhancement bonus, critical hit effects, and magic item properties and powers you can apply to that power. You can’t, for example, use the enhancement bonus of your ki focus and the critical hit effect of your magic weapon with the same attack.

Utilities:

Level 1:

Pass Forward:

At Will * Move Action

With perfect timing you slip by your foe without dropping your guard.

Keyword: Martial

Effect: You pick an adjacent enemy and move up to your speed. As long as you end this movement in a square adjacent to that enemy your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks from that enemy

Makeshift Shield:

Daily * Immediate Interrupt

You snatch a piece of furniture, a body or a discarded item to block and enemy’s attack.

Keyword: Martial

Requirement: You must have a hand free

Trigger: An enemy hits you with a close or melee attack.

Effect: You gain a bonus to defences against the attack equal to your Dex modifier.

Stone Resolve:

At Will * No Action

You see the biggest target and ignoring all others pit yourself against them.

Keyword: Martial

Effect: You can make grab attacks against a creature one size larger than your level allows until the end of your turn.

Level 6:

Forceful Throw:

Encounter * No Action

Your technique is unmatched and you crush the target to the ground

Keyword: Psionic

Effect: Apply your Str modifier to your next attack and damage.

Hidden Weakness:

Encounter * No Action

You know the workings of your opponent’s body and aim for his weakness.

Keyword: Psionic

Effect: Apply your Wis modifier to your next attack and damage.

Items:

Level 1:

Obi:

Waist Slot:

An Obi can be enchanted. Giving you bonuses to attack and damage.

Judogi:

Armor Slot

Basic cloth armour. Can be enchanted.

Level 3:

Yellow Obi

Waist Slot:

Proficiency +1

+1 to attack and +1damage

Yellow Judogi

Armor Slot;

Proficiency +2

+2 to AC and Reflex

Yellow Mountain Judogi

Armor Slot

Proficiency +2

Requirements: You must take the Judogi Expertise Feat

+2 to AC and Reflex. Add your Str modifier to powers that prone

Yellow Mountain Obi

Waist Slot

Proficiency +1

Requirements: You must take the Obi Expertise Feat

+1 to AC, +1 to Attacks and damage

These are pointers as to what I am thinking of doing. The idea is that the basic Obi and Gi scales but you don't get the other advantage of Mountain etc unless you take the feat that allows you to. I am also thinking that they could come in sets and will have to open that up later.