View source for Impediment (3.5e Prestige Class)

===Campaign Information===

====Playing a Impediment====

'''Combat:''' Impediments are guardians who stand at the front lines of a battlefield and take the brunt of the enemies attacks, holding them a bay. If a PC who has levels in impediment intends to protect the other members of their party, it is advisable for them to expend every effort to raise their [[SRD:Armor Class|AC]] and to draw the enemy to them if possible. 

'''Advancement:''' Usually, [[SRD:Fighter|fighters]], [[SRD:Paladin|paladins]], and [[SRD:Barbarian|barbarians]] are the most likely to take levels in impediment, though it isn't uncommon for [[SRD:Monk|monks]] or [[SRD:Ranger|rangers]] to seek levels in the class if they have proper motivation. After the impediment reaches epic levels, it isn't uncommon for them to take levels in [[SRD:Legendary Dreadnought|legendary dreadnought]] or [[SRD:Guardian Paramount|guardian paramount]].

'''Resources:''' An impediment is someone who seeks strength alone, defending something for themselves, and therefore, organizations of impediments are exceedingly rare. Though if the impediment needs help, they usually have someone to turn to, such as a friend, or an old colleague, though sometimes, these people are the very things the impediment is trying to protect.

====Impediments in the World====

{{quote|I'm sorry good sir, but this is as far as you go.|orig=Urmis Slate, [[SRD:Gnomes, Rock (Race)|Gnome]] Impediment}}

Impediments often find their place in the world as guardians, possibly learning to protect their masters tomb from loathsome thieves, or to keep tribal marauders out of their home towns. It also isn't uncommon to see an impediment standing sentinel outside a kings palace, or even in the middle of a battlefield, holding back a war [[SRD:Elephant|elephant]]. Impediments sometimes do find another place in the world, though if they do, they usually have a strong loyalty to their life, and what they do, be it baking pies, or paving roads.

'''NPC Reactions:''' Others often do not realize someone is an impediment until they see them in battle, holding their enemies back no matter the cost. When a person does realize that someone is an impediment, they may react any number of ways, depending on the position they find themselves in. If the person is the impediments enemy, they may find themselves frustrated with the determination of the impediment, or fearful of the impediments power. If the person is the impediments friend, they may become impressed with the ability of their ally, or maybe even become awestruck by the forces they can hold back.

====Impediment Lore====

Characters with ranks in [[SRD:Gather Information Skill|gather information]] can research impediments to learn more about them.  When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

{| class="d20" {{#vardefine: odd | 0}}
|+ [[SRD:Gather Information Skill|Gather Information]]
! DC || class="left" | Result
|- 
| 11 || class="left" | Impediments are strongly loyal individuals.
|- 
| 16 || class="left" | Impediments can stop forces that other couldn't imagine to stop.
|- 
| 21 || class="left" | An impediment is usually someone who protects something or someone dear to them.
|- 
| 26 || class="left" | Characters who get this result can know the names and locations of specific impediments and items related to them.
|}

====Impediments in the Game====

Impediments are the walls of the world. They hold back the destructive forces of this world, weathering all, just to simply spare something else from what they endure. Impediments can either choose to be a protector, or an obstruction, depending on their motivations. Impediments can be found wherever there is something for them to save from destruction.

'''Adaptation:''' Impediments can be incorporated into any campaign, all that is needed is an opening. An impediment could be the guardian of the kings throne room, or possibly the warden of a maximum security prison, protecting the outside world from imprisoned criminals. An impediment could perhaps be a iron-willed military outcast who still is determined to defend his home, no matter the cost, or an obstruction in the campaign, someone who refuses to yield to something the party wishes to be done.

'''Sample NPC:''' Eur Tareh was once a dark being, he preyed upon the fragile and the weak, he never showed even the slightest shred of mercy, he truly was a monster. Until, one night, he came across an ancient human, he was sitting in one of the dark corners of the tunnels that Eur prowled, shivering in the cold. As Eur approached this pathetic sight, he grinned, a low, bestial snicker permeating the air. At this point the man rose his head calmly, and asked a simple question, "Who's there?" in a tone that could've been used to ask the time. To answer him, Eur laughed, and said, "Your death old man." At this, the decrepit man laughed, he actually laughed, and before he knew what was happening, Eur had been thrown across the room and his shoulder had been cut with an enormous sword. Blood dripped from the wound in his rock-like flesh, and the tiny man continued to laugh, pausing only to say, "You're the fourteenth thing to use that line on me." With that the man set down his blade, and curled back up into a warmer position. Eur shakily regained his footing and looked around to the ancient man, but quickly turned and fled. Over the next few weeks, Eur followed that man, wondering, why did he let him live, when he had been so ready to kill the man, not being able to think about anything else. After three weeks, the man stopped and made camp a few miles from a city, after the man had ate and sat for a few hours, he spoke in a loud, clear voice, "I'm going into the city tomorrow, you might want to turn back now." Eur seemed to be in constant shock by this human, so, he said the first thing that came to mind, "Not until you teach me how to do what you did to me." The man laughed at this, but agreed, and told him to be in that same place at noon the day after next, and that in order to learn what he sought, he would have to change his ways of living. So Eur was taught by the man, four years went by, and every day, the man and Eur met, the man taught Eur how to hold a blade, and told him the ways of living that had made the man who he was, and Eur listened with eager ears. Until one day, the man did not come, nor did he the next day, or the next. Eur had begun to become worried, and so he risked going into the town, but he did it quietly, flying from rooftop to rooftop, until he found the place that the man had said he had lived, and he watched the place, remaining as still as possible as he perched on that roof. He eventually learned that the ancient human had died, and that he had been placed in the catacombs in the graveyard of the cities church, and so he went there, and stole into the catacombs. He mourned the death of the man for a week in silence, hiding in the shadows whenever someone entered, until, 3 men came, and they talked about the ancient man, and how he must have been buried with something valuable, and how they would make so much money off of whatever it was. Eur killed them. So it has come to be known that something ill tempered lurks in the shadows of the catacombs of that town, killing only tomb robbers, but without mercy.

''EL whatever:'' {{:Eur Tareh (3.5e NPC)}}


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Article Balance	High +
Author	Rithaniel +
Challenge Rating	19 +
Identifier	3.5e Prestige Class +
Length	10 +
Minimum Level	6 +
Name	Eur Tareh +
Race	Gargoyle +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Size	Medium +
Summary	There are those in this world who claim that they cannot be stopped by anything, then there are those who stop them. + and The shadowy figure stood calmly in the moonlight, three stones whirling around his head. He grinned widely, his teeth glinting in the ghostly light. +
Title	Impediment +
Type	Monstrous Humanoid (Earth) +