Human, Verflucht (3.5e Race)

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Verflucht Human

Verflucht Humans where once regular humans, however a terrible curse has afflicted them. The curse caused them to lose some of their humanity, becoming less lively and achieving as a result of crumbling hopes and despair. Their curse however seem to sustain them to a degree as well as granting them some powerful abilities, however it is slowly but surely get a grip of their existence an will soon start to warp them into horrible creatures if not stopped. Verflucht Humans live a sad existence, completely indistinguishable from normal humans saved for a mark on their skin, they are often driven to exile when discovered.

Racial Traits

• +2 to any attribute: Verflucht Human are extremely flexible in their abilities and skillsets.
• Humanoid (Human): Verflucht Human are very definitely cursed, but are still human none the less. 
• Medium: As a Medium creature, a verflucht human has no special bonuses or penalties due to its size.
• Verflucht Human base land speed is 30 feet.  
• Accursed Mark (Ex): Verflucht human each possess a cursed mark somewhere on their body, at first it resembles a black sore. The mark is painless and can easily be hidden, it is however always detectable under the effect of detect evil or detect magic, even under her clothes and armor and obstacle no thicker than 3 inches.

The mark start with no curse token, it is inert. However some action increase the amount of curse token on the verflucht human's cursed mark (see Curse Token below). At 1 to 5 curse token the mark cause a numb pain (no penalties), at 6 to 10 tokens you are constantly fatigued, at 11 to 15 tokens our are beseeched by nightmares every night, at 16-20 you are constantly staggered and at 21 or more you become consumed by the curse and turn into a monster (see cursed ability, usually this mean turning into a NPC).

Their accursed mark allow them to count as evil creature whenever doing so would be advantageous. This allow them to cast [evil] spells without penalties and take vile feats (except gaining curse tokens). Lastly the verflucht human gain the black disciple feat as a bonus feat, despite being a vile feat it does not give curse tokens. 

• Bad Luck (Ex): A verflucht human suffer from constant bad luck that can make her fail tasks she shouldn't be able to fail. If she roll a natural 1 on any checks she take a -20 penalty on that check. If she fail to confirm a critical hit with a natural 1 her attack miss. 
• Curse Abilities: Verflucht human possess special abilities based on the amount of curse token they have on their accursed mark, the DCs of their ability is based on their highest mental ability score. The curse abilities are listed under curse token below. 
• Cursed Existence (Ex): A verflucht human do not age, they do not accrue aging bonuses or penalties and have no maximum age. Their appearance is based on their age before becoming cursed, however it is not reflected in their ability scores. They do not need to eat, drink or even breath but still feel the need to and will take any non-fatal penalties for not doing so. Additionally verflucht human are immune to the effects of lesser curse, effects such as bestow curse and similar curse spells and effects have no hold upon them. 
• Ill Fated (Ex): Whenever a verflucht human roll a saving throw against a spell or spell-like ability with the [evil] descriptor or of the necromancy school as well as effects imitating one of the two she must roll two saving throws. She may choose the either of the roll. However if she choose the highest of the two add one curse taken on her cursed mark. 
• Mutter Curse (Sp): Once per day a verflucht human are able to mutter a powerful curse, replicating the effect of bestow curse at close range a s supernatural ability (DC based on highest mental ability score). However successfully using mutter curse immediately give you 5 curse token.
• Automatic Languages: Common
• Bonus Languages: Any non-secret
• Favored Class: Any
• Level Adjustment: +0
• Effective Character Level: 1

Curse Tokens

Gaining Cursed Token: Alongside using ill-fated and mutter curse anytime a verflucht human can gain a curse token by performing the following actions:

• Casting an [evil] spell give her a single curse token.
• Each hour she stay in a unhallowed area she gain a single curse token.
• Whenever a verflucht human gain a vile feat she gain 2 curse tokens, one of which cannot be removed in any ways.
• Whenever she naturally age one year she gain 1 curse token.
• Performing vile actions may cause you to gain a single curse token (DM's option).

Losing Curse Token:

• Resting in a hallowed area for at least 8 hours remove one curse token.
• A single casting of break enchantment or remove curse remove a single curse token. Soon however the curse become resistant to spells. Each time a spell is used to remove a curse point there a cumulative 5% chance it will fail (to a maximum of 100% in which she become completely immune).
• A single casting of wish remove five curse tokens.
• Performing a completely selfless may cause you to lose 1 curse token (DM's option).

Cursed Abilities: These abilities are acquired as you gain more curse tokens, if you lose curse tokens you also lose the abilities if you go below the minimum amount of curse token necessary.

Minimum Cursed Token	Abilities
1	You become almost immune to vile damage, taking it a non-lethal damage.
6	You gain blindsight out of 300 feet, however you can only detect cursed creature (creatures under a bestow curse or similar effect, other verflucht human, etc).
11	You constantly radiant an aura of doom and desecrate. This is a supernatural ability.
16	You can use mutter curse at will, using it no longer give you curse tokens.
21	Gain the half-fiend template and become insane. You become an NPC.

Vital Statistics

Table: Human Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	4’ 10”	+2d10	120 lb.	× (2d4) lb.
Female	4’ 5”	+2d10	85 lb.	× (2d4) lb.

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