[Class] Princess

Art @Arthur Rackham

Princess

HD- d4

Max AC- 12 / Minimum Hit-Points- 2

You're a princess. Born of noble blood, you had a privileged and comfortable life. You may still live with your parents in their castle, or maybe you ran away. Regardless, you need a little fun and danger in your life. You're sneaky and clever enough to get +1 to stealth rolls and get +10% bonus experience.

You can calm animals. Any animal of ½ your HD or less can be calmed by your voice or touch, and must make a morale check to attack you. This protection ends if you attack the animal. Needless to say, your character attracts unicorns and can ride them easily. At 2^nd level, you gain a cute, highly intelligent animal companion like a gecko, ferret, songbird, etc. It can't attack beyond a surprise bite to distract a foe, but it can scout around areas and potentially steal the keys from a guard so you can escape a jail cell (or your own room, after the King and Queen catch you sneaking out again.) If it dies tragically, you can get a new animal friend next time you level up.

Your main ability is your kiss. You can kiss people to cure curses. People turned into an animal can be turned back to normal, petrified knights have their stone bodies turned back to flesh, and so on. Kisses can only be given willingly, nobody can “force” you to cure them with your magic, even if they stole a kiss from you when you were distracted or something. The table at the bottom indicates the maximum HD of the creature's effects you can nullify in the “creature” column, the maximum spell effect you can nullify, and the maximum number of kisses you can use per day/per adventure.

At 10^th level, you become a Damsel. Your parents and caretakers have had enough with you. You are shipped off to live in the tallest room of the tallest tower, far away, under the protection of mythical beasts, spells, and traps even beyond you can escape. Your adventuring escapades were the prequel to you needing to get rescued by a brave knight, or maybe just bloodthirsty mercenaries.

Once you are rescued, you can either try to return to your parents and furiously berate them or prove you're a more mature adult now. You will be made a Princess Reagent within 1d8 years, and slowly take over responsibility of your father's estate, but you will also be subject to an arranged marriage and will be tied down to the home life too much to go on adventures anymore. Upon being rescued you can also chose to instead forego your royal inheritance and instead start over as a level 1 character of a new class. You have no starting experience and gain the new equipment restrictions and progression of your new class. You also start over with your new class HD, but add +10 for your levels as a Princess, and you get to keep all your Princess abilities and social abilities, along with the magic items and friends you made along the way.

Level	Kisses	Creature HD	Spell lvl.
1	1	2	2nd
2	1	3	3rd
3	2	4	4th
4	2	5	4th
5	3	6	5th
6	3	8	5th
7	4	9	6th
8	5	10	7th
9	5	12	8th
10	6	14	9th

Errata / Optional Rules

These extra rules have been put into their own category to avoid overloading the class. The ability to cure curses is pretty powerful, but it may not make for an interesting character on its own. These additional abilities can be sprinkled in as needed to fit the kind of "Princess" you want.

You're sneaky, lots of running off from your room in your youth, or even now as you adventure under your parent's nose. You get +1 to stealth rolls at 1^st, 3^rd, 6^th, and 9^th level. You can also add your stealth bonus to the to-hit and damage of sneak attacks; but these hits are nonlethal and instead knock out your target. Such as a strike to the back of the head with a frying pan. Additionally, If your game uses skill points, award 1 at each of these levels, or grant a flat +1 to devices that grow along with stealth to represent your skill with your eclectic hobbies and all the books you've read. In the same vein, you are pretty clever and quick to learn regardless of your intelligence score; you gain +10% experience. This bonus is the same as the bonus in the original class's top paragraph, don't stack these.

You are not a combatant. This is not a combat class. You treat all weapons as 1d2 improvised weapons. However, if you miss an attack (which you can do so at will), you fumble and fall over clumsily and gain +2 AC against attacks aimed at you. This increases to +4 at 5^th level and +8 at 10^th level- and this bonus doesn't count towards maximum AC! If you come from a culture where warfare is something expected of women, or you want to make this a more warrior princess class, grant +1 to hit which increases at the listed levels instead and lift the weapon and damage restriction.

Your social abilities also apply to intelligent beings; you are a princess after all. Even if you have low charisma, you are still beautiful and trained in courtly manners, you will never be mistaken for a commoner if you don't chose to go in a disguise. You can also have +1 follower and that follower treats their morale at +1 to defend you. Once you're at least 2^nd level, you will always have at least one follower even if your last one dies. The follower is usually a hapless youth madly in love with you, or a gritty old soldier who slowly warms up to you, a fairy interested in your antics, etc.