New Race: Amazons, Blackmoorian

[Havard]

(Image by Frank Frazetta)


Blackmoorian Amazons are a culture of human female warriors. They are rarely seen in Blackmoor but are widely respected.
Personality
TBD
Physical Description
TBD
Alignment
TBD
Lands
Amazons come from a far away land to the southwest, although some tribes are rumored to exist south of the Vales.
Relations
TBD
Religion
Amazons are believed to be the daughters of the goddess Sachwynne Mooncloth.
Language
Amazons speak Valespeech and are believed to be related to the Valemen.
Names
TBD
Adventurers
TBD

3E Stats

• Medium: Amazons are of medium size.
  
• Amazon base land speed is 30 feet.
  
• 1 extra feat at 1st level.
  
• 4 extra skill points at 1st level and 1 extra skill point at each additional level.
  
• Automatic Language: Valespeech and Common (Thonian)
  
• Favored Class:

The Amazons of Blackmoor were first mentioned in the First Fantasy Campaign.

Sheridan promised me he would help with this one...

-Havard

[hunterfairbanks]

If it helps any the Wilderlands of High Fantasy 3,5 edition has Amazon as a race in the "Player's Guide to the Wilderlands" page 20-21.

Amazon as a class/race that I have the actual source material for goes back to at least as far as 1977 "Tegel Manor" page 4 under "Shopkeepers & Notable Natives". Sadly I do not see any rules for making an old edition amazon.

[Havard]

Thanks Hunterfairbanks! I will definately be checking out the Wilderlands for ideas to steal from. I never cared much for the idea of Amazons being a different race than humans. I like to see them simply as a human culture of women warriors. Of course whether different human groups should be treated as "races" in game mechanical terms is a different matter.

-Havard