TSR-East Classes: Hwarang

My "heartbreaker" house rules document is named Treasures, Serpents and Ruins. It's got a nice acronym, what can I say? It's Classic D&D (BE of BECMI mostly) with some AD&D and later additions that I like. 

I mentioned the other day that I've started a more general Asian fantasy themed set of classes for TSR. The first class is the Hwarang. Historical Hwarang were a sort of aristocratic youth organization of the Silla Kingdom in ancient Korea (1st century BC to 10th century AD). Because the aristocrats made up the armed forces (or at least the officers), many of the hwarang were soldiers. Over time, the idea of the hwarang evolved in legend to sort of a "knights of the round table" type group. That's probably not historically accurate, but it's how some people remember them today. And that's good enough for my purposes of naming a class which is a strong, dependable warrior type.

Based on the Dwarf class, I dropped the dwarven detection abilities and infravision. Instead, all weapons are fine for them, and they can maximize their damage a number of times per day equal to their level. TSR uses AD&D hit die types (d10 Fighters, not d8 as in BX/BECMI) so these guys also get a d10. I think I said all this the other day. And they also get the very good Dwarf saving throws. They aren't flashy, but they are tough. 

I've listed an English name and alternate names for each class, by the way. Some names are Chinese, some Japanese, some Korean. I should probably add some Mongolian and Vietnamese as well... So if you don't want to call them Hwarang, you can use one of the others.

Here's the class as it stands right now:

Hwarang (Knight) AKA Zhànshì, Bushi

Requirement: Con 9

Prime Requisite: Str [13 +5%, 16 +10%]

Hit Die: d10 to 9^th level, +3/level after

Arms: all weapons, all armor and shields

Special Abilities: maximize damage, multiple attacks

Hwarang Advancement
Level	XP	BAB	Abilities
1	0	+1	Maximize Damage
2	2200	+1
3	4400	+1
4	8800	+3
5	17,000	+3
6	35,000	+3
7	70,000	+5
8	140,000	+5	2 Attacks
9	270,000	+5
10	400,000	+7
11	530,000	+7
12	660,000	+7	3 Attacks
13	790,000	+9
14	920,000	+9
15	1,050,000	+9

Maximize Damage: When a hwarang hits in combat, instead of rolling for damage they may automatically deal their maximum damage for that weapon. This ability may be used a number of times per day equal to the hwarang’s level.

Multiple Attacks: A hwarang may attack twice per round at 8^th level, and three times per round at 12^th level. 

	Hwarang
Save Level:	1-3	4-6	7-9	10-12	13-15
Death Ray/Poison	10	8	6	4	2
Magic Wand	11	9	7	5	3
Paralysis/Turn to Stone	12	10	8	6	4
Dragon Breath	15	13	11	9	7
Rod/Staff/Spell	13	12	10	8	6