Cowborn (4e Race)

Contents 1 Cowborn 1.1 Physical Qualities 1.2 Playing a Cowborn 1.3 Cowborn Adventurers

[edit] Cowborn

Proud, honorable warriors, descended from an ancient herd of awakened paladin cattle.

Racial Traits

Average Height: 5'8"–6'5"

Average Weight: 150–250 lb.

Ability Scores: +2 Strength, +2 Constitution

Size: Medium

Speed: 6 squares

Vision: Normal

Languages: Common

Skill Bonuses: +2 Heal, +2 Intimidate

Cowborn Courage: When you’re bloodied, you gain a +1 racial bonus to all defenses.

Bovine Heritage: Your healing surge value is equal to one-quarter of your maximum hit points + your Constitution modifier.

Tongue of the Savannah: You're able to speak clearly to any tamed, hooved animal, and their vocalizations are as humanoid speech to you.

Cowborn Weapon Proficiency: You gain proficiency with the greataxe and the maul.

Cow Milk: Female cowborn can use cow milk as an encounter power.

Bull Gore: Male cowborn can use bull gore as an encounter power.

Cow Milk	Cowborn Racial Power
Your milk is nutritious and energizing, restoring you or your comrades' vigor as effectively as any potion!''
Encounter  Martial, Healing
Standard Action	Personal
Prerequisite: Must be female.
Requirement: At least one empty flask.
Effect: You fill an empty flask with your milk. The milk allows the drinker to use a healing surge, and restores an additional 1d6 hit points.
Increase the amount of additional hit points regained to 2d6 at 6th level, 3d6 at 11th level, 4d6 at 16th level, 5d6 at 21st level, and 6d6 at 26th level.
Special: This abiity may be used only 4 times a day. The potions expire 1 week after being created, unless blessed by a cleric or similar character (minor action, DC 11 Religion check).

Bull Gore	Cowborn Racial Power
Your charge at your foe with a bellowing roar, lowering your head and pointing your fearsome horns straight at them!
Encounter  Martial
Standard Action	Melee Weapon
Prerequisite: Must be male.
Target: One creature
Attack: Strength Vs. AC
Hit: 2d6 + Strength modifier damage, and ongoing damage equal to your Strength modifier (save ends).
Increase the damage dealt to 3d6 + Strength modifier at 11th level, and to 4d6 + Strength modifier at 21st level.
Special: You may shift up to your speed when making this attack. You must end this move next to your target.

Born to fight, cowborn are a tight-knit race of tribal warriors, healers, and scouts. Long ago, their massive, sacred empire guarded many of the world's most lush and vibrant savannahs, but now only a few rootless clans of these honorable warriors remain to pass on their legends of ancient glory.

Play a cowborn if you want...

• to look like a cow.
• to be the proud heir of an ancient, forgotten empire.
• to restore vigor to your comrades with your milk, or lead the charge into battle with your horns.
• To be a member of a race that favours the paladin, cleric, and ranger classes.

[edit] Physical Qualities

Cowborn resemble bovine humanoids. They’re covered in furry hide, and they have long, brush-tipped tails. They are tall and strongly built, often standing close to 6 feet in height and weighing 150 pounds or more. A cowborn’s head is similar to a human's, but covered in thick fur, with keen ears and distinctive horns. Their hair tends to be long, and either black or brown. Their eyes are shades of green, blue, or brown. Their legs terminate in large, black hooves, and their fingernails are thick and black to match.

A typical cowborn’s fur can be sienna, ivory, rust, ocher, coal, brown, or white with splotches of another color. Typically an individual’s fur matches the pattern of their herd, but gives no indication of social standing or role in the herd. Most cowborn have very fine fur over most of their body, the short, thick fuzz rather soft to the touch, with regions of thicker fur on the armpits, lower legs and ankles, shoulders, and hips, and thinner, shorter fur along the stomach, chest, and between the thighs.

Young cowborn grow faster than human children do. They walk hours after birth, reach the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 5 and reach adulthood by 15. They live about as long as humans do.

[edit] Playing a Cowborn

The cowborn have become a simple, clannish, but wise and spiritual race. They are easy to make friends with if you are a noble, honest, and honorable person, happy to share their knowledge and train a friend in the ways of battle and faith. Those of shady motives or dark intentions may find them unwelcoming at best, and hostile at worst. The other races likely know very little of the cowborn, as their empire built no cities, and thus left no ruins, only armor and weaponry. Nowadays, as fractured and scattered as they are, they're a rare sight in most lands.

Cowborn Characteristics: Spiritual, wise, humble, selfless, honorable, accepting, forgiving, honest.

Male Names: Chuck, Angus, Roger, Sammy, Ghern, Heskan, Krein, Medrash, Nodaro, Parne, Rholar, Shacash, Shedinn, Vaskor

Female Names: Betty, Suzie, Tara, Mindy, Kava, Korinn, Mishana, Nala, Perra, Raia, Sora, Surina, Torynna, Arina

[edit] Cowborn Adventurers

Three sample cowborn adventurers are described below.

Parne is a valorous paladin, eager to serve his god Kord in defense of his homeland. Born to a smaller clan, he quickly took to the ways of battle and defense, and now seeks to defend his homeland by defeating the greatest threats in their own realm. He appreciates, but does not expect, aid from those of similar beliefs or backgrounds.

Arina is a pious cleric of Pelor, who seeks little more than to heal those wounded souls returning from battles outside of her clan's village. Should fate force her to venture away from home, she would want brave, strong companions at her side, and preferably ones who share her deity or zeal.

Torynna is a devout follower of Avandra, a ranger with a desire to see the world. Her travels have brought her far across the world, and shown her many things. Most of them, sadly, have been rather unfriendly to her. She may be good with her bow, but nobody likes to fight all the time. If someone would take her to a party in town, she might just pay them back later in battle.

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