>>3118172
Jaeger
SA: RADIATE AWESOME

Jägermonster- A more aggressive type of construct, most often found in the services of Klaus Wulfenbach’s armies or those of his vassals, they are strong, tough, and usually incredibly stupid (though this is often made up for in cunning and likeability). Those Jägermonsters who are intelligent are often extremely so, and therefore are usually Generals in Wulfenbach’s armies, though these few are incredibly rare. Jägermonsters most often look like powerfully built humanoids (even when they are scrawny, they are buff) with greatly exaggerated teeth, animalistic features such as heads or horns, and mostly purple or green skin, though grays, browns, oranges, tanned, or pinkish skin are all common too. All Jägermonsters speak any language they know with a distinct and heavy accent which sounds like a mix of Russian and German, though it rarely affects communication.
-Medium Size
-+6 Str, +4 Con, -4 Int, -2 Cha
-Hit Dice: d12
-Natural Bite attack 1d4
-Natural Claw attack 1d6
-Base Speed is 30ft
-Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects).
-+4 to Intimidate checks
- -4 to Diplomacy checks
- -2 to Disguise checks
-If a dice stat roll of 18 or above is allocated to the Int score, then the -4 modifier no longer applies
-Automatic Language: Jägerspeak. Other Languages: Any
-Favorite Class: Soldier
-ECL +3

Spark- Sparks are the men and women who plunged the world into chaos at the onset of the Industrial Revolution; their powers finally realized with the advent of steam technology. Each country sought to overthrow the others and the continent plunged into war. It took the Heterodyne Boys and later Klaus Wulfenbach to restore order to the land (of Europe). Sparks have a “natural” affinity for all things mechanical. This comes at a price, for many go quite mad as a result of their experiments, also they often become quite dead as a result of their experiments as well. Throw in a deep-seated prejudice by the common people for anything strange, and you get a nice recipe for a dead Spark. Until the Heterodyne Boys came around, Sparks were people to be feared, or if possible, killed (We found a Spark! May we burn her?), though it was not until Klaus Wulfenbach returned that there was a place for them to be accepted. While all Sparks are human, their abilities are sufficient to permit classifying them as their own race for game purposes.

>>3118184
Spark (minor)
-Medium Size
-+2 Int, - 4 Wis, -2 Cha
- -2 to Will saves
-Base Speed is 30ft
-Concentration, Craft (Mechanical, Clockwork, Electro, Steam-powered), Disable Device, and Repair are Class Skills. For Craft, choose only one category.
-+2 to all the Skills listed above.
- -x Diplomacy for each point of intelligence below you the person has.
-Receive 1 extra feat at first level.
-Receive 6 extra skill points at first level.
-Receive 2 extra skill points at each additional level.
-At the beginning of each day a Spark must make a Will save (DC15) or temporarily lose 1 point of Wisdom (a player can not go below 0, but if Wisdom drops below that of a sentient creature, 3, they will become insane); for each point of Wisdom lost, the DC for the next days save increases by 1 and the bonus for the listed Skills (see above) increases by 1. The lost Wisdom may be recovered by not making any checks for the listed Skills for an amount of days equal to triple the amount of Wisdom lost.
-Automatic Language: Any, Bonus Languages: Any
-Favorite Class: Mechanist
-ECL +1

>>3118184
Spark (major)
-Medium Size
-+6 Int, -4 Wis, -2 Cha
- -2 to Will saves
-Base Speed is 30ft
-Choose 10 of the following Skills to be Class Skills: Appraise, Concentration, Craft (Alchemy, Mechanical, Clockwork, Electro, and Steam-powered), Demolitions, Disable Device, Drive, Knowledge (Arcane Lore, Architecture, Chemistry, Engineering, Tactics, and Technology), Open Lock, Pilot, Repair, and Research. Craft and Knowledge Skills are taken individually.
-+4 to all the chosen Skills above.
-Receive 1 extra feat at first level
-Receive 10 extra skill points at first level.
-Receive 4 extra skill points at each additional level.
-At the beginning of each day a Spark must make a Will save (DC15) or temporarily lose 1 point of Wisdom (a player can not go below 0, but if Wisdom drops below that of a sentient creature, 3, they will become insane); for each point of Wisdom lost, the DC for the next days save increases by 1 and the bonus for the players chosen Skills (see above) increases by 1. The lost Wisdom may be recovered by not making any checks for the listed Skills for an amount of days equal to triple the amount of Wisdom lost.
-Automatic Language: Any, Bonus Languages: Any
-Favorite Class: Mad Scientist
-ECL +4

Jaegers aren't constructs, in case there was some confusion.

People still play 3rd edition?

There you have it:

The available races, besides Humans, for a Girl Genius d20 based game.

Comments and Criticisms most welcome.

>>3118196
Yes they are, they were created by the Heterodynes before Barry and Bill.

>>3118196
No, but Mick Jagger is.

>>3118177
Instead of getting rid of the arbitrary -4, why not have the Jaeger's intelligence be no higher than, say, their constitution? It also seems noteworthy that the Jaeger generals are all old, probably getting the +3 bonus to Int, Wis, and Cha.
Likability and -2 cha don't really mix, and Jaegers always struck me as unwise more than unintelligent.

D&D probably can't really encompass this sort of thing.

I mean, Lilith/Judy ripped a solid steel warship bulkhead door off its moorings with her bare hands. That's more than +4 str.

Mutants and Masterminds.

>>3118216
Jagers are nearly immortal. Even the young looking ones in the trio are hundreds of years old.

Jagers are made by giving a physically fit military-age human a special chemical elixir, which kills most, leaves most survivors insane or crippled, but one time out of ten produces a usable Jagermonster. They're not constructs.

>>3118246
So, nu, Dragonwrought Kobolds get no penalty to aging but get the positive effects. Just give them the same sort of thing with an undefined maximum age-- they could well BE immortal, but they've only been around a few hundred years, so it's had to tell.

>>3118261
>This army of monsters, created centuries ago by a Heterodyne.
>created centuries ago
>created centuries
>created

>>3118272
Yes. Vladimir Heterodyne invented the Jagerdraught, allowing jagermonsters to be created from humans.

>>3118261
Wait, didn't they give Gilgamesh some of that?

>>3118301
Naw, that was fightin' juice. It's different.

>>3118317
How so?

>>3118320
It doesn't turn you into a Jägermonster?

>>3118326
of course not- the fightin' brew is a stimpack, and the serum is much more fucking powerful than a stimpack.

>>3118320
One's an unknown mad science process that transforms human volunteers into corpses or twisted abominations, and very occasionally into Jagermonsters.

The other is 'battle draught' that jagers drink to make them fight harder and heal faster.

>>3118203
what about those pale women the spider riders?, clanks, whatever the other is and those vampire zombie whatsits that came from under the bridge

>>3118410
I was kinda focusing on the races that would be common enough to be feasibly playable.

And clanks are mostly automatons, so I didn't think to include them.

I would have thought that the spark would be a string of feats, so that you start off with Latent Spark, then Awakened Spark, and then Strong Spark (so humans could start as an Awakened spark but not anyone else, due to the extra feat). And that then there'd be classes made that have those feats as prerequisites.

>>3118474
I suppose I could try something like that.

>>3118474
Well, in-universe, some sparks are just born strong, and others aren't.

>>3118521
Just like some PCs 'Manifest' stronger dragonmarks, it all depends on what level the PC is created at.

bump for Jägermonster

There's a reason why GURPS is the official system for the Girl Genius RPG...

>>3118720
Bribe money, and a long clandestine homosexual relationship between Phil Foglio and Steve Jackson?

>>3118748
You could say the same about the Wizards bosses, back in the day when Wizards was still Wizards and not Hasbro.

The real reason would be that GURPS caters to the mad scientist trope and is, contrary to the D20 system, truly universal.

DID SOMEONE SAY CONSTRUCT?

>>3118720
You should get fifty points just to stat your hat with.

>>3118201
All kobold game is going strong. Last game involved giant spoon catapults, jugs of high-proof kobold booze, and a lot of burning goblins.

>>3118766
You probably would, at least in my campaign. Desperately waiting for the Foglios to pull the fingers out of each other's asses.

>>3118773
>All kobold game is going strong.

I cut my DM teeth on an all-kobold campaign. I highly recommend them.

Kobolds make every action feel more awesome, because you're kobolds.

"We killed three elves!"
"AWESOME! WE ARE AWESOME!"
"Yes!"

Agatha Heterodyne is shown on page one of GURPS: Illuminati University, published 1995. Six years before the launch of Girl Genius.

That same book contains rules for high-power and low-power versions of 'Gadgeteer,' which is essentially the Strong and Weak Spark.

>>3118808
I can really see kobolds using "skaven-english" aswell, seems to fit them...

Jägerkin!
HO BOY YEZ!
Deez iz gud!

JägerBÜMP!

rolled 5 = 5

>>3118177
What about the fact that they can't be killed by hanging, or that they can ignore loss of a limb?

Prozeed.

Hyu iz now readink 4chan in Jäkerspeak, FUCK YEZ!

but GURPS is shit.

Bump for Jaegerkin awesome.

Jaeger
Special Ability: Awesome Hat
Effect: Your hat is awesome. FUCK YEAH!

>>3120811
>What about the fact that they can't be killed by hanging,
+6 str and normal human mass.

>or that they can ignore loss of a limb?
+4 con

>>3121846
Doesn't matter - despite extra mass and Str, they would still suffocate - I'm pretty sure that Jägermonsters are undead.
Also, even with +4 Con, they should still eventually bleed out - and what about the fact that they can have limbs sewn back on and work perfectly?

>>3122041
They aren't undead, they're Constructs. -- Con is not high Con. In fact, I believe Jaegers are some kind of flesh golem.

>>3122346
Fair enough.

what is the mechanist class?

>>3118196
>Jägermonster- A more aggressive type of construct,

Special rule for Jagers.

All Jagers have hats. They make take a feat "Damn Spiffy Hat!" and get a +2 to all rolls

If they are ever without their hat, they take a -2/-8 to all rolls, normal hat vs the damn spiffy hat.

A fitting penalty for such a powerful feat.