Thri-Kreen Feats and Powers
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Thri-kreen stalk the athasian wastes, using
every advantage they have, from their ancestors
wisdom to their own psionic powers.
Below are racial feats and utility powers suitable for thri-kreen in
your 4th edition D&D game.
4e
thri-kreen
Feats
Heroic Tier Feats
Blessed by the Ancestors
Your egg-clutch was laid near the remains of great
ancestors, in order that part of them could be reborn within you.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen
Benefit The first time you make a saving throw in an
encounter, you gain a +1 feat bonus to the saving throw.
Blurred Scuttle
You are the ultimate psionic warrior. Your
psionic studies have honed your reflexes so that
you can react quickly to an enemy that threats
someone you are defending.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, battlemind, blurred step class feature
Benefit When your blurred step power is triggered, you can shift an
additional square.
Clutch Mentality
Your insect mind is focused on always helping your clutch-mates.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen
Benefit
When you successful assist an ally on a skill check with a skill
you are trained in, you grant the ally a +3 bonus to his skill
check.
Chatkcha Accuracy
You have formed a special bond with your chatkcha
increasing the accuracy of your throws even when you miss your primary
target.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, seeker, inevitable shot class power, proficiency
with chatkcha
Benefit
When using a chatkcha, you gain a
+1 bonus to the ranged basic attack granted by
inevitable shot. At 11th level, this bonus in-
creases to +2. At 21st level, this bonus increases
to +3.
Deft Dodger
Your quick reflexes and natural instinct allow
you to dodge incoming missiles.
PrerequisiteThri-kreen
BenefitYou gain a +2 feat bonus to all defenses against ranged attacks.
At 11th level, this bonus increases to +4. At
21st level, this bonus increases to +6.
Font of Movement
As a thri-kreen you are always moving, never
standing still for long. Even when enemies try
to restrain you, you surprise them with your
speed.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, warden, font of life class feature
Benefit
When you use your font of life class feature to successfully
save against an effect that slowed or immobilized you, you can shift
1 square as a free action.
Helping Hand
Your middle limbs can help arm your allies as
well as yourself.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, warlord
Benefit When an adjacent ally spends an action point, you can draw or sheathe a weapon carried by the adjacent ally or yourself and pass it to that ally as a free action.
Insect Mind
Your insect mind makes it difficult for humanoid psions to seize
control of your mind.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, psion
Benefit
You gain a +2 bonus to saving throws against dominating effects
from enemies that are not insects.
Mantis Rage
With a burst of raging energy, you flail your claws at
your enemies while maneuvering between them.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, barbarian
Benefit
While you are raging, your thri-kreen claws racial power gains
the following effect.
Effect
You can shift 1 square after each attack.
Mantis Wild Shape
Your wild shape form retains some of your insect nature, allowing you
to utilize your natural weapons.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, druid, wild shape class power, thri-kreen claws racial power
Benefit
You can use thri-kreen claws while in beast form.
Mantle of the Thri-kreen
You use the psionic connection you have made with your allies to share
your innate racial knowledge.
PrerequisiteThri-kreen, ardent, ardent mantle class feature
Benefit
You replace the skill bonuses granted to allies by your ardent
mantle, with those from your racial skill bonuses. Allies in your
ardent mantle gain a +3 bonus to Athletics and Nature.
Natural Fighter
You rely on your natural weapons which are
just as deadly as any blade.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, thri-kreen claws racial power, fighter, combat challenge class feature
Benefit
If your thri-kreen claws power is not expended, when an enemy
marked by you provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use
your thri-kreen claws racial power in place of a melee basic attack
to attack that enemy. Doing so expends thri-kreen claws.
Psionic Coordination
While your distract one of your enemies, you
send subtle psionic messages to your allies letting them know when best to strike.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, battlemind, battlemind's demand class feature
Benefit
You and your flanking ally gain a +2
bonus to damage rolls against creatures that you
have marked with your battlemind's demand
and are flanking. This bonus increases to +3
at 11th level. This bonus increases to +4 at
21st level.
Swift Spirit
Your spirit companions takes on aspects of your
swift thri-kreen heritage.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, shaman, call spirit companion class power
Benefit Your spirit companion gains a +2 feat bonus to its speed.
Thri-kreen Fury
Your anger at those who would defile nature
lends strength to your claws.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, warden, thri-kreen claws racial power, nature's fury class feature
Benefit
You gain a feat bonus to the damage rolls of your thri-kreen
claws equal to your Wisdom modifier against creatures you have
marked with nature’s fury.
Paragon Tier Feats
Chatkcha Psionic Focus
After mediating many hours with your chatkcha, you have attuned it to accept a portion of
your mental might.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, battlemind, 11th level, proficiency in
the chatkcha
Benefit
Choose one of your battlemind at-will attacks. You can use that
attack unaugmented as a ranged attack with your chatkcha. You can
replace the chosen at-will attack through retraining.
Desert Adaptation
Your ancestors adapted to desert life and thrived.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, 11th level
Benefit You can go one day between using a survival day without being
subjected to an attack to contract Sun Sickness. If you have not
used a survival day by the end of the second day, you are subjected
to an attack to contract Sun Sickness that day and on each
succeeding day. Once you have contracted Sun Sickness the disease
progresses as normal.
Distracting Presence
Through your touch you transmit psionic
energy to distract your enemies making them
easier prey for your allies.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, ardent, 11th level, thri-kreen claws racial power,
ardent mantle class feature
Benefit
Each target you hit with your thri-kreen claws racial power grants
combat advantage to your allies within your ardent mantle
until the end of your next turn.
Mark and Evade
Your target the enemies of nature for destruction while using your
natural agility to slip between their ranks.
Prerequisite Thri-kreen, 11th level, warden, nature's wrath class feature
Benefit You do not provoke opportunity attacks from enemies you have marked with nature’s wrath, unless that enemy has marked you.
Nature's Prey
You and your allies rally to the defense of na-
ture.
Prerequisite
Thri-kreen, warden, warden's fury class feature, 11th level
Benefit
You and your allies gain a +3 bonus to damage rolls against
creatures that grant combat advantage while under the effects of
your warden's fury. This bonus increases to +4 at 21st level.
Racial Utility Powers
Mantis Bound
Thri-Kreen Utility 6
With a mighty bound you leap across the
battlefield, surprising your enemies with your
speed.
Encounter
Move Action
Personal
Effect
You make an Athletics check to jump. This movement does not
provoke opportunity attacks and is not limited by your speed.
Mantis Climber
Thri-Kreen Utility 10
You scamper up a rock outcropping as if it
were flat ground.
Encounter
Move Action
Personal
Effect
You move your speed. You gain spiderclimb until the end of your
turn.
Mantis Frenzy
Thri-Kreen Utility 22
In a frenzy, you lash out at your enemies with
everything you have.
Daily
Minor Action
Personal
Effect
You enter a mantis frenzy. Until the end of the encounter,
whenever you successfully hit a target with a melee attack, you can
make a basic melee attack with an off-hand weapon as a free action
against any target within reach. If you are not wielding an off-hand
weapon, you can make an unarmed basic melee attack.
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