Godslayer Scooby Doo (GLOG Class)

Daniel Protsenko

One more GLOG class for the road.

Gods, spirits, and demons are beings of pure symbolism, born as a byproduct of human civilization and cognition. Belief, worship, and fear bolster their existence. Only complete and utter disbelief can truly kill a God.

You are a disbeliever, an atheist in a world of oracles, miracles, and spell-slinging clerics. You have devoted yourself to protecting the mundane by disproving the supernatural… and somehow, amazingly, it works.

Disbeliever (aka Myth Buster aka God Slayer aka Scooby Doo)
A: Occam’s Razor, Ignorance

B: Very Normal Activity

C: Society of Skeptics

D: Cheap Tricks

A: Occam’s Razor
When you defeat a supernatural or magical enemy you don’t believe in, you may invent a more plausible explanation for its existence. If you do, that explanation becomes true.

A: Ignorance
You get +1 to attacks, saves, and AC vs. supernatural and/or magical phenomena you don’t believe in. This bonus increases by 1 for each Disbeliever template you have.

B: Very Normal Activity
As long as you believe you can, you and objects you are holding can touch intangible creatures. This also applies to doors you are barricading and closets you are hiding inside.

C: Society of Skeptics
Anyone who hears you out may choose to disbelieve in phenomena you disprove to them. If they do so, they may benefit from your Ignorance bonus until they fail a Save against said phenomena. Your explanation must be more plausible than the “truth”.

D: Cheap Tricks
Once per adventure, you can disbelieve a magical phenomenon or spell as it occurs. If you do, all instances of that phenomenon cease to exist, and are retroactively replaced with an elaborate series of simple machines, special effects, and coincidences. Everyone except the disbeliever notices this happen, but they’ll never be able to prove it.

The replacement can be mildly anachronistic (feather fall → parachutes). It does not need to replicate the same functionality moving forward, just approximate it in retrospect (control weather → a lucky rainstorm).

[Note: You can easily retool this class into The Conspiracy Theorist; just replace magical phenomena with mundane ones and plausible explanations with ridiculous ones.]

i KNEW gorillas weren't real!