Kalak (Character Kit)

==Kalak (Scout)==
Slightly smaller and quicker than most thri-kreen, Kalak excel at the use of hunting and stealth skills. In the hunt, their function is to locate prey and guide the hunters to it; they also range far beyond the periphery of thri-kreen camps in order to provide an early warning of the approach of enemies or large predators. They are survival specialists, even among the kreen.
Character Class: This character kit can be taken by any single-classed or multi-classed ranger.
Role: If Tik are first and foremost hunters, then the Kalak are first among those hunters. Able to track and find prey more readily than the most skilled Tik, the restless Kalak have even less love for staying in one place. They often travel far from the pack, in search of prey, water, and other necessities of life. They are often the first of the pack to make contact with other beings, whether these are humanoids or members of a strange pack. Most thri-kreen packs have one or two Kalak, and these often serve as the eyes and ears of the group. The existence of specialized Kalak does not prevent other kreen from serving as scouts, but they are not as efficient at it as a true Kalak. In other ways, Kalak are much like Tik.
Weapon Proficiencies: Kalak can begin play with proficiencies only in those weapons normally allowed to thri-kreen.
Nonweapon Proficiencies: These are as follows.
* Bonus Proficiencies: Hunting. As rangers, they also have full tracking proficiency.
* Required Proficiencies: Direction sense, survival.
* Recommended: Animal lore, endurance, herbalism, heraldry (kreen), running, water find, weaponsmithing (kreen); alertness (see benefits).
* Barred: Spellcraft, swimming (never available). Equipment: The Kalak is restricted to thri-kreen equipment until exposed to outside culture; even then, the character tends to use traditional items.
Special Benefits: Kalak have the standard thri-kreen racial bonuses. Survival proficiencies cost them only one slot instead of two. Subtract die roll modifiers from base height and weight instead of adding them.
Alertness: The alertness proficiency, if taken, allows a successful proficiency check (Wisdom +1) to reduce the kalak's chance of being surprised by 1.
Special Hindrances: A Kalak has the alignment restrictions of a ranger and will default to either the Tik or Kik kit if ranger status is lost.
Wealth Options: The Kalak receives the standard wealth for the class and forfeits any leftover wealth.