DM Mathpro's Jade Regent Campaign-Table 2

Game Master Almagafor

DM:

Are we allowed to take a drawback for another trait?

Sure go ahead

Leodegrance Tarrant, human (couple of ideas): This character would be Damien's brother, whether younger or older (your choice). Idea #1 is a paladin (possibly holy tactician), which would give us some healing support and more combat ability, but would carry with it the alignment issue, so I wouldn't want to do that if it would wreak havoc with the other players. Idea #2 is a bard (possibly songhealer). This character would be the less clever but more flamboyant sibling who is jovial, charming, and has a tendency to get into trouble. This one carries the possible problem of overlap with Ameiko, though.

I'd like to see where you go with Leo as a paladin.

SO no feed back on Taka?

Taka looks good actually.

...Yvette...

Here is a profile for Yvette LaBelle, support healer. As she gains levels, assuming she isn't pulled into a different direction, she would likely gain spells that improve the party, remove debuffs, and heal other conditions. Her first hex (gained at 2nd level due to her ley line guardian archetype) will be healing. If DM Mathpro allows item creation she would likely take Create Wondrous Item at level 3.

Yvette could be a rival, antagonist, friend, or romantic interest for @ElegantlyWasted or any number of other characters, as she has lived in Sandpoint all her life.

Cool, glad you like. As is Taka can find and disable traps really well for first level. Next level will give him trapfinding for magic traps. Magic traps shouldn't come in to play much before level 3 so this should be fine though paizo may blow us up who knows.

Taka doing binding ritual

After binding

Just want to say again I post a lot and can keep up with whatever rate you guys play at. All of my games but one are over a year old and one is over 2 years. Lets do this ;)

Would you allow us to substitute the free Scribe Scroll feat granted by wizard for a free Spell Focus feat like in PFS?

I'd like to see where you go with Leo as a paladin.

Here is Leo as a paladin (holy tactician) of Iomedae. I considered making him a devotee of Grandmother Crow, since she is the patron of orphans, but empyreal lords are not really the kind of thing that has representation in Sandpoint. He's built to be a congenial "face" character who can also do strong melee support. I took the Sacred Touch trait so that he can stabilize in a pinch before he gets his Lay on Hands ability. He's more of a "talker" to his brother Damien's role as a "thinker." The holy tactician means he gets less in the way of supernatural defenses, but more for battlefield positioning, which could be good support for the party's fighter types. As with Yvette, he could be a potential adversary, rival, friend, or romance for a number of characters, and is built to be connected to Sandru.

Here is Dorian Grey's submission.

I shall write up the backstory on Sunday. Going to a mini-con tomorrow...

Any thoughts, thus far?

Here are my two character submissions. Quint is an arcane healer bard (I plan to take several bardic masterpieces in the future), and Lal Rhem is an arcane trickster. I have played the PFS sanctioned portion of Book 5, but no other portion of the AP.

I do like to post several times a day (though over the weekends and during conventions that will most likely slow down).

If selected I will make a forum avatar for the appropriate character (I'd also appreciate receiving PFS chronicle sheets if possible). Any feedback is appreciated.

Going to edit Damien for both Leo and Yvette. If we get picked and you go with one or the other, the one that's not selected would still make a fine NPC!

Updated

Ready for Consideration, may I introduce... Cabri Erratan.

If there was ever a fanboy in the Pathfinder universe, Cabri probably fits the bill. He regards Ameiko as a hero and strives to become like her someday. Of course, in real life he is timid, and downright clumsy at times. As a summoner, his eidolon manifests itself itself as a courageous warrior, something he truly wants to emulate someday.

So I know Summoner's have a tendency to get action heavy and overpowered, so I used the Unchained version as its a bit more balanced. In combat, Cabri acts a support mage as his Eidolon wades into battle carefree and recklessly.

Got a twinge of inspiration and decided to just go ahead and do up Leng the Wanderer, human monk anyway.

Admittedly, Leng is probably not a good fit for this group - he has no healing abilities or trapfinding skills. He was just a whimsical concept that I found amusing. He is basically a happy-go-lucky, blandly simple monk who travels from place to place.

Notably, because of the weirdness of PF's Perfect Strike feat, he gets a bonus feat (the aforementioned Perfect Strike) that he doesn't actually use with any of his weapons. Oh well! No Stunning Fist for him. He would eventually go down the Ascetic Strike route + Improved Trip (from bonus feat) and start wrecking house with the kusarigama anyway. (I guess there's a possible backdoor at level 3, because Ascetic Style lets him use anything that has Improved Unarmed Strike as a prereq with his monk weapon, and IUS is a prereq for Perfect Strike, so... loophole!)

Mostly he is a character who is amusing in my head. :)

I have also made some slight expansions to backgrounds on Yvette and Leo, to include a bit more about their potential histories with Damien, and to add pictures to both of them (it's linked in the "Homepage URL" section).

How would you all, especially Derric, feel about another Kitsune?

The idea is that my character's ancestors came here several generations ago with Tian merchants and have lived hidden lives in Magnimar since a few years after it's founding.

Since nothing is known about Kitsune reproduction I assume they are compatible with humans based on the ability to take human shape and the fact that most anything seems to work on Golarion. I'd also guess that a Human-Kitsune pairing would always result in a Kitsune, with the human parent influencing build and the appearance of the human form.

Based on that she'd still be Ameiko's half sister, the result of a dalliance on Ameiko's father's part (he has another established daughter outside of his marriage as well).

Class-wise she'd be a non-standard trapfinder as she'd be an Oracle with the Seeker archetype and the Wrecking Mysticism curse which is a Kitsune racial option. Most likely she'd have the Lunar mystery but I'm not sure on it yet. She and her kin would be heavily entrenched with the mystery cultists of Magnimar, the worshippers of Empyreal Lords. She be one of Ashava's faithful though I might have her convert to Tsukiyo if she comes in contact with her in Minkai. She'd also pay some homage to Daikitsu, though more as a guardian spirit than as an object of worship.

I'm thinking about younger sibling as my character's campaign trait. I'll figure out which of the two NPCs I like better once I have a feel for her. Sneaking out of the house/inn to follow along on adventure! Leaning Ameiko now that I say that, since she seems chattier.

Hrm.

Ok having looked at the two NPCs in the players guide and thought about it more, I think I'm definitely more interested in profession/craft stuff than being related to the crime syndicate, so Ameiko it is. Shelyn worshipping is an easy fit, time to figure out class.

My second character selection would be a Barbarian/cleric lv 1 of Erastil with domains of community and plant subdomain growth. This Cleric of Erastil started out peaceful enough wanting to see small communties flourish and grow and keep the faith of the forests without seeing larger cities grow and flourish as they diminish both community and plants. He would have a crisis of faith and become a raging maniac after seeing how much the large cities are spoiling the world and become a barbarian.

At first level he would be a strong front line battle cleric with some slight channel and a few channels to secondary heal.

At second level and beyond he would be a front line battle raging maniac looking to tear people apart because of their desecration of Erastil's edicts.

I am not particularly stuck on dwarf, but for some reason they have been speaking to me lately.

Alternately I could go with an Elven Rogue ghoul touch build I have been mulling around but I would need to have the quicken spell like ability feat which would have to be approved by GM

This would be an unarmed attack rogue using touch ac to deliver and because unarmed attacks qualify he would use weapon finese.

It would look something like this:

How would you all, especially Derric, feel about another Kitsune?

The idea is that my character's ancestors came here several generations ago with Tian merchants and have lived hidden lives in Magnimar since a few years after it's founding.

Since nothing is known about Kitsune reproduction I assume they are compatible with humans based on the ability to take human shape and the fact that most anything seems to work on Golarion. I'd also guess that a Human-Kitsune pairing would always result in a Kitsune, with the human parent influencing build and the appearance of the human form.

Based on that she'd still be Ameiko's half sister, the result of a dalliance on Ameiko's father's part (he has another established daughter outside of his marriage as well).

Class-wise she'd be a non-standard trapfinder as she'd be an Oracle with the Seeker archetype and the Wrecking Mysticism curse which is a Kitsune racial option. Most likely she'd have the Lunar mystery but I'm not sure on it yet. She and her kin would be heavily entrenched with the mystery cultists of Magnimar, the worshippers of Empyreal Lords. She be one of Ashava's faithful though I might have her convert to Tsukiyo if she comes in contact with her in Minkai. She'd also pay some homage to Daikitsu, though more as a guardian spirit than as an object of worship.

I don't mind there being another kitsune in the party. And actually now that you've mentioned it, I think James Jacobs has actually said that human and kitsune couples usually have kitsune children.

And if you want you can have her worship both Ashava and Tsukiyo, similar to how Derric worships both Daikitsu and Shelyn. Why you could have her worship Daikitsu too if you wanted! And the lunar mystery sounds like a great choice! I'm interested in seeing this character.

For your consideration, the following two characters.

These are both intended to fill the slot in the party that doesn't call for a rogue-type specifically. Kayin is a bit more developed than Pazeek at the moment, but I can work on Pazeek as time permits.

For your consideration, the following two characters.

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Interesting character ideas. I'm particular to the tengu ranger actually although the kitsune oracle is a good one too. If you could do stats for both that would be good as it would give me a better feel for your character if you will.

These are great ideas y'all.

Sam C. wrote:

For your consideration, the following two characters.

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Interesting character ideas. I'm particular to the tengu ranger actually although the kitsune oracle is a good one too. If you could do stats for both that would be good as it would give me a better feel for your character if you will.

These are great ideas y'all.

I'll assume the 10-minute Background that seems to be popular for applications, padded out by anything else I care to add beyond that, is in effect?

And how does your table feel about the Eldritch Guardian qualifying for Improved Familiar, and a standard familiar taking the Mauler archetype and--subject to Improved Familiar being allowed--later taking one of the templates offered by Improved Familiar?

Here is the sheet for my Kitsune Oracle, Kiko Kajitsu-Qun

Only things missing are her animal companion (a wolf with reddish brown fur named Muunokhoi, or Muun (pronounced Moon) for short) and perhaps some last few purchases, though she doesn't have that much money left over.

As one may notice, she's a crappy combatant right now but that should improve with a few more levels (Proficiency with Longbow by 4th lvl due to FCB). Her lacking combat abilities will be partially compensated by her companion, who would function as a flanking buddy for the current Samurai and Warpriest.

She would have grown up with her mother in Magnimar and as such would have had her mother's name.

She would have first met Ameiko when Ameiko ran away from home at 13 years of age and went to Magnimar. She would not have know it was her sister though. Her mother would have told that to her later in the letter she left her upon her death. Kiko would have thought about what she should do at first and on later, during the events of RotRL would she have made her way to Sandpoint.

Still need to fully formalise the background, these blurbs are just parts.

I just realized it seems we can submit more than one character submission. If so, then I would also like to present Percival Carston Von Roland

Percival is a strict alchemist who believes in the ethics of hard work and risk.

You might also say he's a jerk.

Natural Talent has no place in his world, and those who inherit their place in the world can, as Percival puts it, "Take as much distance as they'd like."

His relationship with Ameiko is one of mutual respect. He recognizes the fact that she has inherited against her will, and she relives stress by screwing around with his experiments and concoctions. She's supplied Percival with a ways of diplomatically telling someone to "f*@& off" and he has prepared various alchemical items for her amusement and use. Sometimes, he considers her more trouble than she's worth, but he can't deny that she makes the day more lively.

So he has some useful skills including Disable Device. In combat, he has his bombs but primarily engages in melee by imbibing his mutagen. I really enjoyed the idea of a stuck up jerk rolling up the sleeves and suddenly becoming ripped.

Writing up my characters, have a question regarding retraining and class features replaced by archetypes. I'm considering adding Divine Tracker to Pazeek. However, the granted feature at first level is a pure bust; he is by virtue of race and class both already proficient with any relevant weapon he could choose. Could he retrain that feature to gain the one that it replaces (wild empathy).

Kayin and Pazeek are written up and ready for inspection!

Here is the sheet for my Kitsune Oracle, Kiko Kajitsu-Qun

Only things missing are her animal companion (a wolf with reddish brown fur named Muunokhoi, or Muun (pronounced Moon) for short) and perhaps some last few purchases, though she doesn't have that much money left over.

As one may notice, she's a crappy combatant right now but that should improve with a few more levels (Proficiency with Longbow by 4th lvl due to FCB). Her lacking combat abilities will be partially compensated by her companion, who would function as a flanking buddy for the current Samurai and Warpriest.

She would have grown up with her mother in Magnimar and as such would have had her mother's name.

She would have first met Ameiko when Ameiko ran away from home at 13 years of age and went to Magnimar. She would not have know it was her sister though. Her mother would have told that to her later in the letter she left her upon her death. Kiko would have thought about what she should do at first and on later, during the events of RotRL would she have made her way to Sandpoint.
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She would have helped repair any damage to Sandpoint and would have introduced herself to Ameiko shortly after, using the letter from her mother as proof. The fact she looks like Ameiko's father and to some extent like Ameiko also helped.

Still need to fully formalise the background, these blurbs are just parts.

You might want to double check the link. It was working earlier but now it's not. Still very good. All you need now is a background, personality, and description. But overall it looks good.

Ah yes, here it is again: Kiko

I corrected the spelling of the name as I missed an 'i' in Kaijitsu.

Working on a consolidated background, description and personality. It's quite late here though so I'll probably get to it in the morning.

What I can easily say about her description is that she prefers her human form in public. She grew up in a place where Kitsune are largely unheard of but lycanthropes are known so a humanoid fox could easily be mistaken for one.

That's true. I can actually see her scolding Derric for walking around in his true form in public. :)

Updated Damien with more background info

Updated Damien with more background info

That's good to hear. I'm actually reading it right now.

Ah yes, here it is again: Kiko

I corrected the spelling of the name as I missed an 'i' in Kaijitsu.

Working on a consolidated background, description and personality. It's quite late here though so I'll probably get to it in the morning.

What I can easily say about her description is that she prefers her human form in public. She grew up in a place where Kitsune are largely unheard of but lycanthropes are known so a humanoid fox could easily be mistaken for one.

Just curious here but what are your character's background skills?

I feel like we could make an entirely new table out of all the characters that aren't picked.

I feel like we could make an entirely new table out of all the characters that aren't picked.

That's true.

If someone wants to run that I'm on board. Kinda wanna run Damien and Leo, I've actually never had a sibling relationship play out in an RPG before.

If someone wants to run that I'm on board. Kinda wanna run Damien and Leo, I've actually never had a sibling relationship play out in an RPG before.

Heh. In PFS I played with friends as an entire family of half-orcs (with one half-elf sibling in the mix).

Here is my application.
I hope I'm not too late. :D

Damien is updated yet again! Keep thinking of fun stuff to do :p

I'm still working on Kiko's background, it's coming along nicely. It is, however, getting quite long as well.

As for her background skills, they are Knowledge: History and Handle Animal. The Knowledge: History represents the many hours she has been drilled by her grandmother on the history and traditions of the Tien community in Magnimar as well as it's kitsune. The Handle Animal more or less comes along with having a wolf companion in a city and keeping the animal in check so it won't get confiscated and/or put down.

EDIT: Out of curiosity and background consideration, in which year are we setting this game? The year JR launched or Golarion's current year? Just trying to figure out how much time I have to cover in which Ameiko and Kiko have been more in touch.

Apologies but never had a free moment to complete his background. I will write it up after work.
Any comments?

Kiko is now done, except her animal companion.

I'm not sure how to present it. Would a separate sheet and alias be needed or should I add it in a spoiler on Kiko's sheet?

Apologies but never had a free moment to complete his background. I will write it up after work.

Any comments?

Looks good so far.

Kiko is now done, except her animal companion.

I'm not sure how to present it. Would a separate sheet and alias be needed or should I add it in a spoiler on Kiko's sheet?

You can add it in a spoiler to Kiko's sheet. I did the same thing with Derric's horse Blaze.

Anything you'd like to see expounded upon for Kayin and Pazeek?

Anything you'd like to see expounded upon for Kayin and Pazeek?

Everything looks good. Nice background stories.

First off I want to thank Derric for helping out with this recruitment thread. It was awesome to have you step up and help out while I was away.

So I'm closing things down and I've made my selections. I've decided to take 3 players(I know I origonally said two...).

*dramatic drum roll*

My selections are:

Kiko Kaijitsu-Qun
Damien Tarrant
Leodegrance Tarrant

I'm sorry for those that didn't make it as there were some really great builds submitted. Those selected will also be getting PM's from me and can post in the discussion thread linked to this recruitment thread as soon as you have time.

I think the 3 are great choices!

Thank you for consideration.

Have fun everyone.

Congrats guys.

congrats and sorry to have missed out. If you need another player later please look me up!

Thank you, and good fortune to those of you still on the prowl for a game!

You're welcome gm! I'm glad I was able to help out!

congrats to those picked.

I want to say thank you to everyone who submitted a character! Y'all did an amazing and fantastic job on these characters! I wish we could have picked all of you! :(

But still it was an honor to have meet such amazing and talented people like yourselves! Thank you again!