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Some of you may already be familiar with my Characters-By-Level (CBL) project that I tried to run last year, but after getting some very good advice from some friendly people here and on other forums I canceled it and went back to the drawing board. After streamlining the scope of what CBL is and getting more of my ducks in a row, I will be relaunching my Kickstarter on January 22, 2014.

My CBL's Facebook page contains all the latest details about my Kickstarter project as well as show all the character artwork that has already been completed for it. If you don't like Facebook, you can get the same information from my website or on my CBL Google+ page.

So what is Characters-By-Level?

Characters-By-Level (CBL) is a RPG gaming aid that consists of Pathfinder compatible pre-generated characters ready to be used in your Pathfinder games of any level. CBL will be released in monthly installments with each release consisting of a PDF containing 5 characters that also comes with Hero Lab portfolios and high quality character art files. For those that are only interested in our character artwork, it will be offered separately as its own product called Game Avatars (GA).

Each month’s release of CBL will contain the following:

* A 200+ page PDF book detailing 5 characters with NPC & PC stat blocks for levels 1-20
* Separate, high quality artwork files (jpegs) for all characters
* Hero Lab portfolios for all characters

We will be launching our Kickstarter campaign on January 22, 2014 to help fund our CBL project and the majority of the funds will be used to pay for the highly detailed character artwork. If our Kickstarter is successful, we will produce 5 months of CBL with stretch goals extending our monthly releases for up to a year. That means we plan to produce anywhere between 25 to 60 pre-generated characters depending on the success of our campaign.

Characters

All of our characters will include descriptions detailing their class builds, backgrounds, appearances, personalities, and ways to help you to fit them into your games. The details will tend to be more generic due to the fact that our characters are not campaign specific, but we will provide enough information so that you should be able to use them in your games with little effort. Unlike other books that provide pre-generated characters, we provide complete NPC as well as PC stat blocks for levels 1-20 for all of our characters and this will allow you to use them in any of your Pathfinder games regardless of level! Additionally, every stat block for a character beyond 1st level is based off the level immediately previous so that you can see how each character evolves.

Our characters’ NPC stat blocks will be created by using 15-point ability score builds or the NPC heroic ability array while PC stat blocks will be using 20-point builds and be assigned 2 starting traits. In deciding which races, classes, feats, equipment, spells, etc. to allow in the designs of our characters, we plan to use OGL content from the following Pathfinder books: Core Rulebook, Advanced Player’s Guide, Ultimate Magic, Ultimate Combat, Advanced Race Guide, Bestiaries 1-3, and Ultimate Equipment. As you can see there is a lot of material to draw from that will allow us to create a wide variety of characters to use in your campaigns.

By providing NPC and PC stat blocks for all our characters, GMs as well as players can find our CBL gaming aid useful for their games.

Artwork

We have talented artists on board to draw high quality colored bust portraits of all our characters. Besides using our character art inside our PDFs, we plan to make the same artwork available as separate image files (jpegs) of various sizes so that they can be used in your games or gaming websites. You will also receive large wallpaper versions of all our characters for personal use though we ask that you not post them on the internet. If certain stretch goals are reached during our Kickstarter in January, some of our character portraits will be upgraded to full length and our backers will determine which ones receive this upgrade.

Here is a list of some of the character image files you will receive:

*Website avatars
*Virtual tabletop avatars with different token rings
*Wallpapers (up to 1200 pixels vertically)

All of our latest character artwork will be posted on our Facebook page.

Hero Lab Portfolios

We will include Hero Lab portfolios of all of our characters as a bonus to individuals that use that program for their Pathfinder games.

Availability of Paper Versions of CBL

CBL will only be offered as a PDF for we feel that the production cost of a physical book of character stats is too high for most people interested in purchasing our product. However, we do plan to sell POD versions later on through RPGNow.com and other websites for people that really want them.


My company, Rabid Hamster Workshop, will be running a Kickstarter next month for a Pathfinder compatible RPG product line called Characters-By-Level. Here's the quick blurb of what it is and you can check my Facebook page for more details:

Characters-By-Level (CBL) is a RPG gaming aid that consists of Pathfinder compatible pre-generated NPCs (along with PC stats) ready to be used in your games that will be released monthly. CBL will be released as a PDF book and it will come with Hero Lab portfolios and high quality character art files. If you don’t play Pathfinder, the character art is also offered separately as its own product called Game Avatars (GA).

My CBL Kickstarter will start off with 25 pre-made characters for Pathfinder. I have already decided what 20 of them are going to be (see below) and I am looking for suggestions from other GMs and players of what the remaining 5 should be. I want to offer a good mixture of characters from different races and classes that other gamers would find interesting as well as useful for their campaigns, so if you have any suggestions to what my last 5 characters should be or just want to see a particular character concept created, reply to this post and let me know. A simple 1-2 sentence reply telling me the race, class, and general gist of the character will suffice, but if you want to give a more in-depth reply, go for it! Please keep your suggestions to the races and classes that my CBL Kickstarter plans to use, which is listed below.

My CBL project will be using the following Pathfinder classes & races:

- Classes - All. However, no mythic at this time and gunslingers will a low priority due that some gaming groups don't like firearms in their fantasy games.
- Races (from Pathfinder's Advanced Race Guide)

  • Common: Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, Halflings, Humans
  • Featured: Aasimars, Dhampirs, Drow, Fetchlings, Ifrits, Oreads, Sylphs, Tengus, Tieflings, Undines
  • Uncommon Races: Duergar, Kitsune, Samsarans, Sulis, Vishkanyas
  • Featured together as a theme for one month's release: Goblin, Kobold, Lizardman, Mantis Warrior (Thri-Kreen), ?

Current Character Lineup:

Month 1Adventurers I

  • Human Cavalier male
  • Dwarven Rogue male
  • Elven Druid female
  • Half-Elf ranger female
  • Halfing Wizard male

Month 2The Wicked I

  • Half-Orc Anti-Paladin male
  • Elven Cleric female
  • Tiefling Ninja/Assassin male
  • Human Dragon-Blooded Sorceress female
  • Aasimar Bard male (with evil mustache!)

Month 3Adventurers II

  • Gnome Alchemist male
  • Half-Orc Monk male
  • Fetching Summoner (Shadow Caller) female
  • Tengu Oracle male
  • Human Fighter female

Month 4Outsiders I

  • Ifrit Inquisitor male
  • Undine Cleric male
  • Onead Barbarian male
  • Sylph Witch female
  • Sulis Magus female

Month 5 - Adventurers III or The Wicked II - Characters TBD

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!!


CBL: Characters-By-Level for Pathfinder RPG Kickstarter

CBL is a Pathfinder compatible gaming aid that consists of pre-generated NPCs that come with Hero Lab portfolios and high quality character art files. All the NPCs come with stat blocks for levels 1-20 so they can be used in any Pathfinder campaign regardless of level.

If you just want the character art files, they are offered as its own package called GA: Game Avatars. Examples of the character art can be seen on the Kickstarter page.

This is our first project that we hope you find useful for your games.

Dan Brink and the rest of the Rabid Hamster Workshop team thank you in advance for your support!


I have a simple polymorph question:

If a rogue is polymorphed into a creature with multiple natural attacks (a gargoyle for example), can that polymorphed rogue make sneak attacks with all of the natural attacks his new form has? Even if it is a bite or gore attack as in the gargoyle example?


Maybe I am overlooking the obvious, but how many mutagens can an alchemist have or carry at one time?

From RAW, it appears like it is unlimited as long as an alchemist has the time to brew what he wants. If it is unlimited, why is there no weight or cost associated to creating a mutagen? I can see it being abused where a player can have his alchemist carrying like 20-30 mutagen vials at a time so his character is never missing his mutagen bonus throughout an entire dungeon crawl or game session.