He shouldn't be Sir Bender he should be Titanius Anglesmith, Fancyman of CornwoodWarforged?
Sir Bender, the metal knight. Must say as many Bendderisms as possible. Equal levels Fighter and Rogue.
Marvin, warforged oracle. "Oh great, another ambush."
AstroBoyton, sorcerer. He acts like his inventors son, to perserve that humans memories. Starts out with magic missle and then takes fly as soon as possible.
Thanks, I forgot.
How about a bard named Doray Mifaso LaTido? ^_^
An anthropomorphic cat-person who can't speak proper Common, and has a taste for ground beef sandwiches with cheese...
heehee
CURSE YOU! I want the last hour of my life back!
How about a high profile surgeon who specializes in healing military wounded. After a particularly brutal fight, something snaps within him and he decides that the only way to truly heal these people is to kill the things hurting them.
This concept works equally well for any class with the ability to heal, and rogues with ranks in heal (sneak attack = understanding of anatomy).
A friend of mine has an idea for a dolphin wielder: Improvised Weapon Mastery + high strength + dolphin (possibly from Summon Monster I) = pain.
Pimidin of the holy sausage.
Paladin with catch off guard and improvised weapon mastery, and the weapon divine bond. Uses his sausage two handedly to beat succubi back to the infernal planes they come from.
Lion Tamer Cavalier.
This one is Str 7 Dex ungodly with 4 levels in duelist using a scimitar. I posted it earlier in the advice section.
Half elf Zen Archery Monk with a bombed Dex and the Wisdom in the Flesh trait applied to acrobatics, taking the blind fighting feats, alertness, and has skill focus to perception (as well as the sharp senses feat)... the guy can spot you even if you are invisible and shoot you as well... just don't ask him to walk while chewing bubble gum.
Developed an NPC for Carrion Hill that was a lot of fun: a CN ghoul necromancer that constantly chewed on his minions to avoid being "uncivilized" and eating his "colleagues" (two bound and gagged wizards).
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You could hand him a well-spoken paladin with maxed diplomacy... who's a full orc. Just make sure he's wearing full armor and a helmet, so the party doesn't mistake him for a bad guy.
"I would take offense at your insult, good sir, were there truth to it. I must assume, however, that you speak from ignorance. I am an orc, yes, and you are a human. Let us put these words aside and reason as equals this day."
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I had a player end up with a VERY odd character. After much gameplay his gnome illusionist had the following features:
Small horns on his head.
The ability to change his skin color at will to anything he can think of.
Dreadlocks.
Teeth made of platinum.
A badly damaged mask and some very stylish cloths.
FOUR FREAKING ARMS.
The ability to shoot his hands up to 15ft and have them come back and reattach.
The ability to spit live butterflies.
The ability to open his mouth and have the classic angelic chorus effect.
Shine beams of light from his eyes and mouth at will.
Most of this he paid to have done to himself.
Another character from a different campaign was a dwarf who turned partway into an earth elemental so he looked like a sotne statue of a dwarf. Later due to some odd effects his stone beard and hair fell out and grew back as real hair.
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A group I used to play in did a "funny" game once.
My character: Awakened Monkey with Monk levels. (Pre-CW Ninja) I was trying to talk the GM into letting me use the Wild Rooster stats I found online somewhere with a War-Trained template and a Dire Animal template for a mount. Ninja Monkey riding a Dire War Chicken. (Group drifted apart before we finalized the idea.)
My wife was playing a Svirfneblin Bard. This was FR where the Svirf's are manic homocidal xenophobes, but this guy was an oddball, friendly Svirf, but had no concept of surface races' morals or etiquette, so was constantly making inappropriate jokes or comments.
We also had a psion who had botched a mind transfer with his dog, and was now stuck there...
In another oddball campaign; a "highly morphic" world, I put together "the footstool". Small Animated Object, Wizard. Used things like Mage Hand to actually DO things. (We never did really get that game going, unfortunately.)
This last one has never really gotten beyond the character concept and planning stage: Saurial Sorcerer/Druid/Arcane Heirophant with a Compsognathus familiar companion. The "Dinosorcerer".
Another friend of mine played a game and ended up with an exotic dwarven wizard-bard-pirate with a Spanish accent. Of course the game was a blend of Munchkin games.
an orc barbarian with a really low int who thinks hes a wizard, hits people with a book and screams "arcane damage"
I played a Dwarven Fighter like that in 2E. If memory serves me right, Dwarves were not able to be wizards in 2E. He would use weapons in place of spells... SHIELD! *shield bash* FIREBALL! *throws greekfire* ENTANGLE! *throws net*
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Another thread had Mittens, the awakened housecat.
Reminds me of an Urban Druid I once saw concepted on here... Crazy Cat Lady. All cat'd up... Companion(s), Cohort, Followers, Summon Nature's Ally, etc.
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One of my more recent, yet unplayed concepts is a young Tiefling Rogue or Bard who thinks he's a vampire or becoming one. He's an orphan and around puberty the 'changes' started taking place... pale skin, red eyes, fangs, cravings for meat, etc. Your choice on the chages really, there's a thread around here somewhere titled "1000 Tiefling Physical Traits" or something like that, for ideas.
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Reminds me of an Urban Druid I once saw concepted on here... Crazy Cat Lady. All cat'd up... Companion(s), Cohort, Followers, Summon Nature's Ally, etc.
We had a crazy catlady at our Xorvintaal event. One of the dragon palyers went around giving cats to PCs as favors, which really meant testing their reactions for worthiness.
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I had a blast a while back playing a character loosely based on the pseudo-undead original MMII entry. He was a pseudo-werewolf. He believed he was a werewolf, and each full moon, he'd run off away from the party, and appear the next day dissheveled (more so than normal) and they would hear tales of a horrible beast that had killed someone the previous night. He also had a strong aversion to silver, refused all silver treasure, no matter how useful it was, and would even break out in a rash if he touched silver. As a ranger with a favored enemy of wolves and wolf like creatures (2E) they knew he had something from his past that had to do with lupines.
Eventually, the rest of the party was convinced that a werewolf was following him, and that each night of the full moon he would go off alone to try to kill it. Eventually, after over a year of playing, they set a trap and were astounded when he ran into the clearing they were camped in, buck naked and frothing at the mouth. They were so stunned that it wasn't an actual werewolf, that they didn't react in the first round of combat, and he attacked the nearest of them with his teeth and scored a critical hit. After capturing him, they tried helping him cure his condition, to no avail, since all of the traditional cures (and curse removal magic) had no effect - since he was, in fact, not cursed or a werewolf at all. As an insanity, only a heal spell or stronger magic could cure him.
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A gnome bard whose obsession is with profession (naturalist). He's okay with killing the people who get in your way, but insists you subdue all the animals/magical beasts/plant creatures instead of killing them. Then he puts them in the giant cages he's always making his horse lug around.
This could also make the game more challenging for creative players :)
My three favorite offbeat characters that I have actually played were the following:
An awakened potted plant psion. He was eventually re-planted into a psicrystal shaped like a planter so he could move.
A human chef (ninja). He was broke and his prospective future wife wouldn't marry him unless he had a job. In his case he was a ship's cook. He dual wielded cooking knives (kukris) and all his ninja abilities were simply gained during his "unusually intense" culinary school days.
A shifter druid (in-game he was a cursed human, shifters didn't exist in-setting) who was haunted by the spirit of a magical elk he had killed as a teenager. In stressful situations the elk would take over and allow him to shapshift (into elks from wildshape, elk hybrids from shifting), cast spells, etc. Effectively all of his druid abilities came from the magical elk that only he could see. It was unclear whether any of this was actually the case, or he was simply insane.
How about Special Abilities for Monks based on the "drunken fist" style of fighting. (serious idea) I'm making a monk character, and after watching Jackie Chan's fighting style and the comical Drunken Fist in various anime and films I came up with these.
Zui Quan
From 1st Level, thanks to your training in the “Drunken Fist” fighting style, which mimics the movements of a drunkard, you can continue to fight even when intoxicated by substances such as alcohol or hallucinogens, or minor illusion or staggering spells.
Benefit: You can still perform normal attack, defence and movement actions with no penalties for the duration of the intoxication.
Benefit 2: You can roll a Percentile die to repress the intoxication for this turn at the start of your turn, also eliminating the drawback of this special ability (the percentile required is decided by the GM). This benefit cannot be used 2 turns in a row, even if the roll is unsuccessful.
Drawback: Skills, Special Abilities and Spells receive a -2 on their success roll. Also, if the intoxication wears off during battle you gain “hangover” causing you to be flat footed for the length of a 1D4 roll. Intoxication and Hangover are removed at the end of battle regardless.
Improved Zui Quan
At 5th Level, thanks to your practice in “Drunken Fist” fighting, you can take small amounts of intoxicants to remove some of the physical limiters set by the mind.
Benefit: You gain a +1/2(damage roll) on unarmed strikes, +2 on attack rolls with weapons (including makeshift) and reflex saving throws.
Drawback: You must roll a Percentile die at the start of each turn to determine whether you become intoxicated (70% and above means you become intoxicated). If you become intoxicated, "Improved Zui Quan" is removed and replaced with regular "Zui Quan".
This one works if you're a Planescape fan, but basically a summoner who is a mathematical sage who is a member of the Guvners (or more specifically, their mathematically-oriented splinter group that holds up mostly in Mechanus). His magic comes from his understandings of the rules and equations of the multiverse, and his spells are simply long equations complex enough to have mystical power. His eidolon is a moigno- the greatest of his equations- so complex that it's achieved a life of its own. (Should be possible since that AP was on Greyhawk, and you're going to the Outer Planes anyway.)
Okay the idea is the infinite man. Take a base class 5, something like rogue or ninja, the take all 10 levels of the Noble Scion prestige class. It let's you have a cohort the same level as yourself, so you copy yourself as your cohort. I'd only ever play 2 at a time but they would all be the same guy, maybe younger one time or older another, maybe change each day. You basically have an infinite line of guys so have fun with the role playing.
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Dotting, and:
A curious, uninformed halfling sleight of hand specialist, that pick pockets things they're simply curious about, then put pockets the item on another person, trying to be kind and generous.
Swipes a pencil, "Oi. What's this then?"
Looks to halfling, "that'd be the wizards pencil..."
Halfling, "Neat!" Proceeds to put pocket it on the paladin with a kind smile.
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How are you qualifying for BWG at level one? It requires 5 ranks in bluff.
And I already know you disagree with me but I'm putting this here so that people who read your post can see how it actually works. But it's a teamwork feat, it doesn't function for you unless it says it does. Broken Wing Gambit will not provoke for you unless you and your allies also have Paired Opportunists.
See the stamina trick for BWG to see the intent. "When an opponent with the +2 bonus on attack rolls granted by this feat attacks you, you can spend 5 stamina points to have that attack provoke an attack of opportunity from you also."
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Right, the FAQ, it has its own case for this printed out. "unless doing so would make no sense." This is a teamwork feat and thus makes no sense. Please stop spreading misinformation.
If that FAQ applied to teamwork feats the very definition of teamwork feats would be superfluous. Specifically this "Teamwork feats grant significant bonuses, but they function only under specific circumstances. In most cases, these feats require an ally with the same feat to have a specific position on the battlefield."
Stamina? That's from Pathfinder Unchained, isn't it? Therefore an alternative and not an official rules source?
That's preposterous. You yourself just posted (not in this thread) about how important it is to go with the author's intent. Yet now that the authors have revealed their intent (that was already obvious to everyone but you in the first place) your first response is to ignore it because it's not in "core book". Absolutely ridiculous!
I'm putting this here so that people who read your post can see how it actually works.I think it is fair for you to call upon me to explain how it actually works.
Broken Wing Gambit will not provoke for you unless you and your allies also have Paired Opportunists.This is not to worry. You count as your own ally. There was a FAQ .
Ally: Do you count as your own ally?
You count as your own ally unless otherwise stated or if doing so would make no sense or be impossible. Thus, "your allies" almost always means the same as "you and your allies."
posted October 2010All your allies with BWG get the attacks of opportunity, including yourself. This is old news.
See the stamina trickStamina? That's from Pathfinder Unchained, isn't it? Therefore an alternative and not an official rules source?
That doesn't specifically say you count as your own ally in BWG. It says they generally do unless it would make no sense or be impossible. Any GM could reasonably say "It makes no sense and is impossible." and be completely within the rules. Try linking a faq or erata that specifically calls it out.
-A wizard named Aziz who is afraid of the dark so he casts LIGHT all of the time. AZIZ!! LIGHT!!
-A Dwarven Paladin with the Eldritch Heritage feat. Take the Orc Bloodline. You are now a Dwarf with an Orc Subtype. You are a Dwarf-Orc or, a Dork. Don't forget to talk to your GM and get a bison for your mount. Name him "M"
Also, the Paladin has a cursed belt of gender changing. He can take it on and off at will. Always put it on to use lay on hands on self.
I have had an idea for a Mindtech Amnesiac Mutation Mind Psychic. The basic idea is that he is like the main character from an anime with lost tech.
Mutagen Warrior Fighter VMC Stone Oracle select Rock Throwing as your revelation.
Rock Throwing doesn't require any scaling, so you get the full benefit and most important you one hand pebbles that deal 2d4+1 and 1/2 your strength bonus in 20ft range increments. Throw on some profession Sculptor ranks and you've got a statue chucking fighter with none of the multiclass nonsense the build used to need.
A half-orc sorcerer/Dragon disciple that uses burning hands as a acid spell and "vomits" it as his primary attack. He wares a Haramaki like a wwf belt for armor and refers to himself as the champ.
Vmc barbarian for short bursts of ridiculous martial prowess with his sorcerer bloodline claws and dragon disciple bite. But acts like he does all this without magic.
My group has nicknamed him the "bile sorcerer". Lol