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Now I will watch the video.
PS:I would suggest posting the rules here also. That way people don't have to watch the video if they forget something.,
Sean, first let me say its nice to see you back making videos. I was pleasantly surprised to see in my sub box a new outsiders after a couple months absence. I have learned quite abit from your gm tips videos as well as others from the RPG Brigade.
Im still fairly new to ttrpgs but after work tonight i will draw up a combatant and hopefully not get brained in the first round.
One thing you didnt mention, are animal companions allowed for the druid, ranger, and cleric? Anyway, hope you get a good turnout.
P.s. for those that dont know there is a pretty strong rpg community on youtube full of good people and good advice. I recommend checking it out.
What are the rules of engagement?
Initiative and go, or do you have prep/buff time before each fight?
I think each fight should be at full power if the result is to determine the best build. If I happen to draw a difficult opponent, and the other build wins the next fight because of that, then luck has a much larger effect than many would like.
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You mention no familiars. I assume that includes animal companions, but does it include summoned creatures? Need to know as this would severly nerf a Druid build.
Are you also limiting Item Creation feats? Scribe scroll, Craft Potion, Craft Arms & Armor & Craft Wonderous Items are all allow in core book, and while they may not all be tremedously useful in a fight but it could lead to the extra resources needed to win.
Are traits legal? These are typically used in everyday Pathfinder Play, but are not found in the core book.
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Just posting to say that I'm interested, and bumping so more people can see. I'm really interested to see where this goes, as I've never heard of anything like it before.
I post from work and I've no way of seeing the video: could you post the full guidelines?
Books allowed, level (5th?), races etc...
I'm considering this, but I have a few questions.
What ends the match? Is it only going below 0 HP? Can you "concede" the match? Is falling asleep or other forms of helplessness another way to lose, or would a coup de grace need to happen? I'm mostly wondering if an Enchantment Wizard is viable.
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I'm considering this, but I have a few questions.
What ends the match? Is it only going below 0 HP? Can you "concede" the match? Is falling asleep or other forms of helplessness another way to lose, or would a coup de grace need to happen? I'm mostly wondering if an Enchantment Wizard is viable.
I can answer this. Sean has mentioned that this fight will be to the death!! below zero hitpoints is the name of the game. I don't think you can concede the match. Good question about helplessness. That would suck to get in to a match "fall asleep" and then be helpless for the kill. I would say that build is definitly viable
Hi crysknife ,
Only using core book.
You can use anything from that.
You also have 32 point buy to build your character and 10,500 gp to purchase equipment.
It's will be like gladiator battle I will be doing the battles as a series of video's on my YouTube site theoutsiders68.
My hope is to get at least sixteen people but it could be 32 the ay it's going which is great.
You can't have any animal companions or spells up before a fight but once it starts anything goes.
Basically any questions just ask
Post character to Sean.connors68@ me.com
And good luck
What level?
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What level?Hi crysknife ,
Only using core book.
You can use anything from that.
You also have 32 point buy to build your character and 10,500 gp to purchase equipment.
It's will be like gladiator battle I will be doing the battles as a series of video's on my YouTube site theoutsiders68.
My hope is to get at least sixteen people but it could be 32 the ay it's going which is great.
You can't have any animal companions or spells up before a fight but once it starts anything goes.
Basically any questions just ask
Post character to Sean.connors68@ me.com
And good luck
Level 5 wraith
what books are allowed in the challange?
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What is the arena like? a level 5 wizard vs a lvl 5 fighter 30' away is an init roll from death...We have had this debate for 20+ years and it is still true - up close, mage unfavored, from afar, mage favored. As the above poster hinted, if we know the arena ( is it domed? plants around? how far apart? difficult terrain/water? random arena per match?)
Also, do you know what you are fighting before hand? prepping spells to suit the opponent would be critical.
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isnt it a little horrible to take away druids and rangers animal companion, after all that nerfs the classes quite brutally.
hmm just a little sad that we are down to 6-7 viable classes then. considering monks, rogues and rangers need stuff from splat books. And paladins wont work vs non evil chars.
@ outsiders
I think i will submit the winning build tomorrow, atm i am studying for an exam (its tomorrow) but after it i should be able to squeeze out a build, hope i am not to late because i have something seriously off the wall in mind. :)
Also is potions or other consumables allowed? and if so then how would they work (only one fight or for every fight).
Taking away animal companions (and to a lesser degree famaliars) hurt those classes. Also know who I will be fighting does impact my choice of spells to memorize which is the point of Indivar's questions which you clearly misunderstood. I have no problem with not having that knowledge it will just require a wider list of memorized spells. I'll think about posting something after tomorrow's finals.
I'm kind of sad: I've thought a bit about the challenge and I came up with unsatisfactory solutions. I'll submit soon the one less boring, I guess. I'll see if others were able to come up with more interesting ideas.
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Sean,
You said you'd be running games via YouTube "to the best of your ability."
Does this mean that you will run both gladiators tactically and in terms of role play while the community watches, or will you post videos for the contestants to respond to?
I think the later would be very time consuming, but I'd be interested to see how it comes off.