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Sixteenbiticon, that's a beautiful set of stats for a character that only depends on one stat. Also slightly better than the point buy.
GM, how do you feel about dropping strength below 10 on on a point buy? A healer eclessitheurge just has too many important stats. Wis is the casting stat, dex is critical for a decent AC, and cha is also needed to be decent because it's used for channel energy.
Also, there seems to be disagreement as to how strict the eclesitheurge's vow is. The relevant rule text is:
At 1st level, an ecclesitheurge
makes a vow to his deity to protect himself solely with his
faith, not with armor or shields.
In the 'fluff' description, The common cleric shields his soul in faith and his body in armor, but there are those clerics who choose to rely on
the power of faith alone as their defense.
There seems to be disagreement about whether he or she can use bracers of armor and stuff. Possibilities:
1. Absolutely no AC boosting equipment
2. Only the bonded holy symbol can be AC boosting equipment
3. Only AC boosting equipment the eclesitheurge helps craft, because then his or her goddess's power is in a sense still the source of the AC bonus
4. Only AC items crafted by, or at least with spell provided by, a cleric of the same goddess
5. All items other than actual armor or shields are OK.
I really doubt 1 is correct, because the second printing of the ACG has the example of an ecclesitheurge adding amulet of natural armor to his bonded holy symbol. I find any of the others believable. I love the flavor of 3 or 4.
Can I get your view on this? It will influence whether I am content with 16 dex after racials or need 18.
Small size characters can carry proprotionately more. Their carrying capacity is 3/4th of a Medium, but all their equipment weighs half as much as medium equipment.
This is my Spirit Summoner and his Eidolon. I just need to change his trait Chance Savior for something else and tweak the background a little.
Hexes, channel energy, spells, and an eidolon? Wow, I wasn't aware that covering all those bases was possible. You're like a one person party, hah.
If the party wishes to do so, please feel free to weigh in on which option you'd rather I play. If I do the half-giant, I might write his story so that his giant half was of the northern frosty variety. That'd certainly be interesting. But the rogue provides the party with DD, so I'm still kinda torn between the two concepts.
If it impacts anyone's decisions, you should know that an ecclesitheurge is a little squishier than a wizard, because they can't buff themselves with mage armor. Thus, I can't be a frontline fighter at all, or help the rogue by flanking.
Dex, Divine Shield, and Protection from X?
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Dex, Divine Shield, and Protection from X?
Dex applies just as much to a wizard, Divine Shield is third party, and protection from X is much more limited than mage armor, because it only is good against some alignment enemies. I'm not saying a bit of wind will knock a well-built ecclesitheurge over, only that they should be in the same very squishy category as a wizard or sorcerer.
My bad, Shield of Faith. Good point though.
I am definitely going with the vexing daredevil mesmerist. I'm trying to combine two ideas into one solid concept, but either way this character is shaping up to be a force!
Edit: Also, with the bonus feats, can we use them if we don't qualify for them? In other words, can I power attack at first level even though I have a +0 BAB?
Alright, I guess I'll just have to settle for 3d6 + 6 damage until I hit second level. :P
^ That's gonzo! Not to mention I think Almos' eidolon gets those feats too, which will certainly help. Even if you (general you) still have to wait to meet the requirements of some of them before you can actually use them, it's a big help to not have to spend the feat slots for them.
Haha nice!
After a lot of hemming and hawing, I think I'll try a gnome bloodrager (though I was very tempted to do a Silver Balladeer bard). Still a little fuzzy on the details but probably a vanilla bloodrager with either the fey or destined bloodline. Not sure if I'll take a bloodline familiar or not either; depends on how I see the character behaving :3
But that's the gist of it so hopefully that'll help the DM if we do decide to add a 5th :)
So we've got ourselves a gnome bloodrager, half-giant mesmerist, samsaran summoner, and an aasimar cleric. My, what an interesting spread. We've got damage in spades, buffs, debuffs, heals, face, and a decent spread of knowledges, I'm sure. A skill monkey might be nice. Or we can just keep it at 4. I'm fine with either decision.
This is my placeholder until I come up with a name for my character. I quite like the avatar, though. I'm still trying to figure out my build (long term, at least), but I think my 1st level feat will be medium armor proficiency since it looks like I can't regain panache while using a greatsword based on the swashbuckler panache mechanic rules. Bummer.
That's all well and good but a vital strike with a large greatsword does 6d6 damage, so it's an open and shut case on weapon choice. ;)
Vexing Daredevil gets one free martial weapon proficiency, so that's for greatsword. I'm going to dedicate my feats mostly to defensive stuff and utility. The exception being Moonlight Stalker. But the jury's still out on that.
I've got two unspent skill points that I can use to shore up any knowledges we don't have covered. I've got arcana, dungeon, history, local, nobles, and religion. How about dungeon and local? Those seem fitting.
Short dirty version of the story is my father was taken in by a Kellid tribe in the Realm of the Mammoth Lords and raised to revere the tribe. He courted the priestess/shaman/mystic and had me lead by a witch that hexed me as an abomination. The tribe was eventually attacked and wiped out by the same frost giants which my father was taken from. I escaped and have been wandering ever since. I'm either passing through Heldren when things go down, or I could've been living there a while. Both options work.
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I'm mostly done with the mechanics of my cleric, but I'm waiting to write the background (even the name) to try for some common backstory with someone. I'm thinking that I have a parent who is a cleric of Sarenrae, but I don't know of what ethnicity yet (this is flexible for the common backstory).
If in building your characters, you guys have some money you want to chip in to help buy a partial wand of cure light wounds, let me know.
GM, how are you planning on doing initiative moving forward? In your initial recruitment for the game, you said:
"Initiative is handled on a group basis, 1d20+(total pc initiative bonus/4) vs 1d20+(total enemy initiative/number of enemies)."
But then during our combat with the zombies you rolled initiative as normal. If you could give us a definitive ruling on that, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
This just hit me so take it or leave it. Rolg met Josie shortly after he left the north. He was mocking her small size and in the ensuing battle she handily beat him. That gained his respect. Having no other pressing matters he traveled with her. She taught him the common tongue (Taldane?) and they took on work as bodyguards. I like the idea of a half-giant and a gnome working together. What do you think?
And now we have our own secret code, nice. Now to decide which irl language to use for it...
So when does this redux kick off?
Considering I could've just been told by Chakacoatl to go to Heldren after saving Lorrimor instead of sticking around in the Carrion Crown area, I might have gone the caravan guard route and met up with them that way.
I certainly like the idea of Rolg being a brutish tag-along who speaks broken common. He's not quite as dumb as he looks and he'll use that to his advantage (reflecting his abilities to manipulate people via the mesmerist class features). I won't be writing a big long detailed character background for him as I've written several in the recent past and would prefer to keep his short and to the point.
Where does Josie's background put her? I've got Rolg fleeing the Realm of the Mammoth Lords south into Belkzen, and I was thinking he makes his way into Vigil in Lastwall. I haven't researched that area yet because I wanted to see where you envision the two characters crossing paths.
Here is a pretty great map I found that I've been using to plot his course. It's so hard to find a quality map of decent resolution that isn't cut up into smaller chunks. It has been very helpful.
Yeah, unfortunately the pathfinder wiki and maps of golarion are blocked for me at work. Ah, the pains of working on a military base!
I'll try to keep plugging away today. It's very hectic at work as we've having some serious network issues. This weekend is also looking to be quite busy, but maybe I can write a bit after we put the little one to bed.
Here is what I have written so far:
Rolg's profile has been updated with his character background. It is short and sweet and to the point. Feel free to take the reigns on where the duo travels to next Josie.
Is everyone still with us? Are we just waiting on Josie to finish her background and then to have a brief discussion on tying us all together? I just want ensure we're still moving forward.