So I've gotten a bee in my bonnet to make use of this rather good computer and do something special for people and good for the community as a whole.
Essentially what I wish to do is much what is done here. Take people's submitted characters from their actual games and help make them mechanically more viable either to fit their particular vision better, do more damage, or simply have a more solid concept of what they're trying to do. The difference being it's more of a one on one session over skype which I record and put on youtube for the benefit of others.
I'm mostly looking to do interesting concepts, complicated characters, odd houserules, or help people solve group issues and weaknesses through their characters.
For those interested click on the spoiler below.
I will take any pathfinder character. However the character in question must be either from a real game or intended to be used in a real game in the near future. Send any submissions to my email at tarkxt@gmail.com under the tag "Basement Character Submission".
In the submission include your Skype id, The answers to the questions below and the character sheet provided either in Word or PDF. I will not accept files outside of these formats. I will look at sheets posted on websites like Obsidian Portal or dndsheets.net.
The questions are as follows regarding your sheet.
What is your character supposed to do?
What Classes are the rest of your group? (The more I know about this the better)
What were the rules for making this character including what books were allowed?
Are there any specific houserules I should know about?
What is the general theme of the campaign?
Here are some guidelines that will help your character get selected:
Interesting concepts, characters under strange houserules, twists on classic cliche's, complex characters, characters who have lived for a long while and need a good fresh restart, or well written characters in need of good polish.
IF you wish to have your character outright rejected here are those guidelines:
Characters that are grossly incomplete (having not selected a few things is fine), characters that are simply wrong/against the rules, characters you want to use to break the game/make the gm cry, cookie cutter characters, boring characters, joke characters, or characters that already start with a ridiculously weak premise. I will also not accpet characters with one tiny problem like "I can't decide on one feat" you have a perfectly good forum here to do that on.
IF selected I'll go through the character to make some notes before the session. It shouldn't take longer than 45 minutes all told with about 15 to 30 minutes of recording. A mic is of course required (this is a talky session afterall) so if you don't have one of those don't expect much.
In any case thank you for your submission and hope to be speaking with you soon.
Ultimately I want to post the results here for others to view an add their input for better or worse. I think a lot of good info can be condensed and conveyed in such a manner. If enough viable entries come flowing in I would like to make these a weekly event. Only time will tell.