Young Human Character


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I love creating characters, most of which I end up never using in actual game play. It's more of an intellectual/creativity exercise for me. Right now, I'm thinking about making a Human character using the Younger Character rules in Ultimate Campaign, and homeruling it so I can have a PC class. I was thinking either the Feral Child racial druid archtype in ARG, or the Wild Child brawler archtype in ACG.

My question is, what does anybody else think? Any ideas of how to make it possible/not completely underpowered? The minimum age I want is 12, and the animal companion is either a small cat or ape.

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I'll go brawler Wild Child, take the human alternate trait: Eye for Talent, yeah it replaces your bonus feat but whatever, you don't need that many feats anyway.

Focus on ranged combat (point blank shot, rapid shot etc...), since you will suffer melee combat wise due to the penalties but, on the other hand, your animal companion would be good enough to do the melee for you. The ability to switch hunter tricks and use the skirmisher archetype tricks instead of martial flexibility would come quite in handy.


That's kind of what I was thinking of, probably going to use a sling or maybe a thrown weapon (isn't there a feat to use Dex instead of Str for thrown? Or is it that way naturally and the feat works the opposite?). And I can't remember, but does being Young lower your size or do you stay as the base size of an adult member of your race?

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It doesn't but the young template does lower the size, the ultimate campaign rule on the other hand, doesn't do the same. There is probably a feat to use dex instead of str for thrown, but blanking out right now.


For the feat, I can't remember if it was 3.5 only, or if they ported it in for Pathfinder. For the weapon, I might take either Martial Weapon Proficiency or Exotic for a ranged weapon. Maybe go for a shortbow or something.

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Martial Proficiency most likely, shortbow is good enough, since you don't want to be too far away from your Animal companion, so it can hear and follow your orders. I don't think there is really an exotic ranged weapon worth taking beside repeater crossbow.


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Personally, I think the young creature simple template is inappropriate for 0-HD races, so going with the rules from Ultimate Campaign looks better to me.h


I was thinking Exotic more for thrown weapons, but a shortbow would be perfectly suited for my character. Only thing I don't like is that I wouldn't be using the unarmed damage progression for the brawler, which would deal more damage than a shortbow. Wish there was a way to use it with other weapons. Maybe in some future book or something.

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Well unarmed strike progression can come in handy in the rare instances when you will have to go melee or maybe get jumped on by surprise. Plus casters/buffers in your party, can offset the racial penalties.


That's true. So if I go for Eye for Talent and MWP, what should my next two feats be? Most of my characters are built at level 5, which is the standard starting level for my home campaigns, or at my currently used character level, and I'm wanting to go for 5th level starter.

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Point blank shot, precise shot and whenever you can deadly aim.

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