Fairy Tail to Pathfinder Conversion: Gildharts


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So I have some new players who want to play pathfinder. They all have there characters done and they are all cocky. I need someone to put them in there place, no one other than the Biggest Bad-ass on the Fairy Tail Block, Gildarts. I want him at level 20 just to knock there characters around a bit, nothing too crazy... O.K. Crazy Please! But on a serious note I'm unsure on what class to use.


I looked up Gildarts and pretty much stopped trying to think of something after I got to his Crash magic. You're just not going to be able to replicate that. In addition, building a DMPC just to show your players that they're characters aren't the coolest, strongest people around(even if they really aren't) isn't going to end well. Why are their characters even there if someone so much stronger is around? Just pay him to do it.

I know if any GM of mine did something like this I'd stop playing for the night. Deliberately setting me up to fail just to show off? Yeah, I'll go watch TV instead.

I apologize for not being helpful in the sense of suggesting builds or class. Good luck with this.


Azten wrote:

I looked up Gildarts and pretty much stopped trying to think of something after I got to his Crash magic. You're just not going to be able to replicate that. In addition, building a DMPC just to show your players that they're characters aren't the coolest, strongest people around(even if they really aren't) isn't going to end well. Why are their characters even there if someone so much stronger is around? Just pay him to do it.

I know if any GM of mine did something like this I'd stop playing for the night. Deliberately setting me up to fail just to show off? Yeah, I'll go watch TV instead.

I apologize for not being helpful in the sense of suggesting builds or class. Good luck with this.

Its not actually to beat them its simply to set the ark of the new story. He was created to just take damage but know I want him in the literal sense. I understand and I would agree to stop playing for that night, but with as stubborn and as surprisingly well made there characters are, they would go for it even if i told them his level. I simply want it for future use. not to be a jackass GM and kill them or beat the shit out of them. He would show up time to time just to draw them towards the next part of there adventure. I should have explained it better in the original thread.

Also the crash magic is what stumped me in the first place, as im not exactly the best with spells in the first place, let alone a high level Character.


Killing player characters or beating them is not being a jackass DM. PCs die. PCs get beaten.
PCs are NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN the biggest baddest things around.
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UNTIL they earn that title. PCs BECOME the biggest, baddest things around. Until they are, they will always be at risk of dying.

Otherwise, they aren't heroes.

RE: Gildarts.

The closest thing you're going to come to recreating him using standard Pathfinder rules would, I think, be a Aether Kineticist with the Elemental Ascetic archtype. iirc Gildarts doesn't have ranged attacks. If he does, then maybe an Elemental Annihilator (again focus on Aether), but take Kinetic Fist and use it a lot.

If you want to get to the ridiculous levels of power he has, maybe a few Mythic levels.

As for his standard combat, give him the Pummeling Style feat tree. I don't remember him being particularly subtle in combat.


I don't know if it would help, but you might want to try Spheres of Power. It offers a lot more fine control in customising how you want a spellcaster to feel.


Natan Linggod 327 wrote:

Killing player characters or beating them is not being a jackass DM. PCs die. PCs get beaten.

PCs are NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN the biggest baddest things around.
.
.
.
UNTIL they earn that title. PCs BECOME the biggest, baddest things around. Until they are, they will always be at risk of dying.

Otherwise, they aren't heroes.

RE: Gildarts.

The closest thing you're going to come to recreating him using standard Pathfinder rules would, I think, be a Aether Kineticist with the Elemental Ascetic archtype. iirc Gildarts doesn't have ranged attacks. If he does, then maybe an Elemental Annihilator (again focus on Aether), but take Kinetic Fist and use it a lot.

If you want to get to the ridiculous levels of power he has, maybe a few Mythic levels.

As for his standard combat, give him the Pummeling Style feat tree. I don't remember him being particularly subtle in combat.

Thanks a lot, I dont have all that much experience in the Table-top RP in the first place. I didn't know this class existed and that really jumps over the Crash Magic Gap. Thanks again!


No worries mate

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