Question about the character I'm cooking up, who is still a Gozren priest and has animal domain. He'll be getting an animal companion at 4th level, but in the time before that, I'm interested in giving him an animal that he's befriended along the way. I'll invest in Handle Animal for it and it'll be mundane until then, but I just wanted to make sure that was okay before committing to that. Once he hits 4, that would be the animal he would make his companion, assuming it wouldn't die before then.
Half-elf (Snowborn) oracle (spirit guide) 1/paladin (virtuous bravo) 1 (Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the High Court 12, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 106, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide 42)
LG Medium humanoid (elf, human)
Init +4; Senses low-light vision; Perception +2
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Defense
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AC 18, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+4 armor, +4 Dex)
hp 21 (2 HD; 1d8+1d10+6)
Fort +4 (+5 circumstance bonus vs. cold weather), Ref +4, Will +4; +2 vs. enchantments
Immune sleep
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee scimitar +5 (1d6+4/18-20)
Special Attacks smite evil 1/day (+3 attack, +0 AC, +1 damage)
Oracle Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st; concentration +4)
. . Constant—endure elements (cold only)
Paladin Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st; concentration +4)
. . At will—detect evil
Oracle (Spirit Guide) Spells Known (CL 1st; concentration +4)
. . 1st (4/day)—burning disarm (DC 14), cure light wounds, divine favor
. . 0 (at will)—detect magic, light, read magic, spark[APG] (DC 13)
. . Mystery Winter
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Statistics
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Str 11, Dex 18, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 17
Base Atk +1; CMB +1; CMD 15
Feats Dervish Dance[ISWG], Skill Focus (Survival)
Traits adaptive magic, winter warrior (irrisen)
Skills Diplomacy +7, Knowledge (arcana) +5, Knowledge (nature) +4, Perception +2, Perform (dance) +5, Survival +7; Racial Modifiers +2 Perception
Languages Aquan, Common, Elven, Skald
SQ bravo's finesse, elf blood, oracle's curse (tongues [aquan]), revelation (child of winter)
Combat Gear heatstone[ISWG], heatstone[ISWG]; Other Gear chain shirt, scimitar, bandolier[UE], bedroll, belt pouch, canteen[UE], cold weather outfit, masterwork backpack[APG], poncho[UE], silk rope (50 ft.), winter blanket, 780 gp, 4 sp
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Special Abilities
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Bravo's Finesse (Ex) Use Dex for att with light/1-hand pierce wep. Use Cha instead of Int for combat feat pre-reqs.
Child of Winter (Ex) Move freely on normal ice/snow (heavy snow is 2 squares) & no tracks. +2 Init & Ref in winter.
Dervish Dance Use Dex modifier instead of Str modifier with scimitar
Detect Evil (At will) (Sp) You can use detect evil at will (as the spell).
Elf Blood Half-elves count as both elves and humans for any effect related to race.
Elven Immunities - Sleep You are immune to magic sleep effects.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in dim light, distinguishing color and detail.
Smite Evil (1/day) (Su) +3 to hit, +1 to damage, +0 deflection bonus to AC when used.
Tongues (Aquan) You can only understand and speak one language in combat.
This is my submission here. 10 minute background follows tomorrow.
About Rumi:
1. Rumi is the child of an snow elven mother and an Irriseni ice wizard. The liasion was short lived - as even humans wizards are - due to the evil irriseni ways of her father. Even though her mother fell inlove with him and had hopes he might be different, she felt that this made her wither. Rumi being a bastard child gave her a bad start in the snow elven society and she had to be self reliant early on.
2. Feeling the evil ways of her father reflected in Irriseni culture and the xenophobic ways of the snow elves, where she was only tolerated, but never truly accepted, she searched for warmth in the numb endless cold and found it in Sarenraes calling.
3. Rumi has a strong desire to stand for what is right and good. Even though she misses having a father, she can see what he did to her mother and wants to change that.
4. Leaving home and wandering the plains was a logical step to find her true inner self as well as her fate. Even though she is self reliant, she is searching for a home and friends, what reflects the warmth of her godess.
5. Obviously she met a black rider, who gave her a mysterious quest, which she has now to follow, what brought her to this tower.
Goals:
1. Rumi wants to find her place in life and buid up true friendship.
2. If possible she would love to proof the snow elves wrong, who say that she can only bring bad luck as the child of an evil wizard and redeem her mother.
3. While she would love to meet her father in person, dreaming of redeeming him and changing his evil ways as well, she feels the duty to contain the evil of the winter witches personaly and show Irrisen the holy flame of Sarenrae, a light in the cold.
Secrets:
1. Rumi sometimes has problems with the "good" part and sticks a bit too much to what she thinks is right.
2. Even though she reveres Sarenraes ideals and holy flame, she is one with the cold and winter in her heart and needs to find her way there.
Together with 1. this is her personal challenge.
Close persons:
1. Her mother Velatha, who deeply loves her and defied the urges by society to abandon her as a baby and give her over to the snow. Struck by deep depression and outcast by her decisions, she is suffering.
2. Her father. Currently unknown to her, a blank and empty spot in her life. GM stuff.
3. If possible a priest of Sarenrae who told her about the faith.
Memories:
1. Rumi remembers other children playing, but being avoided by them, unable to participate.
2. Empty cold wastes of snow, seemingly endless, uncertainty wether they meant solitude or loneliness.
3. The warmth of a friendly fire and the laughter of her mother, singing to her and preparing food.
Development plans:
Character development is up to gameplay.
Mechanically i imagine taking the fire mystery as bonded spirit hex, expressing the faith to Sarenrae.
The mix between 2-4 levels of Paladin and the rest oracle provides a good balance between frontline power and healing as well as utility.
There are enough skill points in key skills as well as spells and abilities from the oracle mysteries.
The tongues curse will provide communication abilities over time.
Later i would love to take the flame blade dervish feat and use the flame blade spell in combat, very flavorfull for this character.
Hi All! I will be reviewing all submissions this evening and tomorrow morning and will select 1 or 2 characters to join us. Thank you for all of your hard work, and I apologize that I wasn't able to reply to every message--I got a wee bit under the weather the last two days.
Good luck to everyone
Ok, folks, I have decided. This was very difficult, as there were lots of strong submissions, with cool mechanics and backgrounds. If you weren't chosen, it's not because your character was 'bad', trust me. If something does happen to one of our beloved characters, I will certainly come back to reference this recruitment thread.
That being said, please join me in congratulating Ogon Magehunter and Orik Rostov to the game. Ogon and Orik, feel free to dot in and we can chat in Discussion to make sure we're all geared up. Thank you, everyone!
Congrats to the winners