dotting as shaman
OK, so here's what's been submitted so far:
Davachido - Monk/Swashbuckler
WerePox47 - Slayer
BinkyBo - Investigator
Paladin of Baha-who? - Warpriest
Qunnessaa - Warpriest
The Dragon - Hunter
Azure_Zero - Bloodrager
Sir Culer - Bloodrager
Dotted, but with no submission:
Alex Mack - Slayer
Lord Thasmudyan - Investigator
Devilfluff - Arcanist
Blk4ce - Arcanist or Investigator
JustJacqui - Shaman
I'll leave submissions open, mostly because I won't have time to get things started for a couple of days. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Dex: 20
Con: 14
Int: 12
Wis: 15
Cha: 9
Human, Male, CG
Medium
Initiative: 5
Concentration: 1
Senses: Normal vision
Land Speed: 30ft
Health: 84/84
[spoiler=Defense]AC: 28
Touch: 21
Flat-Footed: 21
Fort: 12
Ref: 15
Will: 8
CMD: 30
-Grapple: 34
-Disarm: 31
CMB: 15/10
-Grapple: 19/14
-Disarm: 16/11
Attack: 17/12 (15/15/10/10)
Damage: 1d10+10/1d10+8
Crit: x2
Acrobatics: 18 (3+5+10)
Climb: 18 (3+5+10)
Heal: 12 (0+2+10)
Intimidate: 19 (3+6+10)
Perception: 15 (3+2+10)
Sense Motive: 15 (3+2+10)
+3 Mithral Chainshirt
+4 AC
+6 Max Dex
Belt of Physical Might, +2 str/con
Cloak of Resistance +3
Ring of Protection +2
Headband of Inspired Wisdom +2
Amulet of Mighty Fists +1
Dusty Rose Prism +1 insight to AC
Deep Red Sphere: +1 Dex
Smuggler’s Wayfinder
Unarmed Strike: 1d10
Brawler’s Flurry
Maneuver Training
Grapple: +2 to CMB/CMD
Disarm: +1 to CMB/CMD
AC Bonus: +2 to AC and CMD
Brawler Strike: Magic/Cold Iron/Silver
Dual Talent
Traits:
Indomitable Faith
Bruising Intellect: Int for Intimidate instead of Cha
Feats:
Improved Unarmed Strike
1st Weapon Focus (Fist)
2nd Intimidating Prowess
3rd Dragon Style
5th Weapon Specialization (Fist)
5th Eclectic
7th Improved Grapple
9th Stunning Fist
Basher is a man who, despite working for people that regularly stick their noses into danger and mystery, often finds himself on the receiving end of more than his fair share of blades, claws, bows and situations that would make an oracle scratch their head. Somehow his penchant for beating things into submission and being able to scare the pants off most things has seen him through the incredible danger he faces regularly.
He refers to his life as a statistical anomaly as he is smart enough to know that the odds are always against him and some of that attitude spills into how he handles situations. As far as he is concerned, he should have died many times before now. As such he may as well enjoy his borrowed time as best he can, even while wandering into the Worldwound at the behest of the mucky-mucks up top. He has punched demons before, they have got arms to twist and noses to break too. If he does some good while risking his neck out there, even better.
His face, while not unhandsome, is certainly not pretty either. His blocky features make him seem like a simple brute but his eyes are bright, clear and worryingly perceptive. Launching himself into battle repeatedly with only his hands has left its mark on him and it seems that no matter where you look, another scar hovers on the edge of your vision. His nose has been broken before and healed slightly crooked and a notch has been taken out of his ear.
Here's my submission a Slayer sporting a Wolf animal companion and using the combo of Paired Opportunist, Outflank, Opportunist and high criting weapons to hopefully dish out crazy many attacks of opportunity.
Dimitri was born in the uncivilized lands in the lower reaches of Brevoy, a harsh land that harbors a harsh people. His father was a hunter and trapper and from him he learned to walk the forest and the tundra, to shoot a bow and how to defend himself against wild beasts and wilder men.
When Dimitri was a teenager a drunken Marshall stabbed his father in a petty dispute. Dimitri swore revenge and two years later sought the man out in Restov. Having killed a man of the Baron he had to get out of Brevoy and headed south, first to the River Kingdoms and south to Varisia. Here he began to eek out a living for himself as a scout and caravan guard. But this was not enough for the young exile and he soon joined the pathfinder society where he has risen to become an elite agent over the last ten years.
CN Human Slayer 10
STR 12 (2)
DEX 22 (17) (Levels)
CON 14 (5)
INT 8 (-2)
WIS 12 (2)
CHA 7 (-4)
Traits:
Birthmark: +2 trait Bonus versus compulsion, mind affecting.
Watching Taldor: +1 to initiative. Draw weapon as free action in surprise round.
Feats& Slayer Talents
1 TWF
1 HB: Nature Soul
2 Finesse
3 Combat Reflexes
4 WF: Kukri
5 Animal Ally
6 Surprise Attack
7 Boon Companion
Alertness (Animal Companion)
8 Outflank
9 Paired Opportunist
10 Advaned Talent: Opportunist
Class Abilities:
Track
Sneak Attack +3d6
3rd Favored Target
Skills:
Acrobatics +19
Perception +18
Stealth +19
Survival +10
Knowledge Local +6
Equipment (tentative):
+1 Keen Kukri (x2)
Wolf Animal companion
Bodyguard Archetype
STR 24 Dex 16 CON 20 WIS INT 3 CHA 6 WIS 12
Init +3 AC 22 HP 85 Fort +11 Ref +9 Wil +4 CMB +14 CMD 27
Attack +14/+9 (1d8+10)
Feats: Alertness, Power Attack, Combat Reflexes, WF: Bite, Paired Opportunist, Outflank
Abilities:
Shared vigilance: AC and master gain Alertness
Tenacious Guardian: bodyguard can always act in a surprise round (though it remains flat-footed until it acts). As long as its master is adjacent, a bodyguard remains conscious (though it becomes staggered) when its hit points fall below 0. While below 0 hit points, the bodyguard loses 1 hit point per round but gains a +2 morale bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, and skill checks, dying only if its hit points reach a negative total equal to its Constitution score plus its master's class level.
Uncanny Dodge
Skills: Acrobatics +15
I'm actually hoping someone will submit a Shaman, because you could use a healer, and it seems like one of the more complicated classes.
Hello again! I'm still most interested in trying for a spot for a warpriest, but if it comes down to having to decide between mine and Paladin of Baha-who?'s, I'm willing to let him have the warpriest spot and try a skald, most of whom is ready below, except for things that are more or less likely to be influenced by gear. I'm posting directly in the thread because I don't want to generate an alias yet that I'm less likely to find a use for in the long run.
Alcibie Ligeia
Elf Skald 10
CG Medium Humanoid (Elf)
Init +2 Senses low-light vision; Perception +14
AC X, touch X, flat-footed X (+X armor, +2 Dex)
hp 78 (10d8 + 25)
Fort +X, Ref +X, Will +X (+2 to saves vs. enchantment spells and effects)
Defensive Abilities: Immune magic sleep effects
Speed 30 ft. (20 ft. with encumbrance)
Melee
Ranged
Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.
Skald Spells Known (CL 10; concentration +13)
4th (1/day, DC 17)- dimension door, kiss of the First World
3rd (4/day, DC 16)- arcane concordance (CL 11), confusion, good hope, haste
2nd (5/day, DC 15)- blistering invective, blur, calm emotions, pyrotechnics, sound burst
1st (6/day, DC 14)- charm person, cure light wounds, ear-piercing scream, grease, moment of greatness
0 (at will)- dancing lights, detect magic, mage hand, mending, message, read magic
Str 14, Dex 15, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 8, Cha 17
Base Atk +7/+2; CMB +9; CMD 21
Feats Arcane Strike, Improved Critical (rapier), Lingering Performance, Scribe Scroll, Toughness, Weapon Focus (rapier)
Skills Acrobatics +15, Diplomacy +11, Intimidate +16, Knowledge (arcana) +15, Knowledge (planes) +15, Perception +14, Perform (string) +16, Spellcraft +10, Use Magic Device +11
Languages Celestial, Common, Elven, Sylvan
Traits
Gifted Adept (arcane concordance): Your interest in magic was inspired by witnessing a spell being cast in a particularly dramatic method, perhaps even one that affected you physically or spiritually. This early exposure to magic has made it easier for you to work similar magic on your own. Pick one spell when you choose this trait—from this point on, whenever you cast that spell, its effects manifest at +1 caster level.
Unorthodox Strategy: You are particularly quick on your feet, and gain a +2 trait bonus on Acrobatics checks made to move through an enemy’s threatened squares.
Bardic Knowledge (Ex): A skald adds half her class level (minimum 1) on all Knowledge skill checks, and may make all Knowledge skill checks untrained.
Well-Versed (Ex): At 2nd level, the skald becomes resistant to sonic effects. The skald gains a +4 bonus on saving throws made against bardic performance, as well as sonic and language-dependent effects.
Lore Master (Ex): At 7th level, the skald becomes a master of lore, and can choose to take 10 on any Knowledge skill check that she has ranks in. Once per day, the skald can take 20 on any Knowledge skill check as a standard action. She can use this ability one additional time per day for every six levels she possesses beyond 5th, to a maximum of three times per day at 17th level.
Skaldic performance: 15 rounds/day
Starting a raging song is a standard action, but it can be maintained each round as a free action. A raging song cannot be disrupted, but it ends immediately if the skald is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action each round to maintain it. A raging song counts as the bard’s bardic performance special ability for any effect that limits bardic performances, such as how many can be maintained at once.
A raging song is language-dependent with audible components, but not visual components. Affected allies must be able to hear the skald for the song to have any effect. A deaf skald has a 20% chance to fail when attempting to use a raging song. If she fails this check, the attempt still counts against her daily limit. Deaf creatures are immune to raging songs.
When the raging song begins, each ally within range must decide whether to accept or refuse the effects of the raging song (this is not an action); unconscious allies automatically accept the song. Once this choice is made, it lasts until the song ends or the ally moves out of range (returning to the area allows the ally to decide again); the raging allies cannot decide to end the rage on their own.
Allies with 30 feet gain a +2 morale bonus to Strength and Constitution and a +1 morale bonus on Will saves, but also take a –1 penalty to AC. While under the effects of skald rage, allies (other than the skald) cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration. Affected allies are fatigued for 1 round after they’re no longer affected by the song (whether because the skald stops maintaining the song or because they’re no longer in range). At 4th level and every four levels thereafter, the song’s bonuses on Will saving throws increase by 1; the penalty to AC doesn’t change. At 8th and 16th levels, the song’s bonus to Strength and Constitution increase by 2.
At 7th level, a skald can start a raging song as a move action instead of a standard action. At 13th level, a skald can start a raging song as a swift action.
This is a sonic mind-affecting fear effect, and it relies on audible components. A skald may not use dirge of doom and raging song simultaneously.
At 11th level, a skald can use this ability twice per day. At 17th level, she can use this ability three times per day.
When using raging song, the skald chooses which rage power to add to the song, and all affected allies gain the benefit of that rage power. The skald uses her skald level as her barbarian level for the purpose of selecting rage powers which require a minimum barbarian level.
If a rage power can only be used a certain number of times per rage (such as no escape), each ally affected by the raging song can use the rage power once during the raging song.
If the skald has a rage power from another source, she (but not her allies) can use those rage powers during a raging song. She cannot select a duplicate rage power, unless that rage power can be taken multiple times.
If the skald has the ability to rage from another source, she can use her skald rage powers during that rage.
The skald learns another rage power at 6th level and every three levels thereafter. She may add multiple rage powers from this ability to a raging song at the same time.
Superstition (Ex): The barbarian gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws made to resist spells, supernatural abilities, and spell-like abilities. This bonus increases by +1 for every 4 levels the barbarian has attained. While raging, the barbarian cannot be a willing target of any spell and must make saving throws to resist all spells, even those cast by allies.
Spirit Totem, Lesser (Su): While raging, the barbarian is surrounded by spirit wisps that harass her foes. These spirits make one slam attack each round against a living foe that is adjacent to the barbarian. This slam attack is made using the barbarian's full base attack bonus, plus the barbarian's Charisma modifier. The slam deals 1d4 points of negative energy damage, plus the barbarian's Charisma modifier.
Spirit Totem (Su): While raging, the spirits that surround the barbarian make it difficult for her enemies to see her. The spirits grant the barbarian a 20% miss chance against ranged attacks and melee attacks made by creatures that are not adjacent to the barbarian (typically due to reach). A barbarian must have the lesser spirit totem rage power to select this rage power. A barbarian must be at least 6th level to select this rage power.
Alcibie has a knack for getting in over her head. For whatever reason – a satisfactory one escapes her to this day – she has always been prone to extremes of emotion that seem to exceed those of most people around her. This has its advantages when she loses herself in the music she conjures from her harp, but an embarrassment when she loses her temper. It is so much the worse because she does not reject the elven values of serenity and delicacy, and dreads whispers behind her back that despite her light touch on the strings, or her skill in magic, she is still the girl who threw this, that, and such and such a tantrum. Over long decades, she has learned to control her anger, especially: not to ignore it or easily dissipate it, but to forge it into a cold fury that can give her dangerous focus and determination. Learning to rein in her worst impulses has also helped Alcibie gain an instinct for the words that can incite others to anger, from her first experiments in confining her paroxysms of rage to the toxic darts of a poisonous tongue. If she finds she cannot cow the objects of her displeasure with well-honed invective, she is usually able to encourage herself by belittling their talents or recalling the outrages done her.
Nonetheless, Alcibie still feels guilty about how easily she can be tempted into nursing her anger, and continues to work on improving her temper, travelling ever further afield from her home in Varisia’s Mierani Forest to find a way to hold on to inner peace. After a dangerous but cathartic tour through the musical academies and opera houses of Cheliax, in which she tested the depths of her darker emotions, she continued on over the Inner Sea to Absalom, hoping to earn the opportunity to hone her skills at the renowned bardic college of the White Grotto. The school was wonderful, but the confines of the metropolis proved stifling to one used to the isolation of the woods at the western edge of the world, and so she was easily convinced to give the Pathfinders a sympathetic ear when some more idealistic members suggested opportunities for fighting the good fight in ways other than brute force, but which also appreciated the value of righteous wrath. She accepted the invitation, and has started on a roundabout route back to the untamed regions near her home where she hopes to do some good while uncovering something interesting and continuing to soothe her angry heart.
I'm planning a shaman for another pbp group... but I suppose I could switch them.
I'm actually hoping someone will submit a Shaman, because you could use a healer, and it seems like one of the more complicated classes.
The hunter and the Investigator with the Infusion Talent can both heal reasonably well. If we put some of our resources into Wands of Cure Light and a few other emergency potions and such, we should be fine.
RainyDayNinja, I posted a Bloodrager build near the end of the first page of the thread.
OK, I'm going to go ahead and close submissions. Here's the team roster:
- The Swashbuckler With No Name (Davachido)
- Barlo Balfori, Investigator (BinkyBo)
- Kuwabara Kasei, Warpriest (Paladin of Baha-who?)
- Arae Garven, Hunter (The Dragon)
- Alcibie Ligeia, Skald (Qunnessaa)
- Lorkov Petulankor, Bloodrager (Sir Culer)
To those who got in, congratulations! You can go ahead and make aliases, buy all your gear (62,000 gp apiece), and put the relevent info (Race Class HP XX/XX | AC XX | T XX | FF XX | CMD XX | Fort +X | Ref +X | Will +X | Init +X | Perc +X | Sense Motive +X) in your "Class/Levels" box for easy reference. Here are a few expectations for the game:
-Since this is a playtest, you all have to promise to pop in at the Playtest forum when you're done (or earlier) and report your experience.
-Because it's on a time limit, I want to keep things moving at a good clip. I'll roll everyone's Initiative, Perception, Sense Motive, etc. when you need to make a reactive check. Try to post every day.
-Be explicit with what you do with your actions, especially when you use a mechanic from the playtest material
While you're doing your shopping and such, I'll get the Gameplay thread started with the opening narration, and you can ask questions, make Knowledge checks, etc.
Good gaming to those that got in.
Bugger, and I'd just finished sorting out my Heavenly-Life Shaman D:
Because yes, it is a complicated class to make, with Spirit, Spirit Magic, Hexes, Wandering Hexes, Wandering Spirits and then basic cleric spells all being different...
I was also going to ask how ability scores are increased as levels progress, because I noted that some characters had ability scores not possible to achieve through 20 buy point originally and couldn't find it anywhere.
Have a good game guys!
Ability scores increase by +1 to one score of your choice every 4 levels.