And The Devil Will Drag You Under (Inactive)

Game Master nightdeath

I'm looking for 5-6 player's, who are scoundrels at heart, who want to join in an adventure on the high seas.

The Rules:
• Races: All standard races from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook will be allowed. Any other 0HD race will be considered on a case by case basis.
• Classes: All classes (Base and Prestige) and Archetypes from Paizo Publishing will be allowed. 3.5 or 3PP classes/archetypes will have to be approved by me prior to acceptance.
• Alignment: Characters can be of any alignment, but must be able to play well with others.
• Abilities: Characters will be based on the High Fantasy (20 point) buy, found in the PFRPG Core Rulebook on page 16. No ability can be raised higher than 18 (prior to racial modifiers). Only one ability may be lowered below 10 and that ability cannot be lowered below 8 (prior to racial modifiers).
• Feats: Any feat published by Paizo Publishing will be acceptable. Any 3.5 or 3PP material you wish to use will have to be approved by me prior to acceptance.
• Traits: Character's will start with two traits, one of which MUST be from the Skulls & Shackles Player's Guide.
• Hit Points: Characters will start out with Maximum hit points for their class at 1st level. Thereafter players may either roll for HP's or take the average (whichever is greater).
• Starting Gold: Characters will start with Maximum starting gold for their base class as found in the PFRPG Core Rulebook on page 140, the APG on page 26, UC on page 8, or in the UM on page 8.

Recruitment will close at 6:00 pm. (CDT) on Friday, September 27th.

Please feel free to PM me with any questions you may have.

I'll start making up a Ranger, Human, Possibly Falconer. What bird would be good for this? Parrot? (First time with Skulls and Shackles)

Would you allow the Undine race?

Working on a Sorceror, Stormborn or something of the like in the vein of a electricity-hurling storm-summoner.

An Undine will be fine.

Edited the original post to include a closing date for recruitment.

Scratch the Falconer Archetype. I'll just get a Shark at level 4.

Cool. Thanks! Then I got this guy I've had built for a while.

Sh'torek

Edit: I'll adjust his stats if selected. I'm aware of the 7 ability. I'd lower my CON by 1 to raise it up.

I've got a question... Would you allow the Scarred Witch Doctor, normally Orc only, to function for Half-orcs as well? The ARG states that racial archetypes can work fine with half-races as well, but only if the GM permits it.

I've got a fun character concept built around that, but if you don't want to allow it, then I have a back-up as well.

Yes, the Scarred Witch Doctor will work with Half orcs as well.

Let me clear up something regarding exotic races. While I don't want to limit anyone's creativity I do have a bias toward the more standard races. If two characters are mechanically similar I will tend to choose the standard race over the more exotic one. That being said, I do recognize this bias and tend to compensate for it. So feel free to post your builds as you see fit.

Ditto... That's why I'd rather stick with a Half-orc instead of full Orc. :)

Ooh. :) I gotta ask, what's the posting rate going to be like?

I'd like to shoot for at least once a day, but realistically it will probably be more likely 3-4 times a week.

*nods* I might try and post up a character on this. Would my familiarity with this AP be something you'd dislike?

I've only played through the game once, and only from a later point in the game.

As long as you can separate Player knowledge from Character knowledge then I have no problem.

Dotting, I'll try to whip up a bard later.

Oh absolutely. It's my favorite for a reason, and I can definitely separate. I will definitely come up with something good for this.

Thinking I might try a buccaneer archetype gunslinger. I am wondering, though, about the starting weapon. I know it says you start with either a blunderbuss, musket, or pistol. Is the pistol just a plain pistol? Or can it be a dragon pistol? :)

Regardless, I'm very much interested in this. :) Yay! It'll be my first chance to play a gunslinger in a setting that fits for one.

Working up a half orc Vivisectionist Alchemist. Be done in a few hours.

I'm going to have to say it's just a plain, vanilla, pistol.

Here's my submission for ThreeEyedSloth. :)

Alrighty. :) I definitely see him working towards a dragon pistol down the line. :)

Dotting for interest. I'll come up with a concept tonight after work.

Would you allow psionics and the maenad race from dreamscarred press (I have plans to reflavor the maenad to be humans who are much closer to the Azlanti then most humans)?

Unfortunately I do not have the Psionics book from Dreamscarred and do not wish to open a whole new subsystem that I am unfamiliar with, so I'm going to have to veto Psionics. Sorry.

Here is the Ranger, I'll get all of the crunch done later (on a tablet right now) so all there is right now is the back story.

Would you allow the Force Adept Magus Arcana from Rite Publishing, it's an arcana that expands the Spellblade archtype via adding telekinetic abilities which considering that the spellblade is about manipulating force makes sense.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/magus/magus-arcana/3rd-party-p ublishers/rite-publishing---magus-arcana/force-adept-sp

Force Adept looks fine.

Please consider Chumtooth for your crew.

The only thing that needs adjusting is his equipment, as he didn't use max starting gold (just average).

Assuming he is statistically acceptable, I'll buy him some more gear.

Let me know if he'll (potentially) work for your campaign.

Finished with the crunch. Thanks for Max. Gold!

I'll be submitting a Sea Reaver Half-orc soon. Just need to finish number crunching stuff. I have a great story written.

"Did somebody call for a doctor?" the lean man with short brown hair asks. "Well, I'm close enough as makes no matter." He pulls a saw from his belt. "Daddy was a carpenter. Out here on the high seas, it's my job to keep you alive. I'm no physician but I'm the best hope you've got."

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Here's my submission! Hope you enjoy it!

I built this character for a homebrew pirate game that went under. Revived for her a Skull & Shackles game on these boards that went under, as well. I can't remember what her point-buy is off the top of my head, but I'll check her when I get home tonight. Crunch-wise, she's a musket master gunslinger focused on heavy ranged support and high-dex hijinks. Fluff-wise, she's a disillusioned mercenary who only looks forward to one night stands and her next bottle of rum. Let me know what you think.

You built it with a 25 point buy. Just did the calculations. :)

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But I'll have my submission put in tomorrow.

At the Formidably Maid, a fairly inebriated man looks over the other seaworthy patrons as he takes another swig of rum. In a gruff, slurred voice, he mutters aloud to himself, "Arrr... T'plunder the dungbies 'at be sailin' Besmara's oggin once more..."

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I present Reijo Ilvonen for your consideration, freebooter extraordinaire. Played him in S&S twice before (once via PbP here), though we never got very far in either case. He's all set, except I need to add to his starting equipment (he was generated with average starting gold for the last run).

I've has this character written up for some time now. Just never submitted him because I wasn't sure of my chance. But here's a shot. Let me know what you think. The Backstory and everything is completely original. I'm hoping to get a chance to play him. I love immersing myself in the characters I create.

Okay, now that I'm home and on HeroLab, I've decided to adjust Aramis' stats as follows: drop cha to 10, and dex to 18. Doesn't gimp her build much, and still fits with what I had planned. I'll update the alias if she gets picked (or if I get bored, which could well happen).

I'd like to submit this character which was at one time in a homebrew PbP, now reworked for the Skulls and Shackles AP. I've always thought she was a good one, and have wanted to bring her back for something else.

Submitting this Oracle for a S&S game :)

Terz "Lux" to most. This character is from a previous S&S campaign that hit a reef.

Ferdinand is the bastard son of Ralish Kallinash, an infamous pirate operating out of Illizamagorti. His mother was an exotic dancer and raised him until the age of 10 at which point he was able to flee and became a pirate. The only skill his mother taught him was how to dance but he has been able to incorporate it into a rather unique fighting style. He does get his fair share of joking about style but no one can doubt it's deadliness. He has never actually met his father.

I am building a Half-Elven Rogue (Pirate archetype) Face with no THIEF training at all.

I am considering Bard, Fighter and Duelist multi-classing. For once, I'm far from positive how the build will advance and am planning to let the game play dictate that decision process instead of simply influencing it (which is my norm).

I mostly need to finish up gear purchasing, but I will do that later. Time to get away from the computer for a bit.

Fourth time is the charm, right? Maybe Isabella will actually get to sail this time.

Isabella has spent the last several months searching for her missing husband, taken in a raid by pirates. Her quest led her to Port Peril, where she was investigating a known pirate watering hole, the Formidably Maid. She was quenching her thirst and getting a lead on her husband's trail when something hit the back of her head, and everything went black.

"Dottin' fer interest. Yeah so I'ze gobbo, ya gots a problem vith zat, longshanks?"

No, I don't actually expect anyone to take a goblin gunslinger seriously... hopefully that's a mistake any enemies will make as well. However I will come up with a more considered character submission shortly. I just happened to have this profile already set up for a less serious S&S game. :)

Wow. Well, I see that half-elven Rogue (Pirate) submissions seem to be all the rage. Drat. That has got to hurt my chances pretty seriously.

Oh, well. I like the character concept, how I've tied it into the setting, and the opportunities that these ties provide for making things more complicated later. Hopefully that will help my submission stand out from all the similar builds.

I do not really know much more about the story than how it starts. Searching for names found on the Golarion Wiki, I found a website with some information (no stats, at least not that I saw) on quite a few NPCS from this AP. I had the core of my story before I found that site. It just let me round things out a little bit.

I will make an alias if selected.

Without further ado:

Terry of Quent, Half-Elf Rogue (Pirate)

That I see in the above, there have been 15 characters submitted so far (including "Big Ears" who seems destined to be replaced with a different submission).

I guessed at character intent for the full BAB progression builds based on what you reported the best attack bonuses for and how well armed your character appears for ranged combat.

Fully 1/3 of the submissions (5 of 15) are not core races.

I'm GUESSING at:
3 Melee
4 Ranged
1 Mixed
3 Casters (all of which CAN be healers, 2 of which can be arcane damage dealers)
4 Skill characters, 3 of which are pretty similar builds (slightly different focus for each, of course)

Not knowing any more about what's going on inside the GM's head than anyone else, I'm guessing that casters are the least competitive category right now.

I think I would like to submit a character for this game. I am making a human sorcerer with the djinni bloodline. I think it would work nicely.

I will spend some time on a background and use hero lab to do the crunch. I will post a background in the next day or so.

Here is No-Eyes Bellamy.

Throwing my hat in the ring here, with a half-elven cleric of Besmara.

Created Rickard for a different Skull & Shackles, but I've shaped him up to meet your character guidelines. He's a two-weapon human rogue of the strong-and-silent variety.

Rickard, your point buy is 25 points, not 20. Just FYI.