GM Raltus' Demon Hunting

Game Master Raltus

The World wound Pours forth Demons of every kind, the Storm King has made and attempt on the Ward Stones once before and our Intel tells us that he will likely do so again but who knows when. We seek knights, Paladins and all those whom would serve in the 5th Crusade heading into the World wound to drive back the Demonic presence, and close the festering wound that has destroyed Sarkoris.

[b][/bigger]Recruitment is open for 1 week closing on Sunday Jan 7th at 11:59:59 EST [/bigger][/bg]

I realize I am opening this on New Years Eve here in Canada but I find recruitments that run to long tend to get a bit much. I am running a game for some friends and am playing in some so this will be my first AP recruitment and 2nd overall on these forums.

For the 25 point buy, is it still max hp at first level, and roll after that?

Yes as per the PF normal.

In that case I will submit this guy, an Aasimar crusader cleric of Iomedae who was built for another thread, but I've quickly retooled with 25 point buy

I forgot Traits:

1 Campaign Trait try to tie it to your backstory and 1 regular trait. You can take a Draw Back for a third trait but it must be tied into your back story.

Money is Half for your Class, so if you roll 5d6 or max of 300 gold you start with 150 gold

When you say common races, does that mean Core? Also, are Tieflings out completely, or just “be warned, some townsfolk won’t like you”? I’ve got a Tiefling Magus from another Wrath recruitment that ended recently I could tweak to fit these rules pretty easily. If Tieflings are out I can still use him, it’ll just take more retooling.

Submitting this character, just need to make him 20 point buy. And will variant multiclass oracle for life mystery and legalistic curse.

Dwarven Aasimar Hospitaler Paladin with Oath of the Crusade

Also can I keep my Alternate SLA? I can link to the roll from other thread. It just feels really Dwarven :)

Gold: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 4, 6, 4) = 21

Ok, fixed the kit so that I'm within a 120gp spending limit. Thank god I hadn't spent all of the original 210 gp so I didn't have that much to cut

Tieflings are in but as you said people may not like you right away or at all, yes To Core sorry I checked this a few times and must have missed that.

@ Khaz the spell resistance once? I am ok with that.

Thank you. :)

Was very happy to have rolled it, as it feels perfect for a Dwarven Aasimar.

Ooh, Aasimar/Tieflings can roll on the variant ability chart?

Lets say once, but you have to take the roll even if you don't like it.

Eh, I'm planning on using the 25 point buy. Rolling my HP is enough chance for me. Besides, not many of the Tiefling options beat a prehensile tail.

Are we allowed the variant heritages as well? I assume so since the table is fair game. :)

I'll take 25pt buy and rolled HP I think - Mythic has enough rocket tag already that the HP won't matter much one way or another.

I've never had the chance to play Wrath, I've GMed the first module. I'd love to see if I can come up with a character for this.

I like the Variant Heritages since they change the races from Stock Aasamir or Tiefling to something unique and they can be RP'd differently.

Hrm... I think I might try conjuring up an eldritch knight of Aroden. Gimme some time to hammer out the details and come up with something!

Several years ago I started this campaign. Then I had my job absorb me far more than I would like and I fell off the boards completely.

I have a different job, now, and no fear of anything like that happening again.

Need to rework the character . . .. Already a 20 point build, but 2nd level Rogue instead of 1st level Unchained Rogue. No Background Skills, no Draw Back (infamous seems very appropriate, actually), need to rework to lower cash flow, and I have no idea what you mean by the new disease/poison rules. Also not sure if I should trade HP certainty for the permanent stat bump.

Archery Rogue is not in my normal build path, but the original background just makes it make sense. Already has more background than your target, but the background keeps it easy to stay true to the original concept.

New poison/Disease track

It just makes them make sense and more deadly.

I missed out on the last Wrath recruitment a few days ago, so here is the character I've built:

Godwyn Clearwater, human paladin (mind sword) of Iomedae

Godwyn is a philosopher-warrior. He believes that fighting to defend people is important, but that fighting the hordes of the Abyss with swords and armies is just fighting the symptom of a larger problem, and that you can't hack-and-slash the Worldwound closed. As a result he thinks a lot about ways to encourage people to do better, to be better, to make humanity and its allies better so that they can stand against the Abyss by standing together for common cause. He believes that the problems of corrupt crusaders, criminals, and cultists are just as much a hindrance as the demons of the Worldwound. He also believes that systemic poverty and inequality contribute as much to suffering, misery, and ultimately the rise of evil in the world as the machinations of supernatural entities.
As a result, Godwyn is not a "toe the line hardcase" paladin, but rather one who ruminates and reasons to figure out the best way to solve problems not just to protect people and defeat evil in the moment, but to provide long-term solutions. He won't shy from combat when it's called for, and he'll smite a demon just as well as anyone else, but he also thinks it's important to foster compassion, charity, justice, mercy, tolerance, and other similar characteristics.
Godwyn is empathetic and a good judge of character, and he was raised with the fanciful and heroic tales of the church of Iomedae and took them to heart in spite of his hard, poverty-stricken childhood. For his early adult life he was essentially an assistant to a retired mercenary crusader, so he didn't come to his paladin's calling until later in life than many - at this time, he is 30 years old.

Godwyn is a good listener and a conciliatory figure who is more likely to try to build consensus and defuse tensions than to argue or try to force people to do things "the one true way."
He could have character ties with other crusaders or clerics, connections from childhood in Kenabres, or might be a mentor figure to someone.

Godwyn is also psychically sensitive (he has the Psychic Sensitive feat) and as a Mind Sword he has a small selection of psychic abilities. This allows him to use certain occult skill unlocks, including Reading Auras, Prognostication, Hypnotism, and Faith Healing.

In terms of party role he is a reasonable front line melee fighter and he has some good resistance to a variety of mental conditions, with the eventual ability to cure those kinds of debuffs on the party (including nasty conditions like shaken or confused, at higher levels), and his Faith Healing skill unlock lets him do some emergency downtime healing in a pinch. He also has a decent Diplomacy score.

Always up for character connections if anyone is interested. Godwyn's info is all in the alias above.

A little bit about me: I'm a regular player and DM on the boards, so I'm not going to disappear suddenly. I like strong role-play, but I prefer cooperative games over competitive ones - I like working with a team to advance the story. When playing a paladin, I try to avoid causing unnecessary trouble for the group, and instead prefer to negotiate as a player with the rest of the party to figure out the best way for scenes to unfold when we have moral conflicts. I like having connections with other players and opportunities for us to help each other explore our characters' foibles and issues.

I'm noting interest. I've applied to another game right now, but I'm not very certain in being recruited for it. I can't commit to two games, so if I don't make that one, I'll be submitting lastinute for this one, of that's alright.

Reworked. Took the 25 point build. Carrying capacity sold me on it, actually.

Disease/Poison rules look interesting.

PC connections are easy with Terry. You've been assigned to watch over the traitor before he goes to the front lines, probably because you're going to have to work with him! I don't think that's the kind of connection you had in mind, Jesse, but, hey.

I have a character from a previous game that is based pretty heavily on a few spoilers I know about the general plot of the AP, but I've never played more than the first encounter or two. The general idea is a demon-born tiefling shadow oracle with the Touched by Divinity campaign trait, linked to a certain demon lord with ambitions of ascending who appears in person in one of the later books...but without her (the character's) knowledge, which goes somewhat against the wording of the trait. Since we didn't get far enough for it to matter, would this be problematic? I'd like to think that it wouldn't, since the previous GM allowed it, but he also lost all interest in the game by the time recruitment finished (example post: "You see a room.") and disappeared almost immediately, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reworked. Took the 25 point build. Carrying capacity sold me on it, actually.

Disease/Poison rules look interesting.

PC connections are easy with Terry. You've been assigned to watch over the traitor before he goes to the front lines, probably because you're going to have to work with him! I don't think that's the kind of connection you had in mind, Jesse, but, hey.

That's actually right up Godwyn's alley, Terry, since he's a good judge of character and the kind of paladin who believes that it's important to win people over and convince them to be better rather than just to charge headlong into fights.

Probably stands a low chance of getting selected, but I think a mythic gnome illusionist vs demon hoards sounds like much fun. Getting something together with Riftwarden campaign trait.

@Jesse - My planned Eldritch Knight is actually going to be of noble descent and raised by his uncle after his parents were lost on a mission into the Worldwound. He's going to start as a sword binder wizard and probably grab a level in ranger before returning to wizard and finally prestige into EK.

In terms of backstory, Godwyn might have been one of his sparring partners growing up under the mercenary's tutoring. Considering they both would have access to the Hand of the Apprentice ability, maybe Godwyn picked it up watching Colt do it first and then learn to replicate it himself!

Character is now ready for review. Glad to have another chance at this. :)

Dotting because this is looking so very interesting! My kind of AP and, looking at your previous experience, my kind of DM. I'm not sure I can handle another game yet, but I should have a grasp on that before the deadline.

I don't work and I'm home pretty much all the time, so I should easily be able to manage it, but I want to be sure before I actually commit. If I can, I'll get a character submitted before the deadline!

Harm's Way here with the crunch for my character mostly complete. I'm working on his backstory now, it's looking like Reyr will be a born and bred Kenabres local.

As a Demonslayer, this character is pretty well suited to this AP. Plenty of bonuses on demon-related knowledge checks, and he should perform reasonably well against outsiders in combat as well.

Here is my completed alias. Still need to spellcheck the fluff but it's all there, so please consider this a formal application.

If anyone would like to tie-in backstories please send me a PM, I'm open to working with whomever is keen and willing.

Submitted for your consideration, a half-elf inquisitor of Shelyn.

This is Ouachitonian's entry. Lysander is a Tiefling Magus (Kensai, Black Blade). In time, I intend to go Archmage, possibly Dual Pathed with Champion. I expect to stay Magus for all 20 levels, but as closely tied as the character is to the Riftwardens I might go into that prestige class. Plenty of time to see how things develop before I have to make that call. Since he's a Tiefling, I'd eventually like to pick up a Hat of Disguise. I took the Umbral Unmasking drawback, it seemed really thematic since there are options on the Tiefling variant ability and alternative physical features charts that also involve casting odd shadows.

Lysander's a pretty normal Shocking Grasp/Magical Lineage build. I looked at some others, but that one's just so perfect for Magus I couldn't stay away (I do wish you could take multiple traits from the same category, though. I debated over a couple of other Magic traits for a while. Too bad that even additional traits doesn't allow that). I haven't fully planned out the build, but there are a few things I know: To combat demons' electricity immunity, I'll definitely be picking up Elemental Spell and/or the Energy Conversion Archmage ability. Enduring Armor is also high on my list to pick up, since Kensai can't wear normal armor. Likewise, as a Dex build I'm definitely going for Mythic Weapon Finesse. And since Kensai lose Spell Recall, I'll be taking Wild Arcana to make up for it. If I Dual Path Champion, I'll probably take the Fleet Charge Champion's Strike.

CG gnome illusionist
10.14.14.17.10.15

Background:
In the Ring Distict of Kenabres this twilight of the 4th crusade, tensions are high as threats seem to come from everywhere, real or imagined. With action the truth can be decided however, and such was the case for a struggling wizard named Reuleaux.

Scraping together some little renown by claiming to be descended from old Kenabren engineers (the very ones responsible for the pumps and pipes supplying the city) it was for this reason he was approached to sniff out the truth of a paranoid plot about poison snaking though the system. It was easy enough for a mage to detect poison but how far did he dare descend in the murky underground?

In truth he descended from Riftwardens, or so he was told. He had dedicated a good few decades of his life trying to understand these people and the planes and here on the edge of the Worldwound there seemed no better place to bear witness. Somehow he had become comfortable here over the years, and as he climbed in and over the old lead plumbing he only thought about what lie he could use on his employer, something to ease their mind and get a few coin out of it all.

But when he saw it he froze. Unarmed, unarmored, and three-quarters upside-down his eyes locked with the foul red orbs in the mass of black flesh. Scarcely managing a gasp as the beast lunged towards him he quickly recoiled and did not look back until he saw daylight. Tumbling head over heels he cartwheeled out of a pipe dirty and sweaty right into the middle of the city square.

@Jesse - My planned Eldritch Knight is actually going to be of noble descent and raised by his uncle after his parents were lost on a mission into the Worldwound. He's going to start as a sword binder wizard and probably grab a level in ranger before returning to wizard and finally prestige into EK.

In terms of backstory, Godwyn might have been one of his sparring partners growing up under the mercenary's tutoring. Considering they both would have access to the Hand of the Apprentice ability, maybe Godwyn picked it up watching Colt do it first and then learn to replicate it himself!

Godwyn's power is psychic rather than arcane, but they certainly could have spent time together doing their military training.

I wanted to check before working on a character, I am running a Wrath Campaign myself, we've started book four. Not sure if that would discount me as a character.

I got tagged into Wrath PBP too several months back after a player had to go inactive for a bit which is still ongoing but isn't progressing the fastest and I previously checked with the GM if he minded if I applied to another Wrath campaign. I'm playing an Arcanist in that one so would make something a little different.

Character submissions to date.

Character Name-Race-Class-Player Username
Reulin Drelge-Aasimar-Cleric (Crusader) of Iomedae-Taliesan
Khaz Cloudbreaker-Aasimar(Dwarven)-Oath of the Crusade-Grumbaki
Terry-Unchained Rogue-Hustonj
Godwyn Clearwater-Human Paladin (Mindsword) of Iomedae-Jesse Heinig
???-Tiefling-Oracle (Shadow)-Theasle
Reyr Sundark-Half Elf-Ranger (Demonslayer)-Harm's Way
Regena Reneta-Elf-Inquisitor of Shelyn-Itzi
Lysander the Swordsman-Tiefling-Magus (Kensai, Black Blade)-
Ouachitonian
Reuleaux-Gnome-Illussionist-GM Infinity

Races: Aasimar: 2, Human 1, Tiefling 2, Half Elf 1, Elf 1, Gnome 1
Classes: Cleric: 1, Paladin 1, Rogue 1, Oracle 1, Ranger 1, Inquisitor 1, Magus 1, Gnome 1

I have a character from a previous game that is based pretty heavily on a few spoilers I know about the general plot of the AP, but I've never played more than the first encounter or two. The general idea is a demon-born tiefling shadow oracle with the Touched by Divinity campaign trait, linked to a certain demon lord with ambitions of ascending who appears in person in one of the later books...but without her (the character's) knowledge, which goes somewhat against the wording of the trait. Since we didn't get far enough for it to matter, would this be problematic? I'd like to think that it wouldn't, since the previous GM allowed it, but he also lost all interest in the game by the time recruitment finished (example post: "You see a room.") and disappeared almost immediately, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Sorry I missed this, Yes I am ok with your character worshiping a different demon not necessarily a lord, if your an oracle you don't have to worship a Celestial being.

The list is good, I have compiled it a bit different, If I have you in the wrong category please speak up. I have also not decided on how many PCs I plan to take yet.

Melee
Khaz Cloudbreaker - Paladin - Child of the Crusade
Godwyn Clearwater - Paladin - Child of the Crusades
Lysander The Sword - Magus - Riftwarden Orphan

Divine
Reulin Drelge - Crusader Cleric - Touched By Divinity

Skills
Regena Reneta - Inquisitor - Exposed to Awfulness
Reyr Sundark - Ranger - Stolen Fury
Terry - Rogue - Chance Encounter

Arcane
http://paizo.com/people/Reuleaux]Reuleaux - Wizard - Riftwarden Orphan

[b]Not complete[b]
Tiefling Oracle - Theasle

Also what paths are people planning on taking for Mythic?

Mythic Plan: Champion

Archmage here ;)

Mythic: Trickster, naturally.

Amazing variety given the low number of responses provided on New Year's Eve . . ..

8 responses, 8 classes, 6 races. Diversity in action.

Hierophant for myself. Unless something occurs during the AP that completely changes the characters direction

Definitely Archmage, possibly Dual Path Champion.

Quick question: could we pick a mythic trait that doesn't associate with our mythic path? Like, could I take Touched by Divinity as the trait and then take the Archmage path?

As far as I understand yes, you don't have to follow the trait suggestion, I think you just got a bonus if you do.

I would like to dot for this.
I have to think about what I would like to play.
Most likely a caster class.

Reyr is probably going for path of the Champion

DM Raltus - I'm looking at a hunter, would there be any problem with a Roc animal companion? I'm trying to figure out something that would be thematic for a Desnan and they don't do Giant Butterflies as animal companions. :)

A roc is Gargantuan in size, How would that fit anywhere?

Could flavour it too be a butterfly, it is medium sized so it can go different places without many issues. Just need to take away some of the attacks that are unique to it.

I will try my luck with Lucien of Arc-Royal
A tiefling arcanist.

A quick scan of PFSRD20 animal companions entry gave me the following recommendations.

The non-vulture birds all seem more appropriate to me than either a dinosaur or another big insect.

Then again, I always thought of the butterfly as representing both beauty and free movement, and the birds relate to that theme much more readily in my head.

A roc is Gargantuan in size, How would that fit anywhere?

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Could flavour it too be a butterfly, it is medium sized so it can go different places without many issues. Just need to take away some of the attacks that are unique to it.

The PRD bestiary entry for the roc has a note on roc companions at the bottom.