First Annual Grand Battle Tournament (Inactive)

Game Master concerro

Greetings Pathfinders,

Looking for something different then a standard adventure? Tired of crawling through dirty dusty dungeons for gear and glory? Want to just be level 20 and dominate everything? Well this is the recruitment for you!!

This is a recruitment thread for a gladiator style battle royale where you will be pitted against the other players in a Player vs. Player style battle. We will start off with 16 players who will go one on one with a randomly chosen combatant in a duel to the death. Winners will advance to the quarter finals and so on until we have two players left who will face off in the Final Bout!

Character Requirements:
25 Point Buy
Level 20
Average HP per level
Gold: 1,000,000
Restricted to Pathfinder Only, no 3PP
Races: Mostly Anything, ask for approval if unsure. Race builder from ARG is out.
Classes: Any Pathfinder
Anything cheesy will be cut

Post your interest, but don't post your crunch to the thread or to your alias, please PM it to me. This will prevent people from designing characters specially designed to destroy their chosen opponent.

Recruitment will close when I have 16 approved characters

These are so much fun, ill have something up for you soon. 1 million gold....just one question, are variant tiefling options ok?

@Aroach1188 - You talking about the variant rules in the new tiefling book? If you are, those are fine.

I was talking about the fiendish heritage rulesHere

Yeah, that's all printed on the new tiefling book, so yes

I'd be down for some gladiator fun. I would need to do some looking and reading though, because I've never played at 20th level.

Colour me interested! Any class?

Does that include prestige classes?

Also I have a homebrewed Race would I be allowed to test it out. See my profile for more info.

Prestige classes yes, home brew races, no. Keep it to PFRPG

Interested, pretty much anything goes, eh?

Roger that.

Anything Pathfinder, yes. Which leads me to two points that I forgot to mention. If you want to attach a template or two to your character, that's fine as well. But keep one thing in mind, every character must be the same CR rating, which is 19. So if you add the lich template, your two levels lower.

Finally, if you use hero lab, please say so in your PM along with your crunch as I will need you to send me your portfolio file.

All righty then. Should have an application in a little bit.

One full app so far, Grats to Belrim Eagle-Eye on being spot number 1, 15 more to go!

Three participates so far, grats to

Belrim Eagle-Eye
"Mage-Slayer" Duncan Oto
Soryn Ambereye

I will be inporting your character sheets into hero lab so I may have follow up questions

13 spots to go people!

remove the link to your character sheet, as I said in the first post, all character stats are hidden untill the tournament starts

that includes posting it in your alias

I'm down. Have something mostly done already. Just need some slight leveling and spend more gold. PM incoming.

I yes O yes Im in, Home made intelligent Items GM are they in?

@Monkeygod - Hey Voice! just make sure to remove your stats when he's all leveled and pm me the stat block or hero lab file if you use it.

@GSV - no home made stuff, just Pathfinder. If it's in hero lab, its in

I did PM, using the alias I intend to submit. Did you not get it? Or do you want me to blank out the alias, so there's nothing there but the name.

Custom magic items are allowed, or not? Or is this strictly only printed items?

For example, I have a weapon that is not listed in the books, but uses the normal magic item creation rules. Is this ok?

Magic items made with the rules is fine, just nothing homebrewed.

And I got the PM, just blank it and send me the statblock when your finished

So far

Finalized Characters:

Belrim Eagle-eye
Soryn Ambereye
Ai Lin
“Mage-Slayer” Duncan Oto

Interested but need stat block:
Akor Scourgebane

That leaves us with 11 more spots open and we can begin the battle!

Greetings Pathfinders,

Looking for something different then a standard adventure? Tired of crawling through dirty dusty dungeons for gear and glory? Want to just be level 20 and dominate everything? Well this is the recruitment for you!!

This is a recruitment thread for a gladiator style battle royale where you will be pitted against the other players in a Player vs. Player style battle. We will start off with 16 players who will go one on one with a randomly chosen combatant in a duel to the death. Winners will advance to the quarter finals and so on until we have two players left who will face off in the Final Bout!

Character Requirements:
25 Point Buy
Level 20
Average HP per level
Gold: 1,000,000
Restricted to Pathfinder Only, no 3PP
Races: Mostly Anything, ask for approval if unsure. Race builder from ARG is out.
Classes: Any Pathfinder
Anything cheesy will be cut

Post your interest, but don't post your crunch to the thread or to your alias, please PM it to me. This will prevent people from designing characters specially designed to destroy their chosen opponent.

Recruitment will close when I have 16 approved characters

Define Cheesy or give an example.

edit:Will we fight in the same "arena" every time or will the location be random. If it is always the same what are the dimension of the arena?

Define Cheesy? Off the top of my head Drow noble half dragon Lich wizard. Just don't go overly crazy and insane with templates, pretty lax on everything, just make sure to stay as CR 19

edit: Different per match, including dimensions. Some will have a 30 to 60 foot range, some will have 40 to 120 foot range, and some will have random difficult terran and features. I will give the discriptions before each battle as well as basic maps

Dropping Gm have fun one and all

Should resist, but a level-20 Scarred Witch Doctor is so appealing...

I'll put something together and post soon.

EDIT: I just threw this together really quickly. I love it. I haven't applied any gear or added any spells, but the hexes alone are quite nasty. Add in the massive Con boost and he could be tough to kill. I considered going with the Endurance patron, but the damage goodness from Vengeance is pretty appealing.

Showing interest... may create a monk

Should resist, but a level-20 Scarred Witch Doctor is so appealing...

I'll put something together and post soon.

EDIT: I just threw this together really quickly. I love it. I haven't applied any gear or added any spells, but the hexes alone are quite nasty. Add in the massive Con boost and he could be tough to kill. I considered going with the Endurance patron, but the damage goodness from Vengeance is pretty appealing.

** spoiler omitted **...

GM Teirce was looking for PM on the characters, without public viewing to prevent counter-building.

Correct, please remove it from the thread if you can and pm it to me

Oh, I am so in! I have the perfect build in mind...Hehehehehe. Reserve me a spot, and I should have it built tonight.

I'll give it a try, not that I expect to live more than a round or two but it sounds like fun.

Will take a few hours to build the character.

Depends on who your against. We've gotten some interesting character so far, everything from glass cannons, to tanks, to damage dealers with way to much AC!

We have about 5 or 6 finished characters so far and I will leave recruitment open until we get 16 or until the end of the week (Saturday Night), whichever comes first.

I am not participating but my test character had a 64 AC (like a 52 touch) in his defensive mode and was immune to most conditions...good luck hitting something like that.

I will be interested to see how this turns out and what people make.

Did you want our standard tactics as well, when we send you our sheets?

It's not required, but if you'd like to discuss how the character works, I'm all for that

Final question: Will these bouts be 1/day, or more than once per day? Thinking of resource conservation.

Also, how would we enter the arena? Time for buffs (if so, how much time) or is it no time for buffs?

Final question: Will these bouts be 1/day, or more than once per day? Thinking of resource conservation.

Also, how would we enter the arena? Time for buffs (if so, how much time) or is it no time for buffs?

This is a good question.

I am also going to make a build. I have not done a straight 20 build in a while so I am checking to make sure everything works, and to make sure I get all my options in order. I will be participating though. If casters buff the melee types will be in a lot of trouble. If they don't buff, the casters are in a lot of trouble.

Oh well I am down with whatever decision is made, but I won't present the build until I know so that I can plan accordingly.

I was going to go threw the main rules once we are done recruitment, but I will outline them here.

Once your place in the tournament is determined you will each head to a seperate thread to start the fight. You will then be shown the randomized map of the arena so you can begin to formulate tactics.

Once the fight starts, both combatants will be annouced including race and class. You will then be given a single round (swift, standard and move, as well as free actions) to buff before the gates open and the match starts. This one round will give casters the chance to cast mage armor or barkskin and for martial characters to get whatever they have ready. Any other buffing will need to be done during combat

I would like to throw my hat in the arena (even if it only lasts for 1 or 2 rounds)

I will come up with something soon (but not before tomorrow unfourtunately).

Also can we send files via PM here or do we e-mail them to you (will have the .por file sent as soon as its done).

If I don't get it in time then shame on me.

There will be plenty of time, as for por files, just send me a PM and I will send you my email address to send it to

Would you let me play a phoenix?

Edit: I realize that my character will be somewhere around level 5. But a phoenix would be cool.

As in the monster?

Yes.

I'm going to rule no on that, keep it to PC classes and races

When calculating magic item cost:

would I be able to take advantage of item creation feats or do I pay full price?

You can do creation, but I can tell you it's not needed, several people have commented that they have between 50 and 80k left over with nothing more to purchase

The obvious option?

Buy trail rations for a couple thousand people for a few weeks!

You can do creation, but I can tell you it's not needed, several people have commented that they have between 50 and 80k left over with nothing more to purchase

They are not trying hard enough.

Some very good items stack infinitely.

I could spend a million, gold or real money, in my sleep.

Plus the other consideration that those that craft their own items will be working with a pool of two million gold as well.