GM Niles Wrath of the Righteous (Inactive)

Game Master nilesr

Couldn't talk my real-life group into playing this versus trying a different system entirely, and I have a huge itch to run this nonetheless. So, let's make this happen.

-20 point buy
-Two traits, one being a trait from the Wrath of the Righteous Player's Guide. Your non-campaign trait can be reflavoured if you want, as long as it doesn't appear to be blatant cheesing.
-Average starting gold
-Standard HP procedure of max at first level, roll every other.
-Any class except for Anti-Paladin is acceptable, and any archetype except Synthesist Summoner, including ACG playtest material.
-All races. Even the weird ones, given the desperation of the setting.
-All material in any Paizo book is acceptable, though if you're intending to go far off the reservation, might be worth asking first. Third-party stuff is likely not, but worst I can do is say 'no', so if you'd like to try, go for it. Stuff like Spell-less Ranger might be cool.
-Good-aligned characters only, to play up all the overblown, glorious good vs. evil elements of the story.

Recruitment runs through probably until Monday, but we'll only likely begin Thursday, since I imagine most people are going to have places to go the 24th and 25th. If needed, I might extend recruitment through to the end of next week, but we'll see how it goes.

I'm looking for people who can post at least once per day. Final party will be 4-6 people, depending on party balance and such, and if we can end up with a party exploring every Mythic path, that'd be awesome.

AK's Oread Monk submission. Got inspired by the Stolen Fury campaign trait, which is a very large part of this character's history and motivations.

Andanan Sumna-

Background Story/Appearance-

Bala Sumna was a devout, happy Vudran. A strong, tall young man with ebony black hair, and an especially extravagant beard. Bala took a great deal of pride in his hair; which only made the complete loss of it more painful.

Born into the middle of society, Bala had just exited his teenage years. A little slower than average in his studies, Bala was more devout than scholarly. His relatively simple mind took great pleasure in learning the mantra's of the many hundreds of Vudrani deities, and his family was pleased to see that he would likely be born into a higher caste in his next rebirth. He had, of course, heard of the Inner Sea Region, but he never expected to visit it. He was more than content to live out his life in one of the smaller Impossible Kingdoms- he used his prodigious strength to work as a labourer and split his time between that job and serving in the temple. While he dabbled in martial arts as many Vudran did, he never truly committed to it despite a certain aptitude. At the age of nineteen, Bala could truly say what many in the chaotic continents of Avistan and Garund could not; he was genuinely content with his lot.

Enter Stolen Fury, Andanan's campaign trait.

Alas, it was not to be. His strength and general heartiness of body, combined with a low caste and a simple mind, made him a near-perfect candidate for the demonic-worshipping cultists, whose influence had spread as far as the Impossible Kingdoms. Deceived and kidnapped, Bala had been chosen for a nefarious ritual.

Bala did not truly understand what happened that day in the ritual chamber. His memories of it are somewhat foggy, but he distinctly recalls being tortured with acid upon a stone table. He remembers the howls of frustration, near-drowned out by his own screams of pain- as something clearly went awry. Somehow, the acid and the magic Bala was subjected to did not have the desired effect. Whatever the cultists were hoping for did not come to pass. Bala's swarthy Vudrani skin hardened as his frame grew, enhancing his already potent muscles. His soft, almost curved features gained a hard, chiselled edge to them. Bala literally crystallised, granite rocks spontaneously forming upon his twisted body. His eyes became glazed over with a thin layer of gemstone and he lost his hair in the transformation; his new "skin" now an earthy-grey colour.

His new form at least gave him the strength to break his bonds, and Bala escaped, his rock-like fists shattering many bones in the panicked fight that followed. His hands and forearms left small shards of rock and crystal lodged in his foes bodies, causing tearing and bleeding beyond the mere bludgeoning of his fists.

Re-fluffing Belier's Bite essentially, so that Andanan's own rocky texture is what causes the bleed damage.

Although Bala escaped, he was barely able to come to terms with his new form, one he considered, quite frankly, hideous. He instinctively knew he would have no place in the caste-dominated Vudrani society which he was so fond of; he would be treated like a beggar by his own family, cursed or worse. His travels began the very same day he escaped the ritual.

A few years have passed since that day. Bala, now styling himself with an Oread name, Andanan (given to him at a remote monastery in Jalmeray by a reclusive order of those rare earth-touched people); passed the gruelling physical and mental trials they set before him before training him. He has embraced his new life with a calmer, more enlightened outlook, although he kept his last name as an honorific to his Vudrani people. Deeply connected to the natural world, Andanan has become very intuitive and has learnt to channel the elements into his fists; although it takes great concentration on his part. He finds that he has a particular affinity with acid; something common to the Oread's; the human off-shoot race he now seems to have unwillingly joined.

Andanan has taken vows of Truth, Cleanliness, Fasting and Celibacy in order to live a pure life and be rewarded in his next. He is driven and serious in his intent; which has now become clear in his travels. He is not sure what the cultists tried to do to him, but he knows first-hand the evil demon's and their ilk can inflict on unwilling victims. Thus, Andanan has travelled to Mendev; seeking to join the Crusades and serve as best he is able. He gladly pledges himself to a life of service and justice, fighting demons and the chaos they leave behind them in their wake at every opportunity.

Andanan prefers to fight with what Fate gave him; two hardened, stony fists; but he often uses his new-found Oread heritage to enchant pebbles he keeps in a pouch on his person, to be used either with his trusty sling or simply hurled at foes. He carries two Kama upon his belt as well, used more often for helping with harvest's when volunteering as a farm hand to work his way to Mendev than on living foes. He also favours a quarterstaff, having grown accustomed to the traveller's favoured tool during his long journey. A firm believer in being ready for whatever life might throw at him, Andanan carries a surprisingly large array of tools and mundane items in his hefty backpack.

While people do not generally discriminate against Andanan based on his form (as frankly, it is not nearly as unseemly as say a Tiefling's), he nevertheless is still very much uncomfortable in his own skin and a little ashamed.

Refluffing-

As mentioned, both his trait choice (Stolen Fury) and feat choice (Belier's Bite) have been re-fluffed somewhat, but mechanically are untouched. I've tried to leave Stolen Fury reasonably vague in case it has repercussions later in the game.

Crunch/Mechanics-

Andanan's statblock is listed in the following spoiler, as well as fully visible on this profile.

Player Details-

I've been active on Paizo forums for about 3/4 years now, running three of my own games. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon :). Timezone is GMT+0 but I keep strange hours so that is not much of a guide.

Definitely interested. Will bring in a character soon.

Edit: I got my concept and I'm working on it:

Jericho the Unbreakable, Sacred Shield Paladin.

As a young recruit from the clergy of Iomedae, Jericho once got in over his head beyond the frontier of the Worldwound, and was just barely rescued. his recovery was long and arduous, but he eventually bounced back, hardier and more courageous than ever.

Exposed to awfulness trait, and built to draw enemy attention and survive it to keep his allies out of the line of fire. I'm curious to try a character who makes himself useful through defense rather than offense.

Definitely interested in this. I'll be submitting a character soon!

Well, I've never tried a Mythic AP before. I think I'll toss my hat into the ring for this!

Thinking of a barbarian specced along the Guardian path...

Have one. Being trying to get this one into a game for ages but always failed.

Lokien Forge Dwarven Paladin (Stonelord) Child of the Crusades.

Dotting. Drawbacks are permitted, yes?

Really wanted to give Slayer a look, but if it's looking like everyone is diving on the Champion path from the outset, I will likely look over other options instead.

I'm interested. I've got the preliminaries of a character made for a different Wrath of the Righteous RP on another forum. Only major adjustment I'd have to make is increase his 15-point-buy stats to 20-point buy stats.

Arzhus Belostar-Wintersun, Demonblooded Tiefling paladin of Iomedae, angling for Guardian.

I would love to, I was thinking a Sylph wizard leading to Collegiate Arcanist, with focus on illusions.

Are you OK with people using Drawbacks to gain additional traits?

Okay, so much for paladin. I get a feeling many paladins are going to apply.

I'm waiting on an answer from another campaign on a character. If she doesn't make the cut there, I'll probably bring her over.

Are you OK with people using Drawbacks to gain additional traits?

I too have this question as theres one more trait i'd really like to get Andanan if possible :).

How far on the side of crazy are we allowed to go? Are Bestiary 4 races allowed? I'm having visions of a Trox Brawler wrestling a balor or a Kasatha Gunslinger dual-wielding muskets.

Or go even cheesier and embrace the non-human aasimar sidebar from Blood of Angels and make an Aasimar born from Trox parents, aka a large Aasimar.

@Andanan: Everything looks to be in place, but all your vows cut off mid-sentence.

@nightdeath: Your Background spoiler is empty.

@Kagehiro, JonGarrett, Alexander Kilcoyne: Yes, each character is allowed one drawback for an additional trait.

@Archpaladin Zousha: Background?

@Cuan: "Weird races" more meant stuff from the uncommon/featured section. Trox in particular are just so race-points heavy that I'd be apprehensive to put one into a party with normal characters.

Thanks for elaborating on Traits. Still working on my character's background, but the concept is nailed down.

Incidentally, with regards to posting rates, I normally post about 2-3 times a day.

I'm going to pull out of applying after all. I've suddenly had another campaign pop up on me and my quota is pretty full now. Thanks for the opportunity anyway.

@Andanan: Everything looks to be in place, but all your vows cut off mid-sentence.

Ah yes HeroLab has that annoying bug. Now fixed in Andanan's profile :). Mechanically, the vow's won't go into effect until Andanan gets a ki pool anyway, but fluff-wise i'd rather establish them early.

@Archpaladin Zousha: Background?

Working on it. The basic backstory is that he had to deal with the prejudice in Kenabres against native Sarkorians, from whom he's descended, and was unaware even that he was a tiefling until he was a teenager. Later on, he encountered a demon that nearly killed him. He threw himself at it to protect someone else, and the testimony of that person was what helped convince an order of paladins to give him a chance. He readily converted to Iomedae too, both because he lived in Kenabres all his life and had no real intro to Sarkorian religion like his great grand-parents, and because he felt she was the only god who gave a damn about Sarkoris, at least trying to fight the demons when Sarkoris' own multitudinous pantheon and the druids of the Green Faith headquartered there could do nothing. He's an unlikely paladin, but he's proud, and if anyone slanders him because he's Sarkorian or they learn that he IS a tiefling, he'll flip them the bird. If Iomedae thinks he's worthy of being a paladin, then that's the only opinion that matters to him, and any doubters can just stand back while he protects them from the slavering hordes of monsters anyway.

Mulling a Warpriest of Reymenda (one of the empyreal lords).

Will let it percolate a while and coalesce.

@nightdeath: Your Background spoiler is empty.

Lokien has being updated. Background added.

May give a Slayer-Trickster a whirl. Will at least start formulating ideas after I get home tonight.

Submitting Haizi, a boy raised by wolves who rescued him from demons. Druid/guardian path with animal kung fu.

Submitting Aladir Cyruthion, an Elven Scout with the Chance Encounter trait aiming for the Trickster mythic path. Everything should already be done to your specifications; if you have any questions, please let me know!

Dotting for interest. I have a number of possible Character ideas. I will post them in the morning.

Interested, will try to type something up within 24 hours

Still partially a work in progress, but getting there.

Fluff wise he'll be a middle-aged guardsman who lost his wife during the Storm King's first assault on Kenabres in 4692 AR.
A broken man, devoid of hope and a death seeker - though still too much a coward to take his own life. His only meagre solace through worship of a little known Empyreal Lord - Reymenda, the patron of the childless, and who also holds endings and responsibility within her portfolio. Full background will expand on that a bit.

Crunch wise - will develop along the guardian path, to become a vital striking damage dealer, with mythic abilities focuses on making him harder and harder to harm or kill.

I figured as much. Was worth asking though as the image of an enormous Trox wrestling with a balor is quite nice and too good to just pass on.

Instead I'll submit Yuelthial Salindranis, an Elf and junior member of the Lantern Bearers. Background and crunch are all in the profile, which is here

I'm going to go ahead and put my interest in here. Looking at current submissions and ideas, nobody's offered a hierophant yet, so I think I'll go that route. Probably a cleric, though it might be some other divine class.

Interested! Mythic rules are in place?

Personally, Nal is a bit taciturn for an elf and displays none of the usual cheerfulness and playfulness of elves. He is fiercely single minded when it comes to destroying Demonkind. His devotion to Desna comes from an earlier chance encounter with a Desnan who saved him from some of Treerazer's minions.

Nalunorel stands 6'2 and is slender with dark eyes and hair.

Central U.S. time, I can usually post from 3-10 times per day. My job has me at a PC frequently throughout the day and I keep my iPad handy at home. Nalunorel would advance down the Trickster path.

@DarkPhoenixx: They are; this is a official Paizo Mythic campaign. They don't come into play right away, though.

@nilesr: Does Nalunorel have a last name, or is it kind of like Cher?

All the other characters posted look right, so good job everyone. Now, just a litle round-up of applicants so far, so that anyone wondering what hasn't been tried yet has some reference.

Arcane
-???

Divine
-Arzhus Belostar-Wintersur, Pitborn Paladin, Guardian Path
-Gethric Orted, Human Warpriest, Guardian
-Haizi of the Deepwoods Pack, Human Druid (Feral Child), Guardian Path
-Lokien Forge, Dwarf Paladin (Stonelord), Marshal Path

Martial
-Andana Sumna, Oread Monk, Champion Path
-Nalunorel, Elf Ranger, Trickster Path
-Yuelthial Salindranis, Elf Fighter (Lore Warden), Trickster Path

Skill
-Aladir Cyruthion, Elf Rogue (Scout), Trickster Path

Archmage - 0
Champion - 1
Guardian - 3
Hierophant - 0
Marshal - 1
Trickster - 3

Haven't really thought of a family name. Although, you don't seem to have any Arcane entries so I might reskin him as a Sorcerer.

I'll just add though that with a little tweaking Yuel could go Champion with associated trait (at the moment he encounters the scene during his escape from the worldwound, but only sees it from distance) as he will likely pick up Champion though the Dual Path feat anyway.

He can also easily be redone as an Arcane Duelist Bard, if that would be more beneficial to the group.

I'm working on a Slayer (Trickster Path) currently. Will look into the possibility of Dual-Pathing, although I am pretty keen on the notion of one-of-each being the case in the final roster.

I wonder if mythic rules are tied closely to campaign traits or you can use like Fey Foundling feat and say the power are from character's connection with the First World. Dont know if that will make sense in given AP.

@Cuan: Well, recruitment's only been open for less than a day, so I don't know if things will even out, but a Bard probably wouldn't be a bad choice, given the usefulness of Charisma skills in this AP.

@DarkPhoenixx: Read the player's guide. It's a free download, and explains the traits and how they relate to your Mythic path.

How do you feel about a person who is also GM'ing this? I swear I can keep player knowledge out of character knowledge.

If you are fine, then DM Pendin Fust presents Kilian Stein. I also can come up with Cleric/Heirophant or Magus/Archmage character concept if those roles need filled.

I'm fine with that; I like to give people the benefit of the doubt on powergaming. And it's your call if you'd like to go for either of those roles, but currently both are empty, so...

Lokien is a martial type. No Spell casting for him unfortunately. He is more than ready to go all out violent on his evil enemies.

Dragoncat here. Just need to build her statblock & mark her gear down, but here she is:

Victrix Bloodmane. An aasimar barbarian with a grudge against demons & a need for mead.

I'm planning to go onto the Marshal Mythic Path with her.

Darn. There goes my monopoly on the Marshal path. :P

Character sheet is included in her profile.

This is Mark Sweetman's melancholic Warpriest profile. I've udpated crunch in the profile, and will repost in thread once I've got my appearance / personality / background sorted.

Note 1: Reymenda's domains are 'Chaos, Destruction, Good, Healing' so I've assumed the Good and Healing blessing are valid choices.

Note 2: I am currently DM'ing a PbP of Wrath of the Righteous as well, though I'm able to separate player vs character knowledge.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=737186
Tym has been surrounded by magic his whole life; being sent to the Collegiate College after his parents disappeared, the discovery of his Air Elemental blood, discovering the true meaning of the mark on his wrist (Sign of the Seeker’s Spiral).
To be finished...

I suddenly realised you allow the ACG playtest classes. I'll rebuild Yuel as a Swashbuckler instead, would work better with his ambition to become a Lantern Bearer at later level.

I'll probably have him redone tomorrow.

Think I got everything squared away, here. All information is tucked away in the profile; Backstory and the like located at the bottom.

k ill have my character submitted soon. Will be playing a cleric/Hierophant

Dotting for interest here with a Gnome Cleric who didn't make it into a previous game.

I suddenly realised you allow the ACG playtest classes. I'll rebuild Yuel as a Swashbuckler instead, would work better with his ambition to become a Lantern Bearer at later level.

I'll probably have him redone tomorrow.

Omg I didn't see that either! Arcanist it is!

@Victrix Bloodmane: Looks solid, but holy s~!! am I confused by your point buy spread.