Gamemaster Kobolum's Way of the Wicked (Inactive)

Game Master Kobolum

Focus and Foible or 25 point buy.

The only player information that I feel I need to add is that wizards and monks don't really have any specialized schools in Talingarde so they are either self-taught or had to learn from whoever was willing to teach them.

Background skills will see limited use but are in effect.

The only trait you're allowed is the crime you have committed, you'll receive plenty of power ups later.

Feat Tax is not in use. It would require me to go in and edit a bunch of stat blocks for characters which defeats the purpose of a pre-written adventure.

Character submissions are open until the 18th of next month, that will give you 20 days to work on a character.

1. Talingarde is an island.

It is about the size of England in the real world. It is an isolated place far from any other nations and outsiders are something of a rarity. In the south it enjoys a temperate clime, but the north of the island is quite cold and often blanketed with snow. Most people avoid this part of the island because it is populated by monsters.

2. Talingarde is a lawful good nation.

Talingarde is a place of law and order. Violations of the law are punished severely but fairly. Talingarde is also a place that reveres the ideals of goodness. Clergy tend to the sick, often for no pay. Knights seek to protect the weak. Paladins are fabled individuals often featured in stories and songs. Talingarde might be, in all the world, the nation most committed ot the ideals of law and good.

3. Talingarde is a monarchy.

It is ruled by good kingMarkadian V called the Brave. Markadian is a much beloved ruler from a well established royal family known as the House of Darius.

4. The King has no son.

He does however have a daughter, the beautiful princess Bellinda who is twenty years old and still unmarried. The king and the princess are the only full-blooded members of the royal family, though they have lots and lots of cousins and more distant family. The King’s wife Lucinda died in child birth and he has never remarried.

5. The Victor was the first Darian king.

Markadian V is actually the great grandson of Markadian I called the Victor who established the House of Darius and defeated the former royal house, the House of Barca, at Battle of Tamberlyn. The Victor remains beloved in Talingarde even decades after his death and you still see statues of him everywhere.

6. The only god you are allowed to worship in Talingarde is Mitra.

Once other gods were worshipped, but that all came to an end under the House of Darius. Worship of Asmodeus, arch-enemy of Mitra, is outlawed and punishable by death by burning. Worshipping other non-evil gods is technically allowed but highly discouraged and very rarely seen.

7. Mitra is the Lord of Light.

Mitra is the god of light, healing, goodness and leadership. He is usually depicted as having three aspects – a king, a healer or a living flame. Mitra is benevolent god and the arch-enemy of the First
Tyrant, Asmodeus.

8. The Church of Mitra is everywhere.

No town in Talingarde lacks a church of Mitra. The priests are almost always important men in their community. The second most powerful man in the kingdom is the High Cardinal of the Church, Vitallian of Estyllis. There word is not law but it is heard and respected and ignored only infrequently. The House of Darius and the Church of Mitra are allies dedicated to keeping Talingarde the bastion of goodness, law and Mitran devotion that it is today.

9. Asmodeus is the enemy of Mitra and Talingarde.

Only one faith is banned and punishable by death within the kingdom of Talingarde – the faith of the devil-god Asmodeus, the lord of the Nine Hells. Before the House of Darius rose, Asmodeus was part of the pantheon of Talingarde. Asmodeus was not loved, but he was feared and respected alongside the other gods. Markadian IV called the Zealot outlawed the faith and unleashed the Inquisition against it. In the Asmodean Purges of the twenty years ago, every temple and high priest of Asmodeus was burned. The Temple of Asmodeus never recovered.

10. Talingarde is defended by the Knights of the Alerion.

The Knights are a storied and legendary order of warriors who uphold the right, protect the weak and work to see justice done. They are a religious order and everyone has sworn oaths to Mitra. Uniquely, they are not all nobles. Even those of common blood may become a knight if they are deemed worthy. Not every Knight is a paladin, but their order has produced more paladins than any other.

11. Talingarde has six regions.

The Island of Talingarde has six parts – The Cambrian Ports, The Heartland, the Borderlands, the Caer Bryr, the Savage North and the Lands of the Yutak. The Cambrian Ports are the three large cities of Talingarde that sit upon the Bay of Cambria. The Heartland is the farms and rural parts of Talingarde. The Borderlands are the northern reaches of the kingdom protected by the Watch Wall. The Caer Bryr
is a great forest inhabited by the savage Iraen. The Savage North is a wasteland of ice ruled by monsters. And the Lands of the Yutak are scattered small northern islands inhabited by strange men very different from the men of Talingarde (or Talireans as they are sometimes known).

12. Talingarde is protected by the Watch Wall.

Twelve fortresses mark the northern border of the kingdom of Talingarde. These fortresses control every point of access from the Savage North and defend the land from incursion by the bugbears and other monsters that live there. Markadian V called the Brave earned that name defending the Watch Wall.

13. Talingarde is at peace.

But will it last?

Any other race is too small or spread out to really have much of a presence in any one area that has any effect on your allowed character creation.

Size : M

Age 25

Special Abilities :

Alignment: NE

Deity : Mr.Eaten

Location : Talingard

Languages : Common

Occupation :Cook,Mercenary,Legbreaker

Strength 16 (+3)
Dexterity 14 (+2)
Constitution 16 (+3)
Intelligence 10
Wisdom 14 (+2)
Charisma 10
Height: 6' Weight: Very large Hair: Bald Eyes: Brown
Favored Class: Braweler (HP)
EXP: 0
Hit Points: 17
Spd: 30
Init: +6
AC:16 ( 3 armor 1 shield 2 Dex)/Touch 12/FF 14)
BAB: +1
CMB: +4
CMD: 16
Saves: Fort +5 Ref +4 Will +2

Weapons:
Unarmed Strike +4 1d6+3
Handaxe +4 1d6+3 x3 crit
Sling +3 1d4+3 50 feet

Skills: 5
Perception (1+2+3) 6
Acrobatics (1+2+3) 6
Climb (1+3+3) 7
Swim (1+3+3) 7
Sense Motive (1+2+3) 6

Background skills
Profession-Cook (1+2+3) 6
Craft- Food (1+3) 4

Feats:Improved Initiative (+4 Init),Toughness (+3 HP +1 level after 3)
Traits: Murder:You deal 1 additional point of damage when flanking a foe. This additional damage is a trait bonus.

Special Abilities:
Brawler's Cunning If the brawler’s Intelligence score is less than 13, it counts as 13 for the purpose of meeting the prerequisites of combat feats.
Martial FlexibilityA brawler can take a move action to gain the benefit of a combat feat she doesn’t possess. This effect lasts for 1 minute. The brawler must meet all the feat’s prerequisites. She may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + 1/2 her brawler level (minimum 1). 3

The brawler can use this ability again before the duration expires in order to replace the previous combat feat with another choice.

If a combat feat has a daily use limitation (such as Stunning Fist), any uses of that combat feat while using this ability count toward that feat’s daily limit.

At 6th level, a brawler can use this ability to gain the benefit of two combat feats at the same time. She may select one feat as a swift action or two feats as a move action. She may use one of these feats to meet a prerequisite of the second feat; doing so means that she cannot replace a feat currently fulfilling another’s prerequisite without also replacing those feats that require it. Each individual feat selected counts toward her daily uses of this ability.

At 10th level, a brawler can use this ability to gain the benefit of three combat feats at the same time. She may select one feat as a free action, two feats as a swift action, or three feats as a move action. She may use one of the feats to meet a prerequisite of the second and third feats, and use the second feat to meet a prerequisite of the third feat. Each individual feat selected counts toward her daily uses of this ability.

At 12th level, a brawler can use this ability to gain the benefit of one combat feat as an immediate action or three combat feats as a swift action. Each individual feat selected counts toward her daily uses of this ability.

At 20th level, a brawler can use this ability to gain the benefit of any number of combat feats as a swift action. Each feat selected counts toward her daily uses of this ability.
Martial TrainingAt 1st level, a brawler counts her total brawler levels as both fighter levels and monk levels for the purpose of qualifying for feats. She also counts as both a fighter and a monk for feats and magic items that have different effects based on whether the character has levels in those classes (such as Stunning Fist and a monk’s robe). This ability does not automatically grant feats normally granted to fighters and monks based on class level, namely Stunning Fist.
Unarmed StrikeAt 1st level, a brawler gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. A brawler may attack with fists, elbows, knees, and feet. This means that a brawler may make unarmed strikes with her hands full. A brawler applies her full Strength modifier (not half ) on damage rolls for all her unarmed strikes.

Usually, a brawler’s unarmed strikes deal lethal damage, but she can choose to deal nonlethal damage instead with no penalty on her attack roll. She has the same choice to deal lethal or nonlethal damage while grappling.

A brawler’s unarmed strike is treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that modify either manufactured weapons or natural weapons.

Equipment
Fighter's Kit (9)
backpack
bedroll
belt pouch
flint and steel
iron pot
mess kit
rope
soap
torches (10)
trail rations (5 days)
waterskin
Studded Leather (+3 AC +5 Dex -1 ACP) (25)
Light Wooden Shield (-1 ACP) (3)
Handaxe (6)
Sling
20 Bullets (2 sp)
Potion of CLW (50)
1 gp 8 sp

Description: Clyde is a large and obese man who is shaved bald and has a nose that seems too pointed and big for his face, his eyes are dark and beady. Clyde dresses in loose clothes of brown and black pretty much everywhere.

Backstory:Always an obese child, Clyde was the son of a man who eventually worked himself to death and had little time for Clyde, not that he was cruel, but that he was home so little that Clyde often wandered and to escape the harassment of the other children he found himself a hiding place near an old well where he would gaze at nothing and listen to the lapping of water in the crumbling pit

When he was a teen, his father's heart gave out and Clyde couldn't afford anything other than a pauper's grave and with the last thread holding him to his birthplace gone he wandered once again to the well with a gnawing emptiness in his heart. How long he sat there he didn't know, he just felt crushing loss and a void that might have led to suicide but as he let himself be enveloped in the darkness, he heard slight whispers from the well and felt if not comfort, but a slight surcease, something that dulled his pain somewhat. when a mangy cat hopped down from the well's lip and stared into his eyes,
he knew of a way to slather numbness on his pain if just for a moment. And so Clyde vanished into the darkness.

Clyde eventually found himself finding work as a cook helped focus himself and the dribs and drabs of food kept the void inside
at bay. He does wish to seek opportunities to hone his abilities, for he knows that he will need to be strong to continue his journey, someplace that has been in the back of his mind for a long time. North.

The local officials began taking action however, finding the crew and arresting them all. Inside the interrogations his friends sold him for their freedom after finding out about the gruesomeness of the murders. When Peter was questioned, he denied any involvement and showed disgust at the details. Confused, the officials seeked aid from the local mitran church. Though magic was used, Peter still appeared innocent. The murders had stopped however, so the officials dubbed Peter as ‘crafty’ and sent him to prison convinced that somehow he was the murderer.

I left the background not overly specific to allow for character development.

Gotta say, boss, didn't think this is how I'd end. At least, didn't think I'd get caught. That's the embarrasing part, innit? But, damnit, it's not like they didn't have their chance. I mean, the Knight broad could've not poked her long nose in my business, innit? And she could've just smacked the tot around, rather than breaking his fingers on the spot. So yeah, she got pissed, and them fingers were in her pouch, true. But if you don't want fingers in your purse, you keep it hidden.

So we look after each own. I had to give the tot somethin', and it's not like I'm letting that slide, innit? So, yeah, I follow the broad to her house. Should've locked the door, could be anyone on the streets. And yeah, that sword was real nice and pretty, but you don't bring a sword in a knife fight, boss, 'specially 'gainst Topper. 'cause even when Topper gives ya time to draw the sticker, you've got his stickers in your kidneys, see.

And yeah, maybe I shouldn't've taken my sweet time listening to her scream as I twisted the knives and then let her bleed out, boss, but, b&*@$*%s, you mess with me and mine, you get shanked, and you get a message.

So, yeh, boss, Topper's biting the axe. But them hoity-toity Knights gonna remember them screams in their sleep 'till they kick the bucket, 'cause they didn't break down the door on time. And they'd remember my s@*@ eating grin when I surrendered and they'll remember than no armour is without a gap big enough for a good dagger. Heh. Gonna remember the screams of that b~$+# now, like angels singing on my funeral. Wish they'd let me keep her fingers.

Life on the streets of the Cambrian ports is not always easy. Least of all if you are the child of a criminal. Inarus' father was a laborer, who worked at the docks after coming from the countryside to find work. When he lost his wife to sickness, he turned to the bottle to dull the pain. Inarus saw little of his father, who worked long hours to pay for lodging, his son's necessities, and his drink. This was destined to end in sadness, for as his drink intensified, so too did his anger, and it correlated with poorer work. Eventually, he lost his job after one too many mistakes on the job, and his employer refused to pay him his last wages 'to pay for the damage he caused.' In a fit of anger, Inarus' father burnt down the man's warehouse. He was soon arrested...and was sentenced to death by burning.

Young Inarus found himself homeless, with no family to call his own. The pain, the loneliness, and the hunger, caused something within him to snap. He could see the country for what it was. A shining beacon of hypocrisy. Of the masses toiling away, living and dying in squalor, while the gilded lords and ladies played the parts of heroes. Throwing crumbs from their banquets and demanding praise. Of rich nobles becoming 'paladins' while pretending to be better than everyone else. Of clergy who never knew a day of hardship in their lives, condescendingly preaching to everyone that they should just accept their lot in life. And then smiling as they burned men like his father alive. He found that he hated them all, and all that they stood for. He prayed, to any who would listen, for the power to tear their world down around them, and to make them feel the pain that they never knew and could never understand.

It was while huddling on the streets that the changes first started happening. It began with him being able to see in the dark, and soon continued to being able to make rocks move with his mind.

Without any skills, he turned to the only thing he could: thievery. Never one to know how to pick a lock or a pocket, he instead practiced extortion. Give him what he needed to survive, and he wouldn't bash your face in with a floating rock. He figured that it was a fair trade.

But word soon got out of the 'demon of the night' with the 'floating rocks.' It was decided that this was not something for the guards. This was a job for paladins, and clerics. Needless to say, Inarus stood no chance and was quickly captured, having only caused a minor dent in a paladin's armor.

His trial was just as fast as his capture. With dizzying speed, the courts gave him the 'mercy' of only sentencing him to a lifetime of hard labor in the salt mines. Something that was deemed appropriate for a young man who 'liked to throw rocks.'

Now, sitting in prison, awaiting his fate, all he can think about his the smug look on the faces of the shining paladins who had captured them, and how dearly he wanted to apply a rock to them.

Str (12) Dex (17+2=19) Con (18) Int (8) Wis (12) Cha (8) HP (12) Saves (6/6/1)

Human
* Dimdweller (Whenever characters with this trait benefit from concealment or full concealment due to darkness or dim light, they gain a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate, Perception, and Stealth checks. Humans can take this trait in place of the skilled trait, also gaining darkvision to a range of 60)
* Bonus Feat

Traits
* Extortion (+2 intimidate)

Feats
* Point Blank Shot
* Precise Shot

Skills
* Stealth: 1 skill point (+8)
* Perception: 1 skill point (+5)
* Intimidate: 1 skill point (+5)

Class Earth Kineticist
* Burn (At 1st level, a kineticist can overexert himself to channel more power than normal, pushing past the limit of what is safe for his body by accepting burn. Some of isr wild talents allow him to accept burn in exchange for a greater effect, while others require him to accept a certain amount of burn to use that talent at all. For each point of burn he accepts, a kineticist takes 1 point of nonlethal damage per character level. This damage can’t be healed by any means other than getting a full night’s rest, which removes all burn and associated nonlethal damage. Nonlethal damage from burn can’t be reduced or redirected, and a kineticist incapable of taking nonlethal damage can’t accept burn. A kineticist can accept only 1 point of burn per round. This limit rises to 2 points of burn at 6th level, and rises by 1 additional point every 3 levels thereafter. A kineticist can’t choose to accept burn if it would put her total number of points of burn higher than 3 + her Constitution modifier (though he can be forced to accept more burn from a source outside her control). A kineticist who has accepted burn never benefits from abilities that allow her to ignore or alter the effects she receives from nonlethal damage.))

* Physical blasts (30ft, standaard action, ranged attacks that deal an amount of damage equal to 1d6+1 + the kineticist’s Constitution modifier, increasing by 1d6+1 for every 2 kineticist levels beyond 1st. Spell resistance doesn’t apply against physical blasts.)

* Gather Power (If he has both hands free a kineticist can gather energy or elemental matter as a move action. Gathering power creates an extremely loud, visible display in a 20-foot radius centered on the kineticist, as the energy or matter swirls around him. Gathering power in this way allows the kineticist to reduce the total burn cost of a blast wild talent she uses in the same round by 1 point. The kineticist can instead gather power for 1 full round in order to reduce the total burn cost of a blast wild talent used on his next turn by 2 points (to a minimum of 0 points). If he does so, he can also gather power as a move action during his next turn to reduce the burn cost by a total of 3 points. If the kineticist takes damage during or after gathering power and before using the kinetic blast that releases it, he must succeed at a concentration check (DC = 10 + damage taken + effective spell level of his kinetic blast) or lose the energy in a wild surge that forces her to accept a number of points of burn equal to the number of points by which her gathered power would have reduced the burn cost. This ability can never reduce the burn cost of a wild talent below 0 points.))

Earth

* Basic Geokinesis
- Element(s) earth; Type utility (Sp); Level 1; Burn 0
- You can move up to 5 pounds per kineticist level of rocks, loose earth, sand, clay, and other similar materials up to 15 feet as a move action. You can search earthen and stone areas from a distance as if using the sift cantrip.

* Earth Blast
- Element(s) earth; Type simple blast (Sp); Level —; Burn 0
- Blast Type: physical; Damage bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing
- You shape earth into clumps or shards and send them flying at a foe.