Murder Most Foul - Tierce's Absalom Campaign (Inactive)

Game Master Tierce

* skill point used

Defence Racial Traits
Defence Training-
Hardy-+2 bonus vs poison, spells and spell-like abilities
Stability-+4 dodge bonus to CMD vs Bull Rush and Trip while standing on the ground.

[Feat and Skill Traits
Greed- +2 on Appraise skill checks (no magical items containing precious metals and gemstones.
Stonecunning- +2 on Perception checks to notice unusual stonework, such as secret doors and traps in stone walls and floors while looking or not.

Senses Traits
Darkvision- 60-foot

Offensive Racial Traits
Hatred- +1 on attack rolls vs orcs and goblinoid subtypes.
Weapon Familiarity-proficient with battleaxes, heavy picks, warhammers and any weapon with the word "dwarven" in it.

Backpack MW
Bedroll
Clay Jug
Clay Tankard
Flint and Steel.
Hempen Rope 50'
Pouch, belt
Sack
Signal whistle
Small Tent
Waterskin
Whetstone

Gp=82 Sp=19 Cp=5

Weapons
Quarterstaff
Melee 1d20+2; Damage 1d6+2

Scimitar
Melee 1d20+2; Damage 1d6+2

Dagger
Melee 1d20+2; Damage 1d4+2
Ranged 1d20+1; Damage 1d4

0-lvl
Create Water
Detect Magic
Detect Poison
Flare
Guidance
Know Direction
Light
Mending
Purify Food and Water
Read Magic
Resistance
Stabilize
Virtue

1st-lvl
Calm Animals
Charm Animal
Cure Light Wounds
Detect Animals or Plant
Detect Snares and Pits
Endure Elements
Entangle
Faerie Fire
Goodberry
Hide From Animals
Jump
Longstrider
Magic Fang
Magic Stone
Obscuring Mist
Pass Without Trace
Produce Flame
Shillelagh
Speak With Animals
Summon Natures Ally

Character name: Edwinil "Edwin" Aleimej

I'm tall, slender, decently graceful, and rather intelligent. Various friends since high school have called me an elf before, so I think I'd have to be one. I did a poll of some friends just now and I've been voted as an elf wizard (that or alchemist, but I don't think I'd feel comfortable making bombs, as much as I like to tinker). This works, I think. I view situations as problems to be fixed and find logical solutions very quickly, although I hate getting my hands dirty. I'm unsure what profession computer engineering would translate to in PF besides Knowledge(engineering).

I think I'm looking at a 10 16 8 18 10 14 array after racial modifiers with a 20 point buy without overanalyzing. For a normal game I'd swap Con and Cha, but this better reflects how I interact well with people and succumb easily to whatever diseases are going around. I don't read people I don't know very well and I'm not especially perceptive, so Wis is 10 along with Str, which feels right.

My feat would be Improved Initiative to reflect that I usually come to an evaluated decision on what to do very quickly. I don't necessarily have fast physical reflexes to instinctively react to danger, but I feel that is tied to the Ref save.

I always carry a pocketknife (swiss army knife technically), so I'd use a dagger as my weapon. Andoran and a worshipper of Iomedae to reflect my country ('Murica) and the active nature of my religion.

I'd be a Diviner (divination specialty school) and drop necromancy and enchantment. The style of my engineering is all about sending, receiving, and manipulating information. Illusion could have worked too. Necromancy is dropped because I tend to avoid things that could be construed as "bad" even if they aren't actually. In an argument I will present my side and try to have evidence to back me up, but my goal is usually to inform rather than convince and coerce, and so I dropped Enchantment.

Skills 2+4+1: arcana (I imagine I'd learn a lot about magic if I was a wizard), engineering (since I'm an engineer IRL), history (I paid attention in school), local(unsure on this one), nature(from being in the BSA for a long time... although that might apply better to Survival), religion(from being a church-going guy), spellcraft(I'm a wizard, so I should know what's going on with magic)

Taking Arcane Focus racial trait (+2 concentration checks for defensive casting arcane spells in exchange for weapon familiarity) because I've always been more of a scholastic fellow than athletic.

Favored class bonus goes to HP because I don't want the character to die too fast. 8 Con, y'know?

For reasons mentioned earlier I'd probably be defined as generally lawful good. I believe that the institution of government is meant to (and usually does) help the people it rules over and that helping another person is worth going out of my way for, even if it doesn't further my own interests. (I'm not entirely altruistic. I'm more of "generous" at best. I'm not an EXTREME example of LG)

I can easily take this and turn it into an alias if the need arises. I can also come up with a backstory if given a bit more information on what sort of plot hooks I should put in it.

Dav Wolfacus – Half Orc Bard archAeology archetype (archaeology because its my RL job, half orc because I look a little bestial, tend to intimidate folks who don't know me and my father was very brutish. Darkvision work cause I actually see really well in the dark- I had an eye doctor tell me once that he had never seen someone who’s eye dilate some much in the dark)

Andoran (am American) 6’ 1” 250 lbs

CN Medium Humanoid (CN because I really don’t believe in good and evil- chaotic because I tend to look out for myself regardless of the laws of the land)

Init -1; Senses Perception +3
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DEFENSE
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AC 13, touch 9, flat-footed 13
HP 9 (1d8+1 favored class)
Fort +0, Ref +1, Will +5
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OFFENSE
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Speed 30 ft.
Melee Longsword +0, 1d8
Ranged Shortbow -1, 1d6
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STATISTICS
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Str 11 (avg-a little above avg)
Dex 8 -1 (a little clumsy)
Con 11 (avg-a little above avg)
Int 17 +3 (I scored in the 90-95% on ACT and GRE)
Wis 16 +3 with +2 racial bonus (street smarts and the ability to put together the pieces- both on the job and w/ peoples motivations)
Cha 12 +1 (can turn on the charm when I want to)
Base Attack +0; CMB +0; CMD 9

Traits: fast-talker +1 bluff (am good at B.S.) Devotee of the Green: love going to Yellowstone-gain a +1 trait bonus on Knowledge (geography) and Knowledge (nature) checks, and one of these skills (your choice) is always a class skill for you.

Skills (9 ranks per level)
Intimidate (2 racial+3class skill+1cha+1 rank) +7 (am intimidating) Bluff (3class skill+1cha+1 rank) +5 (can B.S.) (+1 for trait if allowed) Diplomacy (3class skill+1cha+1 rank) +5 (have to diplomatic when dealing with the Bureau of Land Management- job thing) Knowledge: history (+1 rank, +3 int, +3 class) +7 (archaeologist)
Knowledge: geography (+1 rank, +3 int, +3 class) +7 (work w/ maps a lot) (+1 for trait if allowed) Knowledge: nature (+1 rank, +3 int, +3 class) +7 (taken classes at Yellowstone and read a lot) (+1 for trait if allowed) Perception (+3class+1 rank, +3 wis+2 alertness) +9 (good at spotting wildlife in Yellowstone)
Sense Motive (+3class+1 rank, +3 wis+2 alertness) +9 (good at guessing peoples motives- a game I play)
Profession archaeologist (+3class+1 rank, +3 wis) +7 (it is my job)

Languages Common, orc, goblin, gnoll, giant

Equipment
Longsword (15gp), shortbow (30gp), 20 arrows (1 gp), buckler (5gp), studded leather (25gp), backpack (2gp), explorers outfit (10gp), hemp rope 50ft (1gp), waterskin (1gp), shovel (2gp), hooded lantern (7gp), tent (10gp), spell component pouch (5gp), travelers outfit (1gp), scholars outfit (5gp), guard dog (25gp), 1 sunrod (2gp) 4 GP left (have supplies for an archaeological expedition and have a dog- and need extra clothes for when just in town)
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SPECIAL ABILITIES
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Race: Orc Ferocity: Once per day, when a half-orc is brought below 0 hit points but not killed, he can fight on for one more round as if disabled. At the end of his next turn, unless brought to above 0 hit points, he immediately falls unconscious and begins dying. (Used to fight a lot in my youth- and was pretty good)

Class: Bardic knowledge: +1 CL all kno checks (I read a lot so makes sense)

FEATS:
Alterness: get “first spot” a lot in Yellowstone (first spot means you are the first to spot wildlife)

SPELLS KNOWN:
4- know direction (good map reader), mending (good at jerry rigging stuff), read magic (fairly literate), detect magic (kinda have a 6th sense on things)
2- charm person (can turn on the charm), cure light wounds (limited first aid training)

CAST:
(at will - DC11)
(2 - DC12)

Archaeology archetype: no bardic performance- have no preform skills in RL
Archaeologist's Luck (Ex): Fortune favors the archaeologist. As a swift action, an archaeologist can call on fortune's favor, giving him a +1 luck bonus on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls. He can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to 4 + his Charisma modifier. Maintaining this bonus is a free action, but it ends immediately if the archaeologist is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action to maintain it each round. Archaeologist's luck is treated as bardic performance for the purposes of feats, abilities, effects, and the like that affect bardic performance. Like bardic performance, it cannot be maintained at the same time as other performance abilities. (occasionally lucky)

This is my first attempt to do a play by post- would be able to post after work and sometimes at work but there will be weekends that I'll be camping. Used to play in my youth so not that experienced. Either way- this was a fun exercise- thanks.