Of Gods and Death

Game Master thegreenteagamer

Since I once again noticed we were near the start of a new page, and I still figure having a list of proposed character ideas could be helpful, here we go again!

Soooooo... lower another line...

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Clarification: posters are in alphabetical order to prevent accidental replication of entries; if character aliases are used, I place that below instead of the original poster; I use quotes to describe the character - that's not always helpful, but it gives a vague reminder/preview of entries. If a poster has entirely abandoned one concept and presented a different concept, I've deleted their original, abandoned concept and left only their most recent one; if they've only submitted a concept they've noted of thinking of abandoning, I'll leave the (hypothetically abandoned) concept until a new one comes up. Anyone who is not me that wants to do this, is more than welcome to do so! This is just for everyone's convenience! :D

Seth here, Suli Ranger, Aldrea Fangor
Details in alias. will get backstory soon.
Suli, Air type Jann as blood tie
money im saving to get a mithril agile breatplate

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Hi there! =)

Just announcing that, like many of the SW:FO crowd, I too shall be throwing my hat into the already crowded ring.

TGTG, you're saying that you'd accept an Unchained Summoner, and I've never played one. I'm willing to see what happens when we throw those two reactive chemicals into an enclosed space and let the wacky hijinks ensue!

In boyhood the character rescued a magical Azata from a skulduggerous trap, and she has been his bosom companion ever since, guiding him in his eldritch studies and teaching him the ways of the planes.

He'll be the Straight Man for most of the campaign, looking about wide-eyed at all the strange things going on, while his Eidolon calmly tries to get him to relax and take things in stride.

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Dot. I'll probably try to resurrect my tiefling Alchemist I made a while back - she was intended for Wrath of the Righteous, so I already had plans out for Mythic. GM disappeared though :(

Question: any idea how min max'ed you expect players to be? I'm very familiar with pathfinder, but I see people grabbing 3.5 stuff, and just don't have the time necessary to learn years of splatbooks to keep up.

On a different note, I probably won't go with my tiefling alchemist. Didn't want to play the same thing, but most of her backstory is very alchemy themed.

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Dotting. I have some thoughts that I need to sit down and plot out. I'm thinking more in the physical damage/protection arena. Combat-oriented cleric of Helm, or something of that nature. Possibly a ranger. Will have something up tonight hopefully (once I get home and can properly sketch things up).

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I am intrigued. I'm not that familiar with the Forgotten Realms, mostly old Drizzt books and the Neverwinter game on PS4, but this does sound interesting. Is there a good place to look at the old 3E FR gods? I don't have the books, unless the 3.5E books work for that. Have just about all of those. I'm thinking a divine caster, probably oracle.

Making a half-orc lunar oracle who gets his powers from the night gods. He particularly worships Selune. Will have the full write-up done by the weekend, both fluff and crunch.

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Hmmm. Lots of casters here, might be a good idea to break out my "Knight destined for greatness" bloodrager.
I haven't read much of the forgotten realm stuff other that the "War of the spider queen" series, so I don't know much about the surface of the setting.
What are some good orders my knight could belong to?

Hope your fine with a mythweaver sheet. On mobile for the next couple days and its all I can manage easily.

Anyway. I'll type up a back story in a day or so. I have something in mind.

Edit: forgot the link :P

Galtur Wayworn

OK here we go. Things just calmed down enough for me to sit and type out what I wrote in a car with a two year old kicking the back of my seat. Hmm hmm.

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If any questions are had just PM me, I intentionally left a few things vauge just so we could communicate on a few story beats that could be cool.

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Is there an actual Planescape tie-in where adhering to a faction philosophy makes sense for a character background or is that just alluding to a lot of plane hopping for adventure locations?

Are you open to the Godling classes from Super/Rogue Genius Games? The current idea is to make an aasimar/tiefling that doesn't know that he's planetouched. The godling classes can be used to explain those powers. Of course, it could also be used in the traditional sense of being one of the multitude of scions running around.
This idea would borrow/enable a Starlord-like character.

Well, I figured the reaction would be polar, one way or the other, based on general threads found searching. Honestly I was ok with any variants sent it fit the theme; not to over tweak it to the point of optimizing. That said, I'm usually not playing games at the higher levels where some of the "broken" aspects appear to pop up.

I'll see what other classes fit the character concept... otherwise, back to the drawing board.

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Are you OK with non-human tieflings, as described in Blood of Fiends (and the sidebar here)? I'm interested in doing a halfling-tiefling. It changes the fluff and gives the tiefling the Small category, but is otherwise mechanically identical to a regular tiefling.

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Currently considering a good-aligned male elf Magus with the Bladebound archetype wielding a scimitar.

Quick question: Do you allow the following trait (refluffed of course considering this is FR)?

Finding Haleen/Finding Your Kin

Also, do you allow a Drawback for a third Trait?

And are Background Skills used?

...OK, OK, more like three quick questions...

Sheesh... Nitpick, whydontya...

:-P

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I would like to submit Kastelic Kurza - Tiefling Paladin of Tyr for play. I have been a huge realms fan for decades, with my home game being set there since the late 80s.

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As a big fan of Pact Magic, I vigorously dispute the claim that Mediums are a remotely adequate replacement for them (more like an insult).

Warlock it is, then, however (I'll admit that it isn't clear how well Binders would fit in the Forgotten Realms anyways - they'd be a particularly major paradigm shift for that ultratheistic setting) - I'll PM you some adjustments/possible new School Powers for your approval.

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Will you allow the
Chameleon Class as a future goal?

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Question: The Id Rager archetype for Bloodragers does not allow the Pride emotional focus to be taken as written. It came out later and has never been added to the list of useable foci (greed and lust are a part of this as well). Would you allow it to be taken?

Not settling on an Id Rager, just thought it was a fun looking archetype with a lot of roleplay potential. (Too bad it doesn't stack with Bloody-Knuckled Rowdy though, could start making Fei Fong Wong!)
Other options I am considering: Scaled Fist Unchained Monk, Eldritch Scoundrel Unchained Rogue or Kensei Magus (Crono much?).

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Excellent. Inquisitor of Tyr hunting criminals it is.

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I present to you Nicholaus, a Dhampir Sanguine Sorcerer.
I made him lawful-neutral, and he has a mixture of good and bad spells. He actually is built to be a 'consentual' blood drinker, that is someone who would only drink the blood of someone who both knows what they're getting into and agrees to let him feed. On the flip side, he's decent at hiding his identity, so *that* conversation is usually done on a private, one-on-one basis.
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Presenting!

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http://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/classes/prestige/realms/hth.shtml

Sorry it's called the Hathran. I spelled Wylarcharn wrong. I might be able to flip the concept into a spiritualist given the Rashemeni link to spirits and place magic, and use the phantom as the replacement for the Rashemi berserker the witches normally have accompany them on their daejemma (track of adulthood). I'll look at the current submissions.

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Thinking a Tarroh Student Arcanist sounds fun. What's a good place in FR a tarot reader/gypsy fortuneteller sort might come from?

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Navarra Dyernina
LG hag-touched wychlaran hathran*.

Navarra, though still technically in good standing, having been afflicted by a wild magic region**, has thus been effectively (if unofficially) banished from the region until it could be certain that her "condition" didn't negatively influence either the local spirit realm, magic, or herself.

She has since wandered the northern ways, always hearing the call of her distant homeland and her goddesses, the Three - Bhalla, Khelliara, and especially her patron the Hidden One (called Chauntea, Mielikki, and Mystra, respectively in these foreign lands she has been forced to wander) -, and following the teachings of the land and wisdom of the goddesses in her dreams.

During her Dajemma, early on, she and Uljork (her guard) were beset by magical bandits in Narfell who overcame her guard and magic with their own. Before the malevolent mage could inflict any torments on the defeated girl, a gruff member of the stout folk, one Flarghin Ironstone by name, showed up to her rescue, alongside a few other local would-be adventurers, defeating the bandit. He took her under his wing, and Navarra successfully completely her Dajemma, even as Uljork decided to go her own way...

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Ah, to return to the Realms. I would like to join. Thinking a tiefling card caster Magus or an Investigator (Empiricist) 3/Alchemist (Mind Chemist) 2 for a skills build.
Any chance we will drop in on Cormyr? I love that place.

So, starting at 5th. Max hit points at 1st level and then what? Half die+1, roll, max per level (because, you know, mythic)?

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Alright, after going trough everything I am going to build a human cleric . The full build will be up later

After seeing ALOT of casters I would like to toss in a slightly more martial character, and did some more digging in the forgotten realms, and found this.

http://alcyius.com/dndtools/classes/aglarondan-griffonrider/index.html

Would a griffonrider be ok? And would I have to be an aspiring griffonrider seeing as how even if the skills are scaled down to pathfinder level it is still 6 or 7 ranks in ride?

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Class:
- Alchemist
- Arcanist [taroh student]
- Bloodrager/Paladin
- {Godling: build changed or concept abandoned}
- Inquisitor
- Investigator [Empiricist]/Alchemist [Mindchemist]
- Magus [kensai; or Bloodrager, or Scaled Fist UMonk or Eldritch Scoundrel URogue]
- Oracle [lunar]
- Paladin (oath of vengeance)
- Ranger
- Rogue/Fighter
- Sorcerer
- Spiritualist
- USummoner [azata companion]
- Warlock
- Witch [leyline, dreamweaver, possible winter witch]
- - {Chameleon PrC}
- - {Cleric? aspiring Griffon Rider: possibly different mechanics}

Race:
- Aasimar (2) [1: alt: another tiefling?]
- Dhampir
- Elf (2): (half-moon, half-drow; passable as both [mechanically an elf]), “standard”
- Hag-touched
- Suli (air?)
- Tiefling (2-3) [1: oni-spawn]

Alignment
- LG (3)
- CG
- CN
- LN

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Hope that helps! :D

Also to help:

Forgotten Realms Wiki for the curious.

Realmshelps

List of forgotten realms deities in Wikipedia.

The 3rd edition and 3.5 edition have the same deities.

That should reflect everyone's entries so far. Sorry if I missed you! Feel free to re-post it on this page, just for completion sake, and I'll try to get it next time! Let me know if I made any errors!

I would like to submit my character if you are interested. Taos Stormreaver- Human warpriest follower of Thor (A god from a long forgotten era in Faerun's ancient history....so long ago even the writers were unaware of this).

I'm thinking that I want to make a starknife throwing character using stuff like Starknife Comet and Desna's Shooting Star. The problem is of course that Desna doesn't actually exist in this world. Would you allow another diety for this? If so what diety? Tymora? Sehaine Moonbow? I'm thinking to pick up a level of warpriest to get both the Shooting Star and Weapon Focus since it's a rather crazy amount of prerequisites for these feats. Otherwise the character would probably be a flying blade swashbuckler, but I'm also considering ninja. There are a few shuriken related ninja tricks, I don't suppose you would allow me to use those with a starknife? If I do go for ninja, would you allow me to use fractional bab to stack with warpriest?

Will you allow the
Chameleon Class as a future goal?

You know I always did like this class, and the factotum, conceptually. In exercise I feel you'll be quite a bit weaker than the rest of the group, but if you want to try it, that's fine by me.

TGTGM: if I took the Coven hex (to better imitate Hathran Circle Magic), would the requirement of a hag be dropped? What if I took the Ethren feat as a prerequisite? Similarly, not just for me, but for someone like stormcrow27? (I don't know if he's interested, or if he even can, but I figure I'd ask just to be on the safe side.)

I think as a changeling, you can fill that roll, especially considering you'd be trying to reflavor it as circle magic. Yeah....that's fine.

Hey, TGTGM: would it be cool with you if I, say, "accidentally" ... how do I put it... "bumped" 'Smiling' Izrafil Thuranouth's god into, oh, I dunno, the direct path of his sister's swordblade allowing her to absorb his essence and divinity and thereby become the single coolest FR deity that exists?

Stricly hypothetically of course... *cough* >.>

If the two of you were chosen, and you did that, that would almost certainly lead to PvP, and what did I say about PvP? That would be like me saying "no fighting", and you spit in someone's face, and then the two of you fought, and you were like "but he threw the first punch!"

I would like to submit my character if you are interested. Taos Stormreaver- Human warpriest follower of Thor (A god from a long forgotten era in Faerun's ancient history....so long ago even the writers were unaware of this).

Um...no. There's like 50 gods or so already. Pick one that exists. It's called "Of Gods and Death" - the ones that exist are part of the story. Also, I see no character sheet, no story...not much more than a single sentence description.

I'm thinking that I want to make a starknife throwing character using stuff like Starknife Comet and Desna's Shooting Star. The problem is of course that Desna doesn't actually exist in this world. Would you allow another diety for this? If so what diety? Tymora? Sehaine Moonbow? I'm thinking to pick up a level of warpriest to get both the Shooting Star and Weapon Focus since it's a rather crazy amount of prerequisites for these feats. Otherwise the character would probably be a flying blade swashbuckler, but I'm also considering ninja. There are a few shuriken related ninja tricks, I don't suppose you would allow me to use those with a starknife? If I do go for ninja, would you allow me to use fractional bab to stack with warpriest?

It just seems so Selune to me, more than anything. Tymora would also be fine, as would Sehaine Moonbow.

No fractional bonuses. I may regret this, but you can use Flurry of Stars and Deadly Shuriken with starknives, provided you actually have enough starknives, and you have Quick Draw (since shuriken normally can be drawn as a free action and starknives can't, you need some way to throw that many in a single round). Those were the only two ninja tricks with shuriken I could see.

Storyteller's Shadows Submission, a work in progress.

Working on the Griffonrider concept. Sheet and background will be posted later.

the two of you were chosen, and you did that, that would almost certainly lead to PvP, and what did I say about PvP? That would be like me saying "no fighting", and you spit in someone's face, and then the two of you fought, and you were like "but he threw the first punch!"

Aww, maaaaaannn... but he'd still have a god, she'd just be so much cooler~!

Besides! My witch is totally a lady and wears a face mask! So she wouldn't spit!

:D

(I hope everyone's aware that this is mostly a joke; while the Masked Lady was one of the coolest deities in FR, she's not "scheduled" for another couple of years or so in-canon. And who knows of what we do now will stop that from occurring? And I do like your character concept and build Izrafil/Limey! ... oh and also, since we're mentioning stuff like this, it'd be ooc - I think - for her to do that kind of thing. :D)

Lots of good submissions so far with great story hooks. This may be a hard choice for me... (That's a good thing, as far as tough choices go.)

Tharasiph wrote:

Will you allow the
Chameleon Class as a future goal?

You know I always did like this class, and the factotum, conceptually. In exercise I feel you'll be quite a bit weaker than the rest of the group, but if you want to try it, that's fine by me.

Weaker? The Chameleon can have a Combat aspect, an Arcane aspect and If I built it from an Inquisitor it would also have divine casting.

Feel free to educate me on what I may not know about power levels for classes in mythic etc.. I don't really have experience with that part of the game.

Thanks for allowing the idea. Though not allowing fractional bab really hurts as it means I won't be able to qualify for Startoss Shower at 5 nor vital strike at 7 since I'll lose 2 points of bab instead of one (I was originally thinking 1 warpriest, 3 swashbuckler then rest ninja). I guess I have to rethink if this is possible at all. I wish all these prerequisites weren't there (well weapon focus at least). I guess I might have to drop the ninja part of the idea.

A blinkback belt would solve the problem of having enough starknives as would Ricochet Toss. I think i'll just buy the belt.

thegreenteagamer - I'm interested, but have only a passing familiarity with Forgotten Realms (it's been sooo long!) If I have questions regarding background and deity choices, would you prefer I post them here or PM you?

I'd post them here...not only might someone else know the answer if I'm busy, but someone else might benefit from the question.

Remember we're playing in the 3e/3.5 timeline, before the spellplague rearranged everything.

I hate the spellplague storyline.. Forgotten realms before that was awesome and fun.

I hate the spellplague storyline.. Forgotten realms before that was awesome and fun.

Me, too. That's why this is set before that.

and thus your a legend.. I'm not sure I could run a far reaching game in FR.. there's just too much to cover.

Tharasiph wrote:

I hate the spellplague storyline.. Forgotten realms before that was awesome and fun.

Me, too. That's why this is set before that.

Agreed!

That is why in my table top FR I will never come past the 1380's and if I do, the Spellplague will not have happened. :-)

Basic submission from goodwicki: Lavinia "Sureshot" Snowbeard, female halfling Ranger/Divine Marksman archetype. May still tweak the crunch if there's any particularly useful suggestions, especially in regards to favored enemies, but otherwise it's pretty much set except for a bit of gold left to spend - see alias profile. I believe all crunch is Paizo material; the fluff is where I require assistance.

My basic ideas for background are as follows. She's from a small society of Ghostheart halflings living in a hilly/mountainous region on the Great Glacier, possible somewhere at least vaguely threatened by Vaalathrim (to account for the Shadowhunter racial trait). Given her archetype's lack of magical ability (in fact, I'm not sure where the "divine" part of the divine marksman comes from...), I picture her paying only passing homage to a relevant deity, maybe Ulutiu (a possible tie-in to the idea of deicide down the road), Arvoreen, or even Auril. She possesses a complex set of animist superstitions, leading to a bevy of superstitious idiosyncrasies I'd like to develop in gameplay (along the lines of tossing salt over her shoulder, knocking on wood, spinning three times widdershins, etc.) which she believes gains her the favor of fate and spirits and allows her the use of her Adaptable Luck racial trait.

Raised as a hunter, she got to wanderlusting and left her people to head south, where she met up with Flarghin Ironstone and discovered she could make much more money hunting people rather than animals. Alternative reasons for leaving her people: perhaps they worship Auril, and she refused to fear/venerate her? Or they were wiped out by one of the many hazards of the Great Glacier and she fled south? Not sure how much you're looking to work our backgrounds into future plot threads, greentea i.e. if you're interested in us having pre-existing enemies/grudges/etc. that you can work with.

Which ideas sound reasonable for the setting/tone of the campaign, and which don't? Comments, questions, and suggestions are most welcome!

hey, i didn't have time to read the whole thread right now, so I apologize if these have been addressed but I'm interested and have a couple questions...

1) are you using background skills?

2) thoughts on using variant multi-classing?

3) are you allowing the variant aasimars (like angelkin or musetouched), or just the base one?

4) was there a deadline posted?

I will have the crunch finalized by this afternoon.

TGTG, would you consider Weal's Champion a Holy Tactician ability a suitable substitute for Smite Evil with respect to the Oath of Vengeance ability Channel Wrath or do you read it as it HAS to be Smite Evil and not a similar ability which I think Weal's Champion is?

Thanks for the opportunity to submit TGTG.

I have a question about languages. Is there a generic "Common" language, or does each nation have its own language? If so, what languages would you suggest we pick up? I've decided that since we're supposed to know a Dwarf, I would pick up Dwarven, but I was wondering what others would be a good idea.

Ugh, I didn't take into consideration the GP limit on items... Normally the limit is on maximum half the wealth for a single item, but cutting it down to 2500 means the blinkback belt is off limits. A blinkback belt would make things so much easier. Before that it's not really viable to upgrade my weapon. I guess I'll have to hope to track down one after the game starts. Hopefully we'll eventually be able to get a place with a decent selection of items. It's such a shame it takes so much for a throwing based character to get going.

I guess I could pick up a Cracked Opalescent White Pyramid and a Wayfinder in order to get Weapon Focus with the starknife. That might save me from having to take that warpriest level. Then I could start with Swashbuckler 3/Ninja 2. Though it's not like that's the only thing warpriest gives me, but it does make it easier to handle the feat taxes.

Selune fits very well in a game where we'll be fighting the followers of Shar. Thanks for mentioning it :).

Would you allow me picking up a Lesser Crystal of Return? It's certainly not a full blinkback belt, but it would at least make things more manageable. And it'll save me from getting Quick Draw to boot. It's from Magic Item Compendium. Note that a lesser weapon crystal has to be attached to a weapon +1, so it would only work for one of my weapons (though I can move it around later if I get a different magic item).

Settling on a standard wizard, never played one before. Alchemists and Wizards are equally nerdy, so rewriting won't actually be too bad.

Question about familiars for writing up my backstory:

I never liked the idea of trading out your familiar to a new model when taking Improved Familiar. It doesn't make sense story-wise to me - if I have a familiar it seems like it should be the same one throughout.
But I also really like the faerie dragon, which requires level 7.
Would I be able to take Improved Familiar at 5 and take a faerie dragon with reduced stats/power/fewer abilities? Then at 7 go back to standard stats.

Specifics to be determined if I'm chosen - I just wanted to figure out whether I was writing a standard or improved familiar into backstory.

Here is Phntm888's submission, Joran Gres, Inquisitor of Tyr, hunter of criminals, and sometime lawyer.

The profile is recycled, if that's okay. I might try to find a different picture for it.

I think I have everything in here except for one language, pending an answer to my earlier question. Mechanically, he's a switch hitter with a slight emphasis on range. I was going to do a magic bow, but a +1 composite longbow (+3 Str) is 2700 gold, so I put the +1 onto the longsword.

Let me know if I'm missing anything.

Battlespy's wizard tiefling submission, using an old alias.
Backstory and Personality are up on there, I will get mechanics up later today or tomorrow.

Which ideas sound reasonable for the setting/tone of the campaign, and which don't? Comments, questions, and...

It sounds great, actually, very thorough. :-D I wish I could tell you what favored enemy to start with, but I feel I might give away a bit of the plot with that. Outsider is a good bet for the long-run, though, as are undead and dragon. I can't promise you'll see those early, but I can promise you'll see them.

hey, i didn't have time to read the whole thread right now, so I apologize if these have been addressed but I'm interested and have a couple questions...

1) are you using background skills?

2) thoughts on using variant multi-classing?

3) are you allowing the variant aasimars (like angelkin or musetouched), or just the base one?

4) was there a deadline posted?

1. Yes.

TGTG, would you consider Weal's Champion a Holy Tactician ability a suitable substitute for Smite Evil with respect to the Oath of Vengeance ability Channel Wrath or do you read it as it HAS to be Smite Evil and not a similar ability which I think Weal's Champion is?

Weal's Champion seems like a watered down version of Smite Evil that hits the group, kind of like bard song....hmmm....Yes, I think that will work. You can use it in place of Smite for qualifying for abilities, etc.

I have a question about languages. Is there a generic "Common" language, or does each nation have its own language? If so, what languages would you suggest we pick up? I've decided that since we're supposed to know a Dwarf, I would pick up Dwarven, but I was wondering what others would be a good idea.

There's a common language. It's watered down and used for trade, and many nations and ethnicities do use their own language, but honestly...I don't want to keep track of that. In Toril (the FR planet) just about everyone human knows common, more or less. Racial languages could be very useful. Maybe...planar languages, as well... ;-) Justify it if you know planar languages, though. Ignan and Aquan and the like aren't exactly everyday things you can pick up at school.

Would you allow me picking up a Lesser Crystal of Return? It's certainly not a full blinkback belt, but it would at least make things more manageable. And it'll save me from getting Quick Draw to boot. It's from Magic Item Compendium. Note that a lesser weapon crystal has to be attached to a weapon +1, so it would only work for one of my weapons (though I can move it around later if I get a different magic item).

Yes, you can start with that. Look, if I choose you, I'm not going to screw you because you designed a throwing build. I want you guys to be able to play the ideas you have, so if you can't afford something essential right now, we'll get to where you can soon enough. :-) True, you have to find a city large enough to find what you want, but Sigil...well, Sigil is Sigil, and you'll go there eventually. If it can't be found in Sigil somewhere, it probably doesn't exist.

Question about familiars for writing up my backstory:

I never liked the idea of trading out your familiar to a new model when taking Improved Familiar. It doesn't make sense story-wise to me - if I have a familiar it seems like it should be the same one throughout.
But I also really like the faerie dragon, which requires level 7.
Would I be able to take Improved Familiar at 5 and take a faerie dragon with reduced stats/power/fewer abilities? Then at 7 go back to standard stats.

Not quite, but you can always choose a model of base familiar, and say it was your faerie dragon, who's been cursed into that form, (perhaps by opening a cursed book, or whatever) and you're doing research to figure out how to break that form. After all, wizards are constantly researching new spells anyway, right? Considering you can still communicate with your familiar even if nobody else can, it fits. Another popular option is casting a ritual spell on your existing familiar that evolves him into his new form. (Faerie dragons can fly, talk, and use their hands, which no base level familiar can do all 3 of - so even a scaled down one is pretty darn useful.) - I hope you like that suggestion.

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Phew! Lots of good questions! Getting excited for this one (and for getting over my cold if we're being totally honest)!

What are some languages used by the biggest nearby nations? Being a local startup in Knighthood I feel Galtur would know at least the most prominent one.

What are some languages used by the biggest nearby nations? Being a local startup in Knighthood I feel Galtur would know at least the most prominent one.

Well, a quick look in the 3.5 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting's page on languages shows that, what do you know, Damara has it's own language, Damaran, spoken in Damara, the Vaasa, and a lot of the surrounding areas.

Rashemi, Illuskan, Chondathan, and Thayan are all spoken beyond the regions Damaran is spoken.

See page 84 of the book (if you have access to it) for more ideas.

derpdidruid wrote:

What are some languages used by the biggest nearby nations? Being a local startup in Knighthood I feel Galtur would know at least the most prominent one.

Well, a quick look in the 3.5 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting's page on languages shows that, what do you know, Damara has it's own language, Damaran, spoken in Damara, the Vaasa, and a lot of the surrounding areas.

Rashemi, Illuskan, Chondathan, and Thayan are all spoken beyond the regions Damaran is spoken.

See page 84 of the book (if you have access to it) for more ideas.

Also (maybe) some of the links at the bottom of my big post at the top of this page!

Hey Green Tea! Chess here. Thanks for bringing some Forgotten Realms for us, and - wow - Chrono Trigger. Nice!

Anyway, here's my submission - Shogunto Heineous, rogue and brawler dying to get back into the adventure ;) The profile already has backstory and sheet, and I'll be adding some more meat (appearance, behavior, etc.) on the next couple days.

Thanks again for the consideration! :)

Hello again! =D

Oh my! I've been following this trhead closely and so many very fine callers we have!

Alas, I'm a simple man with simple tastes. I like to tell a story, and I post frequently, and many of my posts are favorited by others.
And too many strange rules and exotic builds makes me feel all muffle-headed. ;-D

But competition is fierce, so we must needs have something. Something special. I mean, of -course- I'll have to re-use an old Alias from an old game that just died, but it had a lot of life when it was going, and that is certainly something. =)

Hi there! =))

Character submission from Atlas2112!!

As promised he's an Unchained Summoner with an Azata Eidolon. I went half elf for the Ancestral weapon thingy and the totally awesome favorite class bonus.
I still have to get his money spent and some details finalized, but the rest of him is ready and roaring to go!

Also as promised I tried to do something special with the character concept and backstory. Summoners get a bad rap as hyper-thinking control machines that just want to dominate the battlefield and out do even the best zookeeper necromancers.

But with Unchained, we might finally be able to look at the -story- between summoner and summoned.

Enjoy. =)

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And I am finished. :-)

EDIT: Spoke too soon, Background skills then I'll be done...

I'm going to withdraw my interest as I just got into another game. The character would have been fun, but I gotta have time too...

So, I think I'd like to make a priest of Mystra... not a cleric though. Well, not mostly at least. I'm thinking a wizard, picking up mystic theurge. There's a path that works by RAW, but I wanted to make sure you're ok with it: I would start as a 5th wizard with the 'faith magic' arcane discovery (with allows me to qualify for theurge), then I'd dip 1 level of cleric (to have a casting progression to advance) and start Theurge at 7th. He'd see himself as a priest and if it's possible to have some official connection to the church I would. Does that sound ok?

Okay, here is Shadow the Dawn Hunter (updated with background skill)

and here is the...

Atlas, did you really literally use the same alias as the last game I GMd with you? I don't mind alias recycling, it totally makes sense, but to me Thomas Roland will always be a fast talking cannibal lawyer who banged a Seminole ghoul...its hard to wrap my head around it being someone else. Is it possible to C&P the character to another name? Thomas and I have too much history. If I chose you I'd keep expecting you to seduce the undead...or eat them...or both.

Nate, I'm not cool with loop hole early entry into dual class PrCs.

Well, that's why I asked. It's not actually early entry (I'd start theurge at 7th, like any other wiz/cl) but it does cost less lost wizard levels, so if you're not cool with that I understand. If that's not going to fly, I'd still like to do some kind of atypical priest... Maybe a magus, or a warpriest with VMC magus or something like that?

So, I think I have the concept down. This is Forgotten Realms so why not a Bladesinger?

A rather mobile scimitar-wielding Chaotic Good Male Elf Rogue (Unchained, Acrobat) 2/Magus (Spell Dancer) 3 to be precise. Traits will probably be Magical Knack and Metamagic Master (shocking grasp), while I will be replacing the Weapon Familiarity racial trait with Long-Limbed for a bit of extra speed (fluff-wise, still nicely proportioned and not freakishly tall or anything, just faster). Otherwise, he will be going straight Magus from now on and quite possibly investing in the Dimensional feat chain further down the road.

Basically a fast, agile and graceful elven warrior mage who was a bit of a scoundrel in his youth before following the family tradition and training in the ways of sword and spell. No worries though, he still remains scoundrely, roguish even. Father a Moon Elf, so a bit more relaxed, and mother a Sun Elf, so a bit... well, less relaxed, with Isandril -or Sand to his friends- combining physical traits from both of them. Demeanor-wise though? The kid takes after his father mostly.

Actual crunch and fluff to follow.

Well, that's why I asked. It's not actually early entry (I'd start theurge at 7th, like any other wiz/cl) but it does cost less lost wizard levels, so if you're not cool with that I understand. If that's not going to fly, I'd still like to do some kind of atypical priest... Maybe a magus, or a warpriest with VMC magus or something like that?

A warpriest with VMC magus would certainly be a different type of priest. It does sound very Mystra-esque, though.

After perusing the FR information available on-line, there is no date listed for the emergence of Vaalathrim from the Great Glacier, however it's referenced in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide which is post-spellplague. Should I just drop the Vaalathrim concept?

After perusing the FR information available on-line, there is no date listed for the emergence of Vaalathrim from the Great Glacier, however it's referenced in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide which is post-spellplague. Should I just drop the Vaalathrim concept?

You can just tweak it that it's from undead coming out of the great glacier in general. Basically, from what I read, the dead city is starting to thaw out, but isn't really free, so I could see that leading to a trickle of undead every now and then, but not a whole swarm...

Or you could just go with undead from the Witch King's kingdom in the Vaasa, which is right by the Great Glacier, before Damara and King Dragonsbane took them out. That was less than a generation ago.

Not quite, but you can always choose a model of base familiar, and say it was your faerie dragon, who's been cursed into that form, (perhaps by opening a cursed book, or whatever) and you're doing research to figure out how to break that form. After all, wizards are constantly researching new spells anyway, right? Considering you can still communicate with your familiar even if nobody else can, it fits. Another popular option is casting a ritual spell on your existing familiar that evolves him into his new form. (Faerie dragons can fly, talk, and use their hands, which no base level familiar can do all 3 of - so even a scaled down one is pretty darn useful.) - I hope you like that suggestion.

I like the idea of them being cursed somehow! That sounds good to me

Been rather quiet over the weekend...though the forums in general always seem to be.

Still good to answer any questions; otherwise, this is just a reminder that submission deadlines are this coming Friday, October 21st, at 5pm EST.

Well, since you offered... I have two more questions:
1) what are your thoughts on the spellfire wielder 3.5 feat? Is that something you might be interested in adapting/importing?
2) what about the idea of making an arcanist and flavoring his arcana/exploits as uses of spellfire?

I'm still trying to settle on a build for an atypical priest of Mystra (warpriest/VMC magus is still a possibility)- one of the things I was thinking was a wizard who used spellfire to heal, but I could accomplish something very similar (maybe better?) as a white mage arcanist if I can flavor some of the class abilities as spellfire?

Well, since you offered... I have two more questions:

1) what are your thoughts on the spellfire wielder 3.5 feat? Is that something you might be interested in adapting/importing?
2) what about the idea of making an arcanist and flavoring his arcana/exploits as uses of spellfire?

I'm still trying to settle on a build for an atypical priest of Mystra (warpriest/VMC magus is still a possibility)- one of the things I was thinking was a wizard who used spellfire to heal, but I could accomplish something very similar (maybe better?) as a white mage arcanist if I can flavor some of the class abilities as spellfire?

Number 2 is totally cool with me. As for number 1...well...

From what I remember and read, it is very similar to Arcane Blast and the other feats similar to it that Paizo basically turned the Archmage class into. I would go that route, if you like that flavor.

Actually, reading through the ability it kind of does all that -and more- in one feat.

I'll tell you what - when you get Mythic, I'll let you take Spellfire Wielder as a Mythic Feat, and it becomes Silver Fire for one minute if you spend a Mythic Point. (Though with effects equal to your character level plus your mythic rank, rather than as a 20th level caster.)

I may regret that if I choose you. It's still a really cool concept, though, so I think it's a good decision.

Cool. I'll start working on an arcanist now with abilities/exploits based on and flavored as spellfire, and we can revisit the feat when we hit mythic (if I get picked, obviously).

Would you let a Psychic caster count as an Arcane caster for the purpose of Mythic abilities? After shopping around an Amnesiac Psychic sounded really rad, but it doesn't naturally mesh with any of the Mythic archetypes.

Would you let a Psychic caster count as an Arcane caster for the purpose of Mythic abilities? After shopping around an Amnesiac Psychic sounded really rad, but it doesn't naturally mesh with any of the Mythic archetypes.

Probably. Most likely. Almost certainly, unless it just seems much more divine in nature, in which case, well, there you go. Like, to me the Occultist kinda seems more divine in theme.

But you asked about an Amnesiac Psychic, and that seems pretty arcane - but maybe that's just because it reminds me of Tellah from Final Fantasy IV.

New goal: Call someone a spoony bard at some point.

Dang it. It's almost enough for me to make a low-CON spoony frivolously amorous bard... but no, I will stick to my hag-touched guns...

EDIT: For clarity and education.