Jeez, this thread exploded since this morning! XD
Recruitment is over 1 week from the OP.
S'kar, not normally, but I can add that to the campaign! Interested?
Milah, that's fine, but be aware of how large an Elephant is and take that into account with your living expenses.
El Ronza, you cannot employ them all at one time obviously, but yes, you know all of them for your level.
Seranov, I can find you an equivalent. I also have the 3.X stats for living plant armor, which I THINK was called moonivy armor or something.
Mori, I can stat up newborn Roc for you, so you can end up scaling it as you level and it 'grows' to match your level.
Marko, MOST of the islands count as a jungle.
Rigel, I'm not spoiling everyone just yet... the campaign starts out at levels 4-5 anyway. :P
Gyrfalcon, Besmara is not a normal part of the cosmology, but she can certainly be included!
Tenro, not many super-sneaks. There are a few who have it as one side of the gestalt, but no full sneaks.
EVERYONE WITH ANIMAL COMPANIONS AND FAMILIARS, YOU MAY ADD ONE ARCHETYPE TO THEM FOR FREE AND THEY RECEIVE +1 HP PER HD! DUPLICATE ABILITIES DO NOT STACK.
HOW DOES EVERYONE FEEL ABOUT MYTHIC? NOT FULL-ON, BUT MAYBE 3 OVER THE COURSE OF THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN? THERE'S SOME PRETTY EPIC MOMENTS!
I'm with Seranov on the mythic. May as well go all-in. I've been flat out, but I'm currently working on my tinker; should have him up in a few hours. I'm thinking he's ex-navy, originally part of a crew sent to try and control the piracy of the coast, but failed horribly and now has a reputation as an eccentric fool, building machines out of scrap metal and driftwood.
As in your pet gains the abilities of one of the animal companion or familiar archetypes for free, on top of whichever one they may choose to select.
If there is any Mythic, it must be a majority vote and it will still not be implemented until AT LEAST halfway through the campaign.
I am cool with or without mythic. with it, i would likely go with Trickster or dual path Trickster/Champion
Mechanically mythic can be a lot of fun to play with, but it'd be about the story aspect for me. Even a couple levels of mythic would deserve something epic, like saving a god or stopping an evil god, or even being chosen to face an evil god for past deeds by gods and blah blah etc other ideas etc. If we weave it into the story right, I'd be all for it. If not, we're already gestalt so that already gave us a lot of fun options, and I'd prefer it to not just be a mechanical thing.
Woo mythic! Sign me up!
As in your pet gains the abilities of one of the animal companion or familiar archetypes for free, on top of whichever one they may choose to select....There are archetypes for animal companions and familiars? What book is that from?
Animal Archive. They're on the d20PFSRD. I'm personally fond of the Charger archetype for mounts.
Mythic sounds totally bodacious and awesome! I'm all in!
@GM Queen - If you could keep the slave/slavers thing in mind, that would be satisfying. Feels good to do good. But, I think I'm gonna need the feat "mechanically" elsewhere. Hope you don't think less of me. Matters what you think... even after recruitment.
Are HP max all the way, or max 1st, then something else?
Oh, forgot to say:
There's a Roc in the animal companions list, I had planned on using that, but I'm certainly amenable to letting you stat something up. I'm still at a loss as to why a hawk (tiny) has Con 11, and a Roc (medium) has Con 9. :p
Edit: Free Archetype! Grabbing Totem Guide for my Dire Osprey then! Will have to see what Familiar archetypes there are.
Okay so I've decided to do a Fighter/Bard class, he will be a great guy that makes stupid decisions. It's a good thing that he is good at getting out of trouble because his lack of common sense seems to get him into a lot of it.
Edit: Mystic sounds awesome!
Mythic is fine. Super fun for PCs, giant headache for DMs.
I have fighter 6/mythic 1 PC that is not remotely optimized and he hits for 4d6+40. Enlarged crits hit for 12d6+84. Oh and he has a base speed of 50ft.
Mythic tends to get a little unbalanced....
Heeeeeeeeeey Princey!
S'kar, I think no less of you... crunchy bits are important to many people, so I don't begrudge you for it. :)
CHARACTERS AND PETS WILL HAVE MAX HP PER HD, AS WILL ALL MAJOR NPCS AND 'NAMED' MONSTERS!
Mori, I have no idea... all that balance crap tends to leave you scratching your head about why they made something a certain way.
Celic, KITTY!!! :3
@GM Queen: That level works for me. It makes it suitably epic and at that point a tier or two of mythic won't be horribly unbalancing either. Is the stable/house thing I spoke of okay for 1k gold or should it cost a little more?
I'm always fond of having Mythic. ^^ Though, I have no real thoughts on animal archetypes for now... may not actually need an animal companion. XD
Dag, let me look up prices. I'll get back to you on that... just remind me via PM in about 12 hours.
Tenro's submission, all done except equipment (working on that now, but gotta go to an IRL game).
Backstory worked out via PM, but i will get something formalized in the alias after equipment is done.
@GM: Ah that's much more reasonable. Things are already pretty crazy at that point.
Okay, everything should be all ready to go, for real this time!
Oh drat! Forgot to mention that Freeport is a city just near the Razor Coast area, so if you want to tie your backstory there, feel free! I'm also homebrewing Scuttlecove as being part of the Razor Coast, so if any of you are familiar with that den of iniquity, it's an option too. Do note that most of the action occurs around Port Shaw, however!
Another vote for mythic, but agree with Marko about the story being the important thing.
At the very least, she'd certainly have talked to Rigel in the Salty Siren if only to ask exactly what she was. :p
That's not the most original chat-up line, but with looks like hers Rigel has learned that people can get tongue-tied around her ;)
EDIT: I've put a bit in her background about not working against the Tulita; either tracking down escapees, or combating their freedom-fighting organisation, The Broken. In-character, it's because Rigel has a certain amount of fellow-feeling for them (after all, gnomes haven't always been treated kindly or well); out-of-character, I don't want to conflict with any of the PC's who're playing native characters.
Agreed, Mythic for mythic isn't a good reason. But if the story makes sense then I can see it.
Not really a fan of mythic, so I am going to pull out.
I could roll with mythic.
@Rigel: Any thoughts about the ideas I gave?
@Dagoresh: gah, I'm such a ditz - I thought I'd already replied, but clearly not!
Yeah, I can see Rigel taking on a help; especially one whose height and muscle are going to complement her own skills set. Even more so if she has to leave Port Shaw (she doesn't like being too far from the nearest mirror civilisation, which is kind of odd when you get to know that her early life was in sylvan surroundings among the fey).
They probably made an odd, but highly effective, couple; even once Dagoresh left to do his own thing, I'd imagine Rigel stayed in touch - if she got word that he was getting an adventuring group together, she'd come running (or at least, strolling cooly - but rapidly).
He'd probably be up for working as a guide for her in the future as well if she came a knocking! Dag's pretty cool like that. And yeah, he acts as the meat shield to your gunslinging and spellslinging pretty well...
That said, he wouldn't be willing to help the less justified kind of hunting. He's got a personal interest in protecting innocents and so on. She might be able to convince him if its a pirate or a slaver she's hired to take down without a bounty, but she'd learn very quickly not to mention the innocent merchant she might be asked to shoot.
The glib answer to that is aw, honey, there ARE no innocent merchants in Port Shaw, but in fact I'm thinking of toning down that bit of her character... She's more of a morally ambiguous 'Han shot first' type than a stone-cold killer (I apologise to any readers too young for that cultural reference).
Actually, the more I look at it, the more I like the idea (or at least the feel/story bit) of the Shaw Sheriff prestige class... Someone to stand up (however reluctantly) and say "Hey! Enough of this s**t"
Aware we're at risk of (a) clogging up the thread and (b) looking presumptuous - PM me?
The glib answer to that is aw, honey, there ARE no innocent merchants in Port Shaw, but in fact I'm thinking of toning down that bit of her character... She's more of a morally ambiguous 'Han shot first' type than a stone-cold killer (I apologise to any readers too young for that cultural reference).
Actually, the more I look at it, the more I like the idea (or at least the feel/story bit) of the Shaw Sheriff prestige class... Someone to stand up (however reluctantly) and say "Hey! Enough of this s**t"
Aware we're at risk of (a) clogging up the thread and (b) looking presumptuous - PM me?
yeah, i looked at that prestige class, it IS pretty cool. just a little too much of a good guy for my character (and takes away from his specialties).
i cant wait for selections!!
Me either. I have all my character's work on the laptop that now has decided to die. Must get it repaired. No worries though. I can work on it again. ^.^
But good luck to everyone! Goes back to the drawing board with a giggle.
Change name a bit, easier on the typing and possessive.
Thinking Skarr partnered up with a female who is the brains of the duo (also socially ostracized/marginalized but skilled). He helped her run some trouble off. And he joined her Surplus and Salvage business, he was a natural at maritime salvage. It's what he does when he's not hired on with a ship's crew.
Times have been lean for salvage, so the establishment has sectioned some space and doubles as a dosshouse/flophouse. Rent is low and can be worked off. And, of course any tenents fall under the protection of Skarr Moonskimmer, no small boon for any being victimized.
Though understated verbally, Skarr is in demand as a free agent/mercenary crewman. His loyalty unquestioned, leaving no man or woman behind where others might cut & run. The criminal element leaves him alone, knowing his ethical leanings.
Probably changing my race to Aasimar, but using checking with RVT to see if I can gain the Mask trait like a Reaper.
It's official... I'm in love with the Warlock, the Oracle alternate 3PP class. An eldritch blast in exchange for spellcasting capabilities and I get a revelation at EACH level and can pick from those normally archetype exclusive? Not to mention the other fun stuff I can do and my nice +4 to CHA skill checks bonus.
I'm planning on my character being a servant of Mnemosyne, Goddess of Memory and Time, journeying forth to recover one of the last pieces of her stolen memories.
I'm trying to make his fused eidolon form as odd as you would expect from the servant of a goddess that is described as a shard of the universe made manifest... planning on making it look angelic, but with the weirdness inherent in old depictions of angels: several large batlike wings covered in white feathers tipped in gold and studded with large red or golden eyes, a blank face like a fleshy alabaster mask except for his two eyes of glowing silver or gold, and other odd features like those. I'm probably going to make him have a different personality in his fused form too. I'm planning on painting a portrait of him in this form and posting it in his profile if I can make it look good, because it's hard to describe the mental image I have for it.
Trying to decide between a staff or a scythe as my melee weapon. My initial thoughts are to go with a scythe. Thoughts?
@The Silver Prince - What flavor is your character culture-wise? Classical Greek? If so, perhaps a spear (close to staff) with a sword as second.
The scythe seems out of place with a lot of reaper motif. I know it fits the character, mask and all. But, I'm a 7 foot tall lizardman, so who am I to talk?
So, my vote given the options presented is... Staff.
Later, magically enhanced... a blade could spring out and transform it into a Scythe. As a free/swift action. Possibly a physical reminder (evidence) of an evolution of character.
You know, you can change the alias at the same time you edit a post. o wo;
Also, that Warlock class sounds fun. XD I'd like to take a look at that sometime.
@fnord72 - Thinking of a woooord... Pirate! It doesn't make you a bad person. I'm messin' by the way.
Professionally, you may have seen or heard of Skarr Moonskimmer. On the same or opposing side. Skarr is for hire, so it may even have been both!
I'm up with having served with Skarr in the past.
Holy Moly, imagine being on the receiving end of that duo. I just looked up Kasatha.
Hmmm... Cover me! Skarr sprints towards the ship's rail, hurtling himself across the gap to the attacking vessel. His powerful legs churn the air as a hail of bullets from behind clears the way.
Landing with a thud, 400 pounds of reptile and steel tumble through the enemy line. The stuff of nightmares.