Psilacetin's Solo Spectacle

Game Master Psilacetin

I'd simply love to run this back in reality but haven't the time or the manpower. I came here to look for a single player (to keep matters as manageable as possible) who relishes getting slaughtered a challenge. Naturally our lone wolf would get some type of power boost to compensate, but the going would still be brutal, especially in the beginning. Finally, this game would emphasize the player character's story above all else. If you choose to derail the plot train, you will suffer the consequences but you won't be forced back on. Thoughts?

I've never played a solo game but I'm open to trying.

I would be interested.

This sounds interesting.

My idea would be for an Aeriekin (Were-raptor Skinwalker from the Bestiary of Trial of the Hunted). He'd trace his heritage to an owl-like wereraptor and be a follower of Tanagaar. He'd be an Inquisitor using the Sacred Huntmaster and Green Faith Marshall archetypes.

Or how about... Ya know... A normal run of it? :D

This sounds interesting. Do you have an idea yet of the character creation guidelines/

Normalcy just ain't in vogue, at least in my book. Also, like I said I'd like to really load the story onto a single character. For character creation, I had in mind something like:

• Gestalt, possibly even tristalt.
• 30 point buy regular or maybe 20 on a point by point basis.
• Max HP every level.
• Feat every level.
• Background skills or perhaps just bonus skill points.
• Starting level 2, or even 1 if you're a purist.
• 2 campaign traits in addition to the 2 normal traits.

I could be very interested in this. I've been thinking in terms of solo games for a while now, I'd love to try it.

I had a character that would do good for this. He has 3rd party material but can be updated. He was a throwback to fighter/mage/thief I used to have. (This is his alias)

For a solo game meant for 4 PC's I like the gestalt/tristalt idea. The rest looks good. I'd suggest using feat tax rules so power attack etc are moved to combat options.

Ah yes, let's roll with these feat tax adjustments. I'm also open to third party, but will review anything before I allow it.

Edit: I did more googling and found these feat changes as well. A lot more bonus feats, but a bit more bookkeeping. Once again, feel free to pitch your preferred rules.

I was thinking something like a 30-point buy gestalt situation would work.

Would you allow the Warlord? From what I've heard of the AP, it seems fitting.

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This is a character that I would love to be able to do a playthrough of that with. He's currently a Barbarian (mad dog), and I would update him to gestalt with the Unchained Rogue (bruiser, if 3rd party is allowed)

Backstory is completely done, and I can do anything else per request. Thanks for looking!

I'll work on a character tomorrow. I'm thinking since there is no party dynamic to worry about, I might try a necromancy character. I wrote a magus archetype for Fat Goblin Games called the Battlefield Defiler that I've been itching to actually play... combined with a martial gestalt it could be awesome. I can send you the class PDF if you'd like.

Yes to all the homebrew so far. I checked out a review of the Battlefield Defiler and that looks decent as well.

What about spheres of power?

What kind of moneys should we plan to start with? Would it make sense to have starting gold equal to a full 4-person party?

This is a character that I would love to be able to do a playthrough of that with. He's currently a Barbarian (mad dog), and I would update him to gestalt with the Unchained Rogue (bruiser, if 3rd party is allowed)

Backstory is completely done, and I can do anything else per request. Thanks for looking!

I just noticed that the backstory wasn't accessible for some reason. Just lettin you know that it's now fixed

How would you feel about a natural lycanthrope in terms of power up instead of starting lvl 2? So start at 1 but with the template.

I'd go for the wereraptor (as in bird, not dinosaur) as seen in the bestiary of the first part of the AP. It would be eagle based.

The basic idea behind it is that the character is part of a family of hunters, all wereraptors, who live a small distance from Phaendar and come to the town to trade. My character would be the only current inhabitant of the home. When he was old enough to leave the "nest" his parents instead left the territory to him and went their separate ways.

Here's the bones of Cartmanbeck's character, with a bit of backstory. She's a magus (the Battlefield Defiler archetype is listed in a spoiler in her profile, BTW) and a vigilante as well, with TWO social personas (thanks to the Guise of Undead social talent). One of her social personas is a beautiful young human girl who the town loves and appreciates, and the other is an evil vampire who shows up to terrorize the locals every so often. Ulmah keeps her REAL self hidden from the locals for the most part, spending any of her alone time researching undead-creation techniques.

Spheres of power: yes. Lycanthrope: yes. Wealth is TBD at the moment.

In other news, with all of these characters rolling in, I guess this thread has officially moved from interest check to recruitment.

Would you allow animal companions to use Wisdom for skills?

Deep in the woods, a half orc strides with three warcats. He moves like them, he has fangs like them, he smells like them. He runs through the moonlight to face what he has heard is there. The goblinoids who slew his tribe.

Oh, I built mine gestalt, should I be doing tristalt? That'd be fun haha.

Went ahead and updated Ulmah to tristalt with the Ranger to get full BAB, which lets me switch my vigilante specialization to Stalker and get hidden strike. :-D

Nazard's character, Falcon Gray. I went ahead and made him tristalt as well, adding a slayer class to help with the nature-related skills and abilities.

Okay, I'm thinking of a character... Oracle as one side of the gestalt, maybe Bloodrager as the other half. Play up the oracle half as being a new development for the character and make it a necromancer, sort of a "The Hobgoblins invade, I barely survive but find I have a skill bestowed upon me that can even the odds, but... at what cost?" sort of thing. I can imagine his dialogue with an NPC questioning his actions of raising the dead going like this.

"We don't stand a chance if we don't use everything to our advantage. I hate this too, but its the only way! Think of them as tools for now. Just... Just tools."

I have always liked the non-consensual part of being an oracle and I think iron fang, especially going solo, would be a great place to show of the side of oracle you rarely see. The side that doesn't WANT the power, that gets a version of the class they think is ghastly or cruel, but has to use it to survive.

Yeah. I think I'll try making that.

Tristalt was option that I offered to those who felt inclined, but it's all completely optional. I purposely didn't set any hard and fast rules to character creation to allow for more freedom on the sole adventurer.

Edit: Wisdom for animal companion skills I'd allow at the cost of a feat from the character - call it the "Skilled Companion" feat on your sheet (or something else if you can think of a more creative name)

Okay, I'm thinking of a character... Oracle as one side of the gestalt, maybe Bloodrager as the other half. Play up the oracle half as being a new development for the character and make it a necromancer, sort of a "The Hobgoblins invade, I barely survive but find I have a skill bestowed upon me that can even the odds, but... at what cost?" sort of thing. I can imagine his dialogue with an NPC questioning his actions of raising the dead going like this.

"We don't stand a chance if we don't use everything to our advantage. I hate this too, but its the only way! Think of them as tools for now. Just... Just tools."

I have always liked the non-consensual part of being an oracle and I think iron fang, especially going solo, would be a great place to show of the side of oracle you rarely see. The side that doesn't WANT the power, that gets a version of the class they think is ghastly or cruel, but has to use it to survive.

Yeah. I think I'll try making that.

This is a lot like this alias I'm using in a Wrath of the Righteous game. Barbarian (spirit totem)/Oracle (haunted curse). He's dead, but he carries all of the rest of his tribe around. Before he was mythic, he would sort of space out when he cast spells.

So if you do go with tis concept, I'm going to need a 10% royalty of all xp and treasure. :)

Looking at a Dwarven Cleric (Crusader of Erastil)/Ranger (Falconer)/ Warder (Hawkguard)with an owl companion.

Wanted to make sure the Hawkguard Warder is ok.

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Okay, I'm thinking of a character... Oracle as one side of the gestalt, maybe Bloodrager as the other half. Play up the oracle half as being a new development for the character and make it a necromancer, sort of a "The Hobgoblins invade, I barely survive but find I have a skill bestowed upon me that can even the odds, but... at what cost?" sort of thing. I can imagine his dialogue with an NPC questioning his actions of raising the dead going like this.

"We don't stand a chance if we don't use everything to our advantage. I hate this too, but its the only way! Think of them as tools for now. Just... Just tools."

I have always liked the non-consensual part of being an oracle and I think iron fang, especially going solo, would be a great place to show of the side of oracle you rarely see. The side that doesn't WANT the power, that gets a version of the class they think is ghastly or cruel, but has to use it to survive.

Yeah. I think I'll try making that.

This is a lot like this alias I'm using in a Wrath of the Righteous game. Barbarian (spirit totem)/Oracle (haunted curse). He's dead, but he carries all of the rest of his tribe around. Before he was mythic, he would sort of space out when he cast spells.

So if you do go with tis concept, I'm going to need a 10% royalty of all xp and treasure. :)

Man, and here I was thinking I was being modestly original... Oh well. I will however contact you upon receiving any amount of any resource should I be selected in this game. Pinky promise.

For all those asking: anything from Path of War is on the table.

Any changes to wealth by level?

Awe man I need a good background tie in but a monk/paladin champion of irori would be so fun. Gestalt is perfect for that feel of mastery. Afterwards id have to think of what best fit the character.

Cleric wizard into mystic theurge/ martial l class, probably an elf would be hella exciting.

Without access to a proper keyboard at the moment I'm always interested to see i should write up everything without some indication of being considered.

Don't bother with wealth at the moment, I'll work that out with whoever I end up choosing.

Blashimov, there's no need for a full statblock and backstory, just enough of a blurb for me to get a feel for the character.

Alcantha is a half elven woman cleric of http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Ketephys and wizard. She loves the quiet woods, the free spirits of the people. Her elven father moved on many years ago, but her aging mother still resides in town, cared for by Alcantha. She feels somewhat not good enough for her absent father and took up wizardry as a way to quietly convince any doubters ( including herself) that she was worthy. Of what specifically ...she didn't get that far. While these feelings have faded, she's had too great a taste Of the wonders and satisfaction of arcane magical learning to stop now.

I'll actually have some more time in a bit to write more.

How do you feel about RGG's Talented Monk class?

I'll toss Tyrek into the mix here - just going to give fluff for now since you seem very willing to discuss character creation rules in a flexible way. Provisionally though I'd like to play a fighter/mindblade magus for the most ultimate two-weapon-fighting ever...

Tyrek Archaos
Tyrek was born a human on the island of Mediogalti, home of the Red Mantis Assassins and was, for many years a devout follower and assassin for Achaekek, the Mantis God. A consumate professional, he was greatly aided by the ability to pull blades from thin air which lead to his signature assassination - killing his target in the most public place possible without ever being seen to wield a weapon. Rising swiftly through the assassin ranks Tyrek, or at that time Tyra, became one of the Vernai - hailed by her acolytes as 'the White Mantis'.

Unfortunately success within the Red Mantis can be a dangerous thing and, during her meteoric rise Tyra earned the emnity of Blood Mistress Jakalyn, the ultimate authority and expression of Achaekek's bloody will. At her instigation Tyra was ambushed on a contract, dragged before the Blood Mistress and had her throat ripped out by the Mistress's sabre. Her death did not last long however.

About a week after Tyra's murder a dwarf man, wearing the White Mantis mask that was Tyra's trademark entered the Crimson Keep and, entering the throne room, declared Jakalyn deposed by the will of Achaekek. He proceeded to pull weapons from mid-air as Tyra had always done and attempted to carry out the sentence there and then. Captured and tortured he swore, with the dedication of a fanatic that he was Tyra - reborn by will of the Mantis. Jakalyn, unshaken by this announcement, had the madman executed and thought nothing of it.

So it has been for six lives that Tyra, upon every death, has reincarnated, each time as a new person, but also fiercely convinced of Achaekek's will and plan for her. Each death however sapped her of her power and Jakalyn and the Vernai have never spared any effort to hunt down and eradicate The White Mantis whose very and continued existence presented a dangerous threat to the orthodoxy of the Red Mantis church, whatever incarnation it might be found in.

Reborn five years ago as a man, and tired of the constant battles Tyrek chose the path of least resistance. Walking until he could walk no more he arrived in the small town of Phaendar and, finding the people friendly and not overly disposed to ask questions, settled there for the first time doubting the will of the Mantis God.

For the past five years Tyrek has made a quiet but stable living in Phaendar, working mostly as town constable, a role in which he has become known for a strict adherence to the law and has garnered a reputation for fairness, if not kindness.

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Now in his seventh incarnation Tyrek is, both physically and spiritually a wreck of what he once was. Although capable of remembering each of his previous lives he has lost much of his hard won skill and, as his subsequent lives have tended to be short and brutal, has never really had the chance to regain the skills he once possessed.

His faith, likewise, is complicated. He has come to see the Red Mantis as a corruption of Achaekek's teaching - their insistence on payment and willingness to slay almost anyone without compunction makes them organised serial killers rather than assassins in his view. For Tyrek Achaekek is the necessary evil of existence, the monster who keeps other monsters down. Although his past lives have proved that the Red Mantis Church is not going to fall easily his own continued presence in this world reassures Tyrek in his darkest moments that the Mantis God has not forgotten him. His time will come.

Psilacetin did you have an idea of when you'd make a decision? Thanks! As usual looks like a hard decision.

Recruitment closes Friday morning. Fully built characters are not necessary.

How do you feel about RGG's Talented Monk class?

Allowed.

Here you go, I pushed in tristalt vigilante with the serial killer archatype because I want this character to a broken, angry man who just wants it all to stop. Bad luck follows him everywhere he goes and there's seemingly nothing he can do about it. His identity being evil let's him do some really messy stuff in the name of getting things back to normal. getting renown in the groups of people he kills means that he'sgoing to be feared among the hobgoblins. A good thing to be in a war.

Most of his stuff should be good to go. So yeah, heres my entry.

I am very familiar with the encounters in Ironfang Invasion... A single player's going to get annihilated.

Have fun!

I am very familiar with the encounters in Ironfang Invasion... A single player's going to get annihilated.

Have fun!

You just have to get creative. Of course if you try to go head to head you'll be annihilated, that's why I have craft traps and am going to get raise dead. Probably going to pick up summon monster to, still probably going to die but... I think a shot is had.

The character I'm working on is pretty self-sufficient. Of course, action economy being what it is, there are dangers aplenty to be had.

Versatility is a key factor, of course. Being able to heal myself for 5d8+1 and to pugwampi enemies' attacks for 5 rounds each 7 times a day helps to keep the survivability factor up.

I'm working on the fluff, but I think the build for my character is about done. I gotta admit, I went all over the place before deciding on classes (and went back and forth between darf and half-orc before setting on half-orc.)

She's a half-orc Mage Knight/Stalker (Soul Hunter)/Talented Monk.

Now to work on making her story pop.

How long until recruitment ends?

Tomorrow morning.

I had a slight change of mind and instead of running a wereraptor I'll be going for a Halfling Werejackal using the Switchback Jackal as the base animal.

He is a local from Phaendar where he is known as a smuggler with skills beyond compare, as long as he can carry what he is supposed to smuggle. He even crosses the border into Molthune without any issue whatsoever.
What they don't know is that he does that by changing into his animal form. Nobody pays attention to a lone jackal crossing the border.

I'd preferably make him tristalt but normal gestalt could also work, though he'd pack far less of a punch. The first two classes would be Ranger, using the Transporter archetype, and Investigator, using the Cipher archetype. The third class would be either Psychic or Witch using the Jinx Witch archetype. The latter would mean I have to find a way to cast spells in his animal form though. Perhaps I'll make him a Sphere Witch as well.

As for the character's approach to doing this all solo, subtlety is the key word. He'd be trying to single out targets or even set targets up against each other.