I can imagine old man Marten wailing in agony if the party contains a failed offspring who just stabs things
If you're familiar with the webcomic Order of the Stick, this sounds a lot like the party's leader, Roy, who went to fighter college to rebel against his arrogant wizard father. He's constantly fighting the perception that all fighters are stupid. He's the best straight man for the jokes in that comic.
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Love order of the stick. And I would love to see Marten’s son as a fighter type. :)
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Also because I’m bored as hell right now...just rolling as if we will be using same build rules. So I can have something to at least theory craft on.
17/16/13/13/12/4
A 17! And...a 4. Hmmm...well that is something to think on. I think that I’ll need to put a racial +2 on that 4, regardless of what stat it goes in.
Maybe...with such a low stat could have a character with a crippled leg? Lame curse either by being an Oracle or going VMC. Not sure exactly where to go with this.
Never pass up rolling dice.
14/15/15/16/7/16
Not bad.
I'm not 100% sure yet, we can start working on it once we have this adventure path done and dusted... no point making Uncle Drazh's surrogate son as a fighter if he dies in the last fight.
One the plus side the Return of the Runelords runs all the way til level twenty... but in my experience it'll probably be just the last fight at level twenty.
The houserules will probably be largely similar.
Dice? I like dice!
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Respectable!
Did we really do 4d6, drop the lowest? I can't recall. I always liked 2d6+6 better. But, if all the cool kids are doing it...
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6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 (That's 11ish point buy. Haha.)
So... tiefling offspring of one of these half-succubi?
Ferocia's satyr-fathered lovechild?
Anneka's child that gets born 'deformed' by the shadows she manipulates and comes out a fetchling?
Honestly given no thought to what I'd play next round, but I do love making characters related to the events of the previous APs, or affected by them. I would wait and see how this turns out before trying to pin down a character or class.
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Ha ha, that's awful! The point buy chart doesn't even allow for a 6 ability score, so, projecting, would that be -6 points each? If so, that's a 1 point buy.
Wizard, obvs.
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A 5 point buy :). I really don't know what I'd play. I'm with Ferocia. I'd like to see how this adventure impacts the characters before thinking about their futures too hard.
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I believe I had if your rolled stats aren't appealing to you you could do 20 points buy.
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I feel bad now. Obviously my post caused the dice roller to turn against us.
GM...how would you feel about a centaur as a PC race? It’s 29RP. But if you take away Advanced Strength (+2) (4 RP) Advanced Dexterity (+2) and Large (7 RP) then it goes down to 14RP. And it seems like that would still fit in their description as ‘varying wildly’ when it comes to size and build.
That seems like it would bring it in line with other races. And would be a lot of fun to play with. :)
Basic idea was having was Drazh, whether he lives or dies, becoming something of a Giant Hunting legend. And a Centaur deciding to follow in the Hero’s Footsteps, all the while having a completely unrealistic idea of what the dwarf was actually like.
For Return of the Runelords even this weird halfling/shetland pony style centaur variant you are working on seems a bit odd. I'm very reluctant as I'm not sure of how much of a fit it would be. The fan following in his heroes footsteps out of context part can still work quite well. I always find it more acceptible in games where a population of an odd race crops up. I think the biggest population of Centaurs near Varisia is in Cheliax. I'm not saying no but you asked how I fell about it and the answer is uneasy... but I haven't read any of the book yet, maybe I'll get notions just don't count on it.
However if Eluvias ever dies in Kingmaker I could definitely work a full on Centaur into the group (no bonus feat). And with the amount of open terrain the size would rarely be an issue.
Someone may find this handy!
Worldbuilder's Toolkit 6 on Bundle of Holding has some handy tools such as Hex Kit for mapmaking:
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@ Marten: I nearly spat tea over my laptop reading Marten's latest one-liner. Either you're a comedic genius, or I need more sleep. Haha.
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@ Marten: I nearly spat tea over my laptop reading Marten's latest one-liner. Either you're a comedic genius, or I need more sleep. Haha.
That one got FOUR favorites! I'm awfully proud.
(Get some sleep. :))
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Who knew Drazh's father took levels in Inquisitor (Living Grimoire)?
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Ha! That would be hilarious. :)
Traits
* Surprise Weapon: +2 Hit with improvised weapons
* Dockside Brawler: +1 damage with improvised weapons
Saves
* Fort: +6
* Ref: +2
* Will: +7
* Hardy: +2
Feats
Lvl 1: Catch off guard (From brawling as a youth)
Lvl 3: Improvisational Focus (For teaching wayward children)
Lvl 5: Skill Focus Craft Weapon’s
Lvl 7: Skill Focus Craft Armor
NPC Favor
Has an exceptionally well outfitted workspace, granting a +4 bonus on a specific Craft or Profession check.
Skills
- With craftsman racial, stoic negotiator
* Craft Weapons: +16 (+22 Masterwork tools and workplace)
* Craft Armor: +16 (+22 Masterwork tools and workplace)
* Profession Merchant: +15
* Knowledge Local: +11
* Knowledge History: +11
* Intimidate: +8
* Diplomacy: +8
Combat with improvised weapon
To Hit: +10
Damage: 1d4+3
And there we have it. Drazh’s father. A suitably demanding Dwarven artisan and merchant who overcame his own lack of a formal education through hard work...and who never quite got over how disappointing his meathead of a son was when it came to all things academic.
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I can't recall which one of you asked me, but someone asked what freelance projects I'd been working on and I had to reply 'top secret' since they weren't announced yet. Today two of the many projects I've been contributing to have been announced. I can now proudly tell you I am a contributing author to Starship Operations Manual and Lost Omens: Legends! Exciting day today!
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Top secret! Haha. I can't comment on that until the book is released. But, I wrote stuff and I'm super proud!
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You should be! That is super cool!
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That's pretty awesome, Ferocia!
That's great news, Ferocia!
Congratulations Ferocia! I look forward to them being delivered as part of my subscriptions... and finding out what these other titles are.
Sorry for not posting yesterday, I ended up pushing it towards the end of the day and then was just wrecked tired.
Do I have access to new spells (including 7th level spells) gained on level, or do we need to rest first?
Afraid you'll have to rest first, the new spells known are added but the spell slots need rest.
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To all my games: tomorrow is a really busy day and I won't be able to post. Please bot me as needed. Thanks!
For Creydon, I drew upon existing resources and builds. But I'm still delighted that Creydon has indeed become "the helpful halfling". :)
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For the record, I’ve decided to go with a Lame Psychic Searcher Lore Oracle VMC Magus for the next campaign. Had trouble figuring out what to do with a ‘4’ and decided that having a horrifically broken leg is a good representation. The build is designed to not have the 4 being crippling as a character, but rather be flavorful.
Have a very rough story in mind for him.
Sharing it now as others probably think about what will come next.
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An idea did occur to me... for those of you in the Wrath of the Righteous Campaign. If a character in that took the Divine Source universal path ability. Well suffice to say there could be a Cleric of Claire running around!
A sparkly heart shape... or a foamy tankard of ale?
Well suffice to say there could be a Cleric of Claire running around!
This makes me so angry.
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You just want a warpriest of Davok!
The world would be a wonderful, sparkly, flamboyant place, and I want to live in it! Haha.
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Based on a thread I made about what to do with the 4 I rolled, I was given a concept that I rather like. Going to roll with it, think it will be fun (Low wisdom Chosen One Paladin with a Familiar who keeps him in check). Plus my original idea of the Oracle is something I’ve done before...
Roll on this table twice, ignoring any further rolls of 100.
You gain an additional +2 racial bonus to your Wisdom score.
Once per day, you can drink a flask of holy water to heal 1d6 hit points.
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...and that makes it Wis6 instead of 4. Nice.
Gives me something to play with.
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Low wisdom chosen one paladin with a familiar that keeps them on track? Definitely doesn't sound familiar at all... lol
Joking aside, I'm sure yours will be much different than Claire.
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Low wisdom chosen one paladin with a familiar that keeps them on track? Definitely doesn't sound familiar at all... lol
Joking aside, I'm sure yours will be much different than Claire.
It isn’t lost on me! :D
But the idea is for the trait Scion of Legend. Part of his low wisdom is to hero worship Drazh, with completely unrealistic expectations of who he was. If Drazh survives through this campaign, the plan is to drop coin to pay bards to spread his name...with this Paladin taking it far too seriously. And the familiar using it to coerce the Paladin into not being an idiot.
Because it sounds hilarious to me to have Drazh he remembered as a warrior-poet, a scholar, a diplomat, and the epitome of all things virtuous.
The low wisdom will play a *big* factor in that. -2 Sense Motive and the naive drawback.
I’m pretty sold on the concept. Just playing around now, seeing if I can figure out how to make a throwing build work. :p
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Because it sounds hilarious to me to have Drazh he remembered as a warrior-poet, a scholar, a diplomat, and the epitome of all things virtuous.
Assuming Marten doesn't take the Immortality arcane discovery, this will have him spinning in his grave.
G&! d!@n site ate my post.
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Yeah, I just CTRL+C everything before I click preview or submit, nowadays.
*pours one out for Kevin's lost post*
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@Kevin: Damn, that is frustrating.
@Drazh: Dear. Gods.
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I can't recall which one of you asked me, but someone asked what freelance projects I'd been working on and I had to reply 'top secret' since they weren't announced yet. Today two of the many projects I've been contributing to have been announced. I can now proudly tell you I am a contributing author to Starship Operations Manual and Lost Omens: Legends! Exciting day today!
I am also a contributing author to this book of awesomeness that recently received a product page.
*happy dance*
Nice!