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@Rednal I think it should work only on those that are already destined for there.
Thanks for the submissions so far guys. Some interesting ones for sure.
On second thoughts to keep the idea of hard to resurrect perhaps it should send the souls to their alignments respective destinations, rather than all to hell.
Alright, I think I've got him altogether now. He's the one below the broken lines. Morthos
There still might be some mechanics issues here and there but that's pretty much the gist of him.
Decided on Warpriest, thunderbeard, mainly due to the extra bells and whistles. I mean, who doesn't like bells and whistles? :)
Ok here's the build. Definitely taking Dread Vampire at 5.
Female moroi-born dhampir (svetocher) antipaladin (lord of darkness) 3/sorcerer 3/gestalt 3 (Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of the Night 20, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player's Guide 118, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 89)
CE Medium humanoid (dhampir)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +0
Aura aura of obedience (DC 16)
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Defense
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AC 20, touch 12, flat-footed 18 (+6 armor, +2 Dex, +1 natural, +1 shield)
hp 30 (3d10)
Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +9; +2 vs. disease and mind-affecting effects, -1 vs. positive energy damage
Defensive Abilities negative energy affinity; Immune disease; Resist cold 5, undead resistance
Weaknesses weakness to positive energy
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft. (20 ft. in armor)
Melee bastard sword +6 (1d10+6/19-20) or
blade boot +7 (1d4+4)
Special Attacks bloodline arcana: ghoul, smite good
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st; concentration +6)
3/day—obscuring mist
Antipaladin Spell-Like Abilities (CL 3rd; concentration +8)
At will—detect good
Sorcerer Spells Known (CL 3rd; concentration +8)
1st (7/day)—chill touch (DC 16), protection from good, ray of enfeeblement (DC 16), shield
0 (at will)—dancing lights, detect magic, prestidigitation, ray of frost, read magic
Bloodline Ghoul
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Statistics
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Str 18, Dex 14, Con 6, Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 20
Base Atk +3; CMB +7; CMD 19
Feats Eschew Materials, Power Attack, Spell Penetration, Toughness
Skills Acrobatics -3 (-7 to jump), Bluff +11 (+21 to lie and any lie you tell cannot be detected via detect lies, zone of truth, or similar spells.), Diplomacy +7, Fly +3, Intimidate +5 (+9 on Intimidate checks made against living creatures within 10 feet. Beat DC by 10 or more and issue a command as the spell), Stealth +3; Racial Modifiers +2 Diplomacy
Languages Common, Infernal
SQ aura of evil, cruelty (cruelty [sickened]), ghoulish claws, resist level drain, touch of corruption, unholy resilience
Other Gear agile breastplate[APG], buckler, bastard sword, blade boot, bedroll, belt pouch, flint and steel, masterwork backpack[APG], mess kit[UE], pot, soap, torch (10), trail rations (5), waterskin, 979 gp
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Special Abilities
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Aura of Evil (Ex) The antipaladin has an Aura of Evil with power equal to her class level.
Aura of Obedience (1/day, DC 16) (Su) Demoralize living creature within 10 feet
Bloodline Arcana: Ghoul Heal 1 HP per spell level when casting necromancy spells that do HP damage.
Cruelty (Sickened, DC 16) (3 rds) (Su) When you use your Touch of Corruption ability, you may also make your target sickened for 1r/Antipaladin level
You may only apply a single Cruelty ability to each use of Touch of Corruption, chosen when used.
Darkvision (60 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white only).
Detect Good (At will) (Sp) You can use Detect Good at will (as the spell).
Energy Resistance, Cold (5) You have the specified Energy Resistance against Cold attacks.
Eschew Materials Cast spells without materials, if component cost is 1 gp or less.
Ghoul Your connection to the hungering undead shapes your magic.
Ghoulish Claws (8 rounds/day) (Su) You can grow ghoulish claws.
Immunity to Disease You are immune to diseases.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in dim light, distinguishing color and detail.
Negative Energy Affinity (Ex) You are alive, but react to positive/negative energy as though you were undead.
Power Attack -1/+2 You can subtract from your attack roll to add to your damage.
Resist Level Drain (Ex) Negative levels don't impose penalties or become permanent, but still kill if exceed HD.
Smite Good (1/day) (Su) +5 to hit, +3 to damage, +5 deflection bonus to AC when used.
Touch of Corruption (1d6, 6/day) (Su) You can inflict 1d6 damage, 6/day
Undead Resistance +2 bonus to saves vs. disease and mind affecting effects.
Unholy Resilience (Su) You gain your Charisma Bonus as a bonus to all saving throws.
Weakness to Positive Energy -1 to save vs. effects that deal positive energy damage.
Dotting for interest. I am going to work on an elven bard (archaeologist)/wizard (evoker).
Here is the bard/wizard I promised. His crunch is all in his profile. When working with the group, he will first and foremost be a wizard that provides some buffing/debuffing as well as direct attacks. He will be a good sage for the group (he has all of the knowledge skills at +12 or better to start with) and he can serve as the rogue for purposes of dealing with traps.
One fine evening, Tragershen was hosting a party at his townhome. The first floor, the sage office that served as his front, was dark. The three levels above that beamed with light and music. Tragershen effectively held court with the young and rich of the city, until a little after midnight. When the party was coming into full swing, there was a crashing noise from below. Tragershen excused himself and went down to investigate. When he reached the ground floor, he found it was swarming with guardsmen, ransacking the office. He started to protest, but then he realized the front door was still closed, and a cleverly concealed trap door in the floor was shattered open. The guardsmen had come from below, from the hidden room that held the articles he’d stolen, the slaves awaiting delivery and, most damning, his ledgers. They must have found a way to follow his slaving operation through the sewers to his sub-basement! He tried to flee back upstairs, but one of the guards must have been a priest because with a word he froze Tragershen in place.
The guards broke up the party sending everyone else home after taking their names. The guards made sure that, as they left, they saw Tragershen in manacles just outside. Once the townhome was empty, the captain sneered in Tragershen’s face when he said ”Now, no matter what, this life is gone for you! In Mitra’s name, I swear it!” Then the captain snatched a torch from one of the guards and pitched it through one of the townhome windows. With all of the books and scrolls in his office, it was mere moments before the whole building was engulfed in flames. Everything Tragershen had built up for almost a century, gone. Wine, books, spellbooks, scrolls, finery and jewelry, all gone.
As the guards hauled him away by the glow of his burning fortune, Tragershen silently vowed to himself. Not only would he rebuild all he had just lost, but he would get revenge on everyone involved in his fall from grace, all the way up to the throne!
Alright. What's the timeline looking on finishing/selection?
I will update a background tomorrow and put feat tweaks and the like in.
tired must sleep.
Deadline for submissions is end of the month. 31st January. After that I will make selection 24 to 48 hours later.
I do enjoy the flavour of groetus. It's less of insane "Bring about the end" and more of "The end will come eventually, best live for the now."Dude's a real downer...Groetus has no formal religion or church, with many of his faithful being made up of lone madmen prophesying the end of everything, or megalomaniacs bent on bringing about the end of creation to please their god.
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Information is typically gleamed from scribblings by the mad, often upon asylum walls or in the blood of a murdered victim.
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The worshipers of Groetus celebrate few holidays, seeing such frivolity as pointless and meaningless in the greater plans of their deity.
I just realized I never replied to you. I meant to a while ago.
I understand the flavor of Groetus. What I meant is that that's how my character views his faith, and his general outlook on life. I realize that Groetus is pretty much just death and inevitable destruction but I've seen plenty of different interpretations of many faiths in Pathfinder. I mean who wants to be just another raving doomsayer?
Ah, fair enough. Just like those non-evil hellknights out there.
7 completed submissions so far and looking good. 4 days left everyone. I'm preparing the opening few posts to get you up to speed on what happened if you haven't played this AP before.
Ack, much as I love gestalt, I got accepted into another WotW I'd applied for, and I probably shouldn't play in two of the same game at once. XD I'll bow out here.
Kinda want to apply with a Worm that Walks
Drow noble daring champ-psychic bloodline arcanist.
No worries Rednal. Have fun over there.
I think some people have dropped out annd i won't have quite as much work to sort through so I'll give you 2 new guys a chance to make a submission. You have 3 days.
DM HolyWater, would I have my wondrous items at half price because of my crafting feats or no?
Also the Abjuration school power that grants energy resistance doesn't specify what types it can be applied to, in your opinion would it extend to things like force or negative/positive energy?
I believe it should be resistance to one of the five energy types (acid, fire, cold, electricity or sonic). I believe wondrous items are crafted at half price yes.
1 more day to get submissions completed. I will start looking through everyone again now and begin selection process.
If it's not too late to throw in a new hat, I'd like to offer up an Antipaladin/Black-Blooded Oracle (mostly done) submission for your game based off an Antipaladin that I had put together for a game awhile ago.
Backstory is in the profile already, will put together a description/motivation together to go with it soon. The crunch is currently being reworked in line with gestalt and your houserule additions and will also be up soon.
Same here, most of profile is in the link in the profile but the basics are here.
Quick question, if Power Attack is a freebie what about Piranha Strike for those of us with a Dex based attacker?
No problem guys. Do you have a back story Drovic?
Working on it now, had to finish off his gear setting. Its 6 AM here so still a little foggy
EDIT: History is in the onsite profile here.
Well alrighty, thanks for your consideration. Crunch has been put together and updated into the alias details (minus gear outside of basic weapon/armour for the moment).
Also I've been having a look through the templates in the list on the SRD to consider something in that direction, however haven't done so before and not too sure on what might be an interesting option for the character I'm going for. So far just know that I'm not looking at undead options since it doesn't feel right thematically for him.
Just saw this recruitment. Will rework to get the character within creation guidelines.
Antipaladin (Lord of Darkness) / Oracle (Nature)
Lawful Evil Medium Humanoid (Dhampir)
cheers
Hey DM
Just upgraded his stats, levels, feats, and spells. Still working on another trait. Do you need any background or transition story?
Um. I'm sad about equipment, because I would lose my masterwork full plate. Can I keep what I had at the end of the last campaign?
cheers
Background before and upto your crime is what i want. I will allow non masterwork full plate and 1 weapon.
Final party will be chosen in ~12 hrs.
Made a reasonably hefty change to the character build; have decided to apply the Advanced (CR +1) template in place of one of his Oracle levels. Pretty darn simple and it fits in well of how I think of him as a character.
While the first gift that Asmodeus granted to Cassus, that of the blessings granted to an Oracle and their ability to draw forth divine power from their patron has come with a significant drawback in the form of the Black-Blooded Curse, the second gift he has been granted has no secretly hidden thorns, Asmodeus has seen him down to his very soul and shaped him in mind and body to reach up to the pinnacle of human possibility. After all, the Prince of Hell expects the very best from his servants...
In the character creation it says stat boosts from templates are removed. So if you want the advanced template you only get +2 natural armour. Most likely not a worthy template choice anymore.
...well apparently reading comprehension has failed me a second time today. At least this time it didn't have me turning up to the doctors in the middle of a work day for a checkup thats actually a month away.
Char sheet details will be changed back :D
After much deliberation I have chosen the following 4 characters. Please join me in the discussion thread guys.
Tragershen
Marvin the Strangler
Luna Auriel
Carnadine
Sorry to everyone else. There were definitely enough of you that I really liked that I could do two 'tables' but right now I need to focus on making 1 work first. Best of luck in future applications.
Good luck to all of you. Give 'em Hell for me.
Good luck all, here if someone falls out.
We 'may' have lost one of the group already. Our Bard Magus has disappeared for unknown reasons about a week ago. If you are still around, are not currently playing in a way of the wicked game already, have a character that isn't too similar to my current players and are ok with playing from part way through the first book then post below and I shall consider a replacement character. I most likely won't choose any more full caster classes, but you never know. I chose the current party because they were interesting characters/backgrounds.
If you'd be alright with taking me onboard then I'd be happy to retool the crunch details for Cassus Davinor, as long as a some sort of divine class is part of the gestalt to symbolise his bargain/pact with Asmodeus I feel that it would still be in line with his existing backstory. Off the top of my head a swashbuckler//warpriest could be fun...
I would also be perfectly fine with antipaladin/warpriest if you wanted that. Cassus was one that i liked which was tough to cut first time around. Retool him if you like and he will definitely be considered.
After giving it some thought I've decided to rebuild Cassus as an Inquisitor/Swashbuckler (nobody expects the Asmodean Inquisition!), I think it will be fun style to play and though the build will be a bit more MAD than before I don't really see any problems with that. I'll get working on it and send you a line once it's been completed and updated into the alias profile for your perusal.
Mefika, have you considered Inspired Blade? It's just one option of many, but it does make you less MAD (less dependency on cha, and easier access to slashing grace)
Thanks for the advice, I actually had looked into that for consideration however didn't feel the benefits were worth the drawbacks for gaining back panache in this instance, especially considering the bonus to feats DM Holywater is providing covering Dex to Dmg concerns. I will be taking Infiltrator archetype for the Inquisitor though, it gives some bonuses that mesh with having a higher Wis and flavour-wise it seems like it fits in well thematically with the campaign as well.
Fair enough. It gives you slightly higher damage output, but you are restricted in available weapons, which matters to some people. I'm personally just a big fan of archetypes (hence stacking four)
HolyWater, are you taking submissions to replace your missing PC? I'd love to drill up a Ranger/Rogue for this campaign. Let me know and I'll have a submission today!
Yea you read correctly. Would love to see your submission.
Cyrus Snowe, Lawful Good Evil Human
Servant of Mitra Asmodeus
Unchained Rogue 3 / Unchained Monk 3
5'0", 140 lbs. Black hair, Blue Eyes.
40ft Movement
Str: 10
Dex: 20
Con: 14
Int: 12
Wis: 16
Cha: 8
39/39H
AC 19 Touch 19 FF 10 (10 + 5 dex + 3 wis + 1 dodge)
F: 6 (3 base, 2 Con, 1 ABP)
R: 9 (3 base, 5 Dex, 1 ABP)
W: 6 (1 base, 3 Wis, 1 ABP, 1 Trait)
Init +7: 5 dex + 2 trait
Unarmed Strike +9/+9/(+9 ki flurry) 1d6+5 (+2d6 sneak attack)
22 CMD 8CMB (12 Grapple)
Acrobatics: +11
Appraise: +7
Bluff: -1
Climb: 0
Diplomacy: -1
Disable Device: +14 MW Tools
Disguise: +5
Fly: +5
Heal: +3
Intimidate: +5
Perception: +9
Ride: +5
Sense Motive: +9
Sleight of Hand: +11
Stealth: +11
Survival: +6
Kidnapping: +1 To CMB for Grapple and Disarm Checks
Quiet as Death: +2 to Stealth
Reactionary: +2 to Initiative
Indomitable Faith: +1 to Will saves.
0: Power Attack (Free)
0: Deadly Aim (Free)
0: Combat Expertise (Free)
1H: Agile Maneuvers: Dex to CMB instead of STR.
1M: Improved Grapple: +2 grapple, no longer provokes
1: Weapon Focus (Unarmed Strike): +1 to hit w/ Unarmed Strike
2M: Dodge: +1 dodge bonus to AC
2: Combat Reflexes: Extra AOO per round
3: Pummeling Style: Apply all damage before going through DR
Trapfinding
Evasion
Sneak Attack (2d6)
Danger Sense +1
Finesse Training (Unarmed Strike) Dex bonus to damage
AC Bonus (Wisdom to AC, Monk)
Flurry of Blows
Stunning Fist (3/day Fort DC 14)
Fast Movement (+10ft)
Ki pool (4/day)
Ki strike (magic) - Unarmed strikes are magic if ki pool > 0
Ki flurry - Spend 1 ki for additional attack during flurry
Cyrus is alarmingly short for a huaman, standing only at five feet tall. Lithe and pale, he exudes insecurity, though it be only a guise. He dresses in dark clothing: black with earthy tones. His hair is jet-black, almost giving it a greasy appearance, and his eyes are a deep, unnatural royal blue.
Cyrus believes in loyalty and honor to commitments, but only to those who deserve it. He has accepted that working with Cardinal Thorne is for the greater good of Talingarde. He has a soft spot for children, and an aversion to fire.
If you had told Cyrus a year earlier that he would be working for the High Priest of Asmodeus, he may have died in laughter. Born and raised in Matharyn, he was as devout as they came: his love for Mitra was nearly unmatched; so much that on his 18th birthday he enlisted in the Kings Army. Lord Barca saw promise in the young man, who made up for his lack of physical girth in speed and precision, and sent him to work for the Mitran Church. The Church employed him on delicate missions: seeking out blasphemers and desecrators, and bringing them to justice; recovering stolen artifacts and church relics, and apprehending those responsible for taking them; and infiltrating the slave market to capture traders, as well as free those wrongfully taken. The years of work showed him the darkest side of Talingarde; the parts the blissful residents of Matharyn dare not even imagine. Though slightly jaded from the experience, his unique (and sometimes inappropriate) sense of humor left him able to weather it.
Sadly, all good things must come to an end. His final mission sent him to small fishing community near Daveryn. He met with his contact, Bishop Zass, who tasked him with finding out who was repeatedly desecrating the local temple. While finding the perpetrator, Gavin Prince, was a simple enough task, what he learned from the 'villain' was horrifying: the vandalism was occurring because Bishop Zass was taking liberties with Prince's young son. Outraged and disgusted, Cyrus attacked Bishop Zass, subduing and bonding him, and loaded him up to take to Matharyn for trial.
Too bad for Cyrus that Bishop Zass had friends in high places. Upon arriving to the capital, Cyrus was arrested and charged with kidnapping; though the word 'charged' is hardly fair, considering he was dragged to Branderscar the same day, without trial.
As Cyrus leaned against the wall with his arms shackled over his head, only one through ran through his head....
Why has Mitra forsaken me...?
What ensued was a breakdown of everything he had ever known. Even as a prisoner, he thought he had rights, but the guards were eager to brand his arm. They were as corrupt as the slave traders he used hunt down. Criminal scum like the ones he so eagerly captured before were soon to help him escape from the hell of Branderscar, escaping mainly through means of a corrupt Sergeant and a lazy Warden. He concluded that Talingarde was backwards; he knew change must inevitably come. Meeting Cardinal Thorne just reaffirmed those beliefs; everything he said made perfect sense. Talingarde needed to be reborn, and Cyrus wants to be on top when it happens.
(Gear and a more detailed background coming soon, just fleshing him out, thanks for the opportunity to submit)
DM! What are your rules for spending my gold? How much can I spend on a particular item? Can I purchase wands of less than 50 charges for less?
Could the Inquisitor Cassus Davinor please report to the discussion thread. Thank-you for your submissions again.