Can I build this Eidolon as the embodiment of Ratfolk and thereby grant it the Swarmfighting ability as a 1 point Evolution? This would be a great build for the trajectory of this character to be sure.
I would like the Eidolon to be a front liner but one that I can stand with so that we may assist each other from time to time.
EDIT: Getting a bit tired over here - can I use Craft Alchemy to make Poison?
Rikkan Tikki
Ratfolk Warpriest 1/Summoner (Unchained) 1
(25 Point Buy)
Strength 10
Dexterity 12
Constitution 13
Intelligence 12
Wisdom 16
Charisma 16
HP= 17 +(Summoner HP roll) [Favored Class Warpriest]
AC = 12 (Summoner can cast wearing Light Armor with no penalty)
CMD = 0
CMB = -1
BAB = 0
Melee Attack – +1 - Heavy Pick 1d4 x4 Critical
Ranged Attack – +2 - Hand Crossbow – 1d4 + Poison
Swarming - Ratfolk are used to living and fighting communally, and are adept at swarming foes for their own gain and their foes' detriment. Up to two ratfolk can share the same square at the same time. If two ratfolk in the same square attack the same foe, they are considered to be flanking that foe as if they were in two opposite squares.
Fortitude +3
Reflex +1
Will +7
Movement – 20’
God – Ferrakus - Ferrakus & Trait.
Combat Proficiencies – Simple Weapons + Hand Crossbow, Rapier, Sap, Shortbow, Short Sword + Heavy Pick, Light Armor & Light Shields.
Languages:
Common, Goblin.
Skills: Warpriest 4+1+1 Favored Class, Summoner 2+1.
Acrobatics = (1) +5
Bluff = (1) +7
Climb = +0
Craft (Alchemy) = (1) +7
Diplomacy = (1) +7
Disguise = (0) +5
Escape Artist = (0) +3
Fly = (0) +3
Handle Animal = (0) +3 (+4 more for Rodents)
Heal (0)
Intimidate (0) +3
Knowledge Arcana (0)
Knowledge Dungeoneering (0)
Knowledge Engineering (0)
Knowledge Geography (0)
Knowledge History (0)
Knowledge Local (0)
Knowledge Nature (0)
Knowledge Nobility = (1) +5
Knowledge Planes (0)
Knowledge Religion = (1) +5
Linguistics (0)
Perception = (1) +9
Profession (0)
Ride (0)
Sense Motive = (1) +7
Sleight of Hand (0)
Spellcraft (0)
Stealth = (1) +11
Use Magic Device = (0) +5
Abilities: Well Hidden (+2 Disguise & Stealth)
Blessings:
Luck - At 1st level, you can touch an ally and grant it a lucky presence. The target of this luck can call upon it to roll any one ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check twice and take the better result. The decision to use this ability must be made before the roll is made. Once used, or once 1 minute passes, the effect ends.
Earth - Acid Strike (minor): At 1st level, you can touch one weapon and enhance it with acidic potency. For 1 minute, this weapon emits acrid fumes that deal an additional 1d4 points of acid damage with each strike. This additional damage doesn't stack with the additional damage from the corrosive weapon special ability.
Aura – Neutrality.
Sacred Weapon – 1d4 Damage – Heavy Pick
Race Ratfolk:
Small Size +1 AC & Attack Bonus, -1 CMD & CMB. +4 Stealth.
+2 Dexterity & Intelligence, -2 Strength.
Tinker +2 Alchemy, Perception, Use Magic Device.
Rodent Empathy. Swarming.
Darkvision 60’.
Traits:
Bane from Below - Benefit Whenever you flank a target, you gain a +1 trait bonus to damage. Priests with the sneak attack ability may also add this bonus damage to sneak attack damage as well.
Amiable Blunder - Your easygoing demeanor allows you to sometimes recover from potentially awkward social situations or even condemnatory faux pas. Benefit(s): Once per day when you fail a Diplomacy check by 5 or more and would cause an NPC's attitude toward you to worsen, you can immediately attempt another Diplomacy check against the same DC as a free action. If you succeed at this second Diplomacy check, the character's attitude doesn't change, as though you had failed the original check by 4 or less.
Life Link – Transfer HP to retain it on plane must be w/in 100’ to retain full power.
Summon Monster I – 6x Day – 1 Minute Per Level
Spellcasting:
Concentration +4
Spells:
Cleric – (Channel Positive Energy)
0th – (3) Detect Magic, Guidance, Resistance
1st – (2) Cause Fear, Protection from Evil
Summoner –
Known
0th – (4) Acid Splash, Arcane Mark, Daze, Mage Hand
1st – (2) Expeditious Retreat, Rejuvinate Eidolon (Lesser)
Per Day
0th – Unlimited
1st - 2
Eidolon – Level 1
Psychopomp – Spirit of the Rat - Neutral
Base Form – Quadruped (Bite Limbs (2 Legs))
Base Evolutions – Level 1 Immune to Death Effects, Disease and Poison.
HP = 11 – AC = 14 – Initiative +6
Str – 14, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 7, Wis 10, Cha 11
Speed 40’ – For +3, Ref +4, Will +0
Bite - +3 – 1d6+2
Darkvision, Link, Share Spells.
Feat: Improved Initiative
Skills: Climb +3, Intimidate +1, Stealth +3, Swim +3
Evolutions 1 – (Typical) Swarmfighting OR Improved Damage (1d8 Bite) OR Claws 2 more attacks 1d4 +2 Damage each
EDIT 2: Still need to pick a feat and buy gear.
EDIT 3: Does Augment Summoning work on an Eidolon? I have seen arguments both ways. I would need Spell Focus as a Pre-Requisite first anyway.
EDIT4: Summoner HD
I answered my own question on poison!
Question: Am I correct in thinking that anything that enhances a mite's Handle Animal skill is going to benefit them in their working with vermin?
You should look at all the racial traits. Also having the tribes working together all these years we might have some room for learning other racial traits (within reason) via the "adopted trait".
How about a vermin-themed Animal Friend trait? I'm still holding out hope that my combination of abilities allows me to use Handle Animal against vermin. If it doesn't apply against Animals as a result, I'm OK with that.
Interesting; that feat is apparently missing from Hero Lab.
Racial ability: Vermin Empathy (Ex)
This ability functions as a druid's wild empathy, save that a mite can only use this ability on vermin. A mite gains a +4 racial bonus on this check. Vermin are normally mindless, but this empathic communication imparts on them a modicum of implanted intelligence, allowing mites to train Medium vermin and use them as mounts. Vermin empathy treats swarms as if they were one creature possessing a single mind—a mite can thus use this ability to influence and direct the actions of swarms with relative ease.
Feat: Vermin heart
You may target vermin with spells and special abilities that only affect animals (although they are still affected by spells targeting vermin as well). You may use wild empathy to influence vermin as easily as you influence animals.
Conclusion
I don't think I gain anything from this feat. I already have the ability to train vermin according to the description for the racial ability and that's what I was really looking for. I have a better wild empathy ability with them than the feat provides. Thanks for the suggestion.
I am wanting the Handle Animal skill as a class skill; I have taken Savannah Child as a trait to take care of that.
Now I figure out how to get a greensting scorpion in Hero Lab.
That's very cool.
My understanding is that it's 25 pt buy, but you can't drop your low stats below 10. We'll all have a strength of 8, minimum.
Here's my goblin trickster's stats: S 8, D 20, C 13, I 17, W 7, Ch 8.
Unchained rogue 1/Evoker 1. Standard treasure, I presume?
Max gold I believe. I paid a few extra points for a 10 Str :-)
Initial pass at the character sheet for the mite cleric. "The One Below" was a vision she had in a dream of a snake or worm or something like it that moves through the soil below her feet. She's never seen it, but she hears it in the soil at night. She began worshiping it and her strong faith has led to her clerical powers.
She has a greensting scorpion familiar and a riding rat (which I intend to reskin as a riding beetle, but that wasn't an option in HL and I've killed too much of a day on this character build, especially considering it's not all that special.)
Anyway, here she is so far, warts and all.
I've got Gufi started. Still have to determine money and gear, but here's the basics.
I would just as soon assume the initial group perished. ...though it would be funny to have the only "normal" race in among a bunch of monster folk trying to keep things sane.
Fatal flaw in your method. You said not to vote if we had no preference, then did not set a deadline. You could be waiting for people that voted by not responding. Like me.
+1
I am thinking Colvin is an advisor/student of Splinter.
A give and take. He is loyal to his people but through Splinters vision can see how making the pact work will be to the benefit of his kin.
He will be confident but not overly so. Willing to stand and fight for what he believes in but will not sacrifice himself for glory.
Quuroog is fearful. She worships out of fear and receives abilities from that worship, so she fears that she will use it wrong. She's not certain that Scratch, her greensting scorpion familiar, is there to help her or to spy on her. She's pretty sure it was sent by the entity she worships.
She may spend an inordinate amount of time talking to the scorpion to make sure it's happy with what she's doing.
She's a work in progress, but that's the off-the-cuff reaction I have to that question right now.
Charyx is the most civilized of the bunch (so he believes). He is a leader, so naturally it comes with awesome perks and responsibility... and he has to be the leader because he is the only one who can handle that kind of responsibility.
Basically, an arrogant Professor X. Frail and weak physically, but a mental powerhouse and believes he is in charge because who else is as amazing as he is?
Not sure about Gufi. I want him to talk a little goofy, but he's got an 18 int, so he's not very goofy. Goblins seem to all talk like Gollum.
Maybe he should talk more like someone else. Some weird verbal mannerism...
It would ne pretty funny if he spoke proper English when Goblins were NOT around and degenerated his speech pattern when Goblins were around so as not to alienate himself from his own people. :-)
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I am laughing already....the mite cleric worships the "monster under the bed"....
The kobold nerd doesn't believe in the monster under the bed....
The goblin burned his bed just in case....
The ratfolk wonders what's a bed.....
Nice summation!
Ratfolk gain pluses to Alchemy so i would say potions and other alchemical items from the ratfolk.
I don't know what Goblins would produce.
Maybe instead of producing they can provide raw materials to create goods? Would make them integral to trade.
How about if ratfolk are relative newcomers and bring general manufacturing prowess, specifically things chymical, from their more recent exposure to other races and civilation?
I believe I saw that the Sootscales were going to have a role as primary source of silver. Of course, as a race, they often make a claim for magic in their blood. Those might translate to a knack for silver craftsmanship and general creation of magic items for the nations.
Goblins might have an iron mine and could have developed some skill fashioning basic item products. I don't picture them getting really sophisticated with their creations, but that's up to you and might only happen when an exceptional individual comes along.
Mites don't like iron because of its similarity to the cold iron they abhor, so their tools are generally made of wood. They have been known to produce some wondrous items or "potions" of rootstock, but only on those rare occasions that one of them develops the magical ability, generally the result of an ancestor with particularly strong fey blood. That and they are the primary contacts for the four nations and the fey in the region - not because the non-nation fey like them better, but they feel like they know what to expect from the mites where the non-fey are different. And better victims than allies.
That's off-the-cuff, initial reaction to the question. More might come later and you are more than welcome to ignore every word.
I will be away from January 1 to January 6. Will check in as I am able but likely I will be unable to post anything significant until my return.
I will be away from January 1 to January 6. Will check in as I am able but likely I will be unable to post anything significant until my return.Good we will start at your return!!
Sounds good, I am sure we are all looking forward to it! I have ever read anything about or played in Kingmaker so it should be a great experience.
Until then, shorties-es!