This is a tournament of heroes! So, we will be going with 25pt buy builds. You may take 2 non-campaign traits. No traits may be taken that adjust the amount of your starting gold or provide you with equipment or equipment upgrades for free. This helps balance everyone’s wealth and makes it easier for me to give everyone the same amount of money as they level.
All Paizo Classes are available, but no 3pp materials. Guns? Occult? Summoners chained and unchained? All fair game.
For races, I tend to think that the race inequalities shake out within the first few levels of gameplay. With the tournament rules the way they are, sweeping levels 1-4 won’t matter much in the long run. For that reason, any paizo race with racepoints less than or equal to 19 is fair game. I know there are some really cool RP unknown races on the pfsrd, but there has to be a line somewhere.
It is 19 specifically so that Kasatha will be off-limits. The one racial ability that I think has real staying power is having more than 2 arms.
HP will be max for level one and then 1/2 hit die rounded up for all subsequent levels (d6=4, d8=5, etc). We will not be rolling for hp because I want to remove that randomness from the tournament and subsequent tier list.
Start your builds at level 1, but have an idea of a leveling path in mind. You don’t have to tell me, but you won’t have a ton of time to level up your character between fights, so having most of those decisions made ahead of time will help.
Starting wealth is 175 gp for every character. This puts everyone on the same page starting wealth wise and make additional wealth as you level easier.
Alignment is 100% open. The normal don’t be a d*** pbp rules do not apply here. You are meant to be evil and kill your opponent, so if you want to build and evil character then bring it.
Background is fairly unimportant since this will be more roll-playing than roleplaying, but there may be some light rping in between combats or while you guys wait for others to finish up...so having an idea of your voice would help. A full 10 minute background is not required...but maybe just a rough outline of their personality and appearance.
I plan to have recruitment open for 2 weeks, after which the maximum even number of builds following the build rules will be selected. Because this is a PVP unfortunately an odd submission would mean an odd man out each round, and that doesn’t really work. So if we get an odd number of completed submissions, I will be picking one of them at random to sit out the competition. Otherwise though, if you submit then you are in. Because of this I will be limiting submissions to one per player, so that everyone has a fair chance of winning the bragging rights and there is no chance of you being pitted against yourself.