GM Dak - Shattered Star 1

Game Master Dakcenturi

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Good morning all!

Hiya, checking in. Working on my alias now and the preliminary build.

I am considering also adding pact wizard, with party consensus. Any thoughts?

Which Pact Wizard? There are two archetypes with the same name.

Pact Wizard, Familiar Folio

Pact Wizard, Haunted Heroes

I'm guessing since you're asking for consensus you're considering the first one (from Familiar Folio) since it can potentially tie our fates to powerful outsiders. If you're choosing anything non-evil I have no objections. If you're considering something evil I would be a little hesitant, just make sure you fall within the GM's original guidelines of "Working with the rest of the PCs and have no plans or intentions of betraying them". As long as I don't get stabbed in the back I have no objections.

Hello!

You can take one or both Pact Wizards as far as I am concerned.

Full disclosure on my character:
-I fudged the item I get from the Alabaster Outcast trait to be Mwk. Lamellar Leather. Technically, I get an item that's 200gp or less. Instead, I got something that's 210gp and paid the 10gp difference.
-I am taking the Elf favored class bonus for Cleric, not the Half-Elf. I think that's legal, but there it is.

Let me know if any of that is problematic.

I was considering the haunted heroes one, with an undecided pact. But you all might think scrolls are better.

The familiar folio one is interesting, but one additional banned school is a bit difficult to manage, I think.

I plan on taking the magaabyan arcanist after level 6. I want to provide the most utility as I can.

I was considering the haunted heroes one, with an undecided pact. But you all might think scrolls are better.

The familiar folio one is interesting, but one additional banned school is a bit difficult to manage, I think.

I plan on taking the magaabyan arcanist after level 6. I want to provide the most utility as I can.

That seems fine to me. The one thing I would note is that Magaambyan Acanist requires Scholar and Spell Mastery as prerequisite feats. If you take straight wizard, you can use your Level 5 bonus feat on Spell Mastery, freeing up a feat. But if you're keen on the Fast Study power in Pact Wizard (HH), then it's probably still worth it to take the archetype.

Mechanically I’m fine with whatever you guys want to do with your characters.

As for backstories - do we have any further weaving we wanna discuss?

Did you read my long post from the other thread? I’m not entirely sure I was right within the actual lore of Golarion, as I did a bit more reading afterwards and discovered a handful of innacuracies. Otherwise, I think there are points of commonality AND a bit of conflict in our outflook, which will be interesting to deal with.

Ohhhh, pffftt, you build how you want. Scrolls, no scrolls, firing fireballs from your earlobes, makes no difference to me.

Yeah I did read it. And I like it. I’m just seeing if we wanted to hammer out further details between the two of us as well as anyone else if they were interested.

As for backstories - do we have any further weaving we wanna discuss?

Me! I definitely want to tie my backstory in with someone. I've had a busy day at work today and haven't had anytime to spend on this, but I'll definitely get my concept flushed out tonight and posted here.

The TLDR is that Esrisi is an aasimar (scion of humanity) dual cursed (haunted/tongues) oracle of Sarenrae from House Derexhi. House Derexhi is a family-run business that has offered guards and protection duties to those in Magnimar, whether for short or extended periods, since Magnimar was formed. Being a house of humans, Esri's heritage is kept secret and though externally she is treated normally, internal to the family she is considered illegitimate and a burden due to her curses, and that leaves her an outcast among her siblings and parents.

Ez speaks Elven and is being forced into the pathfinder route to take up family values and get her away from the day to day happenings of the family in Magnimar. She'll have high diplomacy, but I'm not sure on her path on mysteries or revelations quite yet. I'll flush that out tonight.

I'm also up for working backgrounds together.

@Phoenix - If your family's business is guards and protection there's a good chance they would have hired Drask at some point. Although likely he wouldn't have stuck out much unless something dramatic happened. Just some hired muscle who likes to drink, probably a dime a dozen for the Derexhi family.

Okay...workin the rules a bit here, but before I put anything in my alias I wanted GM approval first.

Trying to craft my bow. Goal is Masterwork Compound Longbow.

Base Take 10 value is 16.

Compound Longbow is DC 15. Can do that easy enough.

Masterwork DC is 20. Here’s where it gets tricky.
I can buy some Masterwork Tools for 55 gp. There is +2 for result of 18.
I could hire a Trained Hireling at 3 sp per day to assist me for +2 from Aid Another. There’s the 20 I need on a Take 10.
Per the base crafting rules, it would take me 5 weeks to make the Masterwork Component. That’s 10 gold and 5 silver in paying the Hireling.

So, crafting the base bow costs 33 gold, 3 silver, 3 copper
Crafting the Masterwork Component costs 100 gp
Masterwork Tools - 55 gp
Hireling - 10 gold 5 silver
Total - 198 gold, 8 silver, 3 copper
Result - Masterwork Compound Longbow (Elven Made ;-P) and a set of Masterwork Bowyer Tools

Is this kosher with you, Dak? Or too much of a stretch?

If everyone's pairing up for background tie-ins, seems to me that the clerics of love and lust could pair together. Caroliss would say that being desirable is about how you act as much as how you look. Though it seems like Sapher would put that theory to the ultimate test!

I'm ok with it, my only stipulation was you have to take 10, if you want to pay the costs for the tools and hiring someone then you are good.

Because Veltariel is my friend, could I cast caster’s fortune for her?

Perhaps that was the start of our friendship? Trade of spell casting services in return for bodyguard work? Then when by the time my contract was up, we had actually become something akin to friendly, and Veltariel continued to travel with you and keep you safe from this “non-Elven scum” you insist on associating with. Haha

That would ultimately save me 65 gold and 5 silver too.

That’s a good starting point - I wouldn’t have it memorized every day, but it seems like a good one to know.

I gotta come up with a good name in Xhosa, research required!

Really liking what I'm seeing!

:)

I'd be honored to pair up with you Tazo! Both of us are pathfinders, so easy to do so. I was having Sapher be an exchange agent but she could have come earlier and spent the last several years in the city. Or you could have been assigned to her to make her transition easier. Either, or, or anything else really.

Helpful is one of the best traits!

Oh! Thassilon. Is anyone picking it up? The players guide mentioned it being a major element. Sapher did get linguistics so could get it, just didn't think it fit.

But if she needs to, I can figure out a way to justify. Like... the cranky old cleric of Bolka made her do write offs in a useless language every time she swore, or hit something or behaved un-Bolka like, so she spent a lot of time writing in it.

Caroliss can take Thasillonian. She grew up in Magnimar and was in training to learn magic. So it fits just fine. In fact, I was just struggling with the limited number of Cleric skill points, and I was going to have her take it at Level 2, but now that we are talking about it, I better get that first.

Also, next level, Caroliss is taking a whole mess of knowledge skills, because she is better educated than her Level 1 character sheet leads one to believe. For now, all she can manage is K. Nobility so she knows who all the important people are. :P

You can say she does know all of it, just doesn't know us well enough to show her better educated side. :)

I agree, I do like clerics but hate their lack of skill points.

Taking Thassilonian doesn’t fit my build or background. So Caroliss can be that specialist.

Also, a coworker called in sick for the next 4 days so I’ll be picking some overtime shifts up. Will still be posting at the same rate I have been hopefully, but it will possibly slow me down on my alias finishing. Will plug away at it as I can though.

I get twice as many skills as Caroliss and I'm taking linguistics so I have a couple of languages to flex around, I can easily take Thassilonian and free you up there.

@Drask - Excellent, we can make that work or sure. A couple of ideas to expand upon this.

@Caroliss - Since you are taking the same trait I am, it's likely we would know each other since we are both from a house of importance. It's up to you whether we like each other or not. It seems from your personality that we have a lot in common and we have the divine magic similarity as well, so we could have been friends or friendly.

I'm still flushing Ez out. I have some of her crunch done, but still need to do her background/personality and gear. Hopefully will be all set tomorrow.

Ahh, I'm created! And I gave up trying to balance all my nonsense with wizard, and just made a simple magaambyan initiate arcanist.

If someone can find an Ekujae avatar, I'll use it. Didn't seem to be anything available.

Fluff coming soon. Note Veltariel, that if you'd like and with Dak's permission, I can provide you with the secret of creating thistle arrows.

I like 1 and 3. Drask would have tried various "hired muscle" type jobs, and I like how he was hired as some sort of cruel joke by her siblings. Also a perfect excuse for them to be together and coming to the Pathfinder Lodge.

Drask is definitely crude and blunt, to be sure, but he's not mean and he's got a soft side. He's got good instincts and he's somewhat spiritual. It would be an interesting cultural exploration for the two to talk to each other.

I get twice as many skills as Caroliss and I'm taking linguistics so I have a couple of languages to flex around, I can easily take Thassilonian and free you up there.

@Drask - Excellent, we can make that work or sure. A couple of ideas to expand upon this.

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@Caroliss - Since you are taking the same trait I am, it's likely we would know each other since we are both from a house of importance. It's up to you whether we like each other or not. It seems from your personality that we have a lot in common and we have the divine magic similarity as well, so we could have been friends or friendly.

I'm still flushing Ez out. I have some of her crunch done, but still need to do her background/personality and gear. Hopefully will be all set tomorrow.

So actually, I'm glad I made the switch to add Thassilonian. I had given Caroliss Profession (Courtesan) because that seemed like the thing to give to a Calistrian, but on second thought, I think it's more interesting if she's never really gone down that road in spite of her faith. So you are welcome to take the language too, but I'll stick with it on my end.

The more I think about it, the more it seems like I should know some of you but not really intimately. It'll be more interesting for her to warm up to the Pathfinder Society over time, which should otherwise be new to her. The only exception would be Esriri, who Caroliss might have had reason to know in her prior life.

Also, at least for now, it does seem like Esriri would share a lot in common with Caroliss. So they might be friends who understand each other due to similar experiences. What is your reason for joining the Pathfinder Society? It might be interesting if somehow we decided to join together. And perhaps, given our station, we were elevated very quickly even though we don't know the first thing about being a Pathfinder.

@GM DAK - I assume you know this or have them already, but Humble Bundle has all of the SS books up for sale at a much cheaper price along with tons of others if you don't have them yet.

I like 1 and 3. Drask would have tried various "hired muscle" type jobs, and I like how he was hired as some sort of cruel joke by her siblings. Also a perfect excuse for them to be together and coming to the Pathfinder Lodge.

Also, at least for now, it does seem like Esriri would share a lot in common with Caroliss. So they might be friends who understand each other due to similar experiences. What is your reason for joining the Pathfinder Society? It might be interesting if somehow we decided to join together. And perhaps, given our station, we were elevated very quickly even though we don't know the first thing about being a Pathfinder.

Great! I think I can tie all of these together. When the day to day in House Derexhi became unbearable and she had enough of the meaningless tasks and family cruelty, Ez and her friend Caroliss decided to join the Pathfinder Society together. She would view it as an escape to get away from the oppression of her family and a chance to make a name for herself, but her family doesn't truly trust her older sisters hired Drask to protect her but also keep tabs on her and make sure he is always around her.

@Drask - It's up to you how far you want to push their "relationship". If you want to have just been assigned or if you want to have been hired awhile ago and so they have a bit of history, that works too. Ez is the type of person who would try to duck him and get away so you weren't following her which could have been problematic or created some tense situations.

@Esrisi Yup, I got the bundle actually. Not for SS, as I already had it, but for some of the bestiary PDFs and other ancillary books I didn't have yet :D Thanks for the heads up though!

Veltariel, I have my character’s background in my alias now. Would you like to know Mokhasi’s elven name and would you like to do any RP vignettes?

As for everyone else, Mokhasi has been a Pathfinder for a few years, through he has not been able to go on many adventures. Should we know each other?

Hmm, this is a long-term game and we will have a lot of time to develop a relationship. I say let's have it be the first time they're really together. Drask has done some work for your parents before and proved reliable, and when Esrisi wanted to run off to the Pathfinders they were concerned and wanted some hired muscle to watch her back. Luckily the Pathfinders were happy to hire him on as well, and Drask was eager at the idea of a job that promised to not be boring like most of his other jobs.

Sounds good to me!

@Drask - That works for me!

@Mokhasi - I think Caroliss, Drask and I are not new to it and have been in it for a little while now, 6 months? A year? It's possible that we've had a mission or two together previously.

Pop in from work with no back up. Had a call in.

Mokhasi- Yes, is love your Elven name. And am even open for RP Vignettes. Would just like to actually hammer my background together first. Of course, though, work is slammed today.

I also like the idea of some of us meeting for the first time as Drask said. Let’s us get those initial reactions played out. Heh

Hmm, this is a long-term game and we will have a lot of time to develop a relationship. I say let's have it be the first time they're really together. Drask has done some work for your parents before and proved reliable, and when Esrisi wanted to run off to the Pathfinders they were concerned and wanted some hired muscle to watch her back. Luckily the Pathfinders were happy to hire him on as well, and Drask was eager at the idea of a job that promised to not be boring like most of his other jobs.

@Drask - That works for me!

@Mokhasi - I think Caroliss, Drask and I are not new to it and have been in it for a little while now, 6 months? A year? It's possible that we've had a mission or two together previously.

I think there's a bit of inconsistency here between these ideas--whether we've come together with Drask recently or a few months ago. I think to resolve it, it would be amusing if Drask shows up to the party very recently and not six months or a year ago. Maybe Caroliss and Esrisi join the Pathfinders together, Esrisi's family gets wind of the affair and thinks it's nonsense, and said family has their hired muscle join the Pathfinder society and pulls a few strings so Drask ends up in the same mission. Then Caroliss and Esrisi can be really annoyed (until inevitably they warm up to Drask at some point). Thoughts?

Yep, that works better for me.

Oh that's brilliant. I love it Caroliss, let's roll with it!

Updated my backstory slightly to account for this. Can still be tweaked as needed.

FYI, I will not have internet for much of this weekend.

Advice wanted--Caroliss intends to take Channel Smite and Guided Hand as her first and third level feats, so she can use a whip passably well. She'll use it to Aid Another at range, and occasionally to trip or disarm along with True Strike (a domain spell).

After that, I am not sure what to do with her feats. Do folks have ideas or suggestions? I may just let it develop naturally based on the campaign, but wanted to open it up for recommendations.

Selective channeling is always useful on clerics. There's various other channeling feats if you want to be stronger with that, including picking up the ability to offensively target creatures other than undead.

Heavy armor proficiency to beef up more, since you'll likely be in medium armor anyways and already slowed down. I'm actually gonna pick that up myself with a dip into armored hulk barbarian.

Some metamagic feats are quite good for clerics, I highly recommend extend spell for buffs.

I’ve reconfigured my traits a bit and plan on doing additional traits later for what I got rid of - this seems to be a bit better for lower level. That said, I get to choose a single druid spell to add to my list as a wizard spell. No restrictions on level and no requirements that I use reservoir points. Any thoughts? I am considering explosion of rot or ward of the season, obviously for different reasons. With explosion of rot, I’d have that be my magical lineage spell down the line, too.

From a fluff perspective, Mokhasi has been at the society in Varisia/Magnimar/Heidmarch Manor for a few months, getting the lay of the land. He would enjoy going to the Bazaar of sails in his free time and offering his services to the people there in appraising goods and resolving trade disputes. He obviously has a keen eye for gems and the like. Otherwise he hangs out at the manor and does tasks for the Exchange, though he’d try to meet anyone new.

Okay, crunch and background should be up. At least to the point where she might meet up with Mokhasi. Apologies for any errrors, it was done entirely via iPhone at work when able! Lol

Mokhasi - if you wanna do maybe some spoilered vignettes of RP as you mentioned, in game. I think you seem to be the only PC she will know prior to campaign start, unless I’ve overlooked something in my quick scans of the others’ posts.

Mokhasi - Call Lightning is cool too. Hehehe

Ah, poor Sapher is the odd man out. Odd dwarf woman out? Nope that is crap, I apologize for the attempt. :)

It fits. Originally she was going to be a transfer agent that has only been in the city as long as the story line required it. And now she is again. Good to have at least one person ignorant and questioning of a city.

Mokhasi would happily know a dwarf. Sapher is also a member of the exchange - surely she would have met him. :)

Mokhasi provides free casts of crafter’s fortune to people who ask - has she interest in crafting things? You do have it as a skill ... He preps it in one of his slots when he is not planning on adventuring.