GM SpiderBeard's Tyrant's Grasp (Inactive)

Game Master Barvo Delancy

With that in mind, GM, would the Deadly Agility feat be allowed in this campaign?

Considering unchained rogues come out the gate with the equivalent, yeah it's absolutely fine.

Thanks very much! :D

@TieflingWizard: Solid premise, mechanics-wise. I'd aim a bit more for battlefield control, as I was also aiming to focus on buffs (Tornell is a bit old for front-line combat.) and Rinaldo is aiming for a Battle Herald, so we'll have buffs to spare.

Still trying to find a good block of time to develop Tornell. Not sure if I should focus on buffs or be a bit more capable in the front lines, especially with this party.

So far, I believe we've mostly settled on:

Rinaldo - Cavalier/Battle Herald
Dragoncat - Elven Ninja
Tiefling Wizard - Wizard
Rysky - Green Knight Cavalier
Moi - Cleric.

@Brother Tornell: Okay. So, battlefield control and debuffs, then?

GM Spiderbeard: For my character, I was thinking about rebooting a wizard I have from a failed RotRL and rework him for Tyrant's Grasp. Maybe change things with his backstory and combine it with aspects from other PCs from inactive games. Would that be okay?

100% okay!

Master Sergeant Malvo of the 23rd Lastwall Wolfriders, reporting for duty!

Backstory still in development, but the highlights are:
* Enlisted in the Lastwall cavalry 12 years ago at the age of 20
* Was sent to Roslar's Coffer as part of the contingent sent to recover and protect the region
* Has recently been promoted to master sergeant and placed in command of the wolfrider squad, reporting to the head of the cavalry platoon

"Whew! Sorry to keep you all waiting!"

Dragoncat here, with my elf ninja ready to go. :)

Ah, that one :3

She was my very first character on the boards here. I felt it would be appropriate to have her join us for Paizo’s final 1E Pathfinder AP.

She originally had the surname Dawnchaser: an Athasian elf clan name before.

Nice.

@Brother Tornell: Okay. So, battlefield control and debuffs, then?

More a request to diversify, since we'll have several party members throwing buffs around. We'll have to make sure our buffs stack, whatever we throw out.

Certainly focus on the more powerful and arcane-only buff spells. (*Coughcough*haste*cough*) Or not, it's your character, go with what works. And I suspect the first few levels will have us figuring out how to fine tune our roles anyways.

She was my very first character on the boards here. I felt it would be appropriate to have her join us for Paizo’s final 1E Pathfinder AP.

She originally had the surname Dawnchaser: an Athasian elf clan name before.

Yeah, Malvo is a reboot of my very first PFS character. Same basic starting build, but different personality. I'll be interested to see where he ends up.

I hadn't thought about using one of my first's (especially since the campaigns fell apart)... I don't know if I could pull it off.

I'll have to think on it, but I'll likely stick with the currant design.

Malvo is going to be straight Arcane Duelist Bard for the first couple of levels, since he won't be able to have his mount anyway. Then he'll do catch-up on Cavalier levels. If I do decide to go Battle Herald, it won't be until I get the Expert Trainer feature so I qualify for Horse Master, otherwise his mount will stop advancing.

@Tornell: So, okay, more arcane focused buffs like haste. Which spells would qualify for that? I thought bards got haste as well. I was considering Protection from evil and the magic circle spells as some of my choices.

Also, I would use my first character. But that would be a mute human bard and we already have a bard.

@Tornell: So, okay, more arcane focused buffs like haste. Which spells would qualify for that? I thought bards got haste as well.

Haste is a bard spell, but bards don't get level 3 spells until class level 7, and I may not actually even get to that level if I go Battle Herald.

@Tornell: So, okay, more arcane focused buffs like haste. Which spells would qualify for that? I thought bards got haste as well. I was considering Protection from evil and the magic circle spells as some of my choices.

I was mostly looking to provide some rough advice, but you have me worried that I'm coming across as giving hard build instructions. Don't overthink my words, I don't want to seem like a min-maxer out to control everyone's character.

The gist was we have a bard and a cleric, so there will be buffs going around to spare, allowing you to focus on other spells.

Still, to answer your question, all the online SRDs list every class that gets a particular spell. You can quickly check if any buff spell you were interested in is on any other spell list, or just wizard. And if it's a good one, feel free to mention it to me if it's on the Cleric list.

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Tornell isn't my first character, either online (That would be Thaddeus) or of RPGs in general. (That would depend on how strongly you want to define 'first D&D game.) However, he is a an older character from many years ago, from a 3rd edition game that Spiderbeard ran back in our university days. With some adjustments, of course.

Christ, that takes me back. I remember when 3rd edition first came out and it just blew our damn minds.

Glad everything is coming together, the conference is taking up enough time I won't be able to post hte open RP space until this weekend or maybe Friday night. Thanks for getting things together everyone.

Frenzied Berserker *swoon*

When D&D 3rd came out, my group had been playing Hero System and a good friend was an old GURPS guy. His wife expressed interest in roleplaying, but quickly decided GURPS was way too much work, and Hero System was a close second. He heard about D&D 3rd and bought it so she could look at it. She agreed it was within reason, and we started a D&D campaign that eventually migrated to 3.5 and then to Pathfinder.

@Tornell: Sorry about that. I was just looking for recommendations, not any hard build advice. I didn't want to get in the way of the other buffs and still play more role well.

As for my inspiration, I think I've (in my head) evolved it to include more Selesnya and Bant influences. With Azorius, it seems to be more "law over all". With Bant, it's more "good over all". It's more of an excuse to be Neutral Good; but, it works.

Sorry for not having anything concrete yet.

Spiderbeard, would allow me to VMC Sorcerer for the Linnorm Bloodline for my Green Knight? If so I have a character I can salvage.

Sure, I haven't played with VMC but nobody seems to be screaming about it and it sounds like a fun combo.

Gameplay thread is now open for some free-form RP so you can try your character personalities out a bit and give a sense of where they are in town.

There is no requirement you know each other for this game but you can also be as connected as you wish.

Sure, I haven't played with VMC but nobody seems to be screaming about it and it sounds like a fun combo.

Yay! Thankies!

Will have him rebuilt right away!

Quick questions: I was thinking about getting a raven familiar. They can speak and understand one language of the master’s choice. But the rules say that a familiar can’t speak to its master until level 5. What is the ruling on this? Can I talk to my familiar from the start or not?

Also, if the raven takes my skill ranks in Linguistics, does it understand (but not speak) more than one language?

You can 100% talk to your raven at level one.

The level five ability is distinct - it allows personal communication with the master but not communication with others. Meanwhile ravens can just literally speak out loud.

Using linguistics to give it more languages sounds fun. I'm for it.

So, I looked around on Google and forums and the general consensus is that a raven familiar can learn more than one language, but can only speak one language. So, there's that.

Whew, still some cleanup to do, but I certainly have enough to start actually playing Tornell.

Felt a bit bad picking the Sun Domain, since it's very Anti-Undead, which seems just a bit too focused for this campaign, but eh, the choices are there for a reason.

Tornell, you have a tag issue in your profile. I noticed it on myself when I copied Spiderbeard's template: one of the tags to close the OOC property has a space after the slash, causing it not to parse properly.

It's an artifact from his having to make the code copyable and not parse as code in his post.

Whoops. Good catch, I'll fix 'er up.

Thanks, good catch. And a cleric of Sarenrae with some anti-undead stuff is an unbelievably appropriate character for this campaign. Don't feel bad at all.

@tieflingwizard - Sure, that seems sensible since its a supernatural ability rather than just being able to talk.

Gonna be using this alias. About got everything, just have to move it to the character sheet.

Sorry for not having something up. I'm still working on it. Also, what do you guys think about the Spell Mastery, Flexible Wizardry, and Improved Spell Mastery feats? I just learned about them and am interested.

Crunch done, gonna get backstory and appearance in and it should all be good

So, who has ties to Roslar's Coffer?

Tornell I have that he was born and raised here, but hasn't returned since the orcs razed the place 10 (or however many) years ago. Evidently Alara is a native. Malvo has been here for a few months, long enough to form connections. Anybody else with local ties?

I was going to have Ridill originally have been from there, but wandered into the First World while fleeing the attack 12 years ago and just now wandering back so probably not with any ties she can remember.

Alara is more of a recent arrival to town.

Actually Malvo has been here for 10 years - he came with the Lastwall Knights to retake the town after the original orc raid. He has been here for the entire reconstruction period, so he considers himself a local now. That's why I assumed he knew Alara and her mother.

Also, Ridill, your CHA appears to be at 0.

And I’m pretty sure none of us can cast restoration yet.

Traveling inbetween the first world and the current world is not without drawbacks :3

@tieflingwizard - all good by me. Again, if Paizo has published it I'm generally game unless the choices are hugely controversial - which those aren't AFAIK.

The post to start the game will be over this weekend and we'll get into the swing of things come Monday!

Okies! Will try to have backstory or at least appearance up by tonight/the morning.

This weekend is PaizoCon, so my posting will be limited to none between Friday morning and Monday night at the earliest, possibly Tuesday.

Have fun!

Have fun, Malvo!

So, I'm almost done with the crunch of the character. Sorry about that. Been kind of busy lately.

No worries, hard start is on Monday so you still have a few days left.

So, question: would a raven familiar have Skill Focus (Perception)? I'm looking at two different sites and they say different.