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I know extremely little about Eberron, but would be strongly interested in proposing the following concept:
In one sentence:
Harry Dresden, but a Bloodrager.Narrative Strengths: Difficult to predict, improviser, quite diplomatic/bluff affine if he wants to.
Narrative Weaknesses: Femme Fatales, residual arrogance, not very stealthy, Femme Fatales.
Party roles: Secondary face, Primary Beatstick and Attack of opportunity machine.Also, what level of mechanical optimisation would you, on a scale from 1 to 10, be looking for?
Don't know, no one's asked me that before. A 5?
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What is the rough deadline for submissions? I think I have a reasonable idea, just need to flesh it out and actually read up on Eberron.
This Sunday.
Here is Mightypions Background submission:
Prospective background Ciaphas Cain X Harry Dresden, Bloodrager:
Al Al Alexandr, Hero of Breland!
His troops, who werent even his tropps actually, their commanders just got assassinated because Emerald Claws are going to be assassinating commanders, were singing.
"Captain Alexandr is the best! When the Claws attacked, he immidiatly understood that they were a distraction, ran to the rear, into their Vampire mistress who was masquerading as our political officer and cut right through her black heart!" His Seargent intoned to the acclamations of the other troops.
No damnit, I was actually running away, stumbled upon that damned commisar b%*!$, figured I would better stab her down before she shoots me in the face for desertion, but guess what, it was a Vampire.
Alexandr thought as he was smiling broadly at his brave men and women, all of them undoubtetly braver then him.
"When they then tried to drown us in Zombies, Captain Alexandr figured out that the best way to stop them was to direct our snipers to cause an avalance! And then he even found a magical Elfen blade in the rubble! Clearly this means he is destined for greatness!" Said one of his fighters, her face showing she believed every word of it.
that was dumb random luck. I was so f@+$ing scared, I randomly pointed at a f@!!ing boulder, thinking it was a f#~$ing gargoyle zombie or whatever, and my f#%+ing heroic sniper shot the boulder, so that it caused an avalance which incidentally smashed the emerald claw assassination team that was lurking there invisibly and from whom I joinked my sword... Alexandr thought, while using the opportunity to adress his troops.
Fellow warriors, soldiers, defenders and heroes of Breland, it was your mettle that prevailed, it was your skill and your bravery that brought us victory, do not praise me, praise your comrades who where with you, behind your, ahead of you and who always had your back! These are your victories, not mine, and your valor earned them, not my strategies.
Alexandr finished his prep talk, having no interest whatsorever on getting on the assasination lists of either the Emerald Claws or of Brelands formal military hierarchy.
One rowdie common soldier interjected:
CAN ANYONE OF YOU THINK OF A SINGLE BRASS F!@*ER WHO WOULD SAY THIS? ALEXANDR IS THE BEST!
Oh s$!! thought Alexandr
Al Al Alexandr, hero of Breland His troops started chanting again.
Time to politily retire before f*#$ing Breland thinks I am plotting a military coup
Was all Alexandr could think off.
Possible plot twists:
-Citadel of Brelands formal military hierarchy regards him as a wild card and wants to get rid of him.
-Emerald Claws erraneously regards him as competent and dangerous, and seeks to corrupt or recruit or assassinate him, given their necromantic proclivities, it could well be all of the above, and in any order.
-His former unit members get into trouble, he has to get them out of it.
-He is kind of losing it. Although his retirement so far was nice and did many good things for his mental health.
Characters submitted so far:
* Cari Delmare -- Changeling Bard
* Prosperity Jann -- Half-elf Witch
* Ceneth Tialaen d'Thuranni -- Synthesite Summoner
* Norn Roole -- Halfling sniper
* Opi -- Halfling sorcerer
* Lambda-42 -- Warforged barbarian
* Meiji Whittlestorm -- gnome alchemist
* Alexandr Sergejevich Kerensky -- human bloodrager
Preliminary crunch done, was really hard to access Paizo due to maintenance. Still needs self audit.
Capabilities:
--Pretty decent DPR with up to 28 Dex (while dex raging under reduce person) with an agile elfen curved blade
--Stealth as class skill from slippery, because I am totally into being sneaky james bond. Normal stealth of 17 (6 from constant dex, 1 from slippery, 3 from class, 7 from levels)
--AoO machine with sky high dex and combat reflexes, Long arm as a spell to actually benefit from it.
--Will definitly skill Stealth, intimidate and perception, meaning 3 more skills free. Likely Acrobatics as 4th. 2 Free skill slots remain.
--Doubt as drawback fits narratively.
--Will likely go Bluff in addition to Intimidate, CHA is high enough even without a class skill there. Probably spellcraft or some lore skill for the last one. Sleight of hand also an option.
--Can shoot OK but doesnt do all that much damage with it.
--Spiderclimb for mobility (level 2 spell), reduce person, enlarge person for some other stuff. Shield for free, ear piercing screm for disable in assassination attempts.
--Deft maneuvers for non lethal and varied options in combat. Has actually pretty high CMB when raging esepcially.
--Mirror image is an insanely good spell.
Cons:
--Is a bloodrager, so calm emotions stuff is really good vs him.
--Weakish willsaves unless vs Charm and Compulsion, Fear will be very good because Urban Bloodrager does not boost will saves.
--Currently little vs Fliers and nothing vs Swarms.
--Very low sense motive make him a good social attacker, but a bad social defender.
--Doubt drawback can really hamstring him in some situations.
--I will roleplay him with a major weakness to Femme Fatales.
--Not enough money to have a elfen curved blade of a special material, so will struggle with damage resistance.
Likely changes:
Will probably remove the +1 bonus from my mithral breastplate, and actually have some cash for flexibility items, like a stealth increase item and/or some lenses of the eagle for +5 perception.
Time to choose. Sorry, but other responsibilities kept getting in the way. The new team of ghosts include:
* Ceneth Tialaen d'Thuranni -- Synthesite Summoner
* Cari Delmare -- Changeling Bard
* Opi -- Halfling sorcerer
* Lambda-42 -- Warforged barbarian
* Prosperity Jann -- Half-elf Witch
Okay, that's the new Mission:Impossible team. For those that didn't make the cut, I suggest GM Panic's Agents for Hire campaign as a possible way to get on the same action. You'll be making investigators, so be forewarned.
Anyway, I apologize for the lateness. I'll be creating a discussion thread along with the gameplay thread later today.
Have fun everyone!
Thank you!