DM Brainiac’s Kingmaker 2E: Table 1

Game Master Brainiac

BORDERLANDS PIONEER
You have long lived along the southern border of Brevoy, in the shadow of the wilderness known as the Stolen Lands. Life has been hard, but through hunting, trapping, trading, and coaxing crops from the ground, you’ve learned how to survive on the rugged frontier. Whether because of your personal expertise and familiarity with the borderlands or in order to reclaim your family’s land, you’ve joined the expedition into the Stolen Lands.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Strength or Wisdom, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Nature skill and a Lore skill associated with a particular type of wilderness (choose from forest, hills, mountains, plains, rivers, or swamp). You gain the Train Animal skill feat.

BREVIC NOBLE
You claim a tangential but legitimate connection to one of Brevoy’s noble families. If you aren’t human, you were adopted by one of Brevoy’s nobles or were perhaps a favored servant or even a childhood friend of a noble scion. Whatever the case, you’ve had a comfortable life, though still a far cry from the one your distant cousins or close associates know. An expedition into the storied Stolen Lands seems like just the test to see if you really are worthy of the “noble” title.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Constitution or Wisdom, and one is a free ability boost.

Choose one of the Brevic lineages below.

Garess: Family ties to the Golushkin Mountain dwarves left its mark. Your family motto is “Strong as the Mountains.” You’re trained in the Crafting skill and the Architecture Lore skill. You gain the Specialty Crafting skill feat.

Lebeda: Your family’s history of trading along the shores of Lake Reykal pervades your blood. Your family motto is “Success through Grace.” You’re trained in the Society skill and the Mercantile Lore skill. You gain the Multilingual skill feat.

Lodovka: Your family has made a living off the coasts of the Lake of Mists and Veils since before Brevoy existed. Your family motto is “The Waters, Our Fields.” You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Fishing Lore skill. You gain the Underwater Marauder skill feat.

Medvyed: Your family has a deep respect for the wilderness and is skilled at hunting and surviving off the land. Your family motto is “Endurance Overcomes All.” You’re trained in the Survival skill and the Hunting Lore skill. You gain the Terrain Expertise skill feat (choose your terrain from aquatic, forest, mountain, plains, or swamp).

Orlovsky: Your family has a reputation for avoiding conflicts. Your family motto is “High Above.” You’re trained in the Diplomacy skill and the Brevoy Lore skill. You gain the Group Impression skill feat.

Surtova: Your family is well known for their political agility and scheming nature. Your family motto is “Ours Is the Right.” You’re trained in the Deception skill and the Politics Lore skill. You gain the Charming Liar skill feat.

BREVIC OUTCAST
One of your parents was a member of one of the great families of Brevoy, perhaps even of the line of Rogarvia itself. Yet you have no substantive proof of your nobility, and you’ve learned that claiming such without evidence is a fool’s game. Whether a recent attempt to prove your heritage brought down the wrath of a noble family or you seek to prove the worth of the blood in your veins, you’ve joined an expedition into the Stolen Lands, hoping to make a name all your own.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Charisma or Constitution, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Politics Lore skill. You take a –1 penalty on all Charisma-based skill checks attempted when dealing with members of the nobility, but gain the Haughty Obstinacy human ancestry feat, even if you aren’t a human. If you manage to establish yourself as a true noble or secure a leadership role in a kingdom, you no longer take the penalty to Charisma-based checks.

ISSIAN PATRIOT
You grew up in northern Brevoy, but the call for heroes willing to help take back your country’s rightful holdings in the Stolen Lands has inflamed your dreams of profit and possibilities, and you have joined an expedition journeying south.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Society skill and the Legal Lore skill. You gain the Streetwise skill feat.

LOCAL BRIGAND
You hail from the River Kingdoms or the more lawless reaches of Brevoy. Your life has been hard. You know how to ambush travelers, bully traders, avoid the law, and camp where no one can find you. Recently, you’ve run into some trouble, either with the law or with other bandits, and you’re looking to get away to somewhere no one would ever think to look for you. An expedition into the rugged wilderness seems like a perfect way to lie low until the trouble blows over.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Intimidation skill and the Banditry Lore skill. You gain the Group Coercion skill feat.

ROSTLANDER
You were raised in the south of Brevoy, a land of dense forests and rolling plains, of crystalline rivers and endless sapphire skies. You come from hardy stock and were raised with simple sensibilities—that hard work earns well-deserved gains, the importance of charity and compassion, and the value of personal and familial honor. Yours is the country of the Aldori swordlords and the heroes who refused to bend before the armies of a violent conqueror. You care little for matters of politics and nobles or of deception and schemes. You are thoroughly Brevic, and the call for champions willing to expand your land’s influence into the Stolen Lands has inflamed your sense of patriotism and honor, and so you have joined an expedition to journey southward and build a kingdom.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Strength or Constitution, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Athletics skill and the Farming Lore skill. You gain the Hefty Hauler skill feat.

SWORD SCION
You have lived all your life in and around the city of Restov, growing up on tales of Baron Sirian Aldori and the exploits of your home’s heroic and legendary swordlords. Joining an expedition into the Stolen Lands seems like a perfect way to improve your skills and begin crafting a legend worthy of Baron Aldori.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Charisma, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Warfare Lore skill. You gain access to Aldori dueling swords and can purchase one as part of your starting equipment. You treat Aldori dueling swords as martial weapons rather than advanced weapons for the purpose of proficiency.

But sometimes even a ysoki needs to leave his family. He decided to travel, find adventure and make his fortune. Everybody knew adventure was the way to make something of yourself and achieve success. So he fell in with the first group that was recruiting. Hannoy Shan was the brains of the group. The one to find the targets, make the plans, and deal with security measures. Gravox was the muscle, a short-tempered half orc with a big butcher's axe. Unalisa was the magic, a genietouched sorceress.

As a group they dealt with some goblins and cave full of kobolds, but then they figure this was too much work. It was easier to haunt the roads and let the prey come to you. Being a bandit wasn't what Knaxshi signed up for. He'd been on the merchant's side of that often enough. But Shan wasn't the type to brook dissent, and he was the kind to take revenge on people he thought had wronged him.

Planning his escape took three months, a keg of black power, 200 foot of rope, a bit of luck and several days of non-stop running. But now that he's free, he's going to be looking for a better set of companions.

Additional Feats: Hefty Hauler, Skilled Heritage (Performance), Toughness, Weight of Guilt
Additional Specials: Champion's Code, Deific Weapon, Deity and Cause (Redeemer Cause), Devotion Spells, Skilled Heritage (Deception), Tenets of Good

Rusty came to the calling of Champion without any official training. The inevitable bandit attack on his family's farm didn't result in a stereotypical orphaning of the teen, but rather, the bandits getting walloped with a shovel and a whole new career path opening up in front of the young man. When the call went out for adventurers to explore and settle the Stolen Lands, his local church took up a collection to outfit him with the gear he needed and sent him on his way to honor and glory.

Rusty is a patriotic Brevan, and believes in the strength that comes from different peoples working together. He doesn't have much use for nobles, though, since they're busy trying to rip the country apart; in particular, he doesn't care for NOBLE FAMILY NAME HERE. The fact that they're the folk who're supposed to be keeping his family safe (and not doing a great job of it) is probably a coincidence.

Chameleon gnome is flavorful, but doesn't come up as much as you'd think. It takes time to deliberately change. It does lead to Vibrant Display. While this would seem to work well with scoundrel It only works when you are in the middle of a dog pile. Not good for young rogues.

Fey-touched and wellspring give you a magic cantrip. It's charisma based, which is good for a scoundrel. If you pick an attack, you won't be able to sneak attack with it until you get a 4th level feat, but it's still good to have options. Going with the first world magic feat will give you a second cantrip.

Sensate gnome gives you imprecise scent - you know what square they are in, but you still need to make a flat check to hit them. But great for not being surprised.

Umbral gnome gives you darkvision if you want to be sneaky before you become the center of attention.

Feats:
Animal accomplice gives you a familiar. You'll need an archetype to go beyond the basics though. There is one specifically to advance familiars though.

Gnome weapon familiarity is mostly useless to a rogue.

He learned their language so that he could better understand them, learned their writing so he could decipher their books, and even took to dressing like them to the extent that a kobold could scrounge the funds to do so. And by that of course he stole and nicked away otherwise unvaluable items here and there before selling them back to other people. But one of his prized possessions was a book about the royal families. It kept his attention like no other, tales of the mighty lords and ladies of the land and their powerful knights. Individuals who held much of the power in the land, much like a chieftain of a clan or tribe. So Russ decided that was what he was to become, a knight, a nobleman, a sworn protector of his people. But kobolds do not have kings or kingdoms, noone ever let them try even. But he trained for years taking scattered equipment left by adventurers and scraping together coin through honest work. At the end of it all he was stronger, faster, and smarter than most of his kin. He knew that he would become the first kobold king(that he'd ever seen).

Then while going about his usual routine of boasting and talking up his deeds he noticed a posting calling for adventurers to journey into the stolen lands and claim them. Surly that would be enough to make him a king, to own such a land, make it a haven for Kobolds, a place where no man, elf, dwarf, or gobbie would hunt them again.

So he strode onward spirit high and ready to take on the world if that's what it took for him to become a King.

It was mostly a pleasant, if simple, existence. Auntie Grace hinted that they would not stay in obscurity forever, but when Deregar pressed her on the details, she always said, "When you are older, my little eager one."

When the boy was just past his 17th birthday, he and Grace suddenly fell violently ill. Both weak with astonishingly high fevers, the little family was soon desperate--effectively trapped in their small cabin with little hope of rescue. Grace's last words to him informed him that he was not "her little Egar," but was Deregar Rogarvie, stolen out of the palace in the dead of night by a lonely maid who was eager for a shild of her own.

Staggering into the night in his fever-ridden grief, the boy ran face-first into a serpentine creature, as large as a man with scales of red and gold. He could hear it's hissing voice explain that his name was Tyrkaxian, and that he had come to act as guardian. When the confused Deregar looked back at the cabin, the dragon coughed up a gout of flame, setting the place to quickly burn, and said--not unkindly--"A fitting pyre. It honors one who did so much for you to be sent off like an ancient king. Come, let's seek your fortune."

Since then, Deregar has wandered. He seems alone, but Tyrkaxian is a mere thought away, advising the boy. He knows better than to press his outrageous claim of royal blood, but the allure of the court has drawn him to Restov with its flamboyant swordlords.

Speed 25 feet
Melee Aldori Dueling Blade +7  Damage 1d8 (S) (Finesse, Versatile P)
Spellstrike 
Arcane Cascade 
Focus Spells (1 points) Dimensional Assault
Additional Feats Changeling, Changeling Lore
Additional Specials Conflux Spells, Hybrid Study (Laughing Shadow), Spellstrike Specifics

And he was lovely. He raised her without fear or resentment no matter what strange questions she asked, or quirks she showed, and no matter how loud the grumbles of their neighbors grew.

But Alys still heard them.

Every sick child, every dry cow, every blighted crop meant a new round of grumbles, and glares. It was bad enough when she wasn't causing those things, when it really was just bad luck. And then the Call began. Dreams of her mother, Dreams from her mother, Dreams that clearly weren't just dreams. Dreams and... other things. Everything was getting worse and worse; the only question was whether her mother would get tired of cruel hexes and take more direct action, or if their neighbors would simply burn them out.

So Alys left.

She figured the road would be safer, but within two weeks she found herself sprinting to keep ahead of a mob of pitchforks and torches that wasn't the slightest bit slowed by familiarity. It was stopped though by the blade of one Eleanor Aldori. She hadn't had the faintest idea what was going on, only that it was thirty against one, and that those odds might be fun. Usually something like that was something she'd have forgotten in a fortnight.

But Alys had other plans.

She'd Seen something in the flashes of Eleanor's blade and the lethal fluidity of her movements, something she wanted. It took considerably more than a fortnight's pleading and bargaining, but in the end Alys got what she wanted. She no longer had a father, and all nine hells help her if she tried to replace her mother.

But now she had a teacher, and with enough power she could carve her own path.

He'd served his five, many more than his five, when he was finally mustered out. He could have stayed, taken his plot of land, paid someone to farm it, and quietly died. But after all, 'old soldiers never die,' and Krast meant to prove that he could do more than fade away.

He didn't have the strength and prowess of his youth, but he had all the experience his lost youth had paid for. Molthune might have needed soldiers, but across Lake Encarthan was where Krast needed to go, where they needed generals.

She doesn't talk much about her past at least not without a heavy salting of tall tales in the mix, or even how long she's been using this obviously real name. Still, even through her exceptionally cunning name changes, some do wonder if she might be somehow related to Sparky, or Branda, or Ember, or any of the other short-lived pyromantic bandits whose careers have recently and briefly dotted the land between Isger and the River Kingdoms. The only thing that makes it even slightly uncertain is that Sparky and the other early potential Blazes looked much more typically human, and Blaze's fiery heritage is impossible to ignore.

But even the fiercest flames will keep growing if you give them more fuel, and Everything changes if you apply enough heat.

Some might have expected, or strongly advised, or even ordered a bandit who was just ahead of the bounders and bounty hunters to lay low, at least til the heat died down. That's probably what she'll do next, right?

AC 17, Fort +6, Ref +6, Will +5
HP 17

Speed 25 feet

Melee Fist +6 (Agile, Finesse, Nonlethal, Unarmed), Damage 1d4+1 (B)
Ranged Jezail +6 (Uncommon, Concussive, Fatal Aim d12, Modular B P and S), Damage 1d8 (P)
Ranged Sling +6 (Propulsive), Damage 1d6 (B)

Additional Feats Alchemical Crafting, Built-In Tools, Gloomseer, Inventor, Quick Repair
Additional Specials Innovation (Weapon Innovation), Peerless Inventor

But wait when they see the thing he built! It can strike a small vial at 35 paces and shatter it to dust. It's about time he field-tests his prototype.

AC 16, Fort +4, Ref +6, Will +5
HP 15

Speed 30 feet

Melee Dagger +6 (Agile, Finesse, Thrown 10 ft., Versatile S), Damage 1d4 (P)

Unleash Psyche
Fade into Daydreams

Occult Known Spells DC 17, attack +7 1st Alarm, Thoughtful Gift (1 slots);
Cantrips Light, Detect Magic, Prestidigitation

Focus Spells (2 points) Distortion Lens Range 30 feet; Area one 5-foot square Duration sustained up to 1 minute You create a magical lens that distorts space as best suits you. You create the lens in a space in range, even suspended in midair. If your or an ally's ranged attack passes through the lens, the attack gains an additional 10 feet of range; if an enemy's ranged attack would pass through the lens, it requires an additional 10 feet of range to move through, though the enemy knows before using its ability whether the interference puts the target out of range. An ally whose space overlaps the lens can increase the range of its ranged attacks, but an enemy whose space overlaps the lens doesn't reduce the range of its ranged attacks. The first time each round you Sustain the Spell, you can choose to relocate it to another square within range. The lens disappears if you cast distortion lens again. Heightened (+3) The lens increases or decreases the range of abilities by an additional 5 feet. Amp The lens can interfere with creatures as well as attacks. Once during a Medium or smaller ally's move action, the ally can move into and out of the lens's square without that square counting against the total distance moved. Conversely, the lens is difficult terrain for your enemies.

Phase Bolt (Amped) Range 30 feet; Targets 1 creature You point your finger and project a bolt of magical energy that stutters in and out of phase until it reaches the target. Make a ranged spell attack roll against your target's AC; if the target has any circumstance bonuses to AC (such as from a shield or cover), reduce that bonus by 2 for this attack. On a success, you deal 1d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier piercing damage. On a critical success, the target takes double damage. Heightened (+1) The bolt's damage increases by 1d4. Your phase bolt temporarily sends the target's cover out of phase if it hits. On a success, reduce the target's circumstance bonus to AC by 1 until the beginning of your next turn. Your phase bolt also gains the following amp. Amp Your bolt leaves phase completely, becoming invisible and intangible until it's already embedded in the target - giving the impression it simply teleported itself into place. The target is flat-footed against the attack. Additionally, the bolt ignores an amount of Hardness or resistance to piercing damage equal to half the spell's level. On a critical success, the target can't be affected by teleportation effects until the start of your next turn. Amp Heightened The bolt's damage increases by 2d4 instead of 1d4.

Warp Step (Amped) When you walk, the earth warps beneath your feet - your steps extend, distance contracts, and everything is just a little bit closer. You gain a +5-foot status bonus to your Speed until the end of your turn. You then Stride twice. You can use warp step to Burrow, Climb, Fly, or Swim instead of Stride if you have the corresponding movement type. You warp space more compactly, granting you a +10-foot status to your Speed instead of a +5-foot status bonus when you warp step. The spell also gains the following amp. Amp Space contracts with hardly a thought, letting you Cast the Spell as a single action. Amp Heightened You twist space so completely you don't need to travel the interposing distance. You can choose to instead teleport to a space within your line of sight and line of effect with a range equal to your double your Speed. This grants the spell the teleportation trait.

Additional Feats Fleet, Gloomseer, Pilgrim's Token
Additional Specials Conscious Mind (The Unbound Step), Psi Cantrips And Amps, Psychic Spellcasting, Subconscious Mind (Wandering Reverie)

Items Leather, Backpack, Bedroll, Chalk (10), Flint and Steel, Rope, Rations (2), Torch (5), Waterskin, Soap, Healer's Tools, Ten-Foot Pole, Parrying Scabbard, Playing Cards, Signal Whistle
AC 18, Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +5
HP 20

Speed 25 feet

Melee Shortsword +7 (Agile, Finesse, Versatile S), Damage 1d6+1 (P)
Melee Dagger +7 (Agile, Finesse, Thrown 10 ft., Versatile S), Damage 1d4+1 (P)
Ranged Shortbow +7 (Deadly d10), Damage 1d6 (P)

Hunted Shot
Hunt Prey
Precision Damage Hunter's Edge 1d8

Additional Feats Half-Orc, Natural Medicine, Orc Sight
Additional Specials Hunter's Edge (Precision)

Items Unarmored, Backpack, Bedroll, Chalk (10), Flint and Steel, Rope, Rations (2), Torch (5), Waterskin, Soap, Healer's Tools, Ten-Foot Pole, Playing Cards, Signal Whistle, Fishing Tackle
AC 19, Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +7
HP 20

Speed 25 feet

Melee Dagger +7 (Agile, Finesse, Thrown 10 ft., Versatile S), Damage 1d4+1 (P)
Ranged Shortbow +7 (Deadly d10), Damage 1d6 (P)
Monastic Archer Stance
Flurry of Blows
Additional Feats Half-Orc, Natural Medicine, Orc Sight
Additional Specials Powerful Fist