Dreadfulness in Dunwich PF1e+

Game Master DeJoker

I'm interested to hear what you're thinking, and making a shared background with other PC's.

If we both get in I’d love to have a shared background. Lars returned from the war and went back to the family trade of being a smith in the village. I’m sure that he’d take Shekla in, given that he’d have certainly known quite a few Uriaks when he served. That, and her magical talents (which outstrip his own) would have gotten his attention and respect.

That would work fine for me Lars, and I could swap a few skill points around to help a little in the smithy. I suppose I should also roll my HP. :P

HP: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (3, 2) + 4 = 9 +6 first level max, +9 from con x3 = 24 hp

Race: Human, Sex: Male
Name: William the Destroyer
Alignment: Lawful Good
Class: Wizard, Evoker
Deity: Heironeous

Abilities:
Strength: 12 -- Bonus: +1
Dexterity: 16 (+1 human) -- Bonus: +3
Constitution: 12 -- Bonus: +1
Intelligence: 17 -- Bonus: +3
Wisdom: 14 (+2 human): Bonus: +2
Charisma: 13 (+1 Human): Bonus: +1

Traits: Reactionary, Kin Bond (cousin)

Skills: Craft (Alchemy) -- +7 (1 rank +3 bonus +int bonus), Knowledge: Arcana +9 (3 ranks +3 bonus +3 intelligence bonus), Knowledge: Strategy +9 (3 ranks +3 bonus +3 Int bonus), Perception +5 (3 ranks +2 Wisdom), Profession: Battle Mage +9 (3 ranks +3 bonus +3 Intelligence bonus), Spellcraft +8 (+3 ranks +3 bonus +2 Wisdom Bonus), Swim +3 (+2 ranks +1 Strength bonus)

Feats: Spell Focus (Evocation) (1st level feat), Spell Penetration (Human bonus feat), Extend Spell (3rd level Feat)

Equipment: Masterwork Quarterstaff (+1/1d6 damage/x2 critical), Wand of Magic Missiles (6 charges remaining), Traveling clothes, Backpack, Traveling Spellbook, Grimoire (back home), Magic dagger (+1/1d4 damage/x2 critical), Bedroll, cloak

Spells in Spellbook: 0 level - all (Kinda all)
1st level: -- Burning Hands, Color Spray, Tenser's Floating Disk, Magic Missile, Magic Weapon, Summon Monster I
2nd level: Scorching Ray, Summon Monster II

Spells Memorized: (boo), Dynamic Spellcasting Bonus: +3 Yay! 0-level: Arcane Mark, Detect Magic, Read Magic x2
1st Level: Magic Missile, Summon Monster I
2nd level: Scorching Ray

Background: I am William the Destroyer. I want nothing more than to destroy or impair evil. Evil fears my magic, but I support the good and righteous among the society. I should have been a paladin, my father said -- But no, I had talent in magic. I apprenticed with the Wizard Gamork instead of becoming a soldier for the church. He taught me magic. And I took to it. I wasn't very popular, but I studied spells to destroy my enemies. When my apprenticeship was over, I returned to Dunwich a powerful wizard. May all evil fear my power.

William wanted power. Although a worshipper of Heironeous; William studied magic. He did not want to spend his life in service of the Church, he wanted to destroy evil. He regards the Church of Hextor to be his enemy. However, despite wanting power to destroy -- William has a tender heart, one that would do no one harm.

Rather than convert to Boccob, William stayed with Hieroneous, figuring the small and influential church would have a battle mage praying every worship day. In his childhood, he was bullied though. Bullied because he was smarter than everyone else.

However, he trained as an evoker partly because he wanted power. Also partly because he wanted to defeat the Church's enemies. He was neutral to start out with, but his passions led him down the path of righteousness. Still he has needs. He desires a beautiful partner. Someone who will accept him for being a battle mage.

Okay to reduce the mystery at this point in time due to interest indicated followed up by active character creation and discussion interaction here is what I have with go forward. Although I could squeeze 1 more in if someone else shows active interest in the game or in case I missed someone who has shown active interest in the game as I almost missed Daniel.
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1) EltonJ ............................... (William the Destroyer)
2) Andrea1 .......................... (Dain of Clan Bambage son of ?? ....)
3) Daniel Stewart ............... (Cade of the Thornhallows)
4) Mokmurian the Great ... (Travoril the Scrivener)
5) Grumbaki ....................... (Lars Stonefist son of Ulcaster)
6) Zaboom! ......................... (Shekla of the Dripping Blades)

Note this assumes that everybody listed above is still with us.

And if you were keeping track we had 15 players show initial interest but so far only a little over 1/3rd have shown active interest. Not the best that I have seen but not the worst and definitely expected.

Note: I have reduced your names to just first names because I am not aware of anyone of the characters being even semi-nobility. Further if you gave your character a sirname I tried to translate that into something specific to one's race. However, if you would like to tweak your name do let me know.

Note for Andrea1 a Dwarf rarely uses more than their personal name except for in formal situations (up to you to decide if a formal introduction is needed) but then they can typically and thus will trace their lineage back as many generations as they know so if you want to fill in your father, your father's father, etc... that would be great just keep in mind that a generation is about 1 century. Also if the introduction is only semi-formal they may just state their name and their clan name (e.g. Dain Bambage) thus the more formal the more complete. Oh and by human standards Dwarves do consider themselves at least minor nobility.

Also I am not sure if I have addressed this with you or not but Dain came here with a small contingent of his Clan for mining purposes. Granted Dain might not be here as a miner but he did accompany the clan for a reason -- one I am sure we can iron it as we move things forward. Also there is a good chance the Dain knows the local Smith

Lastly if Grumbaki would be so nice perhaps they might recap what all these PCs are. Like they did previously ;-)

Dain Bramage
* Dwarven Living Grimoire Inquisitor
* Enchanted book of grudges
* Profession: Caravan Guard (survived his last caravan being wiped out)

William
* Human Evoker Wizard
* Profession: Battle Mage who returned to Dunwhich in his quest to explode evil.

Travoril the Scrivener
* fFolk Cleric of Labelas Enoreth
* Profession: Missionary from the Sheldomar Valley.

Lars Ulcaster
* Human Golemfist Hexcrafter Magus
* Profession: Injured Veteran and discharged battlemage. Currently works with family in Dunwhich as a smith.

Shekla Stygg
* Uriak Sorcerer Orc Bloodline
* Profession: Former Dripping Blades tribal slave, now works odd jobs at Dunwhich (currently at the Stonefist Smithy)

Cade Thornhollow
* Hin Rogue
* Profession: ex-Child of the Streets, pursuer of mysteries

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And this is our group!

Thank you Grumbaki-Lars

Testing, 1 . . .2. . .3 . . .

Character Creation:

Hey, thanks for including me in this game!! I am looking at Cade and I like the way you have pulled the information together. I was thinking of going one of two ways...either make him a sanctified rogue or perhaps an investigator (as an archetype). I also like the name alteration...now I get a great idea of where he came from!!
I will get my background together and make a profile as soon as I can.

Nice post Lars but please refrain from making posts until I have officially started the game and we have officially finished the characters I usually take two passes at a character.

Also I thought Lars had two non-flesh arms as he lost both arms to the Pirate Princess. Further I suggested to stone arms aka Stonefist but you gave him one metal arm. So I need to ask several questions in regard to this.

1) Did he lose both arms?

2) If he lost both arms where did his new arms come from (something I was going to cover but I am open to suggestions) and why did he get a new flesh arm and new iron arm rather than simply restore both of his arms to flesh (much easier to do than give him an iron arm btw) and make him a normal person again? I mean a high level cleric, which Keoland has access to could have regenerated his arms but they did not and thus the question why pops up again. My explanation weaves that in, so to take a peak behind the curtain which Lars may not know. The Gods were at work and one of them took an interest for some reason (most likley related to the town of Dunwich -- which is not spelled with 2 H's Lovecraft would be horrified ;-) -- and through an agent either openly or discreetly (not decided yet) was involved. This is me trying to add a 3rd-dimension to Lars. I am stating this not just for you but for all the players so they understand what I am doing while they are awaiting my feedback.

3) I was planning on having your dad, mom, and brother (older if you had wanted freedom to leave the family business or younger if you wanted this to be a contention point with your father. For as per tradition the eldest inherits the business and as such is expected to stay and learn it fully).

4) The call is actually not coming from the Herbalist but the city voted magister. A change I have made when I was considering the best method of bringing everyone together as the modules method for this part never made much sense for this situation or any for that matter. As the modules method was more that cliche, "a group of strangers meet in a tavern and agree to risk their lives to go adventuring with individuals they have no knowledge of". So like all modules that I use for concept ideas this one has already morphed greatly and continues to morph as I help finish all the characters. This is to say when it is completed it will be more tailored to the PCs that are taking part in ways that will allow as many as I can shine within their special niches and of course the full campaign that is still being formed.

I create skeletal frameworks with some mutable Story Arcs that are taking place in the background. Then as the PCs interact with the world I put more flesh and blood onto the skeleton but nothing is fully grafted to that skeleton until the PCs have encountered it and it has become part of the PCs history. I have found this helps me create a more dynamic world without wasting huge amounts of time and effort for things the players are not interested in exploring. Also it prevents railroading because well frankly there are no tracks laid until the PCs put them down. As denoted this is Semi-Sandbox game. So feel free to choose your own paths but understand the Story Arcs can make those choice have consequences. So always choose wisely, lives are at stake and not just yours but lives of those you hopefully care for.

William your test game through and as a word of warning like Lars I am currently playing with your character's history and if you are okay with it you have a twin sister who is the local Keoland appointed abbot for Dunwich. Its a small Abbey and sadly the townsfolk do not trust her much and as such rarely come to see her for help.

There is more that I am working on with your character as well. Further as is the case with everyone I will remind you -- It Is Your Character And Thus Your Choice -- I am just working on ways to tie your character more tightly into the world and into this campaign. However, if a suggestion I make does not sit well with YOUR vision of YOUR character do say so and we will hash out something that does not only just sit well but actually breathes more life into YOUR character making them feel more complete which is the aim of what it is I am trying to do.

I’d *love* for him to have two arms replaced.
Sadly I found that the second arm option was from 3pp so I couldn’t use it. If there is something you’d approve as a GM, I’d be more than happy to go with it. Perhaps a way to integrate his buckler? So that he could have one arm offensive and the other defensive?

As for where the arms come from: a pact with Wee Jas. The artificial arms have been enchanted to bring them to life. However, he now owes a task. Which can come at any point in time. This has been represented, in part, by the feat possessed hand and the trait foul brand.

For the family, let’s go with mother, father and older brother. It makes him returning after leaving for the capital be abit more shameful. It gives more reason to go adventuring as well, without the same familial duties to hold him back.

Daniel thank you for joining the game as I cannot run a game without players and usually it is a better game with more players than GMs ;-) This means at no time do I ever feel like I completely own this game, it is a collaborative effort. If you or any other player has something they think might be fun to encounter (monster, magic, mystery, or whatever) for themselves or one of the other PCs do speak up. I have been known in the past to meld these ideas (obfuscated so they are not noticed at first) into the campaign.

As a shining example I once asked a group of players what they wanted or did not want to see in the game I was going to start and only 1 of the 5 players (because he was a fairly new player and excited about the game) gave me a list of things they wanted to see and not see. It ended up being a list of 7 wants and 2 not wants and one of the other players had given me 2 things they would like to see and the other 3 nothing (which sadly is the norm it seems). Well in the end I was able to weave all 11 things into that campaign and the player with the 9 items was estactic while the player with 2 things was very pleased and the other 3 had fun as well. Do not know if they had as much fun as those other two. However I feel that each player got out of the game what they put into so perhaps keep that in mind as we move forward.

Maybe something you have always wanted to see in a game could be included or I can excluded something you feel is bla​sé. However, when doing so keep in mind I have numerous other players involved and one person's trash might another person's treasure. However, I will always do my best to make the game fun for one and all but that means (since this is PbP) the players kind of need to speak up (aka make a post) about what they find to be fun, real fun, and not so fun. I will not judge since each person's enjoyment is their own. Kind of like I said to that foo-bar with that other player who felt I was degrading them when I was not -- if you want to play a bland character and that is what you have fun playing more power to you I just need to know -- I will warn you though as a GM I do not play well with power mongers or game busters as to me they cause the game to be less fun for everyone else (unless they are all power mongers which is very rare) including myself. This is mainly because in a power monger game there is very little roleplaying or at least that has been my experience thus far.

Note what I am trying to do with all this extra information up front is to share with you the players who I am as a GM and what I am about. To help you get to know me better so you have some idea of what to expect.

That being said another item comes to mind, most of my players have found that when they charge blindly into a situation they usually get their butts kick and either end up fleeing or spending a lot of downtime recovering. However, when they thoroughly investigate something they usually kick its butt resoundedly. BTW this was what one of my players said to me once after a FtF game. So take his words and do with them what you want. I am just sharing their observation and cannot guarantee that will be what happens.

Also, I let the dice speak as they can take a game in a direction I would never have thought to go. As such I had my players once take out the grand finale fight as if it had been a cake walk and they were still looking for that grand finale fight only to discover afterwards they had breeze through it due to some very lucky rolls that went in favor of the party. Of course, those rolls could have equally have been unlucky as well. So in the end do know that PCs can die, it has happened. So please do your best to stay alive, as I would appreciate that as remember I put almost as much effort into your character as you do.

3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 5) = 14 = keep (5,5)+6 = 16

3d6 ⇒ (4, 1, 6) = 11 = keep (4,6)+6 = 16

3d6 ⇒ (5, 4, 5) = 14 = keep (5,5)+6 = 16

3d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 3) = 10 = keep (4,3)+6 = 13

3d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 3) = 9 = keep (4,3)+6 = 13

3d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 5) = 10 = keep (4,5)+6 = 15

Seem to have lost my updates. test test.

3d6 = keep (5,5)+6 = 16

3d6 = keep (4,6)+6 = 16

3d6 = keep (5,5)+6 = 16

3d6 = keep (4,3)+6 = 13

3d6 = keep (4,3)+6 = 13

3d6 = keep (4,5)+6 = 15

Got pulled away yesterday after making the rolls. Good stuff, nothing crazy high but great for a versatile character. There seems to be a lot of magic in the party, and the changes to elves are interesting. It makes a non-magical fighting elf an attractive idea. Maybe a Slayer who could work with the Rogue on flanking. Since the Dreadwood is so close, maybe an elf taking a few years for a slow walkabout to see some if the world before returning to a military life in the forest.

A human Bard could also be fun. Given the town's small size, probably not a fancy bard, more a street urchin who does some street performance along with some opportunistic theft here and there.

A Noble Fencer archetype Swashbuckler could also be fun, scion a a local minor noble. This game sounds like it will be tilted more toward social, intrigue(?), or at least RP, so the Swash is one of the best charming and persuasive swordsman choices around.

Or, considering the opening gameplay post, maybe an Alchemist would be a good fit.

I don't know the Greyhawk setting in any detail. Is there anything about the setting that I should take into account when considering character options?

Dain your test came through loud and clear.

rdknight if at all possible I think I would like to stay away from Elves in this campaign and since you had a couple other quality ideas that I think would work just fine I see no need to breech that path,

Of the other three, they would all be quite viable, however before I go much further I do want you to know that I did get my seventh charcter submission which would make you my eighth and subsequently a fill in should one of the other players ghost. However, I also stated I might be able to let you role-play an NPC from time to time and/or make a cameo appearance in some situations. So with that if you are still interested in creating that character I will spend time helping you meld it into the world and the campaign.

What is there to know about Greyhawk when building a character, the only thing that comes to mind to me is -- no steampunk technology thus no technologists and no gunpowder so no gunslingers.

Note I do not consider clockwork devices to be technology that falls under golem construction and is all magic driven.

Here's my rolls if I get selected

3d6+0 2,3,5+0 = 10 5+3+6 = 14

3d6+0 3,6,6+0 = 15 6+6+6 = 18

3d6+0 6,4,2+0 = 12 6+4+6 = 16

3d6+0 4,1,5+0 = 10 4+5+6 = 16

3d6+0 5,1,2+0 = 8 2+5+6 = 13

3d6+0 1,2,3+0 = 6 2+3+6 = 11

used: https://www.d20srd.org/extras/d20dicebag/

Uh JediJon -- 4 + 5 + 6 = 15 not 16

Okay Camris I see your crunch but no fluff can you give me some idea of who this character is and is not. Merging a character into the World and Campaign usually requires that fluff aspect.

Shekla if you do move any Skill Points around please let me know so I can adjust what I have on my end. However, I am not sure she would be learning anything that was actually Blacksmith oriented I would see her more employing her skills doing other things that a Blacksmith could not or would prefer not to do. Like cleaning up.

Yeah, I was fiddling with my sheet and just lost an update when I tried to save it. :'(

I was planning on changing craft: carpentry to blacksmith, and profession fisher to merchant. She might be ok making nails or horseshoes, or selling things if they have a dedicated shop.

Also had a couple requests for permanent magic items. One is just an everburning torch for simplicity. The big one is Muleback Cords.

Okay Travoril looking over your character my first suggestions is to take your unspent 6 Background skill points and do the following:

Knowledge[History] 3 Ranks
Craft[Caligraphy] ? Ranks
Profession[Scrivener] ? Ranks

I put ? marks as I am not sure how you might want to split those 3 Skill points I strongly suggest 1 and 2 but where the 2 goes is up to you.

Now with 3 Ranks going into Knowledge[History] that frees up the general Skill Points whereupon considering your Religion I strongly suggest:
Knowledge[Planar] 3 as this covers that timey whimey aspect of your religion

Now the only thing else I might suggest is changing Religion as follows:
.. Knowledge[Religion] 1 Rank
...... Specialization[Labelas Enoreth] +2 Ranks

Then put that extra Skill Point into one of the following (and/or shift some points around and put at least one point into each)

Diplomacy (Cha)
Sense Motive (Wis)
Spell Craft (Wis)

Next okay you are a half-elf but what kind of elf the too most common to this region are High Elf and Wood Elf but you could be a Grey Elf as well but I would need to understand the rarity of it for this region.

As for Languages I would think you would focus more on those Languages you might encounter rather than the obscure ones you would not.
Common Languages
Kyolan, Elven ( there is no generic Elven language -- either High Elven (aka Quenya) or Wood Elf (aka Sylvan) based on your nationality ), Dwarven
Uncommon Languages
Draconic, Giant (what type there is no generic Giant language)
Rare Languages
Celestial, Abyssal, Aklo

Additional Common Languages
Gnome, Oeridian (human language), Olman (human language)

Additional Uncommon Languages
Hin, Orc, Goblin, Saurian (Lizard-Folk)

So please review your languages and decide on the languages you do know -- note you could take both Elven languages of this reason as that would make sense as a Scrivner and any of those other Common or Uncommon Languages over the Rare ones you took. Note not saying you have to that is up to you just making suggestions.

Minor change in background as follows:

Delete: Eventually, the temple elders, tiring of finding new lessons for the young priest, sent him to preach in the isolated town of Dunwich.

Add: Eventually, the temple elders, sent him to preach in the isolated town of Dunwich. For what reason, Travoril did not know but their charge was his duty and so he went.

Thanks so much for your suggestions! I'll implement them today and will hopefully have the finalized character ready by tonight. I especially appreciate the notes on languages - as the party linguist, a knowledge of the primary languages of the area will be incredibly useful, and I have only limited knowledge of Greyhawk.

Also, I have a quick question for you before I finish adjusting my character. You posted the statistics for the fFolk in the Campaign Info section, but I'm not seeing any significant differences from the standard Pathfinder half-elf statistics apart from the name. Is there something I'm missing?

Ok..have my profile here, and will add my background shortly

I don't mind setting aside elf, no problem. I'm also willing to hang around or whatever, show up as an NPC occasionally, those sorts of things. Sounds like it could be kinda interesting as a change of pace.

I do have some initial questions that might help me narrow character type down some though.

First, for all of them, exactly how small is Dunwich exactly? Apparently smaller than Saltmarsh, which isn't big apparently. Are we talking a population of a few hundred? In the ow thousands? If it's a really small place, it becomes hard to imagine how a Bard might be making a living as an entertainer there.

If it is large enough, I've been looking at the Busker archetype for a street performer type of Bard. There is a potential problem though. RAW, a Busker does not gain any additional performance rounds as they level up, as you can see here:

Busker Stunts (Su): A busker knows how to magically enhance the effectiveness of his physical stunts. He can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to 4 + his Charisma modifier. Maintaining a stunt is a free action, but it ends immediately if the busker is killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action to maintain it each round. This ability is treated as bardic performance for the purposes of feats, abilities, and other effects that affect bardic performance. Like a bardic performance, a busker stunt cannot be maintained at the same time as other performance abilities.

Would you allow the typical Bard's increase in rounds per day instead? If not, I think the archetype is a non-starter. If so, it's easy to see how such a character could cross paths with the party in town with some regularity.

With the Swashbuckler, being a member of a/the local noble family makes things easy. The character would be around town, presumably with ample free time, and probably known to most everyone including the party. The question here is this: how might a Paladin fare in the campaign? The Virtuous Bravo archetype does basically the same things as Swashbuckler but with the Paladin add-ons. If this is a quest against great evil campaign, maybe the better choice?

An alchemist is also quite easy if Dunwich is large enough to support an alchemical shop or apothecary where the character could be a member of the family that runs it or an apprentice there. Is it? Again, easy for the party to know the character if the patronize the shop.

Hmm. Anything else you need from me?

No Travoril you did not miss anything the fFolk hybrid elf/human (the old half-elf) appear to have been built with 6 Feats just like the Elves and Dwarves. Frankly I did not register that concept but thanks for brining it to my attention.
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Shekla your character has been haunting my thoughts and I am wondering if you would give me your Generic 1st-Level Feat so that I can finish up the concept and still keep it balanced? Basically I would like to give your character at least Dark Vision but without the Feat that would unbalance things.

rdknight Dunwich is a small town its actual local population is currently about 950 residents but gets has high as 1,500 due to Dwarven miners and transient population from carvans and travelers. For a size comparison, Saltmarsh is a steady 2,000 now which makes it basically a large town but it used to be a small town as well. Further there are a few villages south of Dunwich.

As far as the three types you have presented I lean mostly towards the Swashbuckler with the a struggling Alchemist a close second. However, to answer that other question about evil. Well... let me see...

I stated I only run heroic characters, the town is called Dunwich and many have already surmised that means the Cthulhu Mythos in some flavor. So will this be a campaign against great evil. I don't know ;-)
What is your guess?
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EltonJ do not know as of yet still have more processing to do

Cool cool, I'll put together that Virtuous Bravo. :)

I believe I have made the requested changes to my character. If you could look over him and ensure I haven't missed anything, I would appreciate it.

...the town is called Dunwich and many have already surmised that means the Cthulhu Mythos in some flavor...

I have read several of Lovecraft's short stories, including The Dunwich Horror, hence why I had initially taken Aklo as one of my bonus languages. In hindsight, I'm actually glad I changed it - Cthulhu Mythos plus the special fear rules mentioned in the beginning of the recruitment thread suggest to me certain tidbits of Call of Cthulhu wisdom may come in useful in this campaign. Specifically, DO NOT READ THE BOOKS unless you want points in Mythos Lore and are ready for the bumpy ride to 0 SAN.

I believe I have made the requested changes to my character. If you could look over him and ensure I haven't missed anything, I would appreciate it.

DeJoker wrote:

...the town is called Dunwich and many have already surmised that means the Cthulhu Mythos in some flavor...

I have read several of Lovecraft's short stories, including The Dunwich Horror, hence why I had initially taken Aklo as one of my bonus languages. In hindsight, I'm actually glad I changed it - Cthulhu Mythos plus the special fear rules mentioned in the beginning of the recruitment thread suggest to me certain tidbits of Call of Cthulhu wisdom may come in useful in this campaign. Specifically, DO NOT READ THE BOOKS unless you want points in Mythos Lore and are ready for the bumpy ride to 0 SAN.

We're all mad here...

Yes Dain there is a certain level of insanity that accompanies all adventurers for who in their right mind would risk so much.

Note I want to reiterate anything I SUGGEST is just that a suggestion it is not a requirement for you to meet. If you do not feel comfortable with the suggestion or you do not feel it fits your concept of the character you do not have to make the change as it will not exclude you from playing. I do not lord over your characters all I am trying to do is enhance your game play of that character but in the end only you know what will enhance the game play for you the most mine is just a mere guess.

Shekla I was wondering if instead of the Trait Unbreakable Hate you might be interested in the following:

Volatile Conduit (magic)

Having discovered a secret source within that enhances the energy of some spells. They can, as a Free Action, when casting a spell that deals Acid, Cold, Electricity, Fire, or Void damage, enhance that spell with volatile energy. When they do, the spell deals 1d4 points of extra damage of the same energy type. They can use this ability a number of times per day equal to Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).

Based other choices you have made I was not sure what was more important to you the little boost to Concentration or perhaps a little more boost to spell damage. Oh and note I did tweak this trait as I felt the original was vastly underpowered.

Yeah, volatile conduit wasn't very appealing at 1/day, but at Cha mod per day it's much better. I like the changes to the bloodline, as far as darkvision goes, unless you remove it from the bloodline arcana she already has it (and light sensitivity). The big part of the orc bloodline was the +1/die to spell damage.

Okay yes Shkela I would have had to change the Orc Bloodline Arcana because Orcs do not have Dark Vision. Like most other creatures they have Low-Light Vision. I stated before that most of the creatures in the world that have Dark Vision would have it replaced with Low-Light Vision and mostly only those creatures that have a magical nature in some way will have Dark Vision. Now I do leave room for a few expeptions but for the most part if it is a mundane creature it only has mundane abilities. Which I use our world to kind of gauge and there is not a single creature alive that has Dark Vision they either have Low Light Vision or they are Blind because they use other senses to navigate in the dark.

Okay well I am going to assume you are okay with letting me have one of your Generic Feats to finish up the character so I will move forward with that.

I am going to assume that you would prefer to keep Spell Focus [Evocation] over Combat Casting for now. So I will make that adjustment. Aka -- I will use the Generic 1st-Level Feat and your Generic 3rd-Level Feat will be Spell Focus [Evocation]

Will post the revised Bloodline and stuff soon.

So, working on the Paladin, I've been looking for a deity to fit. I have to say I'm not loving the Greyhawk options. Unless there's one I'm not finding that could fit, St. Cuthbert is the best I've come across, and he's not awesome. He is however better than Hieroneous, who's flat awful.

Any suggestions for a deity who isn't a tool?

Any suggestions for a deity who isn't a tool?

Pelor, Rao? There's also the dragon god Bahamut, and the hin goddess Yondalla.

Long live Cuthbert! Bonk baddies with your mace!

Okay Shekla in order to get your character out of my mind I have concluded my adjustments for them. I will need your feed back for as always it is your character and thus you have the final say so.

Hey, sorry for the silence...been swamped at work this weekend...I will try to get the finishing touches done this weekend.

Daniel

Thanks for the heads up but no particular rush I still have 2 more first passes to go and then my final second pass where I make sure the core players are ready to go. Then while the game is under way I will work on the 2 outlayers to get them ready just in case.

Here's my Paladin so far. Aside from purchases, crunch is in the profile. Note that the Virtuous Bravo archetype loses both spells and mercies so Vilma is more an offensive melee combatant than the typical Paladin.

I have to say: virtuous bravo is one of my favorite archetypes. Usually, the only ways to be good at fighting with a single weapon is to be a swashbuckler or to take the duelist prestige class. Having paladins excel in that is wonderful.

Please note, that humans in this campaign have been buffed:

Human
* Attributes: Attribute of Choice +2 and +1 to 2 other different
* Human Versatility: Gain an Extra Feat (total of 2 at 1st level)
* Skilled: Gain an 1 Additional Skill Point per Level and the Skill Focus Feat
* Multi-Talented: They can choose two Favored Classes at 1st-level and gain a +1 HP and +1 Skill Point whenever they take level in either class
Languages: Begin with Keolan (local human) and either Elven, Dwarven, Gnome, or Hin
* Potential Additional Languages: Any modern non-secret language

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So...you should get +1 to 2x stats, skill focus as a bonus feat, and strengthened favored class bonus.

I added all the ability score bonuses, but I didn't explicitly show them: +2 on DEX, and +1 each on INT and CON.

All the feats accounted for: 3 plus the skill feat on perception.

I might have shorted myself 3 skill points from FCB, I'll count them up later. I also haven't decided on languages yet.

HP:

2d4 + 12 + 9 + 3 + 10 ⇒ (3, 4) + 12 + 9 + 3 + 10 = 41

Thank you Vilma for the thoroughness as that makes what I do even easier and easier I like

Ok, I think I have all of that transcribed onto to my sheet for the most part. Still working on equipment, I have a fair bit more to spend to get Shekla down to 10gp. There are two permanent magic items I requested. The first (kinda) is an everburning torch. The second real magic item are Muleback Cords.

If the cords aren't allowed, I may have to trim down my equipment for weight purposes. :P

Shekla while I did touch on your character -- and by your response I am taking it that you approve and have accepted my suggestions ?? --- I did not dived deeply into your equipment So I am wondering if you are using the Masterwork guidelines correctly.

For instance let us say that Falchion you hauled back with you has at least 4 levels of Masterwork on it giving it the maximum +2 To Hit and +2 Damage that is allowed with any starting weapon. This would mean that Falchion having a Base Cost of 75gp then applying 4 Levels of Masterwork would be x5 x5 x5 x5 for a total multiplier of x625 making that Falchion cost a whopping 46,875gp which is way more than anyone starts with.

And that does not even add in what it would cost if per se it was a Cold Iron weapon as well.

Note the Masterwork restriction only applies to the bonus To Hit and Damage you can have a weapon with more than 4 levels of Masterwork if you can afford it just no more than a +2 To Hit and +2 Damage as part of that.

Also Masterwork can be used to reduce the weight of some normal items and/or increase their capabilities for instance a standard backpack cost 2gp weighs 2 lbs can hold 2 cubic feet or 30 lbs of stuff.

Now there are various Masterwork things you can do with a Backpack but they all do the basically same thing and that is apply 1 level of Masterwork to the Backpack (note the cost and the weights for these listed items have changed and you can apply any two to a single backpack). Thus a 1 Level Masterwork Backpack would cost 10gp and a 2 Level Masterwork Backpack would cost 50gp. Not those ridiculously random numbers they applied.

Backpack (Carrier) Weight +0 lbs
Note the weight of the animal does not affect the capacity of the main container but it does add to the total weight you are carrying.

Backpack (Masterwork) name changed to (Lighten Load) Weight +0 lbs
Backpack (Hydration) Weight +2 lbs + 8 lbs of water
Backpack (Weapon Rack) Weight +2 lbs
Backpack (Storage*) Weight +0 lbs

Storage: Increases the main container to allow it to hold up to 50 lbs and/or 3 cubic feet.

So perhaps instead of those permanent magic Muleback Cords maybe you get the Backpack (Lighten Load).

Note the above Backpack descriptions (except Storage) can be found on Archives of Nethys but this does not mean those are the only one's that are available it is just those are the only ones that have already been outlined. If you have an idea for a Masterwork item present it and I will look it over. This is to say, someone capable of doing Masterwork can do some pretty amazing things.