GM Knightmare's Besmara's Bastards [Skull and Shackles]

Game Master TheChelaxian

Here is the Submission For Degnax, his character sheet is in his bio. He is an Oni-spawn tiefling Freebooter/Skirmisher Ranger. He is an up close fighter who also helps buff his allies against their foes. His role on a ship would be Lookout/Carpenter (high perception and crafting skills) but can also fill in as a navigator if party separation or incapacitation should happen (high survival and knowledge geography)

Here is TheWaskally's submission for GM Knightmare's Besmara's Bastards. Good ol' Toby was in a unfinished Skull and Shackles campaign here on the forums. Toby was created using Rogue Genius Games Godling (clever) third-party class.
Role: Mate and shanty singer

Let's see if The Dice Gods (Long May They Reign) and Besmara be merciful on the All Hallow's Eve.

4d6, drop lowest: 4d6 - 1 ⇒ (1, 2, 6, 2) - 1 = 10
4d6, drop lowest: 4d6 - 4 ⇒ (5, 4, 6, 5) - 4 = 16
4d6, drop lowest: 4d6 - 2 ⇒ (4, 6, 2, 5) - 2 = 15
4d6, drop lowest: 4d6 - 1 ⇒ (2, 4, 5, 1) - 1 = 11
4d6, drop lowest: 4d6 - 1 ⇒ (1, 2, 4, 4) - 1 = 10
4d6, drop lowest: 4d6 - 1 ⇒ (3, 3, 3, 1) - 1 = 9

Rerolling the 9: 4d6 - 1 ⇒ (6, 6, 1, 4) - 1 = 16

So. 16, 16, 15, 11, 10, 10. Dice Gods Be Praised! I can work with this.
I'll let you know when Toby's ready for inspection!!

Rolling the starting gold, if below average of 175 gp I take the 175 gp

Gold: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 6, 6, 4) = 23 x 10 = 230 gp

Nice!

I've also settled on a name-Akete (pronounced Ah-Kae-Tae) Zatcher

Let's see what the dice have in store for me....

Ability Score #1: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 5, 5) = 13
Ability Score #2: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 4, 4) = 10
Ability Score #3: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 3, 4) = 16
Ability Score #4: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 2, 2) = 13
Ability Score #5: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 4, 6) = 18
Ability Score #6: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 6, 4) = 18

And let's reroll the 9 (Ability Score #2)....

Ability Score #2 Reroll: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 6, 4) = 19

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Sweet!

wealth roll: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 5) = 13 x 10 = 130

Working up a Sea Singer bard. Probably the cook.

Starting Gold: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 6) = 9 (OK--looks like average to start.)

Traits have been selected-Armor Expert, Convincing Liar, and Ilizmagorti Native. If the forums are up tomorrow I will make the background and post the character

Ok my guy will he a ratfolk alchemist. He'll be the ship's cook!

'What's in this stew?'

'Better to not know...'

Avast! It be too late to repel boarders. Keep a weather eye out, and hold on tight. With both hands, if you please. There be squalls ahead!

4d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 4, 1) = 9 (8)
4d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 4, 2) = 14 (12)
4d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 6, 5) = 20 (17)
4d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 1, 2) = 9 (8)
4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 6, 4) = 16 (13)
4d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 1, 6) = 16 (15)

Arr, I be rerollin' one o' them 8s.

4d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 5, 3) = 19 (16)

Aye, that be an acceptable array, cap'm!

I am thinking of reviving a character I've always wanted to play for this AP, a human Siege Mage. He'll start as a gunslinger at first level, but then go into wizard at 2nd. As far as typical role on the ship, I'm guessing mate probably fits best, since there's no 'gunner'.

Starting gold: 5d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 4, 1, 1) = 8 x 10

Ooof, average of 175 it is!

4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 1, 2) = 13 = 12
4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 3, 6) = 16 = 13
4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 6, 5) = 17 = 14
4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 3) = 10 = 8
4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 5, 1) = 14 = 13
4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 5, 4) = 21 = 17

Re-roll the 8
4d6 drop lowest: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 1, 3) = 13 = 12

17, 14, 13, 13, 12, 12

Helmsman (already chosen)
Jacquelyn Shadowfire Undine Druid

Surgeon
* [Ouachitonian] (undine kineticist)

Cook
* Veniir (ratfolk alchemist)

Boatswain
* KoolKobold (Tengu Gunslinger)

Cooper
* Mack Brinebeard Dwarf Oracle (commando gunslinger dip planned)

Carpenter
* Torgald Frostbeard Dwarf Elementalist Shifter (building towards Horizon Walker)
* Varek Cinderjaw Drazan Tiefling Freebooter Ranger

Mate
* Kragan Bloodskull Half-Orc Freebooter Ranger
* Tobias Toby Wraithborn Aasimar Godling
* eriktd (Human Siege Mage Wizard)

Sailmaker
* N/A

Rigger
* Naya Sylph Magus

... Aren't 3rd party just outright banned?

Well crap. I read that wrong. You and your 'flowery pirate prose'.
Nevermind then.

Guess I return my focus to Legion: Remix!

Looking to maybe be a Tengu Shaman, who is originally a cook, may choose Sail Maker,

Here's my character's profile: Jacques Lacrimoisi. I changed my mind and decided to make him an Inspired Blade swashbuckler, but he will still become a Siege Mage wizard at level 2 and eventually take a few levels in Eldritch Knight before the campaign ends.

Theme song. :)

Arrrgh, can't be callin' oneself a Pirate, if'n ya don't love ta cast th' bones....

4d6 = 14
4d6 = 10
4d6 = 12
4d6 = 12
4d6 = 12
4d6 = 14

I be rollin' away that dam'd tenner! Besmara bless deez bones!

4d6 = 14

I'll be submitting a swashbuckler!

Well crap. I read that wrong. You and your 'flowery pirate prose'.

Nevermind then.

Guess I return my focus to Legion: Remix!

Yes, 3rd party isn't allowed in my games, sorry. Apologies, I assumed you were going to rework the class in the following days, so I said nothing.

Also, in case folks weren't aware, this is tomorrow.

Choose Jacques Lacrimoisi! He was a good mate on the other Skull and Shackles Campaign I was on! Great character!!

I also have fond memories of playing in that game with Toby! :)

My undine will be able to help with that, I get Create Water and can Purify water(as if with Purify Food and Drink) at will as an SLA. You bring the ingredients and heat, and together we can turn anything into a soup! And no one will ever go thirsty!

I love it!

'What's in this stew?'

'Better to not know...'

Well, definitely not rat, so there's that.

Ouachitonian wrote:

My undine will be able to help with that, I get Create Water and can Purify water(as if with Purify Food and Drink) at will as an SLA. You bring the ingredients and heat, and together we can turn anything into a soup! And no one will ever go thirsty!

I love it!

Shadow Dragon wrote:

'What's in this stew?'

'Better to not know...'

Well, definitely not rat, so there's that.

Sometimes there are worse options...

I'm submitting Veda, a Half-Elf Wind Mystery Oracle with the Cyclopean Seer Archetype.

Veda will be competent enough as a ship crew member, but I'm angling her toward engaging with the cyclopean and Ghol-Gan related parts of the campaign. She has the Ancient Explorer trait, and of course her archetype. She speaks Cyclopean, etc.

I suppose for ship's crew positions surgeon is possible. Sailmaker could make sense for a wind oracle too.

I believe the build is complete now, but I'll need to recheck to see if I've missed anything. I'm still working on background and gear.

Starting Money: 3d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 5) = 13

Oh deary me, a S&S recruitment? Plus, I roll for stats? Is it my birthday?

Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 6, 1) = 11
Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 6, 5, 5) = 17
Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 2) = 15
Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 1, 5) = 15
Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 1, 5) = 13
Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 4, 3) = 13

So a 10, 16, 13, 14, 12, 10. I've seen worse.

@GM Nightmare Knight: Looking into the Ekujae I found this:

Many Ekujae ritualistically send their half-elven children to be raised in fully half-elven clans, believing that half-elves will thrive amongst their own kind due to the two ancestries' different lifespans.

So a half elf Ekujae would make sense for the Kindred Raised alternate racial trait, yes?

Veniir wrote:

Ouachitonian wrote:

My undine will be able to help with that, I get Create Water and can Purify water(as if with Purify Food and Drink) at will as an SLA. You bring the ingredients and heat, and together we can turn anything into a soup! And no one will ever go thirsty!

I love it!

Shadow Dragon wrote:

'What's in this stew?'

'Better to not know...'

Well, definitely not rat, so there's that.

Sometimes there are worse options...

Options

@GM Nightmare Knight: Looking into the Ekujae I found this:

PFWiki wrote:

Many Ekujae ritualistically send their half-elven children to be raised in fully half-elven clans, believing that half-elves will thrive amongst their own kind due to the two ancestries' different lifespans.

So a half elf Ekujae would make sense for the Kindred Raised alternate racial trait, yes?

Aye, that they would.

Alright this is a bucket list AP for me so dotting. We'll see what I have ready, probably shouldn't submit another taciturn half-elf melee powerhouse but we'll see were I end up.

Maybe a Sorcerer. Not sure yet.

4d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 3, 5) = 1311
4d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 5, 6) = 2217
4d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 5, 4) = 1513
4d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 5, 1) = 1312
4d6 ⇒ (5, 5, 2, 5) = 1715
4d6 ⇒ (2, 4, 5, 5) = 1614

Let’s Reroll the 11

4d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 4, 5) = 1513

4d6 ⇒ (6, 3, 6, 1) = 16 15 (7 pt buy)
4d6 ⇒ (6, 4, 3, 4) = 17 14 (5 pt buy)
4d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 6, 4) = 14 13 (3 pt buy)
4d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 6, 1) = 14 13 (3 pt buy)
4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 3, 6) = 13 12 (2 pt buy)
4d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 2, 3) = 7 6 (idk at least -4 pt buy but probably -6)

Rerolling the 12 because I want one low stat.

4d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 6, 1) = 14 13 (3 pt buy)

Then bumping the 6 up to a 7 to fit 15 point buy.

Ok probably going to submit a half-ork bloodrager. Details soonish.

Hello All!

This AP has been dodging my AP bucket list for quite a spell!

I am most certainly interested in this Campaign.

Boards will be down for a few days after today, but he may be ready before then...

Thank you for running!

EDIT!

Well, since our illustrious GM has proclaimed!

Billybrainpan here with my submission. He's a sniveling little bastard with an ugly face and a peg leg but maybe he can slime his way into a place on this crew.

Goblin Gunslinger - working his way towards effectively dual wielding pistols but its a long journey. He has a natural climb speed and a pretty good profession (sailor) so is naturally inclined to work in the rigging.

I haven’t gotten the backstory this weekend has been rough, but here’s KoolKobold’s submission!

Might as well roll for money since we get average otherwise:

ranger wealth: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 2, 5, 1) = 18

Here is Ironperenti's submission. Beorn here is a Ranger Tidal Hunter. I tried to use this idea for another game but didn't get picked up. We shall see with this one. The class seems pretty applicable.

I'd actually rather like to throw my hat into the ring as well. Let's see how the stats look...

Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 1, 4) = 14 - 13
Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 2, 1) = 11 - 10
Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 5, 1, 4) = 11 - 10
Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 6, 1, 6) = 17 - 16
Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 2, 1, 5) = 9 - 8
Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 5, 5) = 16 - 14

Not bad stats at all - I'd rather like him to have at least one low stat, so I'll reroll one of those 10s to see what I can get.

Stat Roll: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 6, 1) = 18 - 17

Very nice indeed.

GM, I wanted to run an idea by you, if it's not too much trouble. I was thinking perhaps a Deep One Hybrid Aquachymist to serve as the ship's surgeon, something like Robert Olmstead - an Ustalav-trained physician following the call of the sea that nascent Deep Ones experience. I know it's not the world's most optimized character, but would that be acceptable? If so, I'll try to work on my character during the outage, see if I can get him completed.

GM, I wanted to run an idea by you, if it's not too much trouble. I was thinking perhaps a Deep One Hybrid Aquachymist to serve as the ship's surgeon, something like Robert Olmstead - an Ustalav-trained physician following the call of the sea that nascent Deep Ones experience. I know it's not the world's most optimized character, but would that be acceptable? If so, I'll try to work on my character during the outage, see if I can get him completed.

Oh, you tempt me, stone giant. I'll allow it.

A question…is VMC allowed?

I had an idea. VMC Wizard for a familiar at lvl3. Specifically a parrot with the Sage archetype. It gives +3 appraise (bleh) but it can talk. And I liked the idea of a parrot that never talks until it passes a knowledge check, and squawks out the information from said check. It sounds both useful, and flavorful.

A question…is VMC allowed?

In the opening post, GM says it's allowed.

Rolling for alchemist money: 3d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 6) = 11

110gp. Above average! I like it!

Thank you for making up for me having Int as a dump stat :)

Profile (mechanics and background) have been updated.

Hi, this is my submission, Mest Ianosh a ratfolk cook alchemist, as promised. I went with the Trap Breaker archetype which means he also covers trapfinding.
In the opening post, there's a mention that we don't have access to our weapons. That's fine, but... will we also not have access to reagents? I wonder because Mest would totally claim his reagents are cooking ingredients. That's not a total lie, since to him, alchemy is the same as cooking (think Breaking Bad).

Anyway, thanks for running.

stats: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 1, 4, 2) = 8 7
stats: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 2, 3, 4) = 11 9
stats: 4d6 ⇒ (6, 2, 6, 1) = 15 14
stats: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 6, 4) = 15 13
stats: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 5, 1) = 9 13
stats: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 6, 4) = 16 8

Reroll the 7.

stats: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 3, 3) = 10

That's a nope!

And with that...it's a ship's artillery in ogre form. :D

Haha, that looks awesome. Pretty sure there's already a big dumb guy on the ship in the first mod, though. I'll put that in my 'concepts for a future game' folder.

@Jacquelyn Shadowfire If this guy gets picked how would you feel about being buddies with a NE (or TN? Nah, I think probably NE/selfish type) rifle-maker from Pitax? Backstory would involve his dad being a rogue Alkenstar engineer poached by Prince Irovetti to set up a firearms workshop in his arts academy, then dad gets screwed over by Irovetti because of course he does and then this PC has to hightail it out of the River Kingdoms. They could have been traveling together for a while, two River Kingdoms Freedoms-loving folks out in the big bad world.

As far as ship role goes, from that list I guess he'd be a Mate since there's different kinds of mates. But if Sailmaker is important and nobody else is going for it I can always say he learned to fix sails at some point along the way.

@Jacquelyn Shadowfire If this guy gets picked how would you feel about being buddies with a NE (or TN? Nah, I think probably NE/selfish type) rifle-maker from Pitax? Backstory would involve his dad being a rogue Alkenstar engineer poached by Prince Irovetti to set up a firearms workshop in his arts academy, then dad gets screwed over by Irovetti because of course he does and then this PC has to hightail it out of the River Kingdoms. They could have been traveling together for a while, two River Kingdoms Freedoms-loving folks out in the big bad world.

I'm open to the discussion as mentioned! Let me DM you some thoughts!

Definitely interested on this one! The premise seems cool! Dunno how you feel about having someone with little 1e experience, though. With the site coming down soon, I'll take time to read the player's guide and come up with a concept

...Well, seems the website isn't down yet so let's give it a go

4d6 - 1 ⇒ (2, 1, 2, 4) - 1 = 8
4d6 - 1 ⇒ (2, 1, 1, 4) - 1 = 7
4d6 - 1 ⇒ (1, 4, 1, 5) - 1 = 10
4d6 - 2 ⇒ (2, 2, 6, 2) - 2 = 10
4d6 - 2 ⇒ (2, 4, 2, 3) - 2 = 9
4d6 - 1 ⇒ (5, 2, 1, 1) - 1 = 8

These are quite something!

Ahoy bone rollers!

@Ironperenti: Yes, the minimum should be equivalent to a 15 point buy.

@All: If your results would add up to less than a 15-point buy, ye may adjust 1 stat till ye reach at least 15 points or reroll the set of six. Also, no higher than 20 after racial modifiers this time 'round.

@Violant: I knew the siren's aroma of gunpowder would draw ye to me shores.

I'd just reroll, haha

...Well, seems the website isn't down yet so let's give it a go

4d6 - 1
4d6 - 1
4d6 - 1
4d6 - 2
4d6 - 2
4d6 - 1

These are quite something!

Wow, that's a -9 point buy. I don't think adjusting 1 stat up is going to suffice. I'd reroll all six. You couldn't do worse the second time around I think. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah I think a reroll is in order, but I think this is an omen that I shouldn't do it before the website goes down, I think I'm being punished for being impatient!

Update: Just checked the announcement, seems the website the website isn't going down today

TIME TO TRY AGAIN!

4d6 - 1 ⇒ (3, 2, 6, 1) - 1 = 11
4d6 - 1 ⇒ (6, 4, 3, 1) - 1 = 13
4d6 - 2 ⇒ (2, 5, 2, 4) - 2 = 11
4d6 - 1 ⇒ (5, 4, 3, 1) - 1 = 12
4d6 - 4 ⇒ (5, 4, 4, 4) - 4 = 13
4d6 - 1 ⇒ (3, 3, 1, 3) - 1 = 9

Now this is drastically better though still not great.