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9 posts. Alias of Almonihah.


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Likewise, anything further I needed for Alexander?


All right, I *think* I have everything ready now for Alexander & Midnight. I'll let you know if I tweak anything more.


Added a few things to these character sheets:

Additional Species Points buys:
Cat’s Luck (1 RP)
Elemental Immunity (Electricity) (4 RP)
Enhanced Dexterity (4 RP)
Spell-like ability (Fly) (3 RP)
Spell-like ability (Vanish) (1 RP)

Appearance:
Fair-skinned, with brown hair and brown eyes, Alexander has a slight build and is of middling height. He often wears practical, hard-wearing clothes somewhat beneath his station, though he does have a couple of suits he reluctantly gets out when the situation calls for it.

Personality:
Alexander is typically somewhat diffident and retiring in personality when in public, unless someone starts speaking about physics, chemistry, or some other subject he's interested in, at which point he suddenly becomes intense and animated.

Description for Midnight:
Midnight is ordinarily a black housecat with amber eyes, lean (though not malnourished) and rather skittish. In the Dreaming, however, she is an enormous cat at least as large as a tiger, with fur so black it seems to drain the light from her surroundings, making her exact dimensions harder to determine. Only her amber eyes shine out of the darkness, cunning and hungry...


I would still enjoy being surprised by the Othersoul. :)

I've been playing around with Wyld Shape ideas, too. At first I was thinking owl, but I wasn't sold on it and then I saw someone else was going for it so I decided that was as good a reason as any to think of something else. Right now I'm thinking leopard, with spots that look like stylized eyes. Eyes that seem to track and follow sights around them, both seen and unseen.


I have my HeroLab output up in this profile, just need to add template changes and other tweaks that HeroLab doesn't get right/make easy.


Sounds great to me! I'm kind of tempted to say you don't even have to tell me what you pick, so it's as much a surprise to me as it will be to Alexander when it's revealed. :D


Seer of Shadows wrote:
There are quite a few options on the table there, as I can recall no less than three raven-like fey. Do you have any idea what you're looking for specifically in terms of powers or fluff?

I suppose what I'm looking for is a being who values learning and knowledge, but (being fey) whose focus and methodology differ from the scientifically-minded Alexander's.


I'm maybe 75% through my build, but I can't decide what I want to include in my curio. XD

Maybe I'll skip that for now and circle back when I've finished the rest.

I was playing with the idea of some kind of fey raven being Alexander's Othersoul--perhaps an ancient and powerful raven that's been around long enough to inspire some legends. Perhaps its name would be Huginn. :D (If so its response to finding it had an Othersoul could be "Oh, not again")


All right, starting to work on stats, so of course I have questions.

* Are animal companion hit points the usual 1/2 (i.e. 5) per HD?
* I'd been kind of assuming that it would be fine for Alexander's housecat to transform into his tiger animal companion while in the Dreaming, is that fine?
* I'm using the Scholar class with Small + Large Animal Training, so Midnight (his cat) will have aspects of both familiars and animal companions. Could she swap the usual cat familiar stealth bonus for a raven familiar's ability to speak one language? (Yes this is mostly so she can be snarky to *everyone* not just Alexander)
* Speaking of the Scholar class, it uses both alchemical creations (flashbangs, Alchemy sphere stuff--I'm staying away from the banned abilities) and a healer's kit. Would I make an alchemy kit and a healer's kit part of my curio or regalia somehow?