I honestly expected the same... but not so quickly and suddenly. It might be because I'm also playing in games and the thought of just outright disappearing when these are now my only pathfinder games, is absurd.
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No bonus for -0 ACP is why I slap a Haramaki on all my 1e casters. Free extra +1 to AC.
Alright, Spheres was down which was why I didn't link it.
Alright, discipline talents chosen. Went with Techmaniac (doubt it will be useful, but it very much is in character) and Archery Bash. Admittedly the character is probably more underpowered than I could have gone with Spheres, but this is my first time and I retooled a character who's decidedly anti-magic in their character. I do have one question, though, can she simultaneously make a ranged sunder and disarm attempt with her talents? Narratively, it makes sense, if you're shooting something out of someone's hand it's going to get damaged, the mechanics just seem incredibly funky.
Almost ready here. I actually decided not to use a Trade Tradition, but I still need to place the two discipline talents on her sheet. Haven't come up with a good test scenario yet though, bluh.
Two discipline, and Trade are what I'm missing then. I'll fill those in eventually.
@Gearmaster of the Turning Age: I'm just confused on how many sphere talents I get, is all. Everything else seems pretty standart.
Currently it's a non-factor, as there's 0% chance of overlap ;P
I really like these characters. All seem unique, despite everyone using the Tinker sphere lol Ana currently isn't using the Tinker Sphere for much. I may have incorrectly created a character and used too few talents, I'm trying to decypher the gestalt rules for Spheres lmao.
HAHA do we seriously have one of every theme on our hands?
I'd assume at most it's "any class that would grant you proficiency (+ gunsmithing) in an 'emerging guns' campaign gets gun training."
Oh wait, Railgun improves the range increment! I missed that, and considering Ana's main claim to fame is electricity (stealing stuff from the Tech Guide but making it very early Teslapunk instead), Railgun has now been added! I might draft up a test combat encunter as well.
Alright, I was essentially asking if there was an analogue to Brigh who'd be reveling in the modernity, but I guess not... so she's probably going to seem like she's from Danor were it not for the obvious species difference.
What are the gods' opinions on the new technologies, I should ask?
Oh now I'm tempted to make a gestalt-spheres version of one of my other characters...
This is supposed to say electricity, I was half asleep when I wrote this.
Yeah, especially if the setting is straddled between Commonplace and Everywhere, giving Gunsmithing makes a lot of sense. This isn't earth, so buying ammunition from just any place that sells weapon is probably not going to be viable for advanced firearm. I tend to like those in-between tech levels since they make for nice innovator characters. Alkenstar is on the verge of steampunk, and your take is on the verge of teslapunk, so a character who leans hard into proper steam power or electricity fits right in. Hence, flashlight. Granted, I'm flavoring them as bulky mid-to-late 1800s tech though. No fancy Numerian flashlights here :P I think I'll go with Weapon Shot for the free talent I just gained with the Gunsmithing revelation. She'll be trying to disarm/remove snipers from play if at all possible. (Also gunning for fortification armor of course) And as for the bonuses, Ana has two bonuses to her Knowledge (Engineering) from her classes, and both Craft (mechanical) and Craft (trap) ranks from her spheres.
It'd probably only be those with Gunsmithing then, since that's what Gunsllinger trades out. Either that, or make the gun-proficient classes run like Trench Fighter (i.e. not at level 1)?
Honestly... that feels way too cheap for DEX to damage, and at Guns Everywhere it is quite literally "1 level of Gunslinger". Could justify it with Blacksmith still being the people who MAKE the guns, so they'd still get Gunsmithing. I'm with Chris: I hope not.
Ana's a technologist, for what it's worth.
I mean, I figured that was "and have no Vancian Spheres," and I assumed as much when making Ana.
Haha, that's the only reason Ana's a Siege Gunner! Hard to function otherwise with a WIS penalty!
I already have a gunslinger-caster gestalt out there, so I didn't want to try my luck with Spherecasting, Spheres is already enough time spent on character creation.
The setting generally uses Commonplace Guns. But for the purposes of requisitioning gear from the R.H.C., it's Guns Everywhere. I'm willing to rule in favor of whatever would benefit a firearm-using PC the most, even if that requires a tiny bending of the rules. The main reason I asked was just in case we got stranded somewhere, we'd need someone with Gunsmithing :P I'll probably leave it as it is, the mix of advanced firearms but still reliant on yourself for making every bit of it is how I imagine the character. Oh yeah, and one extra damage point lol. Ended up going with Guns Everywhere but burning a feat on Gunsmithing. And god, right between steampunk and teslapunk? Okay I love your takke on the setting so much already just at those words, hehe.
I'd have gone with spellcasting as well, but this is my first time doing spheres so I'd rather have basically-a-gunslinger with Technician. That's a lot of incanting.
Surely nothing can go wrong putting a Jierre next to someone who almost moved to Danor, right? Updated to include a third trait, and assuming early early electricity is available for invention, some shoddy light source since I managed to forget to buy torches :P
Alright, here's the crunch for Violant's character, your stereotypical panoply proponent from Ber, with a very strong obsession with technology of all sorts. Technologist theme, naturally. I don't think I screwed anything up? I don't know whether improvements are PER invention or whether you only have a total number though, so that may be horribly long. This was by far one of the longest character creation sessions I had in a while, but I didn't cheap out on her implementation since I have access to so. much. tech. I'll probably switch her to a proper rifle once confirmed that this is a Guns Everywhere campaign for the extra range on a sniper. I will be the one to do the Called Shots cruelty, ehehe.
Glad I could provide a little life support for this campaign, it was mighty fun while it lasted. And yeah, I'm pretty sure those are direct quotes lifted from the AP. Turns out, if you can create wormholes and simulate life, you can essentially create a divine realm with it and then become a literal demigod from my understanding
Amhesha quickly switches her weapon to her Arc Rifle upon confirmation that the plan is to take out the robot, as robots can't really be effected by planar energies. "Ready when y'all are."
Ana puts the Veemod goggles on, adjusting to the new enhanced vision that the technological devices grants her. It takes a bit of manual adjustment since, presumanly, they were only designed with non-Amurrun in mind, but she eventually has her eyes open wide. "Alright. Adjusted the Veemods, I vaguely remember hearing one of those Surgeon Robots in that room," she says as she points to H6, "Absolutely no clue what's in the other room, though. Should we just avoid dealing witht the scalpel-and-laser all together?"
"This is just... weren't cybernetics enough? The 'experiment
She then just... sits there and sighs, as she looks over the gear on the former witch, contemplating her stupid decision to work with the League as an agent.
Androffan:
"And... there's the heart! Die." Ana takes a good few 3 or so seconds locating the heart of the sleeping Witch, then plunges her aligned rapier, swishing around to parry any potential attacks from the kytons should they attack. Between the lot of them, they should be able to deal with the group of Kytons relatively quickly, so snuffing the Technomancer out as fast as possible before she can wake up and control/scare Ana, the better Coup de Grace Rules:
As a full-round action, you can use a melee weapon to deliver a coup de grace to a helpless opponent. You can also use a bow or crossbow , provided you are adjacent to the target. You automatically hit and score a critical hit. If the defender survives the damage, he must make a Fortitude save DC 10 + damage dealt) or die. A rogue also gets her extra sneak attack damage against a helpless opponent when delivering a coup de grace. Delivering a coup de grace provokes attacks of opportunity from threatening opponents. You can’t deliver a coup de grace against a creature that is immune to critical hits. You can deliver a coup de grace against a creature with total concealment, but doing this requires two consecutive full-round actions (one to “find” the creature once you’ve determined what square it’s in, and one to deliver the coup de grace).
Wait, full attack? How tired was I when I wrote that. Coup de Grace!
Hey, was the plan to kill the League Member? I'm 5 feet away from being able to full-attack the sleeping one, but I figured I should ask if we want to keep her alive.
I do want to re-ask for clarification on use of Deeds like Gunslinger's Dodge and Parry and Riposte? How do you want to go about that?
Ana takes the opportunity to charge Gyrne, making a single, devastating strike with her Holy Anarchic Rapier as she charges.
"Agreed: two laser rifles, and presumably a jury-rigged whip-like weapon, and split the work once we find a lab? Sadly, though, I don't know the layout of the place well, aside from where the Kyton Witch is," Ana says as she stows her Arc Rifle, and withdraws her Holy Anarchic rapier out. "Speaking of, should we go after Rasik next?" Ana's grin is much clearer than Luthor's, as Ana is much more than eager to fell a Technomancer.
"Oh how I've missed doing this," Amhesha whispers with a wide grin as she fires a single arc at the nearest Myrmidon robot, conserving the Arc Rifle's power as she aims directly for its power source to overload it.
"should we just... head through the door, ambush the myrmidons, and hope for the best," Ana asks, trying her best to be quiet to not alert the Robots, the Kytons, or the Witch.
Amhesha, seeing robots, decides to equip her Arc Rifle to do the most damage she can to them as fast as possible. She stows her trusty Rapier for when the inevitable fight against the Kytons and the Technic League members happens, along with her Sonic Rifle for anything unrelated.
"Sadly I don't have an EMP Rifle at hand," she says looking at them. If a 19 is enough to identify them: "Myrmidon Robots. They fly, lash you, shoot you, and try to gut you, and just in general are bad news that rain destruction down on you. Considering they can fly, ranged weaponry is probably a good idea, lest they just pepper us from above with no way to retaliate. "
So this is the point where I can join in the combat, right? Also, ignore me using my starfinder character on accident. There aren't that many Catfolk/Pahtra profile pictures.
For a second, Ana looks deep in thought, as if remembering something, then she speaks up. "Look, if it helps me earn your trust. There's a Captain in the room down there," she says as she points through her cell to H5. "Speaking of planar threats, she's a witch who's been working with the Kytons: Gryne Rasik. My Rapier is both Anarchic and Holy, and should be horribly effective against Technic Leaguers and Kytons. I'll do my best to help you should you let me out," she says, still sweating nervously.
Ana sighs, realizing that sooner or later, either by her or the Captains, someone will find out about her past. "You'd find out about it from the Captains anyways," she says, taking a deep breath as she braces for the, potentially literal, impact. "My name is Ana Iridia Brunas, I am --- or, rather, was --- an Agent of the Technic League, mostly tasked with dealing with planar threats -- Cixyron Cultists and Demons, mostly." She then leans against the wall, staring at the Android directly in the eyes. "When that work dried up, I tried quitting before they tossed me into any other work. I was hit with a stungun and ended up in a bloody cell! Does that satisfy your curiosities?" She's sweating bullets at this point. She knows the Technic League's tendency to enslave androids, so she figured this one might find anyone allied, or previously allied, with the league to be an enemy. That includes her, regardless of her ability to hold the Holy Sonic Rifle without getting violently ill. There's still a bit of shakiness present in her voice, but she's no longer lying. Now she's just scared of reprisal, from either the freedom fighters, the League, or Brigh and Bastet forbid both.
Welp, first post up! Thanks for letting me join/revive this campaign, finally got the chance to put this character on paper.
Ana, nearly asleep from idle waiting for her own demise, presumably by some horrid experiments, suddenly lurches in her cell as she hears people. "PEOPLE?!" As soon as she hears who showed up, she gets nervous as ever, though, due to why she's here. "Oh, thank Brigh and Bast! I thought you were Technic Leaguers." She doesn't know if they can even see her, so she's betting her money on being relatively easy to identify. "Ana Iridia Brunas, I got busted trying to smuggle some tech weapons out of Numeria and into Alkenstar. I'm the catfolk in Neraplast, if you need to discern my identity. The two rifles and the rapier should be somewhere near here. If you let me out," she says, nervously gasping for air, "I can help you take down those bloody spellcasters. You just need to find a way to get me out of the cell."
It's pretty clear in the tone of her voice that she is extremely nerve-wracked.
Glad to hear you're getting better, GM!
No problem, here's to hoping you get better soon and that you get lots of rest. |