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I'm trying to create a pair of custom magic boots, combining the effects of several feet-slot items. The items:
Can someone help me determine the cost, and point me to the relevant rules?
So, a huge earth elemental is targeted by falling debris (courtesy of an evil giant's earthquake spell). The elemental's earth glide ability says: Earth Glide (Ex): A burrowing earth elemental can pass through stone, dirt, or almost any other sort of earth except metal as easily as a fish swims through water. If protected against fire damage, it can even glide through lava. Its burrowing leaves behind no tunnel or hole, nor does it create any ripple or other sign of its presence. A move earth spell cast on an area containing a burrowing earth elemental flings the elemental back 30 feet, stunning the creature for 1 round unless it succeeds on a DC 15 Fortitude save. So, does the falling debris harm the elemental? Or does it "pass through" the elemental in the same way the elemental can "pass through" stone and dirt?
I have a character concept for the Wrath of The Righteous adventure path: a dwarven druid named Jiminy "Jim" Mountainborn (Jimminy? Jymny? Hmm...). I'll be role playing him as a friendly, folksy old bumpkin with a pocket full of pipe tobacco and a well-worn straw hat. I want him to have a decent Charisma score to represent his friendly, Southern mannerisms and hospitable attitude. I'll have a wealth of Arkansan idioms on hand for every conceivable situation, and I'll be voicing him with an exaggerated Southern accent (I'm an Arkansas native, so it won't be hard). He has a badger animal companion named Henry, although Henry won't be "real" until Jim's 1st druid level. Henry the badger:
Jim met Henry while tending to his moonshine stills at his mountain cabin. Henry followed him home, and they've been inseparable ever since. I plan on making Henry a dire badger at the appropriate level, then just making him bigger and bigger using the Bestiary advancement rules. If asked about his huge and steadily-growing dire badger, Jiminy insists that it's completely normal, and Henry is "a home-grown 'mater, fed on nuthin' but moonshine and love".
To simulate our rise from mundanity to adventuring, each PC starts with a single level in an NPC class. The GM assures us that this will be purely an "extra level", and won't affect the CR of encounters down the line. Mine is expert, which I've used to grant access to a couple of skills that the druid class doesn't offer. This is where it gets tricky. I want him to use a musket in true mountain-man style, since before adventuring he hunted bears and lived in a mountain cabin, carefully grooming his beard. How can I do this, but not make him ineffectual in combat? Is there a decent non-gunslinger build for 2-handed firearms? Here's what I have so-far: Jim's tentative build:
Jiminy NG Male Dwarf Expert 1 -------------------- Abilities (20-point buy): STR 13 DEX 14 CON 14 INT 10 WIS 16 CHA 12 -------------------- Feat: ? Skill List [any 10, thanks to expert class; Bluff; Diplomacy; Jump; Knowledge (Dungeoneering, Nature); Sense Motive; Stealth; Survival; Linguistics; Perception] Expert gives access to Diplomacy and Sense Motive, which are great for my character concept of a friendly old mountain dwarf with a lot of good advice. The rest are appropriate for someone living in the mountains, if slightly redundant for a druid. I've considered taking a single level of gunslinger for the Gunsmith bonus feat and the free rifle. I'd LOVE to have 5 levels (for the +DEX to gun damage), but I don't want to take that much away from druid. I'll have to construct my own rifle later to keep up with my BaB (along with Rapid Reload). We'll be giving the new mythic rules for a whirl, too. Should be fun.
A player in one of out games wanted something like the falcata, but two-handed. So the question is this: is it too cheesy to allow this exotic weapon: [Two-handed falcata variant] Cost: x, Dmg: 1d10, Crit: 19-20/x3, Wt: x, Type: S Note: According to the weapon size table, the increased damage should be 2d6. But that seemed too good to me. |
