Hairdar the Accursed / Hairdar Yunan

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Climb: 1d100 + 30 ⇒ (75) + 30 = 105
Not entirely certain how to format this for rolling. I don't think that's supposed to happen, but I don't roll nearly enough to have this system entirely figured out. I don't think 105 is supposed to happen.


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Stats:

10 Appearance
11 Constitution
12 Power
15 Education 14+1 for age
10 Dexterity
7 Strength
14 Size
15 Intelligence
60 Sanity
75 Idea Roll
60 Luck
70 Know
12 Magic Points
13 Hit Points
Damage Bonus +0

Skills:

Biology 21
Chemistry 16
Medicine 45
Forensics 51
First Aid 40
Pharmacy 6
Physics 16
Library Use 35
Sneak 40
Persuade 65
Fast Talk 25
Grapple 45
Sneak 30
Spot Hidden 65
Listen 50
Conceal 35
Drive Auto 40
Handgun 40

Background:

Adrian Roman, Age: 35 Occupation: Medical Examiner
Always a scholarly one growing up, Adrian was always more interested in books than with playing outside. His parents hadn't influenced him much growing up in terms of what they'd done, but more with who they'd been, as people. Adrian learned how to think and speak for himself, and to understand other people, even though his undiagnosed sociopathy kept him from caring too much about how they felt. He decided at a young age that he was going to study medicine to become a doctor, so that he could study the body more in depth, to gain understanding and knowledge that had not been found. Adrian always felt the strong desire to truly "know". To understand. Despite his scholastic aptitude, as he rose through the levels of education, he became less interested with the academia and more interested in his personal wants and goals. He spent less time worrying about studying and school, and more about thinking in the abstract. Things he could learn from education were not so difficult to learn, and he had little trouble, and preferred spending his free time figuring out the truth of the universe. As deep as he thought though, he never really talked to anyone directly about these thoughts and his discoveries, though occasionally he would provide these insights indirectly, through topic of conversation.
After his formal education was finished, Adrian began his path to become the first of what would be established in the position of Medical Examiner. There was corruption with the Publicly Elected Coroners, and many things were being overlooked or swept under the rug. One particularly exercised excuse was the lack of knowledge, mainly in the case of "unexplained deaths", which were due to poisoning. After the office of the M.E. was established and the corruption contained, Adrian began working with the Police to solve cases, providing information about how the deaths occurred, and even participating in active investigations. Because of the nature of this job, he became skilled not only using his Medical Expertise to aid him, but also his skills in perception and detective work, sometimes serving in that position as well. Since college, Adrian had spent some of his free time learning, studying, and practicing Aikido. It was his means of physical exercise and conditioning, and gave him quite an edge when it came to subduing suspects. The streets are not always so kind however, and he also learned how to use a Handgun as well, so that he could defend himself from opponents with similar armaments.

Recently, there have been strange, unexplainable circumstances around some of the crime scenes he analyzes. Nothing that would draw supernatural suspicion, but facts aren't adding up. Evidence is more inconclusive, and these puzzles elude him more and more, piling up. Very little seems to be making sense lately, and Adrian has begun looking for other people who may be able to make sense of his new cases.


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Taku Ooka Nin wrote:

Always remember that, as the DM, if you do something that the players view as completely unfair that there is a possibility that they will switch DMs without you knowing.

It is entirely possible that if you do something your two gamers find appalling that they might decide to start a game themselves and try to bring your players over to their game.

At the point this happens, the two are causing problems for the other four, and are absolutely welcome to find another DM.


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scrmwrtr42 wrote:

Following what I hope is an enticing subject line, allow me to clarify...

I am a soon to be Pathfinder GM. Own most of the books in PDF form, and many in hardcover. Have never gotten the chance to play or run yet, though. I've been buying the books like crazy because I love the system, and the world that Paizo has created.

My question is, though, for many of the posters on the boards. I read thread after thread where all people talk about is DPS and DPR and how to build the most effective/damage causing/stat maxed whatever possible. "Don't play the monk cause they're underpowered", or "What build is best for a sorceror to cause the most amount of damage in the least amount of time?"

I'm really not trying to be a jerk or start a flame war (is that term even used anymore?), but I really am curious...what happened to players playing a character? Now, before anyone jumps all over me, I know there are a ton of role players who don't hang the success of their character on how how much damage they do. But there are obviously enough statisticians on the boards for this to be a legit query. Why is it SO important to so many people, apparently, to maximize a character's damage potential? If it's that much about numbers and combat effectiveness, why not just go play WoW?

I'm just curious, like I said. What is it about the numbers that drives so many people? When did the #s replace character?

Anyone? Bueller?

In my opinion, I really like the Monk class, and do not think it's underpowered, especaially at mid to high levels.


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I would just like to say that when I was dicking around with character creations, I managed to make something that could make ten attacks and move 800ft per round. The damage per shot was pretty good too.


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H.P. Makelovecraft wrote:
My friend ran a game where the planes kinda exploded in on each other and tge Tarrasque was destroyed, unfortunately due to its regeneration this led to the creation of the Tarrasque Swarm, thousands of diminutive sized Tarrassques...I still wake up in a cold sweat to this day.

You should totally catch a couple of those and make them pets. That would be awesome. And there is just something about fun-sized Tarrasques that make them seem cute.