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More Detailed Background Backstory for Pileus: Pileus was created by the druid Vespa in the Crimson Tide Wood from mushrooms and the log they grew upon. His relationship with his creator was short-lived as only a month or after his creation, Pileus awoke one day to find Vespa nowhere to be found, and he searched the whole wood without a trace before realizing she must have left the woods. Thus Pileus came to leave the solitude of the woods and enter Breachill for the first time. None of the residents he spoke to remembered seeing the druid pass through town.
So Pileus returned to the woods and found a small cave near a brook and beaver-dammed pond to live in. He meditated on the reflections in the rippling water and imitated its movements and found that he could make his arms and legs strike with the same liquid grace as the rippling brook and pond. He could also create seedpods from his leshy body with which to strike foes from afar. A leshy strong enough to fight off any possible predators (which were most often boars confused when their dinner started moving) with his bare hands does not have many material needs, but still, curiosity caused him to lurk about town and start hearing the stories in the tavern and the monthly Call for Heroes. He decided that he, too, should become a hero. Perhaps if he became famous enough, his creator would hear of him and return to him, or, barring that, perhaps he could find out what happened to her in one of his adventures. So he began performing odd jobs for the townspeople to earn money to buy supplies for adventuring. When he had amassed some basic supplies, he decided that he would seek caverns to explore and train in. His keen eyes needed no light to see and being a fungus leshy, he could subsist on most any damp decaying matter he might find, so he reasoned that he might be able to achieve fame by exploring the Darklands. After a few weeks, he emerged with a better understanding of the Darklands and an even better understanding of his own shortcomings. Despite his advantages, traveling alone in the deeps proved too dangerous for a monk on his own. He decided to set his sights a little lower and return to Breachill to join the Call for Heroes...
Here is Pileus's Pathbuilder link. Not completely settled on gear and such but am pretty solid on the stat spread, skills, and Reflective Ripple Stance being the 1st level class feat. I'm definitely not sure how the build will progress from there and 2nd and beyond are just me playing around. I'm thinking of Cleric, Druid, or Wrestler archetype depending on the needs of the party and what feels right for his character as I play.
Pileus is a fungus leshy who's lived most of his life on the outskirts of Breachill after the druid who created him disappeared shortly after. As a self-taught monk and a fungus, he has few material needs but earned gold for what few things he does need by doing odd jobs in Breachill. After hearing the monthly Call for Heroes and the tales told in the taverns for years, he decided he wanted to be a heroic adventurer too and train himself up with a foray into the Darklands. With no need for light and the ability to subsist on just about anything organic he might find, he thought he could do better than the average surface-dweller. While he did improve his fighting skills and learned much about the underground in his short stint exploring there, the dangers of the deeps proved too much for a solo adventurer, so he decided he'd best just return to Breachill and join the Call for Heroes and begin his heroic journey a bit more modestly. Background: Reputation Seeker
Just confirming it's okay to play a leshy--they were made a core ancestry in the remaster but AFAIK weren't before that. I've got an idea for a fungus leshy monk.
Jon, why are we splitting it 5 ways? We just met Garidan and Willorn left the group. Split it 4 ways. Since I am selling the weapons, you should head to the Market to sell the snares. We should keep the elixirs. Is someone claiming the poison or Wolf Fang? Oops my bad. So that would be 11 gp 8 sp 5 cp each or 12 gp 2 sp 2 cp if the caltrop snare is worth full price instead of half.
Sorry guys, I've been having Internet trouble since yesterday. Although I'm sure you all are glad you avoided me attacking all of you while Confused lol. I'll try to post this afternoon
Good luck everyone!
Submitting Jon Yddina, aiuvarin gunslinger! Backstory:
Jon Ydinna has been fascinated with the arcane since his grandmother read him a storybook about wizards as a boy. He was bright, but never got the knack of spells except for detecting magic. Instead, he studied alchemy which he did have an affinity for. His real talent, however, is in his marksmanship. Growing up in Alkenstar, he had the opportunity to learn both firearms and ammunition. He also developed a sword and pistol style of combat. He also uses a whip in combat to ward off enemies wanting to close into combat range. He's spent his life so far traveling with caravans and ships as a guard and making money between voyages as an itinerant alchemist. He's currently working in an apothecary and studying in the libraries in Absalom, but makes regular trips to Otari to see his favorite bookseller Morlibint at Odd Books, who has fantastic taste.
He's adventurous, easygoing, and inquisitive. He loves reading of all kinds. He takes pride in his alchemy and marksmanship, and loves meeting new people, discovering secrets, and seeing the sights. Physical Description:
He’s a 31 year old pale-skinned auivarin with black hair. He likes wearing plaid shirts (which usually are covered by his leather armor) and canvas trousers, with a leather belt with a gun holster, shortsword in a sheath, and his whip coiled up and hanging from it. For warmth and to keep the road dust off, he completes his ensemble with a black duster. Crunch: JON YDINNA
Ancestry Aiuvaran
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current HP 16
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Worn
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Total Bulk 4
Ancestry Feats
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Arcane Sense (background bonus skill feat)
Gunslinger's Way: Way of the Drifter
Initial Deed: Into the Fray ◇
Singular Expertise You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to damage rolls with firearms and crossbows. Your proficiency with unarmed attacks and with weapons other than firearms and crossbows can't be higher than trained, even if you gain an ability that would increase your proficiency in one or more other weapons to match your highest weapon proficiency (such as the weapon expertise feats many ancestries have). If you have gunslinger weapon mastery, the limit is expert, and if you have gunslinging legend, the limit is master. Gunslinger Feats
When you make a successful melee Strike against an enemy with your one-handed melee weapon, the next ranged Strike you make against that enemy with a one-handed firearm or one-handed crossbow doesn't trigger reactions that would trigger on a ranged attack but not a melee attack, such as Reactive Strike. Either of these benefits is lost if not used by the end of your next turn. 1st: Munitions Crafter You become trained in Crafting and gain the alchemist's infused reagents class feature, gaining a number of reagents each day equal to your level. You also gain the Alchemical Crafting feat and four additional formulas for 1st-level alchemical items. You gain infused reagents (a pool of reagents usable to make alchemical items) and advanced alchemy (allowing you to make alchemical items during your daily preparations without the normal cost or time expenditure). You gain batches of infused reagents per day equal to your level, which you can use to create only bombs or alchemical ammunition. Your advanced alchemy level for creating these is 1 and doesn't increase on its own. If you use a batch of infused reagents to create basic level-0 ammunition such as black powder cartridges or black powder doses, you produce 10 rounds of ammunition.
Real life get in the way again?
Just checking in since the last post was a couple days ago
Hey all. I've got a 1st level solarian. This is my first foray into Starfinder and Organized Play. I've been playing PF1E for years and was part of a PF2E PbP our GM just put on an indefinite hiatus. I looked through the SF1E PRD and playtest doc to get a feel for SF lore.
Might be a good option to climb up if we need a retreat
Have fun! I saw the eclipse a few years ago when it passed the Pacific NW and it's definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen
@Jaym'row You're correct Winter's Clutch only deals the cold damage once and then the snow is just difficult terrain
Well my attack was a disappointment. Hopefully scamps have super low AC lol
When I use the Chrome extension to use the token images for Syper, the captain, and the cox'n, the images revert to the Paizo image the next time I open the page. The one I use for Jade and Jaym'row remain. This is the first time it's happened that the images don't stick. Anyone have any ideas why? No idea, but the same thing happens for me with images not "sticking." I'd have to check my computer but I think it's happened with the captain and cox'n and possibly Syper too.
All right, I've added in Okoteck's tengu-form token. Let me know if it doesn't "read" well and I can zoom in more on the face At this size all I'm getting is a vaguely dark head on a yellow robe. Does mine need more zooming in on the face too?
Any ideas on connections our characters might have made with each other? My Kineticist is the daughter of a pirate captain, though she's been living in Eredorn
@Clebsch Your inventor link isn't set to give permission to access by default. The rogue and swashbuckler links work fine.
Hi everybody! I submitted two characters: Human Kineticist (Air & Water)
I like both characters so I'm willing to play either but I think my preference right now would be to play the kineticist. Looking back, it looks like we've all built Dex-oriented characters with Thievery! My Kineticist (Con-based, but Dex is her second best stat) could switch Thievery out for something else. She had fewer skills than I wanted to work with anyway. And my gunslinger's background would better suit several alternate skills besides Thievery.
As recruitment wraps up soon, good luck everybody!
I'm interested.
I submit Jade Morrow, kineticist of water and air, to the campaign. I really dig this character too, and she's quite a bit different than Jon, so whichever character would fit best with the party composition you're looking at is fine with me. Player Questionnaire (only including bits relevant to this character only):
Character Crunch & Backstory:
I've decided to work on a water & air kineticist as a second submission. What is your opinion on the Deckhand background from the Beginner Box? (Str/Dex + free boost, Acrobatics & Sailing Lore, Cat Fall feat). If that's not allowed I'll just take Sailor from PC1 (Str/Dex + free boost, Athletics & Sailing Lore, Underwater Marauder feat) as it's nearly identical both mechanically and thematically, but I like the Cat Fall feat a bit better than Underwater Marauder.
Just to clarify, by reset do you mean if you have more hero points than 1 before the long rest, you lose some of them, or that if you have no hero points, you receive one, or you just receive a hero point at each long rest?
All right, I'll go first :) Player Questionnaire:
Character Crunch & Backstory:
Ok sounds good.
Depends on the reagent. Munitions Crafter gives you infused reagents every day during preparations, per the alchemist class feature, which let you create ammunition or bombs without a Craft check during daily preparations. If you use it to make simple level 0 ammunition, you get 10 for each reagent you spend. Everything you create with the reagents is infused, meaning you can't stockpile them since they are destroyed as soon as you begin your next daily preparations. I'm asking if this class feature requires alchemist's tools. It states the reagents come "from your alchemical essence," which isn't well defined (hence why I'm asking for a GM ruling) but it's something supernatural or magical. It seems weird that it would not require any tools but then again it also seems weird an alchemist would require a 3 gp item they don't get for free to use their main class feature. No other class puts your features behind a paywall except for mundane weapons and armor.
I'm looking at Munitions Crafter for my gunslinger. Would you rule infused reagents do or don't require alchemist's tools? Neither infused reagents nor advanced alchemy mention them (quick alchemy, which lets you create alchemical items in one action does explicitly require them, but munitions crafter doesn't grant that) and 3 gp is a huge financial commitment for a 1st level character especially since they aren't even sufficient to do mundane downtime item crafting (you need a 5 gp/6 Bulk lab to do that). If you rule infused reagents/advanced alchemy do require tools I'll probably wait to take Munitions Crafter at a later level and just buy a ton of ammo at 1 cp a pop with my starting money. I would just prefer to be self-sufficient with firearm ammunition since guns are relatively rare.
Ok, so when you said sea travel was rare, you were talking about just travel to anywhere outside the map?
Sorry for the double post, but I had a couple questions about the setting: You mentioned there isn't much sea travel except between Dendar and Taraka. Unless there's another map covering a larger area I'm missing, those two landmasses cover everything except the Free Isles and the archipelago including Marathris' Folly, which would mean most of the sea could be considered "between" Dendar and Taraka. Do you mean to say that the sea crossings are basically just limited to short stretches like the Strait of Tarni? Also, does the map wrap around west to east such that Omrinth and Yshoka are just a short voyage on a boat away, or is this map just a small chunk of the world such that they're quite far away from each other? From what you've said, it obviously doesn't wrap north to south but Omrinth and Yshoka seem to have such similar vibes (both interested in technology) I wondered if they were much closer than a cursory glance at the map would suggest.
Dotting. I've never played 2e before (been playing/GMing 1e for years though) but I've been chomping at the bit to play it. I've made a dozen or so characters on Pathbuilder, including an aiuvaren gunslinger who's an academic type studying magical phenomena. He's the one I'm most interested in playing. Just from perusing your files, it looks like Omrinth is the most likely candidate for his origins. I'll work on the backstory and such and put a proper submission in later.
Have fun storming the castle!
So after I built my character using a character sheet, my CRB pdf, and AoN, my ability scores just seemed really off to me. So I just fired up Pathbuilder to see what I was missing and low and behold, I only gave myself the boosts for ABC and not the four free additional ones you get in step 6. So I will be rejiggering all my modifiers for Avian and updating his page. Also, I will be switching out Gunsmith background, probably for Bounty Hunter, since the Gunsmith perks aren't firearm-specific and I get trained in Crafting from Munitions Crafter anyway. Bounty Hunter is the closest background to my character concept other than gunsmith but I'll take another look around the background pages.
Not the guy who brought up The Lantern King
Working on dusting off my 1E tengu gunslinger from a RotRL PbP I played in 10 years ago. We only got to 3rd level and I don't remember much about the campaign at all but had fun with the character. Basically instead of setting up a gun shop as he originally planned after his apprenticeship to a gunsmith, he becomes an itinerant monster slayer hoping to eventually settle a score against the giants who destroyed his village, and finds himself in Sandpoint because he finally found a lead suggesting they had aims to make a run on Sandpoint. IIRC that was inspired by the Giant Slayer campaign trait in 1E. So I'm looking at a Tengu with Skyborn heritage (Uncanny Agility ancestry feat), Gunsmith background (though I haven't settled 100% on that, since it might be a little redundant with the Munitions Crafter gunslinger feat I'm also looking at taking), and Way of the Drifter gunslinger using a flintlock pistol and a rapier. I'm pretty experienced in 1E but have not played 2E before, but I do have the rulebook I snagged from a Humble Bundle awhile ago. My gaming group has no interest in trying out 2E right now so this sounds like a good opportunity to try it out.
Dotting.
Sorry guys. The internet at my house is down, and my phone is not a good platform for posting. I'll resume posting within a day or so when I can get it fixed.
Sorry guys. The internet at my house is down, and my phone is not a good platform for posting. I'll resume posting within a day or so when I can get it fixed.
They probably rounded up to make calculations easier.
I'm going to have to withdraw Lem. I'm spreading myself too thin, I've come to realize. Good luck to the rest of you!
Hi Fizzy, it's me, Lem Bander, in my unaliased form :) Throwing my hat in the ring as a cleric character. Let's see if that'll do... =14
We assign those to rolls to any stat right and drop the lowest one right? Leaving me with an array of 14,14,11,18,11,15. I'll probably drop the 13 down to an 11 to bump that 16 up to an 18, but otherwise a very acceptable array :) I'll modify a cleric I used in another campaign that quickly died. :) Should have a character up around tomorrow.
Skull, did you want back into Alpha Run? Go back to the Discussion thread and speak up there. Arknight never posted his crunch, so I'm assuming he's withdrawing his character.
Arknight, if you were still interested in playing, Alpha Run has a spot open. Could you post that crunch?
Thanks for the well wishes! I'm not 100% better, but much better than I was, and the show must go on :) I have decided to welcome "False Flag" Frank and Faed Kaykes to Beta Run. Head on over to the Discussion thread and officially say hi to your teammates :) Please roll for starting pocket nuyen there, although I noticed that Kaykes needs to gear up first as well. (You did save BP for buying gear, right?) Starting Money Rules, since they are often misunderstood:
SR4E starting money rules are quite different from almost every other roll in SR because 1) the result of the roll, rather than hits, matters and 2) your leftover BP nuyen contribute a modifier to your RESULT rather than to your dice pool.
Consult the Starting Money Table and roll randomly. Add up the total results of all dice. If you have any nuyen left over from Resources, you may add +1 to the dice roll for every 100¥ left over, up to a maximum of 3 times the number of dice rolled (in other words, you may add up to half the maximum possible dice result). Multiply the result by the appropriate factor listed, and the result is your character’s starting nuyen. We will discuss how to integrate you guys into the team in game over in the Discussion thread too. :) Welcome!
Sorry everybody, I've fallen ill but will have players picked in the next few days. Thanks for your patience!
Alright, let's have everyone get their submissions in by Tuesday, March 5 at 3 pm PST. I will be adding two more players to Beta Run, and those not picked will be considered alternates for future absences in either of my two teams. :)
We did start with 5, I forgot, since DD never did make it into play. Maybe we should recruit 2 runners :)
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