Search Posts
Ah! Very excited to meet Jason Bulmahn. I loved Living Greyhawk, I played that in college and got 60 adventures on my cleric before the campaign ended. I read on Wikipedia that you were involved in putting that together? Anyway, very glad I won this on the lottery.
I was thinking about making a full arcane caster, which I think is more interesting than melee. The main barrier to making this choice would be if spells don't recover after a combat, since if I rely on magic for offense I can't see caster level 6 spells lasting more than 1.5 combats vs an effective CR10 monster. Something else of interest, are we trying to please a crowd? Because if we are entertainers trying to put on a good show in the arena, that greatly changes the kind of character I would make. Thanks for putting on this event. I find it very interesting idea.
Thanks for all the replies. I agree that if you are no longer an oracle you would lose the curse.
This choice is made at 1st level, and once made, it cannot be changed. The oracle’s curse cannot be removed or dispelled without the aid of a deity. The question then becomes, can a character take a level of oracle to get a curse, then retrain the level and keep the curse? Another question, lets say the curse says you are lame or have a wolfscarred face. If you polymorph into something, are you still lame in that form or have a wolf head?
Since PFS has banned the Synthesist class, I have been considering solutions for playing my main character in a manner similar to how I had played before. At first I thought of just playing the character from the point of view of the Eidolon. The only difference being that the Eidolon now has an elf following her around that she uses as her scale polisher. Then I noticed Marionette possession, which is a great solution for synthesizing if you don't mind using all your high level spell slots on extended possessions, as well as carrying around your helpless elf body. My Dragon girl was already known for carrying around giant statues of Irori as part of her strength training. Thus it would be nothing out of the ordinary if she was carrying around a thousand pound "Huge Cage" re-skinned as a shrine of Irori, with a helpless elf body hidden inside. Looking through the new Ultimate Equipment book, I found what might be an even better solution that would leave all spell slots intact. The "Summon-Slave Crystal". It is a 10,000 gold item. I am wondering if it won't work however. The text says "When casting a Summoning spell, the caster may immediately possess the summoned creature without a saving throw until the duration of the spell expires." Summoning an eidolon the standard way is called a "ritual", so this may only work for the 2nd level spell that brings the eidolon into play for a few minutes. My question would then be, would this item be the ultimate synthesist item, and if it doesn't work, what are some other solutions people have come up with? |
