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The six of you are huddled around the dining table of your hostess, Dronma Bursum, an enthusiastic old dwarven researcher. Upon your arrival to Bilmyre, a mysterious dwarven ghost town turned rustic village, she approached all of you with claims of some great discovery, and through bribery, flattery, or promises of adventure and fame, she got all of you to agree to aid her in her research.

Airy humming can be heard from the kitchen as Dronma washes cups for your tea. The dwarf woman's home is sparsely furnished with oak furniture and aging brass, with a large stone fireplace warming the main room that you all sit in. A kettle begins to whistle from its dangling perch over the flames, and Dronma walks in, carrying a tray filled with cups in one hand and scooping up the kettle by the handle with the other. She sets the tray down and begins to pour the water over the ground up leaves.

Dronma spoke quietly in a thick northern dwarf accent, "Thank you all for waiting! I truly am appreciative of you kind souls' services, I was just starting to suspect no one would come to my aid!"

She begins to pass out the cups, which now give off a strong earthy scent, with small hints of mint. She wipes her hands on her apron, smiles, and walks into another small room.

She hurries back in, carrying a small map, a few other pieces of paper, and some small stone artifacts."Is everyone ready to get started, then?"

The discussion thread for group one of Into the Void

1.Yuki Tsune
2.Lupic
3.Jik 'tu kbar
4.Cpt. Johnson
5.Thallan Mourne
6.Bellis Aleste

We have a trickster rougue, monk/fighter, shadowcaster wizard, invulnerable rager barbarian, cleric, and Chirurgeon Alchemist in that order. Any questions you have, just ask them here! The game thread should be up later today.

Basic rules:
1.Be mature.
2.Don't talk about fight club.
3.Feel free to play however you want!

Keep in mind I'm not a newbie to pathfinder, but I'm no expert, so bare with me. I look forward to DMing for all of you.

Just seeing if anyone would be interested in a home campaign. Starts level 3, with according gold. Underground for a large part, though not a dungeon crawl. All classes allowed with the exception of the ACG. All PFS legal races playable, 25 point buy. No non-paizo material, please.

If interested, post here or send me a p.m. I can do a couple tables of 4 to 6. I'll post the finished tables and create a discussion board once they're full.

So I already made a thread about this guy in the General Discussion forum, though through extensive revisions, I've determined it really needs to be reviewed.

My build is a level 1 ranger of the Guide archetype, made for an upcoming PFS game. I designed him to use a light crossbow, and to be mildly good at skills as well as combat, and other ranger things. Personally, I'm for fluff over crunch, but I just wanted to see if this character concept could be useful for it's made for.

Before we get into the build, I just wanted to say that I understand the build is a bit odd for a Dwarven ranger, but to me it fits the concept of the character. His back story is that he was raised in a prominent household in the Taldor faction, leaving at adulthood in attempt to slate his strong wanderlust. Eventually, he found work as a guide through the dangerous jungles of Garund. In all, the concept is supposed to match the stereotype of an old English explorer. Now, onto the build.

STR 8
DEX 17
CON 14
INT 13
WIS 14
CHA 10

I intend to increase the dex to 18 at fourth level, and int at eighth level.

Since making the crossbow viable is so feat heavy, feats will be mostly what you'd expect. Deadly Aim at first level, Rapid Reload for my Combat Style Feat, and Crossbow Mastery at 6. Other than that, the point blank shot to focused shot chain seems like a decent option.

Traits are mostly fluff, Jungle Guide and Courageous.

So, does this seem like at least a decent build? I know it's not going to be the best at anything it does, but I just need to know if there is anything I really need to change, or if there are any other options that may be interesting.

Hello message boards! I've been lurking for a while now and finally decided to sign up. Good enough introduction I suppose. Anyway, I'm building my first PFS character, a Dwarven Ranger of the Guide archetype and the personality of Jane's father from the movie Tarzan. I'm for fluff over optimization (Only to a point, though. I like my characters to be decent at what they do.), and I was looking for some help choosing feats for his flavor. He works as a guide through the jungles of Garund if that helps. His ability scores are as follows, 20 point buy of course;
12 STR
14 DEX
16 CON
11 INT
16 WIS
12 CHA
I plan on using him with some sort of crossbow, though he won't really be a combat focused character. Thanks in advance!