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GrimbleGrumble wrote:

Any chance there's any Runelord games (Rise/Return of/Season of) starting up any time soon? Can't hurt to ask, right?

You can try the gm wanted thread, or hiring a gm.

There’s a GM wanted thread?

Congrats to those chosen!

A shame that you have to meet the prereqs for the Bloodline feats, it would be nice to see Awesome Blow see more play.

Maybe the 12th level power is a similar ability?

Deep One Bloodline

Your ancestor was a powerful deep one; although you are not directly tied to the wicked whims of the deep ones, their eldritch abilities have given you incredible power.

1st Power, Gift of the Deep One: Select from the following domains-Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Madness, Magic, Strength, Void or Water. You gain the domain powers from the chosen domain, treating your bloodrager level as your cleric level.

4th Power, Wand Mastery: As your deep one ancestor has an innate ability to utilize wands, you can use wands beyond your class. Select one other spellcasting class besides bloodrager; you can use spell trigger items like staves and wands from spells of that class without making Use Magic Device checks. At 12th level, select an additional spellcasting class.

8th Power, Blood of the Deep: Your body has accumulated to living in the deep ocean. You gain a swim speed equal to your land speed +20 ft, you can breathe underwater, you take no penalty from attacking underwater, and you gain cold resistance 5. This resistance increases to cold 10 at 16th level.

16th Power, Eldritch Being: You hold the terrifying, otherworldly presence of your deep one ancestor. You gain the frightful presence monster ability, you are immune to diseases (including magical diseases), and you gain a bonus on rolls to confirm critical hits equal to half your class level.

20th Power, Unknown

Giant Bloodline

Your ancestor was either a renowned giant hunter, or one who pilfered from magical giant artifacts. Regardless, the immense power of the giants run through your veins.

1st Power, Oversized Weapon: The strength of giants flow through your veins, allowing you to wield weapons larger than most members of your kind can use. Select a single one handed melee weapon you are proficient in; you can wield that weapon as one size category larger without incurring regular penalties. This weapon can only be wielded as a two-handed weapon. Ranged weapons, weapons that benefit from Weapon Finesse, and exotic weapons cannot be selected. You cannot wield any kind of shield or heavy armor and the oversized weapon at once. At 4th level, your oversize weapon protects you as much as it destroys; you gain a shield bonus while wielding your oversized weapon equal to your Strength modifier (this bonus is not increased through your bloodrage ability), and you gain a bonus on CMD against disarm equal to your bloodrager level - 3.

4th Power, Thick Skin: Your skin becomes tougher like the giants your ancestors battled; you gain a +1 natural armor bonus to your AC. This increases by +1 for every 4 levels, to a maximum of +5 at level 20.

8th Power, Rock Throwing: You can throw rocks as ranged attacks, as if the rock throwing universal monster rule.

12th Power, Unknown

16th Power, Shockwave: Description unknown, a cone effect perhaps?

20th Power, King of the Giants: Gain a permanent +4 bonus on Fortitude saves, other abilities unknown

Will work on the Orc Bloodline next, just typing out the thoughts and am very much open to editing these abilities to be more practical

Traits have been selected-Armor Expert, Convincing Liar, and Ilizmagorti Native. If the forums are up tomorrow I will make the background and post the character

Rolling the starting gold, if below average of 175 gp I take the 175 gp

Gold: 5d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 6, 6, 4) = 23 x 10 = 230 gp

Nice!

I've also settled on a name-Akete (pronounced Ah-Kae-Tae) Zatcher

My tengu will be a boatswain

KoolKobold wrote:

Anyone taken gunslinger yet? Might consider a tengu gunslinger, personality wise like a mix of Lord Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2 and Sir Pentious from Hazbin Hotel.

If gunslinger is already claimed I’ll think of something else.

I think it's mostly been planned dips.

I’ll be making my Tengu gunslinger in a bit.

Anyone taken gunslinger yet? Might consider a tengu gunslinger, personality wise like a mix of Lord Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2 and Sir Pentious from Hazbin Hotel.

If gunslinger is already claimed I’ll think of something else.

I was part of a Skull & Shackles gameplay but the character I played wasn't optimized and that didn't help at all. I'm going to rectify that.

4d6 ⇒ (6, 1, 3, 6) = 16 - 1 = 15
4d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 3, 1) = 9 rerolling
4d6 ⇒ (4, 3, 4, 1) = 12 - 1 = 11
4d6 ⇒ (3, 2, 5, 4) = 14 - 2 = 12
4d6 ⇒ (3, 6, 6, 1) = 16 - 1 = 15
4d6 ⇒ (4, 4, 2, 4) = 14 - 2 = 12

Reroll: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 4, 6) = 16 - 3 = 13

Will make a character later. Thinking a swashbuckler

Seconded. I wasn't aware that scaled fist can be applied to unchained monk.

Divo kneels, his shield coming to rest on the floor as he addresses the child from their height. "Which way is it little one?" he asks quietly.

[dice=Persuasion (If needed.)]1d20 + 9

The kid goes back upstairs, pointing to another set of stairs going up. "The bridge there takes you to the boat."

The second Romli mentions something in the water, the other kids bolt out of the house. One yells, "Jigsaw! Jigsaw!"

More God-related doctines:

River of Souls (Pharasma): Once per day, as a standard action you create a manifestation of the River of Souls. Starting in an adjacent square, you unleash a cascade of spiritual energy that resembles souls flowing into the after life. It is a shapeable (S) five foot wide effect that extends ten feet per class level. You designate the path, which must be contiguous and the river can make a 45° turn every five feet. It is not affected by gravity and can rise or lower itself at that angle or extend straight off a cliff or from a hilltop. It is stopped by physical barriers that would stop line of effect, though the user can direct it around such barriers. The distance may be halved and the effect widened to ten feet, but the river can only turn (or rise or lower) at 45° after ten feet of movement.

Any undead creatures in its path takes 1d6 positive energy damage per class level and are restricted to a single action on their next turn. A Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 class level + Cha mod) halves the damage and negates the loss of action. Non-intelligent undead receive no save and it affects incorporeal and ethereal undead as well.

Additionally, if an undead creature (including non-intelligent undead) would be reduced to 0 hit points by this effect, it is destroyed despite effects that might bring it back unless it makes a Will save (same DC as above). This includes a bloody skeleton's deathless ability, a lich or ghost's rejuvenation, or a vampire's gaseous form at 0 hit points.

Note that the River of Souls (or at least this ability) is not an actual river of water, it does not extinguish flames or cause additional damage to vampires for flowing water.

I absolutely love the ideas you’re cooking for doctrines! Later this week I’m gonna compile a doctrine list

okay no I finally decided on an actual final boss for part 4-a black dragon zombie lord (with potential oracle levels)

The end bosses have been moved around-part 3 will be the hezrou inquisitor, part 4 will be a half fiend brine dragon battle oracle.

lemme go ahead and type up some ideas statistic wise for the final boss.

More help on this campaign would be amazing.

I tried an archaeologist bard and I struggled hard playing one

As for the tempest, I like that, but I hesitate to make it because I am still to this day lost on occult classes.

I'd ask for work on a bard/rogue hybrid class but that's just the Archeologist Bard archetype lol. Or how I explain it to my players "A bard who can't bard so they can be a rogue that can't rogue" (No bardic performance or sneak attack)

…I could actually cook with a trickster class that combines magic and support of bard with debilitating attacks of a rogue (could be like a magus counterpart)

Jer definitely has overlap-he’s planned to be primarily melee with some cure and support options.

This is Billybrainpan with my submission.

Given the prompt of classic i've gone with ye old greataxe wielding half-orc barbarian. The twist is he has left his clan in shame because he can't access the battle rage that's expected of him. Instead he hangs out with an ape named Tum Tum.

rolling for animal companions 2nd HD
1d8 - taking average

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Looks like the idea for half orc barbarian got sniped.

No matter, I'll be making a dwarf cleric (of either Erestil or the Green Faith), with Animal domain and Growth subdomain

Awesome! I’ll get a character ready tomorrow

Stat 1: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 3, 5, 5) = 14 13
Stat 2: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 6, 2, 6) = 16 14
Stat 3: 4d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 6, 2) = 13 12
Stat 4: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 1, 2) = 11 10
Stat 5: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 3, 5, 4) = 14 12
Stat 6: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 1, 6, 5) = 15 14

solid all around! I’ll be making a barbarian. DM, are alternate racial traits allowed? specifically asking for the sacred tattoo alternate racial trait for half-orcs.

I kinda like that a lot for the Inventor; my reason for why I chose summoner was to have the Inventor have a pool of invention points to put into his armor/bombs/constructs/weapons. But your suggestion definitely makes it more streamlined.

You know I am absolutely down for that!

Can use the oracle curse as some inspiration for the bloodline powers: ** spoiler omitted **

Gonna be honest I never knew that was an oracle curse. I gotta grab that book next month.

And I might incorporate the rules of Horror Adventures into the mix, because while it might end up having a solid chunk of the adventure as an aquatic one (if there’s a way to handwave the rules for that I’d love to know), I want it to be different from Ruins of Azlant by focusing on the horror and mystery.

Some common enemies I can see include grindylows, zombies, giant bats and obviously various deep one hybrids for the first adventure, and as things get worse, deep ones, sahuagins, marsh giants (and marsh giant hybrids), demons and more.

I also wanna tweak the deep one hybrid rule to say that while the standard deep one hybrid is part human subtype, deep one hybrids that have the humanoid subtype of elf, dwarf, orc, and even tengu (though the latter is rare).

I honestly will go with a half orc or human barbarian with my stat spread

So I know Pathfinder 1E didn’t do anything with the deep ones, but inspiration struck me and I want to make some homebrew content for deep ones, as preparation for a Lovecraftian themed homebrew campaign-so far the title is Dagon’s Tides, but I can work with it.

One of the things for this homebrew would be stuff given to deep one and deep one hybrids, and maybe even add in more creatures with the deep one subtype.

I already wanna build a Deep One bloodline for bloodragers and sorcerers, but let’s take it a step further with alternate racial traits and feats. Already had one idea-

EDIT: Aand I’m already brainstorming some AP part names and their final bosses

Part 1: Mysteries in the Shore (final boss: advanced deep one hybrid bloodrager (urban bloodrager, destined bloodline) 6)
Part 2: Blood and Flotsam (final boss: deep one arcanist 10)
Part 3: Unknown
Part 4: Unknown
Part 5: Unknown (final boss: aboleth arcane caster/cleric of Dagon/mystic theurge)
Part 6: The Roar of Dagon (final boss: deep one elder antipaladin of Dagon)

dotting

Roll 1: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 3, 2, 6) = 16 - 2 = 14
Roll 2: 4d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 6, 5) = 17 - 1 = 16
Roll 3: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 3, 3, 1) = 10 - 1 = 9
Roll 4: 4d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 1, 4) = 8 - 1 = 7
Roll 5: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 5, 1, 4) = 13 - 1 = 12
Roll 6: 4d6 ⇒ (3, 4, 1, 3) = 11 - 1 = 10

other than roll 4 I’m happy with this result. I can probably think of a martial class.

EDIT: question-I absolutely understand the preference for Core races + classes, but what about things like alternate racial abilities, feats, bloodlines, subdomains, etc from other book sources? Will those be included or do you want the builds to be as Core centric as possible?

Welp I have a third bloodrager bloodline I want to make-the Deep One bloodline.

The first bloodline ability could be selecting domain powers from one of the following domains: Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Madness, Magic, Strength, Void or Water. Other bloodline abilities can be resistance/immunity to disease, gaining the frightful presence ability, swim speed and water breathing. Other potential bloodline abilities can include selecting a spellcasting class and being able to use wands from spells of that class without Use Magic Device, or smite good/smite law

Little thing, I plan to replace one of the bosses before Karzoug into a reborn Nualia. Here's her stats without the warpriest class abilities:

That book is a great idea. I’ll definitely utilize that.

I plan on utilizing Nualia to come back as a succubus antipaladin of Lamasthu (a last chance for Lamasthu to try and stop the PCs), that battle will give another level.

And then there’s that one blue dragon, especially if I slap on a mythic template. That will be to level 19.

I guess the next way to get to one more level is either a mythic rune giant, or the decapus vampire

Bringing this back, really wanna get the characters to level 20 before Karzoug, I don’t think I can build the encounters to bump them from 17 to 20. I really need some help in finding a way to make the characters go to level 20 before the final fight, as well as figure out what mythic abilities/spells/feats to give to Karzoug.

some more god related doctrines:

Gorum's Battlecry: Once per day, you can emit a war cry that rallies your allies. For a number of rounds equal to half your class level + your Intelligence modifier, your allies gain a +2 bonus on attack and damage rolls. This bonus increases to +4 at level 8.

Shelyn's Creativity: You gain the bardic performance ability. You treat your theologist level as your bard level in order to determine the effects of your bardic performance.

Shelyn's Teaching: Same as Nethys's Teaching, only instead of the sorcerer/wizard spell list, you can select a spell from the bard spell list.

Doctrine ideas:

Paladin’s Spirit: Select one of the following: charm spells & spell like abilities, compulsion spells and spell like abilities, diseases (including magical), or fear effects. You gain a +2 bonus on saves to overcome such effects. Special: You can select this doctrine more than once; if you do you must select a different bonus.

Greater Paladin’s Spirit: Whatever you selected for paladin’s spirit doctrine, the bonus increases to +4.

Channel Energy: As the name suggests, the theologist can utilize the channel energy class feature, treating his theologist level as his cleric level.

Revelation: Select one oracle revelation; you can use that revelation, treating your theologist level as your oracle level. You must meet the level prerequisites to select the appropriate revelation.

Friend of Nature: You gain the wild empathy class feature, treating your theologist level as your druid level.

Nethys’s Teaching: Select one spell from the sorcerer/wizard spell list; you can learn that spell as if it was in your spell list. You must select a spell whose level is 1 lower than your max spell level (for instance, if you select this at level 7, you can only choose a 3rd level spell or lower from the sorcerer/wizard spell list). You must be at least level 4 to select this doctrine. Special: You can select this doctrine more than once.

These are just rough examples that can be tweaked, but other doctrines could include giving an ally a variant of smite evil/smite good, casting a summon monster/nature’s ally spell as a spell-like ability, etc.

I’m linking them obviously to the bloodrager, and any archtype that gets the bloodrager bloodline ability (like eldritch scion).

I love the shockwave attack for a higher level, and last stand is a good bloodline arcana ability for the orc bloodline.

I definitely gotta think more on the mechanics. I was thinking for giants they can get some specific benefits depending on which giant they choose as an ancestor (examples include: fast healing if chosen trolls, permanent stoneskin if chosen stone giant, cold/fire resistance and cold/fire damage for frost and fire giants respectively).

Here’s some quick bloodline arcana for both:

Giant: The strength of giants flow through your veins, allowing you to weild weapons larger than most members of your kind can use. Select a single one handed weapon you are proficient in; you can weild that weapon as one size category larger without incurring the regular penalties. This weapon can only be weilded as a two-handed weapon. Ranged weapons, weapons that benefit from Weapon Finesse, and exotic weapons cannot be selected.

Orc: Like your orc ancestors, you hold the ability to continue fighting even as you teeter on the edge of death. You continue fighting even when you reach 0 hp; you are staggered and still lose 1 hp at the end of your turn. I’m not entirely sure what to add in for those who already have orc ferocity-maybe a +4 bonus on stabilizing, or losing 1 hp at the end of every other turn?

Okay, so I was under the impression that the official interactive maps were pricey, but I got them for $11

Now the real question, how do I utilize the PDF maps for Google Slides? So far it seems like my best chances are to screencap each map though that might destroy the quality.

I’m running my IRL campaign and the players are skipping the mountain encounters due to our kobold oracle “befriending” the ancient white dragon (save for the cabin-I had it where there was a terrible snowstorm and the party was forced to sleep in it; the wendigo battle was replaced by a 3pp homebrewed encounter).

Exactly which point in Xin Shalast should the party land?

EDIT: Forgot to ask but I’m thinking of giving Karzoug 8 ranks in archmage, has anyone else giving him mythic tiers? If so what would you recommend?

Hi there, my IRL group is almost done with Rise of the Runleords, and I’ve decided the next campaign will be Hell’s Rebels. Does anyone know of good resources to get the maps for the campaign?

Okay I am so sorry for going back and forth with my submission ideas

But if the GM will allow it, any chance I can retool a character that got rejected for a couple other campaigns-a kobold mouser swashbuckler? I can work on the backstory, though the short of it would be that he’s basically a reptile version of Puss in Boots

EDIT: Wait I made that build with an edit to the kobold’s racial modifiers; can I still make a kobold character but with the crossblooded sorcerer (draconic and elemental) as a tiny blaster?

KoolKobold wrote:

what’s the verdict on prestige classes?

Prestige classes are allowed with no issues.

I was thinking of a Champion of Irori, but looking back at the submissions I’m seeing a surprisingly large lack of blaster casters. I’ll be going for that instead.

EDIT: Finally made my decision. If allowed, can I create a crossblooded sorcerer with the draconic and orc bloodlines?

I'll dot for this, always wanted to try out Kingmaker.

I need to figure out a good role to fill-perhaps healing/support as a half orc bard, cleric or shaman? Or full damage as a dwarf barbarian/unchained monk?

EDIT: Actually…what’s the verdict on prestige classes?

I am still very much in this, I just have to come up with a backstory before the deadline.

I’m interested. I’m thinking a halfling mysterious stranger gunslinger. I take it no Elephant in the Room rules?

EDIT: Will select the Healthy campaign trait

Stats: 1d4 + 15 ⇒ (2) + 15 = 17

Okay, I think I wanna turn it into 3pp material, but I need some serious help with that as I’ve never made 3pp material before.

Capstone ability for theologist:

Archdeacon's Ascension: At 20th level, a theologist becomes a living monument of divine knowledge.

1) While he selects his daily domains, he can cast a number of bonus spells from the domain equal to his Intelligence modifier as a spell-like ability.

2) The theologist becomes immune to aging effects (though still keeps the ability penalties for middle aged/old/venerable), ability drain and negative level drain.

3) A third option that I can't think of.

I got a brief description for the theologist's 1st level abilities:

Orisons: As normal for divine spellcasters

Spontaneous casting: As normal for divine spellcasters

Divine mantra: While the theologist begins their day preparing their spells, they select one domain; they gain the domain abilities of said domain (or subdomain, if they are at an appropriate level for the subdomain ability). They do not need to worship a deity with said domain to gain the benefits of a domain in this way, but they cannot select an alignment domain/subdomain if they are on the opposite side of the alignment chart (for example, a theologist who worships Abadar can select the Luck or Magic domain and their subdomains, but the theologist cannot select the Chaos domain and its subdomains). At a later level, a theologist can select two domains instead of one.

Doctrine: Similar to an arcanist exploit, doctrines are selected at every odd level, which grants the theologist various abilities, including abilities that mirror class abilities from other divine classes (for example, they can do channel energy, select an oracle mystery, gain bonuses on saving throws against disease/poison/energy drain, etc)

What do you think?

This is why I post my ideas to make sure I balance it out.

I’ll absolutely rework Titan’s Bane to be like the Mouser ability.

More info for ninjas:

-Base Attack Bonus: +1 all across
-Fort: Bad, Ref: Good, Will: Good
-Skill Ranks per Level: 6
-Class Skills: Acrobatics, Appraise, Bluff, Climb, Craft, Diplomacy, Disguise, Escape Artist, Intimidate, Knowledge (dungeoneering, geography, history, local, nobility), Perception, Perform, Profession, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Survival

Abilities that ninjas get from rogues: sneak attack, uncanny dodge (?), improved uncanny dodge (?), poison use

Abilities ninjas get from monks: AC bonus, Fast Movement (but starting at level 4 or 6 instead of level 3), evasion (?), improved evasion (?), ki power

Armor proficiencies: None

Weapon proficiencies: Simple weapons, plus the weapon proficiencies the normal ninja gets

So on top of wanting to make the four hybrid classes, I also want to make some bloodrager bloodlines unique to the class, as it seems like they’ve done so already (like the medusa, black blood, and hag bloodlines).
I do wanna try to make each of the two new bloodlines different

Giant Bloodline

Your character’s ancestor might’ve been a legendary giantslayer, or interacted with ruins from a giant city. You manage to utilize your strength to the fullest, mimicking the raw power of the giants.

Abilities: I can see the starting ability letting the bloodrager select a single martial melee weapon that can be used with two hands (regardless if the weapon is a one handed or two handed weapon), and that weapon is a size category larger, and the bloodrager can attack without any penalty to attack rolls. There probably would be some penalties starting out that get removed at later levels-either a decrease to AC, a decrease to base speed, or a penalty on Reflex saves. Further abilities can include ignoring half of the target’s armor bonus, rock throwing, permanent Fortitude save bonuses, natural armor increase, and the ability to cast enlarge person on yourself as a spell like ability.

Orc Bloodline

A sorcerer bloodline that they somehow didn’t turn into a bloodrager bloodline. Your character’s ancestor either battled against a mythical orc warrior/spellcaster, or you are a descendent of such a mighty orc. Your bloodline allows you to shrug off fatal blows, becoming an unstoppable juggernaught.

Abilities: Obviously the first bloodline ability has to be a variant of the orc and half orc ferocity racial ability-though how that applies with orc and half orc characters who have this ability I can’t say. Further abilities can include more damage bonuses to attacks, accessing rage powers from barbarians, resistance and immunities to diseases/poisons, better damage reduction,
lower fatigue time after raging, and bonuses on stabilization checks.

I have thought of a couple unique ki powers for the ninja:

-Shadow Clones: By spending 1 ki point, a ninja creates illusions around herself to thwart enemy attacks. This acts like the spell mirror image, treating the ninja’s class level as the caster level for determining how many duplicates the effect creates. A ninja must be at least level 6 before she can select this ability.

-Titan’s Bane: As long as the ninja has at least 1 ki point, she can occupy the same space as an enemy if it is at least one size category larger than her. The enemy is considered flat-footed this way. The ninja must be at least level 8 before she can select this ability.

-Ways of the Assassin: As long as the ninja has at least 1 ki point, she utilizes the study target ability of the slayer class, treating her ninja class level - 3 as her slayer level to determine the bonuses. This stacks with any level of slayer she gains from multiclassing. A ninja must be at least level 4 before she can select this ability.