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A friend has asked me to roll up a character for a game in which I can't play very frequently. The reasoning is that my character will be a higher level character, initially, who'll drift in and out (depending on when I can turn up) and a possible plot hook. So, in the spirit of being a wanderer, I decided to go with a ronin samurai. We workshopped the backstory to being an ex samurai of a feudal lord who decided to save the life of a baby in a town he was ordered to raise, instead of following orders. The inspiration for this was "lone wolf and cub". My question is: because carrying a baby into combat is too big an issue to be considered flavour, how can we represent this mechanically? I figured, maybe having some armoured backpack as a carrier and get flanking bonus when attacked from behind to represent the need to turn and protect his precious cargo. Any better suggestions?

In our campaign, my mythic character had a legendary item which, through path ability choices, had become a minor artifact. That character died, thus breaking the bond between PC and item. My new character, the non mythic sister of the deceased has been given the item as a keepsake. I'm aware that the item cannot be used in the same fashion but some abilities, like intelligence, are persistent. This gave the item the ability to speak and, pero choice, allowed the previous owner to cast a couple of extra spells whilst wielding the item.

Do the speech and spell casting abilities persist even though a non-mythic character has possession?

The item had the legendary ability of "upgradable". Is it still upgradable via traditional, non-mythic means. As in using craft?

A couple in our party had a child. He was a beautiful little man. As a "welcome to the world present" the rest of the party and myself mad him a character portfolio. His dad is a cleric and his mum is a barbarian so, naturally we made him a bloodrager.
Unfortunately, he was taken from us. He died shortly after my own little boy's baptism. No reason has been given as of yet to the cause of death.
I have no idea what I'm expecting sharing this information. But I had to share this story as it's tearing me up.
If anyone's interested, I still have his character sheet.