I will bow out as well. While I enjoy hack and slash, it veers somewwhat too much towards that. There are players that is a better suit for and I won't take that slot.
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Kurgan stood by his comrade with shield/spear in hand. If this went as violently as he feared it would then he would be ready.
”Oi, captain.” Kurgan said. ”Before I run off, be there any other places here that need to be watched? I’d hate for the saboteur to do something like sink the ship or disable the…steering? Whatever it be called on a ship. Ye know, the thing?” He made the motion of steering a wheel to get his point across.
”Nay often a choke point works against the dwarves!” Kurgan remarked as he stabbed at the creature again.
Charging forward into the melee, Kurgan lowered his spear and put his full weight and momentum into the charge. Thanks to the fortifying power of his concoctions, he did this without a moment’s hesitation.
Hearing that there was some sort of monster aboard, Kurgan chugged down a bottle of spirits. Given the enchantments placed upon it, the fortifying drink filled him with the ability to move and speeds unknown to all but a handful of Dwarven desert monks. Weapon in hand he charged forth.
Kurgan sighed. No time to wear armor and whatever was happening would not let him sleep. He pulled out a flask and chugged it down. The dwarf shuddered and shook his head as the strong alcohol went down.
Kurgan spent his time below deck, working on his concoctions and trying his best to avoid memories of nearly drowning. He remained out of his armor, but kept his tools (and weapon) nearby. Nearly dying had a way of making one feel very aware of his mortality.
Safely aboard the ship, Kurgan went straight for his backpack, holding his bleeding side as he did so. He quickly pulled out a pair of bottles and began chugging them down. The alcohol content was sadly minimal. If anything, it was the type of drink a young human girl would order at a bar. But that wasn’t the point of them, for drinking them caused his wounds to knit and close, leaving behind naught but a large bruise. Deciding to keep the last bottle for when ti would be needed, he contented himself for just sprawling out on the floor, glad to be out of the cursed water! ”Oi!” He said, still lying down. In Dwarven he added ”Thanks to the sons of stone! That would have been an unworthy grave.” He finished, giving everyone a thumb’s up from his prone position.
For once, Kurgan managed to break through the water, which turned red in his wake. He grabbed for the rope, so that he could be pulled back to the ship. As he did so he saw his brother battling the crocs like a hero from the sagas. He wanted to swim over to join the battle but knew that it would be pointless. He was unarmed, any magic he had was tied up in the production of alcohol, and even worse, he didn’t actually know how to swim. The best he could do was to remove himself as a liability.
Being unarmed, unarmored and wounded, all Kurgan could do was yell a hurried thanks to his brother as he flopped and flailed his way towards the rope.
A long line of water went through the air, twirling as it did so. This was from Kurgan’s beard which was full of water when the croc went into the aptly named death roll.
Kurgan valiantly tried to break free while retaining his grip on the rope.
Grabbing the rope, the dwarf tried to call out for his brother to be saved. All that came out was gurgling and coughing as his lungs took on a life of their own as the water was forcefully expelled.
Both seem like they will drown at this rate.
”Broth-“ He called out, causing him to swallow water. Panicking he quickly began to sink.
Unarmed and unarmored, there was naught the dwarf could do to defend himself. Panicking, he flopped around in the water, brute forcing himself back towards the ship. Drowning was very low on the list of acceptable ways to die!
”Foooook…” He cursed as he went overboard.
Unsteady on his feet due to the water (or so he would claim), Kurgan was not exactly what one would call helpful. He was brute forcing the pulling of the net and was in no way ready for it breaking…
”Experience, on a boat?” Kurgan scoffed. ”Must have mistaken us for very short and handsome humans.” He shook his head. ”Will stay in the common areas, nay problem. Will pitch in if something needs done.”
”Aye. Best to walk the roads of our ancestors than to fall into the sky.” Kurgan said.
<In best Sigmund Freud voice> “Those were rorschach blots and they were supposed to look like your mother. Now lie down and let’s talk”
It opens for me
I call grudgeful. That's one of them, right?
”Aye then. Let’s calculate how much supplies we will need for the journey and get started.” Kurgan said, right before he drained his mug. ”And let’s hope these reincarnated Druids be willing to talk and work for us.“ He added as he put the mug down and poked at the hammer that lay on the table.
"Boats and druids." Kurgan said. "Sounds like a job for elves." He added dryly and with a slight smirk. Taking a drink himself, he put the mug down. "But killing giants is dwarven work, eh?" Having worked with Ironbeard's forces before, he knew that he didn't have to haggle on payment. He had been summoned and glory would be brought to Clan and Hold. He elbowed his brother in the side and added "What do'ya think? This artifact hammer going to be made out of wood or what?"
Have to agree with everything Biruta said. For background skills, I personally like to grab things like "profession miner" and the like. Things like that which are in-character and are fun. However, that does little for classes which only get 2 skill points per level (such a huge design flaw, IMO). So I'm more than happy with the ruling for this campaign.
Yeah! That guy. Next thing we’ll learn that he didn’t even read my amazing 90 page backstory. It was a dark night. Lightning split the sky when he was born. There was a proph-wait! Come back! I didn’t even get to the part where his parents died!
I’d prefer google docs. I’ve done both and it just feels easier to me. Also thank you for the selection. Looking forward to gaming with everyone.
Drink Hail! Wassail for all! That is to say, dot.
My apologies on missing Ivar. He will be included in the next iteration.
My apologies for missing him, and thank you for letting me know while I could still edit. It would have sucked to have had to redo half of it again.
Completed Entries
* TheWaskally: Orthoon Kegstalker
* Eriktd: Klien
* Veniir: Norter Skyshield
* Robert Henry: Brunner Hammerfell
* Trawet71: Dolgrym Giantfoe
* Rdknight: Biruta Rovesdam
* Luke_Parry: Sergei von Janderhoff
* Dorian Gray: Mad Marvin Dundlerock
* Sphinxtreecat: Barwyn Giantbane
* Pancakes: Brighid Stoneheart
* Djack Nymbal: Ulfrec Aesgrim
* Glade Wolf: Glade
* Andostre: Kaalu Bazt
* Ironperenti: Nebuzaradan
* Malinor: Crastor Deems
* SirLongears: Urmir Dagrog
Well when someone asks how something can be done, then anything not banned will be mentioned. Anyways…<motions to kiltless plate>
For a Dex Build. Masterwork Kikko: 400 gold (+5 armor, +4 Max Dex, -2 ACP)
Total cost: 1420 gold. Can replace Kikko with a breastplate for +6 AC, +5 Max Dex, -1 ACP) For the future though… Mithril Plate (-3 ACP)
Steelbone Frame reduces ACP by 2…but it costs 6k gold.
It’s all good, wasn’t a criticism. Just made me think of the meme when I noticed it. For adopted, my favorite is shield bearer
Benefit When performing a shield bash, you deal 1 additional point of damage. Also, once per day on your turn as a free action, you may provide one adjacent ally a +2 trait bonus to his Armor Class. This bonus lasts for 1 round, so long as you and the target remain adjacent to one another. You can only use this ability if you are using a shield. You retain your shield bonus to your armor class when using this ability. If it wasn’t human only I’d take it in a heartbeat. Don’t even know why it is human only with that description…
Updated list. Only keeping track of completed entries now (copying the list runs out of space, so it now requires remaking it as it gets updated). If I missed anything, I do apologize. But I think that this is now properly updated. ---------- Very happy to see TheWaskally's submission. To put my bias in the open, I hope we both get chosen. :) For Kurgan himself, I did some light editing. He has the trait Accelerated Drinker: "You know how to drink a potion efficiently, such as by not using your hands, tossing it in the air and catching it in your mouth, or opening it with your teeth. You may drink a potion as a move action instead of a standard as long as you start your turn with the potion in your hand." These work alongside 2x Speed Sheathes: "This sheath is designed to be strapped around your forearm, but it is too bulky to be hidden under a long sleeve. It can hold one forearm-length item, such as a dagger, dart, potion, scroll containing a single spell, or wand. As a swift action, you can bend your wrist to cause the sheathed item to drop into your hand (provoking attacks of opportunity as normal for retrieving an item). Placing an item in the sheath is a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. You can wear only one wrist sheath per arm that you have." He will be keeping potions, one in each sleeve. Haven't nailed down exactly which ones. It just seemed like a neat trick for a brewer to have...even if there are better mechanical uses for a trait. He also is using this: A spear-shield This is just a spiked shield. I thought that, given that he has his speed sheathe and bandolier for all of his alcohol, that he'd want a weapon which lets him keep his hands free as much as possible. ---------- Also, when making this up...if I had a nickel for every dwarf adopted by elves in this recruitment thread, then I'd have two nickels. Which isn't alot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Completed Entries
* TheWaskally: Orthoon Kegstalker
* Eriktd: Klien
* Veniir: Norter Skyshield
* Robert Henry: Brunner Hammerfell
* Trawet71: Dolgrym Giantfoe
* Rdknight: Biruta Rovesdam
* Luke_Parry: Sergei von Janderhoff
* Dorian Gray: Mad Marvin Dundlerock
* Sphinxtreecat: Barwyn Giantbane
* Pancakes: Brighid Stoneheart
* Djack Nymbal: Ulfrec Aesgrim
* Glade Wolf: Glade
* Andostre: Kaalu Bazt
* Ironperenti: Nebuzaradan
Completed Entries
* Eriktd: Klien
* Veniir: Norter Skyshield
* Robert Henry: Brunner Hammerfell
* Trawet71: Dolgrym Giantfoe
* Rdknight: Biruta Rovesdam
* Luke_Parry: Sergei von Janderhoff
* Dorian Gray: Mad Marvin Dundlerock
* Sphinxtreecat: Barwyn Giantbane
* Pancakes: Brighid Stoneheart
* Duhwoo: Grumpy
* Sir Longears: Urmir Dagrog
* Stormraven: Mac Ribbe
Character Concepts
--------- I think that brings it up to date. If I got anything wrong, please let me know.
Completed Entries
* Eriktd: Klien
* Veniir: Norter Skyshield
* Robert Henry: Brunner Hammerfell
* Trawet71: Dolgrym Giantfoe
* Rdknight: Biruta Rovesdam
* Luke_Parry: Sergei von Janderhoff
* Dorian Gray: Mad Marvin Dundlerock
* Sphinxtreecat: Barwyn Giantbane
Character Concepts
Making potions (costs gold). For an extra 10gc per potion, they have +1 CL and count as strong alcohol. Have infusion discovery, so extracts can be used for allies. One extract per spell slot counts as strong alcohol at +1 CL. Due to infusion can share these. So yeah. More than happy to share said strong alcohol to the party.
Glad to hear that potion crafting will be allowed. Got to supply the party with alcoholic drinks somehow, and if said drinks also cause things like enlarge person, shield, expeditious retreat, etc? Well, he'd be glad to take gold (at cost) for drinks on demand. An adventuring brewer/bartender. Also more than happy to hand out extracts as people want them. The more the merrier when it comes to enjoying his creations. If Kurgan is in, just tell him what spells you want each day and he'll prepare them. And I look forward to seeing what Brighid does. Forgepriest is a great archetype for getting that blacksmith feel down when adventuring, even when not using crafting skills.
Twin Thunders Flurry lets you trip up to huge giants. I don't know if enlarge person would you let do larger giants.Nice... But, so many requirements. Not really… (1) Dwarf or gnome; defensive training racial trait;
(2) Improved Two-Weapon Fighting and Two-Weapon Fighting, or flurry of blows class feature;
(3) Twin Thunders; Weapon Focus with both wielded weapons;
(4) base attack bonus +6. Can use a blunt monk weapon, or any blunt weapon with versatile design. Also really cool feat. Didn’t know it existed.
Post above updated. For tripping giants, the only way I know how is... Harder They Fall. Need someone who has this to do aid another, letting you make the trip. Therefore...weapon master fighter (level 3 weapon training), and take the feat advanced weapon training for: Fighter’s Tactics (Ex) All of the fighter’s allies are treated as if they had the same teamwork feats as the fighter for the purpose of determining whether the fighter receives a bonus from his teamwork feats. His allies do not receive any bonuses from these feats unless they actually have the feats themselves. The allies’ positioning and actions must still meet the prerequisites listed in the teamwork feat for the fighter to receive the listed bonus) Then for your second class, have one that gives you either a familiar or an animal companion. Have said familiar/animal companion use aid another. This would let you trip up to huge enemies. Cast enlarge person (or giantform or the like) on yourself for even larger enemies to trip. True strike is also useful due to high CMD. Getting +20 insight bonus can really help out. Thematically it would actually fit pretty well, using your familiar/animal companion to help you trip something so much larger than yourself.
Completed Entries
* Eriktd: Klien
* Veniir: Norter Skyshield
* Robert Henry: Brunner Hammerfell
* Trawet71: Dolgrym Giantfoe
* Rdknight: Biruta Rovesdam
Character Concepts
Muleback cords are a great idea, especially with ABP. There is also darkwood for the warshields. +80 gold and they are half weight. And there is the combat trait muscle of the society.
Benefit: You gain a +2 trait bonus on Strength checks made to break doors and lift portcullises, and you treat your Strength score as 2 higher for the purpose of determining your carrying capacity.” Throw in a masterwork backpack (50 gold) for another +1 bonus to strength for carry capacity. Having Str16 for carry capacity is not bad.
Dwarven warshields? Awesome. As for the AC: "If you have the Two-Weapon Fighting feat and are wielding two dwarven war-shields, increase the higher of the two shield bonuses by 1. You lose this benefit for 1 round when you make a shield bash with one or both dwarven war-shields (unless you have the Improved Shield Bash feat or a similar benefit). A hand holding a dwarven war-shield can’t be used for anything else. A dwarven war-shield gains no benefit from shield spikes." Normally they are just +1 AC. If you have two, with two-weapon fighting and improved shield bash, then they give you +2 AC. Then the ABP enchantment makes it +3 AC, and the two weapon defense is +4 AC. So pretty tanky. Also, for being a switch hitter...throwing shield. Only costs 50 gold. Makes your dwarven warshields a thrown weapon. Makes feats like weapon focus and weapon specialization work in melee and ranged and means that you don't need a second weapon training category. Instead, options like focused weapon, trained weapon, and trained initiative, can be used instead. Or even just weapon specialist, given how feat intensive this can be. Throw in returning or a blinkback belt? He's set. Just throwing it out there as a way of helping with the issue of only having two hands. Putting away both shields and pulling out a bow or the like and then pulling both shields out can get tricky. It does mean, however, that a weapon cord(s) would no longer be as useful. ----- As for archetype...armor training actually does sound useful. From the top of my head... Masterwork Breastplate (350 gold) with Armored Kilt (20 gold) for Heavy Armor. +7 AC, +3 Max Dex, -3 ACP. Armor training makes it +4 Max and -2 ACP. Could be reduced further with armored expert and nimble modification if so desired. Or...Masterwork Chain Shirt (250 gold) with Armored Kilt (20 gold) for Medium Armor. +5 AC, +4 Max Dex, -1 ACP. With armor training making it +5 Max Dex and -0 ACP. Given that this is ABP, can always upgrade to a breastplate once enough fighter levels are gained to make the ACP less. But yeah...weapon master is great if you are focusing on just that weapon. And mutation warrior can give +4 Dex, which for a fighter/rogue is a great buff to have.
Completed Entries
* Eriktd: Klien
* Veniir: Norter Skyshield
Character Concepts
Made a change to Kurgan's build. He now has craft wondrous items, so he can start with a flask of endless ale. Now, is it as good as plate armor? No. Not at all. But I was thinking about how he'd be making enough alcohol for all of his experiments with a full day of adventuring, and the math wasn't mathing. But with this? This, he can experiment using the flask and whatever ingredients he finds. That, and it means 1 gallon of ale being pourable per round. So while mechanically it isn't the 'best', flavor wise it completely is. Also, assuming that he is in the party, he will happily use anyone's left over gold to make alcoholic potions (+1 CL and counts as alcohol). With spells such as CLW, shield, expeditious retreat, and barkskin.
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