Start of Lem, writing the background now.
Two extra rolls to pick tiefling fancy things because I rolled 100.
Fiendishly Cunning Tongue: +2 Diplomacy checks
Damage reduction 2/cold iron
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Sorry I disappeared for a bit. Spent lots of time outside recently and very little time on the computer. Kinda forgot about Korvosa. Back now though.
Lem wanders into the room, his hair stuck up at all angles and his eyes bloodshot and red. As he sits down there is a sharp tinkle of broken glass and he stands again quickly, reaching into a back pocket and pulling out a handful of glass shards and white crystalline powder.
Familiar stats and progression:
Fiendish Face
Base Stats Diminutive NE symbiont Initiative -3 Speed 0ft AC 11 (+4 size -3 Dex) Base Attack/Grapple +1/-16 Attack: - Full Attack: - Damage: - Face/Reach: 1ft/0ft Special Attacks: - Special Qualities: [b] Alchemical Education Darkvision 60ft Enhance Alchemy Outsider Traits Symbiont Traits Telepathy [b] Saves: Fort +2 Ref: -1 Will: +1 Abilities: Str 3, Dex 4, Con 11, Int 12, Wis 9, Cha 6, Ego 8 Skills: Concentration +4 Knowledge (planes, history, local) +5 Perception +5 Sense Motive +3 Spellcraft +5 Feats: Alertness Level Int Ego Special
Alchemical Education:
Enhance Alchemy:
Personality:
I pretty much just removed the bits of a wizards familiar that didn't really make sense for a face and repurposed the special abilities provided by a fiendish familiar. I also ended up removing the improved evasion because of the way symbionts work according to the symbiont traits. Symbiont Traits: When joined with a host, a symbiont gains a number of benefits. It acts on its host's turn each round, regardless of its own initiative modifier. It is not flat footed unless its host is, and it is aware of any danger its host is aware of. If the symbiont is grafted onto a visible part of the host's body opponents can attack the symbiont itself instead of the host creature. This works the same way as attacking an object. The symbiont gains the benefit of the host's dexterity modifier to AC instead of its own and gains any deflection bonus to AC the host has as well. Its own size modifier and natural armour if any still apply. Attacking a symbiont instead of a host provokes an attack of opportunity from the host. A symbiont never takes damage from the attacks directed at the host. Like a worn magic item, a symbiont is usually unaffected by spells that damage the host, but if the host rolls a 1 on its save the symbiont is one of the 'items' that can be affected by the spell. A symbiont uses its host's base saving throw bonuses if they are better than its own. Share spells: Any spell the host creature casts on itself automatically also affects the symbiont. Likewise the symbiont can choose to have any spell or spell like ability it uses on itself also affect the host. Symbionts and hosts can share spells even if the spells normally do not affect creatures of or symbiont's type. Spells targetted at the host by other spell casters do not affect the symbiont and vice versa.
Lem is ready after an hour of messing with chemicals and some sleep.
Lem raises an eyebrow at Ezekiel's question and pauses for a second, trying to adequately frame an answer before speaking.
Perception check 15 and ability to speak Infernal:
As the transformation finishes you hear an amused, if a bit muffled, whisper issue from Lem's now tightly stretched coat. "Now why did you do that? Bloody stupid idea if you ask me, giving away that little skill to almost complete strangers. Sodding showboater." Perception check 15: As the transformation finishes you hear an amused, if a bit muffled, whisper issue from Lem's now tightly stretched coat. "Ry' 'ri jyj iy' jy drod? Cmyyji kd'kyj yjao yv iy' okg za, kyryrk o'oi drod myddma kgymm dy omzykd ryzkmada kdnorkank. Kyjjyrk kry'cyodan."
That would actually be very cool. I was trying to think of situations where a battle of wills between Lem and the faces could take place. Wanted to eventually take the Master Chymist prestige class and have the face as the 'Mr Hyde' personality, the evasion would be a good way to lead up to it, the face starting to gain some measure of control over Lem's body.
Now that I'm back I should probably work out the familiar. Will it be like a wizard's familiar, get the alertness and stuff? Obviously won't get the evasion or anything because it is just a face. Seeing as it is bonded and intelligent it could have an Ego score and in some situations take partial control, when Lem uses his mutagen for example.
Lem glances from the notebook he had again been scribbling in as the group starts to fragment and move out of the strange underground room. He had been only half listening to the strange armoured man and the half orc and the various conversations going on around him and vaguely waved his hand in assent when the question of joining the hourglass society came up. At the mention of rooms he looked up from the series of arcane diagrams he had been sketching and clears his throat, trying to catch the groups attention before they all disappear off. "I don't think I've met any of you before I spose I should introduce myself or something? The name is Lem Thomason and I am a dabbler in the alchemical arts. I don't really mind where I sleep but I am going to have to set up my lab somewhere and that can get pretty damn noxious, so if any of you have a particularly sensitive nose I may not be the ideal bunkmate."
I'm going to France on a skateboard fuelled adventure from Friday morning to Monday evening so I won't be able to post until next week after today.
Lem pushes his chair back and stands, jamming his notebook back into his backpack and then swinging the pack up onto one shoulder, ignoring the faint protesting grunt as he does so. He then begins the process of weaving through the sea of people, tables and chair legs to get to the cellar door.
Well the two bonuses that a fiendish familiar gives are: Enhance spellcaster: Treat the spellcasting related ability score as 2 higher when determining bonus spells per day. Arcane Education: When grafted to a wizard, a fiendish familiar can teach the caster one new spell at each level they can cast. Each time the wizard gains a level they learn one extra spell. If grafted to a sorceror or bard a fiendish familiar can function as a source of spell knowledge as described in the DMG. The enhance is pretty simple. Treat intelligence as 2 higher for number of extracts per day. The arcane education could be a new extract learned at each new level or possibly a bonus discovery every 4 levels or something.
And I am posted, off to an insult laden start. Might have to work out a way to define when Lem is speaking Infernal and when he is speaking common. Oh wait yeah, spoilers'll work. Anyway, any more definition of my familiar face? So far I have decided he is a resolved/obstinate personality, so lots of arguments. Also, I found the fiendish familiar symbiont from the fiend folio which is pretty much exactly what the faces are. So, could it have something similar to the effect that does on spell casters but on my alchemy?
A drunkard stumbles across the room toward the table at which Galrian and Shol'a'saul now sit, his awkward legs repeatedly tangling in the sea of chair legs and causing him to stumble. Just as he reaches their table he veers off to the left heading instead for a table just behind them. At the table a dark haired man with a bristling moustache is sat scribbling in a notebook and muttering to himself as he works.
Ah right, went and bought the pdf. I think I'll stick with the standard tiefling +2 Int +2 Dex -2 Cha if thats alright and here are my three rolls.
Of those I'll choose 68 which is DR 2 vs Cold Iron
Nuup, and the details of the feat aren't available on the pathfinder srd.
I love it. You have a gift for infernal backgrounds, it seems. You gain Fiendish Heritage as bonus feat. Roll here. Also, you gain Obtain Familiar as bonus feat, but you may only choose one of your "faces" as familiar and you must define it as personality. Something like psion crystals. Great work. Awesome, not sure what I am rolling for so I'll just roll one of everything. And how is the familiar thing going to work? I mean most of the standard familiar/psicrystal stuff doesn't really apply as the face is grafted to me. Anyway, dice rolls.
Me at the moment I think, still need to be approved.
True, I just thought it'd be a bit more useful than carting round a whole load of stuff on a contingency. Seemed like knocking something up as and when needed would be a very alchemisty way of doing things.
Also, yeah I saw that when I read through the midnight archives. Nightflier is an awesome DM, been in a load of his games now.
Also, is there any chance we could use the craft points variant from Unearthed Arcana? Mean I'd be able to actually craft alchemical stuff over a useful time frame instead of a few weeks seeing as there won't really be much downtime in a pbp it makes crafting actually viable.
I added more history, but as is customary for me it still isn't finished.
Oops, totally missed that last column. Spent ages trawling through my other books looking for something to calculate them from too. Cheers for pointing it out to me, I never would have noticed on my own.
Nightflier, any chance you could make some crafting DCs for alchemical items, because I can't find them anywhere.
DCs that'd be useful:
Galrian, should you not have +4 class defence seeing as clerics are now only proficient with medium armour? Doesn't seem to fit the pattern otherwise.
I've added a load of background and I'm still adding more.
True, the hyper intelligence and weapon bond do help quite a bit. And I guess this way I'm less likely to hit everyone else if I miss throwing into a fight. Never mind then, carry on. Also, continuously adding to background so it should be done by the evening.
Wait, are NPCs going to have the class defence thing as well? Because then it pretty much removes one of the main advantages of my main combat ability, namely that bombs are against touch AC. Bugger.
You need to improve your background in order to gain bonus feat. Yeah, I've rewritten it twice already. I am terrible at backgrounds. I'll finish it now.
So, other than Kristophe, who is half elf, I am the only non human in the party. I can see why no one wants to be my friend, he he. Still, feel free to check out her BG, and see if maybe she has run into you before. Perhaps she has treated you for sicknesses during Korvosa recent upheavals. She is definitely impossible to forget, he he. Yeah I noticed that as well, so I changed the proportions slightly by making Lem into a tiefling. Don't want to change avatar so I am going to have to think up some interesting ways for him to freak people out with his terrible charisma. Seeing as they're both in the healing trade(ish) they could know each other simply from rivalry or Lem calling Shol'a'saul an "untutored charlatan" at every opportunity. Something like that. I still need to finish my background but I'll stick a rough idea up.
And again. Posts just keep disappearing. Basis for my character. I'll post up a basic background in a little while. Also, Lem is named Lem purely because I love the avatar and he looks like Lemmy. |