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I've never been a fan of Pirates and ships, so a journey into the depths of the underworld sounds like an awesome change of pace. Totally subscribing for this set. Also excited to see the new classes.

I hope they come out with more character class decks as well!

Added Role Cards

Akiala: Jack of All Trades

☐ At the start of your turn, you may recharge a random card from a characters discard pile into their deck ☐ Hand

☐ Add +1 Divine: Wisdom and +1 Arcane: Intelligence

☐ Add 1d4 to Melee checks and 1d4 to Ranged checks

Akiala: Trail Blazer

☐ For your first encounter you may encounter the top card of an adjacent location deck getting +1 to checks made there.

☐ If you gain a blessing card recharge a blessing from you discard pile into your deck ☐ hand.

☐ All 1d6's rolled if you roll a 1, count it as a 2 ☐3

Aha! I'm back procrastinating on homework to bring you a crazy probably overpowered Idea for a character :P (At least I'm being creative right?) What do you think?

Yes she starts out weaker than most with D6's to everything, but increases faster than other classes as well. It should be considered a blank slate style class that specializes in support of other characters through her powers.

Adventurer Class
SKILLS
STRENGTH d6 ☐+2 ☐+4 ☐+6
DEXTERITY d6 ☐+2☐+4 ☐+6☐+8
CONSTITUTION d6 ☐+2 ☐+4
INTELLIGENCE d6 ☐+2 ☐+4
WISDOM d6 ☐+2 ☐+4
CHARISMA d6 ☐+2 ☐+4

Reflexes: Dexterity +2
Perception: Wisdom +1
Survival: Wisdom +2
POWERS
HAND SIZE 7 ☐8☐9
PROFICIENT WITH X Light Armor ☐Heavy Armor ☐Weapons

Akiala is considered dead when she does not have any cards from her deck to draw from, and her hand is empty.

At the start of your turn you may look at the bottom card of a location deck, if it is a boon you may encounter it immediately ☐ Or exchange it for a random boon of that type from the box.

You may give up to three cards instead of one to other players at the start of your turn ☐ If you give two or more cards take one random blessing from the box and put it in your hand.

May use cards that allow exploration to be used on other characters at your location.

CARDS
WEAPON 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4
SPELL - ☐ - ☐ - ☐ -
ARMOR 1 ☐ 3 ☐ 4
ITEM 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6
ALLY 4 ☐ 5
BLESSING 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 7
Favored Card Type: Blessing

Aha! I'm back procrastinating on homework to bring you another crazy probably overpowered Idea for a character :P (At least I'm being creative right?) What do you think?

Yes she starts out weaker than most with D6's to everything, but increases faster than other classes as well. It should be considered a blank slate style class that specializes in support of other characters through her powers.

Adventurer Class
SKILLS
STRENGTH d6 ☐+2 ☐+4 ☐+6
DEXTERITY d6 ☐+2☐+4 ☐+6☐+8
CONSTITUTION d6 ☐+2 ☐+4
INTELLIGENCE d6 ☐+2 ☐+4
WISDOM d6 ☐+2 ☐+4
CHARISMA d6 ☐+2 ☐+4

Reflexes: Dexterity +2
Perception: Wisdom +1
Survival: Wisdom +2
POWERS
HAND SIZE 7 ☐8☐9
PROFICIENT WITH X Light Armor ☐Heavy Armor ☐Weapons

Akiala is considered dead when she does not have any cards from her deck to draw from, and her hand is empty.

At the start of your turn you may look at the bottom card of a location deck, if it is a boon you may encounter it immediately ☐ Or exchange it for a random boon of that type from the box.

You may give up to three cards instead of one to other players at the start of your turn ☐ If you give two or more cards take one random blessing from the box and put it in your hand.

May use cards that allow exploration to be used on other characters at your location.

CARDS
WEAPON 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4
SPELL - ☐ - ☐ - ☐ -
ARMOR 1 ☐ 3 ☐ 4
ITEM 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6
ALLY 4 ☐ 5
BLESSING 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 7
Favored Card Type: Blessing

A few point/observations:

Power 1: There is no game terminology "equip" so you'll have to explain it in actual game terms. I'll assume you mean something like "display X card next to your character card; it still counts as being in your hand".

That's fine, but this functionally serves no purpose. Keep in mind that there is no actual rule stating that you hand must be physically in your hand and/or secret. Many people play with their cards face-up on the table for all to see.

If your intent was that it does not count toward your hand size, I think Fenris said it best: "If you have a Card with the Armor trait in hand, your Hand Size is increased by 1." Whether you hold the card or set it down is up to you.

Power 2: Take a look at "Greater Luckstone" (Item-4):

Greater Luckstone wrote:

If you would fail a check by 2 or less, you may bury this card to succeed.

And consider Chainmail, which reduces combat damage 2 on a recharge. You've basically turned your basic starting armor into one of these, (albeit for combat only), given it a much reduced cost (recharge vs. bury), and given yourself 5 -> 8 of them in your deck (when GLS is unique).

I don't have words to describe how overpowered this is.

Power 3: I don't see an issue with this power (the "equipped" status is still ineffectual though).

Power 4: I also don't see an issue with this, except the "Power 2 applies" part; aside from the issues pointed out above, I think the use of armor to reduce combat damage for others would be powerful enough.

EDIT: Point 2 was ninja'ed by jones314!

I haven't gotten into anything past adventure 1 cards so I had no idea about the greater luck stone. Maybe i'm going about Armor all wrong to make it new and could avoid it altogether making a new character. The mechanics make it seem like a waste of hand space and pisses off my friend who is playing Seelah currently. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

I'd be curious how that armor power works in practice. One major potential pitfall I see is that it effectively reduces your starting deck size to 10 (Since there's no option, you'd have to draw right past your armors). This could serve to make you exceptionally vulnerable. I might consider an option like Fenris suggested, or give you the option once you reset your hand to reveal armor to draw extra cards (something Orbis suggested in another thread).

I concur with Fenris' thoughts about the second and third power.

For your skills, you seem to have a fair number, especially compared to Seelah, who only had melee and divine (and both were on a d8). On the other hand, Fort is not a gamebreaker, and diplomacy being only d6+1 also shouldn't set off any alarms. I'd strongly consider dropping one of your +2's to a +1, but if you want to give it a try as is, I'm not gonna fuss.

I only see 3 power feats on her card right now, am I missing one?

Overall, it's an interesting design. It certainly breaks some new ground that might be interesting to experiment with. The terminology also needs cleaning up to work rules-wise, but it's easy enough to understand. Let me know how it goes!

Ok, how about this, cause I've been thinking about it while playing through adventure deck 1 yesterday with my buddies.

Power 1.-May equip one chest and shield armor card on character card (Basically helps with hand management)
Power 2.-If combat damage from a bane has been reduced to 0 using equipped armor without banishing the armor, bane is defeated. (quite powerful, still confusing but I'm working on it :P )
Power 3.-reveal a shield or have one equipped on character card to add +2 to melee if your melee check doesn't use the 2-handed trait.
Power 4.-May use equipped armor to reduce combat damage for characters at your location, (Power 2 applies).

Eh? Better armor ideas?

First advise, keep the numbered bonis behind the skills, it´s easier to read that way.

Secondly, I would change all of your powers slightly.

I would change your first to: If you have a Card with the Armor trait in hand, your Hand Size is increased by 1.
With this you can have 1 free armor in your hand and couldn´t end up with a "theoretical" hand size of 9+. Perhaps upgradable to +1 per armor on a role card.

You should add to your second power that it only works if the Melee check doesn´t have the 2-hand trait. Would fit the theme of a shield bash.

And for your last power, either make it a random card, or drop the power feat for the hand. Beeing able to use the same card every single turn (for free) is really big.
(Oh, and you are missing a power feat.)

These are my 2 cents, and as always, i hope they are helpful.

Thanks a ton. That was my very first try at making a character. Leading a group of five people with the regular box characters through Pathfinder right now and was thinking that afterward we could all try creating new characters and going through the game again. I'll keep working on it while reading how others are making their characters especially the Paladin since Sheela seems to be the person struggling the most in our group.

Character Name: Verdrea

Role: Knight

STR 1d10 []+1[]+2[]+3[]+4 Melee +2
DEX 1d4 []+1
CON 1d10[]+1[]+2 +1 Fortitude
INT 1d4 []+1
WIS 1d8 []+1[]+2[]+3[]+4 +2 Divine
CHA 1d6 []+1[]+2[]+3 +1 Diplomacy

Weapons 3 []4[]5
Armor 5 []6[]7[]8
Spell 2 []3[]4
Item -
Ally 1[]2
Blessing 4[]5[]6
Favored card type: Armor

Proficient +L Armor +H Armor +Weapons
Hand Size 4 []5 []6

*Armor does not count against your hand size
*May Reveal a shield card to add +2 to Melee check
*Once at the beginning of your turn you may choose a character at your location to recharge one card from their discard pile into their deck [] hand

Still working on the other roles. I wanted to make armor a better choice for the paladin character to have as a favored card.