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Some kind of Paladin/Babarian combo that gets a form of "holy rage". It would be a dream come true.


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Orc actor. He plays the alter ego of a genius halfling cursed with anger issues in a troupe of traveling stage performers.


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XLordxErebusX wrote:

Imagine the scenario.

Your crew comes across a derelict ship in orbit of a gas giant. You're historian on board recognizes the ship's registration number from some esoteric research, revealing it to be from the era lost to everyone's memories. Your captain orders you all aboard to find out more information.

This reminds of the movie Event Horizon. That was creepy. I'd love to put my players through that lol.


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Malwing wrote:
What did you come up with if I may ask?

Gosh, the documents are somewhere on one of my hard drives, not counting the many notebooks of hard copy notes we've made that are spread between our individual apartments.

We mostly used the Armor as DR rules, along with some we made for energy shields with recovery over time mechanics, new weapons that included laser rifles (This was before Iron Gods), lightsabers, laser gatlings, sonic screwdrivers, etc. Also classes we made, like Legionnaire (full BAB that got special abilities with chosen weapons and could combine 2 together), Lumenumbra(Rogue-like class that manipulated light & shadow), Engineer (Technomancer), a slew of others I can't remember, but we had I think 8 or 9. New races we made, one of which was a race of Groots. And new monsters we made for different planets we explored.

It's around 3 years of off-and-on work we've put into it, along with a couple test campaigns we did. Right now we're running Hell's Vengeance, so all this is on the back burner, but that'll surely change when I show this to everyone.


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My friends & I have homebrewed something like this over the last couple of years, but it's likely not going to hold a candle to what Paizo put out.

But this might work out as we can integrate the classes & races we already made into this without a problem.


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This is going to be SO AWESOME! My friends & I have been homebrewing something like this for a couple of years now, but we're not game designers lol. I can't wait to get my hands on it.


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My group has "Pulling a Garth." , which comes from one of my previous characters, Garth Rogar, human ranger.

Garth was a very unsuccessful ladies' man. In 17 levels he only seduced 1 woman, and every time an attractive female forced us to make a save, Garth failed, which the group agreed was because he was too busy flirting.

So now whenever we have to make a save when fighting an attractive female it's "Don't pull a Garth,' or "Spirit of Garth Rogar, don't haunt me."


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The funniest character I had was a 15 year old human wizard, Teleportation subschool. His familiar was a piglet, and they we're both complete cowards. He would spend the first half of a fight buffing the party and using Knowledge to list their foes weaknesses, and the second half teleporting around for a place to hide. That's not a reference, he was just fun.

My current character is a Skinwalker Brawler(Wild Child) with a wolf companion. He and the party's kitsune ninja are from the same hometown.


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I'll admit I like getting into the story of my games, so when I make a backstory, I get a little detailed. Like, about the length of the Iconics backstory. So I might be biased. Regardless, I can't stand when someone shows up to a new game with a backstory two sentences long. Or worse: Amnesia. How is your character related to this world/setting/game at all? Did you even try? It might just be me, but it grates on my nerves like nothing else.


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I went to high school with a guy whose name, I kid you not, was Weston Faircloth. We told him a few times that he had an adventurer's name. So when I got into college and met a new group to play with, my first character was a human wizard: Weston Faircloth. To this day he's one of the most badass characters I've ever had.


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This. is. PERFECT!!

I already have the perfect character concept lined up! Wait... no, I was wrong. I have six. Choices, why do you plague me?


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Is that Amiri's sword breaking in the background?!? In addition to the new level of rage she's about to unleash, I'll bet she replaces it with a badass chainsword!


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I imagine him being 20 times as common as a lvl 1 commoner. He's so common that adventurers and nobles don't even see him.


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Greetings all! I've recently had an idea for a character, but can't seem to find a way for it to work. I wanted to base the fighting style off of Hildegarde Von Krone from SoulCalibur IV & V. For those unfimiliar, she dual wields a spear and shortsword. Now, the only way I can find to get close is to dual wield a shortsword and shortspear, but that doesn't give me the reach that makes her combat style so deadly. Does anyone have any suggestions?


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I read "Metal Club," and thought I'd get to join a society dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the Metal genre in all it's glorious forms. But this is okay too, I guess.


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Destruction(Rage subdomain): Sometimes, Evil makes you angry.
Good(Friendship subdomain): Your friends are who you fight for.
Law: "It's not the severity of the punishment that deters the crime, it's the certainty."
Strength(Ferocity subdomain): Goes along with Rage.
War(Tactics subdomain): You still need a plan.

So a LG deity of literally destroying evil and not letting it have a chance to get back up.


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1) If a paladin attacks someone unprovoked because they ping as evil on the radar, he isn't, and should not have played, a paladin. No paladin is going to walk into a bar and kill everyone for no reason.
2) Breaking his arm was excessive. Arresting him was not. Imagine if you we're a present day bouncer and a guy walked in asking for your help to kill everyone there. You'd have him escorted to jail as well. But injuring him because he's mentally unstable is a crime in itself.
3) This guy is neutral or chaotic evil. He always has been. It sounds like his presence in the party has been very disruptive to the group.


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Android gunslinger archetype so their arm is a cannon. I'll worship you, Paizo. What domains do you offer?


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Mikaze wrote:

edit2-SACRED WEAPON(ORBITAL LASER CANNON)

"Target locked. Righteousness assured. Deploying Fires of Heaven in 5...4...3..."

"Dom, we need open sky!"


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Coyote_Ragtime wrote wrote:
I was also considering Athlete as a tenth occupation, but that could fit under Entertainer. Thoughts?

That depends on whether you'd consider a gladiator an entertainer or an athlete. They were both, but the two terms are probably broad enough for there to be some differences. Comedians probably aren't as physically active as Olympic swimmers, for example.


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I actually like that the warpriest isn't a full BAB/d10 class. I was hoping he would be a sort of divine magus, although I would have liked to see something emulating spell combat for this purpose.

Also, as someone who plays a paladin 75% of the time, I like that the warpriest is not a "paladin for any alignment." I feel making something like that would detract from the original class. I like people knowing who I am and what I stand for when I say "Paladin."


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Dear Lord in Heaven, if they have a paladin/barbarian hybrid I would buy this book and faint after seeing the art for it. I would never play another class.


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In a 3.5 game a few years ago, one of the players took a week off to go on vacation. When he returned he asked us to give him the details on what happened while he was out.

Me: We disentigrated the princess.
Returning Player: What the *bleep*?
Other Player: It's cool, she was a vampire.
Returning Player: Huh? When did we learn that?
Me: When she disentigrated.