I am running a game and a new player wants to play something that is like Arya from GoT. I don't watch it (I know thats shameful!) and wanted to know what class/race/archetype to get her to look at?
From a quick search I get rouge-ish.
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In the campaign I am running, I have designed the world where there are a certain type of monster that comes out only at night. They like to destroy and hurt things, (not simply kill them, but it happens too). It makes travel at night much harder. Towns and cities are warded against these things, but I imagine that the party will want to leave town and travel at night. I have guides and traders that do this, but they carry with them portable magic circles against these things made out of metal slats and connected by silver chains and covered in magic runes. I'm trying to figure out how much, according to the math, they should cost. They are supposed to be nearly impossible to find and extremely difficult to make, as it is hard to find someone who can write in the secret rune-language. Thoughts?
Hi There! I am designing a small one-three session pathfinder game for some friends to try out. They play a lot of D&D 2.0, so are pretty familiar with roleplaying games. I was looking to make a level 4 game that was mainly a mystery. I have a basic concept, but am having a hard time designing the ins and outs of the mystery, so it feels like something they have to figure out.. I also tend to not see holes that appear in my plots, and appreciate a fresh set of eyes to help me catch anything before it catches me. The players (plus a couple of NPCs) begin bound and chained in a dimly lit room. No one knows each other, and no one remember the last 48 hours. When they explore they will find there is no entrance or exit to the outside world. Everything is in shades of grey here, even the light does not have a warm glow. Through the dungeon they will find clues, gear, etc that will aid in an escape and knowledge about what is happening. They also find that they are all connected, or were discovering something, or unknowingly interfering with the bad guys plans... My thoughts are that someone is trapping them there as a test. I originally thought psychological manipulation/experimentation, but am unsure. I want the whole thing to be attached to the Shadow Plane. There is a weak spot right here and now where elements of the Shadow Plane are bleeding though. I thought that perhaps the bad guy is trying to prove his worth to those on the Shadow Plane, might be making some type of gesture or offering to the dragon in charge of a city there, or the church of Zon-Kuthon... I was also thinking that he/she was among the party to subtly push them in the direction they want. When discovered, they escape to a secret area that is heavily trapped for phase two. Any thoughts?
Hi There! I have been playing around with an idea for players to play dragons as opposed to humanoids, but haven't gotten much past the initial idea. I was hoping for feedback! Here is what I have so far: -players begin playing a hatchling/wormling dragon that is in a menagerie of some rich nobel somewhere. They are treated as the show piece to any visitors, but they initially see the humans as worshiping them or paying tribute (because, you know, they are dragons) -mix brood so they can pick what type of dragon they are Problems: -a great part of the game is character customization, so how would you go about customizing a dragon? Class levels, or something akin to the build-your-own-drake section in this book: Book of Drakes. (the section gives you a set number of points per level of your drake companion for you to 'buy' things like increased damage dice, increase size, special abilities like trample or tremor sense, etc), or level them up like a dragon but let them change feats, spells, etc? -gear and loot, a lot of it assumes your a humanoid, suggestions on how to adjust for this? -how to inform obsession with gold and wealth? -leveling up: the dragons in the book increase in size and CR with age, but should I adjust that for experience reaching a new level? Thanks!
Hello There! In a game I run the players are going to be in a city that I would describe as lawful evil, without trying to look that way to the outside world. They are an insular set of kingdoms, each has what it does best, and they only survive by trading with the other l/e kingdoms what they need. The major kingdom is run by the king, and all other smaller kingdoms pay tribute to him. They run off of a system of debt that is so bad that the people are no better than slaves, working forever to pay off a debt that just keeps growing. The upperclass is extremely wealthy. There really isn;t a middle class. The party is in a mountain kingdom, and their major export is ore, minerals, etc. They are a walled kingdom and run off of the same system factory towns do, not paying their populace in gold but rather in notes that can only be used within their town. When people turn the age of majority, they sign contracts for the debt they have incurred thus far in life, and have to start to work to pay it off. The contracts I am thinking will go back to devils or vampires somehow (devils obviously the soul is the collateral, vampires if they default they become blood slaves). But this would not be obvious in the contracts. I was thinking this could be a fun/frustrating town. They are starting here at level one and their birth days are coming up where they will be liable for their debt. I am thinking they might want to find work, or try to escape, etc. How would some of you run/play here? I don't want them to start off knowing how evil the city is, but rather have it be a pleasant surprise later. I was thinking of starting with demon cults, because though evil is fine, chaos is not here. It also gives the impression the city is fighting evil? There are also stories of night demons that come out at night only, and no one survives them (or so it's said). The nearest town is 2 days away, so running is not really an option. The town uses fear tactics heavily to isolate its people.
Not sure if this has been asked, I did a quick search that turned up little. I have a player who wants to play an Android, that has 16RP as a race, I thought I remembered that above 10 had an adjustment of some type? I don't want him to be unbalanced with the party, so is there an unbalance? Level or CR adjustment?
The party has happened across a knight looking for a lost princess (cliche, I know, but bare with me). The princess is rich, intelligent, and very nice. Her father (now deceased) was one of the lands greatest inventors, along with one of the kings. She has a number of craft feats and is a wizard. It was suggested by a friend that I make her spell book not a traditional spell book, but a set of glasses (like google glass). It fits with her because she has weak eyes as well and explains why she gets upset if anyone takes her glasses. Storyline I was looking for help on: the princess loves history and information. She cannot fight and is very non-aggressive and trusting. She tends to disappear on treasure hunts looking for lost bits of knowledge and history. This brought her in contact with a devil prince from Dis. He became obsessed with her, seeing her intelligence as someone who could potentially play in his league. She cannot get rid of him. He has 'saved' her a couple of times, and proposed as well, and she keeps trying to separate herself from him. He attacked her two months ago, and once she recovered she went looking for an artifact she heard about that might be able to scare him off or keep him away from her. So she went missing, and is trying not to involve anyone to try to keep 'innocent' people out of his reach. I intend her to get kidnapped by bad guys (maybe treasure hunters as well...?), hoping the party finds her, and then the devil shows up to threaten the party unless she gives him what she wants. Thoughts...? Too cliche? In the party is a bard, barbarian, arcane magic user of some type (player undecided on class) and paladin.
I have designed a campaign that I was looking for advice for. Theres alot of writing, but I have recieved so many good ideas last time I posted my campaign idea that I was hoping it might happen again! If you make it to the end thanks so much!!! Background:
Present Day:
Here are my ideas for the challenges along with some description for the guilds. I'm looking for feedback on the challenges or better ones. Thanks! Task of Obedience (Kore Guild, LG, military, protection, loyality)
Task of Healing (Sinope Guild, NG, herbalism, nature, forestry, farming)
Task of Impulse (Navari Guild, CG, experimentation, magic, alchemy, tinkering)
Task of Injunity (Kalyke Guild, LN, mutation, alchemy, augumentation)
Task of Inner Fortitude (Dorithel Guild, N, necormancy, plague, healing)
Task of Inner Strength (Hati Guild, CN, war, strength)
Task of Exploitation (Odsaxian Guild, LE, contracts, merchants, judgement)
Task of Silence (Ananke Guild, NE, spys, assissanations, information)
Task of Curruption (Vasilis Guild, CE, trickery, selfishness, torture)
Thats alot to read and if anyone makes it to the end and has a suggestion I really apperciate it!!!
So I have used a Devil Prince as an NPC in a couple campaigns, he is always the mastermind behind the scenes, but the party knows he is there. He normally shows up early and the PCs are tricked into making a deal with him, normally they get out of it because he sells the debt to a good NPC (makes sense in the story) and manipulates her and the PCs into doing work for him without them knowing (he shows up clearly profiting from their jobs, or clearly moving his plan forward) He has a spy they know too well too, she's a Rakshasa Sorcerer, very manipulative herself and can change her shape and stuff so she is very good at disguising, I know they are going to get to the point where someone gets angry enough (and confident enough) to take him on, but I have not stated him out yet. I'm looking for class suggestions. He's a high level, so multiclassing or prestige classes are do able. He is susposed to be very charismatic, extremely intelligent, slender built (not strength based) magically inclined, and avoids combat at almost any cost. He uses diplomacy, intimidation and manipulation and bribery to get what he wants.
How do other people connect point A to B? I have the begining of a story, what I want to happen, what I hope the players learn (true or false) and an end. But I don't know what to do past the introduction to get them to the middle. Intro Basics: PCs have been having weird dreams making them want to go to a place. They don't know until they get there where they are going. They are kind of in a haze at this point in time, until they get there. The dream is more of empathetic feelings of torment, betrayal, and torture. They are left remembering one detail for sure, the word Azreille. Behind the scenes: There is a psychic/empath/whatever you want to call it that has been kidnapped and is being tortured. She can psychically connect to other people under certian circumstances, and is trying to ask for help, leading them to her. There was a prince that was searching for her before, but the man who kidnapped her has convinced her the prince is in on what they are doing to her. The bad guy's plan is to break the phsychic and use her to wage war on the prince because he feels the kingdom is rightfully his. He knows the prince will not harm the phychic. I want the PCs originally to believe as the psychic does, which is the prince is a bad guy. I want them wandering around picking up clues from her life to find her. Then I want them to accuse the prince where the truth comes out and then they start looking for the real bad guy. I don't know what types of things should happen in the middle though, or holes that are in it. I would love some advice or ideas or inspiration. Or ideas of how other DMs get from the begining to the middle to the end?
Hello out there. I'm designing a character that I need some advice on. I am making a character that is a thrill seaker. Early on in life he was a bit of an adrenaline junky, doing stupider and stupider things for the thrill of it, each time needing to do more dangerous things to get his thrill fix. One time, he died, but was brought back. He keeps dieing, and keeps coming back, encouraging him to do more dangerous things. He has become a masochist through this. I am looking for a class that would make sence for him (he is susposed to be terriable at magic) and a weapon. Through discussions with friends I like the idea that he allows himself to get hit in order to get in closer or give his opponents a false feeling that they are wining the fight. I was also thinking his weapon should do damage to him as well in order to do more damage to the opponent. He tests new weapons as well (in my story its for a god of artifice), since he does not fear death, he tests them in very dangerous and stupid ways. Thoughts?
Hello everyone out there! I have a game that I am running where the players have come into contact with a goddess of artifice. One of the ideas that I was playing with was to leave a bunch of strange gear lying around for them to play with. I have some ideas that I'll put here, but was hoping for feedback, and perhaps other ideas. I was bouncing ideas off of friends, but I don't want to give to much away, since my friends are also the players. The more interesting/powerful the artifact, the more of a downfall, or hindrance I was going to include, on some not all. Here are some: Death's Amulet: upon death, the wearer and all possessions on their body are immediately teleported to a predetermined location (PCs don't know where that is) and the body is put into gentle repose. Bracers of the Beast: the wearer may apply the lychenthrope template and transform for x number of rounds per day. They are in control while transformed. Every time they use it there is a 5% chance (perhaps it increases each time) that their blood becomes tainted and they contract lychenthropy. At this time they loose control of the transformations. Neck Collar of the Night: the wearer may apply the vampire template bonuses with no negatives for a number of rounds per day. When they die they are raised as a vampire, under the partial control of the vampire who's essence was used to create the artifact (will saves if ordered to do something against their nature) Their alignment becomes neutral on the moral scale. Cape of the Eidolon: when in combat GM rolls a d% on a chart for a random evolution, that the PC may use in combat every 1d4 rounds. First round it gets used without the PC being able to control it. Every combat it is rerolled. Circlette of the Prophet: user can use augury 2x per day, divination 1x per day, clearvoyance/clearaudience 2x per day, commune with pre determined deity once per week, deity does not identify themselves Weapons/armor that evolve with the user once picked it cannot be changed, idea:
-Melee Weapon
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In a campaign I am trying to write I have an NPC I want the PCs to interact with though out. I want her to be a moderate/high CR because though I expect the PCs to interact with her early, I want her to be a challenge towards the end of the game. My idea for her is she works for/is owned by a Prince of Hell, and that she is a 'spy'. In the game I want her to convince the PCs to help her bring down slave traders because she was 'captured and beaten' when she is actually getting the slavers to pick up certain people, none realizing that she is controlling the show. She then gets everyone taken back to Hell, and the PCs will be fed miss information that will hopefully lead them to find a seer that the prince is after. Her plan is to get the PCs to look for the seer, and if they find her first she will retrieve them all. So anyways, I wanted a kind of spy/double agent. I don't want her to be evil, more neutral and trying to find a way out of Hell, making the best out of a bad situation I guess. But I want the PCs to think she may be evil, but perhaps redeemable (if they consider it). I was thinking she should be able to alter her appearance, perhaps giving her a limited version of alter self as a spell like ability or in an item? Maybe there are three appearances shw can take on, her, her as a human, her as an Aasimar? I'm looking for ideas on classes/prestige classes. I was thinking of making her a Tiefling rogue/sorcerer, but am not stuck at all to that. Any other ideas would be appreciated.
So.... I have a party that is facing the apocalypse, and they found these weapons (had to undergo trials) that each were made from the innocent and moral soul that the horsemen possessed in life, before they became horsemen. My thoughts were that the horsemen can only be killed with the sword by confirming a critical, like a vorpal weapon. As for the end of the story, and maybe the begining of a new one, is that the original horsemen is reborn when killed as a child. The swords also have some spell like abilities. For an example, the sword of pestilence can remove disease, purify food and water, etc, the sword of death might be able to cast raise dead and cure spells, or channel positive energy. The players are dead set on going after the horsemen, I know Charon, the horsemen of death is on the internet here Charon. , I like it, but am not sold on that build. The latest bestiary made demi-gods mythic... Does anyone have suggestions on how to go about stating out the horsemen, should I use mythic if they are encountered in their own realm? Should they be wielding artifact weapons? Any suggestions on the weapon designs the party is going to wield?
Hey there! I was talking to some friends about some house rule changes...and was looking for advice... My thoughts were if you are fighting, bleeding, and injured, you would be far less effective in combat, so how could this be done in game? I was thinking at certian % of hit points loss certian stats, skills, and actions would take a penalty. Here is an example
Maybe there is a bonus to checks, like looks pathetic for sympathy? Should spell casting with verbal or symatic components be effected, like spell failure percentage? Thoughts?
Hello! I have a party that is decently high level, and they are about to have to deal with the apocalypse. I am using the idea of breaking the Seals to release the Horsemen. I had an idea for an artifact that creates a "false prophet". The idea is that it gives the user a Hugh bonus to knowledge planes and religion along with the ability to interoperate and predict signs of the end of days. It also appears to give them information on a network of magical places that can harness the power of deceased gods in order to stop the apocalypse and lowers their miss chance to teleport close to these sites. However it is not giving them information of this network, but instead tricking them into breaking the Seals. Any suggestions on how this might work better... Or how it would be destroyed, or how the PCs could figure out what is actually going on? My original thoughts were an NPC would have the item to start with.
I know that the Test of the Starstone is susposed to be very difficult, only having three sucesses... but I have a player that is interested in taking it... Here is a bit of backstory, my players helped to free a very weakened and injured god, and for their services to her they were all able to ask for somthing, one wanted a map and instructional manual of his test when he takes it. She was not opposed to this request, but didnt actually agree either. So now he in on a quest to get as ready as he can for the test... I know there must be people out there with tons of ideas of how to run a test of the Starstone... and I would love some ideas! This plans to be his level 20 task, so high CR stuff is great, in the description it says he has to get to the temple with no path, bridge, etc. It also says magic doesn't work as normal... I have some ideas but they are as simple as big traps, gorges, golems, teleportation traps, big creatures, magic working in reverse, certian spells being replaced with others, only in certian areas, and 'wild magic'... but the magic is not a big deal because he is a gunslinger, but ideas for casters are great too because I have another player interested if I can put something together
I have a limited idea of item creation, but have a player that wanted to get some pretty specialized gear made for him. His first request was for an item that has a kind of dead man's switch. He wants something that he wears that when he is reduced below 0 hit points (or out right dies... Depending on how the item would have to work) that his body would be automatically teleported back to a predetermined location (he was thinking where he is paying a cleric to revive him). How would that work, and how much would it cost? Another item is a ring of polymorph, useable once or twice per day? Can you have an item doing multiple things? How much would one cost with telepathic bond in it? What do you think of items that teleports a person withing a network of symbols, like if you activate x symbol, it takes you to place x, activating c takes you to c... Could you do that with people to, teleport to one person who is wearing the appropiate symbol? Would it be better for it to be a stationary location that you have to get to to teleport somewhere else, like an elevator takes you to any floor in the building? Or could it be an item you take with you? Has anyone else made interesting items?
I have a level 10 party that has been exploring a demi plane with something weird going on in it. As it turns out there is a lich/antipaladin controlling the plane, and since he knows they are there and has been watching them, he has time to prepare for them. I was thinking that I would have a necromancer working for him and that both he and the necromancer would have a number of minions with them to make the final two fights more of a challenge. The traditional zombies seem to weak for my players, and was hoping to come up with something that might catch them off guard. I thought that a melee lich would throw them off, but I wanted some good minions too. Does anyone have any ideas of creatures/characters/templates that would be interesting? I'm not tied to them all being undead, in fact I think that all undead would make my bard feel useless since he has nothing but mind effecting powers, and I don't want to make him useless. Also, it was suggested I build my necromancer as a cleric, I found a dread necromancer build here: http://www.pathfinderdb.com/character-options/classes/full-class-list/1430- dread-necromancer. Any thoughts on best necromancer builds? Any advice is appreciated, thanks a lot!
I have a level 10 party that has been exploring a demi plane with something weird going on in it. As it turns out there is a lich/antipaladin controlling the plane, and since he knows they are there and has been watching them, he has time to prepare for them. I was thinking that I would have a necromancer working for him and that both he and the necromancer would have a number of minions with them to make the final two fights more of a challenge. The traditional zombies seem to weak for my players, and was hoping to come up with something that might catch them off guard. I thought that a melee lich would throw them off, but I wanted some good minions too. Does anyone have any ideas of creatures/characters/templates that would be interesting? I'm not tied to them all being undead, in fact I think that all undead would make my bard feel useless since he has nothing but mind effecting powers, and I don't want to make him useless. Also, it was suggested I build my necromancer as a cleric, I found a dread necromancer build here: http://www.pathfinderdb.com/character-options/classes/full-class-list/1430- dread-necromancer. Any thoughts on best necromancer builds? Any advice is appreciated, thanks a lot!
Lesser Geas/Quest lasts days per level, does the regular version of the spell last that long or longer or permanent? Also, what happens if the Geas/Quest was to help the caster complete a task, but the caster is killed before the Geas is complete? Is the spell broken, or should they try to bring the caster back to complete the Geas?
I have a PC bard sandman archetype that has glibness cast on him. I also have a NPC that can read thoughts via Seek Thoughts, does the NPC have to make a caster level check against the bards glibness to read their thoughts since they might be looking for the truth or answers, or, because seek throughts does not state it it forcing him to tell the truth nor directly decerning his lies, is there no caster level check? Glibness
If a magical effect is used against you that would detect your lies or force you to speak the truth, the user of the effect must succeed on a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against a DC of 15 + your caster level to succeed. Failure means the effect does not detect your lies or force you to speak only the truth. Seek Thoughts
You can maintain concentration on seek thoughts while you engage in normal conversation, allowing you to ask leading questions about topics of interest. A creature conversing with you while you concentrate can notice that you are distracted with a successful DC 25 Sense Motive check.
Hello there! I have been running a game for a little less than a year now and was running into problems designing an enemy for my 'end boss' for the next part of my game. Here is a quick synopsis of what I was looking to do: The PCs are hired to participate in a maze/competition. The winning team/team patron gets to rule the city for the next 5 years. Originally it was supposed to promote unity and teamwork, but in the last century it has become more sinister and dangerous until it turned from almost everyone gets out alive to only one team surviving and thus winning. My ideas were that something sinister get into the maze, which is its own self evolving/semi sentient plane, got to its 'brain' or 'heart' so to speak, and is controlling it to be more dangerous and to turn people against each other, and is stacking the odds in the favour of the team he wants to win. My hopes are that the party will discover this, and will defeat him. My original thoughts on the enemy was for it to be a vampire as the vampire and undead guild have been in control of the city for the last century and maybe he could be feeding on the maze, or those he kept alive to feed on were linked to the maze and it was sending their memories to adventurers it thought could help in the forms of dreams. Then I thought a lich would be cool, I liked the idea of the phylactery and thought that destroying it could lead to the party to the next part of the game. Then I thought vampire lich, but I wasn't sure if this was even possible to apply both templates to the same creature, and if it s, how do you kill is, destroy the phylactery then do the whole vampire killing ritual by staking, beheading and burning it? THEN I thought maybe I was missing something, and maybe there was a better end boss that had nothing to do with either. One thing I really do want though is for him to be somehow influencing and controlling the maze. The party is starting at level 10. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! |