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Well, this character (a Talisman Crafter Occultist) venerated both Desna and Black Butterfly... So an easy tweak would be to make her more focused. The character's interest in the blackness between the stars is essentially mystical in nature, a sort of fascination with universal mysteries...
All of this stayed put as we whipped out the end of some outstanding campaignage... <To be determined> We're still a ways out, so our fourth player is mulling his options. He's debating a mechanical puzzle-obsessed Alchemical Sapper or some sort of Inquisitor or a Mythos Scholar Wizard. And true to form, this guy decided to go with NONE of the three choices he'd mooted earlier in their original form... Nope, now he's Flindle Broomshanks, a Gnome rogue obsessed with mechanical puzzles and possessed of an unfortunate tendency toward pondering aloud why we can wear animal skins but not the skins of humanoids... Our GM has also instructed us all to come up with a "next of kin" to replace us if we get killed, with the caveat that they cannot be both the same race and the same class. Backstory is of course going to be hazy, but he says our relationships determine which modified campaign trait the replacements get- we don't pick. Now I'm almost hoping we suffer some losses!
This character began, conceptually, as a syncretic Desna/Yog-Sothoth worshiper. While that has since gone by the wayside, the idea of a free-spirited traveling soul who comes to regard Yog-Sothoth as a means to open doors and explore in freedom is what I'd roll with- maybe an Occultist (which Rose here is), maybe a Horizon Walker Ranger...
No more romantic and professional entanglements with unstable aristocrats, no matter how esoteric the lore they have on offer...
Player's guide, page 7: "You might be tempted to play a character that venerates a Great Old One or an Outer God, but that isn’t a great option for this Adventure Path. You’ll be fighting against cultists who worship these foul beings, and knowing all about the Elder Mythos hinders the horror of the unknown."
Actual worship of an Outer God or Great Old One is discouraged... this character was going to be a syncretist worshiper of Yog-Sothoth combined with Desna (the colors! All the opened doors! IA! IA!) but I have since gently mothballed the idea.
Despite not being that big on Occultists, this seems to be the time and place for me to run one...
Seems a good fit. Campaign trait is going to be Ritualistic. Also took Faithful Artist so my Music Of The Spheres-obsessed PC can properly carry a haunting tune (and with her friggin' 20 INT, I'm not exactly hurting for skills) Tagging along with dear Rosie's Ride To Madness, we have: Asher Kort- A human male skirmisher ranger from Ustalav, focused on his Menacing Combat Style. He claims he's going to use Gory Finish every chance he gets. Seems to have been some sort of debt collector/bounty hunter back in the day. Very much a non-Mythos-oriented character. Preeeeeety sure he took Pugnacious. Liese Van Straelen- Female human cleric of Pharasma, took the Knowledge domain, so I forsee Liese and Rose having a lot of esoteric conversations that bore everyone else. Not just a healboat, she's also better able to use her armor proficiency than Rose is (8 Strength. Take THAT, unwanted Martial Weapon proficiency!), so she seems to be our Battle Librarian. <To be determined> We're still a ways out, so our fourth player is mulling his options. He's debating a mechanical puzzle-obssessed Alchemical Sapper or some sort of Inquisitor or a Mythos Scholar Wizard.
Heaven help me, I'm playing a class I've not liked since I laid eyes on it. But the Talisman Crafter archetype fit my image of Rosie here fishing scraps of paper out of her pockets and brandishing them at the opposition, so yes, one and all, I'm playing a Chaotic Good Desnan/Black Butterfly honoring Occultist... and while she's human, she has heterochromia, and this changeling avatar is a remarkable fit. Rose was born of Taldan stock in Andoran, with her parents being recent emigres due to some political hangups. Raised bookish and wealthy, she started getting into some pretty nasty arcane literature. I'm pretty sure that during the missing years where Bad Things were eventually done, she dabbled in worship of Yog-Sothoth. And now she's in Ustalav in an asylum. WHEEE! |