Scholar Zupon's page

Per level: 8+4INT+1Human+1Level. Points=at least 1 rank in skill
Note: Alchemy sphere and Scout Sphere give 1 skill point in Craft Alch and Stealth respectively.
Total skill points is 14+Sphere's 2 =16/lv
for detail breakdown.
* = class Skill
Acrobatics 3 Points
*APPRAISE 4
*BLUFF -1
CLIMB 1 Points
*CRAFT ALCHEMY 9 Points
DIPLOMACY -1
*DISABLE DEVICE 6 Points
*DISGUISE -1
*ESCAPE ARTIST 6 Points
FLY 2
*HANDLE ANIMAL -1
*HEAL 9 (2skill points. Uses Int not Wis) Points
*INTIMIDATE -1
*KN(ALL): 9 2points Points
*LINGUISTICS 4
*PERCEPTION 6 Points
*PROFESSION 1
RIDE 2
*SENSE MOTIVE 1
*SLEIGHT OF HAND 2
*SPELLCRAFT 4
*STEALTH 7 Points
*SURVIVAL 5 1 rank
SWIM 1 Points
*UMD -1

Trait gold 900+175 = 1075. Current Gear Cost 1037g 6s 5cp
Current Gold: 11g 19s 55cp (otherwise known as 15gp4sp5cp; but spare change is good)
Use INT for Carry Weight. Light Load 100lbs; med load 200lbs heavy load 300lbs.
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Healer's Kit 10 uses No Cost. Can refill with 8 hours+10gold
+bonus standard Healer's Kit given by class.
Alchemy Crafting Kit 25gp 5lbs
Studded Leather: 25gp +3AC +5Dex 0ACP 20lbs
Buckler: 5gp +1 ac 0acp 5lbs
Masterwork buckler/Studded Leather +300gold. AP-1
Shurikens: 50# 5lbs. 10g
Butterfly Knife 5gp
Needle Launcher. 400gp x2 40ft 2lbs p
holds 10 needles, Reload as a full round action. One hand fireable. Magical versions +10ft increment per enhancement bonus. Full Round Action special attack attacks all creatures in a line from corner of wielder's space to weapon range limit (or barrier it cannot penetrate). Make separate attacks for all creatures, only hit by one shot of the burst. Each attack takes -2 penalty. Concealment effects (smoke invisi, mirror image etc) do not work. Roll to confirm individually. Consumes 10 uses of ammo.
A.Needles: 100# -lbs 20gp Deal no damage, but made as touch attacks. Light weapons; treated as ammo for drawing/crafting, and for what happens after used. magical AcuNeedles add comp bonux to heal checks x2 enhancement bonus. A proficient user can poison two needles with a single dose of poison at -2 penalty to save DC.
Torch 1cp 2lbs 5# 5cp
A common adventurer’s tool designed to shed light in dark places. A burning torch deals 1 point of fire damage in addition to its damage as a weapon. In the hands of a character who is proficient with the torch, this damage increases to 1d6 fire damage on a successful hit. The torch may also be used to make a melee touch attack that deals no weapon damage, but still deals 1d6 fire damage. A torch burns for 1 hour, shedding normal light in a 20-ft. radius and increasing the light level by one step for an additional 20 ft. beyond that area (darkness becomes dim light and dim light becomes normal light). A torch does not increase the light level in normal light or bright light.
Founderflame Torch 1lb 250gp (damage stats overridden via weapon proficiency)
One end of this short length of petrified wood burns with a flame of ever-changing hue, a tiny portion of the fires of the Founder’s Flame (Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Magnimar, City of Monuments 32). It provides light as per a normal torch but is not consumed, and its fire cannot be extinguished by mundane means (though total immersion temporarily quenches the flame). The torch can be wielded as an improvised light mace that deals an additional 1d2 points of fire damage; in addition, a creature damaged by the torch’s fire takes a –1 penalty on saving throws for 1 round against effects that deal fire damage.
Canteen 2gp 1lb
Canteen 02-retained for Torch capping. 2gp 1lb
Mess kit 2sp 1lb
Blanket 5sp 3lbs
Backpack 2gp 4lbs
bandolier 5sp -lbs
Rope 50ft 1gp 10lbs
Piton 4sp 2lbs 4 count
Pathfinder's Kit 12gp 22lbs This kit consists of a backpack, a bedroll, a belt pouch, a clay mugUE, a dagger, two fishhooks, a flint and steel, a sewing needle, a signal whistle, 50 feet of stringAPG, 50 feet of thread, a week’s worth of trail rations, a waterskin, and a whetstone. For Small creatures, the weight of a Pathfinder’s kit is 7–1/2 pounds. Leaving the bedroll and rations at camp or on a mount reduces the weight by 12 pounds for Medium creatures and by 3 pounds for Small creatures.

In Game Expenses
-2 silver 3 copper-dinner.
-2gp Shovel 8lb
8 days of rations 8lbs 5spx8=4gp
(total rashions 15 days)
1 grapple hook 1gp 4lbs

99lbs (light load 100lbs)
3g 17s 52c

175 avg gold
Hit Die: d6+2
Class Skills: The scholar’s class skills are Appraise (Int), Bluff (Cha), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disable Device (Dex), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Perception (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), Stealth (Dex), Survival (Wis), and Use Magic Device (Cha).
Skill Ranks Per Level: 8 + Int modifier.
Proficiencies: Scholars are proficient with simple weapons, as well as light armor and bucklers. In addition, if this is this character’s first level in any class, they may select a martial tradition of their choice.
Combat Training
A scholar may combine combat spheres and talents to create powerful martial techniques. Scholars are considered Proficient combatants and use Intelligence as their practitioner modifier.
Careful Packer
The scholar knows that being prepared for any eventuality with a variety of useful tools is essential to success. Starting at 1st level, her talents for organization allow her to treat the storage space of any backpack, pouch, or similar container as though it were twice its normal size, and she uses her Intelligence score in place of her Strength score when determining her carrying capacity.
Medical Training (Ex)
The scholar may use her Intelligence modifier in place of her Wisdom modifier as her associated ability score modifier with the Heal skill. In addition, the scholar may expend one use of a healer’s kit and make a special DC 15 Heal check on an ally as a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity; if this check is successful, the ally recovers 1 hit point +1 for each point by which the scholar exceeds the DC. If the scholar has at least 5 ranks in the Heal skill, she may instead use this ability to restore 1 point of ability damage +1 point for every 5 points by which she exceeds this ability’s DC. The scholar can only attempt to heal a particular creature with this ability a number of times per day equal to her Intelligence bonus (minimum 1). Attempting to heal a creature but failing to meet the DC of this ability still counts towards this daily total.
Problem Solver
A scholar gains the Alchemy and Scout spheres as bonus combat talents at 1st level. If she already has either of these talents from another source, she may instead gain any talent she qualifies for from the corresponding sphere.
Flashbangs (Ex)
At 2nd level, the scholar learns how to create unstable preparations using various salts and minerals that she can hurl at a creature as a ranged touch attack with a range of 30 ft. + 10 ft. per class level, dealing 1d4 bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage, and forcing the target to succeed on a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 the scholar’s class level + her Intelligence modifier) or be deafened and dazzled for 1d4 rounds; in addition, whenever a creature fails their saving throw against one of the scholar’s flashbangs, she may recover her martial focus as an immediate action. Preparing and throwing a flashbang is a standard action. If the scholar has at least 5 ranks in the Craft (alchemy) skill, the target takes 1d8 bludgeoning and piercing damage and is instead blinded and deafened for 1d4+1 rounds on a failed Fortitude saving throw.

Some material impositions grant secondary effects that have the [explosive] descriptor; these impositions allow the scholar to expend her martial focus when using a flashbang to add additional effects as described in their entry. You can only add one [explosive] to a given flashbang.

Formulae
Some Alchemy talents have the (formulae) descriptor; these are improved or original versions of alchemical items you can only create once you’ve learned the talent. All formulae have a base crafting DC as noted in their descriptor, and their saving throw DCs, if any, are determined using the normal formula for combat sphere talents, using the practitioner’s ranks in Craft (alchemy) in place of their base attack bonus. The necessary ingredients for creating formulae are gathered over the course of a given day; there is no monetary cost to creating a formulae. You may craft any item whose formulae you know in 30 minutes, or 15 minutes if you have access to an alchemist’s lab or alchemist’s crafting kit, but due to the volatile nature of the enhanced formulae you cannot prepare more formulae at one time than a number equal to 1/2 your ranks in Craft (alchemy) (minimum 1) + the number of formulae talents you possess. For every 4 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess, you may craft 1 additional formulae as part of the same 30/15 minute time period.
Any creature affected by splash damage from an improved formulae is entitled to a Reflex save to reduce the damage by half.
Because formulae are more unstable than standard alchemical items, they expire and no longer work after 24 hours; it is relatively easy (DC 10 Appraise) to recognize the unstable and impermanent nature of these items so typically they have no monetary value; a potential buyer who fails their Appraise check assumes they are a standard item of their type (if applicable), or as a mundane item worth no more than 10 gp. In addition, the overly refined and unstable nature of formulae means that they cannot be further refined or enhanced by items such as focusing flasks or hybridization funnels. You cannot fail to craft an alchemical item you know the formulae for; failure to meet the DC instead means you create the item but at its minimum potency, without additional effects or benefits for having additional Craft (alchemy) ranks or having increased the crafting DC. When you first gain this package, you may learn any one (formulae) talent you qualify for./[b]
Clarification: Additional damage dice in formulae for having multiple ranks in Craft (alchemy) are always treated as bonus damage dice and are not multiplied by Vital Strike or a critical hit. (Per discussion with a writer)
[b] Effectively if failed to meet higher DC, i get default base item

Chemical Coating [Apoc] (Combat Talent gained at lv 2
You may modify your formulae into an oil, called a coating that can be applied to weapons by increasing Craft (alchemy) DC to create them by 5. The coating’s effects are added to any attacks you make in which you successfully hit the target. Formulae applied as a coating only affect the target of the attack and lose any splash damage or area of effect they might normally possess. If the formulae does damage on a hit, the damage is reduced to 1d6 + 1/2 your ranks in Craft (alchemy) per successful attack. If a formulae normally deals multiple types of damage (such as fire and bludgeoning), it instead deals one type of damage (chosen at the time of the application).

You may apply a coating to one weapon (including ranged weapons, which apply the effects to ammunition they fire), one end of a double weapon, or ten thrown weapons as a move action, or as a swift action if you expend your martial focus. Only one coating can be applied to any piece of equipment at a time. Any time that you could apply a poison to a weapon, you may instead apply a coating in its place.

Once applied, coatings remain active for a number of rounds equal to your Practitioner modifier + 1 per 4 ranks in Craft (alchemy). Additional damage from a coating is never multiplied on a critical hit, but otherwise stacks with effects such as flaming, shock, or corrosive.

Alchemy Item DC (unless they otherwise state or modify) DC: 10+1/2 Craft Alchemy +INT.
DC 15
3known + 1 (1/2 craft alchemy skill points) may be made at once.. 15m per item. 1hr for a full refresh.

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Cherry Bomb (formulae) (Free w/ Alchemy sphere)
Craft DC: 15
Cherry bombs are alchemical bombs that make up for their lack of power with volume and easy maintenance. Crafting a cluster of cherry bombs counts as crafting a single alchemical formulae when determining the total number of formulae you can craft at a time and the total number you may have crafted at once. A cluster of cherry bombs has a number of bombs in it equal to your practitioner modifier (minimum 3). Cherry bombs are a splash weapon you can use as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 feet, dealing 1d4 bludgeoning damage + 1d4 per 3 Craft (alchemy) ranks you possess to the target of a direct hit, and 1 point of bludgeoning splash damage per die of damage this weapon deals on a direct hit to targets 5 feet away from the point of contact (to a maximum of half the damage dealt to the primary target).
An individual cherry bomb cannot be split apart from its cluster for more than 1 round without becoming inert. An individual cherry bomb may be modified (such as by being placed into a vial arrow) without being split from its cluster. An entire cluster of cherry bombs is required to make a coating if used with the Chemical Coating talent.
If you can create formulae that inflict different types of damage (such as an alchemist’s fire dealing fire damage) when you create the cherry bombs you may have it deal that kind of damage instead. The damage can only be of one damage type at a time, but each separate bomb can deal a different type of damage. You can increase the Craft DC for this weapon in increments of 10; each time you do so, the Reflex save DC to avoid the splash damage increases by +1.
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Improved Bottled Lightning (formulae) (Combat medic) Craft DC: 25
Improved bottled lightning unleashes a small bolt of lightning toward an enemy within 20 ft. of you. This is a ranged touch attack that deals 1d8 points of electricity damage, plus 1d8 per 2 Craft (alchemy) ranks you possess. Any creature in a line between you and the target (including the target) takes 1 point of sonic damage plus 1 point per rank in Craft (alchemy) you possess from the terrific clap of thunder the bolt generates.
You can increase the Craft DC for this weapon in increments of 10; each time you do so, the range increases by 10 ft. and the sonic damage dealt to creatures in the line of effect increases by 1d6.

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Salve (formulae) (Combat medic gives free) Craft DC: 15
(Heal Skill Based; does not count for Formula maximum boosters).
You create a poultice that can be used as a standard action to heal yourself or a target within your natural reach for 1d8 points of damage per 2 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess (minimum 1d8) plus your practitioner modifier. You can only attempt to heal a particular creature with this ability a number of times per day equal to 1/2 the number of ranks you possess in the Craft (alchemy) skill (minimum 1) plus your practitioner modifier.
You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so you increase the healing granted by the salve by 5.
Note: Salves can stop bleeding. Salves can't heal creatures that only regain hit points by repairs or spells such as make whole (mainly constructs/objects), but generally can heal undead and similar types of targets.
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Training in the Scout sphere teaches you how to hide from danger, identify potential threats and hazards, track opponents through almost any environment, and identify a creature’s key weaknesses. When you gain the Scout sphere, you gain 5 ranks in the Stealth skill, plus 5 ranks per additional talent spent in the Scout sphere (maximum ranks equal to your total Hit Dice). If you already have ranks in the Stealth skill you may immediately retrain them, but you do not get to retrain when only temporarily gaining talents, such as through the armiger’s customized weapons class feature.
All practitioners of the Scout sphere gain the following ability:
As a swift action, you may identify a creature’s weaknesses (DC 10 + creature’s CR) as described under the Knowledge skill, but may substitute a Perception check for the appropriate Knowledge check at a -5 penalty. This only reveals the target’s weaknesses, or lack thereof, (such as damage reduction types and vulnerabilities), and does not reveal any additional information about the target. Once you have succeeded at a scout attempt or Knowledge check against a target, any talents or effects that require you to scout a target may be used against the target for the next 24 hours; after this period you must successfully use the scout ability against the target again to continue benefiting from related effects.
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Uncanny Dodge (Scout Talent, gained via Second Scout sphere (scholar + field medic)
You gain the ability to react to danger before your senses would normally allow you to do so. You cannot be caught flat-footed, nor do you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC if the attacker is invisible. You still lose your Dexterity bonus to AC if immobilized. You can still lose your Dexterity bonus to AC if a creature successfully uses the feint action against you. You may take this talent twice; the second time you take it, you can no longer be flanked. This defense denies a creature the ability to sneak attack you by flanking you, unless the attacker is at least four levels higher or has at least 4 more Hit Dice than you. If you have already gained uncanny dodge from another source, such as the rogue talent, the first instance of this talent instead gives you the benefits of improved uncanny dodge.

Field Medic [IHB2]
While not as often to get the glory of the kill as the soldier, the field medic is as or even more important to the health and safety of his comrades.
Bonus Talents:
Equipment: Fast Draw (see feats)
Alchemy sphere ((formulae) package): Salve
Scout sphere (already have. used to take subtalent Uncanny Dodge)
Variable: The Field Medic gains one additional talent of their choice from either the Alchemy sphere or Scout sphere. (Variable = lighting bottle)
Drawbacks: Alternative-Brew
Special: The Field Medic uses the Heal skill as the skill used for Alternative-Brew.

Traits:
Social: Rich Parents. 900gold. This is the funding supplied by the Abby
Religion: Aesocar required-The Abby/Library he grew up in. Thanks to your medical innovations, you can perform especially comprehensive or speedy surgeries. You begin play with a special healer’s kit at no cost and can fully restock your kit by expending materials worth 10 gp and spending 8 hours assembling medical devices. When using this healer’s kit to treat deadly wounds, you can either halve the time required to perform the action or add your Intelligence modifier to the number of hit points healed.

spheres: Scholar 1 gives Alchem (which gives 1 formula), Scout. lv 1 martial tradition gives Field Medic gives 1 salve formula, scount sphere replacement (uncanny dodge), 1 variable (formula taken), fast draw.

Fast Draw
You can draw a weapon as part of the action used to make an attack with it. This can be used with splash weapons, but not with other items such as potions, scrolls, or wands. You can draw a hidden weapon (see the Sleight of Hand skill) as a move action. Associated Feat: Quick Draw.

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Bonus Human: EXTRA COMBAT TALENT: Equipement Sphere: Discipline Medical Mastery
Medical Malpractice (discipline)
You gain proficiency with the acupuncture needle, butterfly knife, drow razor, garrote, iron brush, needle launcher, poisoned sand tube, sanpkhang, sawtoothed sabre, shuriken, switchblade knife, syringe spear, and torch.
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Level 1 feat: Vaporized Formulae [Apoc]
Prerequisites: Alchemy sphere ((formulae) package)
Benefit: You can increase the Craft DC of a formulae by 10 to turn the formulae from a liquid to a gaseous state. A vaporized formulae that would require a Reflex save instead requires a Fortitude save, otherwise functioning as the original formulae. A formulae talent that can only be used on a single target (such as Panacea and Salve) can also be vaporized, allowing it to be thrown as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 feet. Creatures within a 5-foot radius burst of the point of contact gain the benefits of the chosen formulae.
Note: The 5-foot radius effect only applies to formulae that would normally affect a single target. Formulae that normally affect an area or multiple targets in an area have their radius unchanged when used with this feat.
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Lvl 2 Combat Talent: Finesse Fighting
You may use your Dexterity modifier in place of your Strength modifier when calculating your melee attack rolls with light weapons and weapons with the finesse weapon special feature. You may take this talent a total of two times. If taken a second time, whenever you make an attack using your Dexterity bonus on attack rolls and your Strength bonus on melee damage rolls, you may also add 1/2 your base attack bonus (minimum 1) as a bonus on that damage roll. Associated Feat: Weapon Finesse.

Adopted into a scholarly abby/library. He grew up and of course was part of the procession-did not take well to the religion (not opposed just disinterested to an extent) but loved the learning and reading.
The library did end up under siege from -what he would learn later- was an Antipaladin commanding several powerful undead; whie raising the catacomb's residents as mindless undead. All to sacrifice the Library-its monks-and its sacred grounds to their god. Zupon hid with the others; but ultimately was responsible for saving several through his medical skill, as well as sneaking and gathering food for the survivors. Due to the course of survival he did learn how to use his tools of healing as tools of combat. He also became rather adept at using a torch with surprising effectiveness. Most often he would avoid, disable, and when in doubt cause a mess. It was a rough few weeks. but he survived. Until real rescue came and saved everyone who still survived.
Once the library was rescued and restored, Zupon became a formal scholar of the library; and was sent out to gather materials-whether they are books, stories, and the like. Basically-try to overcome the past, benefit the library, and come back someday as a teacher.

Have a Goal:
Earn some money for traveling, as well as collecting interesting books, journals, stories (to transcribe), or schematics; all to add to the library as his contribution under his new promotion
Have a Reputation:
That awkward bookish guy; who somehow pulls through in situations-also smells oddly of chemicals. In the library survivor group he has the rep of the guy who somehow was never caught but always brought people food.
Have a Friend:
Violet Aria was a merchant girl who visited the Library often; usually giving him some lovely stories or interesting trinkets; and he'd trade for some of his own trinkets. She wasn't there when things went down at least.
Have a Home:
The library; where he'd like to be able to return.
Have a Problem:
Zupon fears the library; given what happened in the past. part of the point of his assignment was in fact to broaden his horizons and help him develop and overcome some of the fears of his home. through life experience.
Fact is; Zupon doesn't think he's earned nor worth being a formal Scholar of the Library. He thinks he fell forward-because of the heavy casualty list.
Have a Secret:
Zupon thinks he may have been, in part, negligently responsible for what happened in the library. He was supposed to clean the catacombs the day before; he didn't do a good job and might have left a few doors unlocked or open after getting fed up. He doesn't know if that contributed at all to the enemy's access to their grounds but at the least-maybe the unintelligent undead would have been less.
Have a Reason to Be Brave:
He's already been in a situation where he should not have escaped. At this point-What use is fear. Every moment is a gift.

Needle Launcher [Youxia HB]
This small wooden tube houses spring-loaded chambers to launch needles at foes. It can be attached to the arm and hidden in sleeves, though they still require a free hand to operate the launching mechanism. Needle launchers use acupuncture needles as ammunition, and hold 10 needles at once. Attacks made with needle guns deal no damage, but can be made as touch attacks. The needle launcher may be reloaded as a full-round action, can be fired with one hand, and counts as a hand crossbow when determining what abilities and feats affect it.

Magical needle launchers grant proficient users a range increment increase of 10 feet per point of enhancement bonus.

A proficient user can fire a burst of needles to attack all creatures in a line as a full-round action that counts as a special attack action. This line starts from any corner of the wielder’s space and extends to the limit of the weapon’s range or until it strikes a barrier it cannot penetrate. When using this weapon to attack all creatures in a line, the wielder makes a separate attack roll against each creature in the line. Each creature in the line can be attacked with only one shot from each burst.

Each attack roll takes a -2 penalty. Effects that grant concealment, such as fog or smoke, or the blur, invisibility, or mirror image spells, do not affect an automatic weapon’s line attack. Roll to confirm each attack roll that threatens a critical hit separately. A single burst with this weapon consumes 10 uses of ammunition.