Don't know if this has already been thought of (or if it's hidden in the bloodlines somewhere), but this class screams Blackblade to me. A bloodline based on the blackblade would be amazing.
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Casmaran/Vudra, Southern Garund, Arcadia, and Sarusan. I really want to see the rest of the world.
If we were to take Golarion as the setting, yes, half-breed races are rare, but they are common enough that people know what they are, and they on occasion form communities (and do breed true), would anyone be interested in spit-balling some name ideas?
^ I love Horc as a derogatory term, and given the mindset of many orcs/half-orcs, I see them taking that as their own.
I recently became somewhat disillusioned with the generic names "Half-elf" and "Half-orc" as race names. I just think that eventually members of those races (or those around them) would have created names. A Half-vampire is a Dhampir. A Half-dwarf is a Mul (in Darksun). We have Aasimars, Tieflings, Ifrits, Oreads, Sylphs, Undines, Changelings, Sulis, and Skinwalkers, all of which are either human-descended or even half-humans. So, my question to the community is has anyone ever encountered a book/movie/TV show or setting which gave half-elves or half-orcs actual names? Has anyone ever given names to these races? (and if so, what were they?)
Kinda rez-ing my own thread here, but I'm still looking for feedback on the actual implications of this ability. Any thoughts?
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Ok. I'm just spit-balling how to make combat more viable from a ground-up, basics point of view. My group has only had one monk player so far, and he went with the Martial Artist archetype, so Ki wasn't something I considered, and honestly, is a whole other beast beyond the scope of this idea. One complaint I keep hearing about is how the flurry is awesome, but if the monk does use his awesome speed to keep mobile, he misses out on dealing a lot of damage. I was just thinking of how to fix that (I also tend to run low-magic games, so the cost issue of things like amulet of mighty fists and such wasn't part of this thought process). Simple fixing the "move and then attack" option to keep monks up in damage until they flurry (or if they flurry- leaping about the battlefield Death Punching enemies sounds kinda cool to me).
So a while back I had an idea on how to make the monk just a little bit more effective in combat (from a damage standpoint at least. I personally think monks are awesome, but it is hard to get a good damage rating sometimes). The basic idea is this: Keep Flurry of Blows as is, but roll it together into one ability called Fist of Legend (or something else cheesy and awesome) which, in addition to the standard Flurry, allows for the use of the Vital Strike feat chain. So, at level 6, the monk "gains" vital strike. When using this attack, just like with flurry, his BaB equals hit level (not 2/3 as normal).
While I haven't had the chance to playtest this, I think it could help to alleviate some of the damage issues monks seem to have.
just a dot. love this thread.
Looks great so far!
Agreed. I would also request that future classes (like the Gunslinger) have the favored class options included in the class description. Just makes sense to me.
The only two that I know of are Jenivere Crew (campaign train from Serpents Skull, and I think the religion trait for Irori grants a class skill in a str/dex skill (can't remember off the top of my head). It's a really useful skill, I think thats why there isn't really a way to get it added as a class skill. There is a feat (Hermian Blood (sp?)) from the caaign guide (the new one) that allows you to pick 2 str or dex based skills and have them be class skills, but it's first level only.
I was unaware that you could apply a temporary enhancement and have it suppress an existing ability. That changes things.
Yes. 2) Looking at it a problem arose, for the weapon can it be enchanted and/or is it necessary, I know that it seems to get an innate +1-5 bonus on it I was more wondering about adding features and if there was anything special for it (sorry if it's a stupid question) You could add your own bonuses, but remember that a weapon can never go above +5 to hit/dam and +10 total. This means that the moment you make your black blade a bane (or any other enhancement ability) weapon, you can never use pool points to make it vorpal. I don't see any issues with other GP value only weapon add-ons though.
I was just about to post asking if you planned on doing a Magus sheet. Many thanks!
I think a major part of epic-level - more than most gamers realize - is based around feeling rather than mechanics. Agreed.
f I remember correctly (just finished running Kingmaker about 2 weeks ago) in the first adventure (and first one only) the hexes were worth 400 each, not 100 each. But even if thats not the case, just run a quick "random" encounter or two and you should be good.
Got my PDF, and the only thing I felt was missing are racial favored class benefits for the Magus. Any chance we can get those as a blog post or something? Or will they detailed in a future book?
Looks less cool, until you get a pair of sniper goggles from the APG and a ring of invisibility. Go invis. Sneak attack out to any distance. Deal extra damage while doing it. One of my players did this rather effectively with a rogue/ranger in Kingmaker.
Alright, it sounds like the jury's still out on a definitive single culture. So there probably wasn't one?
Agreed :) And they have their own entry in the new campaign setting book, so I think that qualifies as own ethnicity. Native American, though. I wasn't thinking about them, due to that whole Arcadia place...but I could see it happening. Crow + volcanoes and emberstorms + win = Shoanti (mebbe?) And I'll have to track down #10. I am one of the heaviest roll-players in my group, and I can't stand not having cultural background play a part in my characters actions. Thanks!
So, my group is getting ready to start the Serpents Skull AP, and as I was coming up with a character I came across the Shoanti in the world guide. I think they are awesome (I love tribal cultures), and I was wondering if any other information has been printed about them/ where I could find that information. I was also curious as to whether the Shoanti have any real world equivalent culture (I don't recall any bad@$$ volcanic wasteland nomads from world history, but maybe I missed that day).
FYI there is a smaller cheaper version of a bag of holding in the Seeker of Secrets. It's a thousand gold and is the equivelant of a belt pouch. Got that book. Love every inch of it. And I'll tell my player that you liked his suicide-less death maneuver :P
You could do like one of my players in Kingmaker did. Hit the inside of the worm with a sack holding 4 type 4 Necklace of Fireballs and then spend two hero points to "cheat death".
I have been running the katana using the stats of the Aldori dueling sword. One or two handed, finesse-able, good crit range, ok damage.
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I'd go with a yes. Even today, you wear body armor over clothing of some kind (uniform, t-shirt, etc...). It helps to prevent chafing.
I kinda have to agree as well. It seems like the book was made with the assumption that you would build the race around which class you intended to play for that specific character, not for building a new race for any character to potentially be. Rules clarification would be appreciated.
I've been kicking around an idea for the Monks in my game, and thought that it might be cool to have monks who dont walk faster than most can run, but who was just a little bit tougher than normal.
I like the idea. I've never liked the Ranger class being forced to go TWF or ranged.
Name would have to be changed, but I want to see a fixed, pathfinder-ized SoulKnife. The 3.5 class kinda...sucked, but I loved the flavor.No need to change the name - soulknife is open content (just about the entire expanded psionics handbook is open, in the Psionics SRD). I thought the book said that nothing was open content? Maybe I mis-read. And what does SRD mean?
Name would have to be changed, but I want to see a fixed, pathfinder-ized SoulKnife. The 3.5 class kinda...sucked, but I loved the flavor. |