"I would consider myself defensive melee. I focus on avoiding strikes, and making quick strikes, quick small cuts with my hand that wear them down, and bleed them out."
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GM,Riggar:
yeah i was thinking the same thing hahaha but it was fun. reminded me of an oooollld game i played where one of the other players was a monk and to progress to a higher level he had to fight 1vs1 with the best monk in the world (and he was the second best). it was pretty cool just visualizing all the moves like a kung fu movie Nissk will sit down and eat ravenously after the sparring. He will fill his two wineskins with wine, and drink plenty more wine with dinner. He will chat if anyone else is chatting, otherwise he is focused on the business of eating.
GM, Riggar:
on snake's turn he will step back out of Riggar's melee range and take a swig of wine from his waterskin (+1 drunken ki (total 2), 2 swigs down on my waterskin
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to be fair kinda gotta roll vs my cmd 24
drunken snake walks up to Riggar after waving. "interesssted in a bit of ssparring while we wait for the food and drinkss to arrive?" GM, Riggar: not trying to get caught up in dice rolling here, just sparring as a "story action" since it would make sense that monks would use at least a portion of their spare time training, and as the only other professed martial artist, Riggar would be the one who Nissk would be more inclined to interact with.
Snake shows up to the match already drunk , stumbling about and spinning his fake spear in a mesmerizing fashion that is surprisingly entertaining. [dice=perform]1d20+16[/ooc]
Luckily for the snake, there were at least a few pieces of golden armor he could use without being encumbered. He took a little metal belt, a shoulder piece, and a winged and open-faced helmet and put them on.
when the party dies down, drunken snake also lies down for the evening
Nissk will eat food and drink quite a bit. "My name is Nissk, but no one really calls me that. they call me the snake, or the drunk snake, snake drunk, whatever. Doesn't matter to me. I am what I am. Like the dwarf, I am a martial artist as well, but I specialize in a system of rapid strikes and counters mirrored by snakes fighting. Also, I drink a lot before and during combat. Makes my movements unpredictable, and my strikes more painful." He proceeds to drink the crappy ale out of his waterskins and fill them with wine.
"we could just fight naked. that'd be a sight! SSSS-SSSS-SSSS"
"As long as you keep the ale flowing, I don't care what I am wearing as long as it isnt too restrictive."
"I'll not be a slave to that poison. I prefer booze, the stronger the better! SSSS-SSSS-SSSS-SSSSSSSS" SSSS:
Snake drinks the poison. gm:
"I, too, have hoped to be chosen for the games. I seek to perfect and grow my art through combat, but have no desire to run afoul of the law or wander around in musty dungeons and tombs to do so."
"I, too, expected better accommodations"
do we have room for one more PC? i know a guy looking to get into pbp games
the drunken snake looks to be smiling, at least slightly more than usual (for those familiar with snake man facial expressions). He takes a deep swig of what is assuredly not water from his waterskin. In a manner that would seem clumsy to most, he rolls his barrel up to the stage. On the way to the front he meets Jimnas and his wife, bartender and bookkeeper of the bar he most commonly frequented. "We will be sad to lose your business, but we wish you the best, Nis'sk," said the woman before Jimnas shared a parting drink with the snake. He took the drink, and nodded in a rare solemn moment before rolling the rest of the way to where the other contestants were gathering.
Sprawled over his prized keg of ale, the drunken snake-man awoke when the massive shadow of the ship momentarily interrupted the warm rays of the sun that he enjoyed. Looking up, he realized that it was once again time. Just as he had each year for the past several years, he turned his keg on its side and stood upon it, taking backward steps to propel himself forward while his to-and-fro and general ale stench let people know to get out of his way or he might run them over. "Keg" being a particularly slow method of travel, especially with people in the way, the drunken snake-man arrived well after the commotion that the landing made. He took his place as many others now did, waiting to see if his name was called.
lotus is another monk archetype. you can have two archetypes as long as they dont each require the swapping out of the same class ability. so he is a Master of Many Styles plus Monk of the Lotus, much as i am a Drunken Master and Master of Many Styles
Also, and this may just be my interpretation, but the Crane Wing feat states that it only functions while using the Crane Style feat (even goes so far as to link that feat in the description), meaning that folks who would take this feat (qualifying without prerequisites like some classes/archetypes can do) without taking the Crane Style itself may have a useless feat on their hands because they cant use the Style that then allows the move. The same would apply to characters taking more than one style feat chain that do not have the Fuse Style ability of the Master of Many Styles (or an equivalent ability from another archetype that I am unaware of). If you are in Crane Style you cant use Panther Riposte without first using a swift action to activate Panther Style, thereby foregoing your use of Crane Wing as you are no longer in Crane Style.
yeah it seems great, and it is great, but not as good as it appears. all it takes to counter it is more than one enemy against the crane-winger. also BAB over 5 or TWF will do it too. Plus you could catch the monk unawares (although that's a little harder in the arena). Also ranged attacks. drunken snake doesnt even have Crane Wing, i decided to go with Snake (of course) and Boar styles. i might pick up Crane later though, but i also like Panther, Monkey and Janni styles. Master of Many Styles is basically what i imagine a monk being, even more so than the basic class.
Drunken Snake probably shouldn't be the figurehead. He has low INT and CHA and drinks a lot.
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why he is at the games: The Drunken Snake pursues martial perfection, the only known way to do which is to fight. Why bother adventuring, going out to spend most of your day camping and walking and some of it opening moldy doors and maybe doing a bit of fighting when one can live in a city with all the amenities and have your opponents brought to you?! Plus, booze.
Well I bought a 75 gallon barrel of ale so I need a place to put that hahahaha
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hp plus 8 for first HD rep
this will be Tenro's character's alias, however i am still having issues editing his profile (everytime i try to edit this or any other profile it bumps me out to the main paizo.com page) but i have the crunch written up |