just check out the Iconic PCs currently published. The Rogue would be a great one, as it looks like your existing group has a wizard, a shaman, and a barbarian already, and seem to be short Thief skills. So there is already Arcane, Divine and a Meat-shield.
Grab her 4th level write-up and advance her one level to "Customize" the build for yourself. This has the added advantage of having most of her equipment already lined up too. The differences between 4th and 5th level Rogue are... One more Sneak Dice? and 8 skill points. Everything else should stay pretty much the same... OH! and +4500 GP in gear.
suffering from post holiday blues... and looking for something to cheer up with?
here's an old story for you then...
a friend of mine was handed a Barbarian PC to play during a game (guest playing), one that had been drawn up by someone not at the game and not strongly reviewed by the players.
Getting into the character, she began "speaking like a barbarian" things like "Thog hit monster with big ax" or "Thog say - that best you got?" when the monster crit her...
This goes on for several hours into the game, everyone having fun and the story comes to an area where everyone needs to announce their INT (I think there was an INT check for something) and she glances down and notices that this barbarian has a high INT... something like a 16. so she announces this and everyone but her is speechless and takes a second to look at her. "W'ut? Thog not stupid, Thog just have speech im-ped-a-mint."
Janira has met with some truly gruesome deaths at the hands of my locals - and not even just in those two scenarios!
The number of Minotaur Greataxe crits I have seen her take to the face in the Confirmation...
Every single time I've played that scenario (3 or 4 times, I think), I've seen her eat a crit. Don't know how, it's statistically unlikely, but every single time it's a race to get her back on her feet again.
Ledford strikes again.
Ledfords Confirmation - spoilers for Confirmation:
I'd like to mention two games I was involved in some time back (both run in Core), two with an odd connection - First Steps and then Confirmation...
The First Steps was run by a beginning Judge - her first game (our 13 year old judge - and the next youngest person at the table was her mom - but that is another story). Mostly it was a lot of fun... and the judge really liked Ledford and the lack of complex tactics for that character. She seemed to enjoy the simple tactics of "hit it with a Great Ax", so much so that she built a "look alike" for him and took it into the next Core game as a PC - so we played Confirmation with a Halfling Barbarian with a great ax named Ledford (the halfling, not the ax).
Anyway - the second game was a lot of fun too (I was the Judge for this one) - and the final blow was glorious!
The PCs are rushing out of the cave to save Janira with most of the party shooting at the Big Bad. Ledford (from the back of the party) moves out of the cave up to the difficult area (the trees), and draws the potion of Feather Step (from the back pack Janira gave them). Next round he drinks the potion, using it to move thru the trees/underbrush and moves up to 10' short of the stream, so that he can get a running start to jump it next round. Then the third round he charges across - jumping the stream (I wasn't sure if he could charge and jump - but heck, rule of kewl and all that) right into combat with the BBE. Big Bad swings an AOO and misses "the Mustache with Feet" and the little guy rolls his first (and only) natural "20" of the night, and then just barely confirms the crit (thanks in part to the Bards singing). This, backed up with the damage from the missile fire (Force Missiles from the Evoker Wiz and arrows/bolts from the other players) and the BBE is down - dead.
So yeah, the male Halfling barbarian charged the monster and put it down with one Ax blow! Saving Janira.... and we fade into next scene (hay! the barbarian is run by a 13 year old girl! So clean up those thoughts you gamer geeks you!)
And thus the Big Bad from the old intro game killed the Big Bad from the second intro game...was glorious!
And it's great to see Ledford crits dished out to the NPCs for a change...
when compared to a normal sized Greatsword, the Large B.Sword averages 2hp more in damage. To do these 2 extra HP a character suffers a -2 to hit (oversized weapon) AND has to burn a feat to get Exotic Weapon Bastard Sword...
I'd like to mention two games I was involved in some time back (both run in Core), two with an odd connection - First Steps and then Confirmation...
The First Steps was run by a beginning Judge - her first game (our 13 year old judge - and the next youngest person at the table was her mom - but that is another story). Mostly it was a lot of fun... and the judge really liked Ledford and the lack of complex tactics for that character. She seemed to enjoy the simple tactics of "hit it with a Great Ax", so much so that she built a "look alike" for him and took it into the next Core game as a PC - so we played Confirmation with a Halfling Barbarian with a great ax named Ledford (the halfling, not the ax).
Anyway - the second game was a lot of fun too (I was the Judge for this one) - and the final blow was glorious!
The PCs are rushing out of the cave to save the Janira with most of the party shooting at the Big Bad. Ledford (from the back of the party) moves out of the cave up to the difficult area (the trees), and draws the potion of Feather Step (from the back pack). Next round he drinks the potion and moves up to 10' short of the stream, so that he can get a running start. Then the third round he charges across - jumping the stream (I wasn't sure if he could charge and jump - but heck, rule of kewl and all that) right into combat with the BBE. Big Bad swings an AOO and misses "the Mustache with Feet" and the little guy rolls his first (and only) natural "20" of the night, and then just barely confirms the crit (thanks in part to the Bards singing). This, backed up with the damage from the missile fire (Force Missiles from the Evoker Wiz and arrows/bolts from the other players) and the BBE is down - dead.
So yeah, the male Halfling barbarian charged the monster and put it down with one Ax blow! Saving Janira.... fade to next scene (hay! the barbarian is run by a 13 year old girl! So clean up those thoughts you gamer geeks you!)
And thus the Big Bad from the old intro game killed the Big Bad from the second intro game...was glorious!
My girlfriend feels the same way about sphinx. Takes it on every character but has never gotten to use it
At least that makes a little more sense though, sphinxes being all mysterious and all. Halfling is a core race, as iconic as Gnomes, Half Orcs, Dwarves, and Elves! I haven't been playing PFS for a very long time but I am still shocked at the fact I have yet to meet a single Halfling NPC and/or enemy.
I mean, I can think of at least one Halfling enemy. He's more likely to crit you with his greataxe than to talk to you, though, in any language.
I tell ya, I'm a reformed Halfling! Sense I've been 'saved' by the grace of Cayden, sense finding my new life in the bottom of a tankard, I haven't killed nearly as many Pathfinders as before. It's sometimes hard to see thru the alcoholic haze... but really! I'm reformed!
though I get flashbacks to that time in the ally, the middle of combat, looking closely into the eyes of the rest of the team and saying (in Halfling) "I know what you're thinking... you're wondering to yourself, did he rage for six rounds, or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 inch Great Ax, the most powerful hand weapon in the world and could take your head clean off in one crit, you've gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" Yeah - knowing Halfling might not have helped much...
I'm thinking I need to rewrite a few scenerios as not railroads and ljnk them here, because this insistance on "railroads is imprtant!" is tiring.
I got the season 6 ones from a humble bundle a while back. I haven't looked through them yet except wounded wisp. Any scenerios from that set you guys would like to see un-railroaded?
I'll buy your thought experiment.
Redo Hall of the Flesh Eaters, which already contains a fairly interesting possible side track, but is by it's nature fairly linear. It's also a classic, fairly well written scenario.
After all, no challenge to re-writing a scenario that everyone agrees is bad already.
And it's probably best if you send direct to avoid spoilers, or do a dropbox link or something. As mentioned, stick to word count and layout.
wait! no, re-write First Steps Part I In Search of Lore please!
That one is a classic, played by almost everyone more than once (no need to spoiler as much) and should be simpler for TheAlicornSage to work on (mostly from the CRB, only one Sub-Tier, not in a multi-scenario plotline anymore and in need of up-dating anyway).
I wish TheAlicornSage luck at this task, even while realizing that the task is impossible.
Please be sure to include contingencies for PCs who try to MurderHobo all the encounters (particularly the encounters with the Faction Heads, and at the Orphanage). As well as for PCs who are unable to interact with anyone in a social setting. And for PCs who want to "go off script" and head out into the Carnlands to check out rumors of old siege fort recently opened for looting...(all of which I as a judge have had at PFS tables more than once).
Most helpful in a party? Bard. Maybe Detective bard.
Most FUN? that would be barbarian... :)
best line: "I know what you're thinking... you're wondering to yourself, did he rage for six rounds, or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 inch Great Ax, the most powerful hand weapon in the world and could take your head clean off in one crit, you've gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
I've thought about making Ledford as a PC. Never got around to it. Also, I was kinda waiting for that scenario to be retired, but it hasn't happened yet.
actually - I had a lot of fun making "A Ledford" = he's one of my Core PCs...
A lot of fun to run - though I haven't got much play time in with him though.
best line so far: "I know what you're thinking... you're wondering to yourself, did he rage for six rounds, or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 inch Great Ax, the most powerful hand weapon in the world and could take your head clean off in one crit, you've gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
after several rounds of trying to see thru the mist, trying to make out what all the screaming is about, a figure rushes you from the fog...
Ledford: "I know what you're thinking... you're wondering to yourself, did he rage for six rounds, or only five? Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a 44 inch Great Ax, the most powerful hand weapon in the world and could take your head clean off in one crit, you've gotta ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
