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I just my hands on the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign setting, and I like the new Harrower PrC, so I've put together a couple of Harrowers. Feel free to drop these into your campaign wherever you want if you like them.

Iozif Farezhadi
Male Varisian human
Lawful Good paladin of Erastil
Paladin 10/harrower 5
Abilities: STR 15 DEX 8 CON 12 INT 10 WIS 15 CHA 16
Feats: Harrowed, Power Attack, Cleave, Combat Casting, Spell focus: Transmutation, Varisian Tattoo: Transmutation, Mounted Combat

Background:Iozif is an unusual paladin by any assessment. Born into a typical Varisian caravan community, he spent most of his youth as typical Varisian does: running carnival games for outsiders, chasing pretty girls in the caravan and out of it, and generally embracing life as a series of thrills and pleasures. Then, at some point in his late twenties, he started feeling restless, like there was something more to his existence that he was throwing away or missing by wandering around chasing skirts and thrills. He ignored it for a while, and then went in for a harrowing that changed his life. The old harrower loudly chastized him for his immaturity, and then slammed her deck down in front of him, claiming he had "tainted" it by asking her for a reading. Shocked and shaken by this, he gingerly picked up the cards and left. Walking away dejected, he turned over the top card and the realization hit him like a ton of bricks. He vanished shortly thereafter and when he reappeared, he was a paladin of Erastil. As he gained experience as a paladin, he becan to realize that the harrow deck he'd kept wasn't through with him yet, and he began gaining unusual abilities he couldn't fully explain from it. Adopting an attitude of pragmatism, he refined these new abilities, and uses them in fight against evil.
Personality:Iozif seems to be perpetually relieved. He has a purpose, and that apparently makes all the difference. He is still a kindhearted and somewhat "impish" person by nature, with a mirthful personality and a tendency to poke fun at those who take themselves too seriously. He uses his powers as a harrower to fight evil and protect good people, but he's very matter-of-fact about it. False mysticism seems pointless to him.

Pafinil Gundrick
Male Human; indeterminate heritage
Neutral
Wizard 5/Harrower 10/Archmage 2/Magical Trickster 3(see Complete Scoundrel)
Abilities: STR 12 DEX 13 CON 14 INT 20 WIS 10 CHA 8
Feats: Spell focus: Conjuration, Augment Summoning, Bloatmage Initiate: Conjuration, Quicken Spell, Empower Spell, Maximize Spell, Still Spell, Widen Spell
Background:Pafinil is a collector of magical techniques. He's traveled the world around looking for new and innovative magical tricks. So far he's picked up harrowing, bloat mage training, and an eclectic array of exotic spells. He's a mage of some power, but often doesn't seem to realize it himself.
Personality:Pafinil is a classic "nerd" if such a term existed on Golarion. He loves knowledge for its own sake, is extremely socially awkward, and collects things for their own sake (in his case, magical techniques). He could be persuaded to help others rather easily if someone offered him some magical trick he didn't already know. Unfortunately for those who would have his aid, this isn't easy...

Coridan wrote:

I'm one gay who is glad to see NPCs I can relate with, and absolutely when it adds something to the setting it should be included.

Timespike wrote:

This is one thing that strikes me as odd. It seems from this thread like a lot of gay players relate best to gay characters. I find that an NPC's sexual orientation has precious little to do with it....

I think it's really admirable how you can relate to homosexuals despite being a heterosexual.

Personally, I have a friend who is gay, we get along pretty well, but I find that I just don't get it sometimes when he's going on about his life. It doesn't keep me from liking him, nor does it harm our friendship in fact it's kind of funny sometimes. But, it is hard to relate....

I had a MUCH longer and more detailed post than this, but the boards ate it. Here's the short version:

I'm personally exceedingly ascetic. (First drink at 23, first sex at 24 on my wedding night. First cigarette never, first illegal drugs never.) As we usually assume others are at least mostly like us, I don't usually even take into account whatever people do to create pleasure in their lives, as long as they don't try to drag me into it. With that out the window, there's nothing left to relate to except what they actively share with you and how they're treating you at the moment. Plus, I tend to see disliking people for their appearance or "stuff" to be... ...odd, actually. What's the point? And yeah, for the record, I do think extramarital sex, drug use, drunkenness, and smoking are wrong. But I've also done stuff in my life that I look back on and know without a shadow of a doubt was immoral. So who am I to judge? To paraphrase some scripture, I'm still busy with the plank in my eye. If you've got a speck in yours, that's the least of my worries. Also, and I've said this before earlier in the thread, it's useless to try to get people behind your idea of "proper behavior" if they reject the corresponding philosophical underpinnings. It's just plain stupid of me to get upset when someone who's not a Christian doesn't act like I think a Christian should. They don't subscribe to the belief system, and my being all self-righteous and unpleasant towards them certainly isn't going to make them decide to adopt it. Now if you're hurting people, that's bad! I get really angry about about that. So much so that I've just finished acquiring an AAS in Criminal Justice and plan to become a police officer with it in the very near future.

People more down on the "party" end of the spectrum usually find me pretty amusing, though. I do none of the stuff they do, turn down offers to be included in it, and don't get on their case about it. Some of the reactions I've gotten to that set of behaviors over the years are priceless.

Timespike wrote:

The Jade wrote:

Timespike wrote:

Atheists and humanists for whatever reason (at least in my anecdotal experience) seem to be exceedingly pissed-off, hostile people. I mean, like ALL THE TIME.

I'm an atheist and I'll destroy you for saying that. ;) No but really, I only know one hostile atheist personally. The rest are all pretty even tempered. I speak up when I see us non-believers getting lumped into any one box. We are as diverse as little fluffy white snowflakes.

If you know some laid-back, friendly atheists, would you mind boxing a few up and shipping them over here, please? Someone like Dave Barry or Terry Pratchett would be nice. I'll send you back some of the cranky ones. I think some shipments got switched or something. I'll even throw in some friendly agnostics. We have lots of those.

Like I said, I know my data's anecdotal, but dang...

I saw and appreciated that anecdotal disclaimer. I am boxing friendly atheists right now. I'm only able to afford ground shipping so have some food and a box cutter at the ready.

Is pizza okay? I'm packing the cranky atheists and the cranky Christians in a poorly-seperated box and shipping them to you. You live on an otherwise-uninhabited tiny desert island in the middle of the Pacific that doesn't appear on any normal shipping or flight patterns, right? No? Dang. I sent it there already. The friendly agnostics are standing by, awaiting a shipping address.

Sure, we have the "Crazed Lesbo" protagonist in the current AP.

You mean antagonist? (You're talking about Ileosa, right?) I see her more as a "crazed tyrant" than a "crazed lesbo". I mean, assassins? Plague? Stormtroopers? That goes way beyond any sexual/relationship issues she may have, man. WAY beyond.

Edit: if anything, I see Ileosa's sexuality as another function of her power-mad-ness. She'll sleep with whoever she needs to to get what she wants, be they male, female, or (possibly) draconic...

Andoran sounds like an intriguing mix of the best parts of the early United States and the Tau Empire. I'd love to play a character from there. As a side note, the Eagle Knight's uniform is thoroughly awesome-looking.