There's a lot of really good ones, but my favorite in concept and how seamlessly it works is this guy, Tk-Chthik the Thrikreen Aegis/Psion (Transmogrifier) that wet into the Metamorph class.
The ultimate adaptable warrior, changing size and shape on a whim, grabbing immunities and resistances, large debuffs, different move speeds and much much more as the situation requires.
He's not really the best at anything (except possibly sheer survivability, cockroach style), but good at everything.
All I ask is that you make some form of Thri-Kreen available to play, and that you don't kill of the almighty Tengu race.
I'm curious: What is it about the thri-kreen that you find particularly intriguing? What would be sufficient to have a race boe "some form of Thri-Kreen"? Is it the non-humanoidness? The culture? The four arms? Some combination of factors?
Thought I had posted already. I'm going to split my attacks between these two Balor, so if they don't die they're low enough HP for next round I can do something terrifying.
Much easier for multi-target combats to have a map.
Tik sheathes his body in psionic energy and accelerates it at near lightspeed to the pack of Vrolikai, laying about him with tooth, claw, and less savory appendages.
Starting with one, and if one dies I move on down the line to other ones. I have 20 ft. Reach and start attacking from 15 feet out. Swift: Psionic Lion's Charge, Full Round: Full attack.
Pfft, buffs. I want to see what we can do at a base level first. Though I do have all my hour/level stuff up, and would manifest a highly Augmented Touchsight. =)
Also are we rolling our own Initiative? This game already moves at a sub-glacial pace, letting the GM roll it is probably faster. But ah well.
Tik, tired of the meandering, leads the way down to Yamasha's chambers. He grows slightly with each step, up to the maximum height allowed for comfortable movement within the building.
Once at her doors, he simply slams them open.
Entering Combat Mode (Plant form). Huge size if possible, Large if not.
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I like the idea of picking one of the Heralds and making a plan to go to his or her demesne, and then eliminating the Herald and retrieving an eye or two. (That'll be "fun" with the Lich and the cloud of crackling energy.)
I also still think it's a good idea to try to blame our attacks on someone else -- maybe Szuriel. Or, like I mentioned earlier, Abraxas.
What do you guys think?
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This post is from me -- the three previous are more from the DM.
"The Surgeon" seemingly, is unaware of what is going on around him.
He never looks around, and focuses directly ahead, just over the shoulder of "his mistress".
In reality, Tik sees everything. The entire area within over 40 yards is revealed to him in excruciating detail. He takes particular note of those carrying weapons or spell component pouches and holy symbols.
::"They if you stay with me, Your may body guard, I do not look that threatening but rich so it will make seance that Lady Anna have such a scary one as Mr. Chik keeping her safe. Should stop most questions. I am in the city just to see the sites and aid my study's into history, and should we hit a null magic, psionic area your claws may be the only thing keeping her self."::
::"Care for life k-Chthik, I see what you mean. Care is not something I feel but respect I have. For me life in a reality where entropy go's one way only, life and its works are one of the few things that travel in the opposite direction and that demands respect."::
I just write that and I have no idea what it means, you know your way to in character when they start having you writes stuff you don't even understand. HAHA
Sorry I have to be a pedantic a**!@&~, but Tik IS scientific.
"Perplexed again. Living beings still contributor to entropic process. Hasten end of the universes bit by bit just by existing. Not even mentioning machines/ magic, etc. Motivations seem based off misunderstanding. Elaborate?"
Quick and dirty entropy: Everything contributes to it. Every exchange of energy disperses heat, and entropy "increases". The chemical reactions that constitute life (the most easy to point out being the digestion of food) contribute to entropy. Unless I am wildly mistaken somehow, entropy cannot "travel in the opposite direction" at all, because entropy is just the ultimate conclusion of the second law of thermodynamics. Nothing can be 100% efficient. Things don't react without work, but work is produced by energy, but energy can't be produced without work, basically. So some energy is always lost in any reaction, thus contributing to entropy (Food fuels your body, but the mere act of procuring the food and eating it uses up some of the energy, which means some of the energy produced by the food was "wasted"). You contribute to the eventual heat death of the universe every time you light a fire, eat, or even BREATHE.
"Perplexed. Why are you here? No emotions. No care for life. Why effort to change destination of mortal soul? Extend life. Life same value either way."
Tik makes sure to throw on an all-concealing cloak before going out. The primitives of this planet tended to mistake him for a monster if he walked around normally.
"Stories muddled. On at least one occasion, true godhood was deferred. Personal theory is valid godly portfolio or sphere of influence must be available. If attitudes align with existing god, power is lessened until obstacle removed."
"God-likes ignore natural laws. Destruction on god-like scale potentially faster than any natural disaster."
"Destruction would still be measured on cosmic timeline, yes. But god-like with insatiable appetite for destruction, left unchecked just as much danger."
"No reason for gods to lie on this count. Their power sealed regardless."
"Working from assumption every word from gods is false dangerous. Probability suggests at least some is true. Evident even to most skeptical."
"Testing theory of god's lies on creature with rumored omnicidal tendencies reckless at best."
"Suggestion that gods meaningless in grand scheme baffling as well, considering purpose. No reason for our intervention in that case."
"Has potential. Major hurdle Pharasma's apathy. Would not lift a finger even to stop Rovagug from destroying universe."
"Success possible if we can work out details ourselves, probably. Assuming Pharasma needs do nothing, may not interfere with plans. If plan requires Pharasma to aid, impossible."
Ven'atorix is right, Asmodeus is too smart for us to fool and his wars are endless anyway -- one more will not weaken him; it will just alert him to our actions.[/b]
=( No respect.
Arkon, Fist of Ending wrote:
"Your work is narrow." Arkon says. "You merely focus on the divine as if they are the only source of outward strife. Even should you remove the gods you still must contest with other less powerful but far more numerous entities. The Daelkyr, the Astradaemons, the soul farmers of the positive energy plane, the dragon kings of Athas, even the Quori. All these beings care not for the existence of the gods. An atheist soul is equally delectable to an astradaemon as a pious one. The Daelkyr never once questioned my faith as they unleashed their flesh twisting monstrosities upon my world. The dragon kings revel in an atheistic world, all the more so that they can gather worship for themselves. Their are more than a few gods that function perfectly fine without a stream of souls. Would this Rough Beast care that you denied him worshipers?"
"If you create a world of god rejecters what purpose would that serve? What would be the next step?"
"Goal not to solve myriad problems of universe. Goal is to free mortals from shackles. Let them decide own fate. Lesser entities can be defended against. halted. Killed. Gods supposedly omnipotent. Hence why no one challenges power. We show everyone gods can be challenged, the idea takes hold from there."
"Other threats can be fought. Fools will continue to worship what they will, but that's the way of the world. We give them a choice, no more."
"Worship or die, not choice. Worship or freedom, is."
"We would be no better than the gods if we follow your plan. No choice for all mortals. Merely die by our whims. The whims of a few with power. Familiar sounding, yes?"
::"Well we have done a lot of talking of what we can't do as a group, so shall we move onto what we can do. What dos each of us bring to this endeavor. Lord Ven'atorix has been so kind as to supply a save haven for our discussion. I may self bring information and a basic outline of a plan. I have other gifts. The most noticeable of which is the capacity to rewrite lesser minds so as to embed ideas in them. Where I am from we call it Memetic-Form manipulation. But one device I was thinking of crafting for stage two was to form an anti god cult, recruiting from the angry disenfranchised. So how about the rest, what tools do's our little cabal have to work with."::
"Alchemical and psionic talent. Encyclopedic knowledge. Augmented form deceptively strong."
"Can dismantle or repair tools. Living or inorganic. Have been told I'm an asset when exploring."
"Lack higher level reality alteration power. Prefer to work small scale. More personal. Aids prevention of disconnection, like Arkon and Ven'Atorix."
"Many small scale changes add. Grow. Spread. Incremental changes cascade."
"Likely best for our purposes. Keeps deities from noticing until too late. May overlook small changes. Even large numbers."
"Good plan, if you prefer Arkon's method. Otherwise no. Rovagug probably hard to "aim". Harder to imprison. Impossible to destroy, even for gods. Why he was sealed, not killed."
"No potential outcomes desirable. If he succeeds in killing the gods, need to deal with him. Not likely. They re-seal him, no long term effect for plans. But, gods on higher alert. Bad. Lose-lose, I think."
"Not just smart. Powerful Divination magic even available to mortals. Are we capable of fooling god-like magics? Unlikely."
"Double fault. Despite nature, Asmodeus one of the more trusted gods. Guards key to Rovagug. Painting him as villain easy. Starting war? Most difficult. May be better with less trusted target. Horsemen, maybe. Abyss easiest."
"Gods likely to investigate with Asmodeus. Remove all doubt before hasty actions. May be more likely to simply REACT based on signs of other targets moving. Not look as hard. Send mere mortal agents to confirm. Mortals can be fooled."
I'd look askance if there weren't orders of magnitude more people than that. There's seven billion just on Earth (which exists in the same universe as Golarion).
"Why such fixation on destruction? Illogical plan. Kill to save? Not how that works."
