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It is curse of the Crimson Throne!
OH RIGHT. So that's even more HP then. Putting finishing touches on the character sheet.
Forgot to send this in my previous message since I passed out, but my condolences for your loss, Javell. I know loss can be... quite a lot, and take time if you need it.
Greetings! I am the new player, and am drafting up a switch-hitter who can abuse the tech gear while remaining distinct from the already-present Techslinger. => 8
Why does my brain always go to gunslingers. Hope you still brought alcohol! Would a Buccaneer Gunslinger be acceptable? They'd be able to craft ammunition and the like themselves, so there's no need for extra loot distribution. Could fluff them to be originally Alkenstari as well. They're, naturally, entirely pirate-themed.
Two questions: - What kind of class would you need?
Haha. I'll draft her up once I finish posting in my other campaigns. Fair warning I likely will fumble as this is my first foray into Starfinder.
Alright. Have a bit more thought up. Amhesha, Pahtra Soldier/Mechanic. In contrast to DoubleGold's "Security Officer and somewhat Lead Engineer," I'll be making a "Lead Engineer and somewhat Security Officer," a Puloni Pahtra with a few fur deformities mucking with their mystic-assigned destiny, leading to off-world shenanigans. Role would in combat would be ranged (not used to any kind of Starfinder). Personality-wise, they'd be eager with a thirst for knowledge of any kind, and have taken a particular interest in the Burning Archipelago due to the fact that it's well... The Burning Archipelago. I know there's already a full Mechanic in the party, so I'll do my best to make them mechanically a distinct character. Hopefully that's enough to go off of, this would be my first foray into Starfinder so it took a good day or so of looking over the rules to get an idea of what concept I want for this one.
Alright. Pahtra Soldier/Mechanic Multiclass sounds interesting enough. Would have to read up more on setting to flesh them out beyond just race and class(es), though. Could fit into either Lead Engineer or Security Officer, and that would largely be up to whatever role is needed.
I'd be entirely new to Starfinder. What races would count as Near Space? I might be interested in finally trying this out.
Dropping out of the running here.
Yeah. Carrion crown is the horror-themed one with a bunch of undead, right? I might draft up a Pact Witch of the Boneyard. What would you say about familiar archetypes (Sage)?
Oh, Eletido, you're supposed to drop the lowest I'm pretty sure.
14
So 16, 15, 15, 14, 12, 11 then, unsure of aura.
And what about templates that change based on HD? I am very tempted to take the option for a template here.
I'd like to withdraw my dot. No ideas are coming to me right now.
Another one? Dotting, anyways.
It'd be a bit like how there's still electricity within an EMF, it just prevents you from using it in any meaningful way! Was half-asleep while I wrote that and my keyboard was dying. EMP was what I meant. Another analogue, probably a little better, would be atmospheric nuclear testing that inherently taints magic. Only things animated before, like the analogues of shipwrecks at the bottom of the ocean, would be able to continue magicking in the hollows.
I do have a counter to that. It's merely casting and the like that go away. The magic that animates constructs and golems continues to function in Alkenstar, even in Smokeside (hell, clockwork constructs are a commonplace thing there. And they aren't robots, magic was involved in their creation) . It'd be a bit like how there's still electricity within an EMF, it just prevents you from using it in any meaningful way! Nethys's anathema explicitly even points out that there is some kind of distinction between the mundane and the magical.
For the record, this version of Violant (namex my board self after my first PC...) would be a Wizard, with the archetype going to Time Oracle.
I'm going to be playing two versions of the same character at once if I get in, which will be funny.
There's a reason the Alkenstar campaigns didn't require it. Anyways, EMFs exist so why not the magical equivalent.
Yeah. If since this is Free Archetype, I can port her relatively easily. She loses the one reason I built her (Erase from Time chicanery), but the fluff of the character would be largely the same. Just shove her in a different part of the world.
Like I said before, the whole world just gets the Alkenstar treatment. Divine Magic fails there too. I want to see what people do with this, but it might be because I'm running an Outlaws Backport as well.
Wondered when I'd see Findeladlara. Nice seeing you here, Evindyl. Might make a half-elf as well. Time to to create a 2e-ified version of my first PC maybe? Is this using the remastered rules or not? Also, dot.
From what I can tell, this basically makes large swathes of Golarion just like Alkenstar, maybe even like the Mana Wastes. Depends on its affect on creatures. And yeah, especially the people from Ironside and Smokeside are completely unaffected by this.
Meanwhile, everyone in Smokeside continues on with their daily life. Now my bets are on one of the Prismatic Ray or ZK, as much as I hate the Prismatic Ray being split apart.
Well, it coincided with the archives remaster. Whoever said that, props to you. So... if Nethys dies, there's about a ton more Alkenstars out there? Sounds about right. GUNS FOR EVERYONE.
I'm just hoping Nethys is either dead, or in this list of prophecies. I want to see how he dies. Bets are either on spontaneous combustion, or some magicless technological death.
I'm unsure whether I want to see Nethys die right now in a prophecy, or see him actually die come War of the Immortals.
Right! honestly I have no idea if I would even still be myself if i ended up in Golarion, let alone ended up there and passed the starstone test. I'm sure either of those events alone would change me in ways I could never imagine.Yeah same here. Me from earth being a Golarion god would be so very different. Likely just Ydajisk but Axis. Yeah, that's the reason I had to just decide on a region to put myself in, otherwise there'd be so many Golarion stuffs I'd care about. Also drafted up the Erages version as well: Violant, the Living Exchange Symbol: A handshake of visibly different ancestries. Category: Newly Risen God.
Divine Font: Heal
Far more political then just "Nethys can rot" given why Erages evven exists. Would have beef with a lot of racial pantheons. And for the linguistics version, I'd imagine I'd end up as an Ydajisk clone with a few modifications.
Yeah same here. Me from earth being a Golarion god would be so very different. Likely just Ydajisk but Axis.
By all rights it should be a party of PCs.What in the world could've killed a god (gods???) that easily>?Probably something that NO Pathfinder in their right mind would EVER WANT TO RUN INTO! Holy bejeezus a monster that hunts and devours GODS? What a HORROR to possibly encounter! Whatever the 2E equivalent of Level 20 Mythic Tier 10 party is, specifically.
I tend to suspect "not Nethys" if only because it would make things weird with the archive.plenty of archives are dedicated to dead beings, but I doubt Neyths would die without a major shake up in the way magic works. What would you class as major?
Yeah but Erastil is still alive in Starfinder, isn't he?
Yeah, even with the techno-version of me as a god... it's still me. I'd see the situation going on with magic being effectively dead in a region, with no god with a dedicated portfolio over technology, other than arguably Cixyron who... is a demon harbinger. That hits to me at the very core, just seeing that gap there, and the people with such a divide between them and the Skyside residents. The non-techno version would likely be some Aiuvarin from Erages that sees what kind of division the nation of Kyonin causes their people, and would see to end it. Either way, I would become far more ambitious if I gained powers of a deity, and advocating for the divides to tumble down. Be it an entire facet of life that doesn't function in an area, or an entire nation sending children away just due to the heritage. They're effectively the same character/me, just placed into different places on Golarion.
Meanwhile I'm just imagining what havoc Starfinder-era would bring for my submission. On one hand, Technology isfar more prevalent, so there'd be no need to advocate for technology-above-all when everyone can see that for themselves. Would be a bit saddened they didn't off Nethys themself, though. On the other, Triune just goes and nabs the guy's portfolio. Likely would direct the churches to aid Triune in anyway possible, and to give the gift of technology to any magic-dead region of the world, becoming even more of a niche god than they were before. Politics-wise? "Nex, get your hands off of the Duchy." is the big thing I can think of. In terms of relation to other gods, Casandalee, Brigh, and Cixyron would likely have some kind of connection to the guy. And the intense undying hate for Nethys, of course. The non-technology-kick version of me-as-a-god would be uh... far more politically involved: calling for the downfall of one or two nations.
Not to mention, aren't those things immune to bludgeoning damage entirely?
I use daemons heavily in my campaigns that deal with evil outsiders just because they're so much spookier and more existentially threatening than anything else the Lower Planes have to offer.But how are they worse than demons? Those are bad enough, I suppose. If it helps hammer home the point of the goal and scope of their ruin. Cixyron, in their Starfinder incarnation, is essentially the god of nuclear bombs and striking planets with redirected meteors, not merely slavery or deformities or undeath. The daemons want to snuff out all mortal life, in their preferred way. Bibliodaemons seek to kill people by literal paperwork. Genthodaemons are manifestations of pointless wars where people forget why they're even fighting. And so on.
As a fan who came in with 2e, I still feel like I barely know daemons and the Horsemen... but I know some 1e fans really love them. I'd welcome this being their big apocalypse push! Considering there are also Demons, Day-mon. I know a bit about them, but that's mostly about how the Horsemen want an end to all mortal life, and a bit about a few of the harbingers. That, and death by paperwork: Bibliodaemon.
What saddens me is that we haven't gotten much tech in 2e. Brigh and Casandalee's focus doesn't hit the same itch for a technological answer to Nethys's single minded focus on magic that Cixyron did in 1e. That's what informs my answer here. Were I not on the tech-kick, I'd likely come up with a different answer entirely. Probably an Aiuvarin Orc / Dromaar Elf god of... Aiuvarin and Dromaar, as well as cultural exchanges of all kinds. The Death of Magic Category: Newly Risen God.
I'd imagine I would not grant a lot of people spells, as that would go against the entire thing of being "technology over magic." Would probably come from a dead-magic region like Smokeside with a very intense distaste for Nethys.
Anyway, the Beast is probably just Drokalion. Remember to feed your pets before going to sleep at night. We can only hope for an Iblydos book.
My bets are on Nethys here. His holidays are based on the old traditions of magic entirely, and will have lost relevance. The only other gods which are relics of 3.5E/DnD on the list are safe. Now, I wonder what death Nethys would fear. Would it be the one move away from exploding? Some magicless death? The idea of someone taking Nethys out to the shed and shooting the old magic system with a gun is hilarious to me, not going to lie.
With the amount of campaigns I'm in right now, probably won't participate in this, sadly. Also, isn't 2e built around not allowing the game-breaking interactions that munchkins so heavily rely on?
Party rolls for me would likely include Skills as well... an investigator, possibly helping out anyone with buffs/debuffs by letting them save a few spellslots, and melee damage with studied strike, though the investigator likely woulnd't be a barbarian beatstick.
Are background skills up, and when do you hope to close recruitment by, again?
I am going back on my idea of an Armorist! Now that I see you have Investigators dedicated to Mathematics. Likely will still go with Samsaran for the race still, the idea of someone losing multiple lifetimes of memories is too enticing not to take. Will hash out more vague details once I get a disaster Cleric build ironed out.
Roll twice take the higher result, if both are below half, then reroll.
= 7
5 Alright. With FCBs all going into HP, that's 78 HP. Dice finally did something in my favor for once this time.
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