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Zelimah takes the mask in her hand looking it over with a smile. "A Klar, that is a bold choice." she says grinning and nodding to the woman in the bee mask. "I think yours is fitting as well." she says to Maribel, before donning the Klar mask.

Giving the others at the stall a polite nod, bowing differentially to the patrician, and noting the young desert dweller's unusual orange eyes with interest, she takes a look at the available masks.

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Mabriel nervously looks around the tent as the two of you enter. "Is this where we get masks?" She asks, shrinking further into your shadow.

"Yes, I believe it is." Zelimah says guiding her charge, while remaining close enough for her to feel safe.

"It's probably part of the celebration. Masks help people forget themselves and simply enjoy the moment." Zelimah answers reassuringly to Mabriel as they approach the tent.

"That is...unusual." Zelimah replies, her amber eyes narrowing as she studies the various animal masks. "Some kind of festival perhaps?"

"Of course, Patrician Zaethus." Zelimah replies with a respectful inclination of her head, before glancing down at Mirabel with a smile.

"I know it is, loud and chaotic, but you have nothing to fear." she says softly, to the young noble, before raising her gaze to once again scan the crowd for any sign of threat.

As a distinguished-looking, if a bit less lavish that some others, patrician approaches the entrance, accompanied by a pretty young woman bearing enough of a likeness to most probably be his daughter, approach the inn, all eyes are drawn to the titanic specimen of a woman following along behind them.

Her massive, well-muscled frame and towering height clearly marking her as a half-giant, she stands quiet yet alert, her amber-eyed gaze taking in all of those surrounding them, dark hair falling to one side, framing a pretty, yet intense face, highlighted by a vivid red tattooed pattern.

Her hide armor, enormous club strapped across her back, and visible scars across her bronzed skin, mark her as a gladiator, even to those who were unlikely to recognize her from the arena. Her employer, patrician Zaethus Nauripides had selected her to attend Lady Athena's event with him and his daughter, both as a guard, and a bit of embellishment to their appearance there being a less prominent family.

Zelimah takes in the variety of people present, some clearly wealthy city dwellers, while others looked to still have the dust of the open desert on them, nobles, craftsmen, and warriors alike buzzing with the excitement of this unusual event.

I'm pretty much ready. Sorry, birthday yesterday.

Druids needed clarifying desperately. Should I at some point end up needing another character,. I'd likely try one of these.

So apparently elves are delicious

Got the majority of gear, and finalized proficiencies. Will have the background typed up a little later today

Should be done with background and other assorted gear by sometime later today.

Might swap swimming myself since I'm unlikely to have ever encountered a body of water big enough to make it an issue.

Awesome. Is there anyone that would be attending Lady Athena Vestang's party, that would be showing off their prize Gladiator, fresh off a win?

Awesome! Pretty decent natural psion and combat prodigy on She-Hulk's frame.

Does that mean that I have enough to do so for both of mine?

Right, it's Armor Optimization that happens at 5th

Water Cleric is gold in a place where water is kinda scarce

So Punching to start and for now, I'll go with the one-handed style, until the benefits of using a shield outweigh the AC bonus. Maybe when the next chance comes (I assume when we level) I'll take the wrestling specialization

Wow, punch specialization is no joke. +1 attack, +1 damage, +1 chart bonus (on top of my gladiator +/-4), and 1 extra attack per round. Like you said wrestling is great for restraint, and in both cases, being able to knock someone out can be really useful if we need to take someone alive. (something most parties are notoriously bad at)

I think I'll specialize in both Punching and Wrestling and sit on the level 3 proficiency for now. By level 5 I'll have decided if to spend it on one-handed fighting for the AC bonus, or if to go for specializing with a better weapon.

Thank you! I'll go over those after you get them up and pick

@Rysky: Do you need some assistance? If you have any idea at all, I can easily whip up a character for ya.

@Zelimah: If the DM allows, I can add some weapons from the Combat & Tactics list. There are a few nonmetal weapons there, like the bola and the warclub, that might be useful to you.

A lot of your weapon specialization stuff is gonna be aspirational. Some day you will have an awesome weapon, so you should be specialized in something good! But at the start you will likely have a garbage weapon.

You'll note that I started Laurelin with a hand axe because it's a rare metal weapon that you can actually afford at the start.

Thanks that definitely helped. Re-selected weapons and will start with Specialization in War Club (likely the best weapon I'll have access to for a while)

Banking the other 3 proficiency slots to specialize in a better weapon when I come across one (by level 5 I can choose two, or I can even choose a bow if I find one big enough)

Ah so that's how much damage it does against an opponent of that size! Good to know since that'll be a lot of enemies against me. That makes way more sense. Thanks.

Oh, I figured that, but even non-metal. most of those at 1/3 cost are unaffordable, and for me, it'll be x2.

Like I was considering Carrikal and had initially picked that as a weapon specialization. Makes no sense since I couldn't even afford a bone one. (533 for a large bone one)

I'll have to re-tool my weapon proficiencies (specializations)

Also, I swear some of these must be typos in the original material (I know you're transferring the source material over, it's not you) How on earth does the large version of a thrown or melee weapon do less damage than the medium version?

Lol. A gladiator that can't afford a single decent weapon. guess I'll be all about killing people and taking them until I can actually get something useful.

So the weapon costs posted are for metal, right? Also, the disparity in cost between a melee and ranged weapon is completely insane!

Thanks! Hide it is! Which fits perfectly with the picture I chose. heh

By the way, you're doing an amazing job compiling all this information and making things easier to find. Your passion for the setting is clear.

Is there anywhere where armor types cost and effect on AC are listed?

Oh we're going with Max HP??

So since everything I need is large, should I be doubling weapon and armor costs?

Honestly, Endurance might be worth t, and I'm a massive war machine...who needs poison? There are other people for that.

I guess then I'd go with Arena Champion, although the fame thing might be more of a hindrance than a benefit with randos attacking you because they're fans of a rival.

Would be a good reason for me to be at this shindig in the first place though

Thanks!!

HP: 6d10 + 15 ⇒ (6, 3, 4, 10, 9, 1) + 15 = 48

Gladiator page is up. Note that there are a variety of gladiator kits, which are like PF archetypes. I will try to get those up (or at least short descriptions) so that you can see in case you want to take one.

For gladiators, you take no penalty for using a weapon with which you aren't proficient, but it still costs you 2 proficiency slots to specialize in a weapon (3 for a bow). This means you still need to keep track of your weapon proficiencies (5, if you're a level 3 gladiator).

EDIT: Added the list of kits to the class page for gladiators. If one of them strikes your fancy, let me know and I'll type it up.

EDIT TO EDIT: While I was there, added a kits list to psionicists. Same deal: Lemme know if one interests you and I'll add a page for it.

Remember that except for certain very special kits, you can only take a kit if you're single classed.

Is the Professional Gladiator (Complete Gladiator's handbook pp15-16) not an available option for a kit? If so I'd go with that. If not, probably Arena Champion

Discipline: 1d100 ⇒ 75 Telepath
Telepathy power: 1d100 ⇒ 97
Roll one power on this table, and then roll a second wild talent from Table I again. Ignore rolls of 88 or better.
Telepathy power roll 2: 1d100 ⇒ 74Sight Link
2nd Discipline: 1d100 ⇒ 26 Psychokinesis
Psychokunesis power: 1d100 ⇒ 70Molecular Bonding

Zelimah wrote:

Working on putting things together.

Got a visual

Also, I have a template for AD&D characters set up for Paizo profiles. Would you like me to send it your way?

Yes please! That would be awesome!!

Working on putting things together.

Got a visual