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Are Half-Tieflings (and I guess Half-Aasimars) possible?
Sovereign Court

Hi all,

I'm about to run Skull & Shackles for an online PbP game ...

Background:
I like to give my players freedom to play pretty much anything they want to playin PF AP's (as long as it is within paizo publications only -- otherwise the rules are WAY to hard and expensive to cover every 3rd Party publisher as well ...)

I have one player who wants to play a character with DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), and I finally have the game mechanics worked out for that one -- after about 100 emails back and forth to cover how a level one character can have two personalities, one of them knowing about the other (the Mr. Hyde option if you like ...) whereas the normal persona does not recall anything about when Mr. Hyde takes over ... but as I said, we have that worked out :)

One of my other players (who knows NOTHING at all about the above player) has made two characters up and can't decide between the Tiefling Vivisectionist and the Sylph Alchemist / Grenadier ... so they want to play a character with a personality disorder who randomly wakes up as one of the two characters (with neither of the persona's knowing anything of the other ....)

Are Tiefling (and Aasimar I guess) who are both already half-XXX with their otherworldly / planar beings able to breed with others ...

Are they as a race sterile ???

I know that Radovan (from Dave Gross' fantastic PF novels) gets "around" and there haven't been any "ladies" who have turned up to pronounce the tiefling as the father to her child ... but they are books (and fantastic ones at that), so don't always obey the game mechanics :)

What I would like to be able to tell my player is that YES, you can be a half-tiefling with Sylph heritage or NO, Tiefling are Sterile so there is no way they could have bred with your mother / father ...

I've tried to find anything on this, but alas it doesn't seem to have been raised anywhere else :(

I look forward to the communities comments on this,

Thanks,

NGP
Wand of CLW and using it to damage Undead
Sovereign Court

Hi all,

I am in the process of running the Razmir Trilogy of modules (Crypt of the Everflame, Masks of the Living God & City of Golden Death) and in the game, a table with rewards is presented to the players.

My Cleric got a Wand of Cure Light Wounds, which was just as well as he had used all of his Positive Channeling and his 1st level spells for CLW.

They had just made level 2, so the Paladin (not the main tank, as that was the Dwarven Fighter) still had Lay on Hands available to him.

Anyways ...

They get into a fight with a handful of skeletons, all of my players are blade users and the 5/bludgeoning of the skeletons is hurting them badly.

A skeleton attacks the Cleric and this is how it goes:

Mika Kaba (aka Mr Kaba or the Cleric):"I'm going to use my Wand of CLW to damage the skeleton"

Me (Almighty and powerful GM ... cough): "Sure, as CLW is a touch spell, you will need to make a touch attack against the skeleton"

Mika Kaba: "I am just going to fire the CLW at him"

GM: "It's a touch spell, so you will need to touch the skellie in order for the spell to go off ..."

... Chaos rules ... but they eventually go with my decision, grumbling a bit about it not really being fair ...

They at this point are only level 2.

Any comments on this (and there are rules that allow level 3 Wizards to use a wand to fire a touch spell off -- but they still have to hit) would be awesome guys ... and the modules are great, they are recommended as "Starter Modules" and I had two of my five players as either "none" or "not much" DnD experience and they both loved it ...

Mika Kaba is a VERY seasoned (old is such a nasty word :)) player, about the same age as me ...

Thanks,

Noobie
Dice rolls for stats -- Just say NO!!!!
Sovereign Court

THE FOLLOWING IS A TRUE STORY, ACTORS HAVE BEEN USED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT :)

I remember my very first character I played for ADnD in 1979.

I imagined him as a great Viking Warrior, muscles bursting out of his scalemail armour, a battleaxe and large round shield, he was going to be "Awesomeness" personified ... ERIK the Viking, there would be tales written by the Skalds of his adventures

Then I rolled my stats 6 x 3d6, with the stats being allocated to whichever stat you liked ...

S 12, I 9, W 10, D 11, Co 10, Ch 9

I almost cried ... meanwhile, another fighter (a friend of mine playing his Jamaican based fighter, Ceti Wayo) rolled his dice:

S 18/92, I 10, W 9, D 16, Co 18, Ch 10

He had rolled two 18's and a 16, the then rolled 3 x 10's for HP and at 3rd level (our starting level for this game) gave him 42hp.

I tried to let the disappointment roll over me and I rolled my HP, 4 + 3 + 2 for a starling 9hp ;(

This story does have a happy ending however, we were playing Bone Hill and a Ghoul wiped the whole party and we rerolled characters ... I then got one 17 and a hand full of average numbers and made myself a Cleric who went on to retire at level 16 ...

I just hope this points out how destructive randomly generating stats can be... when they are great, it's great -- but when you roll bad, it is truly awful.

Points buy is the best system as it allows all players to be fantastic in a stat, pretty great in a couple of stats or well rounded in all stats ...

Just my 1 copper piece worth - though if you want it, it's down in the pit with Erik and the Ghoul ... :)