As for what I'm thinking of doing with that set of rolls. I believe it's going to be an itinerant Cleric of Kurgess. She travels among the festivals and fairs of the region throughout the year where she offers her services as a referee for competitions and games. Hopefully it's paid work, but she will provide the service gratis if not.
When she's not busy overseeing contests, she puts on children's puppet shows with her traveling cabinet that opens up into a small stage. Of course the theme of these performances are sportsmanship, fair play, honesty, and self-confidence.
I'm interested and working on a Human Sanctified Slayer Inquisitor of Cayden Cailean. I'm hoping to have the character I'm submitting posted this evening.
I've been quietly working on my character Pellegrina for a while as I've had a bit of time here and there. I'm only getting to really looking at the rule book this weekend, but the system neutral aspects of Pellegrina are:
Pelligrina has gray-blue eyes and thick auburn brown hair that tumbles in curls and ringlets down her back. Her complexion is a slightly lighter bronze than usual for Taldans and flawless. Although she tends to wear dresses if all things are equal, Pelligrina does not have a particular look she has adopted. She dresses according to weather, activity, and social convention. She does wear revealing clothing on some occasions, but it isn’t necessary for Pelligrina to do so. Whatever she puts on seems to cling and mold in just the right ways to highlight her figure. One thing Pelligrina does always avoid is over-dressing. She considers an overabundance of jewelry or other ornamentation to be gauche and a little pathetic.
She takes great care crafting her appearance, but has the expertise to make it appear she does not. Pelligrina is an enthusiastic cosmetics user but disguises it cleverly. Only an expert eye could tell she is using more than the barest minimum of these beauty enhancements.
Notes on Personality and Other Things Not Yet Covered:
Myers-Briggs personality type: ESTP
"It isn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just 'It'." –Rudyard Kipling
“That quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force. It can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.” — Elinor Glyn
-Pelligrina has "It".
-Pelligrina is an extrovert who enjoys, almost craves, the company of others most of the time. She is witty and engaging in conversation, with a polished sense of humor. Pelligrina only cares about convention just enough to avoid scandal and is very open to new experiences.
-One of her greatest assets is her almost unassailable self-confidence. It helps her often avoid one of the pitfalls of being beautiful and having attention focused on her. She feels no need to be competitive, so she doesn’t engage in the kinds of behaviors that pit her against others for attention, praise, or prestige. She knows she rarely has a serious rival among the people around her, so she has nothing to prove. Among her less exalted, new up and comers social set, eschewing drama and pettiness only enhances her position by making her seem more down to earth and relatable.
-Pelligrina usually gets what she wants anyway, without need to be combative or difficult. She is persuasive enough to subtly nudge things in the direction she wants them through making comments and observations, or obliquely signaling approval or disapproval, that she doesn’t need play the queen bee or diva.
- Reading Pelligrina’s background could easily leave one with the impression she is a cynic and nihilist who is only concerned with amassing power for herself. This isn’t the case. While Pelligrina is a narcissist, and does want to achieve power and wealth for herself, she is not willing to do just anything to get it. She has aligned herself with reformists in Oppara because she sincerely believes reform is need if the nation is to survive. She favors Princess Eutropia both because she sees her as the nations best chance at reform, and because Pelligrina is also a eldest child who will not inherit more than a dowry because she is female. She bears no ill-will against her younger brother. Truthfully she consider being Baronet of Tregan small potatoes and wants to leave the hinterlands behind. She still rankles at being automatically excluded though, having to take a harder path with fewer options.
- Tregan is a small town along the border with Galt. It has hosted large numbers of refugees from Galt for many years. Living so many years of her life there, Galt’s woes have playing an important role in shaping Pelligrina’s politics. She is not a revolutionary but an incrementalist. She believes reforms must come, but not too much too rapidly. The monarchy, nobility, and Senate must remain in place to provide stability. Were she ever in the position to do so, Pelligrina would vote to expand the size of the Senate to include seats for commoners.
- So far Pelligrina has kept her mirror’s communication with her and what she has learned from it a secret. Not even her parents are aware. In keeping with this, Pelligrina has rarely used magic if other options are viable. Her mirror and others have trained her well in using her natural assets flexibly and creatively; most of the time they will see her through the obstacles she’s confronted without the risks that magic involves.
- Pelligrina doesn’t consider herself a ‘witch’. The term often carries negative connotations, especially where she from near the Verduran Forest. If and when she is pressed to account for it, she would use some alternative term like ‘arcane practitioner”.
-Pelligrina was raised in an Abadaran household, but she was never interested in religion until she was introduced to Calistria. This happened at Lady Breau’s Academy for Young Women. Predictably, Shelyn reigned supreme there for Lady Breau and most of the girls. However, a small, more daring set of students venerated Calistria on the down low. Pelligrina took to Calistria far more readily than Shelyn. The distinction for her was one of comfort and complacency. Calistria is for the young and hungry, while Shelyn is for those who have mostly reached a point of satisfaction with their lives. Pelligrina certainly defines herself as among the young and hungry group. Pelligrina is still not a very devout person. In her thinking maybe the time will come later in her life when she’s accomplished all she hoped and is ready to settle in as a Shelynite. She doesn’t think Calistria would mind. One of the most appealing things about Calistria to Pelligrina is the goddess’s transactional outlook.
- While Pelligrina is an extrovert with a forceful personality, she is also aware of the value of reading people and adjusting her behavior to match what she thinks will appeal to them most. Although seduction is often sexual in nature, at its root it is an invitation, and not all people are in induced by the possibility of attaining the same desires in the same ways. Being a chameleon is the name of the game.
- Pelligrina is not always ‘on’. She exercises a skill set when it is advantageous. She is no more always seductive than a thief is always picking pockets. When she is not on, she’s good company. Pelligrina is a good conversationalist who likes small talk and has a good sense of humor. She is pleasant, and tries to be considerate to others. She does have genuine friends.
- Her biggest flaws are her great confidence in herself and her need to have her way in most things. She may take foolish risks when she underestimates the danger. She may also be petulant when she doesn’t get her way in things that are important to her. Pelligrina also struggles with showing patience, but usually she can control herself, especially if the payoff is significant.
Background:
Pelligrina is the daughter of Baronet Vorstal Revay of Tregan and his wife Euphemia. She was their first child, much doted upon for the first 10 years of her childhood. When her younger brother Gaillard was born, Pelligrina’s parents had to split their attention, something she did not take well. Pelligrina became sullen and jealous. She’d always been an assertive attention-seeking child, but this was the first rift with her for her parents.
Euphemia, who handled most all of the childcare, sought relief by buying Pelligrina off with a fine gift to show her how much her parents still cared for her. Euphemia always considered appearances important. While Pelligrina was still a couple of years short of her teen years, her mother reasoned it was always good to teach fundamentals early. Euphemia thought it time for braids and wearing whatever was within easiest reach to be left behind. She gave Pelligrina an antique hand mirror. It was fully adult sized and a work of art. The frame and handle was a single piece of ornate brass, while the mirror itself was flawlessly polished silver. Euphemia thought having such a mirror might nudge Pelligrina onward a little toward more mature interests.
Euphemia got the results she was looking for, in far greater abundance than she could have imagined. Pelligrina adored the mirror, and at first it was a source of fun for both of them. Euphemia showed Pelligrina different ways to do her hair. She bought a cosmetics kit for her daughter and showed her how to use it. But after some months, Euphemia had exhausted her tricks and tips, while Pelligrina’s interest in spending time occupied with her mirror only grew. More and more often Pelligrina spent time with her mirror alone.
Pelligrina was not as enraptured with her own appearance as her mother believed though. It was all of the other things her mirror showed her that kept her enthralled. It did not happen in the presence of her mother, but Pelligrina’s mirror showed her what she could be in the future, beautiful and adored by all who knew her. Early on Pelligrina experienced only the briefest glimpses of visions and flashes of feelings, but as she and her mirror slowly adjusted to each other it could communicate more coherently to her. She learned the mirror held secrets it could teach her, magical and otherwise, if she would commit to learning them would and follow the path it could reveal to her. Pelligrina promised to commit.
It was during the years when she was fifteen and sixteen that her parents worried about Pelligrina’s obsession with her mirror the most. Pelligrina became moodier and withdrawn. She was forgetful, and sometimes seemed to be lost in a waking dream. Pelligrina’s state was due to the increasing intensity of what the mirror was teaching her. Arcane knowledge was difficult and exhausting, and sometime the things she learned were frightful. Her mirror assured Pelligrina that nothing it showed her could harm her, and that she would come to master it all as long as she did not abandon its tutelage. Pelligrina believed her mirror and stayed the course. It had proven itself to be a friend she could trust. Her mirror always kept its promises. She was more and more beautiful over time as it had said she would be. It taught her how to use her beauty to best effect, showing her how to be persuasive and how to lie well. She now knew how to do some things with magic, and was learning still more.
By the time Pelligrina was 17, her parents were making plans for her marriage. There was no particular date set, nor groom in mind, but there were steps to be taken before those goals were reached. One concern was Pelligrina’s education. Tregan was far too small a town to host any educational institutions suitable for Pelligrina so she had been schooled at home, mostly by Euphemia herself. While Pelligrina demonstrated intelligence, she had never shown scholarly inclinations. Her assets were her exceptional beauty and pleasant personality. Her parents felt Pelligrina could be highly competitive among the top echelons of Taldor’s nobility if she were polished up to present at her finest. It was a financial burden, but her parents found a finishing school in Oppara and sent Pelligrina to prepare for coming out into society.
Pelligrina received her parents’ decision very enthusiastically, not because she was interested in finding a husband, but because she needed access to Taldor’s center of power for her own agenda. Learning the manners and comportment of Taldor’s elite would be helpful as she forged a path to a seat in the Senate. Pelligrina’s mirror emphatically urged her to avoid marriage until the time was right, not soon by any measure. This was advice Pelligrina didn’t really need; she had seen her parents’ marriage firsthand. Pelligrina wouldn’t describe her parents’ marriage as unhappy exactly. But, she did know her mother was disappointed with her husband’s paltry position in a crude frontier town. Knowing she would be tied to her husband’s fortunes didn’t appeal to Pelligrina. She knew she could probably do better for herself if she could find her opportunity.
It was in Oppara that Pelligrina really began to find her stride and flourish. Her first year at Lady Breau’s Academy for Young Women was largely uneventful, with Pelligrina busy laying the groundwork for the next. By the start of the second year Pelligrina had sniffed out enough compromising information to blackmail Lady Breau into putting aside most all of the rules. Being able to come and go from the academy when she wanted, and without a chaperone accompanying her, allowed Pellingrina to begin establishing herself as a known presence in Oppara, making acquaintances and procuring invitations to the right kind of establishments and gatherings. Pelligrina found it easy to make a good impression wherever she went, and some strategically selected lovers meant she was able to be in a lot of places.
In the year since her graduation from Lady Breau’s Academy, Pelligina has had more free time to redouble her efforts. She now specifically seeks out reform-minded leaders and politicians, including those who support Princess Eutropia.
Through other connection she’s made Pelligrina knows who Lady Martella Lotheed is, and also that she’s quite close to the Princess herself. The unusual position Lady Martella occupies makes her extremely interesting to Pelligrina because she is both reasonably accessible and (as rumor has it) acting at times on the Princess’s behalf. The supporters of the Princess Pelligrina has met may be with Eutropia in spirit, but do nothing of consequence. Pelligrina knows well she will need to demonstrate she is a person of quality before she rises to the Senate. Her current position in society isn’t exalted enough, she isn’t rich enough. She has no impressive past career in the military, nor is she famous for some other reason. Being well known for being well known isn’t enough. Pelligrina will have to do the yeoman’s work of gaining experience and demonstrating a talent for politics first, and Lady Martella surely has people to whom she farms out tasks.
On a handful of occasions, at meetings and other social events, Pelligrina has been able to chat briefly with Lady Martella. Self-promotion is inherently gauche, so Pelligrina was carefully danced around the subject of working for Martella in some capacity. She’s never requested anything, but instead has tried to create the circumstances for Lady Martella to more or less come to the idea herself. When they have spoken, Pelligrina obliquely focuses of three points she wants to get across. 1. She is deeply committed to the cause of seeing Princess Eutropia receive her rightful inheritance. 2. While she has enjoyed making the social rounds now that she is of age, she has grown bored with its repetition and frivolity. She feels the need to do something of substance, ideally to make Taldor a better place. 3. She easily wins people’s confidence, and once she has their ear, she is persuasive. This is especially true of men, who seem compelled to try to impress her. 4. She is adept at handling even awkward situations with tact and delicacy. Whenever she happens across Lady Martella and finds the opportunity, Pelligrina baits her line again, and hopes Lady Martella will bite.
In her letters home, Pelligrina writes her parents often, she frames her activities in terms of husband hunting. They are footing the bill for her to remain in Oppara after all. She may not see eye-to eye with her parents’ plans for her, but being discreet about her differences with them can’t harm anything. Besides she ceratiny doesn’t want to risk having her funding cut off, or being ordered home.
THEME: Social Butterfly
Tag: Makes friends easily
Tag: Persuasive
Weakness: Overconfidence
QUEST: My way or the highway
So, obviously more work to do figuring out Pellegrina in game terms, but I know the direction I'm heading which will help move things along.
The backstory references Pellegrina having a magical mirror (actually a mirror familiar) since she was originally supposed to be a Pathfinder Witch with the Mirror/Seducer Archetypes. Initially I planned to get rid of that, but I do kind of like the mirror. I might try to work it in so I can keep it if I have room. Also some amount of spell casting might be good for Pellegrina, she's obviously not going to be leaping into combat to any good effect.
Delta Green is a variant of the Call of Cthulhu system, which I really love. I suggested Pulp CoC earlier. The differences as I understand it are CoC 7th ed. = characters that are average people, Delta Green = characters that are elite, more skilled, but still fundamentally average, Pulp CoC = heroic characters, both more skilled and harder to kill.
So Delta Green makes characters more durable and more skilled. But let's face it, with 7th ed. if you're making a character you might as well make two because you'll need the backup soon enough. Pulp doubles HP and makes healing somewhat easier and adds more to skills. Characters are more larger than life individuals who can expect to survive combat even if it is still quite risky. Pulp CoC can also be adjusted up to almost superheroic by adding some options, or down to about Delta Green by going very basic.
All the versions run most everything that happens in the game through skills and d100 though. There are no classes or class levels, and advancement is through improving skills by using them. Roll modifiers are rare and usually just comprise roll twice and take the better or worse if there's a bonus or penalty. This, along with the simplicity of everything else in the system is what I like most about the system.
Since sanity rules won't matter (probably) in this particular case, those could be dropped and the system is even simpler.
EDIT: So, having never actually played Delta Green I started to wonder if I'd gotten what I said about it correct enough or not. So, I went looking for comments by people to do know them both.
What I found boiled down to Delta Green is CoC x The X-Files. Pulp CoC is CoC x Indiana Jones. Since I know the Pulp side I can say that's a pretty good one sentence summary. Indiana Jones is a Pulp CoC character living in a world of CoC 7th ed. people. Hopefully the Delta Green characterization is equally right on.
And at this point I've tangented rather far off and away from the subject of what to use for this game. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've played a tiny bit with Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE) and it will probably do what you want it to do. It's designed to be setting neutral.
I found SWADE to be a little hard to pick up, but like I mentioned I didn't play with the system very long at all. Those who know it better seem to consider it easy to use.
Liberation South America is the favorite of mine. So much intrigue, are you a Bogotano trying to have the Spaniards leave? Are you Fillipino officer serving in the Spanish military working for the viceroy in Lima? Who do you support? So many choices.
This sounds like the characters wouldn't necessarily be acting as a party? Would characters be doing their own things in different places on different sides?
BTW there's a podcast that coverers the Latin American revolution(s) that's quite good, Revolutions Season 5. Its focal point is Bolivar and the Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada, but it doesn't ignore other areas. It's fairly thorough, but doesn't get bogged down in small details that could make it slow and dry. Even then it's still 25 episodes that average about 40 - 45 minutes.
I'm absolutely interested. I love this sort of game.
Of the settings you list I think my favorite is Liberation Period South America 1810s-1830s. It's not one that ever comes up. My second choice would be WW1.
I'd like to pitch the interwar period of the 1920's - 1930's as a setting though if I may. It's extremely obvious, but there are reasons it's a classic.
1. It has a truly global reach that isn't close to matched even by WW1. 2. There's no "great war", but during that period Asia enters the mix in big ways with China and Japan, and most of the rest of Asia by way of anti-colonial movements. There's also the Russian Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and the list goes on.
2. It's better known historically, which makes it easier to digest as a setting without lots of prep on everyone's part.
3. It has a good balance of technology. Lots of cool things are in the picture by then, but nothing that's too crazy that needs to be curbed in some way. This applies well across the board for weapons, transportation, information access (no computers), media...
4. Interwar Berlin! Interwar Shanghai!
I've played with the old (not sure how many times new versions may have come out) Top Secret rules. I don't remember them well after so long, but I don't recall them not getting the job done just fine.
But, since I'm already taking the liberty of making suggestions, I have a weird one. Pulp Call of Cthulhu with the Lovecraftian elements stripped out could work well. It's fairly rules light and intuitive. It has a good character building system that is very flexible and handles skills really well. The pulp version also has rules for weird science if that sounds interesting.
Hi Sarah, I'd be interested in this if it's not too late to chime in. I haven't used the Mist system before, but it does sound like one that I'd like and take to well. War for the Crown is also a big draw for me.
I have a past attempt at WftC that valiantly struggled on to the start of Book 3 before folding. It might be my favorite Paizo AP.
I do have a couple of loose character concepts based on prior characterss I've made for the AP, and Investigator and a Witch. I'm not too concerned about the particular classes, But maybe one of them could work in terms of backstory, etc. I'll PM you about them.
I'm thinking about submitting a Time Mystery Dual-Cursed Oracle, Half-Elf, who has been sort of coerced into a bargain with Shyka to carry out some tasks for The Many (join the party and stop what's coming) in return for something the character desperately wants.
Would the Feysworn prestige class be allowed? I've wanted to make a Shyka worshipper for the longest time.
1. I've wavered quite a lot on whether to go the Dex 4 and Cha 3 versus Dex 3 and Cha 4. I think it's fairly obvious the idea with Sidonia is to be more on the face and social side of things compared to straightforward combat and thievery. This would suggest a Cha 4. On the other hand, the first couple of levels at least tend to be more 'all hands on deck' where combat is concerned, with characters really finding their niche after a few levels. This would suggest a Dex 4. I'm open to opinions and suggestions here.
2. Possibly connected to Thing 1, I haven't decided on an archetype for level 2. Mostly I'm looking at out of melee options like Bard, Sorcerer, Dandy, Captivator, or Celebrity(?). Again leaning more into non-combat development. This could be misguided? I was ready to consider knowledge oriented archetypes, but with an Investigator in the party it seems there's no need.
3. When I saw the background with a connection to Jubrayl Vhiski I almost scrapped this version of the character in favor of a Thief racket Rogue instead. That one would be a person looking to get out from under Jubrayl's thumb, having reconsidered their life choices thus far. Such a move would require protection, and attaching to a new group of heroes in town would be just the right opportunity to make the move. This version is still possible. There might not be enough for a more specialized social character to do?
Anyway, as I mentioned I have very little experience with 2e so I'm leaning into the confessions of uncertainty with an aim toward getting feedback form others.
Hm, well looking at it through that filter I would suppose Chelaxian. But the more precise answer would be whatever a very style conscious young aristocrat from Magnimar would be wearing, etc.
It looks like Sandpoint was founded in 4666 AR and it's presently 4707 AR. That's about 40 years. The Valdemar family were already established in Magimar before that, presumably already nobility, and that would have taken some unknown amount of time as well.
So, the question to me would be: how long do externalities representing one's particular ethnicity remain when faced with competition or pressure to adapt other, more "mainstream" replacements? The answer would certainly be "it depends". So, what might it depend on?
In a large, homogenous immigrant population that interacts mostly with each other, which allows them to meet most of their needs internally might retain a distinct ethnic appearance and so forth for a considerably longer time. But, there is no Little Kalsgard in Magnimar like there's a Silk Quarter in Kalsgard, and nothing indicates large numbers of Ulfen people among Magnimar's population. In a very small population where most contacts and interactions outside the family are with other ethnic groups, not terribly long, maybe 2 generations give or take.
But, even more important here is class position. Magnimar's aristocracy is a tiny slice of the population as a whole. Fitting in, being able to move more easily among one's peers, strategic marriages instead of ethnic marriages, lots of immediate advantages to assimilating, would speed up the process. So I'd argue that Magimar Valdemars are distinguished primarily by class and wealth signals rather than ethnic ones.
Physically Sidonia has black hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. She's of around average height. She's also thin because all the best people are.
Now, on the off chance the Valdemers make some fetish for insisting on wearing bearskin cloaks or whatever, Sidonia has no time at all for that kind of foolishness. Does she speak Ulfen? Maybe some and badly? So, how does she read to people in Sandpoint? Like a bleeding edge cool aristocratic kid from Magnimar. She has recently turned 18 since arriving in Sandpoint though. Wow, that birthday party was such a huge drag. Sidonia spent most of that evening crying in her room.
Or maybe as a more concrete answer, how Tian does Ameiko seem? Take that amount and reduce it by 3/4 because A. the Kiajitsus are more recent arrivals, and B. because Sidonia is way more motived to fit in amongst her peers, and her peers do NOT live in Sandpoint.
Here's a bit about my character submission. I'm sticking with Human, Rogue (Scoundrel), and Party Scholar. I'm figuring by this time, in Maginimar at least, the Valdamars are not purely Ulfen (that would be a whole bunch of inbreeding by now), so she's Ulfen and Chelaxian. Her mother is the Valdemar, and her father is a member of the Niroden family. Her paternal grandmother or great aunt, whatever works better, is a member of Magnimar's Council of Ushers.
Sidonia Valdemar-Nirodin has been living the rural life in Sandpoint for close to a year now. She's in a sort or soft exile for a while due to an very embarrassing incident that occurred (or more bluntly she initiated) in Maginimar. If you want to know what exactly the incident was, just ask her. Sidonia will happilyy share the details. It was a very clever scheme in theory. Her family hopes that spending some time with her rural, more grounded relations there will instill some degree of uprightness in her.
Sidonia is miserable in Sandpoint. As far as she's concerned the place is absolutely the ass end of the world. Even worse, rather than letting her mope through her sentence, the local Valdemars insist on assigning almost daily tasks to her involving their commercial concerns in shipbuilding and fishing. It's gross and degrading, like she's some sort of mercantile worker bee.
In her still copious free time, Sidonia seeks out ways to keep herself entertained and stimulated in town. Her dread is that all the time away from Magimar will cause her to lose her edge. After all, styles and fashions change, and who knows what she will find to be terribly outdated when she returns home.
Sidonia's two great talents are self-promotion, and her ability to be a social chameleon. Despite what she really thinks of Sandpoint and its people, she has been on a charm offensive during her time in town. Alienating everyone around her would serve no purpose except to cut her off from opportunities (though the gods know there's none of any real value in the town). At the least it keeps her mind active and gives her something to do, which helps the time pass.
I have about a teaspoon full of experience with 2e, but I'd like to give it a go. I'm thinking a Human Rogue, either Thief or Scoundrel, who's led something of an unsavory life up to the present.
I'm unsure on other build details right now, I'd need to do some looking around at the available options.
EDIT: If I went with Scoundrel could I be a cousin of one of the local noble families, say Valdemar? I'm thinking they're from Magnimar and went off the rails down there. Sent to Magnimar to dry out and let enough time pass for the cloud on the family's name to clear. Party Scholar would be the background.
Yeah, if not Brevoy/Iobaria or Isger, I'd pick the River Kingdoms next. Maybe the western region, Protectorate of the Black Marquis, Loric Fells, Tymon, and Lambreth.
If it was me deciding where to place a location agnostic campaign in Golarion, I'd go with somewhere that's seen less traffic and development due to Adventure Paths and Modules. The eastern border of Brevoy and into Iobaria could be cool. There's also Isger. It's a (neglected) Chelaxian vassal state, but also depopulated and wild. Just about anything could easily be dropped into either location due to all the blank space in those areas.
I'm putting together a Halfling Swashbuckler (Inspired Blade) - Cleric (Divine Paragon) of Chaldira Zuzaristan. As much as Virtuous Bravo Paladin sounds juicy compared to Swash, I'm too addicted to skills to actually do it.
Why is she in Mendev? She lost a bet (or did she?). Is this a comical character? Maybe, but don't say anything suggesting so to her.
I'm putting together an Investigator using the Cartographer and Natural Philosopher archetypes. Probably Human. I should have it ready tomorrow or Monday.
Yeah, I'd think 2 weeks at most for the open recruitment is plenty. If there's time to burn before the end of Outpost, it can be used for a Session 0 in the discussion thread.
I didn't more than take a look at Sentence, making something for it was clearly going to be beyond what I could do. But this I can handle for sure.
On the chance you're not full up with Sentence applications, I'll throw my hat in the ring as very interested. I have 3 ideas I'm in the process of pairing down to one for submission.
1. A human ex-Gray Maiden who is looking to make up for past misdeeds (either Sister in Arms Cavalier or Vanilla Fighter / Bard. Might go into Heritor Knight later).
2. An aasimar from Qadira who's mother is revered as practically a saint in the Sarenite church. She's trying to live up to her mother's legacy. (Whirling Dervish Swashbuckler / Divine Paragon Cleric).
3. A human Kellid worshipper of Pulura fighting to drive out the World Wound's demons and restore her homeland. (Transporter & Tanglebriar Demon Slayer archetypes archer Ranger / Inquisitor of Pulura).
That's still pretty garbage, but could work for a wizard or sorcerer I guess. It's technically an 18 point buy, but about half the points are wasted. I'll still pass.
Edit: Actually if the scores are giggled just right, they might work for a Virtuous Bravo Paladin of Chaldira Zuzaristan. CotCT isn't usually prime Paladin territory, but Chaldira might just have the wriggle room in the code for it to be okay. Tinkering...
@GM Itzi: No problem, I wasn't counting on that Ranger archetype working out, just figured I'd ask and see.
I haven't conclusively decided between Warpriest or Inquisitor yet, but her background and so forth will be the same regardless of which of the two classes I choose. I've gone ahead and posted BAP portions below.
Background:
Vigny was born in Southmoor, the most southern part of the Lands of the Linnorm Kings. When she was barely 4, her parents decided with some friends and relatives to establish a small hamlet in the wild lands close to the Varisian border. It was a perilous place to try to live, but her parents had no use for overlords or taxes, and wanted to be well outside the reach of the regional capital at Jol. When Vigny was 13, the danger caught up to her family. Less than a day into a journey north to buy winter supplies, a group from the hamlet, Vigny among them, was set upon by a band of Nolanders who had crossed over into Southmoor to raid. In a short and brutal fight, Vigney's parents, along with an uncle and her teenaged cousin were killed.
The raiders took Vigny, the only surviver, south as a captive into the Nolands. After a couple of days of travel, the band spied a caravan. They decided to probe its strength by approaching with an offer to barter. The caravan's owner Sandru Vhisky saw through the ruse and surprised them by agreeing. The raiders actually had nothing to offer in trade except Vigny, for which Sandru traded away much of his food supplies and other materials as well. Sandru was careful that the raiders found no exploitable weaknesses, and since they had done far better in the exchange than they expected, the raiders left the caravan in peace.
Sandru reassured the frightened girl, and took her with the caravan to Riddleport. There, he placed her in the care of Caylenite priests who ran an orphanage. Vigny spent the rest of her childhood there, going from ward and student to temple tavern worker. Eventually Vigny joined the church formally as a _________. During those years she only saw Sandru a couple of times when he stopped by to check in on her (she's pretty sure that's why he stopped by. Surely that's why he stopped by...). After becoming a ________ of the church, Vigny decided that it was time for her to travel. She wanted to find Sandru and travel with him if possible. Knowing he was from Sandpoint and stops there regularly, she went to the town hoping to catch him there when he next passes through.
Appearance and Personality:
Height: 5'8" | Weight: 135 | Hair: Light Blond | Eyes: Medium Blue
Appearance
Vigny is on the tall side and has the sturdy build and light coloration typical among Ulfen people. Living outside The Lands of the Linnorm Kings for many years and from an early age, she lacks many of the mannerisms common there. She is far more open and approachable than the gruff, guarded Ulfen of her homeland. Vigny is attractive, but in an athletic and outdoorsy way rather than being strikingly beautiful. Her clothing is Varisian rather than Ulfen.
Personality
Vigny's capture, rescue by Sandru, and subsequent life with the Caydenite priests affected her strongly in several ways. Her family had been insular and suspicious. Their lesson to Vigny was to never trust strangers or stick your neck out for them. But then Sandru, a stranger, saved her. She has rejected her family's views because she knows firsthand the value of a stranger's kindness. Over time Vigny has probably mythologized Sandru's altruism beyond what it actually was. Sandru acted both in kindness and as a canny way out of a dangerous situation. Vigny tends to forget about that second part.
She has come to love him based on her view of events. He saved her from several possible fates worse than death, and probably death too. He gifted her with her entire life since her capture, and even if he never loves her back, she believes she could never repay him for what he did. She also sees Sandru as a prototype of the roguish do-gooder type she is modeling herself on.
Life with the Brothers and Sisters of Cayden Cailean in Varisia has been an altogether sunnier experience for Vigny than Southmoor was, and she has embraced their values. She is optimistic and usually cheerful. She's quite brave really, and a fierce enemy of slavery and oppression. One tendency from her early life in Southmoor has persisted. Growing up so near the Grungir Forest, Vigny heard many stories about the forest's fey inhabitants, all of them to some degree grim and cautionary. She still views fey anything with suspicion and some degree of fear.
She is good at getting to know other people, and skilled at talking up strangers due to her time serving in the Caydenite tavern. Vigny is confident and assertive, but somewhat naive in her idealistic, open views and opinions. She sees the world as mostly white, with some irritating black spots that can certainly be dealt with given enough determination. Grays are something she's not yet accustomed to seeing all that well. Vigny isn't a genius, and isn't particularly subtle in her thinking. She can also be a bit day-dreamy and absent-minded, and therefore clumsy from not paying attention to her surroundings.
Vigny is NOT a loner. She is much happier when around other people. Games, stories, drinking, telling stories about drinking games, whatever will keep her interacting with people is her go to means of steadying herself.
While she's not a perfectionist, she appreciates the value of having the right equipment, and keeping it in excellent condition. Weapon, armor, and equipment maintenance can be a relief for nervous hands or boredom. While she is not much of an art and craft hobbyist in the usual sense, Vigny may find wagon repair to be something interesting. Certainly it would keep her in proximity to Sandru.
Exercise is a good way for her to get her mind off troubles. Weapon practice, swimming, whatever gets her moving and sweating is a good balm. She's not given to sitting around and perseverating about doubts or problems.
Vigny is very much a woman of the common people. Class and hierarchies bother her. She finds them distasteful at best, and usually harmful. Such things run against her communitarian instincts. This could present her with a dilemma later, how does she justify working to enthrone an empress, even one who is a friend, given her social and political leanings?
On the other hand, Vigny is less concerned with tinkering with the "good enough" aspects of the world than with eliminating the bad. She isn't radically anti-establishment in an anarchic sense. She is happy to leave the questions of exactly how a society, polity, or community should work to the philosophers as long as it meets a minimum criteria of not promoting greater suffering.
I'm considering a Caydenite Inquisitor or Warpriest with the Childhood Crush - Sandru campaign trait.
But before I decide, I want to ask whether a Ranger with the Transporter archetype would be compatible with the campaign? Along with this, how will you be handling the caravan and romance subsystems? Sorry if I missed anything you said about them above. I read through twice but I also have a nasty head cold right now so I'm not very sharp presently.
Regarding Wrath of the Righteous: I've played a little bit of it and I could see it working well for this concept. I've also heard terrible things about mythic, but there are also workarounds. Gestalt and maybe mythic limited to 2 or 3 levels, or a higher point buy and gestalt, or some other combination of milder substitutes could work to keep things sane.
Regarding the social combat rules from Ultimate Intrigue: I've played with the social combat rules a little in War for the Crown and mostly I don't think they would be all that helpful for speeding things along, with the possible exception of the part about structuring social encounters as events. You might find some ideas in that part about how to set up social encounters so they're more linear and efficient to play through.
Alright, I'm playing 3 Bards amongst my other games right now. I just can't do another Bard. I'm going to go with Bolt Ace from the Gunslinger class. Probably Human, Traits: Ilizmagorti Native and Ease of Faith. Feats: Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Weapon Focus (Light Crossbow), Rapid Reload.
Hm, the link didn't work. I'lll try that again. GRENADIER
It' not 3rd party, it's official Paizo material from the Pathfinder Society Field Guide so it's been around forever. The book isn't on your list though.
By default alchemist bombs do fire damage. But, it's not really one of the better options. There are alchemist discoveries to change the damage type. At 4th level the character could easily have a couple of other damage types to use instead, acid, frost, and/or tanglefoot bombs are accessible instead of fire.
The character is actually an old one that I used in a Skulls and Shackles campaign a few years back. Here's the character, which hasn't had any adjustments made to it so far.
If you don't want to include grenadier though, I'll consider something other than an alchemist.
Yeah, the first one didn't work so I reposted the link in the subsequent post copied above.
Although alchemist bombs don't work the way you seem to believe they do, it's probably not worth getting into. I suppose I could work up a Sea Singer Bard or something similar.
