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Now the the influx of "But there's no monster PC rules in PFRPG Bestiary!!!!11oneeleventyone" posts have slowed a bit, I figured I might as well ask.
What's your favorite 'monster' PC race? Why? Any favorite instances?
Mine would be a tie between:
The reincarnate Kobold Swashbuckler/Cleric of Bahamut that I played for Keep on the Borderlands.
The Troll that I'm about to play with that same group long after they leave the keep.
or possibly the Rogue Modron Psion I played in a Planar game.
Kobold Dragonfire Adept.
There were Phanatons in Savage Tide, I've seen multiple groups having one as a PC after encountering them.
Kobolds make regular enough appearances at my table that we've stopped thinking of them as monsters. RotD is mostly to thank for that.
My Shadow Wyrmling Shadowcaster who I played for all of two sessions. Looking for a chance to play her again, but all the additional houserule stuff applied rules out using her anywhere outside my normal group.
And I have a long-running love for Yuan-Ti, but I've never had a chance to play one. I've had an idea for a Yuan-Ti Druid in my head for quite some time now but no chance to use it.
I had a Naga Ninja statted up for a Rokugan game that never got played as well.
So many concepts, so few games... le sigh....
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I've always wanted to play a Phanaton (the flying-squirrel-raccoon-people) that existed in the Greyhawk universe.
A phanaton monk would be especially fun.
Yea, they originated in the old blue box Expert Set in the "Isle of Dread" module. Along with the Areana spider creatures and the Kopru.
I think a minotaur would offer some fun RP opportunities. Maybe some would consider that to vanilla, but it would make a reasonable PC in my opinion.
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I've always wanted to play a Phanaton (the flying-squirrel-raccoon-people) that existed in the Greyhawk universe.
A phanaton monk would be especially fun.
Yea, they originated in the old blue box Expert Set in the "Isle of Dread" module. Along with the Areana spider creatures and the Kopru.
I think a minotaur would offer some fun RP opportunities. Maybe some would consider that to vanilla, but it would make a reasonable PC in my opinion.
Meep! Isle of Dread? That's hardcore.
Of the minotaurs I've read, the Savage Species write up was good, but I favor the Krynnish minotaur. Then again, I'm just a Krynnophile.
I had fun playing fey'ri (Forgotten Realms succubus-blooded sunelf-tieflings that can change their shape) in the past (well, it was the same rogue/assassin both times, but still).
I also played an incubus (i.e. succubus who preferred a male form) in a monstrous game once. Fun times.
Drinking contests are fun if you're immune to poison. If you play your cards right, you as the "skinny baby-faced guy" can get people to drink themselves to death. }>
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I had fun playing fey'ri (Forgotten Realms succubus-blooded sunelf-tieflings that can change their shape) in the past (well, it was the same rogue/assassin both times, but still).
I also played an incubus (i.e. succubus who preferred a male form) in a monstrous game once. Fun times.
Drinking contests are fun if you're immune to poison. If you play your cards right, you as the "skinny baby-faced guy" can get people to drink themselves to death. }>
You're evil.
I like it.
Monster characters, hmm...well my favourite ones I played would have to be my Ogre Mage Warlock, my Fey-ri/Half-Dragon/Monk or my Bugbear/Were-Bear/Barbarian called Beorn.
I've said it on these boards many times before, and I'll say it again. When playing 3.0, I loved playing a...
PIXIE!!!
I've never enjoyed playing a rogue, except when playing a PIXIE rogue. Then I can sneak-attack round after round without ever turning visible. And the wings are also, obviously, a huge plus.
(Although, when I used Savage Species, playing a low-level Astral Deva was fun too. What a pity I never got around to using the Genie, or the Hound Archon, or the winged template. Or an Abeil, from the Monster Manual II.)
the templates in Savage Species scare me, my DM threw a Gelatinous old Green Dragon at me at one point, made the entire party scream and say "eeew!" at the same time.
the templates in Savage Species scare me, my DM threw a Gelatinous old Green Dragon at me at one point, made the entire party scream and say "eeew!" at the same time.
... I need to look at this book again. >:D
the templates in Savage Species scare me, my DM threw a Gelatinous old Green Dragon at me at one point, made the entire party scream and say "eeew!" at the same time.
So it was a Snot Dragon? Did you defeat it with kleenex?
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Favorite monster races gnolls and bugbears
My favorite monster character would probably be Was-a-rat.
He started as a nezumi ninja shugenja then got turned into a gnoll by a wish adventure we ran out of a Dungeon.
Gnoll "who are all of you"
Me "well I was a rat now"
Gnoll "Nice to meet you was-a-rat"
Its fun being over 7 foot and not making a sound.
As to weirdness from savage species made a mummified insectile ogre using the template examples once.Obviously never played it was just bored and reading the book.
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We had a pseudodragon PC in our campaign about 8 years ago. The player was new to D&D and she wasn't sure if she wanted to get involved in a long campaign. She decided to play the wizard's familiar, so that she could bow out without interfering with the story if she didn't like it.
She turned out to enjoy it so much that she is still a member of my gaming group to this day.
She played "Purrzull" as a standard pseudodragon until the party reached 5th level, then I allowed her to start taking class levels. Thus, "Purrzull the Pseudodragon Psion" came to be.
Two words. Werepenguin ninja!
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We had a pseudodragon PC in our campaign about 8 years ago. The player was new to D&D and she wasn't sure if she wanted to get involved in a long campaign. She decided to play the wizard's familiar, so that she could bow out without interfering with the story if she didn't like it.
She turned out to enjoy it so much that she is still a member of my gaming group to this day.
She played "Purrzull" as a standard pseudodragon until the party reached 5th level, then I allowed her to start taking class levels. Thus, "Purrzull the Pseudodragon Psion" came to be.
AWESOME!!!
Now the the influx of "But there's no monster PC rules in PFRPG Bestiary!!!!11oneeleventyone" posts have slowed a bit, I figured I might as well ask.
What's your favorite 'monster' PC race? Why? Any favorite instances?
Waaaaay back in late 1e days I had a thief 'transmogrified' into a small green slime that found himself in a small bowl atop the mage's chest of drawers.
Once I figured out that (a) I could move, (b) I could eat just like a green slime, gaining size and all that fun stuff as I racked up the hit points and (c) I still had my sneaaking skills ... well, it was not pretty. Everything became a source of hit points - the midden, furnishings, clothes, the critters and vegetation in the moat, most of the drawbridge (along with all the horsemen sent out across it when they fell into my waiting maw) and eventually the mage himself.
Gotta love the horror on the DMs face when he hears: " I wait in the privvy until I see skinny mage tucas on one of the seats. Then I give him a Backstab Green Slime Enema. " Even as a GM I do not believe I've administered a more horrific death.
The end of that session the GM 'retired' my beloved green slime thief to his home-brew Dungeon of Horrendous Doom (or whatever he calls it). And every once in a while I get to re-tell the tale... :)
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I played a Kenku Shugenja through the Savage Tide adventure path. A decent bluff check, combined with the ability to mimic voices, lets you do some pretty fascinating things....like establish yourself as King of the Bullywugs. I had them worshipping the Almighty Bird God by the end of that game (who appeared to my character in the midst of a drunken stupor).
Then there was my Goblin gunslinger, The Ugly, who was just completely awesome, and I wish I'd have gotten to play him longer, but that game sort of fell apart due to Real Life circumstances.
I also once built a Kobold Factotum, inspired by the Ecology of the Adventurer article from Dragon Magazine, who had established himself among a party of adventurers so he could study them Dian Fossey/Gorillas in the Mist style. The story was, he got banished from his clan for studying 'the dark arts' (ie, all the stuff PC Adventurers do, thus his Factotum abilities). I was really looking forward to using Handle Animal on any human NPCs we came across.
Then there was my Goblin gunslinger, The Ugly, who was just completely awesome, and I wish I'd have gotten to play him longer, but that game sort of fell apart due to Real Life circumstances.
That pic is soooo cool! Did you do that yourself? And do you have other art to display?
That pic is soooo cool!Then there was my Goblin gunslinger, The Ugly, who was just completely awesome, and I wish I'd have gotten to play him longer, but that game sort of fell apart due to Real Life circumstances.
I second. AWESOME. And Hilarious.
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I second. AWESOME. And Hilarious.That pic is soooo cool!Then there was my Goblin gunslinger, The Ugly, who was just completely awesome, and I wish I'd have gotten to play him longer, but that game sort of fell apart due to Real Life circumstances.
Hugo 'Butterfrog' Solis did the art, he's pretty famous here on the boards. I just colored it. There's a link in the "Artist's Comments" box that'll take you to his page, if you want to check out the rest of his stuff.
We're all pretty much familiar with Hugo's art. :) We were just wondering if there were more undiscovered talented artists lurking on Paizo.
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Time for a fifth attempt at this post. I've been interrupted every time I've tried to post this.
I just introduced two new monster PC's that I'm already rather fond of.
Ylva - A 5th level Troll. RAW from Savage Species. Her backstory has her as a Basement Troll for the local Wizard's Guild. Her entire life, to the point of game start, has been spent serving as both material components for the Guild, and also an apprentice scribe. She's got an INT of 12, making her much smarter than the average Troll. Smart enough to be patient. When the Troll class development plays out, I have plans to take her into Sorcerer with the Fire Elemental bloodline. Because a fireproof troll who can throw arcane spells amuses me far too much to pass up. Add in a STR of 26, a DEX of 16, CON 20, WIS 10 (no world experience) and CHA of 11 (strictly average) she's going to be a bit of a powerhouse. I'm going to enjoy this a LOT.
White Oliphant - A 1st level Half-Ogre (Racial RAW from Savage Species, everything else PFRPG standard) Monk. Lawful Good with STR 20, DEX 14, CON 20, INT 14, WIS 16 and CHA 6, she's a wonderful exercise in RP just from the stats. I'm playing up her low Charisma not based on her appearance, she's 'average for a half-ogre' in that department. It's the strength of her personality, or lack thereof, that takes that dump-stat and makes it shine. Simply put, she's the wishy-washiest type of Lawful Good. She does good, and follows order, because it's all she's ever known. Abandoned at the gates of the Monastery of the Standing Stone, raised by the Monks thereof, White is an innocent with no true world experience. Also, the idea of a Half-Ogre that speaks Celestial and makes with the unarmed combat just amuses me greatly.