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Just figured I'd beat some people to the punch...
AM TEMPLATE
This template can be applied to any creature, but is most commonly seen on humanoids. Creatures with this template are referred to by the prefix AM, and the all-caps, no punctuation label which defines race, class, function or snarky claim. For example, applying this template to an Elven Adept can yield a creature with names like AM ELF CASTY, or AM POTHICARY, or AM TREE HUGGER, or AM SUBOPTIMAL BUILD, or AM STILL BETTER THAN ROGUE.
Ability Score Adjustments: +6 to STR, DEX and CON, -6 to INT, WIS and CHA
AM SKILL MONKEY (Ex): All AM creatures gain skill ranks as if their INT score were 10 higher than it is.
AM CASTY (Ex): If the base creature has spellcasting ability or spell-like abilities, including via a class, treat their primary casting stat as if it were 10 higher than it is.
AM VIABLE (Ex): If the base creature has class or racial abilities which depend on INT, WIS or CHA, treat that ability score as if it were 10 higher than it is when calculating the ability's mechanics.
AM ELOQUENT (Ex): All AM creatures can only speak, read or write AM, which is a simplified common. They can speak or read no other language, and are barred from investing ranks in Linguistics.
RAGELANCEPOUNCE (Ex): AM creatures have the exceptional metagame ability which allows them to exploit loopholes and obscure game design oversights. This lets them make use of absurd synergies between class abilities, racial abilities, feats, spells, equipment and the like. The iconic example of this is the name of this ability, RAGELANCEPOUNCE, where a barbarian combines the Greater Beast Totem rage ability with the Spirited Charge feat, allowing overpowering damage with a full attack on a mounted charge using a lance while raging.
ANYTHING AM MISSING?
a sense of humor...
Seriously though, that last ability is the only one necessary. The idea of an AM build is to take advantage of the rules *as they are*, not give giant arbitrary bonuses out of nowhere.
The idea is to allow for the other AMs bouncing around, such as AM MYSTIC THEURGE, whose obviously low wisdom and intelligence would be crippling to the character. The mechanics listed would return it back to a somewhat viable character.
Or think about the inevitable AM ROGUE (I'm sure someone made him) whose low INT turns skill ranks into a laughing matter. Hence, AM SKILL MONKEY.
Oh! I missed AM PALADIN ... his poor CHA stat would drag saves and smites into the mud. Hand on, I gadda edit.
EDIT: Done! Thanks for being a sounding board.
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I think the only thing necessary for an AM build is to be as optimized as possible and possess a certain speech impediment.
Seriously, look at AM BARBs posts. They often have very intelligent ideas underneath the block letters and caveman colloquialisms.
Even the AM WIZZARD I've seen a few times just talks stupid. He's not actually stupid.
Think of it like a quantum physicist with a deep southern accent.
Oh, yes.