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My friend is going to do a campaign over winter break and it was mentioned that we will be against Santa. I thought it might be neat to make a character themed to a different holiday to take the fat man down.
We will be starting at level 17 and I'd prefer something non-melee whether it be ranged or caster.
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A Halloween Witch that never gets any presents on Christmas due to a clerical elf error. Now she is out for vengeance. Buy her a flying broomstick for air-sleigh battles!
Edit: Instead of brew potions, she makes candies!
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DO a yeti from our famous TV history....
The Abominable Snow Monster of the North (a.k.a. Bumble)
- A large, ferocious ape-like mammal of unspecified species, possibly a yeti. He pursues Rudolph throughout their adventure. The sight of Rudolph's glowing red nose drives Bumble into a rage and he hates everything to do with Christmas as well.
EDIT: Added link and fixed spelling.
My friend is going to do a campaign over winter break and it was mentioned that we will be against Santa. I thought it might be neat to make a character themed to a different holiday to take the fat man down.
We will be starting at level 17 and I'd prefer something non-melee whether it be ranged or caster.
Hmm, Christmas-themed caster, level 17? How about a progressive, but steadfast, cleric that can walk on water, turn water to wine, cast Miracle, and bring about the end of days if he's really pissed enough?
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So you're Mr. Oktoboberfet (Drunken monk 17), and during a particularly drunken night of bragging you were tricked into a geas to "Beat that fat-ass down and grind his liver and some reindeer into brautwurst". Now magically compelled to complete this task, you down a couple of beers and head up to the north pole, ready to face his dread army of elves.
So. Many. Fun. Options.
Easter:
-Easter Druid. Your favorite shape is a bunny.
-Easter Summoner. With a Giant Pink Deadly bunny as an eidolon.
Valentine's Day:
-Cupid, Arcane Archer for Hire (or any other archer theme build)
Indedence day:
-Tommy J., a gunslinger from Andoran with a top-hat.
Halloween:
-Jlords' halloween witch idea is seriously wicked. Pun intended.
November 1st (Day of the deads):
-Why, a necromancer of course!
Summer solstice:
-Fire sorcerer. Bring on the heat!!!
Someone in the Advanced Races playtest cam up with stats <url=http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pat hfinderRPG/rules/racialTraits2Wisdom>here</url> for Final Fantasy Viera (Bunny Girls). You could make an Easter Bunny! I'd go archer, maybe Zen Archer Monk/Ranger, Ranger/Inquisitor or Zen Archer Monk/Inquisitor.
BTW, that sounds like a blast! :)
First, watch the movie, Rare Exports (not the shorts of the same name) for Santa as bad guy inspiration. Then modify the Wendigo stat block. Change fly speed to 60 ft. land speed. Change size to huge. Add a gore attack. Remove dream, psychosis, and wind walk abilities. Change SLAs to suit super scary monster Santa.
And be sure to add plenty of Santa's Little Helpers.
Might I suggest some cold resistance?
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Ok. Out those ideas the ones that are from the old rudolph and santa movies sound like they would be the most hilarious. I had forgotten about them when I was originally trying to come up with ideas.
This GM also was running a Dante's inferno based campaign that unfortunately fell flat due to lack of time on his part.
Terry Pratchett's novel, Hogfather is a good read, as it's about a plot to kill "Santa". The book also makes the case that Santa is just a modern skin put on an ancient go of the hunt/harvest, so making Golarion's Santa an avatar of Erastil might work well.
A hippie-freak Druid for the Earth Day (but could also be a vegan Monk).
You need backup from the Elven Liberation Front, Or ELF.
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You are the New Year's child. Once a well-beloved baby, you are now a craven old man. If you don't find a different holiday's spirit to take over, you are doomed to die on Dec. 31st at midnight. Most holiday characters have gone into hiding, but St. nick has to stay out to prep for Christmas. Use your time-based magical abilities (Wizard 17-alteration, focused entirely on time spells) to destroy St Nick and put on his suit to extend your life.
Dotting.
Also, someone should read Sluggy Freelance.
'Cause this happens in that. Like, exactly.
Might I suggest some cold resistance?
Mr. Cold Miser.
What do you think Santa's CR is? I mean he is omniscient when it comes to people. How do you fight that? I wonder what the combined CR is with his reindeer and sleigh?
Santa would be in the high twenties at least I think, level wise. He's got some kind of time slowing spell/ability that allows him to visit all the houses in the world in a single night (even assuming "a single night" means "a period of twenty four hours from say 1:00-1:59 AM, or 2:00-2:59 AM local time in each time zone" that's still pretty impressive. Even an extended time stop, a 10th level spell, will only give you minute of apparent time at max.
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I think Santa creates a demiplane with two traits.
1) It is contiguous with the prime material (like the Ethereal Plane and the Plane of Shadow).
2) Time spent on Santa's Demiplane passes at a much slower rate, such that days, weeks, even years on Santa's Plane amount to mere seconds or less on the prime material.
He spends who knows how long leisurely placing presents under prime-material trees in the contiguous demiplane. Then, when everything is in place, Santa destroys the Demiplane and all the gifts are cast out at once and find themselves in the prime-material plane.
Plus, people who really believe are able to see into the SantaPlane.
I think this makes Santa a high level Conjurer or other character with access to Greater Create Demiplane. I suspect that there is either an artifact used to augment the effect (the sleigh? the North Pole?) or he is using Power Components (children's laughter or Belief).
At least this is how my parents always explained it to me.
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Back in 2001 (I think) Sean K. Reynolds Stated "Nickolas the Gift-Giver" (along with his "Northern Palace and his gnome toy-makers)...
HERE is the link...
Thanks, Digitalelf!
Santa's natural attack is with "claws".