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Monk.
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...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I prefer point buy.
Just run into the front line of combat, get yourself killed, and roll a new character as soon as possible.
like our friend with 3s is running anywhere...
I'd reroll. If it came up again, I'd figure out how to make this profitable at a casino.
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Just run into the front line of combat, get yourself killed, and roll a new character as soon as possible.like our friend with 3s is running anywhere...
It's not like he'd be wearing armor. And the club doesn't weigh much. Now that Bugromkiller has brought it up, though, I want to change my vote to "Commoner, with the Rich Parents trait."
Your character would likely not have survived to adventuring age, and if you had... well heck make it an elf to get the Con of 1.
As long as he's not carrying anything to slow him down, he's allowed to run by the rules
i'd say barely:
You can run for a number of rounds equal to your Constitution score, but after that you must make a DC 10 Constitution check to continue running. You must check again each round in which you continue to run, and the DC of this check increases by 1 for each check you have made. When you fail this check, you must stop running.
So he can run for three seconds before, in all likelihood, not running anymore.
edit: 18 second
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Oh! If you play a kobold, your strength is at -1. That means you are permanently unconscious.
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Even playing as an inbred pureblood azlanti commoner you would still suck even with straight 5s.
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Maybe I should've said something like "If the character dies, the character is automatically resurrected one week later".
Synthesist doesn't sound too bad, except that the changing CON values might get you killed.
I'm already immortal? I'll got to Absalom and take the Test of the Starstone, see if I can make it to Godhood. After all, if I fail, I can try again next week.
I have three con at level one I can only die twice before the con damage kills me in two weeks.
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...and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I prefer point buy.
Because of a hypothetical situation in which odds are something like 1 to 100,000,000,000,000 against?
Personally, I make the most deluded man alive. A guy who thinks he's capable of anything, who thinks he's the most brilliant mind in the land, and who believes that all the ladies and most of the guys want him. Whenever he is bested in anything, I have him come up with some reason why the other guy cheated. In battle, I probably have him act cowardly but come in at the end to deliver coup de graces and claim some glory.
And I give him a sick puppy to take care of. So maybe the GM will take pity on me and not kill off the character, because if he dies, who will take care of the puppy?
If we're going this route, it's time to dust off the 1e PHB...
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Race: Human, constitution becomes +5. The extra feat should come in handy.
Class: Barbarian. Fast movement, and the highest amount of hitpoints he can get. Also rage, 1 round per day.
Skills: Stealth, Perception.
Feats: Toughness, Skill Focus (Stealth)
I think I increased his chanses of survival, the Synthesist Summoner would be a safer bet, though.
I wonce played a character similar to this. Storied him as a venerable bed ridden aasimar who made a deal with an outsider. The outsider would give him the power to get out of that bed and even return his physical strength to him for an un-named favor in the future.
Mechanically he was a sythesist summoner that I dumped all physcial stats to 7 and then added venerable to make them a 4. Mental stats got boosted to stupid high levels. I min/maxed my heart out but had a good back story writed up as to why and good role playing to back it up.
Yeah I would say sythesist summoner is the only possible character.
3 + 5 inherent + 6 enhancement = 14 to your casting stat by 20th... so you would be able to at least cast your 4th level spells. With an item that boost all your stats by +6 you would at least have all 9s. Of course you would have to make it to 20th without your party dumping you or you dieing.
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No I don't, because beating my head against the wall is something I have to do too much in real life already....six times. You somehow beat the odds and managed to roll eighteen(assuming 3d6, twenty-four if 4d6) ones during character creation. That means, before racial modifiers, you've got a three in each ability score.
You decide to take this up as a challenge and try building a character that's as effective as you can build it.
Then why are you wasting time replying to the thought experiment in the first place other than to have a place to gripe?
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I'd make a human reincarnated druid. That way I can play another race every week. Bonus stat goes to wis or cha so if I get reincarnated and the new race gets a physical stat bonus my stat total increases.
And surely I'd take eye for talent to increase my companion's int above mine. That way it's clear that the companion is the main char and the druid the pet.
On the side note: back in AD&D time we had the HR that rolling 3 1s was a 18 stat as if you rolled 3 times 6. That way I once managed to roll a PC with 2 18s (one of those was 3 times 1) and an 17.
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You've got a guy who's weak, stupid, clumsy, unlikeable, sickly, and utterly devoid of common sense?
Sounds like Aristocrat material to me!
Viscount Boris von Screwenuppen, a guy whose high starting gold, bolstered with the Rich Parents trait, mean he thinks he runs the party. Tolerated by the other PCs because he can bankroll their operations, Viscount von Screwenuppen quickly puts paid to that notion when he spends a steady stream of gold on the sedan chair he insists on being carried about in- however, the utterly stat-free fact of his nobility makes him marginally useful anyway, since he knows people in (relatively) high places. The fact that they loathe him doesn't change the fact that he comes from a good family who would feel obliged to take it personally if he were simply snubbed.
I would have fun with this character- and in fact, HAVE had fun with someone similar, albeit slightly less pathetic.
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That idea of trying Test Of The Starstone every week appeals much to me. After failing absolutely every attempt until the end of time he should ascend to godhood retroactively as a deity of utter failure and sheer incompetence.
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i'd go alchemist bomb chucker, goblin if you're allowed.
If not, Lenny of the Red Shirt ('cause that's all he wears), scion 53rd removed from the throne ... somewhere (Aristocrat), Throw Anything feat, full load of gear is his red shirt, pack of rations, water and all the oil and tindertwigs he can carry. Donkey with more. Skill is Handle Animal - if human, Skill Focus (Handle Animal). Attack dogs (annoying chihuahua optional). If he survives to 3rd, Catch Off-guard is the next feat.
Since druid has already been suggested, which would be the best option...
Human Cleric [Sun, Liberation]
+2 Cha
Extra Channeling as both feats (4/day)
Traits: Reactionary (Init of -2), Sacred TouchGet a wand of cure light wounds ASAP.
Why would the druid be the best option considering it doesn't take it's physical stats from the creatures it forms into anymore? Wouldn't the synthesist summoner be the best option?
Also rolling isn't that organic at all. Considering most DM's will make you reroll if you do badly and others try to catch up others based on their statistics. Also I would like to say that originality isn't derived from a character's statistical attributes.
Disagree - rolling ability scores is an excellent way to figure out the five w's of a character. Especially if some one has a nasty habit of playing the same thing over and over and over ...
Disagree - rolling ability scores is an excellent way to figure out the five w's of a character. Especially if some one has a nasty habit of playing the same thing over and over and over ...
Actually people have tenancies to play characters with similar traits regardless of their stats. Unless you're talking about rolling in order and to which I say that doesn't sound fun at all. There are next to no benefits from rolling stats. You often end up with characters people just want to kill so they can move onto another character because of their power level. I don't want to play in a game where someone's character is better than mine just because they rolled better one time.
Disagree - rolling ability scores is an excellent way to figure out the five w's of a character. Especially if some one has a nasty habit of playing the same thing over and over and over ...Actually people have tenancies to play characters with similar traits regardless of their stats. Unless you're talking about rolling in order and to which I say that doesn't sound fun at all. There are next to no benefits from rolling stats. You often end up with characters people just want to kill so they can move onto another character because of their power level. I don't want to play in a game where someone's character is better than mine just because they rolled better one time.
To paraphrase, "this group needs an enema!"
Since I usually get stuck with GMing, that very tendency to play the same character over and over is only reinforced by point-buy. Which means that I see players running the same PC over and over. It gets old fast.
Roll in order at least made a player think about the character. There is also the option of swapping ability score sets between players. Getting out of the same old same old is a good thing. Lastly, the "big bad" of the PCs often draws ire first, "like to like".
If your group ever plays Call of Cthulhu, they're going to be severely dissappointed. :)
Since I usually get stuck with GMing, that very tendency to play the same character over and over is only reinforced by point-buy. Which means that I see players running the same PC over and over. It gets old fast.
Strange, people I play with have tendency to make different build despite point buys. Maybe it's the matter of rarely changing characters that motivates them to think of something new :P
If your group ever plays Call of Cthulhu, they're going to be severely dissappointed. :)
Oh, the joy of rolling 4 on 3d6. On the other hand, my friend during a gaming convention saw player character with Intelligence score of 6... We still are wondering how that player managed to get 6 on 2d6+6...
Something that would die really, really quickly so I could reroll something with useful stats :)
But as thats not terribly in line with the thread:
you could still pick a skill and be fairly good at it as you leveled up, if you were willing to really, really dump feats and stuff into it.
such as say- stealth.
with a 5 dex you'd take a -3 to stealth rolls.
With skill focus (stealth) and Stealthy you negate that and bring yourself to stealth +2, if a class skill you can bump that up to +6 at level 1.
Highlander trait can get you another +1 to it, (or Black Sheep if you prefer, pity they don't stack)
Thats +7 at level one- not bad.
You have to do something with the character, being a scout isn't the worst you could do. Just don't try to get cute and attack anything.
Scout, come back, report.
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I don't feel so bad about my backup character's stats now
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