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Quick question to see how you guys would do this. Thinking of making an Oracle of Time, in the style of "The Doctor" (yes from Doctor Who). Half Elf or Elf I think. Stats I rolled: 14, 15, 17, 11, 12, 13. (in no specific order)
If you can come up with a better class or race for "The Doctor" I am all ears. But I want to make sure that he can hit hard if he has to, but for the most part I want him mobile and aiding the rest of the party, with a dash of protecting the squishy targets.
I eagerly await your thoughts
The Doctor is totally a bard. With a wand of Knock. He gets all kinds of Knowledge skills, social skills, and especially Inspire Courage ("You know what it's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you make them want to impress you.")
The Doctor is totally a bard. With a wand of Knock. He gets all kinds of Knowledge skills, social skills, and especially Inspire Courage ("You know what it's dangerous about you? It's not that you make people take risks, it's that you make them want to impress you.")
I think bard is the best bet. Knowledge and social skills are his whole shtick. For regeneration, you'd need something entirely separate, a racial trait. He'd probably just be level 5 or 6 (that's what most elite characters outside of very high fantasy would be).
Samsaran seems like the most appropriate race to me.
And of course, Versatile Performance to use Perform (oratory) as Sense Motive ("Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today, not ever. I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm... And you basically meant beat them in a football match, didn't you?).
Ooh, the race has to be an Emberkin Aasimar. +2 to INT and CHA, definitely the Doctor's best stats. Also, check out the description:
...Emberkin often feel an insatiable need to continually perform acts of good. Some are content to perform small acts of kindness at home, though they may feel driven to travel regularly in order to find pockets of true evil that they can eradicate. Emberkin can often be found in tumultuous regions such as Cheliax, Galt, and the Shackles, where they combat injustice in its myriad forms.
Ooh, the race has to be an Emberkin Aasimar. +2 to INT and CHA, definitely the Doctor's best stats. Also, check out the description:
...Emberkin often feel an insatiable need to continually perform acts of good. Some are content to perform small acts of kindness at home, though they may feel driven to travel regularly in order to find pockets of true evil that they can eradicate. Emberkin can often be found in tumultuous regions such as Cheliax, Galt, and the Shackles, where they combat injustice in its myriad forms.
Yeah, I like that too.
I have to agree with the Bard idea, the doctor is differently a bard.
BTW mod this should be moved to advise, as this is how to make a character...
But it's how to make a specific fictional character in the pathfinder rules, so... Conversions.
Okay I am all for a Bard, I have never played one before. So I am thinking an elf or a half-elf. If there is another race that doesn't require any level adjustments they would be welcomed. I am thinking.
Str 13
Dex 15
Con 14
Int 11
Wis 12
Cha 17
Focus on using a whip and a short sword or Scimitar if I have the feats/traits.
Probably a bow as well.
The earlier suggestion of an emberkin aasimar seems pretty great to me. You have a net +2, but it really fits so well. It makes you inhuman and inherently good. Plus, you get a bonus to knowledge (planes) and spellcraft. It fits so well. And pyrotechnics is a good power for the Doctor, because it's very theatrical and kind of makes you think of him making things explode with his sonic screwdriver. Just read the description of their personalities, too. Really the perfect fit.
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I think we can all agree that The Doctor has epic levels, stats in the area of a 50 point buy, and a Brazen Egg for travel. Therefore I propose the following build: 5 levels of Reincarnated Druid as suggested by blackbloodtroll, 10 levels of Detective Bard, and 15 levels of Loremaster. (What? He's The Doctor.)
I did Oracle of Lore.
I think we can all agree that The Doctor has epic levels, stats in the area of a 50 point buy, and a Brazen Egg for travel. Therefore I propose the following build: 5 levels of Reincarnated Druid as suggested by blackbloodtroll, 10 levels of Detective Bard, and 15 levels of Loremaster. (What? He's The Doctor.)
I disagree. I don't see him as being epic at all. His universe just don't have as high-leveled characters as the Pathfinder rule system allows. He's probably 6 or 7.
I was thinking about it for a second and I don't think The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver would be a Wand of Knock. Not only can it open things, but it can close them as well. I'd probably propose a custom magic item that casts spells at will.
The biggest problem with the Sonic Screwdriver is just that it can really do anything the writers need it to do. So not only would you need Knock, Arcane Lock, and Hold Portal, you'd probably need Status (since I remember it being used as a biological scanner at some point), Mending (since it can repair broken equipment), some spell that activates things from a distance (I have no idea what spell you'd use for that one), and other spells for any kind of function the device has that I can't remember at the moment.
The price of this thing would probably end up being in the hundreds of thousands of gold.
Just a small staff would do.
I was thinking about it for a second and I don't think The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver would be a Wand of Knock. Not only can it open things, but it can close them as well. I'd probably propose a custom magic item that casts spells at will.
The biggest problem with the Sonic Screwdriver is just that it can really do anything the writers need it to do. So not only would you need Knock, Arcane Lock, and Hold Portal, you'd probably need Status (since I remember it being used as a biological scanner at some point), Mending (since it can repair broken equipment), some spell that activates things from a distance (I have no idea what spell you'd use for that one), and other spells for any kind of function the device has that I can't remember at the moment.
The price of this thing would probably end up being in the hundreds of thousands of gold.
Not all models of the Sonic Screwdriver have the medical scanning capability. It's really a telekinetic set of thieves' tools. Just so happens that Disable Device covers a lot of what it can do. Some enhancement of mundane items, yes, but Pathfinder doesn't have the same power level of mundane items as the modern or future worlds the Doctor usually seems to be in. And the damned thing still doesn't work on wood! It might have some sort of Hold Portal, but I really think he just locks doors from range. He does generally try to find the doors that would be hardest to get to. And it can't break deadlocks (which I'm guessing would be certain types of magical locks or something in Pathfinder).
Even if I have to repeat myself: I wouldn't even try to come up with stats for the Doctor. He's a god. Gods don't have stats for a reason.
I don't see why Samsaran is being ignored in favor of elves.
Speaking of which, I think a fundamental problem is that the Doctor's stats would vary depending on which Doctor we're talking about.
Too bad you can't make the animal companion for the druid be a "human." (Yes DM, my animal companion is a 1st level human commoner.)
I would go with the Race of Samsaran or the Emberkin Assamir. I agree with the five levels of Reincarnation Druid, then go bard after that.
I would just fluff the sonic screw driver. Making it a glowing wand thingy that whenever you cast your spells from Druid or Bard, you use the glowing wand to do it.
Anyone who thinks that The Doctor fits within a wargame like D20 really really doesn't understand the concept of appropriate fit to genre. There is simply no way that D20 can do the appropriate justice, it's either an overpowered build or something that totally fails to capture the flavor of the characters and the show.Quick question to see how you guys would do this. Thinking of making an Oracle of Time, in the style of "The Doctor" (yes from Doctor Who). Half Elf or Elf I think. Stats I rolled: 14, 15, 17, 11, 12, 13. (in no specific order)
If you can come up with a better class or race for "The Doctor" I am all ears. But I want to make sure that he can hit hard if he has to, but for the most part I want him mobile and aiding the rest of the party, with a dash of protecting the squishy targets.
I eagerly await your thoughts
Next you're going to tell me that veggies are good for me and I should brush my teeth, man........
Carry on then....
There actually is a proper roleplaying venue... the Dr Who RPG.Next you're going to tell me that veggies are good for me and I should brush my teeth, man........Anyone who thinks that The Doctor fits within a wargame like D20 really really doesn't understand the concept of appropriate fit to genre. There is simply no way that D20 can do the appropriate justice, it's either an overpowered build or something that totally fails to capture the flavor of the characters and the show.Quick question to see how you guys would do this. Thinking of making an Oracle of Time, in the style of "The Doctor" (yes from Doctor Who). Half Elf or Elf I think. Stats I rolled: 14, 15, 17, 11, 12, 13. (in no specific order)
If you can come up with a better class or race for "The Doctor" I am all ears. But I want to make sure that he can hit hard if he has to, but for the most part I want him mobile and aiding the rest of the party, with a dash of protecting the squishy targets.
I eagerly await your thoughts
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