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You said it here. I suppose you might have been joking.


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fictionfan wrote:
You said it here. I suppose you might have been joking.

No, I actually did that.

Take a look at Helegûr and Daren Mott.


Ravingdork wrote:

That doesn't sound really feasible unless it's a fighter (or perhaps a ranger), and even then, it would be highly suboptimal, boldstar. Sounds like a fairly interesting concept though. If I did make such a character, I would probably also throw in Deflect Arrows and Snatch Arrows just for fun. Nothing quite like catching the return throw of your own axe just to spite the enemy.

** spoiler omitted **

On an unrelated note, Bein has been fixed. Feel free to continue looking for errors in her, or in others.

Thanks. This is just what I was looking for.


@boldstar: Ranger would be best if you know about what you will be regularly fighting. Fighter if you don't. Fighter does have the better reliability compared to the Ranger when it comes to them getting their Built-in Class Bonuses.


Thanks. I am interested in optimizing a non-optimal build, if that makes sense. I have been thinking ranger or fighter with a dip in rogue, but as Ravingdork pointed out, it looks like if is really feat dependent, so rogue is probably out.


Rogue is Meh for TWF.


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I find your lack of bards disturbing


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So add some.


I don't think your chain of feats is possible for Nudel. 15 levels is 8 Feats? Going to guess that Endurance was a bonus feat. None of the others can be taken at level one. Love the character. Wish it were PFS legal.

Nudels Feats:

Feats:
(1)Craft Wondrous Item,
(2)Craft Magic Arms and Armor,
(3)Endurance B,
(4)Furious Finish,
(5)Improved Natural Attack (bite),
(6)Improved Vital Strike,
(7)Natural Spell,
(8)Vital Strike,
(9)Wild Speech

Shadow Lodge

Azaelas Fayth wrote:
Human rogue is Meh for TWF.

(Fixed.)

Silver Crusade

Sir Thugsalot wrote:
Azaelas Fayth wrote:
Human rogue is Meh for TWF.
(Fixed.)

He was right the first time. TWF is best on a character with full BAB and lots of fess. Neither of those things describes a rogue.


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Havoq wrote:

I don't think your chain of feats is possible for Nudel. 15 levels is 8 Feats? Going to guess that Endurance was a bonus feat. None of the others can be taken at level one. Love the character. Wish it were PFS legal.

** spoiler omitted **

Good eye. I'll see about fixing that this evening (have to go to work now).


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Nudel has been adjusted. Instead of Craft Magic Arms and Armor, she now has Razortusk, allowing her to legally qualify for all of her feats.

Much of her equipment has changed to reflect her new-found inability to afford some of her gear. Overall, her AC dropped 5 points and her saves by 1 point. Her climb and swim skills also dropped by 5 points each. She now possesses a bite attack in all of her forms (thematically appropriate I think).


Bigdaddyjug wrote:
Sir Thugsalot wrote:
Azaelas Fayth wrote:
Human rogue is Meh for TWF.
(Fixed.)
He was right the first time. TWF is best on a character with full BAB and lots of fess. Neither of those things describes a rogue.

This is correct. Rogues do get a good advantage with TWF and Sneak Attack but they are still not the Best for it.

Humans are actually one of the better options for a TWF Rogue as you can get the Bonus Feat to help out with the Feat Tax and help giving an extra Skill Point for out-of-combat situations. They can even trade the Feat and Skill Point for another Ability Score increase if they need it.


Just want to say I really admire the creative builds and concepts as well as the nice layout and selection of portraits. These are really inspiring characters. Too bad they are too high-octane in power level to use as-is in my home game, but fun to look at nonetheless.


Too High-Octane?


We are using a lower point buy and mostly just core.


If I recall correctly, there was a version of Yiankun that had Echo Spell and Preferred Spell as two of her feats. This allowed her to sacrifice any 7th, 8th, or 9th level spell slot to cast Flesh to Stone, and along with Echo Spell, she could double those slots for Flesh to Stone (because of Spell Perfection). So Yiankun, essentially, had some 60-odd uses of Flesh to Stone available to her in any given day.

I think that's one definition of, "Too High-Octane". Probably makes Yiankun, potentially, one of the deadliest BBEG's one could come up with, assuming she was evil or against an evil party.


Yeah, stuff like that :)


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Grimmy wrote:

Yeah, stuff like that :)

And here I was going to recommend just deducting 2 from all d20 rolls, damage rolls, and AC.

...but that's probably going to be the least of your worries. ;P


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If you want up-to-date, accurate, error-free character ideas, please bookmark THIS LINK instead. It has ALL of the characters from earlier in this thread all in one place, plus some new characters and additional resources as well (such as a character template you can use to make your own characters).

I hope you all enjoy having everything all in one place, rather than scattered all over this thread. I will continue adding characters to this thread over time, as before, but will be using SkyDrive from now on. It is simply more reliable and more convenient for all of us.


I'm so tempted to post in before lock, but I want to take the time to thank you instead. Having this list clears up many ambiguous rules as well as provide characters (and villains).


Before Lock?

And yes, thank you Ravingdork. These are amazing.

Though to bad the Template only works with Microsoft and not any opensource...


The Template works on Open Office, I'm using it right now.


Really? Mine keeps putting the words outside of the Margins to where only half is visible...


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Inconsistencies like that are why I don't use Open Office.


Eh, got a new computer with Windows 8, doesn't come with word, or at least if it does, haven't yet figured out where the damned thing is.


@Tels: Nice. How good is Windows 8?

@Ravingdork: The only time you get inconsistencies like this is going from Word to the Open Document Format. LibreOffice and OpenOffice work fine together and work fine with their files in Word but Word Docs don't work. Microsoft doesn't want a free software able to save and open Word Documents perfectly. After all that would mean people wouldn't have as many reasons to pay for it.


It's got some neat features, but it's annoying as hell. There is no Start menu to run things from. You have to got to an 'app screen' that displays the apps you use. If it's not there, you have to open up 'All Apps' and find it.

There is the option to go back to the more familiar Desktop, but if you want to open any program, you have to navigate to the programs folder on your hard drive and hope it's there, or find it in the apps screen, which will then open it on the deskptop. Maybe. If a program hasn't been updated to be read as an App, then it won't appear on the apps screen, and some programs don't have files in the program files. So if you get unlucky, some programs are neither considered apps, nor appear in the program files, and it's a pain to start. If you shut down such a program, you have to restart the computer to restart the program. Unless you know the file name for the run command.

All in all, it's not very user friendly. I wasn't consulted first on buying the two new computers, so we now have a Gateway touch screen desktop, and a Toshiba laptop, both with Windows 8 on it.

Start Screen
Apps Screen
Apps Screen 2
Desktop


Yikes... Then again I am used to Ubuntu and other Linux which are close to that by the sound of it.

And now I have to ask. Who bought them?

And have you not tried the "Add to Apps" Function?


No, not yet. It's just very annoying that, before, I could just open the Start button, and find all my programs right there, easy to find and quick to boot up. Now, I have to either pin it all to the start menu, or scroll through everything on the computer to find it.

Granted, I know that the whole Windows 8 was designed to interface between all the Microsoft technology (phones, tablets, Xbox, Computers) to make things easier, but some of the things could have been better thought out.

Also, it doesn't help that I'm kind of an elitist and I despise smartphones. It REALLY annoys me that all 'programs' are now called 'apps' because that's what they're called on phones. I don't want a supersized smartphone or tablet, but that's kind of what I got.

[Edit]My Dad is a welder by trade, and started his own business recently. We needed a new computer, and instead of asking me my opinion (which he normally does), he let the people at Best Buy talk him into the Gateway and Desktop. I would have got an Acer or a Lenovo, but my Dad has a habit of thinking Salesmen won't use pretty words to make a sale.


Actually the Apps thing got started thanks to the Simplified Open Source Operating System(SOS OSs). That is the Precursor to Linux. Apps=Applications which in it were lines of code set to launch programs. Think Windows Shortcuts.

Basically you typed in the Name and it would launch the GUI for the Program. The Newest version is one of the best for Minecraft & a Open Source PDF Creator known as OpenWriter. You can also run it on 1/4 of a GB of R.A.M.

EDIT: Wow... Acer & Lenovo are some of the best for Business in my Experience. So I am with you there.


While that may be true where it started, I get the feeling it was switched from Programs to Apps to draw more consumers from the Smartphones. I know lots of people don't touch computers anymore other than to do stuff like type essays, they just use their phones for everything.


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The only reason you're finding it annoying, Tels, is because you're trying to use it like an older version of windows.

You don't go to the "start menu" when you want to get to a program quickly. You hit the Windows key and then type the name of your program. You'll get to your program MUCH quicker that way.

I've watched experienced Windows 8 users move through programs and files lightning fast. All it takes is unlearning the years of tedious digging through menus and prompts that older versions of windows instilled into you.


You're probably right about that Ravingdork, it's just that new system grumpiness getting to me more than likely. Although, I will mention that I've never been this annoyed by a new version of Windows before, but it's also the most drastically different one in my experience as well.

[Edit]Also, threadjack. :P


dot. dot. dot.


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@Ravingdork: That sounds like how I use Vista/7...


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lol. I never noticed that you could do that in 7 as well.

SO gonna start using that on my laptop more.


Ravingdork wrote:

lol. I never noticed that you could do that in 7 as well.

SO gonna start using that on my laptop more.

It is so much easier!


Not on topic for the character emporium but if you want the "classic" windows experience with windows 8 you can load the shell UI and it looks/acts more like win7, and you can break into the native win8 UI if you need to.


Anyone interested in a Crossbowman and Swordswoman team? They will be around level 1-3.

If you are I can post them and some more lower level builds (Levels 1-5).


Ok, so I really like Obrist Lang, but am curious about his construct...

Now is it just a construct or is it counstruct armor he wears? Also If you could be so kind as to break down the creation process on the construct I would be very grateful


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Azaelas Fayth wrote:

Anyone interested in a Crossbowman and Swordswoman team? They will be around level 1-3.

If you are I can post them and some more lower level builds (Levels 1-5).

I would definitely be interested in them. Please and thank you!


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EsperMagic wrote:

Ok, so I really like Obrist Lang, but am curious about his construct...

Now is it just a construct or is it counstruct armor he wears? Also If you could be so kind as to break down the creation process on the construct I would be very grateful

It is NOT construct armor as shown in Ultimate Magic. It is however, still a suit of armor (an object being made into an animated object can still function as said object).

In other words, when worn it is treated exactly like normal armor. When not worn, it is animate.


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He's essentially the samurai who stabs you in the heart after you've cut off his head. :P

He also uses his constructs to keep his enemies confused as to which one is really him.


Wait he has multiple suits of armour?

Also would you be interested in helping me to understand how Animated Objects Work?

@Malkier1023: Alright I will start work on Prettying them up and converting them back to normal Pathfinder and not the Houserule Pack we normally use.


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It might help if you were more specific, Azaelas. What part about animated objects are you having difficulty understanding?


I think i'm with azaelas...so is it Obrist and his armor plus a second suit of armor? Or is it Obrist by himself with an animated suit of armor he can don if need be?


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It's Obrist in a magical suit of armor along with two animated armors which he can adorn if he chooses. In all, three suits of armor, only two of which are animate.

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