Princess Animal Parts
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I may not be the first person to bring something like this up and nor do I care if I am or are not.
In Pathfinder Society Organized Play I have taken time to look at my barbarian and how she's developed these past 10 levels.
She went from a mercenary built to break objects and people for the Sczarni to a "Sarenite Blade of Mercy" who will be spending 33 Prestige to join the Silver Crusade. Early on her rage powers were meant for covering her weaknesses. First steps showing me how vulnerable to spells I am and then power attack hurting my attack bonus so getting related accuracy rage powers and extra attacks. In addition certain Scenarios determining the future equipment I would take. Creatures with Rusting Abilities Provoking me to buy Dragonhide armor and slapping the Impervious enchantments on my Adamantine Greatsword (Best Enchantment Ever By The Way!).At the Second Half of the road we had the Cleric of Sarenrae Converting my barbarian to the Dawnflower which allowed me to bond with my character very well seeing as my own beliefs began intertwining with my character (after trying to play someone who's very different from myself). Now here I am Getting close to retirement and my only concern is overcoming Damage Reductions which I can break almost all of them at any given moment and supernatural Darkness/Invisibility which I depend on the casters for.
Our Table has prepped up some new Characters And has gone through First steps again I hit up Rogue this time and found my own little problem with Rogue Talents... Specifically "Trap Spotter"
I'll be honest in first steps your experience with traps is very limited. Between the Viper and trapped boxes (which I've noticed are never searched for in the many times I've seen first steps played) and the Kelish Spoken Word traps in part two (Very Vare that anyone actually takes Kelish as a language as I've observed in my groups) Gaining Experience with traps doesn't effectively happen during first level. Also let's think about Trap Rules for a minute.. I must Be Searching for the Trap While looking in it's location While adjacent to the trap... How do I go from potentially not even triggering my first trap to getting an auto-prompt while within 10 feet of a trap? Sure it can be role-played in any number of ways but it feels like such a massive improvement over a short period of time (which is why I feel, but not demand, that Trap Spotter should have some very small pre-requisite). I feel reflecting how someone's character Did develop and should have developed is kinda over-looked. especially since it took me 18 levels worth of characters to look back upon my primary character.
If anyone cares to why not share how vastly your character(s) has changed over the course of their pathfinder career or mistakes.
Me I would've made sure to take a whole bunch of different rage powers. (auspicious mark is horrible)
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It is normal to learn from your mistakes, I once thought that going into melee with my archery focused hunter... then that killed me. I will try to avoid that in the future.
Other than that my character has become quite obsessed with demons, since they have proven to cause extreme amounts of anguish.
Edit: And I learned that that most animal companions can wear leather barding without penalty, that helps when fights come as a surprise and you don't have the time to use mage armor.
When you have any doubt about DR get some cold iron arrows with alchemical silver weapon blanch on them (9GP for 20). Don't buy adamantine arrows, buy durable adamantine arrows for a single gold piece more. Oh and adamantine weapon blanch doesn't help with hardness.