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I have a Wayang Alchemist that will be using discoveries to grow two extra arms and insectoid wings, and drinking Dex mutagens and extracts of Reduce Person. Wayangs already look pixie-like, mine will just be freakishly pixie-like.
My Nagaji Druid is a Saurian Shaman. I've loved dinosaurs ever since I was a kid, and the racial +2 to Handle Animal with reptiles means I can afford to have a lower Charisma. When I RP him I use lots of hisses and draw out my "th"s and "s"s, all while cursing at the "silly mammals" that he is forced to adventure with.
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Nagajis are very good paladins, and I think their Naga Aspirant archetype is one of the most fun ones out there.
Wayangs are great for any melee build since they are the only small characters with no strength penalty. I have seen quite a few cavaliers for that purpose, since they can have medium mounts then.
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In addition to what CRobledo said, Nagajis also make great melee oracles.
I've always thought of a Wayang magus. +Int and +Dex with no minus to strength is pretty solid for a magus especially at lower levels, plus you are getting the AC bonus and attack bonus from being small.
Kitsune Fey bloodline sorcerer is just mean. Possible to have DC 22 suggestions at level 4, and DC 31 dominate persons at level 10 (although more likely 11 due to wealth). That is, if you want to play a fox...I don't ever want to play a fox.
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Kitsume Heavens Oracle 'Stoner/Shaman' who smokes a strange substance and which his illusions/revelations are connected with. Has the blind curse, but uses a crossbow on the theory "if you can kill your enemies before you see them surely you are a great warrior". He owes more to Coyote myths than Kitsume but from an inspirational standpoint (not skinning, lets not restart that argument). Has realistic likeness and disguises himself a lot to fool/play with.
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I couldn't come up with anything for a Wayang or a Kitsune, but had a few ideas for the Nagaji.
First was going Naga Aspirant and knocking people around with my tail somehow... mechanics don't quite live up to that one. Awesome Blow isn't allowed for PCs in PFS, and pushing assault is a bit limited. Could go the shield slam route, but then why bother with the Nagaji part?
Also looked at someone focusing on constrict. Sounded nifty, but not sure if I'd actually enjoy playing it.
So what I'm looking at now: Madame Vastra from Dr. Who. Nagaji detective / ass kicker. Might eat people. Unfortunately, Nagaji make terrible investigators with a negative int and no mod for wis. But I want to give it a try anyways.
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I've gone with a Kitsune Fighter who will be a "grapple, DEX fighter" and all the normal feats going to Magical Tail and the fighter bonus feats going toward replacing STR modifiers with DEX modifiers (ex. Weapon Finesse). His main stats are DEX and CHR and is a very good talker (traits to add CHR skills as class skills.) He won't be very effective in combat until about 4th level, but is an absolute blast to play so far. He is also a Chelaxian native with an interesting back story.
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My kitsune is going the easy, mega infiltrator route with ninja, fox shape and realistic likeness feats. Although he uses the kitsune rules, he is an inner sea fey fox spirit cousin called a brunnmigi. In earth Norse mythology a brunnmigi, or "well-pisser" (dc15 knowledge nature) was a hated fox trickster spirit that could change shape and liked to befoul your water supply. Although its a bit distasteful, it seems like a funny and flavourful way to de-orientalise the kitsune for the inner sea.
He also prefers to remain in his human form, where he has an enormous ginger moustache and wields artificial "claws" in each hand. Anyone know what a ulfen accent sounds like?
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My kitsune is going the easy, mega infiltrator route with ninja, fox shape and realistic likeness feats. Although he uses the kitsune rules, he is an inner sea fey fox spirit cousin called a brunnmigi.
Please don't make us drag up the debate on re-skinning in PFS. Just play a kitsune as a kitsune.
Except reskinning is explicitly not allowed in PFS.
This has been hashed and rehashed many, many times now.
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Except reskinning is explicitly not allowed in PFS.
This has been hashed and rehashed many, many times now.
Will he get banned from PFS if he refers to his swords as his claws?
In case you missed the point, a brunnmigi IS a kitsune.Do you guys ban players if they refer to ketchup as tomato sauce?
Rein it in a bit guys >:( Seriously.
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If I recall correctly, and it's possible that I haven't been paying close enough attention to the whole "reskinning" debate, the thing that is specifically called out is to recast a thing as a different thing that exists in game stats. So, since pigs exist in game stats, casting a wolf or a pony as a pig would be against the rules.
So far as I know, and again, there have been a lot of AP volumes that I haven't read thoroughly, the brunnmigi has not been given any game stats. I think that makes it okay as a replacement. KestleGunner's character is a kitsune, presents as a kitsune, with a different ethnicity / name.
If worse came to worst, KestleGunner, you could offer that "brunnmigi" is the Ulfen word for kitsune.
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And bring the railroad back on topic,
I think I am going to start with 2 lvls of ranger, go to 3 of sorceror, and then dragon disciple the rest (following Oterisks guide). His backstory will be he woke up washed up on some beach somewhere and has no idea who he is, so being a ranger he tracked his way to the nearest city, absolom, where he joins the pathfinders to find out anything he can about his past as he grows his inherent magical powers will manifest. Going to play up being a dragon trapped in a humanoid form and when I take my first lvl of dragon disciple ill start griping about being mortal and a lesser being as aposed to a full fledged dragon.
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what's up with that?
One thread has GMs leap on someone for developing some character backstory, the other thread is six pages of people gleefully speculating about how they can buy exotic animals that can deal inordinate amounts of damage for the tier and thus 'beat Pathfinder'.
I have tonnes of patience for people making stories.
I have zero for exploiting the game.
*shrugs*
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Except reskinning is explicitly not allowed in PFS.
This has been hashed and rehashed many, many times now.
Will he get banned from PFS if he refers to his swords as his claws?
In case you missed the point, a brunnmigi IS a kitsune.
Do you guys ban players if they refer to ketchup as tomato sauce?Rein it in a bit guys >:( Seriously.
When I was making my kitsume, I even talked about blatantly making him a Coyote from Arcadia.
Even though my local/con VO situation would be perfectly okay with it, I didn't. Even though it's arguably within the bounds of fluff rather than reskinning 'because a big cat can be leopard or a cheetah or jaguar, therefore one canid shaped humaniod is no different than another'. Also from a practical standpoint, I don't see a guide to Arcadia anywhere on the horizon, therefore having 'cannon' contradict me is fairly unlikely IMHO.
Still, I was clearly in the gray area of that reskinning as it stands now.
I didn't do it because I realized I could do the most of the 'fluff' without one or two fishy stares. Also to keep the peace if I ever go a larger event. Most importantly, I wasn't completely comfortable with my own arguments.
When I hear people yelling 'reskinning' at every bit of fluff, like an cleric of Asmodeus yelling 'heresy' it's the kind of overreaction that causes me to want to react like a good follower of Milani.
Two reactions lead to more overreactions.
Lets all be good friends instead.
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My wife and I are playing twin magical swordfighting kitsune: a magus and an arcane duelist bard.
And through the whole last session we played, totally forgot that frostbite auto-fatigues the target. Oh well.
That's ok, the majority of the creatures she hit with the frostbite shouldn't have been damaged anyways.
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That's ok, the majority of the creatures she hit with the frostbite shouldn't have been damaged anyways.My wife and I are playing twin magical swordfighting kitsune: a magus and an arcane duelist bard.
And through the whole last session we played, totally forgot that frostbite auto-fatigues the target. Oh well.
I also checked what you brought up about splash weapons against swarms, and swarm traits explicitly list splash weapons as doing 1.5x damage, so that resolves that.
I'm thinking there was something else... Oh yeah! Sleep has a casting time of 1 round.
But still a very fun adventure. :D
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Just got this boon through trade with someone at PaizoCon.
Making a Nagaji and plan on going Dragon Disciple with him. Taking 3 lvls of Ranger (Shapeshifter archtype), 1 lvl of Sorcerer (Dragon bloodline of course), 1 lvl of Fighter (Unarmed Fighter archtype) and lvls 6+ all DD. He will be more of a brute build and not as much a spell caster, but be good with claw attacks and take the Dragon style feats when able. My favored enemy for 1st lvl is humans (stinking apes).
Also got the Kitsune boon individually. Plan on going bard with her but still debating which archtype to use. Would like to go Geisha but Magacian also seems to fit since I want a few of the Kitsune tail feats.