Critique My Witch Please (PFS)

[Kydeem de'Morcaine]

Captain K. wrote:

Kydeem de'Morcaine wrote:

There was something else that gives a +4 to initiative, but I don't remember what it is.

A Greensting Scorpion isn't funny though. And it's a bit of a standard choice.

I am guilty myself, My sorcerer has one melded into his Varisian tattoo, and that's the end of that. Besides, Can the Magnificent's a failed jester - now he failed for not being very amusing, but he tried - nobody laughs at the optimised Scorpion familiar.

The mighty Dodo on the other hand...

When I first heard about the dodo familiar. I assumed it was one of their April Fool things. A great big bird that let's someone walk up and club it to death? That thing gives a +4 to initiative?

I mean, a humming bird or woodpecker, I can see. But a dodo?

I like to see humor built right into the product like that.

[TGMaxMaxer]

If you happen to want to play a winter witch, the Arctic Hare familiar in the Reign of Winter player guide is a +4 initiative familiar, and PFS honors that list. Wanna have your jester pull a rabbit out of his (familiar pocketed) hat?

It also gets you cold resist, and some other bonuses, at the cost of your 4th level hex.

Seriously, pick up a cracked orange Ioun stone (1k gold, add any cantrip to spells known)for acid splash, disrupt undead, or ray of frost if you aren't a winter witch just to have a ranged touch attack that you can spam at low levels.

There's also a trait that gives you a single cantrip from any list.

Unseen servant is not a bad spell... 1 hr/level and it can stand next to you and reload a crossbow each round for you, so you don't have to. Or carry the stuff you weren't paying attention to that brought you over your 23 lbs weight limit when you dumped your strength.

[Matthew Morris]

LibraryRPGamer wrote:

notabot wrote:

The rabbit from animal archive gives +4 initiative IIRC.

Hmmm...I see the Rabbit in the description of the product but it's not on the SRD. Can any confirm or deny this?

I do not beleive the animal archive is part of the PRD.

[notabot]

Animal archive is a good and cheap supplement. I recommend it to anybody with AC or familiar class ability.

[LibraryRPGamer]

TGMaxMaxer wrote:

If you happen to want to play a winter witch, the Arctic Hare familiar in the Reign of Winter player guide is a +4 initiative familiar, and PFS honors that list. Wanna have your jester pull a rabbit out of his (familiar pocketed) hat?

It also gets you cold resist, and some other bonuses, at the cost of your 4th level hex.

Seriously, pick up a cracked orange Ioun stone (1k gold, add any cantrip to spells known)for acid splash, disrupt undead, or ray of frost if you aren't a winter witch just to have a ranged touch attack that you can spam at low levels.

There's also a trait that gives you a single cantrip from any list.

Unseen servant is not a bad spell... 1 hr/level and it can stand next to you and reload a crossbow each round for you, so you don't have to. Or carry the stuff you weren't paying attention to that brought you over your 23 lbs weight limit when you dumped your strength.

I'm not keen on the Winter Witch archetype...any archetype really...with this character because I'm trying to avoid making a specialist.

I do like the Winter Hare suggestion though. I was also thinking of it being a good fit with my failed magician-type character.

[LibraryRPGamer]

Kydeem de'Morcaine wrote:

Captain K. wrote:

Kydeem de'Morcaine wrote:

There was something else that gives a +4 to initiative, but I don't remember what it is.

A Greensting Scorpion isn't funny though. And it's a bit of a standard choice.

I am guilty myself, My sorcerer has one melded into his Varisian tattoo, and that's the end of that. Besides, Can the Magnificent's a failed jester - now he failed for not being very amusing, but he tried - nobody laughs at the optimised Scorpion familiar.

The mighty Dodo on the other hand...

When I first heard about the dodo familiar. I assumed it was one of their April Fool things. A great big bird that let's someone walk up and club it to death? That thing gives a +4 to initiative?

I mean, a humming bird or woodpecker, I can see. But a dodo?

I like to see humor built right into the product like that.

Well, technically, by historical accounts, they didn’t club it. They shot it, point blank, with a big LOUD gun. When the gun blast went off, the dodo didn’t scatter away like most birds. The only reason it didn't die out naturally was because it was so big there wasn't a natural predator on the island large enough to hunt it. I’m sure the dodo chicks were prey, but, what predator is going to get past the big mama dodo to get at the young?

[LibraryRPGamer]

Thanks again everyone for your advice. Attempt #3:

Cane the Magnificent:

Background: Can the Magnificent is a failed court jester. He just wasn’t funny and his magic tricks were terrible. When he left court discarded, he stole the Taldoran magistrate’s exotic and prized White Hare and took it as his familiar.

CN Human Witch 1
Favored Class: HP
Witch Familiar: Toupee le Grand the Rabbit (+4 Initiative)
Witch Patron: Insanity
Hexes: Crackle, Fortune, Misfortune
Hex DC: 16

AC: 12 (16 with MA), HP: 8
Fort: +1 Ref: +2 Will: +2
Initiative: +8

Abilities:
STR = 8
DEX = 14
CON = 12
INT = 19(17+2)
WIS = 10
CHA = 12

Feats:
H – Extra Hex
1 – Extra Hex

Traits:
Reactionary
Trustworthy

Skills: 7 Ranks (Bonus)
Diplomacy 1, Climb 1, Craft Gags 1, Know Arcana 1, Know Nature 1, Perception 1, Spellcraft 1

Spells/Day:
0 – Detect Magic, Light, Message, Stabilize,
1 – Ray of Enfeeblement, Unseen Servant

Advancement
Lvl 2: Scar Hex – can Fortune the entire party for one encounter
Lvl 3: Accursed Hex feat – Fortune entire party for two rounds, 2nd attampt on Misfortune
Lvl 4: Evil Eye or Slumber, +1 INT
Lvl 5: Extra Hex - Flight

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LibraryRPGamer wrote:

Kydeem de'Morcaine wrote:

Captain K. wrote:

Kydeem de'Morcaine wrote:

There was something else that gives a +4 to initiative, but I don't remember what it is.

A Greensting Scorpion isn't funny though. And it's a bit of a standard choice.

I am guilty myself, My sorcerer has one melded into his Varisian tattoo, and that's the end of that. Besides, Can the Magnificent's a failed jester - now he failed for not being very amusing, but he tried - nobody laughs at the optimised Scorpion familiar.

The mighty Dodo on the other hand...

When I first heard about the dodo familiar. I assumed it was one of their April Fool things. A great big bird that let's someone walk up and club it to death? That thing gives a +4 to initiative?

I mean, a humming bird or woodpecker, I can see. But a dodo?

I like to see humor built right into the product like that.

Well, technically, by historical accounts, they didn’t club it. They shot it, point blank, with a big LOUD gun. When the gun blast went off, the dodo didn’t scatter away like most birds. The only reason it didn't die out naturally was because it was so big there wasn't a natural predator on the island large enough to hunt it. I’m sure the dodo chicks were prey, but, what predator is going to get past the big mama dodo to get at the young?

A believe, IIRC, there is an extinct, penguin like, bird that existed. It was called the Great Awk. THEY were clubbed to death.

[Sitri]

LibraryRPGamer wrote:

notabot wrote:

The rabbit from animal archive gives +4 initiative IIRC.

Hmmm...I see the Rabbit in the description of the product but it's not on the SRD. Can any confirm or deny this?

This is true. They also have 50' movement and +15 stealth.