Character concepts that make the "Same old races" interesting


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Liberty's Edge 2/5 *

The best pcs I find myself are ones that I form in my mind during society games.

Since playing some season 5 games, Ive got it into my mind to create a Desert Dwarf from Osirion. Im not exactly sure what class yet and the name is currently eluding me, but I do like it when an npc comes up in a game and you think.. wow.. he/she is kinda cool wonder what the backstory is.

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Matthew Pittard wrote:

The best pcs I find myself are ones that I form in my mind during society games.

Since playing some season 5 games, Ive got it into my mind to create a Desert Dwarf from Osirion. Im not exactly sure what class yet and the name is currently eluding me, but I do like it when an npc comes up in a game and you think.. wow.. he/she is kinda cool wonder what the backstory is.

It needs to be a desert druid riding a giant scorpion! Do it! Bwhahaha... What could be more frightening than a dwarf with a giant dwarvan waraxe riding on the back of a giant scorpion into battle?

But then again, I have a thing for druids. And tigers. Mostly just tigers. They pounce. And maul enemies for my druids. Rawr.

Liberty's Edge 2/5 *

I was thinking Hunter. Its like a druid.. just not. Giant Scorpion you say? Is such a creature on the Druid list? Tell me!

Liberty's Edge

My PFS character is the mortal embodiment of the ever-returning fight against tyranny. He is one of Milani's outworldy servants. His many lives explain his outrageous multiclassing. He has no special power or ability that would betray his metaphysical nature though, as this would go exactly contrary to his purpose, which is to exemplify that anyone, no matter how meek or mundane, can become a beacon of hope for the oppressed.

He is a Halfling these days. But when he dies, no one can predict who or what will rise up and take his place. The only 100% sure thing is that someone WILL rise up to continue fighting the good fight.

"Ami, si tu tombes, un ami sort de l'ombre à ta place" in Le chant des partisans.

Liberty's Edge 5/5

MrSin wrote:
The Fox wrote:
Tharkon wrote:
Why would anyone play Pathfinder Society if all it does is limit the options you have?
One of the reasons that I play PFS is because it is LESS limiting than home games.
Yeah, you get to use all that 3PP and play whatever race and class combo you want and you can work out with your GM any houserules and custom class stuffs you want. Building your own archetypes is fun, glad PFS lets me exorcise my creativity like that.

There are many home GMs who don't allow 3PP stuff. I don't.

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Andrew Christian wrote:
There are many home GMs who don't allow 3PP stuff. I don't.

Neither do I, unless I am running a 3rd party campaign. I also don't allow anything but Core races.

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One of my local gaming friends made his latest character the 'biggest fan' of my high-level halfling barbarian/halfling opportunist by making the rebooted idea for my character (Urban barb and dex-based instead of regular barb with some serious MAD). I just ran the Confirmation, and he kept asking the NPC Pathfinders about "The Greatest Pathfinder Ever To Live," and then

minor spoiler:
wanted to name the cave after his hero. Kreighton Shane said no.

He said Wesley Crusher was a certain influence. *sigh*

Did I mention that he sends my character fan mail?


Andrew Christian wrote:
MrSin wrote:
The Fox wrote:
Tharkon wrote:
Why would anyone play Pathfinder Society if all it does is limit the options you have?
One of the reasons that I play PFS is because it is LESS limiting than home games.
Yeah, you get to use all that 3PP and play whatever race and class combo you want and you can work out with your GM any houserules and custom class stuffs you want. Building your own archetypes is fun, glad PFS lets me exorcise my creativity like that.
There are many home GMs who don't allow 3PP stuff. I don't.

I never said you did. I said many GMs do at home including me, and that PFS does not.

Matthew Pittard wrote:
I was thinking Hunter. Its like a druid.. just not. Giant Scorpion you say? Is such a creature on the Druid list? Tell me!

Yeah! Just like a druid, except you know, it trades all those snazzy class features and its fullcasting away for six level casting and teamwork feats. Gets a bum deal unless it gets unique class features at some point.

And yes, there is a giant scorpion. Its in ultimate magic I think. Claw/Claw/Sting with a poison and it does become large at 7th.

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MrSin wrote:
Yeah! Just like a druid, except you know, it trades all those snazzy class features and its fullcasting away for six level casting and teamwork feats. Gets a bum deal unless it gets unique class features at some point.

In the current version, the companion gets permanent buffs from the Animal Aspect feature, which you can change with a swift action. That's a pretty neat trick right there.


RainyDayNinja wrote:
MrSin wrote:
Yeah! Just like a druid, except you know, it trades all those snazzy class features and its fullcasting away for six level casting and teamwork feats. Gets a bum deal unless it gets unique class features at some point.
In the current version, the companion gets permanent buffs from the Animal Aspect feature, which you can change with a swift action. That's a pretty neat trick right there.

Now, this is hard to believe, but you get more mileage out of fullcasting and buffing them with that. They're also still typed bonuses, which means they don't stack with the most common buffs to those stats, and they're a very minor bonus.

Liberty's Edge 5/5

Matthew Pittard wrote:
I was thinking Hunter. Its like a druid.. just not. Giant Scorpion you say? Is such a creature on the Druid list? Tell me!

Hunter doesn't give you martial weapon proficiency (or Scythes!), so it's odd to call it a "fighter type". Just sayin'.

Vermin companions are in Ultimate Magic! Your choice of wonderful new companions. They are mindless, so the rules are a little different for teaching it tricks.

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Wrong John Silver wrote:


Just imagine... a male dwarf without a beard. And who stays clean-shaven.

Let me introduce you to Imket of the Ouat caste, my completely shaven dwarven monk from Osirion.

Silver Crusade 1/5

BigNorseWolf wrote:
John Francis wrote:
Walter Sheppard wrote:
That is excellent Will.
(including the gnome researching barding for house cats)
Give the peasants a chance! the cats are already winning!

I think the cats, especially kittens are cute, cuddly, and...........well, kinda tasty.

Scarab Sages

Will Johnson wrote:

Trenton G. Merryweather is an Evangelist Cleric of Hembad, the Empyreal Lord of relationships and synergy. Trenton's a recovering Pesh addict and life coach. When not adventuring, he can be found in the puddles district leading workshops and lending emotional support to those in need.

He's a big fan of icebreaker games, team building exercises, mind mapping, visualizing positive results, and effusive compliments. He also suffers night terrors and has difficulty discussing his youth spent working the streets of Khatapesh.

So, he's a combination of Virgil from Arcanum and Mr. O'Neill from Daria?

I had a similar idea for an NPC:

Spoiler:

Back in the 3.5 days, I developed a short, self-contained "Evil" adventure (which I've still never been able to run) where the PCs would go on a 3-part rampage across the Upper Planes. Their first stop would be a combination military outpost/civic center on one of the lower levels of Mount Celestia. In one of the rooms would have been a Lawful Good Halfling Monk leading a group of normally-Evil monsters under a banner labeled "Luhix Anonymous" (luhix being one of the nastiest drugs from The Book of Vile Darkness). The PCs could choose to fight them, or, if they'd been in another room first, they'd have found a crate full of drugs....
If they were to kill the monk, his treasure would have included a handful of valuable gold-leaf doilies (since the Monk had a rank or two in Craft [Doilies]), a ukelele (which the Monk would have been playing prior to the PCs breaking in, even though he had no ranks in Perform), a few actually nifty items like a rod of withering, and...a few doses of luhix.)

Catling wrote:

Vermin companions are in Ultimate Magic! Your choice of wonderful new companions. They are mindless, so the rules are a little different for teaching it tricks.

I've been thinking of making a Human Druid with a Giant Slug Companion - she'd have the Eye For Talent alternate racial ability, meaning HER slug would start with an Intelligence of 2. She'd also start with the Ooze Whisperer feat, so at 7th level she could take the Ooze Companion feat, meaning she'd have a Gelatinous Cube companion with an Intelligence of 2...or 3...Gelatinous Cube with a rank in Linguistics, anyone?

Imbicatus wrote:
Wrong John Silver wrote:


Just imagine... a male dwarf without a beard. And who stays clean-shaven.
Let me introduce you to Imket of the Ouat caste, my completely shaven dwarven monk from Osirion.

Have you ever played Neverwinter Nights? You might be familiar with a gent named Grimgnaw....

Matthew Morris wrote:


Focus on religion.
  • Dex is a tiefling, but he's defined by his faith in 'The Lady' (heritic of Shirzuru). He's also something of a gag character, since he has profession barrister and is a hellspawn tiefling. Yes, he's a lawyer from Hell.
  • He might want to meet my Neutral Good Half-Elf Musket Master Gunslinger/Preacher Inquisitor of Shelyn whose Inquisition is Conversion (allowing him to add his +4 Wisdom bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate), racial Skill Focus feat is applied to Diplomacy, and Day Job is Profession (Attorney) - his name is Atticus Aurelius.

    "Scout, do you know what a compromise is?"

    Kerney wrote:

    1) Look at a 'day job' and relate it to your character.

    For example, make a sorcerer. Use a skill point on Profession: painter. Then make most of your spells something that can be "painted", be it color sprays or summoned monsters which you 'paint and then come alive. When you have the cash, buy marvelous pigments.
    Do the same thing with a Ranger, make him a nature artist in his spare time, someone who goes into extreme environments to paint tigers or owlbears, or whatever and live to tell about it.

    My Gnome Summoner is a painter - she did buy Marvelous Pigments. She's a Chaotic Neutral Lamashtu-worshipper (she worships Her in a more abstract sense - Lamashtu creates monsters, she summons them) whose Eidolon looks a lot like one of the sandworms from Beetlejuice, and she has the Unhinged Mentality trait. Between her ranks, racial Obsession bonus, masterwork tools, artisan's shop, and multiple cool Boons, she can get very impressive results on her Day Job rolls, and I've decided she's the Golarion-equivalent of H. R. Giger.

    Then there's my quixotic Order of the Tome Cavalier whose Day Job is Craft (Pergamano). He's a greatsword-wielding maniac with a Strength of 18, and he makes money on the side of adventuring by doing dainty, pretty, delicate scrollwork....

    Kerney wrote:

    4) Where did you grow up?

    I have a character who grew up in northern...

    I have a Chaotic Good Emberkin Aasimar Razmiran Priest Sorcerer of the Martyred Bloodline. His ancestor took a stand against Razmir while he was on the rise, and died for it (or something like that). He grew up in Razmiran and was inducted into his clergy, but ran away, developed a general cynicism for religion and gods in general (think a little of the Athar faction from Planescape), and is disturbingly knowledgeable about the subject. He is my one "atheist" character, and has the Godless Healing feat. He fled to Andoran and empathized with their "freedom and democracy for all" mission, and has become an accomplished actor, using his celebrity status as part of a cloak for his agenda as an Andoran secret agent. Think V for Vendetta meets good-guy John Wilkes Booth.


    Don't forget, if you open up new races for PFS you can apply all these wonderful amazing and heretofore unknown backstory "tricks" to them too!.

    Or any race not in the CRB that PF already allows.

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    I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
    Virgil from Arcanum

    "Well I'm not that well versed in the scriptures... Elder Joachim could tell you more."

    Scarab Sages

    Walter Sheppard wrote:
    I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
    Virgil from Arcanum
    "Well I'm not that well versed in the scriptures... Elder Joachim could tell you more."

    I always suspected Virgil was hiding something from me, like he didn't just wander up and meet me by accident...but I could never pin him down about it.

    It was like we were playing Joachim-mole.

    Dark Archive

    Get a song and have all your wands activate on different verses.

    You never close your eyes anymore - deathwatch
    When I kiss your lips - charm person
    and there's no tenderness - cure light
    like before in your fingertips - moment of prescience

    You're trying hard not to show it - hide from undead
    But baby Baby I know it. - comprehend languages
    You're got that infernal healing - infernal healing
    Whoa that infernal healin - infernal healing
    You'e got that infernal healin - infernal healing

    and its wrong! protection from evil
    soo wrong - inflict light wounds

    baby baby I'd get down on my knees for youuu - bless
    but baby! something beautiful's dying - endure elements

    You'll get a lot of strange looks....but isn't that why you play Pathfinder?

    Dark Archive 4/5 5/5 ****

    Catling wrote:


    It needs to be a desert druid riding a giant scorpion! Do it! Bwhahaha... What could be more frightening than a dwarf with a giant dwarvan waraxe riding on the back of a giant scorpion into battle?

    Wait a minute! That sounds a lot like the character that was created for me, although she'll be Qadiran, and a halfling. Oh, and not using a war axe. Deidre "Smiles" Findric and her friend, Lord Snappy. Yes, she is. A Desert Druid (and being a halfling a Dessert Druid, too), and Lord Snappy is definitely a giant scorpion.

    bBut he's sooooo cute! Just look at his the setting sun reflects off of his chitin... Just like desert rubies, it is! And he'd never hurt a fly.

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