sparring

[brookstuttle]

I am new to the pathfinder series and my newbies group has just arrived in Sandpoint. Rather than just giving us the money and starting the adventure the GM has us "working" for it to get us used to the role playing. In my mind a great idea. I am an 86 year old Aasimar Vudrani monk from Nex and my Deity is Irori. I have studied with the monks and clerics at various Irori monastaries for a decade during my travels. I have approached the garrison and have offered to teach Vudrani martial techniques in exchange for money and gear. I currently have the feat tree including Scorpion Style fighting. I am having a hard time finding anything about sparring. If I use the non-lethal attack route I only get through maybe a couple of guys before I am unconscious. I was thinking a Movie kung foo system of gauging skills would be a nice addition. A play test for characters to see how that characters' feat tree choices stack up. I would use all of the existing rules for combat and lethal/ non-leathal strikes but add a sparring level. D20 critical creates non-leathal damage and a confirmation follows standard rules. Also how would I figure teaching rates?

[x93edwards]

Hello. You will get a better response posting to the Advice or Rules Questions sub-forums. This sub-forum is generally for questions regarding the Beginner Box (which doesn't have Monk without houserules).

However, since you asked...

Thinking about a sparring system is a bit more than I would want to come with as a GM, I think I would abstract it and have your PC make a Perform check.

It's based on Cha, which would represent your PC's ability to sell his training. Then there might be a matter (i.e. percent chance) or finding an interested student, though you could actively seek one.

I might play with the bonus on the preform check and throw in Monk level and maybe a situational +2 if you have a specific feat the trainee was interested in.

The Perform skill has a set of DCs that give a good indication of what training might be worth based on the check result.

Good luck!

[Sean K Reynolds]

Moved to the Advice forum. :)

[gnomersy]

Possibly look up performance combat rules for sparring, but also given that you're low level it's assumed you're fairly inexperienced in combat, you probably shouldn't be getting through 100 men in a row without injuring them yet.

As for teaching rates generally speaking the game assumes that any non combat form of money gain via work instead of crafting is done with the profession skill but that would end up taking you like 3 years just to earn starting gold most likely because the profession skill is balls.