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Hope this in the right place to ask this.
I'm looking to run a home game with some of my friends at their house. And I've heard that someone that might want to play is old school AD&D player who always played pixies. Is there a way for me to convert a pixie into a PC? What I've found online so far, it's CR4 and so monsters CR should be same as the party, so I should have the rest of the players L4?
Have you talked to this old school player to see if he will play a normal race rather than trying to play a pixie?
We had a 3.5 game composed entirely of Fey races and that was fine but I don't think it will work out if the rest of the group is human or the like.
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I will have to find out. The problem with starting this with the friends is that it's family I don't know well to play. Might the wife of the family and it's her mom-in-law that plays the pixies...
I was thinking of maybe just drawing up character to see if they'd try it.
But I'll have to find out.
Thanks for answering.
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What's your personal level of experience/competency. If you're new to Pathfinder, or new to GM'ing, maybe you can appeal to them, ask them to help you out by playing a regular race as you haven't developed the experience to handle races that are too unusual. In other words they'd be doing you a favor. If you go this route, be sure to be even-handed... don't let someone else run something overly funky or the pixie-wanna-be will feel slighted.
If you're not used to GMing you should limit your players to Core rulebook, they can have no gripe about that. If youre confident you can allow the other player resource books, but simple is better.
In case of the pixie, ask your player if he/she would settle with a Gnome (they´re small, pull pranks, and can do magic, sounds like a pixie to me) or a Gathlain (advanced race guide).
Note before you allow the pixie that pixies possess:
Permanent greater invisibility.
Damage reduction.
Flight speed.
Constant detection for every alignment.
Lots of spell like abilities.
Infinite use charm, confuse and sleep effects.
That sounds like a very risky thing to allow, especially if the player knows what he/she is doing.
I allowed it once and I regretted it, luckily the story ended pretty fast.
theoretically you could use the race builder from the ARG to make a playable race that approximates a pixie but doesnt give it everything.
Something like:
Type: Fey (2RP)
Lowlight vision (comes with fey type)
Size small(0RP)
Slow Speed (-1RP)
+2 Dex +2 Char -2 Strength (standard 0 RP)
Advanced Dexterity (additional +2 Dex for a total of +4) (4RP)
Flight (40ft, avergate maneuverability (6RP)
Comes to 11 RP, and is at least a passable start for a pixie.
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Thanks to everyone that replied.
I'm new to GMing. Always wanted to for a while. I have XP in 3.5 rules and been playing Pathfinder for about a year. I've also ran a few scenarios for my regular society group and at a few conventions (I've done 7). But haven't come across any pixies.
And the party could use an arcane caster. So far I have a Druid, Gunslinger, Archery Ranger, and one kid wanted to be an Elven Barbarian. Talked to him that an Half-Orc is better for Barbarian. And his younger sis wants to be be Half-Elf Barbarian, because she did it in Diablo 3? I don't know that game. Never played it.
And as you can see with my new tag, I subscribe to the modules so that will help me and I don't have to worry about designing campaigns.
Thanks again for answering.