Summoner,Hunter,Ranger,Druid, 4 pet classes and a whole lot of paperwork.
Orphans of the Same Wandering Father - All human or half human. Just received a letter that their father has been killed.
My cousin and I once played half elf and half orc half brothers. Dad wasn't picky when it came to women.
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I love Mark Hoover's take on my suggestion, but if that seems deeper than your group is willing to go, it can be much simpler. Let's say your group picks Zon-Kuthon.
The Cleric worships him, sure.
The Wizard focuses on evocation and necromancy (Destruction and Death).
The Fighter is a half-orc with a spiked chain.
The Bard is a devil-spawn Tiefling.
And so on.
Briefly did a play by post wherein all the PCs were from the same clan. All the PCs had a level of barbarian.
I'm looking for some good idea for group themes. Our group did a campaign with an all dwarf theme, inspired by The Hobbit, and now we're talking about emulating super heroes (Batman, Green Arrow, Wolverine so far). Anyone have any other good/cool theme ideas? Anyone who suggests Smurfs, Samurai Pizza Cats, or Carebears can kindly leave the universe (though in the event, dibs on papa smurf).
Just the fact that you brought up samurai pizza cats in this made me lol hard, I loved those as a kid.
Finally you could be a Ranger, Magician, Acrobat, Cavalier, Barbarian and Thief; all your PCs were once teenagers from another plane who fell through some kind of planar gate and now you inhabit these PCs striving to do good while searching for a way home.
I love you a little bit for that one.
And for my vote, I suggest a more political one. a group of leaders in a small geographical area trying to forge your disparate towns into a powerful nation. I'd choose to be mayor of a little village up the coast
i'm a big fan of religious parties, and there's so many ways you can do it...
all just worship the same god, not necessarily casters but united by their worldview/attitude
all divine servants of the same god- tons of ways to combine pally, cleric, inquisitor, and warpriest to form a functional party... throw in PrCs like mystic theurge, evangelist, and sentinel and you could play this theme over and over without ever repeating a party (especially if you switched gods each time)
all pallies- the code doesn't cause party friction when everyone holds it, and being members of a religious/military unit gives ample reason to adventure together (and plenty of hooks); there's enough different ways to build that characters shouldn't be too similar (especially if you allow multi-classing and PrCs)
all clerics- instead of worshiping one god, choose an alignment everyone's god has to be within one step of (e.g. LG, so all gods must be LG, LN, or NG) and all make clerics charged by their god/church with working together to battle a diametrically opposed threat (e.g. a CE church or warlord); there are lots of solid cleric builds and having access to a cluster of gods gives more flexibility
all rejects- a twist on the theme... everyone was part of some kind of monastery or religious training institution but all were expelled and possibly excommunicated (either for some incident they were all involved in or separate individual reasons but they have all heard about each others expulsion); party bonds over experience and then must decide either to devote themselves to proving they are worthy of the god/church or to embrace bitterness and work to oppose their former faith.
I was leafing through Ultimate Campaign yesterday and came across Bloodline Traits; traits any PC can take to reflect the taint of their lineage without them needing to be a full-fledged sorcerer. This got me thinking of another group theme - Common Bloodline
You could have everyone have something to do with, say, an undead bloodline. From one PC being a dammphir to another taking the trait Deathtouched to yet another being a sorcerer and still another being an oracle of bones.
Actually you could use traits to really tie a group together too. If everyone in the group took Reactionary you could say they all suffered the same bully. For extra points their bully isn't even mortal but some supernatural force like they're all tormented by the same fey or hunted by the same undead.
I've wanted to do a group based on "Band on the Run" by Wings. You a group of friendly outlaws having swashbuckling adventures against an evil government.
You can do the Robin Hood route and have the group "rob from the rich and give to the poor" then hide in the forest. You could be a group of Middle-Eastern thieves a la Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves against the wicked Sultan and his enslaved Djinni. Or good-natured pirates fighting both an imperialist government and more bloodthirsty pirates on the high seas. Or my favorite: the pirate one except you're in an airship!
Could do characters based on video game characters. That would be fun. Mario would be a monk for example.
One game I'd love to do would be one in which your PC is a US president of your choice. The idea is that it would be a comedy based game. Just look up BA presidents on google images for ideas there.
Another one that a friend of mine said he did was an all bard party. In which the group is all a traveling band. The story was them traveling the world to do certain gigs and got into fights on the way.
Mario is clearly a druid who wild shapes into a raccoon and has a raptor animal companion. Seriously.
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Did anyone yet mention a Zodiac party for any DM committed enough to run a 12-person table? If you wanted to be strangely erudite, you could name your party "12 Angry Men" (since the tradition of a 12-member jury originally came from the zodiac).
On a related concept: A 7-to-9-member party based on the planets.
2 Words: The Muppets!
One of the people I've been playing Pathfinder Society with joked a while back about us regulars all showing up and slapping down character sheets casting us as The Order of the Stick (I'd totally be Vaarsuvius).
Mario is clearly a druid who wild shapes into a raccoon and has a raptor animal companion. Seriously.
He scarfs down toadstools of enlarge person and flowers of produce flame, and you're telling me he's not an Alchemist? That crap's not natural - oh, yeah, and there's his proclivity for bombing castles once he's done with them.
Did anyone yet mention a Zodiac party for any DM committed enough to run a 12-person table? If you wanted to be strangely erudite, you could name your party "12 Angry Men" (since the tradition of a 12-member jury originally came from the zodiac).
On a related concept: A 7-to-9-member party based on the planets.
2 Words: The Muppets!
One of the people I've been playing Pathfinder Society with joked a while back about us regulars all showing up and slapping down character sheets casting us as The Order of the Stick (I'd totally be Vaarsuvius).
He scarfs down toadstools of enlarge person and flowers of produce flame, and you're telling me he's not an Alchemist? That crap's not natural - oh, yeah, and there's his proclivity for bombing castles once he's done with them.Mario is clearly a druid who wild shapes into a raccoon and has a raptor animal companion. Seriously.
Ok, I'm willing to entertain the idea that he is multi-classed.
