I'm playing an eleven alchemist and am leaning toward piling up the extra appendages, 2 x Vestigial Arm and a Tentacle. Seems like there are just lots of random things to do with extra hands. Obvious is just toting around a shield for extra AC.
Looking for idea, stories, tricks, or whatever for extra appendages.
If it matters I've got a Mind Chemist with the Trapfinder trait.
Extra hands are good for holding! and uhh... I guess drawing as a move to hold? You'd think they'd do more, but that's as much as I know they actually do. Not that holding is bad, its great for shields or being able to hold potions/ extracts/ elixirs to use with accelerated drinker or when you feel its appropriate. Depending on your GM they may be applicable for using your natural attacks gained through feral mutagen or lesser beast totem. Tbh, I think they're sort of gross, especially if your GM doesn't allow you to hide or reflavor them.
@Dannorn:
Tentacle (Ex)
Benefit: The alchemist gains a prehensile, arm-length tentacle on his body. The tentacle is fully under his control and cannot be concealed except with magic or bulky clothing. The tentacle does not give the alchemist any extra attacks or actions per round, though he can use it to make a tentacle attack (1d4 damage for a Medium alchemist, 1d3 damage for a Small one) with the grab ability. The tentacle can manipulate or hold items as well as the alchemist’s original arms can (for example, allowing the alchemist to use one hand to wield a weapon, the tentacle to hold a potion, and the third hand to throw a bomb). Unlike an arm, the tentacle has no magic item slots.
Basically it's a slotless arm that grants a lethal unarmed attack and Grab(Ex) which allows grapple on a an attack without allowing am AoO.
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A successful anime?
A successful anime?
...I've seen enough anime to know where that's going...
Keeping it PG-13 and on-topic...
I definitely support the "Hold Items and Shields." If making attacks, encumberance, and ACP aren't an issue, you can use Tower Shields for Cover; using all those limbs, you can make yourself an almost invincible "cube," like the fighting tactics of Spartans. Problem is, you wouldn't have anything to attack with outside of maybe Unarmed Strike, or Natural Weapons.
You can, however, have one Tower Shield to provide Cover from oncoming missiles while having another lesser shield for AC, the other 3 hands/2 hands and tentacle usable for bombs/potions/what have you.
A successful anime?
Your going to need more than one for that. Also, bigger swords. And mechs. Chicks dig giant robots you know.
More seriously, I've been told unless you really want parasitic twin you want the tentacle more, and that neither are great.
My MO is to sketch out a short background and have a general idea of personality and how I fit in to a party. Details flesh out as I go and one of the drivers is what the character can do that would be fun to play with.
In this case the high level is an alchemist from kyonin who spent years with the gnomes of Omesta before deciding to travel. In Absalom he fell in with some adventures headed toward Sothis and is know in the Half-Dead City. A mind chemist he fill the roll of trap breaker and lock pick as well as loremaster for certain knowledges. He neither a madbomber nor a hyde, but should be provide plenty value. For flavour the chemicals actual make a him a bearded elf--unless he remembers to shave. First couple magic items will be eyes of eagle and goggles of minute seeing, as he be swapping eye-ware in what feels like a fairly steampunky effect.
So after a couple sessions, I think extra arms fit pretty well, but I do need to make decent use of them.
I wonder if I'll have to pay for custom armor...
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Anyone you want.
2 hands for a weapon, one for a shield, one for drinking potions/using extracts/throwing bombs. Not sure where to fit the tentacle in though.
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Perform: juggle.
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I disapprove of these options because there isn't a second tentacle option. I like my symmetry
Its questions like this that make me never desire to play an alchemist, or even have one in the group. The discoveries like parasitic twin, tentacle, etc are just too disturbing to me - and I can never see them being role played correctly. If you can imagine how a village's populace reacts to something mundane like a goblin horde coming into the town, imagine how they'd react to this freak?
And don't get me started on Tumor Familiar...
I was original against the Alchemist. But we wanted to experiment with some of some the less traditional classes. And really read the pathfinder fiction that featured alchemists I got a much better feel for how the fit and function.
This character uses these discoveries extensively, but I too am easily squicked.
So, I made him Egyptian mummifier hemed. He has bandage wraps all over his body that animate and make these discoveries. A scorpion familiar that unravels itself from him, an extra arm that is an animate bandage on his person. Fun with flavor text.
Later he'll have wings made of six bandages on either side. They will carry him like Doc Oc when not used to fly.
I'll tell you what you can do with those four arms and a single tentacle.....
You could give amazing hugs!
You could confound a person that wishes to use one pair of shackles on you.
Um... hold (and maybe use, not sure) potions and extracts for when you wish to down them instead of having to try in dig into a bag for them?
Shake 4 humanoids and one octopus's / elder god's, hands / tentacles?
Hold each corner of a small to medium sized square tapestry / table cloth?.... or net?
Write and copy a complete analysis on how having multiple limbs is amazing?
Flip 4 coins at one time, confusing Tommy Lee Jones, causing him to fall to his doom as a man dressed in a bat costume with nipples watches on?
High five your entire party after you slaughter your enemies?
Clap twice as much at the same time?
((Sorry for all the joke answers.. only one of those is even close to useful and it's probably already been mentioned...))
Good luck!
I think a better question would be: What do you do with SIX arms and a Tentacle? (Kasatha already get 4 arms)
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Operate an entire theatre troupe's worth of ventriloquist dummies at once?
Are you allowed to wear extra rings if you have extra hands? I can't remember.
Actually, somebody on these boards once suggested a pretty solid Alchemist strategy that this would go well with. Alchemists get to throw all sorts of bombs, they get poison use/immunity, and they have a mutagen that can up their Strength. How do all three of these class abilities work together? You throw a poison cloud bomb and then grapple enemies inside of them, forcing them to suffer the poison that you are immune to! Extra arms would allow you to maintain the grapple and still attack him with weapons, while the tentacle's Grab would be useful for initiating a grapple.
Become an Adult Entertainer
I think that got covered with 'successful anime'.
True (major otaku myself)... But now we're really straying off topic, lol.
Back on topic!: It'll let you carry various things. Take it all as a dip, put the rest into some martial class, and you've got a nice golf bag without needing the darn bag! Bludgeon/Slash/Pierce, one weapon each, with one free hand and your tentacle for extracts and bombs.
Become an Adult EntertainerI think that got covered with 'successful anime'.
Oh cmon, you don't have to be an adult entertainer in an anime.
That said... Why not both? All while being an expert massage therapist.
Also, you can play a Nintendo 3DS game that requires you to use the sylus, d-pad, and AB buttons all at once! Thought you might want extra eyes to see the other screen...
Become an Adult EntertainerI think that got covered with 'successful anime'.Oh cmon, you don't have to be an adult entertainer in an anime.
That said... Why not both? All while being an expert massage therapist.
Also, you can play a Nintendo 3DS game that requires you to use the sylus, d-pad, and AB buttons all at once! Thought you might want extra eyes to see the other screen...
Tiefling's got you covered on that brah.
I can relate to this question, since my half-orc barbarian was inflicted with a second set of arms by my GM. What we've ended up with is definitely home-brew, but you could run some of it by your GM.
* I get a +2 (Assist Other) on climb, grapple, swim, and some acrobatics when I use all four arms.
* I took the Multiweapon Fighting feat, so I now get one attack with each hand.
* I sometimes use a ranseur with two hands and scimitars with the others, that way I have both a reach attack and a close-in attack
You can use a Tower Shield for cover, use a Large Shield for AC, use a reach weapon two handed and also threaten adjacent with the tentacle. I would advise against this unless you are actually proficient with the Tower Shield though.
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I suppose it could have been worse...
"What do you do with Four Arms and a Tentacle, a grease spell and the Rod of Lordly Might?"
Sorry... I couldn't help myself.
TWF with crossbows while carrying two tower shields to give yourself cover from two directions. (The tentacle can reload a crossbow, which can be fired one handed. This also works with firearms if you can get your reload time to a free action)
My GM is willing to let my 4-armed character do 2 bow attacks in a round, but as an archer myself, I felt that was too much. Using a bow or crossbow (or pistol) requires more than just the arms to wield it, it requires your vision to sight on the target. Accurately sighting on more than one target, or just with 2 bows, should have a hefty penalty. I think crossbows and guns would be easier, but still not as easy as using 4 daggers on multiple opponents standing adjacent to you.
Nets are good...
Also, turtling up with 3 tower shields and Phalanx Soldier archetype lets you look like badass turtle. Less so if you're a ninja.
It actually short of a shame that there isn't a matching Vestigial Leg discovery. I imagine a 3rd leg would add a bonus to things like CMD vs bull rush. And a 4th would help vs trip and with max load.
It actually short of a shame that there isn't a matching Vestigial Leg discovery. I imagine a 3rd leg would add a bonus to things like CMD vs bull rush. And a 4th would help vs trip and with max load.
A third leg would lead to even more dirty jokes than the tentacle did. I suspect the developers wouldn't be able to keep straight faces if they ever tried to write such a discovery.
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I've seen enough hentai to know where this thread is headed...
And I approve!
That being said, the Vestigial discoveries are quite "meh". They should do more, but since they don't, I'd stay away. Obviously disregard if it's a character concept that needs it, but I'd find it a little underpowered TBH.
