All this talk of Parkour lately has inspired me to want to create my favorite little bugger from the Dresden books, Toot Toot.
For those that dont know, Toot Toot is a fiercely loyal 18" high pixie warrior-aligned with the winter court and leader of the Za-Lord's Guard (aka Pizza Lord's Guard). He is small, quick, intelligent and brave. Typically he has some type of make shift armor out of garbage and wields improvised weapons.
Suggestions on a build to match?
Thanks for recommendations. The creating a wizard modeled after Dresden is an idea I hadnt thought of in terms of getting my little bugger Toot Toot. Vaer is a dragonic bloodline fire/util blaster with high initiate. First spell out of the gate is normally fireball or haste.
(I need to spend some time with the new books and see what other options I have.)
You'll have to start with a small character, so if you want to go down to tiny, you'll need Reduce Person.
Look at the Mouser archetype in the Advanced Class Guide--that seems like a good place to start. Some other possibilities are Monk of the Empty Hand, for improvised weapons and mobility, or maybe Underfoot Adept (monk archetype).
Oh dunno about Dresden dumping Str. Especially not in the most recent books.
In recent books he could also take a level or two in urban barbarian. ;)
I'd say he gained a template rather than multiclassing =P
Now another important question, what would be an ingame replacement for pizza?
I would normally stat up Toot as an atomie swashbuckler. However, since you want to be PFS legal, you'd probably have to go gnome, as they're the most fey-like of the legal races. A gnome swashbuckler that decided to study swordplay to avoid the effects of the Bleaching could be an interesting PC.
For pizza? Chocolate, maybe? Pesh, if you want to go dark?
Meh, Dresden states over and over that he's personally terrified of Mab, who he sees all the time. He just has the Peter Parker reaction to fear...it gets his mouth moving.
Dresden was never weak. His dump stat more likely was Dex...at least, until Uriel gave him that tweak with his damaged hand. Str he was probably a solid 12-14.
Of course, now he's the Winter Knight and can bench 900 lbs. Which is about a 23-24 Strength. He can 'hop' ten feet without a problem, and jump thirty feet easily, and literally go go go almost all day.
And yeah, Winter Knight is definitely a template.
I doubt Dresden dumped any stats, to tell the truth. He's got that imposing kind of charm and has too many friends to be crude. Wisdom is probably his worst mental...he's very self-absorbed, gets blindsided by kids and women easily, and is perfectly willing to do foolish things repeatedly in pursuit of his morals and ethics.
But when he takes the time to stop and think, he's very dangerous!
Seriously, just ask Jim Butcher what his stats are. He's a gamer...he probably has them written down!
==Aelryinth
So with ridiculous stats and overpowered, it's decided. Dresden is a scion of humanity Aasimar ;)
Pretty sure he has the rime spell feat. What else would he have in his build?
Some kind of bracelet that casts shield, I would think.
Some kind of bracelet that casts shield, I would think.
You could do that as a Ring of Force Shield. Not quite a bracelet, but close.
His blasting rod would be an empowering rod. Not sure what to do with duster,
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A gnome sorcerer with the Fey bloodline would be very thematic. Make sure to take reduce person as a spell known. It's too bad you wouldn't be able to make it permanent in PFS.
Or go Sylvan with your gnome sorcerer, and with a Robe of Arcane Heritage you can do this at level 11:
Fey Wings (Su): At 15th level, you can grow insectlike wings from your back and become one size category smaller (as if you had used reduce person), gaining a fly speed of 60 feet with average maneuverability. You can maintain this form for 1 minute per level. This duration does not need to be consecutive, but it must be used in 1-minute increments.
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I'm totally building this character. I think I'm going to call him Barry Berlin. I think I'm gonna make him a transmutation specialist since I already have an evoker and a conjurer.
His blasting rod would be an empowering rod. Not sure what to do with duster,The duster is a bit tricky, since it functions as armor for him and PFS wizards can't use armor. You could always just turn it into a cloak of resistance.
I'd make the Duster Silken Ceremonial Armor. 1 AC, additional armor enhancements, and 0% ASF.
I'm sure there's a feat which does almost the same thing for detective work. I know 3.5 had one.
His duster just grants an armor bonus like bracers or a robe of the archmagi does. Nothing special about it. Except, of course, that it works against touch attacks, and is doubly effective against all ranged attacks. Note that in the last book, it proved not all that effective in preventing his own staff from behind used against him...he blocked with his sleeved arm, and still broke his arm. So it's not all that versus melee weapons.
It's more like he has convert energy type to cold then Rime Spell. Plus, the Winter Mantle gets him a straight up stronger magic...he can feed his fire magic with the mantle, too. Evoker damage bonus? Doubled with cold spells?
His bracelet doesn't cast, it focuses his shield. So it would grant either longer duration or a higher deflection/armor bonus when he wears it.
He had a belt buckle that stored power, and his rings stored a force attack (now in his staff). Most of his devices just focus his existing power, they don't grant the energy themselves.
==Aelryinth
From the early days we know he has brew potion and craft wondrous item. (Doesn't help pfs)
His blasting rod is probably a metamagic rod, and those force rings he wares are like a ring of the ram.
Some kind of bracelet that casts shield, I would think.You could do that as a Ring of Force Shield. Not quite a bracelet, but close.
No good. He needs his ring slot to punch people with.
The existence of this thread makes me so happy.
Anybody want to try and write up the Winter/Summer Knight Template? Should be pretty meaty, I think. It's probably at least on the level of Half-Celestial/Fiend.
I found the stat block for Toot from Dresden RPG.
High Concept: Pixie Minion
Other Aspects: Generous of the Za Guard!;
Proud, But Loyal to the Za Lord
Skills and Powers
Contacts: Good (+3)
Investigation: Good (+3)
Stealth: Good (+3)
Weapons: Fair (+2)
Diminutive Size [–1]
Wings [–1]
Glamours [–2]
Notes
As long as Harry keeps Toot and his comrades
full of pizza, they’re happy to provide Investigation
services while Harry is doing other things.
Toot-Toot is mostly a noncombat contact, so he’s
Sketched very thinly in terms of stats
I don't know about that, the ZA guard did do some pretty impressive stuff in battle. ** spoiler omitted **
Toot-Toot is mostly a noncombat contact, so he’s
Sketched very thinly in terms of stats
I agree. I think the RPG May had been written before those events occurred. I have a build in progress, link
I think a swarm of pixies probably has different stats then Toot-toot. Anything is dangerous in numbers.
The same trick got used on Dresden, after all.
A template for the Winter Knight would be quite broad. He's definitely got a Str/Con boost, immunity to cold, extra damage to cold spells, change energy type of spells to cold, and +1/die to energy blast damage spells. He also doesn't feel pain, and heals faster then normal folks do, above and beyond being a wizard. The movement and jumping bonus would be gravy.
Rime Spell makes a good bonus feat.
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