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Trust me, it's easier than you think. Chances are, you'll blend in effortlessly - with a racial bonus to disguise and the +10 from disguise self, you'll be fine.Grr, but then my cover'll be pre blown... I don't want to have to kill everyone who touches me
Kinda ruins the image of "good guy"
my point is if they touch me and save vs a 1st level spell (super easy) I don't get the +10
That said, I can deal with not being level five or a warlock. I'm thinking on being a changling oracle of the voidPretending to be a pony descended from Luna who is soon to be the alicorn of the stars,
I am loving all these cool concepts! I love the idea of Morion - and he has single-hoofedly convinced me that Sombra exists (and is possibly a god, or at least pretends to be). It's totally fine that we already have a throwing-based pony.
I actually still haven't statted out much of the campaign (that's why this is an interest check, not a recruitment thread). I just got so much positive response that I felt it would be silly to keep the stats hidden any longer.
I've actually been convinced - we can start at level 5. That will enable a few more interesting builds, especially since most of my exciting content comes in after a few feats.
So... with the hurling barbarian, would you still be interested in a non-throwing-sort-of barbarian earth pony? Or should I rethink things at this juncture?
I do have an OC pony that might work well for this as an investigator...
I actually still haven't statted out much of the campaign (that's why this is an interest check, not a recruitment thread). I just got so much positive response that I felt it would be silly to keep the stats hidden any longer.
I've actually been convinced - we can start at level 5. That will enable a few more interesting builds, especially since most of my exciting content comes in after a few feats.
Oh, well in that case...
Heh, I've had to re-stat a campaign for a bunch of folks who wanted to try a specific adventure 'at a higher, more badass level.' It was a nightmare, thus why I was speaking up. But if you're cool with it then I certainly won't argue!
Are we winging it on how the group knows each other? Or do you have a plan to get everyone on the same path, or what?
(I actually saw a 'You all meet in a tavern...' start once that didn't suck. 'You're all in the sole remaining tavern of the small town, the other one was torched two nights ago in a fit of terror after someone thought they saw a vampire. Townsfolk have been disappearing for weeks now, by ones and twos, and there's no-one in the room who hasn't lost someone, unless you're one of those wanderers from out of town, and even those, perhaps, saw faces on the road, who were in this taproom, and are now gone. The drink flows freely, and by midnight, the population has turned into an angry mob...' and off we all went into the catacombs with torches and pitchforks, and people got lost, or snatched, or snuck off to go home...until onley the adventuring party was left. What do? ;D )
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Rime-Weaver is the younger daughter of the Witch of the West-mountain Mire...Not that she's about to tell anyone that! Nor would anyone believe her. There has always been a Witch of the West-mountain Mire, and sometimes she appears young, and sometimes she appears old, her advice is disregarded at your peril and she is not to be bothered with trifling questions.
The truth is that 'the Witch' is a succession, a family business, passed down mother to daughter and so on, and their knowledge of the hotspring-fed marsh just at the snow-line of the old mountain is enough to allow them to rather quickly vanish and swap places on an unsuspecting intruder or client, leading to constant rumors that the Witch never dies and can be any age she chooses. Fathers were chosen from likely heroes who came seeking the witch's council, and who were offered 'a special price' indeed!
Thing is, for the first time in the little family's memory, there were two daughters...Twins, and Rime-Weaver is the junior by perhaps half an hour -- something her 'older' sister has never let her forget. While mother was alive they did a splendid job of leading customers and heroes looking to make a name a merry chase through the frost-edged marsh, but mom only really taught her older sister the real tricks of potion-making, and it wasn't mentioned often, but it was understood that sooner or later Rime-Weaver was going to have to make her way out into the world and get as far from the West-mountain as she could, so no-one asked questions.
It was favoritism, and pointless favoritism at that. There was no reason two sisters couldn't play people the same way a mother and daughter (and sometimes a grandmother and a mother and a daughter) had, but as Rime-Weaver discovered, arguing it didn't change anything except to make the tensions and undercurrents of unfairness deeper.
By the time her mother died, Rime-Weaver was all too happy to flee the swamp. There was a whole world to see, and she'd learned more than one way to get what she wanted. She's a bit too strange and, well...witchy...to get what she wants by looking pretty, so it's a good thing that she's well-equipped with trickery and wily cleverness. She can't brew a decent cup of tea, much less any kind of useful potion or elixir, but she understands showmanship and cleverness, and as a free-roaming adventuress of sorts, she is out to see the world and perhaps find some other ancient knowledge she can use to set herself up as a local wise-woman somewhere when she wants to retire.
(Uuuuuuuuunicorn...White-Haired Witch 2/Hexcrafter Magus 3)
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I do have an OC pony that might work well for this as an investigator...
And if the name starts with Pink and with Pie, then we might be better off with Twilight. :)
And if the name starts with Pink and with Pie, then we might be better off with Twilight. :)...
I do have an OC pony that might work well for this as an investigator...
Nah. Although, Pinkie Pie is my spirit guide. (I think I've used that joke once before already -.-;)
This gentlecolt is named Lore Delver, explorer of things hidden and mysterious!
Either way, I'll work on writing up the barbarian first. Then mayhap the investigator...
So... with the hurling barbarian, would you still be interested in a non-throwing-sort-of barbarian earth pony? Or should I rethink things at this juncture?
I do have an OC pony that might work well for this as an investigator...
Either one is totally fine.
Are we winging it on how the group knows each other? Or do you have a plan to get everyone on the same path, or what?
Hmm, very suspicious. *stares at the owner*
Hmm. I have work to do. How long do we have to put this together?
Starting cash is set to 10050 gp at level 5, I think.
May be a level off.
Question for the dm-
Technically, you can't be a black-blooded oracle and dual-cured oracle at the same time, due to the fact they both modify curse.
I would like to request the ability to use both, as the black blooded archetype is Little more then a curse plus some revelations you can pick by having that curse.
I play on takeing it with a re-skinned petrified, to represent how numb the character is to everything around him- he often simply fails to recognize injury.
I'd be willing to part with the extra revelations from dual-cursed, if you want.
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Question for the dm-
Technically, you can't be a black-blooded oracle and dual-cured oracle at the same time, due to the fact they both modify curse.
I would like to request the ability to use both, as the black blooded archetype is Little more then a curse plus some revelations you can pick by having that curse.
I play on thanking it with a re-skinned petrified, to represent how numb the character is to everything around him- he often simply fails to recognize injury.
I'd be willing to part with the extra revelations from dual-cursed, if you want.
basically you forget to record the damage?Question for the dm-
Technically, you can't be a black-blooded oracle and dual-cured oracle at the same time, due to the fact they both modify curse.
I would like to request the ability to use both, as the black blooded archetype is Little more then a curse plus some revelations you can pick by having that curse.
I play on thanking it with a re-skinned petrified, to represent how numb the character is to everything around him- he often simply fails to recognize injury.
I'd be willing to part with the extra revelations from dual-cursed, if you want.
No, actual dr, via the curse.
Question for the dm-
Technically, you can't be a black-blooded oracle and dual-cured oracle at the same time, due to the fact they both modify curse.
I would like to request the ability to use both, as the black blooded archetype is Little more then a curse plus some revelations you can pick by having that curse.
I play on thanking it with a re-skinned petrified, to represent how numb the character is to everything around him- he often simply fails to recognize injury.
I'd be willing to part with the extra revelations from dual-cursed, if you want.
I'm totally okay with this. You'll get the extra revelations gained at 3rd and 5th level (and so on) from Dual-Cursed, but instead of getting access to Misfortune and the other Dual-Cursed-specific revelation, you have access to the bonus Black-Blooded revelations (if you want them).
Thanks! I didn't even plan on using misfortune or fortune anyway.
Awesome!
And for the record - I am entirely cool with refluffing just about anything if you have a good idea.
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What'll the stat generation method be?
Point buy, 4d6, 1d10+8, 5d4, focus/forbile (choose one stat to be an 18, another to be an 8, use 1d10+8 in a row, for the rest)
As is my disguise'll be +20 (not counting cha), the vast majority of people will believe I'm a budding alicorn, which is awesome
As a note I got the idea in part from the episode "the mysterious mare do well" and in part from the version of rarity presented in the webcomic "friendship is dragons" and then I thought of trixie's grandstanding and couldn't resist putting this together
What'll the stat generation method be?
Point buy, 4d6, 1d10+8, 5d4, focus/forbile (choose one stat to be an 18, another to be an 8, use 1d10+8 in a row, for the rest)
As is my disguise'll be +20 (not counting cha), the vast majority of people will believe I'm a budding alicorn, which is awesome
As a note I got the idea in part from the episode "the mysterious mare do well" and in part from the version of rarity presented in the webcomic "friendship is dragons" and then I thought of trixie's grandstanding and couldn't resist putting this together
Characters will be built with 20 point buy, and will begin at
2nd5th level.
I will note for those unfamiliar with the build and the White-Haired Witch (because it is usually treated as an 'unplayable' archetype) that it's a controller/debuffer...The witch's hair is basically tentacular (think Mane-iac, as I mentioned earlier) has an auto-grapple which does NOT treat the owner as 'being grappled' mutually (!) and treated as a weapon, so the levels in Hexcrafter Magus allow one to channel spells through it.
Basically she attacks enemies with her hair (eventually at a reach of 10'), which can channel touch spells, and automatically grapples them (which pulls them into a neighboring square, allowing them to be placed in a flanking position while grappled), then automatically does constricting damage to them. Add other effects from spells which apply debuffs (Frostbite, Frigid Touch, etc) and you have a 'melee witch' who can make nearby individual enemies extremely unhappy.
...And if they aren't nearby, goodness me, that's what ranged spells are for!
Drawback? She's squishy as heck. And just a tiny bit nuts, in an energetic joie de vivre sort of way. So...Yes. Wandering around cackling gleefully and making cheery, playful banter with people while her mane and tail grab them and do terrible things to them.
WHW is a Paizo archetype, not 3rd party, but it isn't on their PRD. It's from Pathfinder Player Companion: Dragon Empires Primer © 2011, Paizo Publishing, LLC and can be found here at the d20PFSRD.
What was the Ruling on HP rolling. I must not be seeing it
Average HP rounded up at two and up (d8 = 5 hp, d10 = 6 hp), max at first level.
Lord Foul - full disclosure, I said there are no alicorns for a reason. If you do choose to submit the "pretends to be an alicorn" concept, I am not likely to select it for the campaign. Just wanted to let you know now before you get too deep into it.
As far as domains, no decisions made yet other than that Celestia has Sun and Harmony and Nigtmare Moon has Darkness.
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Phooie,
I must have misinterpreted that,
This saddens me
Hmm now to decide on a new motivation...
Kill the changling queen and become the swarm's new king? Hmm not quite powerful enough
by that I mean it wouldn't be one that would influence his every action, other than to be more powerful, and that wouldn't quite be enough
Back when he was going to be a warlock I would be able to have his pact with the otherworldly beings to take this place
Hmm, I'll get back to this, I'm not giving up on this character, I'm just going to have to think on this a bit.
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You are a carbon-based lifeform. Your body will continue serving our dark master after death, your ashes transformed into crystal diamond. And diamonds are forever. Welcome... to Ponyville.
(I wonder if that's a fic now.)
(And I'm pretty sure Morion will be carrying at least one diamond around at the beginning of the campaign to use as a focus for spells.)
Yay for Morion!
Good to hear about those traits because I'm finding interesting fluff ones like Broken Mind (which is kinda useless with the Insanity curse but fluff!).
Racial traits can also be refluffed and I found this Statuesque trait that sounds hilarious. Pretending to be a statue. I really want to do this so much. All the Crystal Guards probably have this trait.
Though I probably will swap my special talent for Earthsense as an extra trait just because it sounds so useful and also thematic. His cutie mark is scarred by who-knows-what fell magic! It doesn't matter what it was before. It's crystal now. A dark, dark crystal.
And yeah, anything concerning him will probably be refluffed into something to do with crystals. CRYSTALS EVERYWHERE! YOU GET A CRYSTAL! YOU GET A CRYSTAL! EVERYONE GETS CRYSTALS! CRYSTALSSSSSSS!
Down Shard! Down!
Who knew crystals were so... excitable. :)
Me? I'm just a pony trying to make my way in the universe. Oh and looking for some love too. Maybe a few friends to keep me nice and healthy.
All those traits seem great to me! :)
Okay, I've decided, mnk2/sorc3(aberration).
Got "rescued" by accident (along with other foals) from a group of changlings. Then got sent to a monastery to grow up. Well, now I'm off to see some of the wide world, and bring back books for the monastery library (monks like to study apparently).
Also have my pony ready for submission. Just waiting on the recrutment thread.
This is a little confusing-
"Benefit: You are treated as though you have the Mounted Combat feat and 1 rank in Ride per character level for the purposes of filling feat prerequisites whenever you are not actually mounted. You are considered mounted when in combat if doing so is beneficial to you. This does not grant you any of the benefits of being mounted, such as making ride checks to negate hits to yourself, or taking actions while moving."
These two lines are completely contradictory.
Probably meant to exclude any benefits that come from having a mount, based on the examples anyway. If you think about it, negating damage comes from using the mount as a defense (so requires a mount), and moving while acting comes from the mount taking one action while you take another, so that also requires a mount.
The wording of that feat is the reason I said "in progress," lol. The intention is that you can get the benefit of mounted combat feats, like Mounted Skirmisher, but not let you dodge attacks with just a skill check.
That feat needs more work than any other.
So, things like spirited charge or lance use would work, but things that effect/protect your mount wouldn't?
(It's talking about using a ride check to prevent damage /to your mount/ via the mounted combat feat)
The wording of that feat is the reason I said "in progress," lol. The intention is that you can get the benefit of mounted combat feats, like Mounted Skirmisher, but not let you dodge attacks with just a skill check.
That feat needs more work than any other.
There's a third party feat that handles this very thing.
One second...
So, things like spirited charge or lance use would work, but things that effect/protect your mount wouldn't?
(It's talking about using a ride check to prevent damage /to your mount/ via the mounted combat feat)
Yep.
The wording of that feat is the reason I said "in progress," lol. The intention is that you can get the benefit of mounted combat feats, like Mounted Skirmisher, but not let you dodge attacks with just a skill check.
That feat needs more work than any other.
There's a third party feat that handles this very thing.
One second...
This is a third-party feat to do the exact opposite of what I am trying to do, haha. I do not want to give the ability to dodge attacks with skill checks.
Ok. Then just take that bit out. The important part was
"Special: This feat counts as Mounted Combat for feat prerequisites. Any feat you take that has Mounted Combat as a prerequisite you may use when in quadrupedal form, but not when riding a steed. (If you have both Centaurian Combat and Mounted Combat, you may use mounted feats both in quadrupedal form and when riding a steed.)"
Of course, take the "quadrupedal form" out entirely, but...
(Though, note that it only let you dodge AOO's, to avoid being broken- you can already prevent those with a good acrobatics check. Either way,it's not the reason I linked that you you, the above is. Skill checks vs attack rolls can get frustrating.)
If I grasp it correctly, what's being desired here is a feat which allows someone to count as being mounted for things like, oh...Using a lance and getting the 'charging while mounted' damage multiplier, and which allows further pursuit of 'cavalry feats' without allowing ridiculous things like trick-riding yourself or using your own ride-skill to goad yourself out of the way of an attack.
Also HELP, OH GAWD, I need to find something as ludicrously funny and appropriate for a tentacle-haired pony nutcase as a talent for pretending to be a statue is for a crystal pony. That feat-choice was INSPIRED! :D
Does this look about right?
Quadruped combat training-
This feat counts as Mounted Combat for feat prerequisites, and you count as having ranks in ride equal to your HD for feat prerequisites. Any feat you take that has Mounted Combat as a prerequisite you may use without the need for a mount. Things that modify mounted combat directly give no benefit. Lances deal damage as if you were mounted.
If I'm intruding, I'm sorry. I can never quite tell where boundaries are.
I just realized that there is really not as much I need to preclude from the mounted rules, as long as I call out that you don't actually count as your own mount. The wording has been updated.
That works well ^_^
Ahhhh, all ponies are small. Almost missed that. Ow. There went my build. T_T
EDIT: Since about a quarter to a half (depending on spell-choice) of damage comes from the WHW's Constrict ability, and since the Final Embrace feat allows you to Constrict opponents your size or smaller (Constrict by default is only usable against creatures smaller than you), if the character is small, that means the vast majority of the big ol' world out there is not something you can put the squeeze on.
Guess it's time to go back to the drawing board for character concept number three. :(
At fifth level, you can take the My Giant Pony feat to become Medium size.
And yes, I said that Dreamscarred Press's psionics are the only 3rd-party material allowed.
At fifth level, you can take the My Giant Pony feat to become Medium size.
And yes, I said that Dreamscarred Press's psionics are the only 3rd-party material allowed.
Character is already feat-starved due to not being a human (can't be an earth-pony because caster-class). Could maybe use Enlarge Person as initial combat buff when necessary, it's in both spell-lists...Hrm.
Becomes a question of world-scaling to some extent: is the same percentage of monsters out there in the world medium, large, and huge as in normal PF? I.E., are ponies really supposed to be "small things" in their own world scale? If 80-90% of hostiles are size medium or better (let's face it, small and tiny aren't the default monster sizes) then it's an issue. If not, then it isn't. Hm.