Been trying to think of a good source for some custom characters to tackle Skull & Shackles, and decided to try bringing to Golarion a few favourites from Firefly.
check out the others:
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rvkx?Firefly-Custom-Characters-Mal#1
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rvky?Firefly-Custom-Characters-Shepherd-Book#1
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rvl0?Firefly-Custom-Characters-River-Tamm
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rvl1?Firefly-Custom-Characters-Inara#1
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2rvl2?Firefly-Custom-Characters-Kaylee#1
Jayne – Male, Human Brawler
Favoured Card type: Weapon
Str – D10 – Mel +2
Dex – D6 – Ran +2
Con – D10 – For + 2
Int – D4
Wis – D4 – Surv + 2
Cha – D6
Hand size 4 []5
Proficient with Weapons, Light Armours, Heavy Armours.
When you play a weapon for its power, you may recharge it instead of discarding it.
You may discard an Armour ([] or item) to add D4 ([]+1)( []+2) to a combat check at your location
Weapon 5
Spell –
Armour 3
Item 4
Ally 1
Blessing 2
This is an interesting character. You have fewer total dice on your skills than the average character, but apparently make up for it with a bunch of skills. It seems pretty balanced to me (I might go with +3 Survival, since it's only paired with a d4, but not a big deal). I'm also a bit concerned that there's just no reason to ever go ranged because it's so much worse than Melee, but I may be missing something, and it does give you a lot of freedom to pack support weapons.
I do think your second power, the discard for support, is way too weak. Compare to Valeros, who gives a d4 to combat at no cost, and has the same second power to boot. I'd probably change the power to recharge, and also have it give a d6, similar to Vika's support power.
Hope that helps!
I'd only gone for discard and D4, as he can target himself, rather than just others. I might up it to D6, and have moving from discard to recharge as a power feat.
However, I end up working it, I feel Jayne needs to be able to fight with Rum bottles, or whatever else is to hand.
Good call. I hadn't considered the self-buff, which does change the math a bit. Maybe you could look to Damiel's bomb ability for inspiration in this case.
Jayne 2.0 - some fun thematic tweaks in this one
Jayne Cobb
– Male, Human Brawler
Favoured Card type: Weapon
Str – D10 – Mel +2
Dex – D6 – Ran +2
Con – D10 – For + 2
Int – D4
Wis – D4 – Surv + 2
Cha – D6
Weapon 5
Spell –
Armour 3
Item 4
Ally 1
Blessing 2
Hand size 4 []5
Proficient with Weapons, Light Armours, Heavy Armours.
When you play a weapon for its power, you may recharge it ([]or shuffle it into your deck) instead of discarding it.
You may discard a card to add d6 to any combat check at your location. Add an additional D6 ([]+1)([]+2) if the discarded card is an item.
The Hero of Canton
Hand size 4 []5
Proficient with Weapons, Light Armours, Heavy Armours.
When you play a weapon for its power, you may recharge it ([]or shuffle it into your deck) instead of discarding it.
You may discard a card to add d6 to any combat check at your location. Add an additional D6 ([]+1)([]+2) if the discarded card is an item.
[] When you discard cards for damage, you may instead put one ([] or any number) of those cards into another character’s discard pile ([] or hand) instead.
[]You gain the skill Diplomacy: Charisma +3
[] you may discard a weapon to defeat a barrier that has the Cache, Lock, or Skirmish trait.
[]add 2 ([]4) to your checks to acquire allies.
[] When you are dealt damage, you may reduce that damage by 1.
Mercenary
Hand size 4 []5 []6 []7
Proficient with Weapons, Light Armours, Heavy Armours.
When you play a weapon for its power, you may recharge it ([]or shuffle it into your deck) instead of discarding it.
You may discard ([]recharge) a card to add d6 to any combat check at your location. Add an additional D6 ([]+1)([]+2) if the discarded card is an item.
[] Another character at your location may put a card from their hand into your discard pile to evade a monster. You encounter that card instead.
[]When you would stash a plunder, you may discard a card to add that plunder to your hand instead.
[]add 2 []4 to your checks to acquire weapons [] or items.
And of course...
Vera
Weapon
Firearm
Owner: Jayne
For your combat check, reveal this card to use your dexterity or ranged skill + d10 +2. If you are not proficient with weapons the difficulty of this check is increased by 4.
If you are the owner of this card, you may give it to another character on your turn to take an ally from their hand.
You've got a lot of cool stuff going on here. I'm gonna try to take it in order, but on the whole, I like it.
1. I'm a bit concerned about taking the Bomb ability whole-cloth and giving it to someone with good combat like Jayne. I also wouldn't be surprised if it was absolutely fine, but keep an eye on it.
2. The Hero of Canton has 7 powers. I believe I had heard that you were supposed to restrict it to 6 powers, but I'm not certain of that. You may want to try and merge some of them.
3. I understand the reasoning behind giving him diplomacy, and with him having only a d6 Cha +3 is reasonable, but it still just feels wrong for Jayne to ever have +3 Diplomacy. I'd consider taking that power off, and maybe giving another power feat to the ally bonus.
4. I'm not sure I've ever seen a power that just straight gives 1 reduced damage to everything in a single feat. It might be better to specify combat or non-combat damage, possibly with a feat to get both.
5. I'm definitely worried about being able to recharge for bombs (I don't remember if Damiel ever gets that ability. If he does you're probably fine. Otherwise, that feels like a massive bonus)
6. Love the pay Jayne to help you in combat ability. Flavorful and balanced. A+
7. Vera is a fun little card. I really like the owner bonus, and this is one case where I understand that needing to be exclusive for the character. The big issue with it, frankly, is that Jayne is so poor at ranged compared to Melee that he hardly ever wants to use it himself. As I think about it, though, maybe that's the point...