Alright so I had a player/party mate die last session. We are only level 5, so yeah we do not have the gold or contacts yet to really revive him.
Well this is gestalt so monsters are acceptable I told him this before the game as several others are rolling unique members of the party. One is a Goliath, One is a Leprechaun (really is mostly party face and flank buddy), and one is a Changeling from 3.5 (Totally normal in game but still thought I would mention it.
Well after his dwarf got killed he said he would be back with a new character next session, one that could roll with a party of unique adventurers and of course I told him it would have to make sense, so no damn mind flayers. He comes back with a Half-Giant (Dreamscarred Press) Half-Troll (Template here)
Now I am ok with powerful characters and the Leprechaun (named Darby O'Gill) has been the most powerful by far in this game, with spell-like abilities and the like being very useful for the party mostly out of combat. the Goliath brings a big bad melee fighter, and this is likely to eclipse him by leaps and bounds. He also informs me for his character he is taking two flaws and picking up toughness and troll blooded.
Now of course I am fine with because.. your a half troll sure you can have troll blood in you...
but this means he has Fast Healing 5 and Regeneration 1
I am curious how this will work? Will it mean he regenerates 6 HP a turn, except when dropped to negs... then just 1 a turn unless its fire or acid?
I do not know the class on the other side yet, but given I tend to drop a LA normally he would have had Half-Troll 3/Other Class 2//Other class X but I am gonna keep all 4 LA this time, so he has a level in another class. he asked what would be best for his character given what he could do. I was thinking either Barbarian (god help anyone he hits while raging) or Bloodrager on one side, and not sure on the other. He does say he doesn't want the guy to be some forest moot who has no clue what he is doing.
The spin given is this character is the son of a Half-Giant who got raped and knocked up by a troll, the troll of course was later driven off by the Half-Giant's friends and the mother gave birth. He is medium in size, but he is built like David Bautista (Drax the Destroyer from the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie) so obviously huge and scary (thanks to powerful build). The guy was raised by his mother and his mothers friends and former adventuring buddies in how to use weapons and the like but he really never left his home valley till now. So he is young and naive and has never really had to deal with being called out for being part troll though he is a big 6'6" 350 lbs green skinned man with tusk and shoulder length jet black hair.
Edit: I am having him play well under WBL for his character, he is getting roughly 3500 GP rather then the 10500 GP he would normally get at level 5. He has said he is ok with this because of his background.
I don't know if he would want to go Wizard route, as he doesn't tend to play them.
Yes the regen/healing is a bigt issue it means to even really challenge him I need to nearly kill the party with foes that can either A: hit hard enough to deal damage or B: focus on acid and fire based attacks.
Also his Large options on Claws (1d0 per claw) bite (1d8) and Rend (2d6 +1.5 Str) will be a big issue should he have to start ripping through foes.
How do I manage him is the question, what foes are best for a party of level 5s that deal fire and acid damage regularly.
He did mention Martial Artist Monk is immune to Fatigue at level 5, which makes him able to walk into sunlight without instantly being Fatigued.
I was thinking a few of these, how does judgement shut down regen I never heard of that?
I was thinking of having an element of monster hunters or at least intense fear of him with possible attacks on him if he strays from the party as well as guards being more likely to take any step out of legal bounds as a full chance to fight him.
Letting him have Invulnerable Rager would be a bad idea wouldn't it?
Which is true, I know there is a feat for people to use a torch as a club and deal one point of fire damage.
He said he is gonna go bloodrager (Untouchable Rager and Spelleater Archetypes) But he is curious because that gives him Fast Healing 1, would that stack or would Fast Healing 5 be used overall.
He says he doesn't know what class to take for his 1 class level. He wants to sure up his Will Save but nothing he says fits his theme so far.
Fast healing/Regeneration (and DR and the like) are always take the highest.
Maybe a Warpriest of Gorum would fit him?
Or, if he truly wants to go with an unkillable build, an Invulnerable Rager or Unbreakable Fighter.
I think bloodrager is for Elemental Bloodline, as he wants to fly and wield a lightning hammer he is calling Trollnir
Note that a Barbarian can take the Greater Elemental Blood (Air) to fly as well.
Interesting I was not aware of that, its a bloodrager rage power.
Warpriest of Gorum is a good idea to sure up his Will.
So now he is looking at Races of Stone and pondering a Half-Troll Stonechild.
the CR of the Stonechild is suppose to be 3, so with Half-Troll he would only a one Class character... but insane levels of Str and Con.