So let me tell you all how a Mi-Go became a PC, and how a tree killed a Froghemoth.
The party was about to enter the Mi-Go cave, when the mutated Froghemoth attacked them. I decided to have it be a makeshift guardian for the Mi-Go instead of be an encounter elsewhere because I'm condensing a few encounters in the interest of time. A very difficult fight ensued, resulting in the Orc cavalier getting swallowed, the gunslinger in the thing's mouth, and two other PCs grappled. The gunslinger, in desperation, got out a feather token that instantly creates trees.
Cue Froghemoth exploding, the cavalier in its stomach melding with the tree (ie dying), and the gunslinger himself being tossed 60 feet into the air and then landed. The android alchemist flew up and tried saving him, to no avail. They did have technological means to revive him to do so and did, but I ruled that both of his arms were ripped off.
The player who died, the cavalier, asked if he could be a Mi-Go alchemist. In any other circumstances I'd say no. But this was the last game the player could be with us, and the rest of the party was more or less okay with it. And it...kinda fits. Common enemy (the Dominion). And the idea of an AI about to become a god (Unity) is despicable to a decisively atheist Mi-Go, and also very fascinating. His own people don't care about events on Golarion, and the ones who would be are stifled by the priests of the Outer Gods. So what better than to have...a word that is utterly alien to Mi-Go...allies?...to both destroy the Dominion's presence and stop an arrogant piece of technology trying to become a god.
Oh yeah and to hold him over until they get actual replacements the Mi-Go can create symbiotic fungal arms that graft to the gunslinger's torso and acts as temporaries.
Welp I didn't think things could get any weirder now and it did. So now I wanted to ask the rest of you: have your Iron Gods game gotten this weird yet?
This is interesting, if a bit out there. Is the Mi-Go alchemist evil and/or a vivisectionist?
Holy hell, I wish I could do something like that in a campaign some day. I am a fan of the Mi-Go in general.
This is interesting, if a bit out there. Is the Mi-Go alchemist evil and/or a vivisectionist?
He is indeed both evil and a vivisectionist, but Ive played with this player many times in games (all of the group, really) and I'm not too worried about his evil tendancies going crazy.
That is fantastic. And I thought my PCs recruiting the cerebral fungus in the first book as a cohort was out there...
I assume you put him quite a few levels behind the rest of the party in interest of balance? The INT boost alone that a Mi-Go gets would make for an extremely broken alchemist.
I assume you put him quite a few levels behind the rest of the party in interest of balance? The INT boost alone that a Mi-Go gets would make for an extremely broken alchemist.
Nah, we just devised a good custom template using the Advanced Race Guide which wasn't really all that game breaking. We're gonna play a few sessions and see how it works out though.