I'm having fun thinking of character concepts with dual identities. What's yours?
I want to play a character whose vigilante persona is a masked wrestler. Though, might be best to dip a level in brawler to make that work.
A noble in a city that is full of witch-hunters and hates arcane casters, who happens to be actually be a cultist in his downtime.
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In all honesty I'm mainly just excited for Vigilante/Kineticist magical girls.
In all honesty I'm mainly just excited for Vigilante/Kineticist magical girls.
I immediately started trying to think of ways to get a Tuxedo Kamen-type crimefighter. That said I'm not too keen on this 5 minute henshin time. Entire fights can go down in 50 rounds.
I kind of expect there to be a dedicated "magical hero" archetype in the end that trades some stuff for the ability to change in combat. A Warlock talent that does that (as well as a Universal talent that allows you to steal talents from other specs) would suffice though.
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Took me a tenth of a second to decide I'm making a Stalker with Amateur Swashbuckler.
By Night: A dashing, roguish gentleman adventurer and womanizer with a pencil-thin moustache, and a razor-sharp rapier matched only by his rapier wit!
By Day: A quiet, demure, and softspoken noblewoman who does precisely what her father wishes and would never in her wildest dreams run off at night to dress as a man and steal the hearts of damsels in distress from Absalom to Magnimar...
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Took me a tenth of a second to decide I'm making a Stalker with Amateur Swashbuckler.
By Night: A dashing, roguish gentleman adventurer and womanizer with a pencil-thin moustache, and a razor-sharp rapier matched only by his rapier wit!
By Day: A quiet, demure, and softspoken noblewoman who does precisely what her father wishes and would never in her wildest dreams run off at night to dress as a man and steal the hearts of damsels in distress from Absalom to Magnimar...
Somehow I'll, make man, out of yooooooouu!!!
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Breaking Bad
By day: mild-mannered alchemy professor at a school
By night: pesh-dealing druglord
Dexter
By day: Kinda creepy local investigative assistant
By night: Killer in the full sense of the word
Original creation
He is for all intents and purposes an extremely handsome travelling ale merchant, loved by all for his hilarious jokes and delicious ale. He could have sex with your sister and you'd be happy about it! He enjoys being raucous and foolhardy, taking many silly stunts that anyone dare him to do. He enjoys his simple life, and the simple people. Yet he let's everyone know to be careful, as the Blood Bookman has been known to stalk him on occasion.
When he feels the urge, there is nothing stopping him. He becomes a torturous fearmonger: The Blood Bookman. He comes around to houses at night, knocks his victims unconscious and slowly bleeds them into an inkwell... He then forces them to confess all their misdeeds, each one he writes in their blood on the paper, and each one he inflicts a "proper" punishment for. He preserves his victims dead bodies, and puts them back in their house resting peacefully in their bed; with all their misdeeds written out on their corpse in perfect knife cuts. He has a book of all the names and misdeeds of everyone he has ever killed titled "Those For Whom Justice Bequeathed Listen, Shall Forever Rest Knowing They Are Forgiven."
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Plagiarising source material can be good inspiration:
They seek him here, they seek him there,
Those Galties seek him everywhere,
They fail with luck, and fail with spell,
To find the Crimson Pimpernel.
(I'm not making a Vigilante right now, I just figured I could make a version of that rhyme.)
In all honesty I'm mainly just excited for Vigilante/Kineticist magical girls.I immediately started trying to think of ways to get a Tuxedo Kamen-type crimefighter. That said I'm not too keen on this 5 minute henshin time. Entire fights can go down in 50 rounds.
Eh, to be fair that's only three minutes longer than your average transformation sequence. Just make sure light is carrying you so nothing can hit you.
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Have yet to actually see the playtest version of the class, but the main elements I like about this is it gets the party to think about the way they act and look. Fame can be a double edged sword. After all, the more people know you, the more likely they are able to see through your bluffs, unless you were REALLY acting out of the norm. The point of the vigilante is to have that image that recieves all the praise/hatred for their actions, while another is able to go mostly unannounced in normal society. After all, why would they bother looking for the flower seller that offers reduced prices on roses every Thursday and Friday, when the witnesses saw a long sword weilding, tri corn wearing, masked and caped Assasin with a vendetta against corrupt magistrates and officials. There is a very clear difference in both their apperance and their Demenour, and this is a world where most classes where their identities as heroes on their sleeves.
How would this combine with the Master Chymist's Mutagenic Form, I wonder. Three personas, with three personalities and even three alignments? Things might get... confusing.
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The easier way of doing that would be to make the mutagenic form's persona your vigilante persona.Yeah, but where's the fun in that? Instead you can have:
- Dove Girl, the Lawful Good "superhero" mutagenic form persona of:
- Bob, the mild mannered, Lawful Neutral town alchemist. He secretly is in love with Dove Girl and so he must be certain she never finds out he's also:
- Wicked Willy, the Lawful Evil crimelord and arch-nemesis of Dove Girl (who can never manage to find him, for some strange reason...)
It's not just a one PC party... it's a one character adventure!
Magical pretty boy of Shelyn was my first choice, although maybe I can dust off that idea of the ninja who was so good at hiding he convinced HIMSELF that he was just a peasant hired to guide the party's pack mules...
By day: A respectable gemstones trader in Rahadoum's capital Azir.
By night: The Pure Legion's nemesis, a Gorumite Zealot.
