Making Kaguya Kimmimaro

[Val'bryn2]

Okay, trying to run a game in the upcoming months, and one of the players wants to play a character inspired by Kaguya Kimmimaro from Naruto. The main deal that he has is his ability to create weapons from his bones, firing his fingerbones like crossbow bolts, pulling out his spine to use as a spear, etc. He also has the ability to make armor out of them, which is basically the Oracle of Bones' Armor of Bones ability. What I'm stuck at is the creating weapons part of the bloodline, is there a way to do that in Pathfinder, or do I need to reflavor the Oracle of Metal's Iron Weapons ability? Other than those abilities, he is primarily a melee fighter, so any full BAB class should work.

[DHAnubis]

While I do not miss that series in general....I do miss Kimmimaro. That man was awesome. Unforunately, as far as I know, there's no real way to emulate those abilities, at least not all in one class/spell list. I feel like reflavoring some of the Oracle abilities would work fairly well. And, if he wants to be reaaaally based on Kimmimaro, give him a unique Oracle Curse to reflect the characters bad state of health. I want to say I've seen a spell somewhere that actually does let you fire finger bullets of bone, but the name and location escapes me.

[Val'bryn2]

Yeah, I enjoy an AU fanfic of it much better than the real thing, in most ways. At first I was thinking the Wasting curse, but it eventually makes you immune to disease. Unless he picked up an actual curse at some point, which is what made him what he was. I have no problem with multiclassing, though, since most characters from that series were heavily multiclassed, or hybrid classes.

[DHAnubis]

The only other thing I can think of at the moment would be refluffing the Soulknife from Dreamscarred Press' Psionics. It is 3pp material, but...you can fluff the forming of the mind blade as pulling out the spine or arm bones, throwing the mind daggers as the finger bullets. They are a full bab class, and the blade skils, while not as fantastic looking as other abilities from the series, could probably emulate Kimmimaro's moves decently enough.

[Eltacolibre]

Metal oracle reflavoring would be the easiest.

But well if you are using Dreamscarred Psionics:

Kimimaro psionic build:

Human Battle Wilder 7/Slayer 2/Phrenic Slayer 10

Corpse bones stuffs - (Call weapon) Create weapons of all kind, fluff them to be bones, (claws of the beast, get them with the feat expanded knowledge.) to sprout bones claws. Inertial armor, biofeedback, to represent his impenetrable armor made of bones. You could even pick True Metabolism psionic power to represent his regeneration at higher levels. You could enlarge Shrapnel Burst to represent the forest of bones or use another large area power.

Slayer class is mostly used to pick up a bonus combat feat (Mobility) or something, goal at the end is to get Whirlwind attack to represent the nine dances.

Phrenic Slayer allows to gain more psionic powers, full bab, and other various neat abilities.

[The NPC]

The Primal Host 3pp class might also work for the most part. Only key thing would be dealing with the symbiote.

[fafnir_bane]

The Armorist from Spheres of power would probably do this wonderfully. Pick up the blast power and you should be golden. It's even better if you pick up the expanded options book and go Armorist with Symbiotic Warrior Archetype. Assuming you are willing to go third party.

[DHAnubis]

fafnir_bane wrote:

The Armorist from Spheres of power would probably do this wonderfully. Pick up the blast power and you should be golden. It's even better if you pick up the expanded options book and go Armorist with Symbiotic Warrior Archetype. Assuming you are willing to go third party.

I have heard plenty of things about Spheres of Power...this has made me quite interested. I should probably pick these up.

[fafnir_bane]

DHAnubis wrote:

fafnir_bane wrote:

The Armorist from Spheres of power would probably do this wonderfully. Pick up the blast power and you should be golden. It's even better if you pick up the expanded options book and go Armorist with Symbiotic Warrior Archetype. Assuming you are willing to go third party.

I have heard plenty of things about Spheres of Power...this has made me quite interested. I should probably pick these up.

I highly recommend it. We've completely replaced vancian casting with the sphere classes and archetypes. I really hope they keep the line going with further support, but you honestly have all of the tools you would need to make your own material. Let me know if you have any questions!

[DHAnubis]

fafnir_bane wrote:

DHAnubis wrote:

fafnir_bane wrote:

The Armorist from Spheres of power would probably do this wonderfully. Pick up the blast power and you should be golden. It's even better if you pick up the expanded options book and go Armorist with Symbiotic Warrior Archetype. Assuming you are willing to go third party.

I have heard plenty of things about Spheres of Power...this has made me quite interested. I should probably pick these up.

I highly recommend it. We've completely replaced vancian casting with the sphere classes and archetypes. I really hope they keep the line going with further support, but you honestly have all of the tools you would need to make your own material. Let me know if you have any questions!

I'm perfectly alright with the idea of getting rid of Vancian casting. I've always found alternative casting methods, such as DSP's psionics, to just feel more fluid and magic-like. I'll definitely give it a look, especially if the neat sounding classes the others have mentioned above are from the book.

So as not to derail the thread, the build Eltacolibre posted seems to work out quite well by fluffing the psionic manifestation as bones and such.

[Eltacolibre]

Yeah I like the psionic but admit took some time to read the spheres of power...and going to say that I'm impressed. You can build all kind of characters.

But must admit that the armorist would do the job without having to multiclass or try too hard.