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Just curiosity here, but how would you build and play a character who was physically disabled in such a way that he could not walk without magical or technological assistance, and as such their mobility were restricted to a chair on wheels? Would the chair be a gnomish construct that could move with levers/pedals, or would somebody else have to push it? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Probably requires either a ton of DM Fiat, or none at all.
Are you looking for a mechanical tradeoff from this, or just a roleplaying one? For instance, at one table I played a Strix who was 'lame' and only ever moved on the ground at a 10' speed because he almost never used his legs-- you could just handwave it as being crippled and just leave it at that, and whatever you chose to substitute (contruct legs, etc) and just handwave the rest.
For mechanical gains, there's always the Oracle's Lame Curse.
Halfling with improved familiar and an earth elemental. I have a blaster with this build in mind.
Curious why the chair with wheels and not a mount? My first instinct was go cavalier and have them never get off the mount (easier to do with halflings or other small size characters), but without some sort of homebrew clockwork mount, not sure that actually answers the question.
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Floating Disk! Now the problem starts, how do you get your familiar to cast floating disk. Wands would work...hmm maybe as a wizard make a wand that has 12 hour duration for floating disk, get your imp familiar to UMD it. Your imp is permanently invisible, so you appear sitting on a disk, but you can still move by getting your imp to move the disk (with you on it) around.
Double lame. Call it a defect so it cannot be cured and non oracles can get the subtle benefits.
Because they cannot use their legs they get a skill bonus for engineering, possibly. Moving the chair with their arms gives them a strength bonus when using their arms.
I should rename defects handicaps. I see that now.
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Just curiosity here, but how would you build and play a character who was physically disabled in such a way that he could not walk without magical or technological assistance, and as such their mobility were restricted to a chair on wheels? Would the chair be a gnomish construct that could move with levers/pedals, or would somebody else have to push it? I'd like to hear your thoughts.Have you actually tried riding a wheelchair on anything other than modern paved sidewalks?
I have, and it ain't pretty. It's not impossible, but man, oh, man, it's tough going "cross country".
MAD HAMISH (Discworld)
For the Latin Day competition last year, some students made me a set of rotating blades for my chair. (Think Ben-Hur chariot race.)
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The feat Craft Wondrous Item requires caster level 3. Floating Disk is a first level wizard spell, with a duration of 1 hour per level. Based on the rules for item creation, it should then cost (at a minimum):
1*3*2000 gp = 6000 gp
to enchant a chair with a permanent Floating Disk spell, which means your character should be able to buy such a thing for 12000 gp plus the cost of a masterwork chair.
Research a floating disk variant that you can ride and
Direct.
Edit: call or second level. All else the same except it's travels in the direction you point.
They could go a different way, and use charm person to get a humanoid to push the chair, and pull it out of potholes.
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Have you actually tried riding a wheelchair on anything other than modern paved sidewalks?I have, and it ain't pretty. It's not impossible, but man, oh, man, it's tough going "cross country".
Have a three-wheeled chair, and give each wheel independent suspension. You could also have a gimbal inside the chair to keep it stable and relatively upright. And also a mounted crossbow, because why not.
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But to be a bit more serious, the Bloatmage prestige class costs you movement speed in exchange for greater magical power and a thick hide. Get yourself some sort of magical flying device (or a mount, preferably with Ant Haul) and have at it. You're not quite crippled, and the 'flavor' doesn't kick in until later levels, but it's one if the rare few ways to play a physically disabled character without houserules.
A summoner with a throne eidolon.
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I wouldn't. Despite some of the cute ideas here, this system is not made for such a character.
Alchemist Archetype: Construct rider.
Get creative with your descriptions of what the construct you ride looks like.
just constantly have on two peg legs (reduces your movement speed to half, iirc) and reskin it - I know a friend of mine did that for PFS.He was doing it wrong... reskinning of that degree is not allowed for PFS.
I don't play PFS so I don't know - why would it be disallowed in PFS?