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I was talking to my brother the other day, about what sort of silliness or effective things one could make, if casting awaken on animals and give them class levels.
For example; an assassin thrush.
Any sort of animal and 6 class levels to distribute in any combination.
I'd like to know what creative things the community can come up with?
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Give them druid levels so they too can awaken an animal eventually, and then those animals can do the same and it will form a chain of awakened animal druids that will do your druidic bidding.
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Those are, from one point in the conversation, almost my brother's exact words.
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Awakened dog. Six levels in investigator. Joins a party of four teenagers in old Taldor.
Also works with an awakened shark.
They have to import an elemental cart from Eberron. The Dog has the Cowardly trait. And I think the Shark, if I recall, was a bard, instead.
Anyway, to imitate more stuff, awaken a tiger. He becomes a bard who specializes in Acrobatics, Athletics, and Oratory for inspiring speeches and selling things.
For a Monty Python, there's always grabbing a moose and making them an alchemist with a mutagen that makes them more human-like.
Or, if you're into web comics, you could make a reincarnated druid archetype camel. Heh: "Shupid".
Get a few sharks and make them all urban barbarians.
Two gunslinger or cavalier cats with high technology focus.
Four awakened turtles and one rat with ninja levels.
A ton of bears, a bunch of fur-dice, some tattoo materials, and cleric levels. All of them are good, and they focus on their channel abilities.
Tattooed horses.
Hedgehog with access to constant haste.
Monk levels to a panda, tiger, snake, monkey, crane, and (though it's a vermin) a mantis.
EDIT: More added; this will happen periodically.
So, looking at animals.
Less "referential" ideas:
A peacock bard. Focuses on dazzling display-type spells and performances.
A skunk that is either ninja or alchemist (or, maybe, slayer?) would be pretty... intense. These should work rather well for the right snake, too - maybe even better, if you focus on a range of movement types.
A murder of crows could be a really... impressive thing, depending on how you'd rule it.
An axebeak is actually really hardcore already - granting it something like barbarian levels would make it literally a killer.
A weasel as a grapple-focused monk emphasizing keeping hold could be moderately devastating, despite its size disadvantage. Crocodile would be better, but its slow enough that I'm not sure.
A roc caster focusing on long-range and self-buff spells would be a powerhouse to be reckoned with.
A parrot bard would have... strong infiltration and subtlety potential, while being loud and raucous at the same time.
EDIT: Oh, yeah, an elephant arcanist with a familiar.
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Two gunslinger or cavalier cats with high technology focus.
Ah, they're not anthropomorphic yet.
They'd have to dabble in craft 'wondrous contraptions' too.A murder of crows could be a really... impressive thing, depending on how you'd rule it.
Make them function like ratfolk rogues, i imagine. Save a 10x10ft instead of 5x5ft.
A hamster with lvls in ranger and barbarian. He prefers called shots to the eyes.
It's obvious what i'd dub it. :)
Octopus with Brawler (strangler ) levels/ tetori monk.
Witch cat where?
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Sheep barbarians or BAAABarians as they call themselves.
I once had an NPC Elephant barbarian to fight my party, it was kind of fun.
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Why do i suddenly get the image of the secret Cows-from-hell level, from Diablo?
Cattle warriors, wielding halberds and guisarmes.....
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A toad Witch who turns monsters into Humans.
Why do i suddenly get the image of the secret Cows-from-hell level, from Diablo?
Cattle warriors, wielding halberds and guisarmes.....
Cow Artificers who work with mysterious race-exclusive tools.
Hedgehog with access to constant haste.
Maybe a hedgehog Psychic Warrior who emphasizes psychometabolism and psychoportation?
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A mouse/rat Paladin named Michael.
A horse Cavalier. Again, I can't believe I'm the first one to mention this.
A dog Investigator (that nose!).
A Lawful Evil slug Mesmerist - in fact, an entire race of them.
A jackdaw/magpie Occultist.
A toad Psychonaut Alchemist.
A toad Cult Master Mesmerist (all glory to him!).
A giant clam Telekineticist.
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There is a PFRPG compatible product on PDF called "The Noble Wild" which lets players have animal characters or even familiars...
Link: The Noble Wild (PFRPG)
It was also available for 3.5: The Noble Wild (OLG)
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A fiddler crab Magus.
A cat Ninja (because they're already nature's ninjas anyway - now imagine them with multiple levels of Sneak Attack!).
A parrot Truenamer.
A bat Shadowcaster.
A hermit crab Binder.
An amoeba Warlock (good luck figuring out what's generating those Eldritch Blasts and invocations - or killing it!).
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Hmm....an evil pony sorcerer?
Let's see how much friendship, magic is NOW, FOOLS!!
A mouse/rat Paladin named Michael.
Martin.
Matthias.Mattimeo.
... etc.
Hm... ranger hares and otters (with different focuses), barbarian badgers, rogue rats and ferrets, and fighter cats... hm... what else from that setting? Such a wellspring of ideas!
Oh, though almost everyone has bardsong and bardic lore... at least from Redwall Abby.
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I would awaken a dog, give him 7 levels of Expert, Skill Focus Diplomacy, max out Perception and Profession: Childcare, and viola, never have to worry about a finding a nanny again.
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So it seems, and i only recognize a fraction.
Uh...you're missing one...^.^
I'm missing a lot! I'm just referencing the first three books (and the main characters from them), however.
This is a far more comprehensive look (well, this) than I could give in a short post!
(If you meant Luke - or any of the "D"-named mice -, while awesome, his name doesn't match the scheme; and if you meant Martin II, I barely recall Pearls of Lutra, unfortunately, and he was a minor character, at most, in Matimeo. If you meant Mariel, I don't believe she ever carried the sword - that was Dandin, while Mariel used her patented Gullwhacker, i.e. that great knotted rope she woke up with. I'm not really sure who else you might mean... care to enlighten?)
For clarity, OOC/linked "answers" posted below
Awakened dog. Six levels in investigator. Joins a party of four teenagers in old Taldor.
Also works with an awakened shark.
They have to import an elemental cart from Eberron. The Dog has the Cowardly trait. .
And I think the Shark, if I recall, was a bard, instead.
Anyway, to imitate more stuff, awaken a tiger. He becomes a bard who specializes in Acrobatics, Athletics, and Oratory for inspiring speeches and selling things.
For a Monty Python, there's always grabbing a moose and making them an alchemist with a mutagen that makes them more human-like.
Or, if you're into web comics, you could make a reincarnated druid archetype camel. Heh: "Shupid".
Get a few sharks and make them all urban barbarians.
Two gunslinger or cavalier cats with high technology focus. SWAT Kats! Woo![/ooc]
Four awakened turtles and one rat with ninja levels.
A ton of bears, a bunch of fur-dice, some tattoo materials, and cleric levels. All of them are good, and they focus on their channel abilities.
Tattooed horses.
Hedgehog with access to constant haste.
Monk levels to a panda, tiger, snake, monkey, crane, and (though it's a vermin) a mantis. [ooc]Kung Fu Panda is an amazing film series and you should all watch it.
Unless requested otherwise, I'll probably leave the references that others have made to them (I don't know them all, anyway).
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Uh...you're missing one...^.^I'm missing a lot! I'm just referencing the first three books (and the main characters from them), however.
This is a far more comprehensive look (well, this) than I could give in a short post!
(If you meant Luke - or any of the "D"-named mice -, while awesome, his name doesn't match the scheme; and if you meant Martin II, I barely recall Pearls of Lutra, unfortunately, and he was a minor character, at most, in Matimeo. If you meant Mariel, I don't believe she ever carried the sword - that was Dandin, while Mariel used her patented Gullwhacker, i.e. that great knotted rope she woke up with. I'm not really sure who else you might mean... care to enlighten?)
?!? -_- ?!?
Go through the list of nicknames for "Michael," and surely you'll get it.
... Mickey. Got it.
That said, he's not a Paladin. He's either a bard, inquisitive, ranger (with animal companion!), or rogue (possibly an alchemist, fighter, gunslinger, or slayer, but he seems too skill-focused/not combat-focused-enough* for those). Either that, or he's a heavy contender for the power of retraining.
Regardless of his alignment (which has changed over the years), he's never once, to my recollection, exhibited anything paladin-like except (possibly) a tendency to censor stuff (depending on your interpretation). He has been definitively seen: lying, cheating, acting dishonorably, disrespecting authority (though it could be argued to be illegitimate, he's generally depicted as a rebel); he has punished those who harmed or threatened innocents (consistently) and rendered help to those in need... though there are often chaotic ends at work. Given the in-universe(s) elements, he definitely allies with and spends time with those who offend his moral code (though he doesn't like it), and I don't recall him ever seeking atonement (though I seem to recall he's broken an agreement or two with said folks, as they were going to double-cross him). Of course, that could be why we don't see him do paladin things, but that's just my take.
... which is why it took me so long to get the connection!
(Though I can understand the conflation with Paladin-hood.) :D
* Though he occasionally appears as a boxer, a gunslinger, or soldier, those roles can generally be ascribed to "decent" stats, and careful feat selection; while gunslinger is considered necessary for successful gunslinging, I contend that I don't actually recall Mickey ever successfully killing anyone or anything with a gun... though I could be wrong. After all, everyone rolls natural 20s sometimes.
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A red cat swashbuckler, called Antonio.
A snapper turtle monk, with of course turtle style.
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First off, before you cast the spell make sure you borrow your friend's rod of metamagic maximize. Then be sure to choose an animal who has all the right parts to use somatic components (I like bears.) Then make that animal a wizard.