So, thought I'd start a thread about converting characters from other media you like into Pathfinder characters/monsters. Don't have to post a whole stat block but say the characters race, class level etc. Anyway I was thinking Darth Vader from Star Wars could be an LE ex-paladin 18 human broken soul.
I picked broken soul because he's horribly mangled and presumably in constant pain, though you right increasing his con doesn't really work. Also I would replace the pain gaze with his force choke ability (not sure how it would work, maybe like a constrict but works at a distance?)
Honestly, I could also imagine Darth Vader as a high-level Inquisitor.
Pretty sure people routinely do this with the avengers
Iron man as a synthesis summoner for example.
People also try and do and do it with Lord of the rings characters and game of thrones characters, but the magic systems in those worlds are too loose for that in my opinion.
How about Sylvanas from Warcraft? I'm thinking LE graveknight elf ranger 20 (or pretty close)
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Let's start with the obvious: Batman, CN Human Vigilante.
You fiend. Clearly, Batman is a LG investigator/ninja.
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A Lawful Good person would never allow his arch-nemeses to escape custody that often. Batman is just a massive joker who toys with the lives of millions by selfishly challenging himself to a game of "can I catch them this time?" instead of working with the government and lawmakers towards a permanent solution, such as an extradimensional prison on some alien planet.
Seriously, I'd beg Batman as CE but he's a good and compassionate boss to Alfred and apparently covers the old chap's medical bills in full and gives him paid holidays, which makes you virtually a saint in the US of A.
A less direct conversion but I was thinking for Xenia from Goldeneye use a marilith with some assassin or slayer levels (was going to say succubus but marilith fits her better since she likes to strangle people and mariliths have a constrict ability)
As for Batman Id say it depends on what version. In kid-friendly adaptations (such as the animated series) he's usually a straight up good guy, while in more adult themed versions he's more ambiguous or even borderline evil.
How about the Bride from Kill Bill? I'm thinking LE (probably shifts to LN by the end) monk of at least 15th level, as the exploding heart attack is basically quivering palm.
A friend of mine is running Skulls & Shackles, and asked me to create a bunch of famous fictional pirates as the various random high ranking Free Captains. Here's what I ended up making.
Edward Kenway from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. A CN Human Slayer(Cutthroat) 14/Inner Sea Pirate 3. Keys to his design are the Assassinate and Hide in Plain Sight Advanced Slayer Talents, along with two weapon fighting and a firearm.
Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island games. A CN Human Swashbuckler 14/Inner Sea Pirate 3. Specializes in fighting with a cutlass and holding his breath. Also carries around artifact "Head of the Navigator", which grants +15 to Knowledge(Geography) and Survival checks to find a way through somewhere and stops the holder from ever getting lost while also making them immune to Maze spells.
Dracule Mihawk from One Piece. A LN Human Fighter(Weapon Master) 17. Specializes entirely in the use of a Greatsword. Wields either that or a dagger depending on the enemy's skill. The Yoru is a +5 Keen Adamantine Greatsword that ignores all hardness when attacking a ship directly.
The Golden Magus from the warhammer boardish game Dreadfleet. A TN Old Human Conjurer 13/Genie Binder 4. Specializes, of course, in the summoning, binding, and use of genies. Forged a powerful minor artifact blade called the Sword of Fiery Curses, a specially designed +4 Genie-Bane Flaming Burst Scimitar who's elemental burst changes whenever it strikes a true genie to whatever the genie would find most damaging, with the weapon's reputation granting a +2 circumstance bonus of Charisma-based skill checks against genies.
Finally, and this is gonna seem really dumb, but we convinced one of my friends to play a Kitsune Cavalier. He took the trait that indicated an ancestor was a Free Captain. We decided said ancestor was his still living grandfather, the head of a small town called Cape Kitsune. Who was he? Well...
Fokushi "One-Eyed Foxy" Katsuo, CN Old Kitsune Cavalier(Wave Rider) 8/Inner Sea Pirate 6. Yes, he is the reference you are thinking, but he's not the only one.
Also at Cape Kitsune are his former second-in-command, Chica "Cupcakes" Shinjiki, a CN Old Tengu Illusionist 12, and his daughter "Mangled" Mary Katsuo, a N Kistune Oracle of Daikitsu 11. The confuse things further, the head of the Cape's security is Dave Miller, a LE Human Slayer 12, while the cape also plays home to a serial killer. Said killed is actually William Afton/The Man in Purple, N/NE Old Human Vigilante(Serial Killer) 13.
How about Voldemort from Harry Potter? I imagine a lich necromancer but not sure what else
I recently decided to pick out possible classes for several characters from the webcomic "Hero oh Hero"; here's what I have so far:
-Burk (honestly the best character in the comic): Two levels in some variant of monk (he clearly has evasion, but doesn't seem to be a rogue), and the rest of the way in brawler.
-Pablo: Most likely just an Expert; though possibly some variant of sneak-attackless rogue.
-Tobi: Alchemist might be the best choice for class; has the Technologist feat.
-Logan Alexander: 1-2 levels in a martial class (possibly Unarmed Fighter), and the rest of the way in either Sorcerer or Arcanist.
-Archibald Iman, "The Iron Judge": Probably an Armored Battlemage magus, though I could also see him as some sort of cleric.
-Ariara, the "Pirate of the Storm": Rogue/sorcerer, possibly going into Arcane Trickster if she has enough levels (and she frankly seems to be among the highest-power characters we've actually seen so far, so she probably should).
A Cleaving Smash Vital Strike build with an oversized weapon can get you a pretty convincing Guts.
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Besides the classes that are obviously supposed to be specific groups(Kineticists are Benders from Avatar, Vigilante is pretty much every superhero), one thing worth noting are the archetypes clearly built to be a specific person. These are the ones I noticed.
Mute Musician(Bard Archetype) - Erich Zann from the Lovecraft short story The Music of Erich Zann (A mute musician who is able to continue playing music after his apparent death. This one is further confirmed by the appearance OF Zann in the final part of the Strange Aeons Adventure Path as a Mute Musician)
Jistkan Artificer(Magus Archetype) - Edward Elric from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist (A magic user with a single artificial arm, typically used for combat, including the ability to sharpen it into a blade.)
Reanimator(Alchemist Archetype) - Dr. Herbert West from the Lovecraft short story Herbert West - Reanimator (A doctor who creates a fluid he can inject into a corpse to grant it a semblance of life. The name says it all.)
Dreadnaut(Barbarian Archetype) - Michael Myers from the movie series Halloween (A faceless, emotionless hulking brute who dispationately dismembers people with no rhyme or reason.)
Shield Champion(Brawler Archetype) - Captain America from Marvel Comics. (A character who throws a shield as their main weapon, specializing in having it bounce off multiple targets and come back. One of the few superheros ones not to be part of a Vigilante Archetype.)
Life Channeler(Druid Archetype) - Lord Summerisle from The Wicker Man (This one's a bit wishy-washy, as it's never made clear if Lord Summerisle actually has any supernatural powers, but sacrificing people to aid in crop growth, large group of followers, and use of wicker talismans point towards, if not him, then the movie itself being the source for this archetype.)
Warlord(Fighter Archetype) - John Carter of Mars from the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom stories. (Literally built to BE John Carter from Mars, the Warlord has no armor, and wields only the weapons known to be used by John Carter of Mars, and are grouped into their own weapons group called "Barsoomian".)
Card Caster(Magus Archetype) - Gambit from the X-Men comics.(Throws exploding playing cards. Simple enough.)
Gingerbread Witch(Witch Archetype) - The Witch from the Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel (An evil, child-devouring, candy based witch. The parallels are obvious.)
Mirror Witch(Witch Archetype) - The Queen from the German fairy tail Snow White (A witch who asks questions of a talking mirror. Pretty cut and dry.)
There are probably dozens of others, but those are the ones I noticed.
I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring about things... and I want to make zelda characters.
Link: Honestly I can see multiple concepts for him.
3rd Party Allowed: Armiger (Spheres of Might). One of the thing that I feel is most important about Link is his ability to use just about any tool he could possibly need for a situation. Hence I think that him using customized weaponry for it makes sense, just get a Bastard Sword and Shield (though what talents you put on it I don't know) a Longbow with Sniper talents, an Earth Breaker with Berserker talents, a boomerang with returning weapon (And figure out if there's actually anything good the boomerang can do. Etc.
3rd party not allowed:
1: Rogue: Are there any rogue archetypes that give up sneak attack for something else? because I mostly want link as this to be a skill monkey, but there's nothing I can really do about it.
2: Chosen one Paladin: a Paladin, except it gets a familiar. (HEY LISTEN)
3: Not really sure but we need something that's both a skill monkey and a combatant.. I don't think that's possible.
Zelda: Again multiple ideas come to mind, but none are perfect again
Cleric: A simple concept since her primary magic is divine, but she also has more Inherent divinity as opposed to prayer.
Oracle: Would almost fit perfectly, except... What curse would you give a character like that?
Celestial Sorcerer: Still has inherent divinity technically, but it's still primarily arcane.
Champions
Mipha: Finally someone consistent! Cleric with the Water and Healing domains. 3rd party you can probably grab Spheres of power for water geomancing and the life sphere but I don't have much else to recommend.
Revali: Some unholy cross between an aerokineticist and a ranger. I don't think that you could make this one work admittedly but it's an idea. Fly and air walk all over the place. 3rd party says replace kineticst with Elementalist, and possibly wind warrior. Still having difficulty combining the blaster caster with archer or otherwise getting him the air control powers it needs.
Daruk: Technically he's not a dwarf, but the best rules representation would be Stonelord (Or if there's some barrier wizard warrior tell me.
Urbosa: I.. got nothing. Bloodrager doesn't work because she doesn't fly into a rage (Though she does have a temper) Magus doesn't have enough specialization into lightning.. 3rd party says a 2 level Mystic Magus dip for Advanced Spellstrike and then get the rest in Elementalist, primarily using advanced spell strike with Berserker's brutal strike and the Shield Sphere for defense.
Looking about, I found a few more archetypes I think are supposed to be specific people. Admittedly, a few of these are loose, and I could be completely wrong, but here's what I saw.
Archeologist(Bard Archetype) - Indiana Jones from the titular film series.(An educated man who, nevertheless, is designed to be out in the field, dodging obscene traps and survivng through what can only be described as dumb luck.)
Luring Piper(Bard Archetype - The Pied Piper of Hamelin from the German faery tale of the same name.(A bard who uses pipe music to make animals follow him wherever he goes. The only major difference is an additional penalty is given to Fey, rather than children of humanoids.)
Feral Child(Druid Archetype) - Tarzan from Disney's Tarzan.(While lacking the magical abilities, the improved close range combat, close connect with specific animals, and the addition of Athletics points towards this. However, unlike the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, the Feral Child is illiterate, pointing him more towards the Disney version.)
Mysterious Stranger(Gunslinger Archetype) - The Man With No Name from Sergio Leon's Dollars Trilogy. (A gunslinger who seems to win through pure force of will, who leaves am impression even when saying little, and show uncanny skill with a gun.)
Gun Tank(Gunslinger Archetype) - Ned Kelly, actual historical Australian Bushranger.(Dead shots who covered themselves in thick armor strong enough to stop a bullet. Ned Kelly's final stand involved him holding up in a tavern against the Australian Police Force while garbed in a suit of iron made from plow blades that stopped almost all gun fire. So... yeah, not a fictional person, but I thought it would be cool to know.)
Empiricist(Investigator Archetype) - Sherlock Holmes from the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.(Described as capable of superhuman feats of deduction and logic, the only thing that would make this more concrete would be if they added the Hallucinest's use of drugs, albeit cocain rather than hallucinogens.)
Hooded Champion(Ranger Archetype) -Robin Hood from English legends.(The first major clue is in the name, especially considering that nothing in the Hooded Champion's abilities indicates he has to wear a hood. Past that, the focus on Charisma and the heavy specialization in the bow heavily points towards ye olde Robin of Locksley.)
There are a few I'm almost positve have parallels, but I can't seem to figure them out. Ones like the Phantom Thief(Rogue), Bloody Jake(Slayer), and Dashing Thief(Swashbuckler) come to mind.
I was originally tempted to say the Phantom Thief was Joker but I know that isn't true seeing as they lose most of their combat abilities for more skills, whilst Joker was an accomplished fighter. (though he got a lot of help from his persona so maybe he was more like a rogue summoner gestalt)
Finally, and this is gonna seem really dumb, but we convinced one of my friends to play a Kitsune Cavalier. He took the trait that indicated an ancestor was a Free Captain. We decided said ancestor was his still living grandfather, the head of a small town called Cape Kitsune. Who was he? Well...Fokushi "One-Eyed Foxy" Katsuo, CN Old Kitsune Cavalier(Wave Rider) 8/Inner Sea Pirate 6. Yes, he is the reference you are thinking, but he's not the only one.
Also at Cape Kitsune are his former second-in-command, Chica "Cupcakes" Shinjiki, a CN Old Tengu Illusionist 12, and his daughter "Mangled" Mary Katsuo, a N Kistune Oracle of Daikitsu 11. The confuse things further, the head of the Cape's security is Dave Miller, a LE Human Slayer 12, while the cape also plays home to a serial killer. Said killed is actually William Afton/The Man in Purple, N/NE Old Human Vigilante(Serial Killer) 13.
You son of a... This took me far longer than I'd like to admit to understand, but when I got it I had to stop and think "No.. It's not what I think it is is it? Oh my god it is."
Also I would like to say that "The Man in Purple" is way cooler of a serial killer name than I'd think it would be...
And to continue this particular madness train Fredrick "Freddy" (I don't know what an ursine last name would be). LN Ursine Bard/Samurai of an unknown level. who's been chasing Fokushi across all hell and creation believing that that the trail of death was caused by the dread pirate.
Phantom thief could be anything from Arsène Lupin or his grandson Lupin the 3rd to Carmen Sandiego and Catwoman.
I assumed at first it was Arsene Lupin, but I wasn't able to find anything I would consider a hard lock for who it was supposed to be. In the end, I decided it was a general purpose rather than a specific person. Same for Bloody Jake, which I assume to be a general collection of backwood hillbilly villains from slasher movies I've never seen.
Alucard is a lvl 20 quadra gestalt Mooncaller Druid / Soul Thief Vitalist / Gunslinger / Vampire Hunter with the Vampire Template and used Expanded Knowledge to get the psionic power Form of Doom
I was going based on the powers he has, which honestly is very hard to get right on a single class, multiclass, or gestalt build.
Gun Tank(Gunslinger Archetype) - Ned Kelly, actual historical Australian Bushranger.(Dead shots who covered themselves in thick armor strong enough to stop a bullet. Ned Kelly's final stand involved him holding up in a tavern against the Australian Police Force while garbed in a suit of iron made from plow blades that stopped almost all gun fire. So... yeah, not a fictional person, but I thought it would be cool to know.)
I always assumed the gun tank was more generally just to represent "Knights that took up a gun". But cool to see that there's more to it.
I also thought I'd try my hand at some more hypotheticals.. Warning a lot more 3rd party stuff coming because of that.
"Jedis"
3rd party
Symbiat.
Some like Yoda might be closer to a Sphere Cleric in order to get full casting in Mind and Telekinesis whilst still being able to handle a lightsaber.
A character like Yoda would probably be a Telekinesis specialized Incanter gestalt with symbiat or even a martial, seeing as he's incredibly skilled with both a lightsaber AND 'magic' in the form of the force.
Sith would go about the same path, using psionics to aid them in battle. Although someone like the Emperor would probably go down the more cleric-ish path as well.
First Party
I guess Telekineticist using the kinetic blade talent a lot? With Guardians being Kinetic Knights (which I think kinetic knight is 3rd party too coming from Porphyra) Sith would go off into Aerokinetic to get lightning.
Dante: either an Abyssal or Infernal Bloodrager. Granted I can't really represent him perfectly because a lot of his abilities would be outside of the usual for what the game can do (namely having SO. MANY. WEAPONS, and SO. MANY. FIGHTING STYLES. But I think that the Core of the character's abilities are that he can hit things with a great-sword, and can go into a 'devil trigger' mode. Granted I only ever played devil may cry 2 where I didn't actually see his wide variety of weapons. (For 3rd party and Gestalts mention I'd recommend a Bloodrager Armorist gestalt so that he can fly into a rage and summon lots of weapons. or a bloodrager Armiger to use spheres of Might and use different techniques with each weapon)
Vergil: My third party side would say probably a Symbiat rather than the bloodrager simply because his whole thing is about being really calm and composed, so a "Rage" ability doesn't fit him. With gestalts I can recommend armorist/armiger alongside it as well in order to use a wide variety of weapons, but I can also recommend Samurai for free katana proficiency and the boons that class gives. but you want something for that devil trigger.
Iron Man: Most people said synthesist, and I'd agree with that in normal gameplay. though because I always mention spheres I'd note the Technician. Since...
Version 1: get Suit Pilot and make your iron man armor into a medium sized independent invention. giving you a Siege engine that you can probably improve as a firearm. the ability to Fly, and probably a bunch of other good stuff I'm missing.
Version 2: Just get Improved Armor for a suit of full plate with various enhancements, a pair of improved gauntlets to punch things with, Improved boots for Rocket Boots for jumping.. You probably won't be as flat out powerful as version 1 with this but you also don't have to rely on your suit still being alive, and you don't lose your gadgets.. Basically choose between being more of a fighter or more of a skill-monkey.
Thor: Granted he's a literal God, but an Oracle of battle or storms or something would be easy enough. or a Cleric with weather and war and using a hammer would be easy enough.
The Hulk: I'm just on a marvel roll today apparently... Bloody-Knuckled Rowdy. Though I don't know if they can resize themselves during their blood rage.. If you do gestalts you could grab something like investigator in order to represent the whole "Mild mannered scientist".. Actually he could also go some kind of Alchemist for both sides I guess but you don't get nearly as many mutagens as you get rage rounds.
I made a Pathfinder character for DC's Captain Cold. I'm currently trying to figure out how to make Marvel's Spider-Man and Hulk.
Spider-Man is a Wild Soul (Spider) Vigilante, the archetype was practically made to model him.
Hulk is pretty much another version Jerkyll & Hyde. That means almost any class with mutagen works. Also Brute Vigilante, but that one meh at best effectiveness wise.
True, but some of the options of Wildsoul don't come online until rather high levels. So I'm looking at all my options. I have a thread in Advice.
Hulk is pretty much another version Jerkyll & Hyde. That means almost any class with mutagen works. Also Brute Vigilante, but that one meh at best effectiveness wise.
True that technically Mutagen would be approximately it. I just kinda wanted to go along with the fact that it's more.. Well the Hulk doesn't really imbibe anything... And technically both Jeckyll and Hyde and the Hulk would be counted as a Master Chymist, seeing as they gain the ability to just summon up their mutagenic form whenever like rage.. I honestly forgot about the chymist.. And thought I'd want some kind of Full BaB Class, seeing as we never see any other extracts or bombs or anything from the hulk. We only ever see him beating everything up in mutagen form. So to get that Feeling of "Hulk Smash" in most fights I assumed you'd go for something more centered around beating people up. I guess there's the Mutation Warrior or the Mutagenic Mauler too for that.
Mutation Warrior and Mutagenic Mauler. I need to remember to look at those and see how they fit.
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Several years ago I did a homebrew game based on CBS's Survivor reality TV show. I stated up a bunch of the more well known contestants and commissioned an artist (Darkmoon Gallery) to create paper minis of them. However, my view on using IRL people as characters has shifted and if I did another Survivor game, I'd have unique/fictional characters. There's already kind of some friction over the contestants being 'characters' of themselves on the show and their off air personalities and I feel like at this point, I'd be more comfortable making up new characters.
The Mesmerist Gaslighter archetype is clearly designed to play the badguy from Gaslight.
Along ThatCanadianDude's lines, the vivisectionist alchemist's archetype abilities would be Doctor Moreau. Infusions in general seem more than he should have but perhaps he only used them offstage or for healing.
I was intentionally avoiding the Vigilante, as it was sort of designed with specific characters in mind... but hell, there are so many references, might as well get them out the way.
Before going in depth on the Archetypes, it's worth mentioning that the core Vigilantes can easily be used to make the following...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Loyal Aid, Notorious Fool, basically any of the Renown talents)
Batman (The main ideas behind the Startling, Frightening, and Stunning appearance all play into the idea of "striking fear" through the symbology of the costume.)
Hawkeye or The Green Arrow (The Signature Arrows Vigilante Talent was basically added for these guys.)
Now for specific Archetypes...
Brute = The Incredible Hulk from Marvel Comics. (A vigilante who's alternate identity is a large, violent, hard to control creature who attacks with his fists and who destroys any regular clothing he's wearing when he changes.)
Hangman = Wonder Woman from DC Comics.(The use of a lasso as the main weapon, along with the ability to use that rope to force people to tell the truth.)
Magical Child = Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura (Originally, I was leaning towards Sailor Moon, but Sakura is the more magical of the two, and the Magical Child is something of a magic user. Past that, however, the magical transformation sequence and reliance on a familiar are, from my knowledge, common across the entire anime "Magical Girl" genre.)
Warlock = Doctor Strange from Marvel Comics. (A secret magical user, the main difference in this case would simply be power level, as Doctor Strange is a much more powerful caster. A slightly more subtle reference is in the title, which as a reference to 3.5 DnD, reveals the "warlock" as the equivilant of Pathfinder's Witch, in that it's an arcane caster who's powers come from strange and unknowable entities, like those which grant Doctor Strange his power.)
Wildsoul = Spider-Man(Arachnid), Hawkman(Falcon), and Catwoman(Feline) from Marvel, DC, and DC respectively.(This one's a doozy. Basically a collection of animal based superheros, from Spiderman's web-slinging and wall crawling, to Hawkman's wings and enhanced senses, to Cat Woman's prenatural grace and unnatural luck.)
Rincewind has/had one very big spell stuck in his head which kept all the others out. He's based off the original 'Vancian' magic rather than anything which survived into PF.