Hi guys 'n gals,
For my homebrew campeign, I wanted to do a GoT style invasion of the continent the PCs are on, in the same manner as Danny from GoT did (albeit a bit more evil aligned, as is "cleansing" the continent). She has her dragons as well Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion and a massive army to invade the continent.
The PCs will have to do their best to rally the countries (who are at war with each other) to repel the attack or be whiped from the map. Eventually, if everything is going according plan, the PCs win and "Danny" will have to retreat back to her continent and the PCs will follow and deal with her once and for all. The only thing I'm struggling with is the classes I'm giving her, since I can't directly recreate Danny in Pathfinder, and I don't want an exact copy of her. I wanted to do a Fighter1/Sorcerer4/Dragon Disciple9, do you have any advice on what feats, spells, archtypes perhaps, stats?
I now have base stats of
STR 18
DEX 14
CON 16
INT 14
WIS 9
CHA 20
But I don't know if I already took the DD stat boots into this and age bonuses (no penalties), so I have to do some calculations on that part.
many thanks in advance!
You don't need a carbon copy. As the campaign goes along, this character will surely develop in unforeseen ways. Maybe class will be a divergence, but that would only be the first one.
Also draconic Oracle is probably the best choice.
Daenerys is a high level aristocrat with some special version of leadership that gives her much bigger dragons than she should have with the normal rules.
She was a (crazy) leader, not really a combatant.
If you want a character that is a combatant that involves dragons, i would look to something that focuses on ranged combat or magic.
GoT was a pretty low magic setting though, so I guess this partially depends on if you're trying to run a low magic campaign.
Yeah, I don't really understand.
You say you have a campaign inspired by "A Song of Ice and Fire", but it seems like you're doing quite a bit more than being inspired by it; it looks like you're trying to make an off-brand setting that is like Martin's world in every way but is technically different.
Big bad conqueror with dragons. Warring nations. That's as much as I'd take, and from there I'd find ways to make my story decidedly NOT like Martin's.
Daenerys is a high level aristocrat with some special version of leadership that gives her much bigger dragons than she should have with the normal rules.
She was a (crazy) leader, not really a combatant.
I'm going to have to echo Claxon here. 'Danny' is just some semi-normal human aristocrat with a bit of inherent fire resistance, and massive charisma/leadership abilities. I don't think SHE should really be a combatant, but the forces she attracts and the powerful allies.
In the end, it was a simple dagger that finished her off. All 1d4+2 (ish) damage.
ASOIAF has exploding damage dice, that should be noted.
In fairness to the 'OP' pretty much everyone in Game of Thrones is 'semi-normal' and Daenerys is less normal then most. Translating her into a world where classes and levels are a thing seems to me to require reflecting that. Also, I think the degree to which you want to crib from someone elses story for your game is entirely up to you. A vaguely inspired 'big bad conqueror with dragons' is fine, but so is a much closer aligned story.
As for advice on creating a character that is 'like' Daenerys I think the first step is to identify what qualities of that fictional character are important to you and then we could offer advice. If what your are looking for is: More magic than most, protected from fire, a thematic connection to dragons and charisma based I would argue for either the Dragon Mystery Oracle mentioned above or just a Dragonic Bloodline Sorcerer. Probably I would lean a little more to the sorcerer since I see her as weak in martial abilities, but that doesn't seem to be really what you are going for.
In fairness to the 'OP' pretty much everyone in Game of Thrones is 'semi-normal' and Daenerys is less normal then most.
I'd agree with that. There are a small handful of characters in that story who have obviously supernatural abilities, and all of those are fairly subtle.
I think the degree to which you want to crib from someone elses story for your game is entirely up to you. A vaguely inspired 'big bad conqueror with dragons' is fine, but so is a much closer aligned story.
Sure, but until it's known where you're going to fall on that spectrum, it's difficult to offer any sort of advice. Just how much you going to take from the source material is an essential bit of info to nail down ASAP.
Once you cross a certain threshold, I think it's better--more respectful--to openly use the existing setting, rather than mimicking.It's better to say "hey, I'm running a game in the Harry Potter world" than to tell your players they have to choose between the four houses of Myffindor, Nitherin, Taventaw and Grufflestuff.
Make her a mythic bard with perform: Oratory. The dragons are intelligent and can just be NPCs loyal to her, you don't need more mechanics than that.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to make an exact copy of the ASOIAF character, I just want to make an NPC losely based on her. It is a homebrew campeign with nothing like the storyline of GoT.
The PCs (and I as well) just really enjoyed GoT (except S08), as well as other fantasy stories. I even included the Nazgul into the game, because we all really like LotR. The reason for including the Nazgul and "Danny" is for the PC to go all batcrap crazy when they first encounter them, because they know the refference. And because I could really fit them into my storyline.
The NPC based on Danny is going to be a half-sister of a (female) PC, who is a Bard but gets the 3th, 9th and 15th lvl draconic sorcerer bloodline powers as boons (other PCs get different boons), hence why I also wanted her to be a Dragon Desciple (both descendants of the Dragon God Animitas (Apsu)). That I want her to be martially capabale has nothing to with the original chacarter of GoT/ASOIAF, that's just the way I wanted het to be for my own storyline (a warrior queen, [u]with dragons[/u]). And she has a solid reason to invade the continent of the PCs, it's not going to be an invasion for the sake in anvading.
If you want more details on the general story line (and why this NPC is invading), please ask me and I can give you an elaborate story, but for now, I think you all get the jist.
So, do you have any advice with feats, spells, dips, equipment etc for a Fighter1/Sorcerer4/Dragon Disciple9?
I've looked into the Dragon Mystery from Oracle and the Flame Dancer Bard, but I just didn't feel a match. Thanks for the ideas though!