I am playing a goblin barbarian with the Shark as his Animal Instinct. He once got his butt kicked by a someone wearing a shark tooth necklace so he decided he needed to get stronger and sharper teeth by worshiping "The great God Shark." He of course has never seen a shark and has no idea what they really are.
I've become a enamored with the idea of using the lvl 8 Animal Rage power to transform into a shark on the battlefield and use leap and such to flop around the battlefield.
The shark form has a 35' swim but no land speed listed. Unfortunately under Athletics on page 242 of the core rulebook it says "You can't leap farther than your speed."
Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.
I don't know that I'd go for "comedic value" in PF2E unless your GM is going to explicitly support it. Combat can be brutal, and you might run into issues with lost actions or other complications. If your GM is willing to support it, then go crazy.
My own experience with a player running a Goblin Shark Barbarian Worshipper of God Sharks is that they are really fun, when played like a Shark...
No Escape, Animal Skin, Thrash, and especially Predators Pounce lend themselves to that very well.
I am playing a goblin barbarian with the Shark as his Animal Instinct. He once got his butt kicked by a someone wearing a shark tooth necklace so he decided he needed to get stronger and sharper teeth by worshiping "The great God Shark." He of course has never seen a shark and has no idea what they really are.
I've become a enamored with the idea of using the lvl 8 Animal Rage power to transform into a shark on the battlefield and use leap and such to flop around the battlefield.
The shark form has a 35' swim but no land speed listed. Unfortunately under Athletics on page 242 of the core rulebook it says "You can't leap farther than your speed."
Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.
Powerful Leap explicitly raises your maximum Leap by 5 feet, so you could Leap at least 5 feet.
Moving 5 feet per action seems pretty good for a Shark flopping around.
Raging Athlete increases it by another 5 feet.
If one of your allies is willing to cast level 2 Longstrider on you, it lasts 8 hours. That would get you up to a 20 foot leap.
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Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.
Since your goblin doesn’t actually know what a shark is, it might be more workable to pick some other animal totem and find the comedic value in the goblin simply insisting that whatever else you picked is a shark.
Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.Since your goblin doesn’t actually know what a shark is, it might be more workable to pick some other animal totem and find the comedic value in the goblin simply insisting that whatever else you picked is a shark.
a great idea, although unfortunately I have already portrayed myself adopting the facial features of a shark with raging. I guess although he doesn't really know what a shark is, he assumed the right face by instinct.
I am playing a goblin barbarian with the Shark as his Animal Instinct. He once got his butt kicked by a someone wearing a shark tooth necklace so he decided he needed to get stronger and sharper teeth by worshiping "The great God Shark." He of course has never seen a shark and has no idea what they really are.
I've become a enamored with the idea of using the lvl 8 Animal Rage power to transform into a shark on the battlefield and use leap and such to flop around the battlefield.
The shark form has a 35' swim but no land speed listed. Unfortunately under Athletics on page 242 of the core rulebook it says "You can't leap farther than your speed."
Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.
Powerful Leap explicitly raises your maximum Leap by 5 feet, so you could Leap at least 5 feet.
Moving 5 feet per action seems pretty good for a Shark flopping around.
Raging Athlete increases it by another 5 feet.
If one of your allies is willing to cast level 2 Longstrider on you, it lasts 8 hours. That would get you up to a 20 foot leap.
Although I don't think this really works rules as written... My GM is okay letting it fly house rules style.
Whatever the various feats give me as an increase, will end up being my total leap distance.
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unfortunately I have already portrayed myself adopting the facial features of a shark with raging. I guess although he doesn't really know what a shark is, he assumed the right face by instinct.
That leads to my second, way more complicated thought, which is a Bulette totem. Same face. Though I have no useful input on what that’d look like, we need it, and we need totems for the other outlandish animals of Pathfinder.
a great idea, although unfortunately I have already portrayed myself adopting the facial features of a shark with raging. I guess although he doesn't really know what a shark is, he assumed the right face by instinct.Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.Since your goblin doesn’t actually know what a shark is, it might be more workable to pick some other animal totem and find the comedic value in the goblin simply insisting that whatever else you picked is a shark.
Yes, but your goblin doesn't KNOW that sharks are fish, does he? Heck, he might have seen a drawing of a shark head, but maybe he never saw the latter half (not too surprising- the head is the more interesting half). He doesn't know that sharks aren't bipedal humanoids.
You could always run around as a Street Shark.
a great idea, although unfortunately I have already portrayed myself adopting the facial features of a shark with raging. I guess although he doesn't really know what a shark is, he assumed the right face by instinct.Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.Since your goblin doesn’t actually know what a shark is, it might be more workable to pick some other animal totem and find the comedic value in the goblin simply insisting that whatever else you picked is a shark.Yes, but your goblin doesn't KNOW that sharks are fish, does he? Heck, he might have seen a drawing of a shark head, but maybe he never saw the latter half (not too surprising- the head is the more interesting half). He doesn't know that sharks aren't bipedal humanoids.
You could always run around as a Street Shark.
SHARK ATTACK
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As goblins love singing just MC into Bard and go: "Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, dooooo..."
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Goblin shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Might I interest you in Street Sharks?
a great idea, although unfortunately I have already portrayed myself adopting the facial features of a shark with raging. I guess although he doesn't really know what a shark is, he assumed the right face by instinct.Any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem? I am more than happy to take feats and such to make it happen. For example I was planning on taking breath control, and powerful leap. But this doesn't get around the base speed issue. I would prefer to avoid using the fly spell, as it loses the comedic value of flopping around.Since your goblin doesn’t actually know what a shark is, it might be more workable to pick some other animal totem and find the comedic value in the goblin simply insisting that whatever else you picked is a shark.Yes, but your goblin doesn't KNOW that sharks are fish, does he? Heck, he might have seen a drawing of a shark head, but maybe he never saw the latter half (not too surprising- the head is the more interesting half). He doesn't know that sharks aren't bipedal humanoids.
You could always run around as a Street Shark.
I had never heard of Street Sharks before. At my age, my first thought was a Landshark.
I had never heard of Street Sharks before. At my age, my first thought was a Landshark.
As the video above shows, it is very, VERY much a creature of its time period. It was from the era where you had to be a child that like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but you weren't so picky about similar products.
It had great toys. If I remember right, they put a kind of stetching mask style plastic on top of the figures, so their faces stretched like skin when you used their biting action. And everything else was covered in teeth and spikes.
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I had never heard of Street Sharks before. At my age, my first thought was a Landshark.As the video above shows, it is very, VERY much a creature of its time period. It was from the era where you had to be a child that like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but you weren't so picky about similar products.
It had great toys. If I remember right, they put a kind of stetching mask style plastic on top of the figures, so their faces stretched like skin when you used their biting action. And everything else was covered in teeth and spikes.
Pretty much.
And even though I'm a 90s kid I recognize that it was patently dumb.But I love it because its patently dumb.
(That said, the first two seasons of Gargoyles was amazing, is still watchable as an adult, and even features an episode about gun safety that couldn't be aired today)