The party is a bunch of bored rich nobles who get it in their heads to start adventuring. They are low level NPC classes and stats with a ludicrous starting budget to buy magic items, like armor, staves, rods, potions, airships etc
Interested. This WftC character is built around this concept, starting with 1800 in cash and a free 250 gp asset from traits alone
Nice. Janis here is a son of Magnimar's Scarnetti family and is a bored rich kid with the skills to pay the bills.
As for your character, the money isn't nearly stupid enough. I'm talking buy an airship and still have stupid amounts of money left over. Per person.
Might be fun. High-level magic items so rarely see play, it would definitely be cool to bust out some bank-breaking weapons.
One of the fun parts for me is imagining you guys outfitting yourselves like standard classes then just smacking each other saying give me your stuff, I want to be the rogue today and you all just switch gears so you're performing alternate roles.
That sounds interesting, certainly. I’d like to hear more.
Seems like a funny idea. A noble who's taken a fancy to martial arts novels, using a Monk's Robe to act out their fantasy.
I'd expect you to mow over everything low level until you suddenly died.
Seems like a funny idea. A noble who's taken a fancy to martial arts novels, using a Monk's Robe to act out their fantasy.
Sounds fun.
Ha ha... this would be super fun. Money solves so many problems... until you hit reality. That would be fun to see.
Hehe interesting proposal. Certain items are really so great that even at low level it’d be a highly powered campaign already.
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I think the success would depend on the group and if everyone would get on the same page, regarding campaign-purpose. "You guys are all spoiled-rich and BORED" is a good 'get-together.' .... But what comes next?
Like, I'd be really interested in taking it seriously, my 1st Level Aristocrat all ready to roleplay and pursue a campaign goal. And I'd really enjoy that in a more serious game. But of course plenty of other campaign-style games are just as good -- just not for me. The reckless, feckless, dilettante game where the PCs are flying by the seat of their pants doing wacky, wonky stuff for fun and causing chaos would be a blast -- but I wouldn't propose a PC for that campaign. And there are other possibilities that are DM-driven: Are we bored, spoiled-rich PCs getting together to, um, .... go conquer Holomog, ...or The River Kingdoms? Are we spoiled-rich PCs getting together to discover lost Azlant? Or another planet? Are we getting together cuz we all hate (for example) Irori, and we're gonna go wipe out all the strict monasteries until we're ready to take The Test of The Starstone, and then kill Irori ourselves. Heck, even a 'Bored, Spoiled-Rich PCs go take the Test of the Starstone' campaign could work. If everyone's on board.
If, however, everyone builds a PC for his or her own different purpose, or a different campaign theme or style, I think it could end up badly. (He wants to take The Test of the Starstone; she wants to kill Razmir and take over Razmiran. This PC wants to fly around various locales in the Inner Sea to randomly blast places haphazardly chosen; that PC wants to instigate a war between Andoran and Cheliax.) Yeah, without DM direction during Recruitment,--
I think the success would depend on the group and if everyone would get on the same page, regarding campaign-purpose. "You guys are all spoiled-rich and BORED" is a good 'get-together.' .... But what comes next?
Like, I'd be really interested in taking it seriously, my 1st Level Aristocrat all ready to roleplay and pursue a campaign goal. And I'd really enjoy that in a more serious game. But of course plenty of other campaign-style games are just as good -- just not for me. The reckless, feckless, dilettante game where the PCs are flying by the seat of their pants doing wacky, wonky stuff for fun and causing chaos would be a blast -- but I wouldn't propose a PC for that campaign. And there are other possibilities that are DM-driven: Are we bored, spoiled-rich PCs getting together to, um, .... go conquer Holomog, ...or The River Kingdoms? Are we spoiled-rich PCs getting together to discover lost Azlant? Or another planet? Are we getting together cuz we all hate (for example) Irori, and we're gonna go wipe out all the strict monasteries until we're ready to take The Test of The Starstone, and then kill Irori ourselves. Heck, even a 'Bored, Spoiled-Rich PCs go take the Test of the Starstone' campaign could work. If everyone's on board.
If, however, everyone builds a PC for his or her own different purpose, or a different campaign theme or style, I think it could end up badly. (He wants to take The Test of the Starstone; she wants to kill Razmir and take over Razmiran. This PC wants to fly around various locales in the Inner Sea to randomly blast places haphazardly chosen; that PC wants to instigate a war between Andoran and Cheliax.) Yeah, without DM direction during Recruitment,--
Well if I ran this it wouldn't be for you. Please understand I'm not trying to be snotty I appreciate your input and I love serious games, but I wouldn't give you the budget I'd be giving you for a serious game. I figure this would be short and fun as I keep ramping up the challenge until eventually I miscalculated and the party TPKed. Lots of downtime to do stupid shit at the local tavern until you woke up naked in a haystack. That kind of stuff.
Are the PCs gaining levels solely in the NPC class, or will they transit into the regular classes?
OMG, this idea is AMAZING!
Also, are there pathfinder rules for building a mech suit?
interested
The leveling would be based on milestone and would have strict criteria since this is mostly supposed to be stupid fun until everybody dies (probably) I don't know about using actual PC classes.
I believe there are some rules for alternative construct building including making things like golems into armor
I'm thinking of a noble who is a weebo. He loves Tian Xia and spends huge amounts on anything vaguely looking like it. He drops Tian words into his speech makes incorrect guesses on how the culture really works and his dream is to go to Numeria and get a robot waifu made.(looks like 2B from Nier:Automata)
Lol. That might be bad as those ones tend to be a little creepy.
Unsure if this is still a possible game, but if so, Heir Apparent might be a good class for the PCs, at some point.
Course, idk how it would work with what sounds like it's going to be far more gold than that class normally has access to, but it also may not matter.
I'd be interested in playing this. I love playing diplomatic nobles.
That sounds like the exact opposite of what I planned, but either way I'm not going to be running this anytime soon. Two IRL games that didn't look like they were going to develop suddenly did so my plate is a little full.