Has Nigel Aldain, the curator of the Blakros Museum, ever been officially statted? I've found references to him being a Wizard, but I can't find anything else.
No. You can attack things with Stat blocks.
Well, yeah, but I wanted to know what he had access to; level, specializations, languages, spells, skills, ect.
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Hulking Hurler was making a joke there. Historically many people have played their characters as having a fairly antagonistic relationships toward Nigel Aldain. Mainly due to his propensity for begging Pathfinders for help and then throwing them into deadly situations.
Pretty sure there's not been any stats published for Nigel.
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Hulking Hurler was making a joke there. Historically many people have played their characters as having a fairly antagonistic relationships toward Nigel Aldain. Mainly due to his propensity for begging Pathfinders for help and then throwing them into deadly situations.
Pretty sure there's not been any stats published for Nigel.
I could have sworn there was a summarized block for him, but it was somewhere very obscure.
My group and I have sort of retconned Nigel to be a "Rupert Giles" character who gives our scooby gang quests revolving around supernatural and eldritch mysteries. He still runs the Blackros Museum, and he still answers to the Blackros family, but he's less bumbling. He's also involved in an elven society dedicated to finding and reclaiming the aiudara keys.
Some minor tweaks to the character that's made him perfectly respectable.
That being said, I was hoping to have him a fully fleshed-out character with stats. I've read through almost all the Pathfinder Society Modules in which he's mentioned, but haven't found anything yet, so if anyone knows where I could find more info on him, I would be very appreciative.
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You can start by figuring out how to make a character with an effective Wisdom of 1 within the rules...Are you sure that's not all just an act?
There's some growing consensus in our local group that Nigel is actually pretty darn competent at his job, and is simply doing the best he can with shamefully limited resources. He married into the Blakros family, but isn't in their good graces, so he doesn't get the support from them he needs. And really, who thought it was a good idea to store the bulk of the family's collection of highly suspect magical relics in a place originally built by an infamously insane mage? Certainly not his! It's no wonder that the museum is a hotbed for weird magical crises, or that Nigel gets so cranky when Pathfinders gleefully poke at stuff they don't understand.
Venture-Agent, Finland—Tampere
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My impression of Nigel is that "over ten years he has been written by so many different writers that you can't get consensus based on all scenarios, so you have to examine latest ones on what is current status of his competency" :D
(But seriously though, I think Nigel gets lot of undeserved flack)
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I feel like some are behind the times. :)
I am aware of the recent fake news surrounding Nigel. My issue is that Nigel is the personification of every annoying frustratingly overly complex bureaucratic headache.
Waiting in line at the DMV, blame Nigel.
Filing taxes, some of Nigel's best work.
Just look what Nigel did to health care.
Knowing that Nigel is behind it all has saved many customer service representatives from raging outbursts. He's my blood pressure medication.
...And it's just like that pointy weasel to try and take it away from me with some BS redemption propaganda.
Venture-Lieutenant, Netherlands—Leiden
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I believe it's in PFS1 #9-05 Call of the Copper Gate that we get to see him in action. In true Nigel fashion he's using fireballs to kill some creature with serious fire resistance (but, impressively, succeeding).
Then again in PFS1 #6-02 The Silver Mount Collection you meat him strewn out on the lawn complaining of having been mortally wounded after taking a few points of damage.
I guess he's not really all adventurer material.
I feel like some are behind the times. :)
I'm not sure I get this reference. Can someone explain?
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Exactly.
Plus, he is an elf wizard, so a few hit point may be all he has!
CON8, level 9 wizard 5+3*9 = 32hp.So, he could easily take himself out with his own fireball!
That calculation seems off for both PF1 and PF2:
PF1:
(4-1)*8+(6-1) = 29 (without taking favored class into account)
PF2:
6 (Ancestry) + 9*(6-1) (class) = 51
I guess you counted level 1 twice for first edition? Seems like the most likely culprit here.
That would take his HP to an even more impressively low number, though.
He is an NPC, he should have:
3.5*9-9 = 22 (you round down) hp
In fact, he could be someone's con 5 elf wizard challenge character.
3.5*9-27 = 4 (you round down) hp
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Or he "lost" his stat block somewhere in the museum and needs you to go get it and refuses to give you any information and refuses to help and doesn't want anyone to find out so he doesn't get in trouble and wants you to pay to fix the stuff that attacked you and lies to your face when you discover he traded it for some magic beans.
