I am a rather huge fan of the Mass Effect games and have played a variety of the classes from them, but I am curious, exactly how would you build each of the classes in the pathfinder rules? I'll do a rundown of each incase anybody doesn't know them.
- The Adept: The pure biotic specialist, I am guessing sorcerer with a complete focus on spells of the telekinetic and force varieties.
- The Vanguard: A mixture combat/biotic class that is skilled with guns as well as biotics, possibly Magus with a dip in Spellslinger Wizard? I don't know how to go about this one. (Could also be a melee magus focusing on using Bladed Dash to close into melee distance)
- The Soldier: Pure combat specialist, probably a Gunslinger with Master Craftsman for magical bullets.
- The Infiltrator: A trickier one, is a Combat/Tech class that prefers long range weapons and uses a tactical invisibility cloak to move into position for attacks, sounds almost Rogueish to me, maybe a slayer or unchained rogue?
- The Engineer: A class focused on using various abilities to cripple the enemy offense while bolstering his own with buffs, also can deploy a combat pet, sounds very wizardish to me, but there may well be other ways to do this one.
- The Sentinel: Even more than the Engineer, uses a combination of technological attacks while sowing even more discord with biotic debuffs, instead of a familiar it has a suit of biotic barrier reinforced tech armor as its signature ability, this is another one I am unsure of how to convert.
The alchemist could help with either the Engineer or the Sentinel.
I think Bloodrager could be an interesting approach to the Vanguard. Also a Witch with the Endurance patron seems like it might work for the Sentinel.
The alchemist could help with either the Engineer or the Sentinel.
I originally thought of the Alchemist for the Engineer but after I thought about it the Engineer acts like a pretty standard battlefield controller, using dispel magic or some such to deactivate their magic items, then use debuffs like slow and others, is alchemist able to do that? I am not well versed in the class
Most biotics are just telekinesis, so can probably be covered by the kineticist with the aether option.
Most biotics are just telekinesis, so can probably be covered by the kineticist with the aether option.
good idea :D
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I found the following awhile back, maybe it is what you are looking for?
Vanguard (Mass Effect class for Pathfinder)
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I found the following awhile back, maybe it is what you are looking for?
Vanguard (Mass Effect class for Pathfinder)
This is pretty rad.
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Check out Ultimate Psionics from Dreamscarred Press. The Psion, Psychic Warrior and Aegis classes might be good adaptations for the Adept, Vanguard or Sentinel classes. The Aegis is especially suited (no pun intended) for the Vanguard! If you're also bringing the races in, the Asari are naturally psionic. The Krogan also have some degree of natural psionics, though not to nearly the same degree.
For Infiltrator I was thinking more Urban Ranger than Rogue
Probably be easier if you forget about guns totally when trying to recreate them in Pathfinder. Mass Effect is a very future sci fi game and trying to get all the details right in a conversion will fail every time with the guns.
As for Sentinel I would definitely think Humanoid Synthesis Summoner with as many evolutions into defense as you can to make yourself hard to kill.
For spells stock up on as many attack buffs as you can. Suppose you could try to get a repeating crossbow if you really must keep the 'gun' theme going.
Sorry I forgot to get back to this. The alchemist has dispel bombs at 6th level. I would have to get a bit further with the thoughts on it.