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Nice intro! I'll have the ramen
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Biff's dad was half-elf...
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2 hours ago, iantruesilver said:
Meh, if you rolled 110, take the 110! What's an extra 20gp out of the universe's pockets?
Thank you!
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39 minutes ago, iantruesilver said:
Mechanics wise:
- Not sure how you're calculating your point buy, but currently your ability score matrix works out to be 23 points
- With a +1 Intelligence modifier, there should be one bonus language. Where are we getting Terran from?
- Assuming that FCB was spent in skill points, therefore getting 6 + int mod (+1) + FCB (1) + background (2) = 10, whereas the 11 HP is from toughness?
- Also, not seeing an actual die roll for wealth, unless I'm blind?
Ouch. I failed to realize that dumping CON and CHA down to 10 would mean I was using (abusing) extra points. So I have kept +2 CON +2 CHA for race, and reduced STR from 14 to 13, and DEX from 14 to 12. That should 0 out for 20 points now.
Max HP from level 1 is 8 +3 from Toughness for 11 HP.
FCB went to skill points for a total of 8 adventuring points and 2 background skill points, as you calculated. I put 2 background skill points in Handle Animal and Profession at the bottom of the list. I then picked 7 adventuring skills at 1 point each, at the top of the page, and put the 8th adventuring skill point into Linguistics, a third background skill (and not a class skill). Biff gets to cast Summon Nature's Ally II as a spell-like ability, enabling him to summon small elementals. It does not say he can talk to them. I'm gonna spend skill points in Linguistics to address that. I HAD been taking Cosmopolitan at Level 1 for a feat, but that is totally incompatible with the local origins backstory so I am just going to pay for Elemental languages as we go. So Biff has Common + Celestial (birth), Sylvan (INT bonus), and Terran (Linguistics).
I see, now, where to employ the dice tower. I got a visible total of 11 or 110 gold. I had rolled offscreen and got 5, 1, 1, 2, for 90 gold, and I have built for 90 gold and with your permission to avoid benefiting from incompetence I will stick with 90 gold, which in any case, I have publicly rolled high enough to claim.
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Rewrote a simpler and localized backstory for my feral Hunter.
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Background: Biff Butler was born in Sandpoint to Ham Butler, a half-elf cleric of Erastil, and Dorcas Butler, a half-orc bard, on 3 Pharast 4688. The parents were surprised to have an aasimar for a son, and Ham dedicated the infant boy to Erastil’s service.
When he was 11 and playing tag, Biff learned he could make himself run faster by thinking like a stag, or see in the dark by thinking like a bat, or do other tricks by thinking like an animal. But the other children screamed that his face would change when he did these things. They accused him of being switched by a fey and cheating, and they stopped playing with him. His tutor Elias the gnome decided he needed to learn Sylvan and started teaching it to him. So in addition to speaking Celestial since birth somehow, and Common in the home, Biff had extra homework and no playmates. His father told him clerics need to study hard, and his mother felt put out but didn’t know what to do.
When he was 12, Biff’s parents died of typhoid, and the orphan boy’s relatives indentured him to a merchant in town named Cleon. Cleon made Biff sleep in a barrel and eat scraps and work twelve hours a day in the docks as a stevedore hauling cargo.
Biff hated his life and decided to run away on his fourteenth birthday. He was caught, or rather, rescued, by Shalelu Andosana. She found Biff trying to stay dry under a lonely tree in a meadow in a thunderstorm, and jokingly called in Sylvan that Gates to the First World aren’t opened by lightning strikes. Biff responded, in Sylvan, that he didn’t care either way. Shalelu was surprised to find her quarry was a 14-year-old runaway and not a hardened thief like Cleon had misled her to believe. She brought him back to the docks, but every summer she paid Cleon to “rent” the boy for a month. She taught Biff more Sylvan, how to live off the land like a ranger, and how to call on Erastil for spellpower, rightly concluding he was a divine conduit.
In the Late Unpleasantness Cleon was found murdered, by the instigators of that general violence or on his own account was not clear and not investigated very hard. Biff at 17 was the master of his own fate. He signed on to the first caravan leaving town, an amateur twenty wagon operation bound for Magnimar by land.
This caravan of greenhorns came to a bad end at the hand of goblins led by hobgoblin samurai. Biff managed to escape into the forest and survive on his own for a month as he’d been trained. He was found by Shalelu when she came to investigate the carnage several weeks after the massacre. Shalelu led him north past Sandpoint to a caravan led by Sandru Vhiski, where she obtained him a job as a caravan guard.
After two years of safe travels with Sandru’s caravan, Biff is ready for a longer trek and a chance to really get away from the small town of Sandpoint. He hears rumors the boss is planning something big, and he’d like to be a part of it.
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Well, I wouldn't get to a Large animal form til level 6, and Huge comes at level 8, so we can leave it blank til I meet something that fits. I meant to limit the list to one per size category, instead of having say 5.
If its too much for a level 1 character I'll rewrite him younger and less well-traveled.
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Huh. According to Archives of Nethys there was a campaign trait called Foriegn Tongue, which gave a bonus language for knowing an NPC. Paizo just let me log in so I can download the Players Guide, and I see no trace of it...I've amended to choose Caravan Guard.
Also looking to Level 4 and beyond, I can wild shape into animal forms I am familiar with. Which raises the question of what Biff is familiar with.
I propose the following list:
Diminutive BatTiny Rat
Small Dog
Medium Eagle
Large Polar Bear
Huge Mastodon Elephant
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well thats the Army for ya 😄
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Will polish mine up a bit then!
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Hi! Would you consider an Agathion Aasimar who's a Feral Hunter? Feral Hunter doesn't get the animal companion, and gets limited use of Druid's Wild Shape at level 4.
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Biff Butler
Race: Agathion Aasimar
Class: Hunter (Feral Hunter)
Deity: Erastil
Alignment: NG
Age: 19
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 283 lbs
Strength 13 Dexterity 14 Constitution 12 Intelligence 12 Wisdom 16 Charisma 12
Personality: Gruff but good-hearted. Intolerant of cruelty. Just.
Description: Tall and broad, with a fiery red beard and long hair braided Dwarven fashion. Wears traveler's clothes under hide armor.
Background:TBD
Gear: Rolled 110 gold
Gladius
Light Flail
Hide armor
Buckler
Wooden Symbol of Erastil
Ranger's Kit
Explorer's Outfit
Acid Flask
Spell Component Pouch
Comes to 87 gold and 77 pounds of gear
Party Role: Scout, melee combatant, light healer
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Good gaming folks! It was fun drafting a submission for this one
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Fingers crossed!
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4 hours ago, Naimless said:
I don’t envy your selection process!
Yeah quite a few teams could be assembled from this assortment...
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It seems you have a limited time on weekday mornings Mindcrime, I expect I'll let you focus on the character reviews.
There's more I can do to link Jamir to the rest of the team, like linking backstories, discussing tactics and teamwork feats, and choosing our roles more clearly, but I think that would have to wait til we all pass through the eye of the needle and get selected.
I want to say you have been very helpful with what we needed to get set up for consideration.
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You got twice my Charisma so I will defer to your vision. If we're chosen.
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33 minutes ago, Mindcrime said:
When it comes to the leadership feat, should someone select it, I would generate the cohorts and followers and play them. They would definitely have a more background/supporting role. Plus, taking the leadership feat would have to make sense. You can't take it until level 7, so you have plenty of time to roleplay that into your character if you intend to take it.
That answers me fully thank you.
Pardon my thinking ahead of level 2 I like to have a general idea what I want to become, knowing that it'll flex with events, so my feats and spells make an effective character.
With my poor Charisma score it would be about level 13 before I got any followers as an option. I'm imagining his Shoanti in-laws send reinforcements to him to act as camp attendants and couriers. But if a teammate with better Charisma does it better and sooner we could scrap the whole idea of Leadership for Jamir.
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Leadership is on the feats list. How does that work, does the player draw up a cohort for GM approval, or suggest a cohort the GM draws up, or does the GM make up an appropriate level cohort and followers for the player? Does the GM run the cohort in battle?
Or do you want to drop Leadership? It seems like we have volunteers for all sorts of roles and you could just take on more players rather than allow for cohorts. If you're dead set on 6 players rather than adjust the adventure path you may want to deny Leadership as skewing it as if we had more players.
I just was thinking about what I would want in a cohort, and it kept coming up close to something somebody proposed as a PC...
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Not for Feral Hunters, it's specifically not vermin or elementals but animals.
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But clearly a half-elf impersonating a mammoth should ride smooth as a Lippizaner stallion LOL
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Druid wants magic for the growing plants
Ranger wants magic for the pets to dance,
Fighter wants magic but he does without
Wizard wants magic that's all he’s about
Cleric wants magic, he saves your bod
Paladin wants magic and thinks she’s god
Recon wrecks em with a great big grin
Then we call on God and we wreck em again
Mighty E, Mighty E, up in the sky
Give Recon magic so our foes will die!
Mighty E said with a sorry frown
What good is magic in the middle of town?
Pitch your camp in the wooded hills
Log in miles and rack up kills
When you shown me you’ve got a clue
Mighty Erastil will favor you!
Gods help the fella who steps to me
I’m a trained assassin, crack infantry
Deep in the field and sight unseen
Ahead of the pack and feelin mean
Totally surrounded and walkin tall
Gonna charge in a spiral and conquer all
Cause the difference between us, them and we
We’re the hardcore hardcharging infantry
Recon, all in,
Recon, all the way,
Recon, all out,
Recon, all the time
Beans and bacon and bread and joe
That’s what makes the Recon go
Don’t drink their water, don’t fill your tray
Eat what ya brung if you can’t catch prey
No campfire out on patrol
The bread is wet and the beans are cold
That’s high livin to a Recon scout
That kinda life what we all about
Fifteen miles on an easy day
Fight all night til they run away
Damn lucky fella who can tell his wife
I fought Recon, and kept my life
I fought Recon, but bugged out right
I fought Recon, and they can fight
I fought Recon, and guess who won
I fought Recon, and then I run
All through the morning from break of dawn
Infiltrates the bold Recon
All through the evening til sun is set
Recon will reconnoiter yet
If I fall in the combat zone
Reincarnate me skin and bone
We need a code word so you know its me
If I say Recon! Thank the Mighty E
Ever living through E’s concern
We’ll come back while the foemen burn
Mad dogs, Recon scouts,
Wild hogs, Recon scouts
The best, Recon scouts,
Don’t test Recon scouts!
RECON!
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Would like to suggest a simplified list of Familiar Creatures for Wild Shape, since I don't get to use the animal stat blocks just modify my own as per the Beast Shape spell, I don't need a library of different forms to juggle like I previously thought.
4th Level: Small: Eagle, Medium: Wolf
6th Level: Tiny: Rat, Large: Horse +4th Level forms
8th Level: Diminutive: Bat, Huge: Mastodon Elephant + 6th level forms + 4th level forms
Since we have potentially another summoner I think we should assign responsibility for the paperwork to the player, and have us do a sheet for Wolf A, Wolf B, Wolf C etc. My guy can get bonuses to numbers summoned at level 6. Since we're playing by post and not posting daily it shouldn't be too much for us but could overwhelm a GM. If you prefer to have charge of that I won't insist.
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5 hours ago, Mindcrime said:
I have searched this and have come to the conclusion that it would be a matter of the huge creature's carrying capacity vs how much each medium creature weighed (with all of their gear).
Ok Thank you, we'll deal when it comes up. Thanks for looking!
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