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Class Choices

1. Witch (Sphere Witch) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
2. Witch (Sphere Witch) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
3. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
4. Vizier (Sphere Vizier) // Soulforge (Mightforge | Sphere Soulforge)
5. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Soulforge (Mightforge | Sphere Soulforge)
6. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Soulforge (Mightforge | Sphere Soulforge)
7. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Kheshig (Khorchin | Variable Veilmaster)
8. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
9. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
10. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)

Race

• Living Veil (Aura of the Adaptable)
  • Construct Essence Variant
    • Favored Class: Arcanist
      • FCB:+1/3 Composit Living Veil Feat

Traits

• Natural Essence [Akashic]
• Forgesoul Armor [Combat]
• Natural-Born Leader [Social]

Drawback

• Empty Mask

Oaths (+6)

• (+2) Forbidden Knowledge (Greater Madness: Overkill)
• (+2) Oath Against Mercy
• (+1) Oath of Celibacy
• (+1) Oath of Secrecy

Oath Boons (-6)

• (-3) Enhanced Armaments
• (-2) Enhanced Defenses
• (-1) Skillful

Feats

• Lvl 1. Unified Theory
• Lvl 3. Bound Living Veil
• Lvl 5. Student of the Astral Suit
• Lvl 6. [FCB] Composit Living Veil (Tactician's Tabard)
• Lvl 7. Personal Guardian
• Lvl 9. [FCB] Composit Living Veil (Hag's Shawl)*Hag's Shawl is selected because it can be used to flex all the witch hexes, but specifically the Akashic Patronage Witch Hex, which lets you select an akashic feat as a bonus feat, allowing you to flex an entire category of feat.
• Lvl 9. ???

Witch Hexes

• Lvl 1. Moldable Magics
• Lvl 2. Akashic Patronage (Folded Veil)

Arcanist Exploits

• Lvl 3 (Arcanist 3). Quick Study
• Lvl 6 (Arcanist 1). Bloodline Development: Machinist Bloodline
• Lvl 8 (Arcanist 5). Item Crafting: Akashic Arms & Armor
• Lvl 10 (Arcanist 7). Item Crafting: Craft Self

1. Witch (Sphere Witch) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
   • Witch Hex (Moldable Magics): +1 (Flex) Magic Talent
   • Witch: +1 Magic Talent
   • Witch Patron: +1 Magic Talent
   • Caster: +2 Magic Talents
     • 5 Talents Total: 1 Flex Magic, 4 Magic
2. Witch (Sphere Witch) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
   • Witch: +1 Magic Talent
   • Aegis: +1 (Flex) Blended Talent
     • 7 Talents Total: 1 Flex Magic, 5 Magic, 1 Flex Blended
3. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
   • Arcanist: +1 (Flex) Magic Talent
     • 8 Talents Total: 2 Flex Magic, 5 Magic, 1 Flex Blended
4. Vizier (Sphere Vizier) // Soulforge (Mightforge | Sphere Soulforge)
   • Vizier: +1 Magic Talent
   • Vizier: +2 Magic Talents (Veilweaver)
   • Soulforge: +1 (Flex) Combat Talent
   • Soulforge: +2 Magic Talent (Veilweaving)
     • 14 Talents Total: 1 Flex Combat, 1 Flex Magic, 10 Magic, 1 Flex Blended
5. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Soulforge (Mightforge | Sphere Soulforge)
   • Arcanist: +1 Magic Talent
   • Soulforge: +1 Magic Talent
     • 16 Talents Total: 1 Flex Combat, 1 Flex Magic, 12 Magic, 1 Flex Blended
6. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Soulforge (Mightforge | Sphere Soulforge)
   • Arcanist: +1 (Flex) Magic Talent
   • Soulforge: +1 (Flex) Combat Talent
     • 18 Talents Total: 2 Flex Combat, 3 Flex Magic, 12 Magic, 1 Flex Blended
7. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Kheshig (Khorchin | Variable Veilmaster)
   • Arcanist: +1 Magic Talent
   • Kheshig: +1 Blended Talent
     • 20 Talents Total: 2 Flex Combat, 2 Flex Magic, 13 Magic, 1 Flex Blended, 1 Blended
8. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
   • Arcanist: +1 (Flex) Magic Talent
   • Aegis: +1 (Flex) Blended Talent
     • 22 Talents Total: 2 Flex Combat, 4 Flex Magic, 13 Magic, 2 Flex Blended, 1 Blended
9. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
   • Arcanist: +1 Magic Talent
     • 23 Talents Total: 2 Flex Combat, 3 Flex Magic, 14 Magic, 2 Flex Blended, 1 Blended
10. Arcanist (Sphere Arcanist | Unlettered Arcanist) // Aegis (Integrator | Mekanikos)
    • Arcanist: +1 (Flex) Magic Talent
    • Aegis: +1 (Flex) Blended Talent
      • 25 Talents Total: 2 Flex Combat, 5 Flex Magic, 14 Magic, 3 Flex Blended, 1 Blended

Note: This breakdown does not include talents gained via Combat/Casting/Unified Tradition(s) or Sphere Drawbacks.

Setup

• Taking iterations of the Adorn Akashic Treasure talent with static Magic Talents or static Blended Talents in order to adorn an iteration of the Talentkeeper's Opal Akashic Treasure onto every shaped veil converts the same number of static Blended Talents and/or Magic Talents spent doing so into (Flex) Blended Talents. Will always have the same number of talent points spent as his minimum number veils shaped for efficiency.
• Spending Aegis Customization Points on the Bonus Talent customization grants extra (Flex) Blended Talents (maximum 1 per 2 effective levels of Aegis).
• Once the character reaches level 7, he can shape the Dahlia's Psionic Halo veil and manifest the 3rd level psionic power Form Astral Armor, essentially letting him snag temporary (1 min/lvl) Aegis Customizations in order to get specific or specialized buffs as needed for any given situation. This requires using the Astral Skin variant if using armor, but still a great way to flex customizations that grant skill bonuses and such as needed.
• Once the character reaches level 10, he can shape the Dahlia's Psionic Halo veil and manifest the 4th level psionic power Psychic Reformation, essentially letting him 'Flex' all of his Skill & Feat selections as needed, making him the ultimate Jack-of-all-Flexes.
• The Personal Guardian feat is used to gain a Living Veil (Incarnate Form Variant) cohort that specializes in general buff & utility veils, essentially giving you a second set of (albeit less flexible) Veils to use. Using the Raja (Lordly Champion) class as their main class, they can grant you extra actions as well as essentially acting as a wearable buff bundle.

"Loadouts"

• Using his vast wealth of 'Flex' talents, he can start each day with almost an entirely new 'loadout' of Akashic, magic talents, and combat talents in order to fill the day's needs.
• While he can use Quick Study to instantly flex a handful of specific magical talents in a pinch, the main appeal is being able to adapt powers on a day-by-day basis, outside of minor changes still possible during the day.
• While he'll have a list of 'Static' Talents, he'll have a separate list of Flexable talents that can/will change, depending on loadout. Have an example:

• Example

  Veils

  Personal Veils 

  1. Racial Veil (Living Veil)
     • [Shoulders ✫, +4*] Aura of the Adaptable 
       • Emulating: Eyes of the Hawkguard
         • Foldable Option: Trickster's Overcoat
         • Foldable Option: Hag's Shawl
         • Foldable Option: Tactician's Tabard 
           • Stored: Alluring Voice
           • Stored: Goldhoard Vestments
           • Stored: Book and Quill of the Akashic Record
           • Stored: Bangle of Barriers
           • Stored: Blessings of the Faith
  2. Soul of the Vigilante Associated Veil
     • [Feet] Greaves of Skirmishing
  3. (CL 1) Variable Arsenal Veil (Kheshig - Variable Veilmaster)
     • [Headband ✫] Crystals of Radiance
  4. Bloodline Development (Machinist Bloodline) Veil
     • [Shoulders ✫] Machinist's Powered Armor
  5. Veilweaving Sphere
     • [Headband✫, +6] Dahlia's Psionic Halo
  6. Adorned in Veils (Vizier - Sphere Vizier)
     • [Belt] Bandolier of the Catalyzer
  7. Shape Additional Veil Talent
     • [Shoulders ✫] Crystalline Swarm
  8. Shape Additional Veil Talent
     • [Head] Daring Archer's Goggles
  9. Shape Additional Veil Talent
     • [Body] Body of Magic

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  ✫ = Bound

  * = Always counts as being invested with the maximum essence possible.

  Strikethrough = Does not count against veils per day or assigned chakra slot.

  Talents

  Legend

  ☪ = Moldable Magic Talent (Reassignable during 8 hour rest or 1 Point of Arcane Reservoir to change as full action)
  ☯ = Flexible Blended Talent (Reassignable during 8 hour rest)
  ☸ = Flexible Combat Talent (Reassignable during 8 hour rest)
  ☮ = Blended Talent
  ★ = Free Talent with Sphere Unlock

  ---

   

  Static Talents (24)

  Equipment Sphere Equipment: Techmaniac Equipment: Toolkit Training Equipment: Natural Materials Equipment: Magic Armor Warp Sphere Warp: Extradimensional Storage Tech Sphere Tech: Emergency Gear ★ Tech: Tech Savvy

  Veilweaving Sphere Veilweaving: Shape Additional Veil Veilweaving: Shape Additional Veil Veilweaving: Capacity Increase ☮ Veilweaving: Capacity Increase ☮ Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal) Veilweaving: Adorn Akashic Treasure (Talentkeeper's Opal)

   

  Flexed Talents (24)

  Veilweaving: Shape Additional Veil ☯ Veilweaving: Veil Knowledge (Dalhia's Psionic Halo) ☯ Veilweaving: Enhanced Capacity (Dahlia's Psionic Halo) ☯ Veilweaving: Enhanced Capacity (Dahlia's Psionic Halo) ☯ Veilweaving: Chakra Bind (Shoulders) ☯ Veilweaving: Shift Veil ☯ Veilweaving: Improved Shift Veil ☯ Veilweaving: Twin Veil ☯ Veilweaving: Fluid Enhancements ☯ Veilweaving: Vizier Tradition ☯ Warp: Extradimensional Storage ☯ Warp: Extradimensional Room ☯

  Equipment: Heavy Weapons Training ☸ Equipment: Firearm Proficiency ☸ Alteration Sphere ☯ Alteration: Lingering Transformation ☯ Alteration: Mechanical Customization ☯ Alteration: Greater Changes ☯ Alteration: Orb Transformation ☯ Alteration: Extreme Changes ☪ Alteration: Extreme Changes ☪ Alteration: Vitality ☪ Alteration: Cosmic Body ☪ Alteration: Size Change ☪

Gear

• Because of the Craft Self as well as the Unified Theory & Akashic Arms & Armor feats, almost all his spent wealth would be devoted to magical effects either on his Unified Theory Feat to add to his veils, or on himself.
• Not having to rely on physical items that can be lost, destroyed, or stolen, and being a Construct that does not need to eat or sleep, he is as 'self-sufficient' as I could think of.
• A few consumables and whatever coinage he happens to have are generally the only things he would carry with any regularity.
• Unified Theory Enhancement Short List:
  • -7,500gp: Greater Transformative (Weapon)
  • -2,000gp: Glamered (Weapon)
  • -1,350gp: Glamered (Armor)
  • -1,000gp: +1 Weapon
  • -1,000gp: Special Material: Deep Crystal (Weapon)
  • -500gp: +1 Armor
  • -500gp: +1 Shield
  • No Cost: Special Material: Mundane Crystal (Armor)
  • No Cost: Special Material: Mundane Crystal (Shield)
• Craft Self Enhancement Short List:
  • -4,000gp/-16,000gp/-36,000gp (Least/Lesser/Greater) Akashic Catalyst

Veil Mechanics

• His racial base Living Veil is Aura of the Adaptable, which allows him to emulate any other veil he has access to (usually through a Tradition Talent in the Veilweaving Sphere), and is able to burn essence to flex it for any other veil he has access to.
• The build contains 3 veils that do not count against the normal veils per day limit, nor the chakra slots they are assigned. These are gained at levels 1 (Living Veil Race), 3 (Arcanist's Exploit), & 7 (Kheshig Archetype).
• At level 5 and every 3rd level afterward, he gets a Composite Living Veil, which he is able to flex in his racial veil slot via the Folded Veil feat.
• He would normally get either the Soulforge or Vizier Tradition talents, locking him into that tradition when gaining his first level of Soulforge, but the build assumes he would hold a different tradition at the time that would be gained with a Flex talent. Thus, the choice of Tradition Talent remains something that can be flexed.

Shaped Veils By Level

I'm comfortable with all official 3.0 & 3.5 sources, and with running low-to-mid-level solo games. With any of the options listed below, if you simply provide an outline of what sort of goal or quest you'd like to work towards, I'll happily incorporate it into your game. Otherwise, you'll get the random unknown-until-experienced adventure version based on my own generic homebrew setting I've built up over the years to get new games up and running easily.

Option 1 - Traditional Fantasy
The setting would be a generic uber-world that counts as the prime material plane, but each 'setting' is simply its own continent rather than a separate plane/planet. Most taverns and inns have a 'request board' sometimes shortened to a more colloquially known 'quest' board, and cities always have a branch of the Adventurer's Guild that compiles higher-level quests for their members to tackle. You would be free to travel and explore sandbox style, join a guild with a goal/purpose you align with (Mercenary Guild, Hunter Guild, Adventurer Guild, Merchant Guild, etc), or simply do your own thing as worked out ahead of time that lines up with your desired game. Optional starting experiences include, but are not limited to:

• Already being a member of the Adventurer's Guild in good standing.
• Being an outlaw, on the run with a bounty on your head.
• Being an apprentice craftsman and finding yourself needing to gain experience to save your shop after your master disappears/dies.
• Being part of an expedition to a 'new land' with a predefined role to fill.
• Being Isekaied into a fantasy world from our world and being granted strange (possibly magical) powers.
• It's all a brand-new virtual reality videogame, and you are experiencing it for the first time.
• You've been hired on by a group of adventurers to fill a role in their party for an upcoming mission.

Option 2 - Modern Awakening

Essentially, a modern-day or slightly futuristic alternate Earth with some 'awakened' people granted specific game-like powers (3.5 class levels) that go into 'Gates' (mini-dungeons) to collect loot & raw resources to carry back into Earth. Gates have to be cleared within X timeframe or they 'break' and release the monsters inside into the world, so the world's various governments have agencies 'in charge' of getting them cleared. But since only 'awakened' people can clear the gates, they just issue hunting licenses based on the perceived power level of the awakened and allow them to enter/clear gates of their tier in exchange for taxing the loot and raw materials for governmental use. 

If you have read any webtoons/comics/manhua/manga/manhwa like Solo-Leveling, or anything in the 'Hunter', 'Awakened', 'System', 'Gates', etc genres, this is pretty much the type of setting I'm talking about.

Basic Rules

Choose to create either a 3.5 Character or a Pathfinder character (creation rules for both below).

Choose one of the setting options above.

No 'adult' roleplay - if you want adult content to happen off-screen or 'fade to black', that's fine, but otherwise, I'm not inclined towards that sort of interaction.

One gestalt or tristalt character, or up to to 2 standard or gestalt characters to facilitate an adventuring duo that can function as a 'whole party' if desired.

If you are interested, DM me and I can share my standard 'House Rules' for character creation that help balance the 3.5 experience for my setting. It is a collection of quality-of-life things, for the most part. Minor bonuses to certain low-tier classes to make them competitive, links to specific pre-approved class fixes available for use, feats at every odd level, some changes to spells to make them more useful and/or less game-breaking, etc., etc.

Character Creation & Mechanics (3.x)

All official 3.0 & 3.5 sources are allowed - if there is both a 3.0 and 3.5 version, use the 3.5 version. If there is no 3.5 equivalent, then using the original 3.0 content is fine and I can rule on any rules inconsistencies as needed. Gestalt is fine, Tristalt is also fine if starting at low levels. While I prefer no Tome of Battle content or Truenaming, Mysteries, and Essentia classes as I am not experienced enough with them to balance encounters for them properly, I'm willing to try if it is something someone really wants to use and does not mind me asking questions about your character's capabilities as-needed as I balance things accordingly.

Character Creation & Mechanics (Pathfinder)

All content from PFSRD, Library of Metzofitz Wiki website, Spheres of Power, and Archives of Nethys are freelz available for use for simplicity's sake and easy access for both parties.

The actual campaign setting or explanation of how such a person came to be in whatever setting my swapee decides on is ultimately up to them. If you want this techno-character to get thrown into an all-fantasy medieval world, that's just more opportunity for fun shenanigans. Isekai, VR Game, Awakening type game, etc as listed above - whatever you're most interested in DMing, really.

Character Creation

I want to play around with all the Pathfinder 3pp content that is technology-based using material from the freely available and OGL content from PFSRD, Library of Metzofitz Wiki website, Spheres of Power, and Archives of Nethys for simplicity's sake and easy access for both parties. Plus, being able to freely link to everything is just easier.

I essentially want to play a game where I play a Gestalt (or Tristalt) character based on Veilweaving with Akashic Magic (using the Akasha As Cybertech rules) and psibertech/cybertech with the standard Elephant in the Room feat tax rules and the Spheres of Power talents rather than traditional spellcasting.

My preferred starting level is between levels 5-10, as the point is to become powerful, and not already be completely all-powerful, but I'm flexible. Either a low-level tristalt, or a mid level gestalt would be ideal, as I think it gives the right amount of room for enough versatility to survive as a 'solo adventurer', if you know what I mean. I also wouldn't mind a tag-team of two low-to-mid-level gestalt characters to be played as a duo adventuring team.

ACTIONS

Check the Trapdoor for Traps (Perception)

If traps, attempt to disable traps. (Disable Device)

Also attempt to bypass the lock (Disable Device)

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