Character Creation and Advancement

I think windyridge is building a fighter. Let's discuss concepts and make sure we don't play 5 Drizzts

There is a players guide available for free

You are correct, if that works for everyone. Jabari Pilis - Human (His name means: Brave, Second Son). He is kind of a strong brute with zero personality. He just like to kill things. That's what I got so far.

I'm looking at a Magus, will see where it takes me

Here's my er... Jabari's starting wealth:

I’m going to play an oracle, Seeker archetype (sort of like a rogue/oracle hybrid). Originally built with the ancestor mystery, but I’ll see if there’s a more fitting option for this campaign when I get some time later.

I was thinking a Sacred Huntsmaster Inquisitor who has an animal companion and the campaign trait "Trap Finder." The basic concept is that he's a fixer of sorts for the church of Nethys, but he's not very open about his religious leanings. He's a bit of a rogue at heart and uses his skills to get himself into places he doesn't belong, which made him an asset for Nethys.

I can also go with another trait if someone else was wanting to focus on being able to find and disable traps.

Starting cash roll and animal companion HD roll

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having multiple people who can disarm traps.

I going with a halfling bard that can do traps. Traits (Tomb Finder, Tomb Raider)

Question: Before I get too deep into the character creation process, in this environment of undead, tombs and traps etc, will a fighter be effective enough? I don't have all the supplements on how to specialize him.

A fighter should a great benefit, especially with a feat like power attack, allowing you to increase damage, will be a strong tool for overcoming damage resistance, which should be expected.

I think I'm going to stick with the Seeker Oracle, but go with Life mystery and the Inquisitive Archaeologist campaign trait. Is an Azata-blooded aasimar okay, race-wise?

Azata-blooded looks fine to me

What makes the most sense for Jabari the fighter? Great sword or one handed sword and shield or small bow and one handed sword and shield or....something else? Suggestions for my first PF character are welcome. :-) I mean does a bow even make sense in a tomb unless they are really big with nice LOS.

I may go with a fire inquisitor of Sarenrae. Possibly a dwarf, not sure JUST yet.

Krazzik and Zaggra have been submitted. I'll have a backstory up as soon as I can.

Krazzik is a half-orc sacred huntmaster inquisitor of Nethys with a warcat animal companion named Zaggra. He uses a falchion and likes to raid tombs for artifacts for the church of Nethys.

Once he gets some gold, he'll be investing in a bow and better armor.

I've accepted both characters into the game, but haven't reviewed them yet. I'll get to that when I'm in the zone!

I've submitted Jabari. I need help with the skills and a double check on all of it. On this sheet they don't jive with the sheet I used so am a little confused.

I’m assuming there’s no form of feat tax relief in this game? Totally fine, I just need to reorganize some feats.

That's a good question and suggestion. I'll lift your table from your game and post it here.

Table: Feat Tax Relief

Two-Weapon Fighting
If you take Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, you gain Greater Two-Weapon Fighting for free when you qualify for it.

Dodge
If you take Dodge, immediately gain Mobility for free.

Ranged
If you take Point-Blank Shot, immediately gain Precise Shot for free.

Combat Expertise Maneuvers
If you take one of the following feats, gain the rest for free:
Improved Trip
Improved Disarm
Improved Dirty Trick
Improved Feint
Improved Reposition
Improved Steal

Power Attack Maneuvers
If you take one of the following feats, gain the rest for free:
Improved Bull Rush
Improved Drag
Improved Overrun
Improved Sunder

Unarmed/Grapple
If you take Improved Unarmed Strike, immediately gain Improved Grapple for free if you qualify for it.

These six feats are free for all
Combat Expertise (ignore INT requirement)
Power Attack (ignore STR requirement)
Deadly Aim (ignore DEX requirement)
Weapon Finesse (free for light weapons only)
Agile Maneuvers (if desired)
Martial Mastery (ignore all requirements)

Can you say wow.... And I forgot to even take my level one feat...

We'll give it a shot. Things like Weapon Finesse bug me that they're a feat and not automatic - this would be the one thing I like about 5e rather than Pathfinder. The rest of it are mainly feats that people never take in my games because they're not worth it, so rolling them into one makes sense, plus I'd like to see more shenanigans in my games. "I sunder their weapon!" said no one ever (at my table).

If it doesn't work out, we're just one TPK away from a solution. #justkidding

Also, if you've submitted a character, feel free to update them, I haven't checked them over yet.

I am really looking forward to go into character creation mode tonight.
Class: Magus
Rase.... don't know yet

Starting Gold: 210g

Rolling a standard Aasimar Inquisitor of Sarenrae, with the Fire domain and an utter hatred of the undead.

How's everybody doing? We almost ready to kick this Half Dead City in the whoosits?

As soon as my character can get released from the limbo of a dead game so I can submit it, I'll be ready to go!

If it's not fixed by tomorrow afternoon, I'll just copy it over to a new sheet.

Oh the agony of choice! :)
Worked on my magus last night. It needs some more work, but the general shape is there

78RPMLife posted those in another game and they're a great house rule.

I can’t take credit for them. I got them from Kona (who is no longer on GP), and they were inspired by this page, about feat tax relief in Pathfinder. It’s a pretty interesting article.

Character submitted. Avatar picture's on my home computer -- I'll add it later.

I think Jabari is ready but please check the skills.

Airy Cross is local. She has some djinn in her ancestry (she is a sylph, pending GM approval). She is a Inquisitive Archaeologist, and lives to uncover mysteries, but hate the undead, you might call her a Undead Crusader... and a magus

Outwardly, Krazzik is a trapfinder and guide for the deserts of Osirion. This guise has suited him well, as he is secretly an inquisitor of Nethys, always on the lookout for ancient secrets and artifacts that would further his god's aims. He is never without his desert lion companion, Zaggra, who he raised from a mere cub. Zaggra has saved Krazzik from a few unfortunate mishaps, and the two together make a formidable team. Krazzik's abilities and Zaggra's might have made them a valuable asset to the Oathbound.

The named adventuring party trope is no mere railroad, but will have some in game effects. Certainly for the first two books of the adventure path.

I like The Oathbound. Has a nice ring to it.

Oathbound works for me.

I'm down with the Oathbound. Likely putting my PCGen sheet into GP tonight or tomorrow. :) Need to square up equipment first.

Alright. I'll review everyone's characters tomorrow evening and post the opening scene. We can start before we're totally finalized, as there will be some build up before the... Thing with the OMGs, and the oh-noes.

check out paizo.com's equipment list. There are kits for the classes. i.e. standart stuff for a Magus to carry.

Yeah, Krazzik is usually non-committal about things like that, but though he doesn't give his word lightly, he does for this group and this group alone (plus Nethys).

Any thoughts on how you got together? Was it just for this event (widely publicized) and if so who arranged it?

Are you from Wati, or somewhere else?

Cross is modelled after Lara Croft tomb raider. She is local to the area, but not necessarily from Wati

Avaline is not from around here, but her wanderings have sparked an interest in Ancient Osirion that have brought her to Wati hoping to do some actual hands-on field research, as well as bringing peace to the dead.

As a Life Mystery Seeker Oracle, she's sort of a jack of all trades: oracle-rogue-cleric (she can channel positive energy like a cleric and can deal with traps like a rogue). Being the naturally inquisitive sort, I suspect she would have encountered a number of you, especially Cross since they've both got the Inquisitive Archaeologist trait.

Deffently. Cross and Avaline know each other and have worked together on multiple occasions

Cross is from a desert city but likes to follow a mystery to its end. Often one mystery is replaced with another, and all of a sudden she is spending all night talking to an orc and his cat.
She is charming and lights going, with a razor-sharp with.

Here's a map of Osirion, Wati is at a river confluence to the right lower middle.

Review of Jabari Pilis, Human Fighter
- attack bonus for falchion is +4 (+3 str +1 base attack bonus)
- don't forget the free feats that I granted, this includes power attack so you get one more

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Review of Avaline, Asimar Oracle
- two more skill ranks, I thought there should be 5 - source?
- record hit points as favored class bonus somewhere
- record somewhere your spell slots maybe in the spell section, just add 3/3 for first level

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Review of Sasha Pimser, Halfling Bard
- one more skill ranks, I thought there should be 7 - must be favoured class bonus, record that somewhere if you haven't
- Size small short sword does 1d4 damage

You're absolutely right. I could've sworn oracle was 6 + Int, but now that I look again, it's 4 + Int skill ranks. Fixed.

Spell ranks is actually 5 (3 base + 2 for Charisma 20). Added to sheet.

Favored class bonus is now in notes. I'll track what I take for each level there.

Review of Cross, Sylph Magus
- don't forget favoured class bonus, +1 hp or +1 skill point
- record +2 base fort save
- only 1 skill rank at first level in Pathfinder. If you have a rank in a class skill, you gain a +3 bonus to checks, so adjust those
- damage bonus for melee weapons is -1 (Str) even with Weapon Finesse
- damage bonus for ranged weapons is 0, not Dex bonus

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Review of Krazzik, Half-Orc Inquisitor
- record +2 base fort save
- add +1 misc to all saves for Sacred Tattoo
- record your chosen skills for favoured class
- a falchion does 2d4 damage rather than 2d6
- Domain - which did you choose? Okay, looks like Destruction as you recorded Destructive Smite as an ability
- you have Fortune's Favoured listed. What is this, is it a feat?
- you should have one feat. Which did you choose?
- Zaggra - I'll need to review this build later

thx for the feedback. I apparently picked up a wrong description for weapon finesse

Submitted Bennekheb, Aasimar Flame Inquisitor of Sarenrae. She is a native of Wati, and harbors a very strong dislike for the undead. She trains, but isn't great with, a scimitar as an homage to Sarenrae. She grew up accustomed to the sands and the heat, with a burnished gold skintone and hair the color of fire-lit amber.

Added.
My skills are ok?

Yes, you should have five: 2 for fighter, 1 for Int, 1 for human,1 for the favored class bonus., so all good

Review of Bennekheb, Asimar Inquistor
- seems like you have one extra skill point spent
- for many skills, you've added an unexplained negative modifier, for example Jump: -7. Not sure what is going on there

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So with that, we're on our way!

The negative is from encumbrance for being over a light load.

Is the extra point the duplication of knowledge religion? Because inquisitors have a bonus to use knowledge for identifying creatures I duplicated the line. It's still just knowledge religion, however.

If that is true it should be a bonus rather than a skill rank

- record +2 base fort save Fixed
- add +1 misc to all saves for Sacred Tattoo Fixed
- record your chosen skills for favoured class 8 skill points accounted for (6 for class, +1 for Int, + 1 favored bonus)
- a falchion does 2d4 damage rather than 2d6 Fixed
- Domain - which did you choose? Okay, looks like Destruction as you recorded Destructive Smite as an ability Destruction, but I chose positive energy to reflect the dual nature of Nethys (Creation & Destruction)
- you have Fortune's Favoured listed. What is this, is it a feat? It's a trait, see spoiler below
- you should have one feat. Which did you choose? I took the freebies and adjustments from the Feat Tax post. For my actual one feat, I took Improved Spell Sharing and it is now added to my GP sheet.
- Zaggra - I'll need to review this build later

I missed this earlier but the five four of you that haven't indicated languages known on your character sheet should do so.

Updating shortly...

Hint: One of you should take Osirian, maybe Ancient Osirian as well, if any of you know what is important in old tombs

I had taken both :-)

Absolutely

From the players guide:

Though many Osirians speak Common, they also speak their own Osiriani tongue. Many educated Osirians also speak Ancient Osiriani, which is similar enough to modern Osiriani that those who speak one or the other often encounter little difficulty, though the accent is different. After hundreds of years of Keleshite rule, the Kelish language grew in usage, and it is still spoken today in some places, but few tombs and ruins contain messages written in this language.

Cross does know Ancient Osirian. I'll correct the language later today

Languages: Common and Osiriani ,Ancient Osiriani, Kelish , Auran

Avaline knows common, celestial and ancient Osirian.

You people went hard on the Ancient Osirian. (Makes note to replace all Ancient Osirian with some obscure Inner Sea language.)

It fit the character, nothing more. :)

Zaggra is the leading expert in the language of war cat and food. War Cat and Food scholars from around the world write to him all the time. It's all Krazzik can do to sort through the heaps of scrolls and books addressed to his feline friend. :)