Character Creation

I'm sorry, I totally missed this question! I am not super familiar with Golarion (the world of Pathfinder), so I'm not sure if there are any nearby monasteries. When I tried to look it up I couldn't find much besides the House of Blue Stones, which is actually IN the town of Sandpoint.

Yeah, he could definitely have done his training there. They worship the God Irori, the God of monks

Sweet! So his family probably owned a farm or something outside of town, so he's not actually from Sandpoint, but he's close enough that he had been there once or twice before and would think to go there after the bandit raid.

I forgot about traits again. The list is long and hard to parse through, heh. Given I don't see traits leaning to healing, anyone have thoughts to that? I was thinking of finding a trait that related to my having been a village healer and to find one relating to my character having lived on their own as a hermit (foraging? hunting? something like that).

I'm actually seeing plenty of healing-related traits but they have to do with the use of the Heal skill so maybe that's not what you're looking for.

Eeeer... how did I not see those? I'm looking on the SRD; maybe I have to look again. I actually realized I forgot to take the heal skill, which doesn't make sense for my character.

Yay hit points!

Not a bad roll at all

I assume HP rolls are the same as it is in D&D? Die roll + con modifier?

Also, I finally got around to looking at traits. I think I'm gonna take the Open Hand and Mind trait, and as for the campaign trait, I'm trying to decide between Giant Slayer and Scholar of the Ancients. The latter is really cool flavor-wise and is in line with his monk studies. On the other hand, Giant Slayer lines up almost perfectly with his backstory. All I have to do is say it was a band of Giants that raided his home (or maybe even that it was a group of bandits LED by a giant?) and it fits like a glove.

I also get to pick a bonus feat from a small list, since I hit level 2, and I'm considering taking Deflect Arrows, but I'm a little unsure as to how it works. It says: Does that mean I can just always deflect one ranged attack aimed at me once per turn? Or is there a roll involved? I assume there's a roll but it says nothing about what that roll is, so...

One more question. I've got the Toughness feat: If I'm understanding this correctly, does this mean I only gain the extra +1 HP per level from the feat upon reaching level 4, and every level thereafter?

First, awesome hp roll! Second, yes, deflect arrows means you ignore the first ranged attack from a target you can see per round, thirdly yes toughness front loads the extra HP, you don't gain more until level 4.

Fatenori covered it pretty well, and you have it correct

Health?

EDIT: No health...

Oh yeah, we get skill ranks every time we level up! I need to allocate those.
Also I think since I rolled max HP, I'm gonna take the extra skill rank instead of the extra point of HP from the favored class.
I ended up taking the giant slayer trait, as it's just too perfect for Xandak, and went with the Scorpion Style bonus feat, in hopes of later getting Gorgon's Fist and Medusa's Wrath.

And with that... I do believe Xandak is fully leveled up!

Here comes the HP.

Damn, going to take the extra +1 HP, and adding survival and swimming as skills.

And I'm taking double slice as my new feat.

Rolling for Level 2 HP. Craptastic.

Due to the bad rolls, I'm going to allow anyone who rolls under half to just take half... so a d6 gets 3, d8 gets 4, d10 gets 5, and d12 gets 6 at the minimum.

Woohoo for everyone rolling badly ;-(

And a big hug for our awesome GM

Level 2 HP roll

EDIT: Yikes. Is that "take half" option still available?

Naat, I got started on him. I have everything lined up except for equipment. Take a look and see what you think thus far. I'll finish piecing together the equipment later this evening.