Character Creation

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Race/Class:
(Some restrictions on race and class options in an effort to fit the setting, themes, and tone of the campaign)

- Race: Core Races
- Class: Core Classes, Hybrid Classes, Alchemist, Gunslinger, Inquisitor, Magus, Oracle, Witch, Occult Classes (warning: psychic spellcasting might be rough in this adventure - but thematically, they could be fun), Unchained Class Versions

Additional Notes:
- Ability Scores: 15 point buy. Minimum Wisdom score of 10 - Will saves shall be plentiful in this campaign.
- Archetypes: recommended as many are very thematic; if so, please choose from one of the many listed in the player's guide
- Alignment: Everyone starts with a clean slate, True Neutral. Your RP will dictate your alignment. Chaotic Evil is excluded.
- Traits: 2 Traits & 1 Drawback required; one trait MUST be from the Player's Guide. A 3rd trait is allowed w/ a 2nd drawback.
- Background: Identity is a key theme of this Adventure, therefore you will be required to submit a background for your character with the exception of the most recent 5 years of their life. The background may be as elaborate/thorough as you'd like, but should give me some understanding of who you were up to the beginning of your memory gap.
- Misc.:
----Elephant in the Room's Feat Tax system
----It is recommended you invest in at least one knowledge skill
----+1 skill point per level ONLY to be used in a skill you are proficient in AND is based on a mental stat
----Will saves will be important, it is recommended you don't neglect them
----You will face invisible creatures
----Expanded fear rules will be used
----Fear immunity will be changed to a type of fear resistance
----Corruptions will be used, if the right moment comes along in the story for a particular character
----The 'missing 5 years' of your memory will be largely crafted by the GM, but there will be strong effort to make it service the story and your character when eventually revealed

Hi everyone! Let's start here with each player submitting backgrounds for their characters. If there's any party (or even the whole thing) you'd prefer to keep hidden, feel free to use 'note' tags to mask it.

I'll be using the backgrounds to workshop with each of you where that takes them up to the point where the '5-year gap' starts in their memories. I'll attempt to use elements of your backgrounds in crafting those gap memories for later reveals.

Hi C1NDER! Thanks for the invite!

I have submitted Razhel for you to look over. I haven't built a Pathfinder character in two years. I hope I didn't forget anything.

Razhel is a Human Slayer. I have a very very brief beginning of her background at the bottom of her sheet, but its in no way finished.

Welcome Rage! Thank you for your submission, I loved the character concept. Post the background stuff when ready, no rush! I foresee trying to get going by the end of next week, so we have time.

Wow! C!NDER, this feels like deja vu. Have we been involved in a Pathfinder game together sometime in the distant past? 'grin'

Hello everyone!

My character, Grimjack, will be a Varisian Medium, gifted with the Harrow. He is the seventh son of a witch bloodline, whose talents were at the disposal of the Sleepless Agency in Thrushmoor before his memory loss. (more to come...)

I am considering taking the Relic Channeler archetype and tying the six spirits to the Harrow, using the deck and certain cards as the relics.

Hello everyone! I'm looking forward to gaming with everyone!

As far as characters go...I'll be playing a Human Oath bound Paladin. (Oath against Corruption). I'll hopefully have my character completed by tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

As for background information, I'm dusting off a background for a character that I never got a chance to use, so I'll be posting that soon.

Thanks again for the invite C1nder!

Am I correct in assuming that our characters have sort of lost "xp" along with their memory? Like when they did stuff during that time they were effectively higher level?

Hello, fellow challengers of the unknown! I hope to have my character mostly done by Friday.

Axon Hillock II, a brown-skinned human of average height and thin build, is a Void-Touched Sorcerer more attracted to the darkness between the stars than to the stars themselves. He is not physically the strongest but his mind and natural ability to channel the arcane are powerful. Cautious and a bit detached, he wants to stand under the night sky again more than anything but he can't remember why... and that scares him even more than the asylum. He has old scars on his face and body which are far too symmetrical to be random, hinting that he's been through a lot and survived. That gives him hope, and he hopes his luck will hold out.
Can we use the Strange Æons campaign traits?

Oh yeah, what about starting wealth? Should we roll, take average/max?
As a matter of fact, one is required.

Character submitted, I hope the background is okay.

Hmm...something does feel oddly familiar :D FWIW, I miss your Dark is the Moon campaign and remember it very fondly.
YW, I appreciate your interest!
Hrmmmmmmmm mayyybe ;)
Hello annex! Welcome to madness the game! As LoudKid mentioned up-thread, one of your traits MUST be one of the campaign traits.
For starting wealth, you may roll OR take the average, your choice. If you roll, you must take the result. The same rule will apply to HP as we level up. Starting gear can be handled as normal otherwise.

Mainly asking so I know what exactly my character was capable of before they konked out, to help inform backstory events. Like, he's not very capable at level 1. Level 10? Extremely capable.

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Starting funds 240 gp.

A fair point and worth addressing for everyone a little more plainly.

@All - I think it's probably best if you design your character with the assumption that your character had nothing more than NPC levels prior to the beginning of the missing 5 years. Your character may have been influential, powerful in their own right, even high ranking amongst certain organizations. In the end, they shouldn't wake in the fugue state a lvl 1 PC but remember being more powerful than that.

It remains to be seen how much growth your character experienced during that missing time and how than now reflects back upon yourself when you learn of it. Maybe you were all lvl 10 assassins before you memories got wiped, or a traveling group of musicians? That said, as you awake in your fugue state at the beginning of the campaign, you should have some feeling of body disassociation. You will at once instinctually know how to how to use your class abilities, but also may not remember why or how you can do what you can do - only that you can.

I know this will feel weird. I'll work with each of you individually on your backgrounds until we're comfortable with them.

::EDIT:: Keep in mind also that the 'missing 5 years' is a minimum. At your own discretion you could wake up a complete blank slate, or remember only minor tidbits of your childhood, etc.

Very informative, thank you!

Funds 210 gp.

Just a reminder of the small homebrew skill point at the top of the thread. It's kind of in the middle of everything, but I wanted to make sure everyone accounts for it :)
EDIT: proficient = class skill (I've barely even played D&D 5e, but here I am exchanging lingo...sheesh)

To clarify: Is the +1 skill point an extra one on top of the usual for being Human and Favored Class?

That is 100% correct. Beyond any skill points you would normally get using Pathfinder caracter creation rules, you each get +1 per level with the indicated restriction.

Let me double-check to make sure I included the campaign bonus +1 skill point (in the right place).

All characters have now been accepted! I will get our first in-game post up within the next few days, just finishing a few prep-items before we start.

An ask from you all - many of you took various traits/feats that augment your saves versus mind-affecting and/or fear effects. May each of you please post your total Will save bonus against fear affects here in this thread?

Elias's total bonus 9n a Will save is +6. That includes what he get from the base, attribute, and feat.

We shall see...*MWAHAHA*

Next question for everyone -

Apropos of nothing, please take a moment to list your character’s greatest fear.

Ooh, that's a tough one.
After some consideration, I'd have to say Iosef's greatest fear is knowing about some imminent danger, but being helpless and unable to do anything about it.

Separate question: Are our characters immediately aware that they're missing 5ish years? Or do they not realize how much time has passed?

They will be aware that something's not right with their memory. Everyone's missing time will be different. They'll each know they have no recollection of waking up where they're at and will recognize that there's a blank spot from their last clearly-recalled memory to 'now'. As the game unfolds (or when they look in a mirror) they'll probably be able to figure out about how much time its been.
NAH! It's a purely hypothetical question, of course ;)

Awesome, thanks for the responses everyone!

I'll go with the second option for Elias's greatest fear. I was indeed talking about the village from the final part of his background. Thank you for the help.

2. The fear of being utterly unable to protect those that need protection, no matter how hard he tries - the crushing weight of inevitable defeat at the cost of those he promised to protect.

For 2nd level, you may either take average HP (rounding up) or roll here.

Playing it safe with average HP.
D6 (so 3) + CON mod (1) = 4 HP. New total is a whopping 11 HP.

BAB goes up to 1(!).

Gained an extra 0 level spell: Read Magic.

2 more skill points gained. 1 goes to Knowledge (Arcana) and I'll accept suggestions about whether to put the other 1 into Spellcraft or Use Magic Device.

UMD it is!
I'll grab any wands or other magic items that appear... cautiously. :P

2nd level hit points

6 + 1 Con bonus = 7

Total: 18

Another level of Favoured Class: Sorcerer means Axon get +1 HP and +1 skill point, ja? If so, It's 12 HP total and another point in UMD.

Each level, he picks one or the other (hp or skill point).

Alternatively, as a Human Sorceror specifically, he may instead choose to "Add one spell known from the sorcerer spell list. This spell must be at least one level below the highest spell level the sorcerer can cast." (So in this case, you could add +1 cantrip)

points

Great hp roll!

Character leveled up.

Excellent! You got a decent hp roll, too.

@All

In addition to normal class skill loints and any from favored class bonus, don't forget my homebrew addition from page 1 of this thread:

"+1 skill point per level ONLY to be used in a skill you are proficient in AND is based on a mental stat"

I'll add another point of HP for a total of 12, and put that homebrew skill point into moar UMD for a total of 11. I think I'm done!

Rolling HP

Iosef updated to Lv 2

Solid HP roll! Very nice.

Please roll for lvl 3 HP here (or you may opt to take the average)

3rd level HPs

Go ahead and either roll a second time or take the average (5).

Same for everyone - either take the highest of two rolls, or the highest of one roll or the average.

hit points reroll

Well that didn't help. Sorry Rage

I will stick with the mediocre average. Its better than being impotent with those bad online dice rolls.

Level III

HP: 12 => 18

Favored Class (Sorcerer): + 1 skill point (Use Magic Device)

Skill Points: 2 (+1 Use Magic Device, +1 Spellcraft)

Saves: Fort & Ref +1

Extra Spell Known: Burning Hands

Bloodline Power: Voidwalker (Ex). At 3rd level, you gain low-light vision and resist cold and fire 5.

Bloodline Spell: Unseen Servant

@Equinox You may still roll free and at no risk once if you'd like. If it's lower than average, you can just take the average.

freebie roll

As noted in the in-game thread, everyone please level up to 4th Level! Nice job everyone!

Oh, don't forget - everyone gets a hero point when they level up as well