Character Creation

For the discussion of characters here.

Starting level: 1
Restrictions: No rare backgrounds, no poppets

Your characters have all been training in Absalom for 2-3 years. You have likely seen one another around, but its up to you all how closely you know one another. The first part of the adventure will be taking you to Taldor.

When making your sheet select custom. To the side is a dropdown where you can select pathfinder 2e to get a sheet built by Naatkinson.Useful resources:
Archives of Nethys - The official SRD with all the character rules and choices.
Pathbuilder - A good character generator that stays up to date
Pathfinder Wiki - Has information of Golarion, the world we are playing in if you want to read up. (Or feel free to ask)

I think I'll make rogue to round out the group. Are rogues ok in pathfinder?

In that case I will most like go for swashbuckler or bard depending on the party composition

Yep. They play pretty similar. The big difference - you can get your sneak attack more than once around, but sometimes have to jump through a couple more hoops to get it.

If people want I'm happy to run a step by step char creation, or people can work on it in their own time. Also happy to help over dms or here.

I just got the core book and I am pouring through it. It is dense. The concept I had in my head was an ex-performer, circus juggler type person. Not necessarily a criminal, but possibly.
1) Is a rogue the closest thing to that concept? Maybe a monk?
2) Is there a version on the chakram in Parthfinder 2E? That can be used as a melee and ranged weapon?

Chakram is definitely a thing! Link

Naat may know more specifics, but 2e actually had an adventure path (extinction curse) where players are part of a circus, so there are a lot of feats and archetypes to help the concept. These links may help zone in on some ideas: One Two Three

Looks like I'm looking toward a halfling rogue so far.
Can I use those prices/stats when I get the equipment buying part of character creation? I'm not sure what's official or not, or what fan stuff is allowed.
I'll take a look, but may stick to what's in the book. There's a lot of options! Which is great, I just don't wanna hold people up with my analysis paralysis. :D

Juggler seams interesting, but what is an Archtype?

Everything on the site that Naat and I have posted from is first party, and allowed.

As for an archetype, you can't get into till level 2. When you get to level 2 you can use the class feat you get from rogue to take 'Acrobat dedication'. Then later on you can take more feats on the Acrobat page instead of class feats.. So basically you are trading out bits of rogue things to get some acrobat things.

You don't need to decide till lv2, so don't worry about it if you want to focus on the base character for now. (Also as this game may stay low level, so not many chances to play with archetypes, but could give you a feel.)

Once we know what everyone else has, I'll whip up a character to fill in the gap :)

Okay cool, that's a worry for future me then. I should be ae to finish up a character and submit today. I'll pop back in if I have any more questions

I finished the draft of my female Dwarf Druid Gretzva, and I’m still figuring out what equipment I want her to have, though. And which spells.

SOunds goods!

@therecusant and @Baltar how are things looking?

I should have it finished by the end of today.

ugh, it's meta-gaming, but I think I'll use star knives instead of chakrams since they have finesse. Mechanically it's got the stats i want, but I don't like the way it looks. oh well. Is there anything specific I should be spending starting funds on?
Also, where on the sheet would we note our saving throws?

Will submit in next couple of hours!

I submitted my character

Looking through characters now. With currentty have a fighter, rogue, swashbuckler and druid, if that helps you make a choice Naat.

Looks like wizard or sorcerer would round us out nicely, then. I'll whip one up

Okay finished characters have been accepted (A couple have a couple of minor things I've DM'd to people.)

Believe waiting on feats etc for Gretzva, and Naat. No big rush as I'm at Parents atm away from easy access to the adventures. Hoping to start things up on the weekend when I'm back.

In interim feek free to discuss how well if at all characters know each other. You would have all at least seen each other here and there during your training.

I have my character made, just have to put it on the GP sheet :)

Character submitted. I need to add a name, avatar, and class features, but that won't be hard.

Alright, my character sheet is also complete. She has come together nicely, I think.

Okay now I'm really really done with my character. I changed some things to what I think would be a better fit for my character, and corrected some overspending with the starting gold.
One question (keep in mind I haven't read the book cover to cover yet) what does it mean when it says my character gets 'T in Rogue class DC'?

It means that you are trained in your Class DC. Whenever a class ability or effect doesn't tell you what the DC of it is, you use the Rogue Class DC for it.

Sorry for the delay guys! It has been a very hectic and weird week. I can't really explain or give details, but I work in a school, and just.. yeah... its been fun on the safeguarding side and on the weirdness scale.

Hope to craft a first post tomorrow!

Oh, has anyone given thought to how we know each other? My character is an ex-circus juggler, so he would at least know of a bard, if not busking together

From the game description:
I assume we've known each other during training. Though some of us may know each other from before as well.

While true, as I've said earlier its up to you guys how well you know each other. So a couple of you may be close friends, or you all occasionally hang out together, or you have only ever just seen glances of one another.

For those of you more familiar with Pathfinder, how to you keep everything straight? How to you organize your character to keep track of everything?

I use pathbuilder2e

This. It is a very good app/program and helps make sure nothing is missed.

Thanks all!

Sorry guys, I got covid and it completely wiped me out from DMing. Hope to start posting again this weekend

No problem, get better, we'll be here.

Hope you get well soon!

How are people feeling?

I'm doing better both health and other rl issues wise, but just checking he interest is still there? (Obviously some from Crazybirdman :P )

Glad to hear that, Dm. I'm still here, too

Very interested still!

I'm still here

Just a heads-up for you all. I will be on vacation starting on Thursday 5/26-Thursday 6/2, and I don't know if I will make any posts during that time.

Hi guys. Sorry for the stall. My life's been very rocky atm (I'm a contractor for schools and I've been all over the place recently) and then there's been fun with my housemates and self with more personal issues.

I've also realised I've got now connect to the module which may not matter for some but has made it harder for me to focus, rather than when I do hombrew/aps I enjoy

So officially calling it as you all likely expected from the radio silence. I think I'm just not in a life posit n to run anything atm, especially something mechanically heavy like pathfinder. Sorry for the delay in confirming it, and for getting peoples hopes up on getting some 2e. Hope people do well in other games.

Thanks for the heads up. Take care of yourself first man

Thanks man! Good luck with the rl stuff!