Character Discussion

You know, I'm gonna have to make sure there's something y'all can do so you're not smited for abandoning your king haha

But also, C1NDER, when you get the chance, please roll a percentile die.

You got it!

Are we using the Hero Point system at all?

Sure, if that makes things easier my sailor guy could have arranged to take the very ship he was assigned to.

Not sure he'd be the captain, but maybe he took advantage of particularly dire losses after a naval conflict to seize control/help the others seize control of the ship and survivors, after the officers perished?

The other characters might have been passengers on board, and they plotted this together.
Would that work?

Hi, didn't want to invade Dr. Bs thread but I've been reading along with the others and thought I'd point out the Skirmisher archetype that is handy one for removing spells and combos with deep diver, as a suggestion instead of trying to fit in a 3rd party.

It was the archetype I was considering if I had go for ranger.

Obviously just a suggestion!

thanks - let's see how wrong is the spell-less Ranger I cobbled together, I might have to start a new one using Skirmisher!

Nope, my PC is not a soldier, but a hanger-on of the army.

Khulod, If he's the local "scrounger" with the scout archetype, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to at least partly serve as a messenger, as well. We could have him and Nikias in the same "neighborhood," for lack of a better term.

Looks like with have a lot of sneak attack in the party.

Looks like @Cinder may be the min connect to majority, as was thinking possibly Cavaliers group of Amazon's fought alongside Nikias's group, and after the war.

Or possible the two units at a friendly (or not friendly) rivalry to who got most kills/best victory.

Also don't know if we want to corinte teamwork feats o that we can always trigger one another even if we haven't had a chance to give them out, or if we wanted a spread of options?

I volunteer to be your loud screaming distraction so you can stab their vitals with impugnity

The Custom Character Sheet for PF1 is here

So, I realized something. The initial event that ticked off the gods was Odysseus' sacking of Athena's temple in Troy (and one of his men violating Cassandra). Athena sent a storm that scattered the fleet. Poseidon only really got involved after Odysseus mocked Polyphemus the cyclops.

SO

If it's cool with y'all, those of you who worship Athena will get the first "oh crap, this is not going to go well" vibe. Because, like, you'd have reason to know what ticks off your goddess. And pillaging is fun, and your right as soldiers! But there are lines you do not cross.

Which means you guys on your ship can play it cool until the storm hits. No desertion, no dishonor, we're not starting the game with various war gods mad at you. I was concerned about the implications of deserting. Now you can anger different gods for totally unique reasons!

Also means we get to start the game with ship chaos, so I think that'll be fun.

What do you guys think?

(C1nder, you rolled quite well. 66 of your men are still alive to start, not counting the rest of the PC's.)

And yes, we'll use hero points. Everyone starts with 1 at character creation. For those not familiar, the rules are here.

I dig all of that!

Oh good. I can save that soliloquy for in game then.

Sounds good to me, thanks

Teamwork fears are good if we coordinate for them. I was going to go with an archetype that works with teamwork fears but I dropped it in favor of more feats toward my shield bash build.

I think it might be easier to save teamwork feats for after you guys get some player knowledge of how all your builds work together. For instance, in the last PF game I ran, I had no way of predicting that the major party procedure would be "Make the giant rabbit into a killing machine and support the tanks from the air."

I know there seems to be a lot of cutscene prep for the start of the game, but it really is just to kick things off.

I'm mostly asking as I get a free one :p. It will likely be precise strike or escape route.

Been busy last couple of days but half term next week so gonna work on character over weekend.

Still trying to figure order... Flame sounds fun but get the feeling she's not gonna get the final kill often to make use of its challenge.

Real life comes first, of course, but it's nice to have a heads up, thank you.

3 characters are approved with minor edits.

For those of you getting time for this later, please don't forget:
* You can take 2 traits to start.
* Your wealth is 5,250.
* There are some armor and weapon bonuses that aren't magical.
* You get 2 extra levels (so 7) of the Automatic Bonus Progression since we're low magic.
* The human "Racial bonus" to stats is +2 to one ability score. It's cheaper to apply this after you do point buy.

This is looking good so far. Thanks!