Pathfinder level 20

[fireinthedust]

Farmer Joe: No. This is an EPIC game. We are EPIC people.
...
He'd have to be some kind of farmer who grows EPIC cows.

Sorcerer: Go with that. I don't have that other system. Also, clearly, you can't be a Mind Flayer in this game... cause of you know why not. (knowing look at Mal)

 

[Herobizkit]

Just a heads up... My character is good to go.

But back to Joe the Farmer. Perhaps he IS an epic farmer who does, in fact, grow epic cows, as well as epic fruit in his epic orchard. Fruit that, when consumed, gives people epic powers... and that's how he became level 20.

All you'd need is some prestige class that halts the aging process and your sorcerer could grow epic fruit forever... how high could one max out a Profession (Farmer) skill?

 

[WarlockLord]

Let's see...we could get a +30 competence bonus from an item (unless they changed that), plus skill focus...hmm.

 

[Thaven]

Imagine it. He's a GOOD character who's family farm fed an entire province because of the EPIC food he created with his magic.

Very plausible.

 

[Scott DeWar]

And he/she would probably be friendly with druids and the fey folk!

 

[WarlockLord]

Cort the Ice Sorceror
LG Male Human
Str 8 Dex 13 Con 14 Int 12 Wis 10 Cha 30 (36 with cloak)

HP: 180 (20d6+60) AC 26 Speed 30 ft

Init +1

BAB +10

Saves: Fort +15, Reflex +14, Will +19
CMB: +9
CMD: 20

Skills: Bluff +34, Fly +25, Knowledge(arcana)+25, Spellcraft +25

Feats: Endurance, Spell Focus (evocation), Greater Spell Focus (evocation), Spell

Penetration, Greater Spell Penetration, Toughness, Empower Spell, Heighten Spell,

Maximize Spell, Persistent Spell, Quicken Spell, Reach Spell, Spell Focus (illusion),

Greater Spell Focus (illusion), Eschew Materials

Languages: Common, Draconic

Special: Boreal Bloodline (and affiliated abilities)

Sorceror Spells(10/9/9/9/9/8/8/8/8. DC 23+level, 25+level for evocation & illusion,

+1 DC to cold). Cort uses the favored sorceror for humans which gets bonus spells

known.
0-detect magic, detect poison, read magic, drench, breeze, mage hand, ghost sound,

prestidigitation, ray of frost, mending, message, arcane mark
1-enlarge person, grease, ray of enfeeblement, mage armor, charm person, silent image,

true strike, identify
2-web, see invisibility, mirror image, false life, alter self, command undead,

shatter,
3-rage, protection from energy, nondetection, magic circle against evil, blacklight,

haste, suggestion, cold elemental aura
4-black tentacles, solid fog, dimension door, scrying, enervation, wall of ice,

greater invisibility
5-cone of cold, teleport, wall of stone, contact other plane, icy prison, overland

flight, telekinesis,
6-transformation, contingency, flesh to stone, permanent image, true seeing, mass

suggestion,
7-giant form I, plane shift, prismatic spray, limited wish, control weather, ice body
8-polar ray, greater planar binding, polymorph any object, moment of presicence,

greater shadow evocation,
9-meteor swarm (cold), mass icy prison, time stop, shades,

Possessions: +5 tome of charisma (used), +6 headband of charisma, cloak of resistance

+5, handy haversack, amulet of natural armor +5, ring of deflection +5, orange prism

ioun stone, scrying mirror, 3000 gp diamond dust, luckstone, contingency focus, dusty

rose prism ioun stone, gamboge nodule ioun stone, pale green prism ioun stone, ring of delayed doom (full charges), ring of freedom of movement, luck blade with one wish left, 287,640 gp.

All PF stuff from here, including the (unused) psionics system: Pathfinder_OGC

Background: (mostly joking)
Cort was a farmhand at an epic farm which grew epic broccoli. However, on the fateful day when Mal took on the power of the gods and projected his face all over Golarion, he used his nigh-infinite powers to destroy the world's broccolli because he hated the taste. Cort quit being a farmhand to learn more about his sorcerous powers, which he plans to use to avenge the epic broccoli and destroy Mal.

 

[Thaven]

I love it.

 

[jackslate45]

That looks epic to me.

 

[fireinthedust]

Nope, not epic enough. At best he'd be level 5 with that background, and most likely just a 1st level adventurer fresh off the farm hoping for revenge. Einstein was a 4th level expert (physics) when he figured out relativity et al.


Nope, we're talking 20th level sorcerer. You've literally slain dragons and armies of minions to get to this level. You have a castle made of ice somewhere in irrisen, and you're potentially one of Baba Yaga's long-abandoned apprentices. You could be part viking/linnorm king blood, or you could be an irrisen winter witch. Or something. Suffice it to say, you're not only made of magic, but compared to other people you're the Mozart of ice magic.

Try again, and this time let me FEEL who this ice mage is. You are an ally of the Broken Eagles. You have a high Fly modifier. You are a byword for blizzards, a synonym for sleet. You have an achingly high Cha modifier.

and a GOOD alignment!

 

[fireinthedust]

Good doesn't mean not traumatized, or emo, or emotionally charged. It just means you have a problem with bad folks (like the people who traumatized you) screwing with people, especially people who don't deserve it.

In theory, adventurers are all traumatized: they spend all day killing living creatures, often up close, and having apex predators hunt them. The universe, from the POV of a dungeon crawler, is out to get them. To survive in this meat-grinder environment, they have to have something going on. That doesn't mean they didn't get scuffed along the way.