Anything But Normal, Sailing the Endless Falls... Characters Selected!

[sans]

Isida, how is this for "anything but normal"?

An awakened transmuter-domain wizard octopus who is carried around inside his small water elemental familiar.

The water elemental familiar is gained by the improved familiar. We can use the mounted combat rules when the octopus is inside the elemental.

Unforunately, I need a couple of house rules to play this:
1) permission to play an awakened animal (awakened as in the druid spell)
2) a fudged +3d6 INT roll during the awakening. Enough for an INT high enough for the octopus to be a wizard
3) the water elemental has to be able to walk on land (this might already be in the rules, but the MM is unclear)
4) the water elemental was to be able to hold the octopus inside it (they are both size small, but an octopus is a master at contortion)

Note all these rulings are soley to bring the concept to life and none will be used for any kind of optimization or min/maxing. In fact, all my feats will be for mounted spell casting and eschew materials.

If the above is not acceptable, then I'l come up with some variation (some kind of tiny, level adjusted creature carried around by a cohort in a fishbowl, or something like that). I'd need more time to research this.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

sans... that is possibly the best idea I've heard this week! Totally go for it. The water elemental might leave a lot of mud behind him walking on land, but that's fine. If you want to let your familiar wear a magical flying item or something, that'd be cool too.

Random Encounter - fine with me. Detail your cohorts/followers out appropriately.

yangnome - rakshasas are fine, Savage Species away!

 

[Tyler Durden]

Ohh...would a bloodthirsty Anthropomorphic African Elephant/Totemist 3 with the Open Least Chakra feat using Girrilon Arms and Lankshark boots to rend his enemies while sceaming "Your flesh is weak!" fit the bill? I'll assume so and start working on the crunch...

 

[sans]

Isida, how should I do my octopus' ability scores? The base stats for an octopus are:

Str 12, Dex 17, Con 11, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 3

Awakening gives +3d6 for INT and +1d3 for CHA. I'm ok with you just telling me what the stats should be.

Also, what about level adjustment. The base octopus has 2HD awakening grants +2HD more.

EDIT:
I think I'm gonna have to beg for a +0 LA since with 4HD my octopus wizard is already going to be 2 entire spell levels behind in casting.

 

[Gli'jar]

Sans, The octopus with water elemental familiar. Very cool, very, very cool.

 

[Shayuri]

Warforged warmage is posted in RG.

I love the octopus idea, but consider making it a cohort rather than a familiar. Granted, you lose some nice stuff like linked spells and so on, but you could also possibly get a Medium elemental, and cohorts get some starting funds which you could use to buy items to offset the penalties that water elementals suffer on land. Plus, penalties to Leadership score aside, cohorts are easier to replace than familiars.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Cool idea for a game! I have two character concepts swimming in my head...

"The Snow Queen" - female Arctic Gnome Cold Domain Wizard with the Polar Chill spelltouched feat. (All from Unearthed Arcana)

"The Plague that Walks in Darkness" - male Nezumi (Oriental Adventures) Druidic Hunter (Unearthed Arcana) with the Child of Winter feat (Eberron Campaign Setting book).

Any preference?

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Ohh...would a bloodthirsty Anthropomorphic African Elephant/Totemist 3 with the Open Least Chakra feat using Girrilon Arms and Lankshark boots to rend his enemies while sceaming "Your flesh is weak!" fit the bill? I'll assume so and start working on the crunch...

Hee hee, that character might be an interesting foil for a scaled-down version of Wrahn's character.

sans - LA is +0 to keep it simple. Int is... a total of 16 (2 plus the 14 I rolled), Cha is a total of 6. And you know what Shayuri said about having the elemental as a cohort, I just had a really killer image: have your familiar be a fish or sea urchin! So you're swimming around in the water elemental and your familiar is just like, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming..." inside there with you!

Sorry, just a really darn funny mental image. Make your character as you like.

Twiggy - Do whatever you like, truly. I am rather enamored of the Child of Winter feat chain, but I do like cold-based casters. If you have the Frostburn book, you could make a really killer cold-caster, in addition to what you've already chosen. Make whatever's more fun for you!

For those using Frostburn or Sandstorm and have taken Snowcasting or Drift Magic, there will be plenty of both snow and sand in the Sea of Fire and Ice, so don't fear to take temperature-dependent feats.

 

[Bront]

Ugh, why do I feel so... normal now? (I don't have many of these odd supliments either).

Hope my idea is ok so far. How's my character sheet format? It's not quite yours, but it's fairly close (It's a converted Ferrix sheet). I can fix it if it's not acceptable.

I had a slightly different concept for the spirit after thinking about it today. Perhaps the spirit guide is a spirit of the storm instead? So while the character himself is fairly stable and clear thinking, the spirit is vengefull, wrathfull, and powerful. I'd make him Neutral, with drawings to LG and CE depending on if he's listening to himself or his spirit guide.

 

[Voadam]

Do you want work in progress characters there or just finished ones?

I'm working on a grippli (ToH frogman) erudite (dragon 319 psion variant) and considering hyperconsciousness stuff. I got the 319 pdf recently and like the erudite mechanics a lot.

Concept 2 is a leprechaun (ToH) whatever 5. Just because a leprechaun would be fun.