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

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Ya know, there's a creature called a Stormwarden in the Tome of Horrors. Medium-sized humanoid with the ability to conjure a storm once per day. A nice big nasty storm. Not as powerful as a stormchild, and doesn't have as many things, but it does keep things a tad simpler, if that's what you want. Do you have the book Stormwrack? There's a Stormcaster prestige class in there that sounds up your alley.

 

[D20Dazza]

Also, check the Wizards site for book previews.

I've found the Darfellan, the Psionic Rogue, the Chamelion PrC, and the Knight on their site, so there are all sorts of interesting things there for the picking.

Thanks Bront, you saved me a search - just before bed last night I made a note to scour the WoTC site and see if they put a preview up of the Lurk (psionic thief) - looks like they have, I haven't played one before, and have recently purchased the Complete Psionic book so......will that fly Isida? Even though it's not on your book list are you happy if I hunt down the WotC preview and provide you a link?

 

[Bloodweaver1]

Blasco the Blade

Here is my stab. However, it does require a alternate view on the defination of 'flanking'.

halfing fighter 2 / rogue 3 / Invisible blade 1 / master thrower 2
Backstabing Knife thower

[sblock=Background]Blasco and Lyly have grown stronger and closer ever since that day. Over the past couple of years they found that they had a real affinity for knifes and other small sharp objects. It wasn’t long before they started a small knife juggling and throwing act at Emporium. It didn’t attract a large crowd but it did bring in an extra silver or two. When a large caravan would come through the town they would sometimes even get some gold pieces. When they were not performing or practicing Blasco usually could find work as either as a Bar hand or table cleaning while Lyly worked as a beer wench most of the time. Both of them worked at many of the local pubs, taking odd jobs wherever they could. Though their honest work did bring them in some coin it was their uncanny talent in lightening the pouches of the fellow drunken patrons that brought in the real coin. Together on a busy night they would work the room and help themselves to as much as ten gold pieces sometimes. They didn’t do this all the time mind you; attracting too much attention to yourself can only lead to bad things. Nile at least taught them that much. However, every now and then the two of them would take advantage of those who lost count of how many tankards of ale they have had and would elevate them of their troublesome coin. He knew they where stealing but he didn’t care. To him and he imagined to his sister too it was payback for all the jokes and bullying they did to them. Plus he couldn’t help but feel that he was slowly filling in the black void that was created when Niles was murdered. [/sblock]

 

[James Heard]

I'm probably going to try to gear up a character for this, no clue on what yet, because the setting sounds very like one that's been bouncing around my head for a while. Anyways, right now this is just a placeholder for my brilliant concept character. You have been warned.

 

[Gli'jar]

Isida,
I decided to go with a anthro snake constrictor monk. Do I qualify for the rending constriction feat (p. 39 SS). Only one part of me, my body, is constricting rather than 2 limbs. On the surface I would say no, but considering my whole body is involved, I figured it may be a possibility.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Hey Isida, I decided to play the ninja-type character. Also, to make it more interesting in light of some of these characters you got here, I was gonna make the character a 9 year old child. I was thinking maybe making the character with small size, 20 foot movement, and -2 on all physical stats for a -1 LA.

For the ninja class, I'd trade in all the stealth and movement for divination abilities while keeping sudden strike and the skill set. I'd keep the ki pool as well.

The divination abilities would pertain to war and death premonitions.

How does that sound? If that sounds good then I'll give you my proposed changes to the "ninja" and background.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Gli'jar - Hmm... possibility. Do you want to be able to constrict a guy with the middle of your body and tail and leave your head free to strike? Can you bite? It sounds like it would be something would be able to take, provided you take all prereqs as normal.

Mad Hatter - Interesting idea. Sounds like this one character in a story my sister wrote once... Anyways, lay out this mystic ninja for me. And what race were you going to be?

 

[Gli'jar]

Gli'jar - Hmm... possibility. Do you want to be able to constrict a guy with the middle of your body and tail and leave your head free to strike? Can you bite? It sounds like it would be something would be able to take, provided you take all prereqs as normal.

Yes, Exactly where I was headed. I do possess a bite attack. Great.

I have a rough version up in the rogues gallery.

 

[sans]

Thanks to everyone who offered advice on the water elemental aspect of my character concept.

Possibly, some good news (for me at least). I found I was totally misreading the leadership feat. I can obtain a 4HD cohort which would allow for a medium water elemental if, and only if, Isida grants a +0 LA for a water elemental. So, Isida, wadda ya say? If no, then I'll go with the planar binding suggestion. I'm assuming you mean lesser planar binding? It will allow me to get a 6HD water elemental (regular or greater pb is probably unfair to the other players).

@Random Encounter, that would be awesome if you were a water elemental. We'd probably make the oddest dynamic duo in D&D history . However, there's no guarantee that either or both of us will be selected by Isida. So, I'm going to plan for a bound elemental. However, if we both get selected, that would be sweeet. Good luck!

 

[Kelleris]

Alright, Isida I'm moiling away at my character and I wanted to ask you a few things -

I'd like an item like the monk's belt that increases my effective class level for cursing. The belt gives you +5 levels for AC and unarmed damage purposes and an additional use of the Stunning Fist feat, so I was thinking for the same price (13,000 gold) how about an item that gives me +3 levels for cursing and another use of the curse per day?

In the same vein, there's a feat called Empower Curse that increases the penalty inflicted by your curses by 1. I have two additional curses from feats that give a larger penalty but a more specific effect (only one save or two skills instead of all saves, attacks, checks, and damage). Could I increase the benefit of that feat proportinately for the more specific curses? Otherwise it isn't a very good feat for me. So, for instance, I can inflict either -2 on everything or -5 on two skills. Can I have that feat increase those penalties to -3 and -8 instead of -3 and -6?

Also, for the extra-special bonus section of the character, I was thinking about doing some work on a port city that Lupaz often visited and that has close trade relations with the Kingdom of Knowledge. I thought it could serve as a first stop for our exiled selves. Does that sound good to you?

I like the character so far thematically, but he's looking pretty weak against the others that have been posted, combat- and save-wise. I was hoping to be able to contribute in combat outside of the cursing, but I guess I'll need to just think scout and debuffer. I've never tried that before - I can't win, but I can make sure people lose.

EDIT: Oh, and I wanted to check on taking a flaw to lose the Hexblade's Simple and Martial weapon proficiences, Light Armor proficiency, and ability to cast in light armor without penalty. That's a lot of stuff to not be getting anything for. (In this case the flaw would simply represent devoting that training time to something else, i.e. better cursing.)

For that matter, can you think of a good way to represent an Unlucky flaw? Maybe something like a -1 luck penalty on all saving throws or something.