D20Dazza said:
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?
That's fine, lemme look at the link, once you get it, and I'll get back to you. Probably it will be a yes, so you can start doing your background on that if you wish.
D20Dazza said:
This is fun
I'm pretty well advanced and really just need to spend cash and pull all the background notes together but first a question.
[sblock=Isida Question]Isida does it seem reasonable to you to allow my PC to stack two natural AC bonuses - it's not normally allowed but this seems a unique case. I've started on a Half-Air Elemental Hadozee 'Winged Deck Ape' Spellthief 5 who was bought up by a swarm of Silthilar (LoM 168). He gets a +1 natural armour from his half-elemental template which I figure isn't something physical like tough skin or anything, but something more like a lessening of the blow because he is slightly insubstantial. With the Silthilar being masters of the graft I wanted to take advantae of him having being raised amongst them. The only graft I can afford at this level is the Chitin Plating which provides a +1 natural bonus that doesn't stack with other racial bonuses. I suggest though that in this case the physical nature of the plating would complement the elemental bestowed bonuses - what say you?? I'm happy if you say no, I can get a magical item that will stack with the natural but I thought this was more flavourful - sorry bout the sblock, I want to keep him quiet until he is fully realised
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Cheers
Daz
Answer: [sblock]Sounds plausible. Your air elemental natural armor bonus, let's call that a deflection bonus, representing the subtle currents of air around your body.[/sblock]
Kelleris said:
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?
Hmm... yes. Yes you may. Also you asked me previously about a Practised Curser feat. I also find that plausible.
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 sounds plausible. If all you're doing is cursing, you better be darn good at it.
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?
Sounds good. There is more than one city of that sort, but one that a party member knows well would be very useful.
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.
Perhaps you could call the first flaw Pacifist?
And the Unlucky one is fine.
sans said:
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!
sans, you and I probably know that a water elemental has more than a +0 LA, so in good gaming conscience, I cannot do that. So shell out (
shell out, I slay me) for the
lesser planar binding scroll. Unless, of course, Random Encounter has a good character up his/her sleeve for you to "bond" with.
James Heard said:
Isida, approximately how long before the Endless Falls game are we talking about? I mean, so I can use the Scions' character's backgrounds as tinder to build my own?
Two hundred and fifty years. Precisely. To the day.
Velmont said:
I am interested... I have no concept in mind, and I must confess what catch me is more the creation of my own part of the world. It gives a lot of flexibilty and will allow me to create something cool. If you make your choice before I write down the background, too bad, but I should gives you a background tomorrow night. From there, we will see what my mind will have created.
Excellent! I look forward to looking it over.
bluegodjanus said:
I'm playing with two ideas. The first is a half-celestial githzerai (I'd prefer the MM version, but the XPH one would work, too) oathsworn (Arcana Evolved). The trouble I have with this idea is that it'd leave me with 2 HD, and I'm not sure if it's entirely safe to be that squishy.
The second concept is a half-ice elemental fey-touched pirate. Fey-touched is from the Fiend Folio, and the half-elemental template is from MotP - trouble there is that there isn't actually a half-ice template. So... I would request to extrapolate one, based on the half-air and half-water templates, with some ideas likely gleaned from the ice paraelemental. As for the class, I'm not exactly sure - probably just swashbuckler.
So, two ideas proposed (so far). The first, I don't know if it's viable. The second, requires some minor tinkering to create the template involved. Input?
I think the second can be done. Use the water ability changes. As for spells... I'm going to give one from the PHB and one from Frostburn, use what you have access to.
1-2: endure elements or lesser shivering touch
3-4: chill metal or frost weapon
5-6: sleet storm or shivering touch
7-8: ice storm or frostburn
9-10: cone of cold or frostbite
11-12: Otiluke's freezing sphere or mass frostburn
13-14: control weather or raise ice forest
15-16: polar ray or frostfell
17-18: elemental swarm (ice elementals only)
19+: Plane Shift (to plane of cold)
