Characters for the Academy of Drell
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Zhure
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Thought I'd reconstruct the character design notes for TFO:
- Characteristic Array (15,14,13,12,11,10) [it's kind of like the default array, except no 8].
- Character must have a reason to be on the island of Drell where the premier Imperial Academy exists.
- Any class from The PHB and Psionics Handbook with no greater than a d6 in hit dice.
- 4th level to start.
- PHB races only.
- I think starting gold was standard from the DMG for PCs of 4th level, a maximum of 1/2 on any single item.
- hit points: Full at first level, then (1/2 die +1) each level thereafter. The Greyhawk method. Thus, d4 = 3; d6 = 4; d8 = 5; d10 = 6; d12 = 7.
Did I leave anything out?
- Characteristic Array (15,14,13,12,11,10) [it's kind of like the default array, except no 8].
- Character must have a reason to be on the island of Drell where the premier Imperial Academy exists.
- Any class from The PHB and Psionics Handbook with no greater than a d6 in hit dice.
- 4th level to start.
- PHB races only.
- I think starting gold was standard from the DMG for PCs of 4th level, a maximum of 1/2 on any single item.
- hit points: Full at first level, then (1/2 die +1) each level thereafter. The Greyhawk method. Thus, d4 = 3; d6 = 4; d8 = 5; d10 = 6; d12 = 7.
Did I leave anything out?
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Leopold
NKL4LYFE
Aphrarit, Male Dwarf Egoist4 CR 4; Size: M Type Humanoid; HD (4d4)+12; hp 23; Init +1 (+1 Dex, +0 Misc); Spd Walk 20'; AC 11 (flatfooted 10, touch 11), / ( /x ) or ; SA: +1 to hit orcs/goblinoids, +2 on Appraise of stone/metal items, +2 on stone/metal Craft check, +4 dodge vs giants, Ego Whip, Id Insinuation, Intellect Fortress, Mind Blast, Psicrystal, Psion 0 level powers (7 free / day), Psychic Crush, save +2 vs spells, save +2 vs. poison, Stonecunning, Thought Shield; Vision: Darkvision (60'), Normal AL: CG; Sv: Fort +4, Ref +2, Will +4; Str 16, Dex 13, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 10
Skills and Feats: Alchemy +2, Autohypnosis +2, Balance +3, Concentration +8, Craft (Sculpture) +1, Intimidate +3, Psicraft +2, Remote View +1, Stabilize Self +6; Improved Unarmed Strike, Weapon Focus (Unarmed Strike)
Possessions: , Psion: Spellbooks
Detect Psionics x1, Lesser Natural Armor x1, Talons x1, Verve x1, Biofeedback x1, Bite of the Wolf x1, Vigor x1, Claws of the Bear x1,
all i have for now..waiting for GP and then i will fill in history...suffice to say that you have one gruff dwarf that really enjoys a bit of rowdy combat once in a while..
Skills and Feats: Alchemy +2, Autohypnosis +2, Balance +3, Concentration +8, Craft (Sculpture) +1, Intimidate +3, Psicraft +2, Remote View +1, Stabilize Self +6; Improved Unarmed Strike, Weapon Focus (Unarmed Strike)
Possessions: , Psion: Spellbooks
Detect Psionics x1, Lesser Natural Armor x1, Talons x1, Verve x1, Biofeedback x1, Bite of the Wolf x1, Vigor x1, Claws of the Bear x1,
all i have for now..waiting for GP and then i will fill in history...suffice to say that you have one gruff dwarf that really enjoys a bit of rowdy combat once in a while..
Argent Silvermage
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Lyrique
Lyrique.
Male Elf Bard (PHB) Level 4 EXP: 7750
Neutral Good
Str: 11, Dex: 15, Con: 10, Int: 14, Wis: 10, Cha: 17 (16+1 for 4th level)
Hits: 20, AC: 12 (+2 Dex)
BAB: +3 (+3/+5), Fort: +1, Ref: +6, Will: +4
Bardic Knowledge roll: +6
Skills: (ranks/score)
1. Appraise: 7/+9
2. Knowledge Arcana: 7/+9
3. Spellcraft: 7/+11
4. Perform Singing: 7/+12
5. Knowledge Artifacts: 7/+9
6. Gather Information: 7/+10
7. Use Magic/Psionic Item: 7/+11
8. Decipher Script: 7/+9
Languages: Elf, Common, Sylvan and Dwarven.
Feats:
1. Magical Aptitude
2. Skill Focus: Singing
Bard spells per day:
0: 4
1: 4
2: 1
Bard Spells Known:
0 Level: Detect Magic, Prestidigitation, Mending, Ghost sound, Daze, and Read Magic.
1st Level: Cure Light Wounds, Sleep, and Identify.
2nd Level: Enthrall & Summon Monster 2
Equipment:
Heward’s Haversack [2,000gp]
+1 Whip [2,310gp]
Potion of Tongues [750gp]
New Whip (see text below)
Iron fish. 2d6 throwing damage (non-proficient)
Magic Items Carried
1. Staff of Fire
The rest spent on camping supplies.
Staff of Fire:
Fire: Crafted from bronzewood with brass bindings, this staff allows use of the following spells:
• Burning hands (1 charge)
• Fireball (1 charge)
• Wall of fire (2 charges)
Moderate evocation; CL 8th
Bio: Lyrique is the son of Elven parents who work at the Academy. From the first time his mother took him inside he has been in love with it. He showed Bardic potential from an early age. He has shown a special talent that the teachers at the academy have been studying. He can “sing the magic to life” in things (his feats are actually a strange talent he has). All He has to do is sing to an object and it will sometimes work for him of it’s own accord.
One day one of the instructors (you chose who) was studying a lesser artifact called the Whip of Tannon. Lyr (as his friends call him) was entranced. He begged to be allowed to sing to the whip and the instructors decided to allow it. Lyr sang for 50 minutes and then the whip started moving of its own accord. It started to unravel a part of itself and fashioned a new smaller whip from itself. Lyr felt that the whip was to be his as a thank you from the Whip of Tannon.
Lyrique now is obsessed with finding and singing to as many artifacts as he can.
Lyrique’s new whip:
." He reaches into his copious belt pouch and uncoils a whip dagger, the point sheathed in a red leather scabbard.
"It's a lovely piece I spent some time on, a bit heavy, but hard hitting. The hide is a quadruple-wrapped strip of displacer pelt and the hilt is allegedly Olyphant tusk. That part I didn't make." He holds it out; elaborate scrimshaw of leaping sharks engraved into the handle stand out sharply against the plain lacquered pommel.
Masterwork Mighty (STR 18) Whip Dagger, Adamantium, +1 to hit and damage.
Lyrique.
Male Elf Bard (PHB) Level 4 EXP: 7750
Neutral Good
Str: 11, Dex: 15, Con: 10, Int: 14, Wis: 10, Cha: 17 (16+1 for 4th level)
Hits: 20, AC: 12 (+2 Dex)
BAB: +3 (+3/+5), Fort: +1, Ref: +6, Will: +4
Bardic Knowledge roll: +6
Skills: (ranks/score)
1. Appraise: 7/+9
2. Knowledge Arcana: 7/+9
3. Spellcraft: 7/+11
4. Perform Singing: 7/+12
5. Knowledge Artifacts: 7/+9
6. Gather Information: 7/+10
7. Use Magic/Psionic Item: 7/+11
8. Decipher Script: 7/+9
Languages: Elf, Common, Sylvan and Dwarven.
Feats:
1. Magical Aptitude
2. Skill Focus: Singing
Bard spells per day:
0: 4
1: 4
2: 1
Bard Spells Known:
0 Level: Detect Magic, Prestidigitation, Mending, Ghost sound, Daze, and Read Magic.
1st Level: Cure Light Wounds, Sleep, and Identify.
2nd Level: Enthrall & Summon Monster 2
Equipment:
Heward’s Haversack [2,000gp]
+1 Whip [2,310gp]
Potion of Tongues [750gp]
New Whip (see text below)
Iron fish. 2d6 throwing damage (non-proficient)
Magic Items Carried
1. Staff of Fire
The rest spent on camping supplies.
Staff of Fire:
Fire: Crafted from bronzewood with brass bindings, this staff allows use of the following spells:
• Burning hands (1 charge)
• Fireball (1 charge)
• Wall of fire (2 charges)
Moderate evocation; CL 8th
Bio: Lyrique is the son of Elven parents who work at the Academy. From the first time his mother took him inside he has been in love with it. He showed Bardic potential from an early age. He has shown a special talent that the teachers at the academy have been studying. He can “sing the magic to life” in things (his feats are actually a strange talent he has). All He has to do is sing to an object and it will sometimes work for him of it’s own accord.
One day one of the instructors (you chose who) was studying a lesser artifact called the Whip of Tannon. Lyr (as his friends call him) was entranced. He begged to be allowed to sing to the whip and the instructors decided to allow it. Lyr sang for 50 minutes and then the whip started moving of its own accord. It started to unravel a part of itself and fashioned a new smaller whip from itself. Lyr felt that the whip was to be his as a thank you from the Whip of Tannon.
Lyrique now is obsessed with finding and singing to as many artifacts as he can.
Lyrique’s new whip:
." He reaches into his copious belt pouch and uncoils a whip dagger, the point sheathed in a red leather scabbard.
"It's a lovely piece I spent some time on, a bit heavy, but hard hitting. The hide is a quadruple-wrapped strip of displacer pelt and the hilt is allegedly Olyphant tusk. That part I didn't make." He holds it out; elaborate scrimshaw of leaping sharks engraved into the handle stand out sharply against the plain lacquered pommel.
Masterwork Mighty (STR 18) Whip Dagger, Adamantium, +1 to hit and damage.
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Jarval
Explorer
Mortimer Stratum
Human Rogue 4, Chaotic Good
STR 13 (+1)
DEX 16 (+3)
CON 12 (+1)
INT 14 (+2)
WIS 11 (+0)
CHA 10 (+0)
Combat Stats:
Base Attack Bonus: +3
Melee: +4 [+3 BAB, +1 STR]
Ranged: +6 [+3 BAB, +3 DEX]
Hit Points: 22 [6 + 4 + 4 + 4 (levels) + 4 (CON)]
Armor Class: 18 [10 + 5 (Mithril-adamantium alloy chain shirt) + 3 (DEX)]
Initiative: +7 (+3 DEX, +4 Improved Initiative)
Movement Rate: 30 feet
Attacks per round:
1 Masterwork rapier (+5 to hit, 1d6+1 dmg)
or 1 Light Crossbow (+6 to hit, 1d8 dmg)
or Dagger (+4 Melee, +6 Ranged, 1d4+1 dmg)
Weapons and Armor:
Armor: Mithral Shirt (+4 AC)
Weapons: Masterwork rapier (1d6 dmg, Crit 18-20/x2)
Light Crossbow (1d8 dmg, Crit 19-20/x2, Rng 80 ft)
Dagger (1d4 dmg, Crit 19-20/x2, Rng 10 ft)
Saving Throws:
Fort: +2 [+1 base, +1 CON]
Ref: +8 [+3 base, +3 DEX, +2 Lightning Reflexes]
Will: +1 [+1 base]
Feats:
Armor Proficiency (Light) (Free for Rogue)
Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Hand Crossbow) (Free for Rogue)
Combat Reflexes (1st level feat)
Improved Initiative (bonus human feat)
Lightning Reflexes (3rd level feat)
Skills:
Appraise +9 (7 ranks, +2 INT)
Decipher Script +14 (7 ranks, +2 INT, +5 Tutsan's Deciphering Magnifier)
Disable Device +11 (7 ranks, +2 INT, +2 Masterwork Thieves' Tools)
Escape Artist +10 (7 ranks, +3 DEX)
Gather Information +7 (7 ranks)
Knowledge (History) +5 (3.5 ranks, +2 INT)
Open Lock +12 (7 ranks, +3 DEX, +2 Masterwork Thieves' Tools)
Search +9 (7 ranks, +2 INT)
Spot +7 (7 ranks)
Swim +2 (7 ranks, +1 STR, -6 Weight)
Use Rope +10 (7 ranks, +3 DEX)
Languages:
Common, Celestial, Draconic.
Special Abilities:
Evasion
Sneak Attack +2d6
Uncanny Dodge (Dex bonus to AC)
Equipment:
Heward's Handy Haversack
- Grappling Hook
- 50 ft Silk Rope
- 5 Sunrods
- 2 Vials of Antitoxin
- 3 Flasks of Acid
- Everburning Torch
- Hammer
- Spade
- 4 day's Trail Rations
- 2 Potions of Cure Light Wounds
- Potion of Spider Climb
- Tutsan's Deciphering Magnifier (+5 to Decipher Script checks)
- 47 gp, 5 sp.
Wearing / Carrying
- Mithril-adamantium alloy chain shirt (+1 non-magical chain shirt, weight as mithril)
- Explorer's Outfit
- Masterwork Rapier
- Masterwork Thieves' Tools
- Light Crossbow
- 20 Bolts
- 10 Masterwork bolts
- 3 Daggers
- Gray Bag of Tricks
Total Weight Carried: 34.5 lb
Load: Light
Current XP:
Current: 11,500 (unrested, so as yet unleveled)
Next Level: 10,000
His mother was a historian, and his father a librarian, but Mortimer wanted a more active approach to his field of study. Archeology (sometimes bordering on grave robbing) became his profession, and lead him to the Academy, along with a glowing (and rather inaccurate) letter of introduction from his father. The Academy's library is what drew him to Drell, but he's also following some more martial pursuits, having learnt that sometimes you need to fight to keep your finds.
Mortimer stands 5' 11" tall. His blonde hair is cut short, and usually somewhat muddy. He wears practical clothing, having little use or time for frills, favouring dark blues and browns. He tends to come across as brash and over-confident to those he doesn't know, or considers may be a potential rival, but in truth Mortimer is a quiet, studious man.
[EDITS: 30/10/03 - Edited to add XP and equipment gained since joining game.]
Human Rogue 4, Chaotic Good
STR 13 (+1)
DEX 16 (+3)
CON 12 (+1)
INT 14 (+2)
WIS 11 (+0)
CHA 10 (+0)
Combat Stats:
Base Attack Bonus: +3
Melee: +4 [+3 BAB, +1 STR]
Ranged: +6 [+3 BAB, +3 DEX]
Hit Points: 22 [6 + 4 + 4 + 4 (levels) + 4 (CON)]
Armor Class: 18 [10 + 5 (Mithril-adamantium alloy chain shirt) + 3 (DEX)]
Initiative: +7 (+3 DEX, +4 Improved Initiative)
Movement Rate: 30 feet
Attacks per round:
1 Masterwork rapier (+5 to hit, 1d6+1 dmg)
or 1 Light Crossbow (+6 to hit, 1d8 dmg)
or Dagger (+4 Melee, +6 Ranged, 1d4+1 dmg)
Weapons and Armor:
Armor: Mithral Shirt (+4 AC)
Weapons: Masterwork rapier (1d6 dmg, Crit 18-20/x2)
Light Crossbow (1d8 dmg, Crit 19-20/x2, Rng 80 ft)
Dagger (1d4 dmg, Crit 19-20/x2, Rng 10 ft)
Saving Throws:
Fort: +2 [+1 base, +1 CON]
Ref: +8 [+3 base, +3 DEX, +2 Lightning Reflexes]
Will: +1 [+1 base]
Feats:
Armor Proficiency (Light) (Free for Rogue)
Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Hand Crossbow) (Free for Rogue)
Combat Reflexes (1st level feat)
Improved Initiative (bonus human feat)
Lightning Reflexes (3rd level feat)
Skills:
Appraise +9 (7 ranks, +2 INT)
Decipher Script +14 (7 ranks, +2 INT, +5 Tutsan's Deciphering Magnifier)
Disable Device +11 (7 ranks, +2 INT, +2 Masterwork Thieves' Tools)
Escape Artist +10 (7 ranks, +3 DEX)
Gather Information +7 (7 ranks)
Knowledge (History) +5 (3.5 ranks, +2 INT)
Open Lock +12 (7 ranks, +3 DEX, +2 Masterwork Thieves' Tools)
Search +9 (7 ranks, +2 INT)
Spot +7 (7 ranks)
Swim +2 (7 ranks, +1 STR, -6 Weight)
Use Rope +10 (7 ranks, +3 DEX)
Languages:
Common, Celestial, Draconic.
Special Abilities:
Evasion
Sneak Attack +2d6
Uncanny Dodge (Dex bonus to AC)
Equipment:
Heward's Handy Haversack
- Grappling Hook
- 50 ft Silk Rope
- 5 Sunrods
- 2 Vials of Antitoxin
- 3 Flasks of Acid
- Everburning Torch
- Hammer
- Spade
- 4 day's Trail Rations
- 2 Potions of Cure Light Wounds
- Potion of Spider Climb
- Tutsan's Deciphering Magnifier (+5 to Decipher Script checks)
- 47 gp, 5 sp.
Wearing / Carrying
- Mithril-adamantium alloy chain shirt (+1 non-magical chain shirt, weight as mithril)
- Explorer's Outfit
- Masterwork Rapier
- Masterwork Thieves' Tools
- Light Crossbow
- 20 Bolts
- 10 Masterwork bolts
- 3 Daggers
- Gray Bag of Tricks
Total Weight Carried: 34.5 lb
Load: Light
Current XP:
Current: 11,500 (unrested, so as yet unleveled)
Next Level: 10,000
His mother was a historian, and his father a librarian, but Mortimer wanted a more active approach to his field of study. Archeology (sometimes bordering on grave robbing) became his profession, and lead him to the Academy, along with a glowing (and rather inaccurate) letter of introduction from his father. The Academy's library is what drew him to Drell, but he's also following some more martial pursuits, having learnt that sometimes you need to fight to keep your finds.
Mortimer stands 5' 11" tall. His blonde hair is cut short, and usually somewhat muddy. He wears practical clothing, having little use or time for frills, favouring dark blues and browns. He tends to come across as brash and over-confident to those he doesn't know, or considers may be a potential rival, but in truth Mortimer is a quiet, studious man.
[EDITS: 30/10/03 - Edited to add XP and equipment gained since joining game.]
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), and added some descriptive text. I think Mortimer Stratum is ready to roll...
