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Myth and Legend
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OK since Voda has been so verbal for the Greek period, this is when we'll play. Ill give the details of the exact year, and what's happeing where in the IC thread.
DW: sorry this format is much easier for me to read. For offline use you can always copy it directly (without the BB code) and thus ignore all the tags.
I'd allow shifters if we ignore all the growing of fangs and other such things, and replace the fluff with: born in a shamanistic, totem kind of barnarian people, raised by animals etc. The PRC is nice but that last part is too fantasy like to get in to a historical game. It's essentially a Bear Warrior but with extra animal shapes right?
What if we redid the fluff so that your character can enter an animalistic state of mind and gain extraordinary physical stats, but does not assume the form of a bear/wolf/whatever? Stat wise it'd be the same.
Here is the format to use (just edit the info)
[sblock=Fandalla Caomhanach]Fandalla Caomhanach
Dawnbringer Fand
Neutral Good Female Human (Illuskan) Cleric 1
Patron Deity: Lathander
Starting Region: The City of Splendors, Waterdeep
EXP: 0
Strength 10 (+0) [10 base]
Dexterity 8 (-1) [8 base]
Constitution 14 (+2) [14 base]
Intelligence 10 (+0) [10 base]
Wisdom 18 (+4) [18 base]
Charisma 14 (+2) [14 base]
Size: Medium
Age: 23
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 141 lb
Eyes: Green
Hair: Copper
Skin: Fair
[sblock=Appearance]Fand is a tall, healthy girl, with shiny copper red hair, piercing green eyes and freckles sprinkled across her nose and cheeks. She is well built, with a rather large bust and strong shapely hips, and has milky white skin that is soft to the touch.
The girl is radiant and very positive, with a constant smile on her face, and an energetic voice that is often louder than normal for a lady. Her movement is quick and precise, and her pose often suggests strength, both of physical and mental.[/sblock]
Total Hit Points: 10
Speed: 30 feet / 20 feet [armor]
Armor Class: 15 = 10 +4 [scale] +2 [heavy wooden] -1 [dexterity]
Touch AC: 9
Flat-footed: 15
Caster Level: 1
Spell DC: 10 + Spell Level + 4 (Wis)
Initiative modifier: - 1 = -1 [dexterity]
Fortitude save: + 4 = 2 [base] + 2 [constitution]
Reflex save: - 1 = 0 [base] - 1 [dexterity]
Will save: + 6 = 4 [base] + 4 [wisdom]
Attack (handheld): + 0 = 0 [base] + 0 [strength]
Attack (missile): - 1 = 0 [base] - 1 [dexterity]
Grapple check: + 0 = 0 [base] + 0 [strength]
[sblock=Special]Aura (Ex): Neutral Good
Spontaneous Casting: Positive Energy
Turn Undead (Su): 3+2(Cha)+4(feat)/day
Greater Turn Undead (Su): 1/day
Protective Ward (Su): 1/day[/sblock]
Weapon proficiency: all simple weapons, all types of armor (light, medium, and heavy), shields (except tower shields).
Languages: Common
Heavy Mace [1d8, crit x2, 8 lb., one-handed, bludgeoning]
Scale mail [medium; +4 AC; max dex +3; check penalty -4; 30 lb.]
Heavy Wooden Shield [+2 AC; check penalty -2; hardness 5; hp 15; 10 lb.]
[sblock=Feats]Smooth Talk (FRcS) (regional)
Extra Turning (bonus/racial)
Persistent Spell (CAr) (lvl 1)
[/sblock]
[sblock=Skills]Appraise - 1 =-1 [Int]
Balance - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Bluff + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Climb - 6 = + 0 [Str] - 6 [acp]
Concentration + 6 = + 4 [base] + 2 [Con]
Craft +0= + 0 [Int]
Diplomacy + 4 = + 2 [Cha] + 2 [feat]
Disguise + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Escape Artist - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Forgery +0= + 0 [Int]
Gather Information + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Heal + 4 =+ 4 [Wis]
Hide - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Intimidate + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Jump - 12 = +0 [Str] - 6 [acp] - 6 [weight]
Knowledge (Religion) + 4 = + 4 [base]
Listen + 4 =+ 4 [Wis]
Move Silently - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Ride - 1 = -1 [Dex]
Search +0= + 0 [Int]
Spot + 4 =+ 4 [Wis]
Sense Motive + 6 = + 4 [Wis] + 2 [feat]
Spellcraft + 4 = + 4 [base]
Survival + 4 = + 4 [Wis]
Swim +0 = + 0 [Int]
Use Rope - 1 = -1 [Dex]
Tumble - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
[/sblock]
[sblock=Spells]Spells/Day
0 level: 3
1 level: 2+1 = 1 + 1 [Wis] + 1 [Domain]
Prepared spells:
0 level: Create Water, Detect Magic, Light
1 level: Bless, Lesser Vigor (SC), Sanctuary
[/sblock]
[sblock=Level Advancement]
[sblock=Human]Medium: As Medium creatures, humans have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Human base land speed is 30 feet.
1 extra feat at 1st level.
4 extra skill points at 1st level and 1 extra skill point at each additional level.
Automatic Language: Common. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic)
Favored Class: Any. When determining whether a multiclass human takes an experience point penalty, his or her highest-level class does not count[/sblock]
Light load: 33 lb. or less
Medium load: 34-66 lb.
Heavy load: 67-100 lb.
Lift over head: 100 lb.
Lift off ground: 200 lb.
Push or drag: 500 lb.
[sblock=Equipment]
Starting gold: 200 gp.
Mace, heavy 12 gp 8 lb.
Shield, heavy wood 7 gp 10 lb.
Scale mail 50 gp 30 lb.
Bedroll 1 sp 5 lb.
Blanket, winter 5 sp 3 lb.
Rations, trail (7) 35 sp 7 lb.
Waterskin 1 gp 4 lb.
Flint and steel 1 gp
Holy Symbol, silver: 25 gp, 1 lb.
Holy Symbol, wooden x 3: 3 gp. (1 integrated on shield, 2 in backpack)
Potion of Remove Fear 50 gp.
Spell component pouch 5 gp 2 lb.
Scroll of Close Wounds (Sc) (regional bonus)
Scroll of Dark Way (Sc) (regional bonus)
_____
Total: 158 gp 1 sp / 70 lb (heavy encumbrance for str 10)
On person: 41 gp 7 sp 20 cp
[/sblock]
[sblock=Background]The eldest daughter of an Illuskan sailor and his wife, who settled in the city of Waterdeep after leaving the harsh northern regions of the Dales and their tribal like heritige, Fand has known her people's culture only trough stories and what little books there were to be found on it, and has thus grown up as a "city child" according to her parents. Both her mother and father were very proud of the Illuskan lineage and their part in the founding of the City of Splendors, and thus Fandalla has always been one who would honor her blood despite not having sailed on a dragon ship, nor lived up north in the snow covered Dalelands.
She is a strong willed girl, and has been like this since her earliset years. Keeping her two younger sitsers and younger brother in line, as well as caring for them when their mother took up a sewing apprenticeship, had carved Fand's personality as a responsible and caring person. However, she has always been one for freedom and exploration, and had frequently broken the rules herself, even as she tried to teach her younger siblings responsibility. Fand grew from a lively and adorable child in to a pretty and vigorous girl, who was quick to make friends and give trust, even though the lads her age would normally be intimidated by her height and determination.
Radiant and smiling, Fand is also very moody and can quickly change tempers, just as her fiery hair suggets. She is open and energetic, and often would approach strangers and strike up a conversation, just for the sake of meeting new people. Of course, doing so in Waterdeep would put one in certain unpleasant situations more often than not, but Fand is not one to be discouraged or to have an overly enduring memory for bad things.
Her father had been revering Umberlee as a sailor, while her mother worshipped Auril above the other deities of Faerun. It was Fand's implied destiny to follow in her parent's foosteps, and offer her prayers to one of the harsh Goddesses of the North. However, as luck would have it, she was saved as a child by a Cleric of Lathander.
Although the girl remembers little of the accident, it came to happen with her climbig up to the third floor of a building in the Sea Ward, on a dare (something she would not pass up) and slipping, thus falling to the hard cobblestone below. Fand would have surely perished then and there, if it were not for a priest of Lathander who was pasing nearby, and immediatly upon hearing the cries of the other children, rushing towards the prone girl and healing her.
Fand's memory of the man is only that he was very tall and with shining blond hair, but that is of little importance, as she never even learned the man's name. Grateful beyond words, Fandalla's parents decied that this was a sign by the Gods, and that they should bring their child up in the new cosmopolitan ways of Waterdeep, instad of clinging to their tribal Illuskan heritige and their traditional rune magic.
And so, young Fand grew up to be a free spirited child, ever smiling and energetic, and entered the ranks of the Chirch of Lathander at the age of sixteen. Being the huge metropolis that it is, Waterdeep of course housed an immense temple to the deity - the Spires of the Morning. Fand studied and trained amongst the other acolytes, under the watchfull supervision of Dawnbringer Morris, and although she never found out who her unnamed saviour was, the girl proved to be an excellent disciple in the ways of the Morninglord.
Upon her entry in the ranks of the Dawnbringers, the High Dawn of the temple summoned Fand, and sent her off on her first missionary assignment, right in the heart of the Northern lands her parents had fled many years ago. The reasoning behind High Radiance Ghentilara's actions remains unclear to Fandalla, but she suspects she has been sent to the developing community of Silverdale to spread the word of the Morninglord, assist with the new beginning (part of Lathander's dogma, and something she much enjoys) and possibly reconnect with her Illuskan heritige. Whatever it is, Fand is ready and willing, arriving by boat and then by coach to the new town, with a backpack on her back, armour clad and mace in hand, and a smile on her face.[/sblock]
[/sblock]
DW: sorry this format is much easier for me to read. For offline use you can always copy it directly (without the BB code) and thus ignore all the tags.
I'd allow shifters if we ignore all the growing of fangs and other such things, and replace the fluff with: born in a shamanistic, totem kind of barnarian people, raised by animals etc. The PRC is nice but that last part is too fantasy like to get in to a historical game. It's essentially a Bear Warrior but with extra animal shapes right?
What if we redid the fluff so that your character can enter an animalistic state of mind and gain extraordinary physical stats, but does not assume the form of a bear/wolf/whatever? Stat wise it'd be the same.
Here is the format to use (just edit the info)
[sblock=Fandalla Caomhanach]Fandalla Caomhanach
Dawnbringer Fand
Neutral Good Female Human (Illuskan) Cleric 1
Patron Deity: Lathander
Starting Region: The City of Splendors, Waterdeep
EXP: 0
Strength 10 (+0) [10 base]
Dexterity 8 (-1) [8 base]
Constitution 14 (+2) [14 base]
Intelligence 10 (+0) [10 base]
Wisdom 18 (+4) [18 base]
Charisma 14 (+2) [14 base]
Size: Medium
Age: 23
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 141 lb
Eyes: Green
Hair: Copper
Skin: Fair
[sblock=Appearance]Fand is a tall, healthy girl, with shiny copper red hair, piercing green eyes and freckles sprinkled across her nose and cheeks. She is well built, with a rather large bust and strong shapely hips, and has milky white skin that is soft to the touch.
The girl is radiant and very positive, with a constant smile on her face, and an energetic voice that is often louder than normal for a lady. Her movement is quick and precise, and her pose often suggests strength, both of physical and mental.[/sblock]
Total Hit Points: 10
Speed: 30 feet / 20 feet [armor]
Armor Class: 15 = 10 +4 [scale] +2 [heavy wooden] -1 [dexterity]
Touch AC: 9
Flat-footed: 15
Caster Level: 1
Spell DC: 10 + Spell Level + 4 (Wis)
Initiative modifier: - 1 = -1 [dexterity]
Fortitude save: + 4 = 2 [base] + 2 [constitution]
Reflex save: - 1 = 0 [base] - 1 [dexterity]
Will save: + 6 = 4 [base] + 4 [wisdom]
Attack (handheld): + 0 = 0 [base] + 0 [strength]
Attack (missile): - 1 = 0 [base] - 1 [dexterity]
Grapple check: + 0 = 0 [base] + 0 [strength]
[sblock=Special]Aura (Ex): Neutral Good
Spontaneous Casting: Positive Energy
Turn Undead (Su): 3+2(Cha)+4(feat)/day
Greater Turn Undead (Su): 1/day
Protective Ward (Su): 1/day[/sblock]
Weapon proficiency: all simple weapons, all types of armor (light, medium, and heavy), shields (except tower shields).
Languages: Common
Heavy Mace [1d8, crit x2, 8 lb., one-handed, bludgeoning]
Scale mail [medium; +4 AC; max dex +3; check penalty -4; 30 lb.]
Heavy Wooden Shield [+2 AC; check penalty -2; hardness 5; hp 15; 10 lb.]
[sblock=Feats]Smooth Talk (FRcS) (regional)
Extra Turning (bonus/racial)
Persistent Spell (CAr) (lvl 1)
[/sblock]
[sblock=Skills]Appraise - 1 =-1 [Int]
Balance - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Bluff + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Climb - 6 = + 0 [Str] - 6 [acp]
Concentration + 6 = + 4 [base] + 2 [Con]
Craft +0= + 0 [Int]
Diplomacy + 4 = + 2 [Cha] + 2 [feat]
Disguise + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Escape Artist - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Forgery +0= + 0 [Int]
Gather Information + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Heal + 4 =+ 4 [Wis]
Hide - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Intimidate + 2 = + 2 [Cha]
Jump - 12 = +0 [Str] - 6 [acp] - 6 [weight]
Knowledge (Religion) + 4 = + 4 [base]
Listen + 4 =+ 4 [Wis]
Move Silently - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
Ride - 1 = -1 [Dex]
Search +0= + 0 [Int]
Spot + 4 =+ 4 [Wis]
Sense Motive + 6 = + 4 [Wis] + 2 [feat]
Spellcraft + 4 = + 4 [base]
Survival + 4 = + 4 [Wis]
Swim +0 = + 0 [Int]
Use Rope - 1 = -1 [Dex]
Tumble - 7 = -1 [Dex] - 6 [acp]
[/sblock]
[sblock=Spells]Spells/Day
0 level: 3
1 level: 2+1 = 1 + 1 [Wis] + 1 [Domain]
Prepared spells:
0 level: Create Water, Detect Magic, Light
1 level: Bless, Lesser Vigor (SC), Sanctuary
[/sblock]
[sblock=Level Advancement]
[/sblock]
[sblock=Human]Medium: As Medium creatures, humans have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Human base land speed is 30 feet.
1 extra feat at 1st level.
4 extra skill points at 1st level and 1 extra skill point at each additional level.
Automatic Language: Common. Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic)
Favored Class: Any. When determining whether a multiclass human takes an experience point penalty, his or her highest-level class does not count[/sblock]
Light load: 33 lb. or less
Medium load: 34-66 lb.
Heavy load: 67-100 lb.
Lift over head: 100 lb.
Lift off ground: 200 lb.
Push or drag: 500 lb.
[sblock=Equipment]
Starting gold: 200 gp.
Mace, heavy 12 gp 8 lb.
Shield, heavy wood 7 gp 10 lb.
Scale mail 50 gp 30 lb.
Bedroll 1 sp 5 lb.
Blanket, winter 5 sp 3 lb.
Rations, trail (7) 35 sp 7 lb.
Waterskin 1 gp 4 lb.
Flint and steel 1 gp
Holy Symbol, silver: 25 gp, 1 lb.
Holy Symbol, wooden x 3: 3 gp. (1 integrated on shield, 2 in backpack)
Potion of Remove Fear 50 gp.
Spell component pouch 5 gp 2 lb.
Scroll of Close Wounds (Sc) (regional bonus)
Scroll of Dark Way (Sc) (regional bonus)
_____
Total: 158 gp 1 sp / 70 lb (heavy encumbrance for str 10)
On person: 41 gp 7 sp 20 cp
[/sblock]
[sblock=Background]The eldest daughter of an Illuskan sailor and his wife, who settled in the city of Waterdeep after leaving the harsh northern regions of the Dales and their tribal like heritige, Fand has known her people's culture only trough stories and what little books there were to be found on it, and has thus grown up as a "city child" according to her parents. Both her mother and father were very proud of the Illuskan lineage and their part in the founding of the City of Splendors, and thus Fandalla has always been one who would honor her blood despite not having sailed on a dragon ship, nor lived up north in the snow covered Dalelands.
She is a strong willed girl, and has been like this since her earliset years. Keeping her two younger sitsers and younger brother in line, as well as caring for them when their mother took up a sewing apprenticeship, had carved Fand's personality as a responsible and caring person. However, she has always been one for freedom and exploration, and had frequently broken the rules herself, even as she tried to teach her younger siblings responsibility. Fand grew from a lively and adorable child in to a pretty and vigorous girl, who was quick to make friends and give trust, even though the lads her age would normally be intimidated by her height and determination.
Radiant and smiling, Fand is also very moody and can quickly change tempers, just as her fiery hair suggets. She is open and energetic, and often would approach strangers and strike up a conversation, just for the sake of meeting new people. Of course, doing so in Waterdeep would put one in certain unpleasant situations more often than not, but Fand is not one to be discouraged or to have an overly enduring memory for bad things.
Her father had been revering Umberlee as a sailor, while her mother worshipped Auril above the other deities of Faerun. It was Fand's implied destiny to follow in her parent's foosteps, and offer her prayers to one of the harsh Goddesses of the North. However, as luck would have it, she was saved as a child by a Cleric of Lathander.
Although the girl remembers little of the accident, it came to happen with her climbig up to the third floor of a building in the Sea Ward, on a dare (something she would not pass up) and slipping, thus falling to the hard cobblestone below. Fand would have surely perished then and there, if it were not for a priest of Lathander who was pasing nearby, and immediatly upon hearing the cries of the other children, rushing towards the prone girl and healing her.
Fand's memory of the man is only that he was very tall and with shining blond hair, but that is of little importance, as she never even learned the man's name. Grateful beyond words, Fandalla's parents decied that this was a sign by the Gods, and that they should bring their child up in the new cosmopolitan ways of Waterdeep, instad of clinging to their tribal Illuskan heritige and their traditional rune magic.
And so, young Fand grew up to be a free spirited child, ever smiling and energetic, and entered the ranks of the Chirch of Lathander at the age of sixteen. Being the huge metropolis that it is, Waterdeep of course housed an immense temple to the deity - the Spires of the Morning. Fand studied and trained amongst the other acolytes, under the watchfull supervision of Dawnbringer Morris, and although she never found out who her unnamed saviour was, the girl proved to be an excellent disciple in the ways of the Morninglord.
Upon her entry in the ranks of the Dawnbringers, the High Dawn of the temple summoned Fand, and sent her off on her first missionary assignment, right in the heart of the Northern lands her parents had fled many years ago. The reasoning behind High Radiance Ghentilara's actions remains unclear to Fandalla, but she suspects she has been sent to the developing community of Silverdale to spread the word of the Morninglord, assist with the new beginning (part of Lathander's dogma, and something she much enjoys) and possibly reconnect with her Illuskan heritige. Whatever it is, Fand is ready and willing, arriving by boat and then by coach to the new town, with a backpack on her back, armour clad and mace in hand, and a smile on her face.[/sblock]
[/sblock]
Dragonwriter
First Post
I'll use it, since I like the concept of the game and I like your DM'ing style. I just don't care for the format. But I'll use it.
Interesting... So, in the animal state of mind, he might just begin tearing and biting at someone (in the case of Razorclaw or Longtooth Shifters)? That could work... And definitely fit with the savage theme. Make him so mad he just starts jumping on you, clawing and biting furiously.
Weretouched Master is similar to Bear Warrior, I suppose... The main difference being a Weretouched can go for a hybrid form, not just animal. But they are limited to one kind, based on the heritage they pick at level 1 of the PrC, which also governs the special abilities they get as they advance. And they only get the beast/animal form after all 5 levels of the class.
It might be possible to describe the character as heavily tattooed, in the manner of the beast, and the tattoos almost seem to become the character's features when shifting/alt. form-ing. Just a thought...
And if this is too much hassle, I can swap to Human and not lose too much. Flavor would be largely the same, as would mechanics. Only difference would be no Shifting and not bothering with the WM PrC.
Hm... I may jump in if someone pops out and I think of a cool concept. I like what I've seen of ToB, I just need to get access to more of it besides the manuevers. (Wizards gave access to ToB manuevers but not so much the classes, except the excerpt on Warblade... Hm...)
Maybe some form of Warblade... I'll ponder on that a bit.
Though, Iunno if I'm one of the cool cats anymore either.
Maybe some form of Warblade... I'll ponder on that a bit.
Though, Iunno if I'm one of the cool cats anymore either.
Myth and Legend
First Post
RG is up, for real this time. Post them characters away!
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Dragonwriter
First Post
Um, a little problem with that RG link, Myth. At least for me, it keep circling back to the starting page of this thread.
Anyways, I'll finish up that character. I decided to drop the Shifter bit and just go Human, for the sake of simplicity.
Anyways, I'll finish up that character. I decided to drop the Shifter bit and just go Human, for the sake of simplicity.
Myth and Legend
First Post
Fixed the RG link.
Level 1, max HP per level, max wealth by class.
To spice up character creation i will grant you a list of weapons and feats to choose for free based on your starting region, such as (this is an example) a masterwork studded leather armor or Masterwork Longspear for Greece, or masterwork Greataxes and Greatswords for Germania or Brittania, or a Masterwork Shortsword + Tower Shield for Rome etc. The feats will be +2/+2, generally the physical ones dedicated for barbarians and Spartans, and the educated ones for Athens, Coritnth, Thessalonica etc. Rome will be mixed probably.
Level 1, max HP per level, max wealth by class.
To spice up character creation i will grant you a list of weapons and feats to choose for free based on your starting region, such as (this is an example) a masterwork studded leather armor or Masterwork Longspear for Greece, or masterwork Greataxes and Greatswords for Germania or Brittania, or a Masterwork Shortsword + Tower Shield for Rome etc. The feats will be +2/+2, generally the physical ones dedicated for barbarians and Spartans, and the educated ones for Athens, Coritnth, Thessalonica etc. Rome will be mixed probably.
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