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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1230367" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>Glad I could help, ThoughtBubble! I always get a kick out of making characters.</p><p></p><p>Incidently, I should mention that I tried bringing the combat medic in as an NPC -- my group lost their medic, and nobody wanted to make another one. Unfortunately, he ended up outshining the PCs in a few cases -- like a bar fight, where his martial arts let him outshine people who could ordinarily outshoot him. That guy is definitely flashy enough to be a PC, not an NPC.</p><p></p><p>My new NPC medic, beloved by the party, is Helpful Tucker. He's a Dedicated 2 right now, with max'd out Treat Injury ranks (of course) -- and I also gave him an 18 Int, the Technician feat with a bunch of fun Permaskills, and 2 or 3 ranks in just about every Int-based skill I could come up with. My goal for him is for him to be the most popular NPC EVER. See, with an 18 Int, and 2-3 ranks in Knowledge:Almost Everything, he's got a check of +6 or +7 in a wiiiiiiide range of skills... and aiding another only requires that you hit DC10. He's going to take Improved Aid Another at 3rd level, and then at 5th, and 7th, and 9th... Meaning that by the time he's 9th level, he'll be able to give people a <strong>+6</strong> on almost any roll they want to make. Disable Device? Sure, he's got a few ranks in that. Craft:Mechanical? Yeah, he's built some stuff in his time. Let Helpful Tucker give you a hand.</p><p></p><p>He's the ultimate amateur enthusiast (I'm playing him as a kid genius who never really developed into anything beyond a competent doctor and renaissance man), only <strong>great</strong> at treating injuries, but good enough to help with <strong>anything</strong> that you can really help somebody with, be it a Sense Motive check ("Hey, boss, this is just me, but don't he seem a bit shifty to you?"), a Knowledge check ("Huh, you know, I don't know much about that, but I <strong>do</strong> know that penguins are native to Antarctica. It's only <strong>puffins</strong> you get in the Arctic."), or, well, anything else. It's not flashy, and I don't know that he'd be a ton of fun to play as a PC, but so far, the rest of the party loves him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1230367, member: 5171"] Glad I could help, ThoughtBubble! I always get a kick out of making characters. Incidently, I should mention that I tried bringing the combat medic in as an NPC -- my group lost their medic, and nobody wanted to make another one. Unfortunately, he ended up outshining the PCs in a few cases -- like a bar fight, where his martial arts let him outshine people who could ordinarily outshoot him. That guy is definitely flashy enough to be a PC, not an NPC. My new NPC medic, beloved by the party, is Helpful Tucker. He's a Dedicated 2 right now, with max'd out Treat Injury ranks (of course) -- and I also gave him an 18 Int, the Technician feat with a bunch of fun Permaskills, and 2 or 3 ranks in just about every Int-based skill I could come up with. My goal for him is for him to be the most popular NPC EVER. See, with an 18 Int, and 2-3 ranks in Knowledge:Almost Everything, he's got a check of +6 or +7 in a wiiiiiiide range of skills... and aiding another only requires that you hit DC10. He's going to take Improved Aid Another at 3rd level, and then at 5th, and 7th, and 9th... Meaning that by the time he's 9th level, he'll be able to give people a [b]+6[/b] on almost any roll they want to make. Disable Device? Sure, he's got a few ranks in that. Craft:Mechanical? Yeah, he's built some stuff in his time. Let Helpful Tucker give you a hand. He's the ultimate amateur enthusiast (I'm playing him as a kid genius who never really developed into anything beyond a competent doctor and renaissance man), only [b]great[/b] at treating injuries, but good enough to help with [b]anything[/b] that you can really help somebody with, be it a Sense Motive check ("Hey, boss, this is just me, but don't he seem a bit shifty to you?"), a Knowledge check ("Huh, you know, I don't know much about that, but I [b]do[/b] know that penguins are native to Antarctica. It's only [b]puffins[/b] you get in the Arctic."), or, well, anything else. It's not flashy, and I don't know that he'd be a ton of fun to play as a PC, but so far, the rest of the party loves him. [/QUOTE]
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