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[Gli'jar]

I see from some of the classes, like the shaman for instance, bonus spells per day are from both charisma and wisdom. How does this work? Does one use the higher of the two scores or add the two together gaining a number of spells from cha and a number of spells from wis?

 

[Rystil Arden]

I see from some of the classes, like the shaman for instance, bonus spells per day are from both charisma and wisdom. How does this work? Does one use the higher of the two scores or add the two together gaining a number of spells from cha and a number of spells from wis?

You add the two together. The Shaman thus can claim (with little protest except from the Champion, which is the supreme caster of holy magic, though not all divine magic) to be the ultimate healer.

 

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Stat roll. I am thinking perhaps a Pleb Ronin/not sure what at the moment. I like the concept of the Ronin, like the concept of it being a run away slave construct also, so put the two in one blender and it makes for a happy shake on this side.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Stat roll. I am thinking perhaps a Pleb Ronin/not sure what at the moment. I like the concept of the Ronin, like the concept of it being a run away slave construct also, so put the two in one blender and it makes for a happy shake on this side.

Being a Pleb Ronin would be really really weird, so I'd need a very well-put-together backstory reason for it. Being a Ronin in Jhaar is not unusual at all, though. The Samurai is just going to love you

[SBLOCK=Longer Reason That Being a Pleb Ronin is Very Unlikely]Ronin are almost exclusively Larakese because they have to be trained as apprentice samurai but reject the Samurai code (possibly partway down the line, possibly initially). It is virtually unknown for Larakese Daimyos to train non-Larakese Samurai, but I guess that if a Daimyo purchased a Pleb, maybe they would try to train it. However, it is only on the very rarest of occasions that a Praetor would sell a Pleb to a non-Praetor.

That said, it isn't all doom and gloom--I managed to help a player create a Nymph Ecomancer, which is hard to do considering that to be an Ecomancer, one must necessarily be a Valsian or a Mojiin due to the link to the planet If I can do that, I can help you too![/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

By the way, feel free to multiclass--I created the classes so that there would be both fun early abilities to cherry-pick and awesome late abilities to reward focus. Really weird multiclass combinations (such as Lacerta Ninja/Swashbuckler) will have to have a very good explanation, but sometimes those backstory explanations can make some of the best characters (and really, if someone honestly wanted a Lacerta Ninja/Swashbuckler, just saying "Dinosaur Pirate Ninja" would be a good way to start convincing me! )

 

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Being a Pleb Ronin would be really really weird, so I'd need a very well-put-together backstory reason for it. Being a Ronin in Jhaar is not unusual at all, though. The Samurai is just going to love you [/SBLOCK]

You have just given me a mission for the flight home tomorrow...but I am already thinking something along the lines of him being given as a gift for "x" service, something that normally would not have happened, but since Pleb "x" was not the smartest or the most physically appealing Pleb, at least by Praetorian standards, he was offered. From there I am going to lean heavily on Shogun for outsider treatment and through in a few splashes of old school dwarven prejudice to make the story.

His fall would have happened after being sent to commit "x" act because once again, he was afterall just a construct, and after giving the metaphorical middle finger, he cast aside the teachings, but kept his skills with the blade he honored still.

 

[Rystil Arden]

You have just given me a mission for the flight home tomorrow...but I am already thinking something along the lines of him being given as a gift for "x" service, something that normally would not have happened, but since Pleb "x" was not the smartest or the most physically appealing Pleb, at least by Praetorian standards, he was offered. From there I am going to lean heavily on Shogun for outsider treatment and through in a few splashes of old school dwarven prejudice to make the story.

His fall would have happened after being sent to commit "x" act because once again, he was afterall just a construct, and after giving the metaphorical middle finger, he cast aside the teachings, but kept his skills with the blade he honored still.

That can work if you make the story compelling You may also consider going SamuraiX/RoninY then. Come to think, Yuriko (the former PC) is actually a Martial Artist, not a Samurai, so it won't be quite as funny.

 

[IcyCool]

I'm curious as to what the "Urban Naturalist" is, as you mentioned that all classes were semi-gestalt, and it's not in the zip file you linked to. Is it a gestalt druid/rogue?

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'm curious as to what the "Urban Naturalist" is, as you mentioned that all classes were semi-gestalt, and it's not in the zip file you linked to. Is it a gestalt druid/rogue?

Yep. So is the Nymph, actually, and neither of them looks exactly like a gestalt Druid/Rogue (UN looks more like it than Nymph though, as Nymph is almost unrecognisable except the Druid spells). Think of it as a really cool version of the Urban Druid, and you have the idea.

 

[IcyCool]

Yep. So is the Nymph, actually, and neither of them looks exactly like a gestalt Druid/Rogue (UN looks more like it than Nymph though, as Nymph is almost unrecognisable except the Druid spells). Think of it as a really cool version of the Urban Druid, and you have the idea.

So do you have a link to the class write-up? (It's not in the .zip files you linked to).