[Characters] a bunch of unhuman misfits

[stepanxol]

Here's the party! The heroes may not be human, but that doesn't mean they are inhuman!

Player	PC name	portrait	race	class	icon relationships	icon rolls
Roekahs	Cassia Vexx		(half-elf?) hagborn	Sorceress	Elf Queen +; Diabolist -; Crusader +/-	a 5 and a 6, to be dynamically allocated
zebedee	Larry Delan		human	Wild Druid	The High Druid +/- 2; The Crusader +/- 1	a 5 and a 6, to be dynamically allocated
kanly	Katari Taiko		Ogre Magi (Giantkin template)	paladin/bard	Crusader +1; Great Gold Wyrm -1; The Three +/- 1	a 5 and a 6, to be dynamically allocated
Grenadier	Dim (the Drowned)		ratfolk	Haunted One	The Prince of Shadows + 2, The Crusader +/- 1	a 5 and a 6, to be dynamically allocated
Avner	Keldar		cursed weretiger (human)	shapeshifter monk	Crusader +/- 2, Priestess: +1	a 5 and a 6, to be dynamically allocated
ElderOblex	Chester		Catfolk	Chaos Mage	Prince of Shadows +; The Three -; The Archmage +/-	a 5 and a 6, to be dynamically allocated
NPC	Chara		human	rogue (henchgirl)	Dragon Emperor -1, Prince of Shadow +2	N/A

 

Player	PC name	portrait	race	class	icon relationships
driftwood	Fotnaught Drakespoor		kobold	"Artificer" (Darkstone Arcanist)	Lich King, Three, Crusader, Prince of Shadows?
Anael	Kilxax Kilarth		dragonborn	cleric	Three if dragonborn, maybe Crusader, something else?
Grimbreath	"Shiny" Steinman		human	Warrior	Archmage +; Lich King +/-; Orc Lord -

[Avner]

Name:	Keldar
Race:	Human/Weretiger
Class:	Monk
HP	14
AC	15
PD	16
MD	13
Recoveries:	8
Recovery die:	2d8

One Unique Thing: Despite Keldar's good intentions, whenever he has learned something there has always been a great price to be paid. First with his father than with the Cathedral. Keldar can learn anything but it will always come with a price no matter how insignificant.

Icons:
The Crusader: +/- 2 Keldar seems to have been set on some pass by someone and it certainly wasn't his god. Not sure of who is guiding him and for what purpose Keldar has no idea that he is serving the Crusaders agenda.

The Priestess: +1 The Priestess admired the Monk for how he stood up for his god despite the mutiny of his fellows. His time in the Cathedral had gotten her attention and she had a great distaste for how he was treated in return. Knowing that due to his curse she could not make him one of her agents she secretly hopes for his success from afar.

Backgrounds in human form he's pretty handsome Outcast of the Holy Temple - 5 points - Keldar's time in the Cathedral gave him more than a curse. He studied indepthly the martial techniques of the monks of Caldor as well as the ways of both priest and paladin. This included as much academic study as martial and it opened his mind to the great knowledge of the world. His physical prowess has allowed him to be of great use abored the ship fixing parts of the ship both high upon the rigging or masts or low on the hull in which he needed to depthly climb to patch damage. Inspired Carver of the Neglectful Master - 3 Points - The monk's time as a tradesman has not been lost on him and has given him a great knowledge of all things regarding craftsmanship. He can wield a blade with precision to fix any oddity and can also apply his own creativity to other aspects of his life. Keldar has also learned a bit about people from negotiationg with customers or dealing with his absent minded lethargic father.

 

Keldar was born the son of a carpenter in a small town he can't even remember the name of, he is sure it was important, but most likely it wasn't. He also is pretty sure he had a mother too, odds are anyway, from what he hears they are a pretty essential part of the equasion. When Keldar was old enough to hold a hammer his father had him taking on the trade, not out of a good hard work ethic but actually due to a lack of one. As soon as he was able he pushed as much work as possible on Keldar, the boy excelled at his craft, even better than his father.

So when a represantive from the Catherdral of the Oracle came to look for a craftsman it was not the senior member of the household that they sought out, it was Keldar. This drove his father in a tizzy but when he tried to strike the boy one of the paladins batted him down with a metal gauntlet insisting he no longer was deamed fit to raise such a prodigy.

Keldar of course had no idea who they were talking about, but he decided to go along with anyone who would put his lazy partriarch in his place. They introduced themselves as the followers of Cathol. One of the great sects in the Cathedral of the Oracle he said she had personally requested they take him into their order as an acolyte. He would earn his way through his carpendry skills and they would teach him to read, write, and all the ways of Cathol in return. Cathol they explained was the god of Strict teachings and Mead. Never before had Keldar seen an order so divided with its priests and paladins holding avery strict order to obedience and with its monks revelling in the glorious honey mead of Cathol.

There were great hives in the Cathedral in which the mead was created and were said to be guarded by the monks who failed in their duty to serve their god. They were transformed into giant werebears and cursed forever to serve as the guards of the mead. They however were often distracted by the very mead they guarded and could be found eating honey from the various combs in the temple to their god. It was typical practice that each of the new acolytes do a rotation with each arm of the order and the time had come for Keldar to spend his time with the monks. Their passion for the mead they protected was phenomenal, but the price they paid for failure was high. After spending time with the strict teachings of the Priests and Paladins of Cathol, the hard work of brewing the mead seemed a relaxing chore.

Keldar spent much time with the monks learning their arts in both the mead they created, their worship of Cathol and even the martial arts style known by the bear monks. They were lessons well learned, but as Keldar would come to know, each of his lessons came with a price. Keldar had been cleaning out the various vats of mead and preparing them for the next batch when a radical faction of monks charged into the brewery. Their hearts had been tainted by the god Bejam who had convinced them that their true path to everlasting glory would be through the enjoyment of finer things. Demanding they have the mead of Cathol they intended to take it back to a new temple devoted to the other god.

Keldar had not had much before joining the order so when they charged the brewery he tried to stand against them. Their numbers easily overran the young monk and he was soon caught up and drug along with the masses. When the priests and paladins came and put down the rebellion they counted him among the violators. Keldar tried to petition against it, but true to their strict teachings they refused to listen to the words of a traitor. When the ritual converting the monks to werebear guards was performed Keldar was counted among them. However as the change was completed it was obvious that Keldar was not counted among them by his god.

Among the group of werebears stood a hummanoid Tiger. He was bengal striped and golden eyed with a muscular frame that immediately proved him to be a dangerous foe. As he cut the ropes that bound him he approached the priests demanding answers.

It was then that the Oracle appeared. She claimed to have been contacted by Cathol and sent to him in his great time of need. Keldar had passed the trial of his god and never should have been changed. Sadly the curse could not be undone, but for his service Cathol offered him a gift. Instead of being cursed to one horrible form like the werebears he would be given the ability to shift between many. He however would no longer be welcome in the Cathedral as he was a reminder of the monks betrayal and his priests error.

Keldar begrugingly accepted his fate and once again made his way out to go find somewhere he could once again be accepted as an excommunicated monk of Cathol.

 

Stat Block Keldar (Monk 2) Upside-down Icon means a complication or obligation comes with the benefit (at the GM's discretion)Icon Hit Points (Current/Max; Red = Staggered)HP Recoveries: Remaining/MaxRcvrs Init AC PD MD Melee Ranged STR+3 DEX+4 CON0 INT-1WIS+2 CHA+0 14/14 2d88/8 +6 15 16 13 8 8 Jab - 2d6 Punch - 2d8 Kick - 2d10 Game Options Claws of the Panther Original Venom Opening Attack Melee attack Target: One enemy Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC Hit: JAB + Strength damage, and you can pop free from the target. Miss: Damage equal to your levelPanther Spins Free Melee attack Target: One enemy Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC Hit: JAB + Strength damage, and if the target is staggered after the attack, it also takes 5 ongoing poison damage. Miss: You take damage equal to your level. First Deadly Venom Flow Attack Melee attack Target: One enemy Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC Hit: PUNCH + Strength damage. Natural Even Hit: As a hit, plus each enemy engaged with you takes 1d6 damage (2d6 damage at 5th level; 4d6 damage at 8th level). Natural Even Miss: Half damage. Natural Odd Miss: Damage equal to your level.Cat Cuts Between Hounds) Melee attack Target: One enemy Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. PD Hit: PUNCH + Strength damage. Natural Even Hit: As a hit, plus 5 ongoing poison damage. Miss: You take damage equal to your level.Second Certain Toxin Finishing Attack Melee attack Targets: Up to two enemies Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC Hit: KICK + Strength damage. Natural Even Miss: Half damage. Natural Odd Miss: Damage equal to your level. Twinned Panther Claw Melee attack Target: One enemy taking ongoing damage Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC Hit: KICK + Strength damage. Natural Even Hit: As a hit, plus 10 ongoing poison damage, and if the target has 72 hp points or fewer, it’s hampered (save ends both). Natural Odd Hit: As a hit, plus 5 ongoing poison damage. Miss: You take damage equal to your level.Adventurer Feat: You gain resist poison 14+.Third Poisonous Lesson

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[kanly]

Name: Katari Taiko

Race: Ogre Magi (Giantkind Template)
Class: Bard/Paladin 2

 

Statistics
Str: 18 (+4)
Dex: 10 (-)
Con: 12 (+1)
Int: 10 (-)
Wis: 8 (-1)
Cha: 18 (+4)

Combat
AC: 18 PD: 13 MD: 14
HP: 34
Initiative: +2
Recoveries/Dice: 8/2D10+1
Attack w Tetsubo: +6/2d10+4

One Unique Thing
The dark god(dess) Desire has selected Taiko as their plaything, taking a keen interest in him.The chosen of Desire

Icons
Crusader +1
Taiko has been claimed by the dark god(dess) Desire as their chosen.
Great Gold Wyrm -1
When Taiko first came to this land he joined himself to the legions of the Great Gold Wyrm to bring greater honor to his ancestors and Clan, but that has soured into disgrace after he failed at his mission to destroy the Mirror of Erised
The Three +/- 1
Taiko has fallen in love with the blue due to just a bit of prompting from Desire. The emotion is not necessarily reciprocated though.

Backgrounds (8)
War drummer for the Great Gold Wyrm's 3rd Heavy Calvalry 5
Scorned by the Brothers of the Azure Garter 2
Stranger in a strange land 1

Racial ability
Might of Giants - Once per battle when you attack and hit an enemy of about your size or smaller that you are engaged with, you can pop them free to someplace nearby as a free action. They then lose their next move action.

Smite Evil
You can use this talent once per battle, plus an additional number of times per day equal to your Charisma modifier.
As a free action before you make a paladin melee attack roll, you can declare that you’re using a Smite Evil attack. Add +1d12 to the damage roll AND deal half damage with the attack if it misses.

Talents
Divine Domain (Strength) - You can wield heavy/martial weapons without an attack penalty.
Invocation of Strength: once per day as a quick action for the duration of this battle, you and your nearby allies deal triple damage instead of double damage on critical hits with melee attacks.
Jack of Spells Choose another spell-casting character class. You can choose one spell from the spell list of that class, of your own level or lower, as an extra spell you know how to cast. You can even improve the spell you’ve jacked by taking its feats up to your tier, if it has any.
This spell is a bonus spell, not included in your bard class count. You can’t jack spells that come from class talents.
Spellsinger You can choose an extra bardic song or bard spell at the highest level you know.

Feats
1 Jack of Spells: You can use your Charisma as the ability score that provides the jacked spell’s attack bonus and damage bonus (if any). Other ability score references remain unchanged.
If you jacked a spell from the wizard, you also gain three cantrips of your choice from the wizard; you can cast them like a wizard who lacks the Cantrip Mastery talent.
If you choose to jack a spell from the sorcerer class, you also gain the sorcerer’s dancing lights class feature.
2 Shocking Grasp: The spell now requires only a quick action to cast (once per round).

Cast up to a number of cantrips equal to your Charisma modifier each battle. If you’re out of battle, that’s about three to six cantrips every five minutes. Each cantrip takes a standard action to cast as a ranged spell.
We often phrase magical effects, particularly the effects created by wizards, as if they’re being accomplished by tiny supernatural servitors. If your campaign is comfortable with more familiar magical phrasings, by all means use those instead. Each wizard should determine how their magic looks and sounds.
At the adventurer tier (levels 1–4), cantrips with a standard duration last 10–60 minutes, plus ten minutes per wizard level. The GM rolls and the wizard becomes aware that their cantrip is about to end a couple minutes before it’s done.Cantrips
Ghost Sound (i.e. backup singers)
This spell creates false noises emanating from somewhere nearby. The effect is like an exceptionally good version of throwing your voice, if your voice could create a wide variety of sounds. Guards and watchmen really should learn that you can’t trust everything you hear with this cantrip readily available, but really, what choice do they have? Attempted distractions with the cantrip are DC 15 challenges in adventurer environments, higher as you move into champion and epic environments . . . or the GM could let them succeed automatically if they’re truly imaginative. (If someone is using ghost sound against the PCs?
Use similar secret Wisdom-based skill checks to identify the sound as a magical fake.)
Light (i.e. stage lighting)
(standard duration): This cantrip creates a fairly wide and consistent field of light, up to 30 feet in diameter. It could just be a glow from your staff, or small light elementals flitting in quick circles around you. The created light isn’t bright enough to dazzle anyone or to send underworld dwellers into seizures.
Prestidigitation (i.e. FX)
This cantrip produces magic tricks like cheaty-juggling, pulling coins out of ears, small illusions created by dancing sprites, and the basic equipment of stage-casting. One casting usually gives you a minute of fun. But the magic has nowhere near as much real world force as mage hand.

Bardic Songs/Spells
Charm Person
Ranged spell
Daily
Target: One nearby creature with 40 hp or fewer
Special: This spell cannot be cast in combat or on a target that has rolled initiative to fight.
Attack: Charisma + Level vs. MD
Hit: The target believes you are their friend until you or your allies take hostile action against them (attacking their normal allies is okay). The spell works best as a type of pacifier; if you or your allies attack the target or order the target to attack its normal allies, the target can roll a normal save to break the charm effect during its turn each round.
Special: On a miss, the spell is not detectible by most others unless you miss by 4+ or roll a natural 1, in which case the target and its allies knows what you tried to do and will usually be angry about it.
Shocking Grasp
Range: Close-quarters spell
At-Will
Target: One creature engaged with you
Attack: Charisma + Level vs. PD
Hit: 1d4 lightning damage, and the target pops free from you.
Miss: You take damage equal to the target’s level from botched feedback.
Song of Heroes
Recharge 11+ after battle
Quick action each turn; 11+ to sustain
Opening & Sustained Effect: You and your nearby allies gain a +1 attack bonus until the start of your next turn.
Final Verse: The effect ends immediately, but one ally of your choice gains a +2 bonus to their next attack roll this battle.
Song of Spilt Blood
Daily
Quick action each turn; 6+ to sustain
Opening & Sustained Effect: Any attack against you takes a penalty equal to the number of your allies in the battle who have more hit points than you.
Final Verse: The effect ends immediately, and you or one ally of your choice can heal using a recovery.

Battle Cries
Move It
Flexible melee attack
Triggering Roll: Natural even roll
Effect: Choose one: One of your unengaged allies can move as a free action; OR one of your engaged allies can make a disengage check as a free action.
Pull It Together
Flexible melee attack
Triggering Roll: Natural 11+; use only twice per battle
Effect: One nearby ally can heal using a recovery.

 

he was an up and coming in the Golden Wyrm's forces, but he was sent to destroy a powerful artifact (along the lines of the Mirror of Erised from Harry Potter (which was held by Lady Livia?)) with the one condition that he must not look into it. Unfortunately, his glance slipped just as he was about to smash it into a million pieces and he saw the image of the most incredibly beautiful woman he had ever seen. Then a voice spoke to him from the Mirror, promising him that She could be his if only... and he was instantly lost. Since that day, the Voice of Desire has lead him true and he has become a Captain of the Brothers of the Azure Garter (which serve both as the Blue's personal guard and harem).

[Anael]

 

Work in progress:

Name: Kilxax Kilarth
Icon: The three
Cleric

Str (16) w/bonus from Dragon spawn,
Con ( 14)
Dex (12)
Int (10)
Wis (18) w/ Bonus from Cleric
Chr (8)

HP: 36

Three Domains: Strength, Healing, War
One unique thing: For whatever reason glass mirrors crack when Kilxax looks into them.
Racial Power

 

Breath Weapon (Racial Power)

Once per battle, make a close-quarters breath weapon attack as a quick action using your highest ability score against one nearby enemy’s Physical Defense. On a hit, the attack deals 1d6 damage per your level of an energy type that makes sense for your character.

 

Bless

Ranged spell; Daily

Quick action to cast

Effect: You can cast this spell for power or for broad effect.

Cast for power: One nearby ally gains a +2 attack bonus until the end of the battle.

Cast for broad Effect: Choose up to three nearby creatures (including you); each target gains a +1 attack bonus until the end of the battle.

3rd level spell: Each target also gains 1d10 temporary hit points per point of the attack bonus.

5th level spell: Each target also gains 2d10 temporary hit points instead of 1d10 per point of the attack bonus.

7th level spell: All attack bonuses granted by the spell increase by +1.

9th level spell: Each target also gains 3d10 temporary hit points instead of 2d10 per point of the attack bonus.

Cure Wounds

Ranged spell; Daily

Quick action to cast

Effect: You or a nearby ally can heal using a free recovery.

3rd level spell: The target can also roll a save against each save ends effect.

5th level spell: This spell is now recharge 16+ after battle instead of daily.

7th level spell: The target can heal using two free recoveries instead of one.

9th level spell: This spell is now recharge 11+ instead.

Hammer of Faith

Close-quarters spell

Daily

Effect: Until the end of the battle, your basic melee attacks use d12s as their base weapon damage dice.

3rd level spell: The spell now requires only a quick action to cast.

5th level spell: You deal half damage on misses with basic melee attacks this battle.

7th level spell: Once during the battle, you can reroll a basic melee attack.

9th level spell: For the rest of the battle, change any of your basic melee attack damage dice rolls that are less than the escalation die to the escalation die value.


Shield of Faith

Ranged spell; Daily

Quick action to cast

Effect: You can cast this spell for power or for broad effect.

Cast for power: One nearby ally gains a +2 bonus to AC this battle.

Cast for broad Effect: Choose up to three nearby creatures (including you); each target gains a +1 bonus to AC this battle.

3rd level spell: The bonus also applies to PD.

5th level spell: The bonus increases by +1 while the target is staggered.

7th level spell: The bonus also applies to MD.

9th level spell: The bonus when cast for power increases to +4. The bonus when cast for broad effect increases to +2.




Turn Undead

Close-quarters spell

Daily

Target: 1d4 nearby undead creatures, each with 55 hp or fewer.

Attack: Wisdom + Charisma + Level vs. MD

Hit: The target is dazed until end of your next turn.

Hit by 4+: 1d10 x your level holy damage, and the target is dazed until end of your next turn.

Hit by 8+: Against non-mooks, holy damage equal to half the target’s maximum hit points, and the target is dazed (save ends). Against mooks, the +8 result now deals 4d10 x your level holy damage.

Hit by 12+ or Natural 20: Against non-mooks, the target is destroyed. Against mooks, the +12 result now deals 4d20 x your level holy damage

3rd level spell: Target with 90 hp or fewer.

5th level spell: Target with 150 hp or fewer.

7th level spell: Target with 240 hp or fewer.

9th level spell: Target with 400 hp or fewer.

Adventurer Feat You can expend your daily use of turn undead to gain an additional use of heal in one battle.

Champion Feat You can choose to target either demons or undead with the spell (but not both with the same casting).

Epic Feat Increase the targeting limit by 100 hp.

[Grenadier]

Name: Io (Eye-oh) Dim, the Drowned
Race: Ratfolk (Slippery Racial Power) -- "Once per a battle, after an enemy misses you with an attack, you may pop free from that enemy and any other enemies you are engaged with as a free action."
Class: Haunted One

One Unique Thing: Haunted by His Former Crew
Icons: The Prince of Shadows + 2, The Crusader +/- 1

Prince of Shadows - They say that dead men tell no tales, but the Prince of Shadows knows otherwise.
The Crusader - The Legionares believe Dim is possessed by demons that are traitors to their own kind.

Backgrounds: Sole Survivor of the Southern Night 5, Mad Medium 3

 

Description: Grey and bent, Dim is hardly the robust figure he was in his youth. Even his whiskers drop with the burden of years beyond his age, which is to say nothing of his miserable lifeless eyes. Perhaps the only part of Dim's body that has some life about it are his ears, which twitch at every hint of a moan or a groan from the dead. The whispers of the departed have haunted the rat for so long that his mind has begun to unravel.

As Dim has descended into madness, his behavior has become overtly curious, and so his appearance. More than once, he has begun conversations with individuals that are no where to be seen, and sometimes these discussions are quite combatitive. He also plays games with himself, although the pieces seem to move of their own volition. He wears tattered strips of leather almost as if he were imitating a mummy, and his physical aspects have become more and more distorted over time.

History: It is often thought the ratfolk, as they are called by some, dwell underground. The truth is that like rats these folk do most often dwell underground but they can be found anywhere there are humans, and that includes the open ocean. The rats of the sea commonly take up the trade of pirate, and one such vermin drawn to that honest trade was Io Dim. Called Dim by the crew, the rat joined a ship called the Southern Night that was eager for an extra pair of hands to accompany them on their journey to recover a buried treasure. The watery fate of the ship would earn the rat the title of Dim the Drowned.

The crew of Night voyaged to a remote island and braved dastardly traps in their quest for lost booty. Their endeavor had been a success up until they set sail for Turtle's Run. It was then that they found themselves beset by the bloodthirsty pirates of the Brimstone Crown. In an effort to escape the assault, the captain steered the ship through a patch of treacherous rocks, and a nasty impact left the hull compromised. The Southern Night began to sink...

Dim spent that night clinging to a piece of debris, which was a far sight better than how most of the crew fared. However, his salvation came with a price. When the rat awoke on the very beach that he had just departed, he could still the ghostly cries of his drowned mates. He tried to put the voices to rest by burying the bodies he could recover, but it was to no avail. By the time an unlikely crew of misfits rescued him from the island, Dim had already begun to go mad.

Since then, Dim has strove to find a place for himself in his new crew, despite the ghostly calls for him to follow on the desire of the spirits bound to his flesh. In truth, he would not hesitate to do whatever it takes to free himself of the burden of the miserable spirits...

 

There are two types of ratkin: the savage and the civilized. Scholars disagree as to whether the savages managed to integrate into society, or whether the urbane were marooned in thw wilderness by the civilized world in an attempt to be rid of them. The only known ratkin civilizations are the primitive tribes scattered throughout the seas on castaway islands, and little is known of them save for the rumor that they practice cannibalism. Instead, the world knows the ratkin race best as fringedwellers.

The same survivalist skills that allow savage tribes to eek out an existing on remote and unforgiving islands allow small communities to find a living in the dregs of other societies. In fact, there are few major settlements in any civilization that are not home to a nest of ratkin families. Wherever the other races go and whatever they might do to stop it, the ratkin seem to ceasely be on their heels. The communites are never a threat to the status quo but aggravatingly assimilated into society.

Ratkin living in the slums of other societies tend to find trades suited to their station. Many find honest work as chandlers, fishmongers, or pawnbrokers. However, more than a few fatkin take up careers as burglars and fences. When civilized ratkin take the to high seas, they are as likely to be pirates as sailors, and the savage ones even moreso.

[kanly]

Name: Charadrii Relo (Inspired by Carina Smyth in Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales)
Race: Human
Class: Rouge

Stats
Str: 10 +0
Dex: 18 +4
Con: 12 +1
Int: 16 +3
Wis: 8 -1
Cha: 14 +2

AC: 14
PD: 14
MD: 13
Initiative: +5
HP: 21
Recoveries: 8
Recovery Dice: (1d8 x Level) + Con mod

Class Features
Momentum:
Many of the rogue’s powers function only when the rogue has momentum.
You gain momentum by hitting an enemy with an attack.
You lose momentum when you are hit by an attack.
The default is that you can use momentum powers without losing momentum, but a few powers specify that you must spend your momentum to use them. You don’t have to use attacks that require momentum against the foe you hit to gain that momentum.
Momentum powers that do not require you to spend your momentum are generally classified as interrupt actions. You can only use one interrupt action a round, which keeps your momentum powers from dominating the battle.
Sneak Attack
Once per round when you make a rogue melee weapon attack against an enemy engaged with one or more of your allies, you can deal extra damage if your attack hits.
Rogue Level Extra Damage
1 +1d4
2 +1d6
4 +2d6
6 +3d6
8 +5d6
10 +7d6

 

Adventurer Feat Your Sneak Attack feature also works the first round of combat against enemies with a lower initiative than you.
Champion Feat Your Sneak Attack feature also works against enemies who are confused, dazed, stunned, vulnerable to your attack, or weakened.
Epic Feat Once per battle when you miss with an attack that would have allowed you to deal Sneak Attack damage, replace the normal miss damage with your full Sneak Attack damage.

Trap Sense
Even rogues whose backgrounds don’t have anything to do with noticing, avoiding, or disarming traps have a unique knack for dealing with traps.
If a rogue’s skill check involving a trap is a natural even failure, the rogue can reroll the skill check once. If a trap’s attack roll against a rogue is a natural odd roll, the rogue can force the trap to reroll the attack once.

 

Adventurer Feat The trap attack reroll can also apply to a nearby ally of the rogue as the rogue shouts a warning or acts to prevent the trap from hitting.
Champion Feat You gain a +3 bonus to skill check rerolls you make against traps.
Epic Feat You only take half damage from trap attacks.

Class Talents
Cunning: You can use your Intelligence in place of your Charisma for any rogue attacks, talents, or powers that use Charisma (e.g. shadow walk and slick feint). You also gain two extra points of backgrounds to spend on knowledge-related backgrounds and gain a +2 bonus to skill checks involving traps.

 

Adventurer Feat You gain a +1 bonus to Mental Defense.
Champion Feat Once per battle, reroll a save against an effect from an attack that originally hit your Mental Defense.
Epic Feat Your once-per-battle save reroll is now once per save.

Shadow Walk: You gain the shadow walk at-will power:
As a move action before you have used your standard action this turn, if you are not engaged, you can make the following ‘attack’ against all nearby enemies, targeting the enemy among them with the highest Mental Defense.
Attack: Charisma + Level vs. MD
Hit: Remove yourself from play. At the start of your next turn, return anywhere nearby that you could have moved to normally during your turn, and deal double damage with your first rogue attack that turn.
Miss: No effect. You can’t attempt to shadow walk again until your next turn, but you still have your standard action this turn.

 

Adventurer Feat On a miss, you can still use your move action normally (but still can’t shadow walk this turn).
Champion Feat Twice per day, you can reroll the rogue attack that follows your successful use of shadow walk.
Epic Feat Twice per day, you can reappear from your shadow walk in a nearby location you wouldn’t have been able to reach unimpeded physically, for instance, on the other side of a portcullis or door, or high up a wall.

Thievery: You have the Thief background at its full possible bonus of +5, without having to spend your normal background points on it.

 

Adventurer Feat Regardless of your level, you gain the bonus power thief’s strike in addition to your normal number of powers.
Champion Feat Once per day, you can deal full damage with thief’s strike instead of half damage.
Epic Feat Twice per level, you can steal something with a successful thief’s strike that you would not be able to steal ordinarily, but that would require a bit of magic, e.g. a dream, a spell, someone’s hope, a memory. The theft won’t be permanent. Every day, roll a hard save to determine whether you can keep what you stole for that day. Also, you can never steal the same thing twice.

Quick to Fight (Racial Power)
At the start of each battle, roll initiative twice and choose the result you want.

 

Champion Feat: If you roll a natural 19 or 20 for initiative, increase the escalation die by 1 (usually from 0 to 1 since it’s the start of the battle).

Class Powers
Evasive Strike
Melee attack
At-Will
Target: One enemy
Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC
Hit: WEAPON + Dexterity damage, and you can pop free from the target.
Miss: Damage equal to your level.

 

Adventurer Feat: If you drop the target with your evasive strike attack, you can pop free from all enemies instead.
Champion Feat: If you hit with evasive strike and the natural attack roll was even, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and PD against the next attack that targets you this battle (no joy if it’s an attack vs. MD).
Epic Feat: Ok. Thanks to your slippery mind, the champion feat benefit also provides a +2 bonus to MD.

Flying Blade
Ranged attack
At-Will
Special: You must use a small bladed weapon with this attack.
Target: One nearby creature
Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC
Hit: WEAPON + Dexterity damage, and if your natural attack roll is even and one of your allies is engaged with the target, you can use your Sneak Attack damage for the round.
Miss: Damage equal to your level.

 

Adventurer Feat: If you score a critical hit with flying blade, the target is also dazed (–4 attack) until the end of your next turn.
Champion Feat: As long as one of your allies is engaged with the target, your flying blade attack rolls no longer need to be even to add your Sneak Attack damage.
Epic Feat: You can use flying blade with any ranged weapon.

Roll With It
Momentum power
At-Will (once per round)
Interrupt action; requires momentum
Trigger: A melee attack that targets AC hits you.
Effect: You take half damage from that attack.

 

Adventurer Feat: The power also triggers on an attack against PD.
Champion Feat: The power also triggers on a ranged attack.
Epic Feat: Once per day, you can use roll with it to take damage equal to the attacker’s level instead of half damage.

Thief’s Strike
Note: This is a bonus 3rd-level power for rogues with the Thievery talent. Other rogues can choose it if they like.
Melee attack
At-Will
Target: One enemy
Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. PD
Hit: Half of WEAPON + Dexterity damage (including Sneak Attack damage if any), and roll a normal save. If you succeed, you can pickpocket an item from the target that they are not holding. (If you roll 16+, the target doesn’t realize you pickpocketed them.)
Miss: —
Tumbling Strike
Melee attack
At-Will
Always: You gain a +5 bonus to all disengage checks you attempt this turn. You can also move to engage an enemy, make this attack against it, and then use a quick action to attempt to disengage from it (the quick action disengage lets you move again if you succeed).
Attack: Dexterity + Level vs. AC
Hit: WEAPON + Dexterity damage.
Miss: Damage equal to your level.

Feats
Thievery: Gain thief ’s strike as a bonus power.
Roll With It: Also triggers on attack vs. PD.

Backgrounds
Child of Levi Relo, the Mad Lighthouse Keeper of Vigil +4 (includes +2 from cunning)
Shadow Dancer +4
Escapee from Darkskye prison. +5 (Bonus skill from Thievery talent)
Sing for your Supper +2

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Dragon Emperor -1
Prince of Shadow +2

One Unique Thing: Knows how the Dragon empire is destined to fall

Back story: Charadrii is the daughter of Levi and Motere Relo from Vigil. Unfortunately Motere died in childbirth leaving Levi alone to raise their daughter. Even more unfortunately, her loss broke him and he began looking to the stars to make sense of it. It is there that he discovered the prophecy of the Dragon Empire's eventual fall. When the Emperor heard of it he had Levi executed for treason. As the only other person who actually knew the prophecy, Charadrii was also supposed to be executed, but the officer who was sent to carry out the Emperor's orders could not bring himself to do it and instead she found herself sentenced to Darkskye prison. Though she was relatively innocent when she arrived, she quickly learned what she needed to to survive. When the prison fell from the sky in the Druid's wood she escaped and has been masquerading as a traveling bard ever since. She wants the Brimstone Crown for an artifact that she believes can bring her father back from the dead.

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Larry Delan
Human Druid

OUT: The only Ocean Druid in the world.

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The High Druid: +/- 2
The High Druid herself has plans for Larry. But he represents a break from the past, a shakeup of the status quo. So some mortal druids support him and some don't. He has no formal training - some want to train him, some don't.

The Crusader: +/- 1
He wants to know what happened to his family, and he wants to exact revenge... if that's appropriate, but it may not be, because nobody knows what happened to them.

 

Larry grew up in Amble, a poor fishing village on the shores of the Midland Sea, southeast of Concord. His father (Sam) died at sea when Larry was a teen, so the youth took over his father's fishing vessel to provide for his mother (Agnes) and young sister (Rose). From his fellow fishermen, he learned to pray to the gods of the sea, despite the claims of local druids that the sea was too tame to need such propitiation. It wasn't until years later that he realized that the Sea had answered his prayers - he always brought in more fish than his peers, and his ship was always safe.

When he returned from long days fishing, he would help his mother and sister to prepare meals to sell near the docks. He soon learned that he had an unusual talent for it - more than a cook, he was a chef! A passing diplomat ate at the family's restaurant and paid them a fortune to take 25 year-old Larry away with him to Glitterhaegen to impress his guests. So Larry began a new life as a personal chef, far from home.

Life in Glitterhaegen was exciting, and Larry lived there for 10 years happily enough. But the sea called to Larry. And he worked far too long and too hard to make trips home. He missed his family. And 5 years or so ago, he stopped receiving letters from home. He packed up his few belongings, quit his job, and took a ship back to Concord, then rode a caravan to Amble. Only to discover that the entire village was gone. Not ruined - gone. The only trace that a village had ever stood there was the fishing dock, extending out into the sea. To his great surprise, a merman called out to him as he gazed about in confusion. The merman said that he had been hoping to see someone in the village, to tell them what he had witnessed. A black ship, black as night, had set anchor off shore, and a foul fog had covered the town. When the fog lifted 2 days later, both the village and the ship were gone. Larry vowed to find that ship, by whatever means necessary. He returned to Concord to sign on as a cook for whichever ship would have him. As luck would have it, that ship was the Aurora. And over time, it became clear that the ship he was seeking was the Brimstone Crown. So revenge can never be his, but he's not finished looking for answers.

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Character Name: Cassia Vexx Race: Hagborn/Human (Hagborn for stats) Class: Sorceress One Unique Thing: There is a storm that was trapped inside Cassia somehow. It is always straining to release its full fury, but rarely manages to release even a fraction of its might. Natural storms replenish some of the trapped intensity. The trapped storm will occassionally create a natural storm above Cassia. Intensity may vary from a light rain to a tempest, but she never knows which to expectA storm is trapped inside my body Icon Relationships: Elf Queen, 1 Positive+: If anyone knows about the Fey, it is the Elves. The Elf Queen's magic is something that anyone with innate magical aptitude can appreciate. Of course Cassia's rebellion against her evil fey heritage has not gone unnoticed either. Diabolist, 1 Negative-: While there is no hard evidence to support the claim, Cassia believes strongly that only the Diabolist would be willing to facilitate the chaotic evil that hags bring unto the world. Cassia's burning hatred for her mother and the fanatical support she has slowly developed for the Crusader is not something that has gone unnoticed. The Crusader, 1 Positive+: The evil that dwells inside Cassia drives her to fanaticism. Anything willing to go toe-to-toe with the demons could do the same with other evil entities. Cassia believes that if she does her part, one day the Crusader will return the favor and together they can hunt down and quench her mother's evil. Background: Cassia HATES her mother (the hag) and she attributes ALL of her magical power to this lineage. Which means that she HATES her magic (most of the time). She definitely recognizes the power contained in her magic, but that almost makes her hate it more. Cassia THINKS she is a badass with a sword. She THINKS that all her martial ability is her own and attributes none of it to her lineage (albeit wrongly). She constantly represses her lineage in an attempt (in her mind) to not become her mother. Note that she does not hate magic as a whole, only her own. Cassia resorts to her magic only when she loses control (essentially). There are several character arcs here that I intended to explore: (1) Cassia needs to accept that she is in control of her magic and she can do with it what SHE pleases, (2) Cassia needs to accept that she actually isn't THAT good with a sword (I mean, she is actually decent for a caster because I didn't want her to completely gimp the party on her quest to find herself), and (3)Cassia needs to resolve her "mommy" issues and find the love that she never received.   Now, this last piece is really important. One of the questions in my mind was "what does it look like when Cassia has a bad day"? Then I thought, well what does it look like when she has a good day and how do I differentiate. For better or worse, I decided to turn it over to the die: roll a d10 and the closer to 1 the more "hag-like" day and the closer to 10 the more "Cassia-like" day. Well, I rolled a 1 and a 3 if memory serves. So I was completely playing to those rolls. We have only seen one side of Cassia really. Orphaned by an Evil Spirit +2 from archmage+4 (skills related to surviving by herself and evil)   Cassia grew up in a strange town in the care of a strange man whom she was told was her father. She never knew her mother. There were days when the man acted the part. These days made a strong impression on young Cassia. Her father had been a soldier, a sharp, strong-willed young man with elite sword skills. He spent his lucid days sparring with her. Yet, most of the time Cassia was free to do as she pleased ... and care for herself. It was not until her 13th birthday when Cassia began the journey to discover the truth. On Cassia's 13th birthday, a sudden, powerful urge overcame her being - a malevolence that she barely controlled. She came back to herself kneeling on the floor, grasping the nearby chair so tightly that her knuckles shone as white as the full moon, and panting heavily. The same urge berated her being the following day and the day after. A week of increasing intensity passed before she finally lost control. A dense fog coiled out from her body. Lightning crackled in the air. It only lasted a moment, but when the fog finally cleared the poor man that had been her father lay dead in their small cottage. Horrified Cassia ran. Student of the Sea +2 (skills related to navigation and learning)   Blindly fleeing, Cassia found herself at the seashore where she aimed to throw herself into the pounding surf and ride the water to the fate that she so deserved. With nary a second thought, Cassia launched herself unto death and was carried, weightless, out to sea. The fortunate lass was washed ashore and nursed back to health by a a hermetic old man. The man cared for her like she was his own daughter and together they spent hours pouring over ancient tomes in the old man's study. Over time Cassia learned to control the magic, but never the evil that welled up now and then. Still, together they began to piece together parts of her own history. She had been conceived through the evil manipulations of a hag. The coven had apparently let her father live, though it is likely only due to the perverse enjoyment they received from watching the man rush toward the brink of insanity from the whole ordeal. Cassia was returned to her father, likely meant to be the final straw in his inevitable demise, but his love for her - even through the raving madness - actually strengthened his grasp on reality and they had been happy ... for a time. Seeker of Lost Love +4 (skills related to lore and possibly charisma based skills)   When it became clear that the deep-seated evil inside her was a danger to the one person in the world that she cared about, Cassia set out once more on her eighteenth birthday. This time, though, she had a goal and strong will to drive her. She needed to learn to love. She strives to love every little being. She does not always succeed. The madness still sets in on occasion, but Cassia has learned to control it most of the time. Above all else, she wants to make up for her failing as a youth and show the world the love that her father showed her. Cassia wants to love so deeply that the evil cannot find a root any longer.