[PF-1e] Yokai Conquest

[SoftEmbers]

I'm enjoying the apps that have been submitted. It's fun seeing what you come up with. I have a ton of ideas of where to take the game.

[Ermine]

Hopefully you get more~

[Clawsome]

hmm, could we have block of who applied with classes etc.

[SoftEmbers]

I will attempt a stat block.

[Clawsome]

Kronas the Destroyer Name: Kronas the Destroyer Clan: Elemental Race: Gargoyle, Large Four Armed Class: Unchained Barbarian Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Appearance: Kronas is over 8ft tall and 600 plus pounds of solid granite and some other magical force. He moves unusually fast for a rock (as some would call him) He has four arms with very dangerously sharp claws. A double horned head and great granite wings with a long stone tail. His eyes are red in contrast to the rest of him which is literally granite stone. Personality: Some might think he is only as smart as a rock. Many have learned the hard way not to underestimate him. He might not talk like a charlatan with smooth words as Kronas does not mince words. He says what he thinks in a deep rumbling voice. For most if not all of his life, he has only known combat and fighting. He tends to act with force when encountering a problem as that has always worked. Physical Traits: Defensive Racial Traits 1. Granite Stone: +8 Natural Armor 2. Granite Reflection: Can reflect spells and spell effects from casters, and/or items including innate that are up to 4 levels higher than him and that are either individual target or AOE on him, back on the caster, who then needs to make his own save. He can choose to negate the ability as needed. 3. Granite Pride: Immune to sneak attack, critical hits and precision damage. Feat and Skill Racial Traits Bonus Feats: Improved Grapple and Greater Grapple Offensive Racial Traits 1. Granite Melee: All natural attacks are considered magical for DR. 2. Granite Edge: Adds +1d6 Acid damage to all attacks natural and weapons. 3. Granite Strike: Six Natural Primary attacks, Bite 1d8+,4xClaws 2d6+,Gore 1d8+ Sensory Racial Traits Dark vision 60ft, Low light vision Tremor sense 60ft Support Racial Traits Earth Glide 60ft: burrow without evidence (Leaves no trace) or sound Background: Kronas was created by Ancient Earth Primordia’s decades ago in order to serve them and be one of their champions. He was pitted against the other elemental champions too see who was superior. In the end, Kronas became Prince Minerul’s champion. He was to be sent to the conquest games to prove the Elemental clan's strength and worth to the rest of the council. They have never been selected as spirit king but are still an important part of the council and some seem to forget that. Prince Minerul has tasked him to prove his worth and strength to the rest of the council. Mind/Body/Spirit: Body Ultimate Power: Granite breath weapon: Every 1d4/rds. he can breathe out a black cloud of vampiric mist in a 60ft cone which deals 1d10 vampiric damage per level to all in the mist and petrifies them for 4 rounds. It adds ½ of damage in hit points back to the Granite Gargoyle. It last for 1round/level of Gargoyle. A successful Reflex save (DC 10+level+Con Modifier) halves this damage and negates the petrification effect.

More to come fleshing out the kinks and waiting DM rulings on some things

[Clawsome]

Questions: For those much better with the rules and rulings of the past?

1. When a class power or curse says you get X at first , Y at 5th level and Z at 9th level. Is that class or character levels? Example Oracle curse immune to fatigue at 5th but curse is given at 1st level. So alot are saying one level dip in Oracle gives you immunity to fatigue at 5th level character level?

2. If some effect states use once per round, that the whole round i.e. multi attacks or just one attack with effect, or does it specifically have to say all attacks.

These questions effect which powers, feats etc that I am looking at. Thanks

[SoftEmbers]

1. It means class levels rather than character levels for oracle curses and such. Unless you prestige or take levels in a class that stacks.

2. If an effect states "once per round," it generally means you can only use that effect once during your entire turn, regardless of how many attacks you make (multi-attack included), unless the description specifically mentions "all attacks" or something similar.

My hot take.

[Clawsome]

My hot take.

The DM, the one that matters. I thought so too but so many online building Barb/Oracle 1 dips. It just didn't seem right. Thanks.

[SoftEmbers]

No problem! It can be tricky to determine how some mechanics work. I opt for the simplest route.

[dbaque]

@SoftEmbers: You lay out an ambitious campaign and an intriguing world. I'd like to take a stab at an app.

The distant inspiration was the leprous crusader knight order of history, but given the superior healing powers of a magical world, some more serious malady would be necessary to provide the same effect.

Character App Name: Sir Baldwin of the Lazarites Race: Heroic Gurgist (undeath-touched, zombie-like human)   This is an attempt to rebuild the gurgist creature as a 1st level race. All the referenced abilities are described under the gurgist and mortic entry. Gurgist Standard Racial Traits Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Str, -2 Int, +2 Con, +2 Cha Size: Medium Type: Humanoid (human, mortic) Base Speed: 30 feet Languages: Common Defensive Racial Traits Immune to pain effects Fast healing 5 Natural Armor +3 Feat and Skill Racial Traits Obsession Skill (Ex) Every gurgist has some hobby or activity or skill he uses to keep the hunger away, and which he swiftly masters. A gurgist selects one of the following skills: Appraise, Climb, Craft, Disable Device, Disguise, Handle Animal, Heal, Knowledge (any), Linguistics, Perform, Profession, Ride, Sleight of Hand, Spellcraft, Stealth, Survival, Swim, or Use Magic Device. That skill is a class skill for the gurgist. He gains Skill Focus and Signature Skill as bonus feats for this chosen skill, and he can reroll a failed check with his obsession skill once per day. Bonus Feat: Humans select one extra feat at 1st level. Offensive Racial Traits Ferocious Rush (Ex) Once per day, a gurgist can push herself to act in a single, ferocious burst of energy. As a full-round action, the gurgist moves up to twice her speed and can make a single melee attack at the end of this movement. If the gurgist ends her movement adjacent to an enemy, that enemy is flat-footed against the gurgist until the beginning of the gurgist’s next turn. Sneak attack: 3d6 as rogue ability Swordtrained: Members of this race are trained in swordplay, and as a result are automatically proficient with swordlike weapons (including bastard swords, daggers, elven curve blades, falchions, greatswords, kukris, longswords, punching daggers, rapiers, scimitars, short swords, and two-bladed swords). Sense Racial Traits Darkvision 60 ft. Scent: Members of this race gain the scent ability Support Racial Traits Unliving Nature (Ex): Although a mortic is a living creature, she is treated both as undead and as her normal type and subtype for the purposes of spells and effects (for example, she can be detected with detect undead and rendered immobile by either halt undead or hold person). A mortic never takes a penalty on Disguise checks to disguise herself as an undead creature. Mortics gain a +4 racial bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting effects. Death Gasp (Su): A mortic that holds his breath suspends the majority of his living processes. While holding his breath, a mortic is immune to ability drain, energy drain, and sleep effects. A mortic who holds his breath is also immune to bleed effects, disease, and poison; any such effects are suspended for as long as the mortic holds his breath, although this doesn't cure any damage that the bleed effect, disease, or poison has already done. A mortic can hold his breath for a number of rounds equal to 4 times his Constitution score. Weaknesses: Vulnerable to Consecration (Ex): A mortic is staggered within the area of a consecrate effect. Rotting Flesh (Su): Gurgists are forever slowly rotting, their flesh growing soft and discolored and eventually sloughing off in rancid slabs. The only way a gurgist can arrest this decay is to consume raw meat. A gurgist begins to rot if he goes more than 1 week without eating roughly 10% of his body weight in raw meat. After 1 week, he takes 1 point of Constitution damage and 1 point of Charisma damage each day until he can feed. This damage cannot be healed until the gurgist has fed. A gentle repose spell extends the amount of time a gurgist can go without feeding for the duration of the spell. Ultimate Move Holy Assault (Su): As a standard action, he brandishes his weapon aloft, creating a sacred pulse of energy in a 30-foot-radius burst. Only evil and neutral (nongood) creatures are harmed by this energy, which deals damage equal 1d8 per 2 levels to evil creatures (or 1d6 per level damage to undead and outsiders with the evil subtype) and blinds them for 1d6 rounds. A successful Will saving throw reduces the damage by half and negates the blinded effect. This ability deals only half damage to creatures that are neither evil nor good, and they are not blinded. Such a creature can reduce the damage by half again (down to one-quarter) with a successful Will saving throw. The save DC is Charisma-based. (holy version of Axiomatic Barrage here and increased to a single use version) Class: Paladin (divine bond: mount) Alignment: LG Clan: Mortal Power Triad: Body & Spirit Appearance: The heavy clank of mail sounds as Baldwin enters the room. The holy knight's whole body is covered in metal links or cloth wrappings. Despite this, his tall, broad frame is obvious. Over his face constantly rests a heavy metallic mask to hide his unsettling features. Tainted eyes peer through his visor with an intensity belied by their sickly pallor. Potent, almost cloying, perfumes and spices accompany him, hiding more unpleasant scents of blood and decay beneath. While certainly unsettling, ominous even, there is no air of malice about the armored warrior. His tabard bears the crest of the Order of the Lazarites. Beneath his mask, his mouth is most often curled in an understanding smile. Personality: By all outward appearance (to say nothing of his peculiar history), Baldwin should be an irritable, morose, or even angsty man. The initial shock of all who meet him is how he is nothing of the kind. The grim looking warrior is always bright, smiling, and encouraging. He rarely has aught but a prayer or a kind word about any of his fellow comrades or crusaders, even the most irascible. Of course, the warrior presents a very different picture before the forces fiendish or unliving on the battlefield. No matter how bleak, he fights with an unflappable determination that appears to border on suicidal. That blithe single-minded abandon can cast a rather unnerving, if not terrifying, visage even for an immortal foe to face. He comes across as rather intense in whatever he puts his mind to, whether horsemanship, the blade, or cooking.   History: The history of the mortal realm is filled with numerous incursions from the others. Not the least of these are the wars with the demon realm and the spirit realm. The Spirit World Peace Accords put an end to the staggering toll and devastation of those all out wars. Unfortunately, even if the clan leadership put their hostilities aside, many a rebel or ambitious upstart remained. Undead lords hid in an ancient crypts. Fiendish hordes creeped through forgotten portals. The mortal realm still had need of brave heroes to stand fast where many could not and delve where many dare not. Centuries slowly cleansed the unholy remnants but at no small cost. Many victorious mortals avoided a quick death only to be felled soon after by lingering supernatural maladies or intractable curses. Those select few heroes who manage to evade their end in one quest most often take up the cause of yet another fell monster to drive away. Yet for even these, mortals can never truly weather the fury of death and the netherworld unscathed. Years and years of battle wear on them in different ways. For some, one too many necromantic battles or one's life energy too closely drained, by this a hero trades the release of death for the burden of a gurgist. A gurgist's indomitable spirit spurned the call of undeath, yet his body wavered. The gurgist’s body thinks itself dead and free to rot away. Unchecked, the body will rot away in only a few weeks. Only a constant supply of raw meat reverses the harrowing death sentence. The gnawing, unending hunger for this meat would drive a lesser man to distraction, if not mad. However, those heroes who weathered so many unholy monsters were far from lesser men. Through the years, these wounded souls grew in number, shunned to the outskirts of civilization. Rather than falling to despair, some, strong in will & faith, segregated themselves to live off in a cloistered community. They were known as the Order of the Lazarites, after their founder. The brothers led disciplined lives, throwing themselves into prayer and work. Given their dietary requirements, that work was often animal husbandry or hunting game. They supported each other through their common burden. Other than the hearty feasts of raw pork, chicken, and the like, the Order live much as ascetic monks. Of course, an order of veteran heroes of many quests could hardly expect to lay down the sword so readily. At a call for aid in time of need, the Lazarites readily traded their robes for suits of mail, riding off with the blithe fanaticism of ones with little to lose. Baldwin's story is one similar to the other members of the order. Only some of the details differ. Whether it was that lich's lucky spell or that embarrassing kiss from a succubus, Baldwin may never know exactly which necromantic brush at death's door sealed his fate. But he has accepted it all the same. Day to day, he joins his fellow brothers in sharing in their common discipline. When not at prayer (or feasting), Baldwin busies himself with hunting for dangerous game in the nearby woods or caverns. It is a great help to the brothers and even keeps the nearby towns safer. Of course, it serves a most welcome distraction from the nagging hunger ... or old memories of a life long lost to Baldwin, the spires of a noble house and the beautiful face of his fiancee. Some days, the distraction is just not enough. Word of the Conquest Games could not have been more welcome. To an antsy adventurer waiting for a distracting excuse, the competition was a godsend. No sooner had the grandmaster given his permission to enter than the brother-knight gathered his gear (including a hefty supply of meats), bade his farewells to his brothers, and rode off on his steed to heed the call of another adventure.

 

Oracle curses explicitly progress with oracle levels plus half of other levels: "An oracle's curse is based on her oracle level plus one for every two levels or Hit Dice other than oracle."

[triedtherest]

I know it's 3.5 rather than Pathfinder, but would you allow use of the Mindsight Feat?

I just think it would fit Theo quite well.

[Clawsome]

Oracle curses explicitly progress with oracle levels plus half of other levels: "An oracle's curse is based on her oracle level plus one for every two levels or Hit Dice other than oracle."

So technically a Barbarian 8/Oracle 1 is able to use curse at 5th level 8/2=4+1=5. Too bad, it doesn't fit my character.

[SoftEmbers]

I'm cool with Mindsight.

[dbaque]

@SoftEmbers: App should be done for now, but any comments or suggestions welcome!

[Ermine]

Those last two applications are significantly stronger than the previous ones. Would you prefer the others be scaled up or those two to be scaled down? Or both?