[PF-1e] Assault on Origin

[AlphaZ]

draft 2 Name: Nish'ra, Queen of Shadows Race: Tiefling (pitborn, maw or claw [claws], prehensile tail, vestigial wings) Classes (Side 1): Dual-Cursed (hunger, advancing this oneplagued) Oracle of Shadow Classes (Side 2): Antipaladin (insinuator) Intended Role: Damage (melee), Spells (debuff, summon, utility) Alignment: Chaotic Evil Traits: Soul Eater, KuthiteGith Caster Flaws: none   Height: 6'1" | Weight: 192 lbs Age: 29 | Skin: bony Hair: white Eyes: white Usual Attire: bones and shadows Nish'ra's cursed nature is obvious from a single glance, from her exoskeletal armor to her shadowy wings and wicked claws. Her piercing white eyes and hair like silver threads echo the colorless forms of creatures from the darkest caves. Truly she is a terror to behold, standing taller than many human men and made all the more imposing when she spreads her mighty wings.   Nish'ra, the self-assumed Queen of Shadows, believes herself to be a sort of demon lord, greater than mortals and just beneath the gods. She views demons as a fey might view animals, and like a druid uses their magic to enforce the natural order Nish'ra is not shy about spreading her abyssal blight upon the world. She is the harbinger of hunger and fear, of chaos and darkness, and all others are meant to be her servants or her food. All, that is, except the great lady Vlaakith CLVII, mightiest of queens, whom she admires (and perhaps envies) above all. Obviously Nish'ra thinks highly of herself. She is proud and can be stubborn, but also knows which battles to fight. She tolerates those who help her reach her own ends as well as other devoted servants of her goddess, the most glorious and mighty Gith. But none would mistake her for friendly. The closest thing to love she has for anyone or anything that is not her food is her devotion to her creator, the Lich-Queen Vlaakith CLVII, and to her goddess whom they as far as Nish'ra knowsboth serve without question. But she is not as much difficult to work with as she is difficult to look at.   Nish'ra's curse came from the very darkest part of the Abyss, beyond where any light can reach. It's a disease, an unquenchable chaos, a hunger which cannot be satisfied. The darkness within her turns all she would consume into shadow, barely there, and leaves her forever ravenous. But she has learned to control it, and to turn this abyss within herself to her own advantage. It is not just her curse, but her gift. Just as Vlaakith had hoped. Formerly she was a woman, or a girl to be more precise. Her family was killed and she was taken before she was old enough to remember. Being so young she was reserved for a special place of honor: magical experimentation. Most children didn't survive the experiments, as diverse as they were pragmatic and cruel. Nish'ra was infected with a shard of the abyss called shadowphage, marked by an insatiable hunger that led many to starve. But she adapted. By eating everyone else. Her great hunger and indomitable will to survive did not escape the notice of the Lich-Queen, who tested her limits to draw out the demonic power and see if there was more to her than a mindless, consuming beast. And indeed after many years she developed into an intelligent and powerful creature, but one which desperately craved the approval of her creator and could therefore be controlled. She sees herself as a daughter of Vlaakith and a servant of Gith. She does not understand she is little more than an arcane accident. If she ever found out... She was used as a soldier often, sent into battle time and again, always to return, always eager for her next task. She became seen as a charge leader and commanded fear and respect on the battlefield. Now she is used like a rabid dog on a leash, waiting to be let loose. Whatever may cross her path she is prepared to destroy or consume, or send back to her the Lich-Queen, who is obviously not actually her mothermother in service to the great expansion.   Kneeling atop a dead dwarven soldier, her great wings draped heavy to either side like curtains, she looked down and watched her dark blood drip upon his armor and run off like a gentle rain. With an inhuman gag she wrenched a few arrows from her thick armor and brought with them a brief spray of gore. She looked up to see her shadowy minions on the retreat, falling to a hail of arrows and spells before vanishing back to the planar energies from which they'd been conjured. Even as black shadows pulled her wounds closed and the rain of blood slowed, she had to admit it: they'd been defeated. She took to the skies and flew off, spiteful but wounded and weary. She was strong, but their walls were stronger. Her minions were fierce, but the defenders even moreso. Much blood was shed, and many dwarves had been eaten, but they had not been prepared for such resistance. The dwarves had help. "My great lady Vlaakith, our forces have fallen. The dwarves have made an alliance. We must return with much greater might and overwhelm them." Nish'ra sent off the spell as she glided to safety and surveyed their remaining numbers. Her great hunger had been useless against so much stone. If the cowards would stop hiding in holes like rabbits and come out to fight, the battle would have been won easily. The more she thought of it, the more her blood began to boil. At last she was interrupted by the reply: "No. Return to us. We have another task for you."

[Battlechaser]

Hey Leo,

What tier would a pactmaker be?

Greetz

BC

[DebiRedHair]

Hi Leo. Can I add Lar-El back into the mix? I enjoyed character creation and would love to play her.

[LeoByron]

Originally Posted by Battlechaser

Hey Leo,

What tier would a pactmaker be?

Greetz

BC

Tier 3 at most

Originally Posted by DebiRedHair

Hi Leo. Can I add Lar-El back into the mix? I enjoyed character creation and would love to play her.

Added to table.

[LeoByron]

I was asked about Tier 2 classes and the possibility of bending on my rule forbidding that such characters advance as Gestalt.

I am willing to modify the rule so that Tier 2 classes can Gestalt but only if the other class(es) are Tier 3 or less, and are not High Casters, if using Spheres of Power.

[LeoByron]

The deadline for new applicants is Friday May 13th 2022. I will not consider submissions issued after that date. If you have a WIP, you will be given time to complete before the invitation is sent.

I only need 1 replacement and I do not want to keep the game waiting for too long.

[AlphaZ]

Can you take a glance at my app and let me know how it looks so far?

[LeoByron]

@AlphaZ

I read your application and I have a few notes.

1) Kuthite Caster, refluffed to apply to Gith, is fine.

2) Nish'ra fancies herself a Queen and seems to possess a haughty and confident disposition. As a non-Gith, her only path into the Va'Dok'thra would have been through the Githyanki slave pits. I would like to see a bit more about how she got there and what effect it might have had on her. Did she cling to her haughty sense of self through the humiliations and mistreatment that come from being a slave? Was it easy for her as she bided her time until she could rise from the bowels of drudgery to ascend to her true place of glory? Perhaps she was less affected because she was used, as you described, as a "dog on a leash" and was used as a shock trooper of sorts so perhaps led a somewhat more privileged existence as a slave?

Was she glad when she was offered the chance to join the Va'Dok'thra and rise to the ranks of the elite soldiers? Is she loyal to the Lich Queen and Gith or does she serve grudgingly?

A little more detail on that front would go a long way towards integrating her into the setting, I think.
Otherwise it looks good.

[CatCanCook]

Tymora Name: Tymora Race: Githyanki female Classes (Side 1): Inheritor Sorcerer 7 [ghoul bloodline], Antiquarian Armiger / 3 Classes (Side 2): Conscript / 2, Scaled-fist - Beastsoul unchained monk / 2, MageKnight / 3 Antipaladin (Champion of the Cause) 3 Intended Role: Melee damage, fearmonger/face, utility caster Alignment: Her antipaladin archetype can be LE, and Lawful is typically what monks need tooLawful Evil Traits: Defender Of The Faith, Reactionary Flaws: You take a -2 penalty on all ranged attack rollsShaky, You take a -3 penalty on Reflex saves.Poor Reflexes   Physical Description Height: 5'11" base, 6'2" shifted| Weight: 150 lbs, 250 lbs shifted Age: 29 | Body: Wirey muscular Skin: flawless githyanki "beauty", hints of green, elegant brown highlights Hair: Red Eyes: Green Usual Attire: Elegant gowns; except when shapeshifting Tymora is a shapeshifter; when at rest away from the stresses of bloodshed and depredation, she is a rare beauty among the githyanki, with flawless skin, delicately saw-toothed ears, and a graceful way about her. She enjoys such finery as the militaristic culture can tolerate; she revels in contrasts. Yet -- as gracefully elegant as she may appear, in a hideous shockwave of malevolence, she reveals her truer nature taking on her favorited form: a bloody-clawed vrock-like semi-demonic beast of claws, talons, hooked wings and slashing beak. She bears a modest amount of adventuring gear. Brass knuckles, a bow and arrow as backup gear.   Personality Tymora, as a lawful evil antipaladin, is profoundly self-interested, seeking glory, power, wealth, and a good life in every sense that she appreciates, with no regard for others except they server to advance her interests and will-to-power. Her bloodline is ghoul-tainted sorcerous blood, from her mother who gave birth while unsuccessfully pursuing a path toward lich ascension. She still has nightmares about her mother's failed dark rituals. Since that experience she has never been able to gaze upon Oath of Ignorancethe written word without it twisting into something unrecognizable but chilling. Tymora's sorcerous powers draw upon the lower planes, and binding their diverse evil manifestations to her will. She serves the Lich Queen willingly, as a dark bargain. She pays extensive tithes to the state-religion, in a quite Oath of Offeringscalculated exchange for power. She admires the queen's amazing magical powers, and strives in her own sorcerous way to mimic and learn from the diverse forms of the queen's magic. She also considers the use of undeath to conquer mortality as exemplary. On her positive side: she loves what is beautiful and pleasurable, including camaraderie and companionship. She can be charming and persuasive. She cooperates well and readily with what advances her own power and prospects. She is disciplined when using violence. She is cruel when it serves her or her master's purpose. She enjoys the power to destroy and terrify, but it is in service to a lawful cause. Her oath of loyalty to Gith is a tool rigorously adhered to, but she could serve another only if there was some superior lawful path of ascent. (In this, her ethics are distinctly hellish) She is unintellectual, and indifferent scholar -- and if anything embarrasses her it is that she is slow at learning and lore compared to most of her clever race. She works magic, and lives her life by passion and emotion channeled into purpose.   Background She started her career as a pit fighter. When her mother failed in disgrace, she was cast into slavery as a youth and left to fight captives for the amusement of her social betters. But she proved so innately talented and exemplary in her viciousness that she soon captivated the attention of first one supervisor, then another superior. She attached herself to the clergy as a warrior-mage serving the establishment. That finally blotted out and taint from her birth, covering it in a deeper darkness. She has since been a social climber, seeking to rise in power and standing by any means. She serves the Lich-Queen willingly, and volunteers for dangerous assignments as they afford her opportunity to overcome challenges and gain power. She has learned that the cosmos follows certain rules: that if you vanquish enemies, gather treasure, and dominate against perils while exerting your own abilities mightily: then you gain power. That is how the game of life is played. So a combat mission is instrumental to her accustomed path: of countless murders and skirmishes for her personal glory, and on the Lich-Queen's behalf. As a divinely empowered anti-paladin, some of her past missions would have been hunting heretics and rebels against the Lich Queen's rule.   Roleplay sample It was Tymora's first expedition leading a sarth. More times than she could count, she had served under other commanders, but she had so distinguished herself of the last that now hers was the coveted position of leadership. The objective: was to raid an illithid camp, take heads and plunder, and free captives. This was to be a rite of passage for a third of the sarth, who had not yet seen face-to-tentacle conflict against the hated foe. As g'lathk servitor brought each member morning meals, Tymora concentrated on her task: infusing her implements with the powers of the abyss bound into tangible form in simple weapons she crafted and modified. The first two were brass knuckles, the third her bow. Her companions watched her, with some trepidation. Among even the cynical and world-wise children of Gith, her arts were exotic and of dark repute. Chaotic swirls of vapors rose: she caught the eye of a scrawny young warrior, Isthamel was his name -- a first-raider -- watching her with fascination. "This will become a mind-shield generator," she murmured. "It will last for one minute, no more. Pray to the Queen that the lot of you babes-in-arms find and take down the illithid before then." Isthamel asked, "But, how is it that you do that? I heard that you can draw on any kind of arcana? I've been studying wizardry for three years now, and I can make no sense of how your magic works." She sneered disdainfully. "No sense can be made of it. It's like this. I reach out with my mind." She reached out her hand to touch his. "I seize the power of the Abyss. I coerce it and make it bend and bow the law of my will. " She gripped his arm, twisted him, and made him bow. At the same time, her hands, now shapeshifted into to claws, pricked his skin. He froze, paralyzing him with her ghoulish touch. She shoved him to the ground. "By force of will alone, by the power of my blood, I coerce it, I terrify it, I force it, I hound it into agonies, I remake the seething cold soul-stuff of the beyond into anything I imagine." At the same time, her voice grew increasingly sharp and menacing. The young wizard began to shake; her ambiance of terror settled into him; he cowered. That brought a cold smile to her lips. "If you learn from me, it will be no book-learning," she scoffed. "The dark radiance of the lower planes obeys my blood and will, and so will you! In every detail this mission. Ask no more impudent questions, but obey me as if you life depends on it. Because it does! Obey my every word, as I obey the Queen who reigns over us all. Offend me, and you will think the very illithid to be kind and gentle." "Rise now, Isthamel. I will lead you. The lesson I will teach you is the law of force written in the spattered blood of our foes. But follow me through bloody carnage and I will show you how to rend glory from your broken foe's dying spasms. Rise, all of you," she commands to the ten of the sarth. "We will approach by stealth. We will be wary for illusion or disguise, we will expect traps. We will communicate by silent message, you have that spell, little Isthamel do you not? Good. You will be useful for somehting Before the final assault, we join hand to hand -- this magic," she held up her hand, "will ward you. Slaughter the illithid without hesitation; the prisoners and treasures are to be rendered to overseers. If your service is pleasing, you may share in the bounty." The battle turned out to be much harder fought than expected. There were four illithid, not one, and they had mind-bound troll guards. One of the illithid had the uncanny ability to pop free instantly whenever one of the sarth warriors tried to grapple it. That intrigued Tymora, and she took notice when it was properly decapitated to slip a fine little golden ring off the vile being's finger. Eight of her team were incapacitated before the last mind flayer died, ripped to shreds under her demon-form talons. Two of her allies were flailing around in the confusion caused by the foe's mind-blasts. She knocked them out, brutally and efficiently. She healed her sarth before they bleed out. She directed her survivors to unshackle the slaves. She felt no compassion for them, but they were the Queen's. As for her troops they must grow through suffering -- it was good for them to suffer agonies. All, even the weakling Isthamel with his foolish little book-spells, survived. Exhausted and drained of energy, she returned head held high, four parading before her holding the severed, tendril-decorated head, while her wings overshadowed them in malevolent majesty. It was a glorious victory -- and proved her ready for more and higher roles of command.   Achieving play balance With the build currently standing at +42 Intimidate, perhaps the easiest way to balance is to not use: Skill Focus, or mythic boosts to intimidate, or masterwork. The fear ability drops to +27, which is strong but could be resisted. Let me know if there is a preference, if accepted.   Roleplay sample Str 15 (-2 race, +2 boon, cost 7) Dex 22 (+4 race, +2 boon, cost 10) Con 12 (+0 race, cost 2) Int 9 (+2 race, cost -4) Wis 12 (+2 race, cost 0) Cha 24 (+2 race, +2 levels 4 and 8, +4 boon, cost 10) BAB +10 Custom Martial Tradition: Finesse Pit Fighter - Like the gladiator or professional wrestler, the pit fighter puts on shows for money. However, unlike those other prize fighters, in the pits there are few grand traditions and even fewer rules; whoever’s alive at the end of the match is the winner. The (custom) Finesse variant swaps Fencing for Boxing. Equipment Sphere: Unarmed Training, Finesse Fighting Gladiator Sphere Fencing Sphere Traits: 1 Defender Of The Faith. (Faith) Prerequisite: You must openly belong to a publicly known religious organization. Benefit: You gain a +1 trait bonus to caster level when using talents and abilities from the Fate, Life and Protection spheres. This increase in caster level may not raise your caster level over your Hit Dice. In addition, you may participate in rituals or incantations associated with your religious organization. 2 Reactionary (Combat) +2 initiative. [Feat Tax Fix: Power Attack, Deadly Aim, etc.] Oaths: Oath of loyalty (1 pt, required) Oath of ignorance (1 pt) Oath of offerings (7 pt) Oath Boons: Bonus Feats (4pt), receive at 2, 6 and 10 Enhanced Abilities (2pt) +4 / +2 / +2 Inhuman Resilience (1pt) +3 resistance bonus to saves, +2 enhancement bonus to natural armor Skill Superiority (1pt): Intimidate. +7 competences bonus Shielded form (1pt): +2 deflection Feats: (racial bonus) Weapon Focus: Natural Weapons (claws). (+1 to hit) (flaw feat 1) Skill Focus: Intimidate (flaw feat 2) Combat Reflexes 1 Extra Martial Flexibility (+3 uses) 3 Hybrid Transformation 5 Signature Skill: Intimidate 7 Awesome Transformation 9 Extra Prowess: Skilled weapon. +1 talent to a customized weapon (beastsoul monk) Transformation, Improved Transformation (conscript 2) Cornugon Smash (oath 2) Dragon Style (oath 6) [+1 alteration trait used when enhancing]Mutagenic Enhancements (Dual Sphere, Alteration-Enhance) (oath 10) Extra Prowess: Skilled weapon. +1 talent to a customized weapon Martial Talents (conscript 1) [Equipment] Critical Genius (claws) (expert 1) [Gladiator] Spectacle (demoralization) (expert 2) [Gladiator] Dread (demoralization) (scaled fist 2) Shatter Defenses (scaled fist 2) Evasion (mage knight 1) Resist magic (+1 typeless) (mage knight 2) Mystic Combat: [Gladiator] Gladiator: Daunting (Demoralization) (mage knight 3) Stalwart (armiger 2) Lancer Sphere Magical Tradition Oathbound casting : Oath of Loyalty Somatic casting I and II Terrain casting Painful casting Spell points (spell pool) 7(cha)+7(sorcerer levels)+3(armiger levels)+3(champion levels)+3(mage knight) +10(tradition) = 33 Magical Talents (Focus sphere bonus talent) Alteration Sphere [maximum 3 traits] (Caster bonus 1) Enhancement Sphere (Caster bonus 2) Deep Enhancements (Extra magic talent from Natural Psionic) Natural Enhancement (Sorcerer 1) [Enhancement] Greater Enhance Equipment (Sorcerer 2) [Alternation] Greater Changes [+1 maximum trait] (Sorcerer 3) [Alteration] Bestial Reflexes (Sorcerer 4) [Alteration] Lingering Transformation (Sorcerer 5) Fate Sphere (Sorcerer 6) [Fate] The Devil (motif) (Sorcerer 7) [Fate] Swords (motif, arcana) (Champion-Blended Training 1) Life Sphere (Champion-Blended Training 2) [Life] Restore Health (cure) (Champion-Blended Training 3) [Life] Restore Spirit (cure) (Mage Knight 1) Fate] The Fool (motif) (Mage Knight 2) [Enhancement] Deadly Weapon Variable Prowess The armiger may change one talent granted by a customized weapon with ten minutes of practice. The new talent must be a valid choice to be granted by that weapon. Once per day, she may use this ability as a move action. Antiquarian Weapons Subject to change with ten minutes notice given her Variable Prowess. 2 talents each, but she has 1) [Life] Restore Senses, 2) [life] Restore Capacity. 3) Ranged Healing (close) 1) Destruction Sphere, 2) Extended range (medium) Energy Focus: Living Crystal Blast(blast type), Shape Focus: Chain Blast (blast shape), 1) Berserker Sphere. Unbattered drawback. Sanguine Invigoration. 2) [Berserker] Reapers Momentum 3) [Lancer] Opportune Impalement Note: she will prefer to choose instant effect abilities on her antiquarian weapons. The key problem with them is as soon as she switches weapons, any long duration buffs she gets will fizzle. So her various ways of getting pretty arbitrary benefits either are temporary or make switching between weapons very costly. Conscript Specializations: 2 points: Martial flexibility: 4 uses per day. Empowered Lineage (Ex) At 1st level, the inheritor gains Bloodline Prowess as a bonus feat. At 3rd level, the inheritor gains the mystic heritage class feature to use normally. At 4th level, the inheritor gains a number of new ways to use her 1st level bloodline power: Empower: Once per round when the inheritor makes a successful attack, she may use her 1st level bloodline power on the struck target as a free action that may be taken even when it is not the inheritor’s turn, causing the target to suffer the effects of that bloodline power (even if they would not normally be in range). This ability functions similarly to the conductive weapon special ability and cannot be used with the conductive weapon special ability as part of the same attack. Unlike the conductive weapon special ability, the inheritor may use any bloodline power that targets a single creature or is delivered with a melee or ranged touch attack, not just one that is the same type of attack as the attack action (such as using the elemental bloodline elemental ray power (PFRPG Core Rulebook) after a melee attack or the deep earth bloodline’s tremor power (Advanced Player’s Guide) after any attack). Infuse: If the inheritor’s 1st level bloodline power would grant a weapon she wields a special ability, she may grant her weapon that special ability for as long as she is wielding that weapon. Examples include the boreal bloodline cold steel power (Advanced Player’s Guide) or stormborn bloodline thunderstaff power (Advanced Player’s Guide), granting the frost or shock special abilities respectively. Hasten: The inheritor may use her 1st level bloodline power as a swift action. This alters mystic heritage from the sphere sorcerer archetype. Mystic Heritage (Ex) If a bloodline ability has a limited number of uses or rounds of use per day, the sphere sorcerer may spend a spell point and meditate as a full-round action to regain one use of that ability. This replaces the Eschew Materials bonus feat. Martial Flexibility (Ex) At 2nd level, an inheritor can spend a move action to gain the benefit of a combat feat she does not possess. This effect lasts for 1 minute. The inheritor must otherwise meet all the feat’s prerequisites. She can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + 1/2 her sorcerer level. This ability counts as the brawler’s martial flexibility class feature; characters who gain martial flexibility from multiple sources add their class levels from all sources that grant martial flexibility together when determining their total class level and uses per day for this ability. The inheritor can use this ability again before the duration expires to replace the previous combat feat with another choice. If a combat feat has a daily use limitation (such as Stunning Fist), any uses of that combat feat while using this ability count toward that feat’s daily limit. At later levels, when she gains multiple feats through this ability, she can use those feats to meet the prerequisites of other feats she gains with this ability. Doing so means that she cannot replace a feat currently fulfilling another’s prerequisite without also replacing those feats that require it. Each individual feat selected counts toward her daily uses of this ability. At 5th level, the inheritor can use this ability to gain the benefit of magic talent, gaining one magic talent whenever she could gain a combat feat. The inheritor must possess that talent’s base sphere and meet any prerequisites (if an advanced talent). Treat a magic talent gained this way as a temporary talent. At 7th level, the inheritor can use this ability to gain the benefit of two combat feats at the same time. She may select one feat as a swift action or two feats as a move action. At 12th level, the inheritor can use this ability to gain the benefit of three combat feats at the same time. She may select one feat as a free action, two feats as a swift action, or three feats as a move action. At 17th level, the inheritor can use this ability to gain the benefit of one combat feat as an immediate action or three combat feats as a swift action. This replaces sorcerous blood. Bloodline Prowess Prerequisite: Sorcerer bloodline class feature. Benefit: If your 1st level bloodline power could only be used a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier, or is only useable a number of rounds each day each to 3 + your Charisma modifier, you may use that bloodline power at-will. If your 1st level bloodline power could be used as a free action, it may only be used at-will once per round (you may still use the bloodline power normally, expending daily uses of the ability as normal). 1st level bloodline powers that give powerful buffs for very short durations may not be used at-will. Instead, you gain an additional number of uses for that ability equal to 1/2 your effective sorcerer level (minimum 1). Examples of such bloodline powers include the destined bloodline touch of destiny (PFRPG Core Rulebook) and the orc bloodline touch of rage (Orcs of Golarion). Other similar 1st level bloodline powers may gain these alternative benefits subject to GM discretion. Bloodline Arcana Whenever you cast a spell of the necromancy school that deals hit point damage, you are healed of 1 hit point per spell level. Bloodline Powers The dark energies that fuel your existence and undying hunger form the basis of your power. Ghoulish Claws (Su) Starting at 1st level, you can grow claws as a free action. These claws are treated as natural weapons, allowing you to make two claw attacks as a full attack using your full base attack bonus. Each of these attacks deals 1d4 points of damage + your Strength modifier (1d3 if you are Small). At 5th level, creatures damaged with your claw attack are paralyzed for 1 round, as the ghoul ability (Fort negates). At 7th level, the duration of the paralysis increases to 1d4+1 rounds, and the claws are considered magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming DR. You can use your claws for a number of rounds per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. These rounds do not need to be consecutive. If you’re a ghoul with this bloodline, instead of gaining this ability, your levels in sorcerer stack with your racial Hit Dice when determining the DC of your paralysis and disease special abilities. Leathery Skin (Ex) At 3rd level, you gain cold resistance 5 and a +1 natural armor bonus to AC. At 9th level, your cold resistance increases to 10 and natural armor bonus increases to +2. At 15th level, your natural armor bonus increases to +4. Ravenous Frenzy (Ex) At 9th level, you gain the benefits of haste for a number of rounds per day equal to your sorcerer level. These rounds don’t need to be consecutive. Each time you hit a creature with two or more claw attacks during a full attack while affected by this ability, that creature takes 1d4 points of bleed damage. Role and tactics: Her spellcasting core is oriented toward self buffing -- but in this she is flexible, she can also buff others. As a build primarily oriented toward melee combat, this limits her magical peak power significantly relative to a pure caster, on the other hand she can be very formidable in melee. Ranged combat is a limitation for her. She can do some but charging or flying to get in range will be a constant need. Her antiquarian weapons and inheritor martial flexibility give her access to an exceptionally broad range of martial or magical talents, some available instantly, some with tens of minutes of preparation. So she can do almost anything of basic to moderate complexity magically by stacking 5 dynamic talents. If she has time to prepare for a mission, she can be well equipped for it. The drawbacks are: her resources are finite, the durations on temporary abilities are limited, and the process is slow. In melee, she is built primarily around pounce (granted to her as an enhancement) and intimidate. Dragon Style helps her reach opponents. Cornugon Smash with Power attack lets her first attack that lands terrify her opponent. Fate motifs make it extra likely that her attacks land. Once she has shattered their defenses, additional attacks (at penalties and lacking enhancements) are more likely to land and do sneak attack damage. She gets attacks of opportunity from a variety of actions - and with those being potentially power-attack, terror-inducing, fatal thrust paralyzing claw-strikes, she is dangerous to be around. With Awesome Transformation on top of spectacle, the beastsoul class abilities, transformation, and improved transformation -- she can tuck in an area-affect intimidate as a free action once per round. She can likely do area-effect intimidates perhaps twice per round, as she moves around a battlefield. A lot of capabilities increase the effectiveness of her intimidation, perhaps the most important that as an anti-paladin, nothing within 10' of her is immune.   Gear - Starting Gold will be standard WBL for 10th level characters (62,000 gp -- 31,000 gp offerings = 31,000gp), plus an additional 35,000 gp for up to 2 items which are important to the character. There should be a story-based reason for these items, i.e. it was an heirloom, a gift from the lady in the lake, etc... * Ring of Freedom of Movement (40,000gp) [special items + 5000gp cash.] * Amulet of mighty fists (16,000gp) Agile [dex to damage] (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items...bilities/keen/) and Cruel. (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items...bilities/cruel) * Helm of the Mammoth Lord (8,500gp spent) 500gp remains for mundane gear. (Fine food, clothing, a bow and arrows, etc.

LeoByron, please take a look!

[LeoByron]

CatCanCook! Fancy seeing you here!

I don't know why, but I can't seem to see any images that you post, including those in your advert. I've had this issue before with some photo hosting sites. Which are you using and do you have any advice to help me resolve this? I tried in browsers for which I do not have adblock and the images still can't load...

Very strange.

[AlphaZ]

I really had a few of my wires crossed when I wrote that. I should sleep at night.

Anyway it's updated with a bit more detail and several errors fixed.

[CatCanCook]

LeoByron,

In this case the image had been attached to a private page when it was uploaded. The image is not visible even if its link is pasted now into a public page. Anyway -- I uploaded it again and it should work.

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Also a question, you said you couldn't see images in my advert?
https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthread.php?t=221786
I logged out ... and as a logged out user I can still see the images I pasted in there. So ... I'm not sure what's up with you not seeing them. Can you see the opening image of the person falling into the crevice? That's publicly visible and hosted on this site.

If there is any image missing from one of my posts, can you point me to it and I'll take a look

[LeoByron]

Much better! Thanks!

[CatCanCook]

LeoByron --

A couple questions before I do anything more on my application?

1) Is it overpowered, you said "don't break the game" but does a fearmongering anti-paladin do that in your opinion?
2) For the Oath of Offerings, does it halve the level-specific gold only, or does it also cut in half the gold for the 35,000 price "special items"?
3) Assuming it does not nerf the latter, is it OK to go for a 40,000gp Ring of Freedom of Action, by spending the 35,000 special item budget plus 5,000gp out of the regular starting cash?
4) The character concept was intending to lean heavily on this:

Variable Prowess
The armiger may change one talent granted by a customized weapon with ten minutes of practice. The new talent must be a valid choice to be granted by that weapon. Once per day, she may use this ability as a move action.

But I can imagine two very different ways of interpreting this.

[closed] The armiger chooses on talent slot of one weapon and this decision cannot thereafter be changed. That one slot may be changed via Variable Prowess
[open] Whenever Variable Prowess is used, the armiger chooses any one talent slot on any customized weapon.

I am assuming open but wanted to confirm.

[DebiRedHair]

@LeoByron. I have completed Lar-El's character sheet and spent up. She is ready for action - if selected and if you agree