High level one shot [3.5, closed]

[Chimaera]

Well, I'm feeling lucky, so I'll roll for stats:

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Also, here is the link for Minerva Glam's sheet. It's WIP.


EDIT: Sheet's almost done, just will addd fluff and background and got a few thousand gold to buy things with.

[Infernally Clay]

Important House rules for character creation.

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13. Are there any homebrewed or optional/variant rules that your Players should know about? If so, list and explain them, or provide relevant links to learn about these new rules.


Changes to classes

Rangers get full progression on Animal Companion they also apply their FE bonus as an Insight bonus to attack (the bonus to damage remains untyped)

Druid's get the ranger's progression on animal companion.

Fighters and Barbarians get unarmed fighting and do 1d6.

Monks get good BAB

Paladins's spells are based on Charisma, their Smite evil ability works for a full round and it is usable 1/encounter instead of 1/day.


All classes with a d4 hp get d6 instead, and classes with a d6 get d8 instead.

All classes get +2 skill points per level.



Tier 1 classes do not need anything nice, so no SAD archivists, etc.

Feats and stuff:

One flaw, one extra feat. No traits. Flaws are a few of the materials allowed from Dragon Magazine.

Feats every odd level (1,3,5,7) If your would benefit more from a feat at lv 6, I'm sorry, take it at lvl 7.

No double stat to any roll/number even if it's from different sources: i.e. Charisma as Deflection Bonus and Charisma as Dodge bonus do not stack.

I'll type any untyped bonuses (Except the Barbarian's rage and the ranger's FE).

Feats from PF: Vital Strike (and the line of).

Weapon finesse adds Dex to damage.

Bows add Dex to damage, crossbows still need a feat.

Dodge gives you a +2 dodge bonus to AC and Ref Saves.

Iron Will, Great Fortitude, Lightning Reflexes, instead give you GOOD Save progression.

Combat reflexes grants 2 extra AoO no more, AoO builds are horrible in PbP, so are grapplers.


I like combat fast and bloody so:

Natural 20 crits do not need confirmation, other threats do.

A full-attack is a Standard action, max attacks are capped at 6 REGARDLESS of the combination or any ability, max is 6, apply penalties to iteratives as usual.

You can split your movement before and after your standard action, movement provokes AoO as usual.

SPRING attack allows you to Split your movements BETWEEN attacks.

You can't use Aid another for an attack, that's literally what flanking is for.

You can't have more than an extra standard action per round under any circumstances. i.e Factotum + belt of battle.

Notes on your Free cohorts/companion
I'm basically giving these because Bel wanted some RP. And it's a three people party so you need some action economy and some flexibility. However, these cohorts will be partially NPCs not Thralls to you. Do not conceptualize them as a free set of actions that you can just puppet around. If I see that, I'll take partial control of the cohort. Provide a sound personality and motivation for them please.

I will update my sheet with these things. Some of it is pretty relevant, like I no longer need the Sword of Graceful Strikes any more because Weapon Finesse does that anyway. I'm also very much encouraged to pick up Lightning Reflexes now and Dodge, which is another feat Sionainn has, is a little better now.

As for her cohort, they can only be level 10 because she's only technically level 12 so I'll need to pick a class that doesn't rely on class levels so much. I s'pose if I could pick the Improved Cohort feat I could get a level 11 cohort, like a Warblade or something.

[Auranghzeb]

Well, I'm feeling lucky, so I'll roll for stats:

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Also, here is the link for Minerva Glam's sheet. It's WIP.


EDIT: Sheet's almost done, just will addd fluff and background and got a few thousand gold to buy things with.

That BardBarian is looking cool.

I will update my sheet with these things. Some of it is pretty relevant, like I no longer need the Sword of Graceful Strikes any more because Weapon Finesse does that anyway. I'm also very much encouraged to pick up Lightning Reflexes now and Dodge, which is another feat Sionainn has, is a little better now.

As for her cohort, they can only be level 10 because she's only technically level 12 so I'll need to pick a class that doesn't rely on class levels so much. I s'pose if I could pick the Improved Cohort feat I could get a level 11 cohort, like a Warblade or something.

Yeah, something with a lot of HP to offset the loss of levels, specially if you are going with something melee oriented. Or something sneak/stealth oriented because skill monkeys scale very well numerically and can go well over their level.

[BelGareth]

Me too, I was about to post my wip and now got to make some changes, though I’m not complaining!!

[Auranghzeb]

Some answers to Cohort questions:

-Equip them as the NPC cohort table of their level
-you develop thei full sheet, I just don't want them acting as mindless thralls to the PC's as these COhorts will be a big part of any RP component of this one shot.
The adventure will start with the characters entering the borders of the realm that was devastated and lost during the war with the fae and the monsters they summoned. This means a barren/wicked land with only a few NPCs. Therefore the intention is that the cohorts give me some room to RP while taking away some of the burden of building a whole set of meaningful NPCs and having to run them. But that also means that I expect your relationship with those NPCs to be developed and meaningful beyond the "oh! i got a full set of actions to buff myself and send my npc to test traps!"

So far, Bel mentioned picking a Familiar instead and going improved familiar Blink Dog, that works for me. However, this is a high level adventure in a corrupted-fae land, Teleportation will be subject to hazards like those in the underdark and I'll use all my strength of Plot to hamper stuff (but I'll warn you beforehand).

Chimaera mentioned a few options via DM, those are good. It may be nice to list them here so there's not much overlap in the party composition.

I'll be online sporadically until Friday, I the characters are finished next week, we can aim to start the game around may 2 or so.

[Chimaera]

Im thinking in having Minerva's handmaiden to be some spellvaster to help aid in that front, as Minerva will be pretty much melee and support oriented.

That said, I was thinking i three options, but I guess I'll have her be a Transmuter / Mage of the Arcane Order, which would give the spellcasting and some versatility (through spell pool resourcefulness).

Her banned schools would be Evocation and Necromancy, and she'll get the Spontaneous Divination ACF for some info gathering and scrying purposes.

She has made an oath to protect Minerva since she was a little baby and look to her as her own granddaughter, so when Minerva decided to steal her brother's place to this mission, she came along and aided her with her magic to help them arrive safely.

[BelGareth]

Here is my current progress for Hakkon Sigurt Nornson

[Auranghzeb]

How are the sheets going?

[BelGareth]

How are the sheets going?

Hakkon is basically done with a little bit of cash left over, can we get generic expensive components?

Also, how do you want to handle the Improved Familiar Cohort?

[Chimaera]

How are the sheets going?

Minerva is done (needs to fill background and stuff like that only).

Still working on her cohort (but tomorrow I'll be free from work and can dedicate myself to it).

[Chimaera]

Magda Winter, Minerva's old handmaid, will roll (if that's possible - if it is not, she'll take the 28 point buy).

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[Chimaera]

Magda Winter's WIP sheet.

[Auranghzeb]

Here's the OoC