Since we’re using the advanced rulebook, will we be using traits?
Yes; everyone gets two traits.
Well, with any luck Calatin’s going for a high AC/Compel Hostility/enchantment focus sort of build, synergistic-like. If not, yeah, I expect we’ll have to hit people hard and fast and HARD :).
Optimized parties are for chumps, anyway.
Speaking of which, that silly band I alluded to earlier, with the weird monk, bad bard, bad alchemist and rogue, all lvl 7 ? They hit upon a bit of a snag on Saturday and managed to aggro an Erynie with its 2 Barbed Devil summons and plenty of room to fly, shoot and scoot ; 6 lvl. 4 rogues AND a lvl 10 sorcerer all at once.
They prevailed. Had to crack a Heal scroll they’d scrounged up earlier, but still, I was kind of amazed.
OK, I’m finally done with my character sheet! Sorry for the delay. Appleciders, is the gmail account in your profile valid? I would like to send you my sheet as an attachment.
Yes, it is. I’ll have a look.
OK, sent. I would be happy to make reasonable revisions. I don’t have a lot of experience with Pathfinder though after mucking about with it I can see why people think it’s an improvement over 3.5 (Basically D&D 3.75)
I’ll be finalizing mine within the next 24 hours (mainly equipment and a few other odds and ends)…
I just sent a pm with my revised character. I add two traits and some equipment I think I would reasonably possess.
OK! We’re either there or within spitting distance for everyone except Calatin. Calatin, are you still in? If now is a bad time, I can let the next alternate start the game, and contact you when another slot opens up.
I spent a lot of time mulling over the various bard options in the advanced book and looking at different suggested builds to make bards more combat-capable, but there’s no real way for a bard to become a “kind-of-something-else” without losing most or all of the skillful/charismatic stuff that makes them bardy and that would just create a gap of a different sort in the party makeup.
Sent the revised character sheet to appleciders and I’m ready to go!
Then do that as you go up levels. I too built my guy (are we all guys here? Would love a female PC…) based almost entirely on roleplaying potential, and not from a munchkin point of view…
I’ve had a look at Traits and I wish to add: [spoiler]
Magical Talent (cast *Message* once per day)
Meticulous Concoction (add +2 to the save DC of one bomb per day *or* 2 rounds to the duration of a non-instantaneous extract).
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I need to revise my stats, using the point-bye system, but I should be good to go, unless there’s another problem with my Character sheet.
Unless I’m mistaken, those are both Magic traits. You cannot have two traits picked from the same category (Combat, Faith, Magic, Social or Race).
You’re not mistaken, I didn’t notice that part. I’ll take “Surprise Weapon” instead of “Meticulous Concoction” then - improvising weapons could be amusing. 
Haha, oh that’ll bring me back. Back in the days when I played 7th Sea, there was a not-French swordsmanship school focused on improvised weaponry. The first tier more or less negated the penalties for using them and that’s about it ; but by the upper tiers your character could become deadlier fighting with a ham than with an actual sword 
In a Pathfinder campaign a friend of mine is running, one of the PCs is a halfling ninja/alchemist who’s disguised as the party’s cook, and who fights entirely with kitchen implements. He’s got a feat or a class feature that allows him to add his sneak attack damage to attacks with improvised weapons, provided he succeeds at a bluff check first. He’s surprisingly deadly, especially since he picked up that adamantine ladle.
And I must remember that Throw Anything nets me an extra +1 with splash weapons, of which I may possibly tote a few around with me.
Now that’s an item that has to have had a fascinating backstory.
“Gather round, heroes of the world ! A stone has fallen from the stars, bearing a few ounces of precious metal, the most durable the world has ever seen. What shall we do with it ?”
- We dwarves could forge a mighty armour with it, such as a god would wear. The man wearing that armour would become nigh-invincible !
- Nonsense. You’d only make it too small. We elves have the knowledge to make a magical sword with it, that could slay even the mighty Dragons ! Oh, and if the dwarves get it, we’ll sulk and it’s war.
- You wot ? If the elves get the metal, it’s war too !
- Meh, elven swords are too lithe anyway, no heft at all. Pansy stuff. We humans would bond the metal to the bones of a regenerating half-troll mutant with a bad attitude, using wildly unethical means to do so. Then unleash him for shady world domination murder business as convenient.
- Yeaaaaah let’s pencil that one as a “maybe”, ok ? How about you Bilbo ?
- We halflings could make a soup spoon with it. Maybe even a ladle. But, you know, a very good ladle that’d never bend while ladling soup.
- Do hobbit ladles typically bend ?!
- Not really. Far as I know that has never happened.
- … what the hell. All in favour of not letting the humans anywhere near the stuff ? The ayes have it. Make the fucking ladle."
Do we need to be concerned with firearms? Either facing or having access to them?