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quote:“Come in then, friends, and thank you for answering my summons so swiftly. The Pathfinder Society is in need. An old and quite penniless historian, a bespectacled wag-beard by the name of Yargos Gill has recently made a discovery in an old archive that we have a great interest in obtaining: an ancient codebook, left behind in the wake of one of many failed attempts at invasion. This several-hundred-year-old text would prove an excellent addition to our collection, and must be preserved." I would like to run a game of Pathfinder, but specifically using the Path of War classes, which I am a big fan of, but have rarely seen in action. I will be running this game through Discord: the semi-live chat format should let us drive this faster than a regular PbP, though we'll have to do a bit of "theater of the mind" as far as precise combat positioning is concerned. I'll be using a module, a Pathfinder Society adventure titled "Silent Tide", and this game will only run to the conclusion of it. Character creation: * Start at level 1 * Use the following array: 16 / 16 / 14 / 14 / 13 / 10 * All races are fair game * Use only classes from Path of War and PoW Expanded. That includes the Medic class, which was recently officially released. * Take two extra feats * Start with average wealth for your character. A Stalker, whose wealth is "as a Cleric", would have 140 GP to buy equipment with. I'll let recruitment run until Sun, Mar 26, 1200 GMT, at which point I'll pick a group and send them a link to the Discord channel that we'll be using.
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How many levels can we expect to get?
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# ? Mar 14, 2017 14:58 |
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slydingdoor posted:How many levels can we expect to get? Expect to go up to level 2.
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# ? Mar 14, 2017 15:02 |
I'll make a Warder - not sure if I'll have a bow or a 2h yet. Maybe I'll try out bushi since I haven't done that yet. Anias fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Looking at Zealot or Harbinger
slydingdoor fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Still working on background details but we're Kelish with a hint of something old (a water kami?) from tian in our blood. Using ancestor's blade to get a composite longbow. If you'd rather she not have one I can pick a different trait and throw kunai/dagger/etc but it's less samurai more ninja and I was trying to be more towards the former than the latter. We took hawkguard/zwei to trade away as much of the captain america "i have a shield" focus as possible from warder. Then had a similar decision when thinking about PFS factions and remembering that PoW had some. Joining the Empyreal Guards to eject iron tortoise was natural. I don't remember where silent tide is, but since it's PFS I'm going to assume we start somewhere near absalon aka God Rock, so we're in town having taken ship from Qadira. Rough Crunch. Revena posted:Revena Finally, the best map of golarian's inner sea Anias fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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slydingdoor posted:Looking at Zealot or Harbinger Thanks for your interest (again), slyding! Anias posted:Revena Thanks for signing up! Can I ask for a description of how she would fight under most circumstances? I'm guessing she's an archery-focused character?
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gradenko_2000 posted:
She's a switch hitter. Rapid shot and good dex means a capable archer who can full attack well enough, but I didn't spend her feats optimally for full specialist archer (I don't have deadly aim or precise shot, for example). She can also fight in melee with the katana respectably - between daisho expertise and deadly agility we're using dex for hit and damage with katanas, but we don't have power attack. We're a few points behind 'ideal' in either path, but in return we are servicable at range and in melee. An archer ranger or paladin is probably 'better' at doing this, but that's ok we don't need to be the best archer to still be useful. Her class gimmick beyond maneuvers most of which are kinda self explanatory (punch dude, punch 2 dudes, gain damage on punching dude) is her defensive focus. It sets up a zone of control, and as warders get higher level that zone becomes a real land of 'do not be here' for enemies. Right now she can take a full round action to set up a zone where doing a lot of things gets you punched (arrowed) in the face. The trade off she makes as an archer warder is that the 5' ring around her is safe from arrows to start later on she'll threaten that with her katana. Meanwhile the two rings further out from that are arrow zone are treated as threatened by her. This lets her actually try to tank by providing a big zone where the enemies really don't want to be provoking for fear of taking one of her 9 AoO. In terms of combat efficiency, it's better for her to full attack and focus fire something, but if there's a pile of mooks she can hold a bridge for a long time, and if she sets her mind to it getting past her to punch the wizard (we don't have a wizard) isn't going to go well. warder defensive focus posted:At 1st level, the defensive prowess of the warder is second to none, allowing her to focus her actions purely on defending himself and her allies in ways that cannot be replicated. The warder gains the Combat Reflexes feat as a bonus feat, using her Intelligence modifier in place of her Dexterity modifier to determine the number of additional attacks of opportunity she may make each round. hawkguard ranged defensive focus posted:The hawkguard is a deadly opponent as he focuses on protecting his allies and himself while planning his next moves. This functions as the normal warder defensive focus, except for the following changes. When taking a full-round action to recover maneuvers the warder threatens an area within 15 ft. of himself, except for adjacent squares. The bowman threatens this space only if he’s wielding a ranged weapon, and may make attacks of opportunity with ranged weapons as long as Ranged Defensive Focus is active.
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I may give this a try, since I just picked up POW expanded. To come: a Vanara Gunsmoke Mystic. My character concept in rough form: quote:
He's pretty much pure ranged, but since Animus renews every fight (And lets him free action reload with mind bullets), he doesn't have -that- many ammo concerns, and at 2nd level he'll just use his rifle for melee anyway. He stays to the back, goes into his stance in the first round, and shoots flaming bullets at people, saving the Wind Lancet+ Sands of Time for bosses that look like they might get tired. unseenlibrarian fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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quote:Toni Fighting: he's gonna stay in his Piercing Thunder stance forever, it gives him damage with shield bashes and spears, lets him retrieve all his weapons as a free action so he can throw them all and makes 1h spears light weapons. His shields are also light. When he's mounted, a lance is 1h and becomes light. This means he gets to use Weapon Finesse and Deadly Agility with them all even at range. He can TWF with the feat. Because you can't always start in melee, he can throw a shield or javelin at dudes to use his Sleeping Goddess and Golden Lion maneuvers at range, for big debuffs, since the Warder has the buff shout covered. If he needs to chase a tough enemy for a long time, his Eternal Guardian maneuver lets him always be able to make opportunity attacks on them no matter what move action they take. When he needs more maneuvers, he can use aid another as a move action because of Maneuvers Readied class feature and even on himself and at range because of his Compartmentalized Aid class feature to grant +4 bonuses because of his Adopted by Halflings (Helpful) trait and trigger his Zeal class feature to buff the party. He could buy a shitload of fancy nonsense with his 900 gold from the Rich Parents trait. Next level he gets Piranha Strike for more damage. If he can't have rich parents, I'll figure out some other way to spend his money. Probably switch out all the masterworks and chain shirt for hide. I think it'd still work but just suck a little more. http://www.d20pfsrd.com/path-of-war/classes/zealot/ slydingdoor fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Thanks slyding and unseenlibrarian, those look fascinating.
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I'm thinking of switching Cha and Con on my guy to increase his save DCs, but I don't know if it's worth the HP and Fort save loss. e; Went with it, changed races too and got all kinds of goodies while the skills stayed exactly the same Now that my Cha is higher I'm likely to change out some maneuvers for ones that rely harder on power points and saves, especially if there's another player who can take advantage of the debuffs. slydingdoor fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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All three of you get in! This is the link to my Discord: https://discord.gg/gDvAvcJ And I will meet you all in the #silenttide channel
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# ? Mar 26, 2017 13:26 |
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Anias and unseenlibrarian, can you post a picture of your character? slydingdoor, can you clean up your post to just the one character sheet that you're actually using? Thanks.
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# ? Apr 8, 2017 07:56 |
Here she is babysitting the half orc litter for her best friend. It's what convinced her to go into adventuring.
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# ? Apr 9, 2017 16:25 |
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You can level up to level 2, HP is half-rounded-up, and you can gain a feat as the normal feat you gain from leveling up. Please try to leave a quick blurb of what you gained this level, and let me know once you're ready.
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Revena Level 2 posted:Revena Anias fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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quote:Toni
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You know, you think it'd be easier to find a picture of a fantasy monkeyman with a rifle, as opposed to pistols, so for now, here.Level 2 posted:Vikram (A Monkey with a slight flaw in his character)
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