knighthawk

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Is it even that much of a difference? What with PF being basically more of the same with some "improvements" and even more classes to cater to the fanbase that was put off by 4e's approach.

@Jerkchicken

To qualify to become a shadowdancer, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
Feats: Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Mobility.
Skills: Stealth 5 ranks*, Perform (dance) 2 ranks.
3 feats and feats are available at 1st, 3rd, 5th character level. Ranks are available at 1/level and a +3 bonus for being a class skill instead of 4 ranks at level 1 or 2 for cross class. So RAW one can meet the requirements by 5th in any class.

But these are guidelines more than hard rules and I use them for myself more than against the DM so that I don't run amok doing anything I like and just yelling 'pirate' like a landbound jack sparrow. He has strengths and weaknesses, skills he has and skills he lacks. Claiming to have open/close and lesser darkness 3/day prevents me the player from spamming or getting too 'creative' if stuck in a spot.

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@knighthawk ...How did you get into Shadowdancer at ECL 6? It requires 10 ranks in Hide. At level 5, you can barely cover the 8 ranks in move silently.

Anyway, yeah, interested. Considering a ratcatcher who's getting into adventuring because he can either DEFINITELY die of plague while catching rats or PROBABLY die of being murdered in a dungeon crawl.

@clanjos

Pathfinder shadowdancer, not 3.5.

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@knighthawk While I usually like legacy characters, you appear to have just imported your ninth-level Shadowdancer and didn't try to condense your sheet into a readable form or explain how your character got their abilities beyond his mostly nebulous training with the thieves' guild.

As it is right now, your character has a relatively blank history and a laundry list of powers and tools he was given while training. I'll allow your character's abilities, Sneak Attack being what it is against undead, but I'd appreciate it if you rewrote it to be more... readable.

@Scrapula

6th level character, 5th rogue/1st shadowdancer, but who'e counting. ^_~
I understand. For what it is worth he is shockingly a fairly original character for me, original as in I haven't recycled it from my list of pre-made CS's or an immediate reject from another Rp just a day ago. I can embellish it some, how much more would you like?

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@Scrapula Finishing up the rogue character on the same post as the litch. the only thing left is the rest of the equipment.
roleplayerguild.com/posts/3636765

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Well. Getting a 4th magic user. Even if you do have melee skills to go with that, well...

Might be best to pick a different skill set.

@Scarifar

Please don't mistake maestro for a PC, He's a litch I'll controll for one of the regions. I haven't submitted my character yet.

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Yes. That is right. Sorry for all the fudge ups.

@KabenSaal

S'alright.

I was do close to finishing my CS and now all my progress is lost. Someone kill me.

@Witch Cat

Its okay, breathe. And quote yourself into a new post rather than editing a post, you have a chance to press forward and go back to where you were before you hit the back button or closed the browser.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Name:
Mortimer Hero
Age:
28
Alias:
Mortician
Appearance:

6' even with a swimmers build of 150.
Skills/Abilities:
Skills:
Boxing for fitness
Standard police detective work
Police pursuant driving skills
Small arms proficiency (preferring shotgun to pistol)
Abilities:
The ability to communicate with the dead. The more recent, the easier to communicate.
0-24 hours: Lots of panic and confusion as the death is so recent and they are frantic for help. It is difficult but not impossible to solve the simple crimes most easily in this small window.
24-72 Hours: More confusion than panic as they are coming to grips with being 'invisible' and probably seeing their dead body for more than a day. These are the most reasonable to deal with and can remember the most details of their life.
72-168: These are much of the last days he can communicate with the dead at the moment as the connection to them and the beyond becomes wispy and out of focus. This is most often single word sentences and pointing.
168+: If the ghost is still around at all, he is usually limited to psychometric impressions until his powers improve.
Weaknesses:
He is a beacon to other ghosts, often leading him to unpleasant conversations at inopportune times.

His power is constantly 'on' meaning his disruptions vary from seeing people in various stages of fading to mental flashes if he pulls out a a dining chair a man choked to death in.
History:
"I see dead people..."
Supposedly born to a librarian for the city and a doctor who lost her license over painkiller prescriptions so had to settle for being a mortician. His father always suspected the boy was not his for a significant reason, he was too good looking. Mortimer's father was a portly pockmarked man who enjoyed his port too much. By thirteen he was already taller than his old man and clearly of finer features. His or not, he was loved the same and carried the family name until his thirteenth birthday when the visions started. Flickers and flashes here or there made him think he was going nuts until he started getting pills to take. When one pill did not work, he took two, then four, then he met his real father.
Some say no two people see the underworld the same way as no two people live the same way. As well read as he was as a librarians child, he did not expect anything as palatial as he was shown; a Greek temple of all black marble with golden veins. There sitting on a throne was a well muscled man who had a scale on one armrest and an abacus on the other.
"This is a responsibility you are not yet ready for. You have not lost your mind, but you have lost your will. I grant you strength to return to the living and understanding of your new power."
He awoke from what was a 5 year coma from the overdose; leaping from 13 to 18 was a traumatic shift in body and mind but he put his renewed vigor to the effort and not only cut through the classes he missed out on but sharpened his skill with the recently dead in his mothers work. From catching up to graduating in only 3 years, he was 21 with his GED when he became a police officer, feeling that was the best way to use his powers to get information from the dead and have the power to persecute criminals to their full justice. That was 7 years ago, he made homicide detective after five and been an investigator for two years now.

Notes: I can see him becoming a 'spirit detective' for a supernatural group in the city or else a collector of wayward souls for his dad until he takes over the family business in a couple hundred years.
Some items i'd like to see him get is his dad's helm of darkness and a pen he can use to give the dead a chance to deliver a final message that keeps them tied here before being collected.

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I Just found this page and I hope it is struggling but not dead.

Litch

Name:
Maestro
Race:
Formerly half-elf
Personality:
The work, the work is all that matters.
Math, math is the music of the universe, everything is mathematical, everything is quantifiable. If math is the music of the universe and music is math perfected. Therefore there MUST be a perfect song, a song of the universe. Such things take time, time to do the math: years, decades, centuries. Meaningless to the math. Death is an inconvenience, not a necessity. Step one, remove the annoyance of death...
Background:
Born an orphan, raised in the church, thrown out for heresy. Picked up by a wizard, wizard died, not by me. Wizard showed me the value of knowledge and magic. Magic itself is not enough, magic as we know it rips, twists, distorts, changes.
We need scalpels, not cleavers. Sharpest edge is knowledge
Magic uses formulas, math uses formulas, music uses formulas.
Knowledge is power, bards know everything, become a bard.
Sleeping is limiting full potential, half-elf not enough to not need sleep.
Went to college, studied, learned, graduated with technical proficiency and academia, poor scores for lack of 'feeling the music' irrelevant.
Old now, work unfinished, mortality restrictive, remove mortality.
No sleep, no food, freedom to work. Much more efficent. Universe becoming more clear, very good.
Abilities:
Use Magic Device: The linchpin of his skillset is the practiced ease of using any scroll, wand, or other magic item in his arsenal. Or anyone else's arsenal as well. He possesses the strength of will and cunning mind to bend nearly any magic item to his needs, including divine devices for clerics or races beside his own like dwarven runes.
Litchdom: He has undergone the process of becoming undead through strength of will
Equipment:
Harp of harm:

Just a foot in the door before getting to far along here.

Thief

Name:
Zephyr
Race:
Sylph
Personality:
Aloof, airy, soft spoken and light on his feet, gliding more than walking and dancing when he is running, an excellent listener even if people don't know he is listening.
Background:
He was always...odd. Not counting the blue skin. His mother was a cleric to a god of luck and his dad was very lucky once. He traveled with her as she wandered, torchbearer and pot-scrubber, squire to whatever group they were part of. However, even a worshiper of luck runs out. She was in a casino when a fight broke out over cheating, a Spell went off and the casino went up in flames. Where was the god of luck then?

He was approached by the thieves guild, at minimum sorry for what happened in their casino. They took him in and taught him their ways while taking full advantage of his racial attributes. Ten years of training and he had paid off the debts and then some. He graduated as a shadowdancer, specialist in stealth, with full intent of becoming a wonderful spy.

Then a mountain appeared.

Abilities:

D&D-ish

Racial modifiers: Sylphs are more dexterous and intelligent than standard humans, if more fragile in constitution.
Racial subtype:Sylphs are outsiders with the native subtype. This is a double edged sword as it prevents him from being targeted by certain spells of the enemy like charm person or other hampering effects, but it also prevents certain buffing spells from targeting his alien physique as well. He can be healed and harmed from spells, just not buffed and debuffed.
Darkvision: He can see in the natural darkness for 30 feet without trouble, but magical darkness still blocks his vision.
Breeze-Kissed Breezes seem to follow most sylphs wherever they go, but some sylphs are better able to control these winds than others. A Sylph with this racial trait surrounds herself with swirling winds, gaining a bonus against non-magical ranged attacks. The Sylph can calm or renew these winds as a swift action. Once per day, the Sylph can channel this wind into a single gust, making a bull rush or trip combat maneuver attempt against one creature within 30 feet. Whether or not the attempt succeeds, the winds are exhausted and no longer provide a bonus to the sylph for 24 hours. This is a supernatural ability.
Like the Wind A Sylph with this racial trait gains a +5 foot bonus to her base speed.
Whispering Wind Some sylphs are especially thin and wispy, as though they were made more of air than flesh. Sylphs with this racial trait gain a bonus on Stealth checks.
Sneak attack X3 A rouge is still a rogue, when landing a blow the enemy cannot defend against, the damage is three times as powerful
Trapfinding Aside from the skills in disabling mere normal mechanical traps better than any layman, He is also skilled in disabling Magical traps as well.
Evasion Being as agile as he is, he takes half damage when he fails to avoid a trap and none at all when he successfully avoids them altogether.
Sacred sneak attack A skill he picked up traveling with his mother, Any sneak attack he lands counts as a 'good' weapon against undead only.
Trapsense Years of failing traps has taught him how to be just a little better at avoiding the ones that actually aim for him, improving his ability to avoid targeted traps
Gloom magic "Hello darkness my old fiend..." A simple spell to dim an area near him, either on him to hide better or dim another sort of light to make broad actions easier
Uncanny dodgeA lifetime of sneaking let him keep aware when someone is sneaking around him. he can not be surprised by merely invisible opponents or be flat footed in a surprise attack.
Hide in plain sight As a graduate shadowdancer, he can use his skills in Stealth even while being observed. As long as she is within 10 feet of an area of dim light, he can hide himself from view in the open without anything to actually hide behind. He cannot, however, hide in his own shadow.
Magical talent Sometimes a spell is just quicker. With a little memorization (and a tattoo on his arm from a page in a spellbook) he can open or close any unlocked door three times a day.

Equipment:
Cloak of the hedge wizard: Divination: at will—detect magic; 1/day—detect secret doors, true strike
Burglars bracers: On command, these plain leather bracers can transform into a set of masterwork thieves’ tools. They can transform back to their bracer form with another such command.
Cap of human guise: This threadbare hat allows its wearer to alter her appearance at will as with a disguise self spell, except she can only appear as a plainly dressed Small human child, adult halfling, or adult gnome, such as a peasant, blacksmith, or shopkeeper. The wearer can slightly alter the cap’s appearance as part of the disguise, but otherwise must match the overall unremarkable look of the illusory form. Though invented and primarily used by Small humanoids, it can be used by any Small or Medium humanoid creature.
Gloves of reconnaissance: Each of these fingerless worked leather gloves look as though they have seen heavy use, and often bear the stains or scent of grass or wet mud. On command, the wearer can use the gloves to see and hear though solid material no more than 15 feet thick by placing both hands on that material. The enchantment works for up to one minute in six second intervals that need not be used consecutively.

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No, actualism. Tell me when I make these kinds of mistaking fudge ups.

@KabenSaal

As you wish. So please, from the begining:
Starting stats are 1 Atk 3 Def 10 health with 6 free points for character creation. 2 bonus for returning character, then another 6 for pyrophobic and structural integrity negative traits. 14 total


7 points to Defense
1 point to attack
2 points for brick dust
2 points for human shield
2 points for Stoneskin

14 total... right?

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Wait, no. You got Pyrophobia for 4 bonus points. God dam it Knight, you gotta tell me about this stuff!

@KabenSaal

Confusing sarcasm?

And, no. Because ATK isn't brute force. Since Flare's ATK came from his fire powers, and Void's ATK came from her Void Powers. Basically, unless your powers otherwise stipulate, you are as strong as you would be without powers.

@KabenSaal

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