Gaming scheming
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shinyshinyelves game should be reading, please don't click the cut. No ultra-secrets in here, but I don't want to spoil any surprises.)
I'm thinking of restingcalair for a session or two - the party is temporarily clericless, and we could really do with one. Also, after reading through a recent purchase of Rey's, I had an idea for a fun character. Oh, let's just be honest, I want to play a necromancer for a bit.
But not the wizened cackling evil type, or the angst-ridden Tortured Soul (TM), because those have already been done to, er, death, and he has to fit into a mostly-good party. No, Johann is an optimistic young scholar - the youngest ever to earn a doctorate from the University of Nepla, this is roughly the look I'm aiming for - full of enthusiasm for just about everything, from his studies to his travels to his wonderful girlfriend.
(His studies are mostly concerned with the relationship between life and undeath, and trying to create a happy marriage between the two. His travels involved an extended visit to the Negative Energy Plane, which has somewhat altered him. And his girlfriend is incorporeal, that being a common side-effect of being dead. But he's cool with that.)
Game stuff: Clr3/Wiz3/True Necromancer 6; this is a prestige class that allows progression in both cleric and wizard stuff, and adds some bonuses for dealing with/animating undead. Lots of skill ranks in knowledge and magical skills, as well as Craft (Taxidermy), Craft (Alchemy) (mostly for making preservatives), Heal, and a bit of Diplomacy, because animating the dead means sometimes you need to do some fast talking.
Alignment is Lawful Neutral, cleric domains Death and Luck. He can cast healing spells, but does better at the 'inflict' ones (which are what's needed to mend undead and himself, anyway.)
Feat-wise: Spell Focus - Necromancy, Tomb-Tainted Soul (he takes damage from positive energy and heals from negative, just like undead), Fell Drain (adds an energy level drain to damaging spells), Undead Leadership (ghostly girlfriend and minions! yay minions!), Corpsecrafter (makes his undead tougher & stronger), and Destruction Retribution (if you destroy his undead, they release a burst of harmful negative energy).
Other stuff: Various magic items: stat-boosts, protective stuff, etc, and a Bag of Holding full of small undead animals. ("I bought a Bag of Tricks from a factory seconds outlet!") Lots of black onyx gems, since they're required for much of the raising-the-dead stuff.
To carry this stuff around, a skeletal horse, possibly with a stuffed head and tabard to make it look more lifelike. Because a horse is a horse is a corpse, of course. Also, you can store stuff inside the ribcage rather than messing around with saddlebags! He doesn't have any Ride skill, so I'm expecting him to fall off fairly often.
The ghostly girlfriend Bela is a bard, that being a handy class for ghosts. Still figuring out exactly what their connection is; I think it involves an unscrupulous mentor who Johann left behind on the Negative Energy Plane after realising he wasn't a very nice person. (Johann has a strong sense of right and wrong, it just doesn't have anything to say against digging up bodies and reanimating them in the name of SCIENCE!)
That's the character so far... evil suggestions gratefully accepted :-)
reynardo's shinyshinyelves game should be reading, please don't click the cut. No ultra-secrets in here, but I don't want to spoil any surprises.)I'm thinking of resting
calair for a session or two - the party is temporarily clericless, and we could really do with one. Also, after reading through a recent purchase of Rey's, I had an idea for a fun character. Oh, let's just be honest, I want to play a necromancer for a bit.But not the wizened cackling evil type, or the angst-ridden Tortured Soul (TM), because those have already been done to, er, death, and he has to fit into a mostly-good party. No, Johann is an optimistic young scholar - the youngest ever to earn a doctorate from the University of Nepla, this is roughly the look I'm aiming for - full of enthusiasm for just about everything, from his studies to his travels to his wonderful girlfriend.
(His studies are mostly concerned with the relationship between life and undeath, and trying to create a happy marriage between the two. His travels involved an extended visit to the Negative Energy Plane, which has somewhat altered him. And his girlfriend is incorporeal, that being a common side-effect of being dead. But he's cool with that.)
Game stuff: Clr3/Wiz3/True Necromancer 6; this is a prestige class that allows progression in both cleric and wizard stuff, and adds some bonuses for dealing with/animating undead. Lots of skill ranks in knowledge and magical skills, as well as Craft (Taxidermy), Craft (Alchemy) (mostly for making preservatives), Heal, and a bit of Diplomacy, because animating the dead means sometimes you need to do some fast talking.
Alignment is Lawful Neutral, cleric domains Death and Luck. He can cast healing spells, but does better at the 'inflict' ones (which are what's needed to mend undead and himself, anyway.)
Feat-wise: Spell Focus - Necromancy, Tomb-Tainted Soul (he takes damage from positive energy and heals from negative, just like undead), Fell Drain (adds an energy level drain to damaging spells), Undead Leadership (ghostly girlfriend and minions! yay minions!), Corpsecrafter (makes his undead tougher & stronger), and Destruction Retribution (if you destroy his undead, they release a burst of harmful negative energy).
Other stuff: Various magic items: stat-boosts, protective stuff, etc, and a Bag of Holding full of small undead animals. ("I bought a Bag of Tricks from a factory seconds outlet!") Lots of black onyx gems, since they're required for much of the raising-the-dead stuff.
To carry this stuff around, a skeletal horse, possibly with a stuffed head and tabard to make it look more lifelike. Because a horse is a horse is a corpse, of course. Also, you can store stuff inside the ribcage rather than messing around with saddlebags! He doesn't have any Ride skill, so I'm expecting him to fall off fairly often.
The ghostly girlfriend Bela is a bard, that being a handy class for ghosts. Still figuring out exactly what their connection is; I think it involves an unscrupulous mentor who Johann left behind on the Negative Energy Plane after realising he wasn't a very nice person. (Johann has a strong sense of right and wrong, it just doesn't have anything to say against digging up bodies and reanimating them in the name of SCIENCE!)
That's the character so far... evil suggestions gratefully accepted :-)
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Date: 2005-04-08 02:47 am (UTC)Today is a good day to be carrying my iPod, otherwise that will be stuck in my head all day...
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Date: 2005-04-08 04:43 am (UTC)Oh, BTW, Sith goes on his Arete 4 Seeking tomorrow.
Sith with Forces and Matter 4.
Mmm.
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Date: 2005-04-08 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-08 05:23 am (UTC)*nods*
Pleased to met you, Dr. Frankenstein.
Of course, you're not interested in bodies because you're evil or melancholic. You're actually interested in the secret of life itself..
You may even want to look at the person who discovered the circulation of blood, Michael Servetus, as a historical role model. An interesting aside to Servetus is his interest in demons and demonology.
(Although hopefully your character will not face such an end as he did)..
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Date: 2005-04-08 04:48 pm (UTC)He was also an early Unitarian and executed for heresy.
Don't follow the model too closely.
Now, DaVinci would be a better model. He studied the dead via dissection for both Art! and Science!
Your characters's healing knowledge would include surgery. Be afraid.
-m
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Date: 2005-04-08 09:51 pm (UTC)Well, the Unitarians claim him as one of there own, but theologians (Unitarian theologians at that) tend to agree that he was an unorthodox trinitarian.
As for being executed for heresy, well, yes, executed for heresy against Calvin. Wrong place, wrong time.
But all of this is kind of useful for someone who wants to roleplay a cleric (of sorts), verdade?
The secular Da Vinci, was an interesting chap in very many ways, doesn't quite, ahh, "cut the cloth"?
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Date: 2005-04-09 03:55 am (UTC)I wouldn't be too surprised if something similar happened to Johann in the end, although I'm trying to avoid that with decent Diplomacy skills...
Your characters's healing knowledge would include surgery.
Absolutely. And when that fails, he can fall back on taxidermy.
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Date: 2005-04-09 06:55 pm (UTC)I am going to be generous and give a little cross-class skill in leatherworking. But if another character's leg gets cut off and lost, and Johann decides to subtitute something from his inventory, you will have to succeed in that skill roll.