Rough and Tumble: OOC

[Stratovarius]

Trade Common, which you're automatically fluent in. The rest of the languages are race specific, by and large.

[VennDygrem]

I made up a naming convention for my character based on what little was available for the race. I assumed Low-Caste Biyou would not have a family name and would in its place have a word indicating their caste,  which I made up based on the name of their race and nation being similar. It's not official so that's just my presumption, which can be left out if different fluff presents itself.

[Nanshork]

You people are no help.   

[phaedrusxy]

You people are no help.   

I think the ritualist/ritual warrior might fit in better than the martyr, but likely either could work and would probably generate about the same amount of friction.

[Nanshork]

You people are no help.   

I think the ritualist/ritual warrior might fit in better than the martyr, but likely either could work and would probably generate about the same amount of friction.

I'm leaning in that direction, and Ritualist more than Ritual Warrior since we've already got some beatsticks.

Martyr just doesn't appeal to me much.

[skydragonknight]

You people are no help.   

If you choose Martyr, don't break valuable items. If you don't choose martyr, don't break valuable people.

[Stratovarius]

You people are no help.   

If you choose Martyr, don't break valuable items. If you don't choose martyr, don't break valuable people.

I will let you break the HD cap if you sacrifice SkyDragonKnight. His race is extra tasty 

[Stratovarius]

As promised by my WIP Character Sheet: Strat, educate me about the Heginyn, so I can be an in-character thingperson.

Here you go. You aren't from a very nice group of people.

[Gazzien]

As promised by my WIP Character Sheet: Strat, educate me about the Heginyn, so I can be an in-character thingperson.

Here you go. You aren't from a very nice group of people.

I never said I wanted to be.

Although I am sad that One Single Cut now has to pay to repair things, still ;a;
-Can they tell what properties it will have once they reassemble it?
-Can they use one piece of sundered equipment to repair another?

[Stratovarius]

That line on cost is actually taken from using the Craft skill to repair things. I just copied it over.

And no, to both. Still need to Id the item, and I can't really see using multiple pieces without it doing a number on the enchantments from conflicting magic.

[Gazzien]

That line on cost is actually taken from using the Craft skill to repair things. I just copied it over.

And no, to both. Still need to Id the item, and I can't really see using multiple pieces without it doing a number on the enchantments from conflicting magic.

Ah, so if they want to repair things in the field, they need to bring materials and such with them... got it.

...
Crap, what am I going to do for materials. I already spent my money.

[Stratovarius]

Find loot. You're a D&D player.

[Gazzien]

Find loot. You're a D&D player.

Oh. So I can use normal loot. Okay, good, it's somewhat like the Ancestral Relic then?

I was thinking I'd need to go back, buy iron scraps, leather, etc and manually repair the items... (though I guess that doesn't make sense, as it's only an hour of work)

[Stratovarius]

As long as you have enough gold to pay for it, I tend to treat it as having the required repair items stuck around somewhere. Especially since it doesn't directly require having materials.

[Nanshork]

So, unless the party specifically needs a healer I'm going Ritualist.

I guess I should buckle down and playtest the material I'm helping iron the kinks out of.

[Stratovarius]

You'll be the first player ever. This will be interesting. Curious to see what feats/rituals you start out with. And what race, even

[VennDygrem]

Now that I think about it, which would technically be more fruitful; taking Power Attack at first level, with which I can only take a -1 to attack with a +2 boost to damage, while taking Tactician allows me to add +3 to an attack with no attack penalty. Power Attack will scale and applies to all attacks in the round, though at this level I won't likely be making more than one attack in a round. In a few levels there will be more attacks and I could take power attack at 3rd. It's basically short term vs long term payoff.

[Stratovarius]

Remember there's no feat retraining, so that first feat will be with you more or less forever.

Mathematically, Tactician is going to be ahead at least until level 3, and probably all the way up until 6th. It's definitely a feat that's best at 1st level and one that diminishes the longer a campaign goes on. If you're looking for straight damage, you do get a slightly better return on the elemental feat (3.5 vs 3), although that's not multiplied on crits.

The other option is Status Assaults (Torturer feat), which would give you the ability to entangle, dazzle, or intimidate foes more or less at will. None of those are great save or sucks, but they're all useful, and two of them are swift actions.

On that note, I was debating creating a series of 3 level long classes that matched the 8 or so feats like Tactician. Thoughts?

[Nanshork]

You'll be the first player ever. This will be interesting. Curious to see what feats/rituals you start out with. And what race, even

Race is easy.  I need that extra Ritual feat (and I won't go human just to playtest your races). 

[Stratovarius]

Race is easy.  I need that extra Ritual feat (and I won't go human just to playtest your races). 

Human is probably worse than Hastro anyway, at least for Ritualists. It's a free feat and skill vs a free feat and +2 Cha (the other benefits being fairly situational).