I like that you could essentially break Team Bonnie down as a bunch of solo villains pushed together and that Team Everybody Else is the well-balanced party of adventurers to take them down.
Funnier thing is that around half of Team
Everybody Else Profit are evil and kinda proud of it but I guess when compared to the vampire lords out for blood and a sinner angel they would still count as the lesser evil. "Only the king crab, meat merchant, killer robot maid and chain devil can save us now!"
Hello Osle,
Would it be possible for me to create some form of use-activated..uh..stone or something that my various minions back in my hoard would be able to tap (with a claw or leg or whatever) in order to activate a 1/day sending? I'd like some way for them to be able to communicate with me in case something bad is happening and I need to defend my hoard from invaders
From the creating magical items formula, Sending is 4th level cleric, so Would need 7th level cleric, so 4 * 7 * 750 = 21000 / (5/1) = 4200gp - does that sound about right? Not sure how I'll fit this into my budget, but I feel like leaving my hoard with no way to react to invaders would be a bad idea...
Sounds good.
But for the Vrock, it can teleport away from melee range and snipe you by flinging stuff with telekinesis from 880 feet away, do you have a way to deal with that? If not you'll probably need to pump your combat numbers a bit higher until you can at least beat the fire giant.
The Vrock will first have to overcome SR21, and to deal with Spell Reflection as every missed projectile comes back to smack him himself by his own action. I think he will get tired of that cute trick very quickly.
Looking again at the Fire Giant, I remembered a.) that I have Combat Expertise to pump up AC and b.) that Fire Giants have really, really terrible Touch AC. I should be able to keep tripping him and whittling him down, although it may take some time with the Expertise penalty eating up valuable Power Attack space.
As pointed out by Ketaro, SR doesn't protect from being hit by random objects flinged with telekinesis, just if the Vrock tried to fling you or something you're holding.
However if you can beat the Fire Giant after all then your character should be ok.
Everybody Else: Jarob22+Skyrock+Nytemare3701+Nashork(+YumeaCurtis 2nd character). Two tanks, one offense and one utility that hopefully can take care of healing too.
Looks good to me.
I'm fine with Nytemare's Mexilheoira suggestion. I could see the Cenobites of the Doombringer being used as a deniable asset for troubleshooting when shit has hit the fan and the iron fist needs to come out - which very much the succession crisis situation. "I'm Mister Wolf. I solve problems."
Great, Mexilhoeira was meant to be more of a background prop but if it got the players interested then it can be your meeting point/support as a mercenary band.
My plan now history-wise would be that the Mexilhoeira government is paying you to go meet the 3 knights in Jóia and figure out what would be best to do in the situation so Mexilhoeira's mercenary reputation isn't (too) damaged since the knight trio wanted to rescue the queen and she ended up dead and the country in chaos, so basically you would either support the knights and kingdom in defending and rebuilding, or decide it's a lost cause and time to cut the costs and bring back the knight trio before they screw up something else, or figure out some 3rd path up to your discretion depending on what you observe in the field. Again, your primary objective is making sure Mexilhoeira's mercenary reputation stands strong.
Bio completed and Personal Maid completed. A bit tanky but not so good at the hitting things without maneuvers. Adding to the party someone who actually doesn't have weird supernatural self-healing, just cooking. The backstory is basically to have a personality but not take a -2 int penalty on an int class.
I assumed no flaws/traits were available and to use NPC WBL, not PC.
Correct on NPC WBL, but you can give your minions flaws/traits as long as it doesn't make them too stronk.
My advice is to just go find a list of Power Metal bands and steal one. You're a fantasy setting rock band with a vampire lead. There's not a more suitable genre.
Anything can be a Power Metal Band name.