PnP RPG Thread

[Skele Von Mann]

I swear there was a way to have a Awakened Cat as familiar, that shot fireballs and had a dozen cat familiars of its own.

[Kimiko]

Does it have a bowtie?

[Skele Von Mann]

if you want


and some guy who had his rogue into a cat also had like a custom made crossbow that he could operate

[PLA]

[Kinokokao]

The 4e conversion looks interesting; the patron and familiar functions are certainly different than they are in Pathfinder. I like the Pathfinder witch -- I've got a great mix of versatile spells and my primary function is a de-buffer, which is really fun.

I'm rolling a new character for what we call the "B-Team" -- basically when our main characters, the A-Team, (in my case, Deneb) are off on the plot adventure, the B-Team stays at home and takes care of tiny "Monster of the Day" type adventures. Usually we run the B-Team when Mr Kino, myself, and the boys (the DM and his roommate) are all available to RP, but my co-worker can't join us, so we go on mini-adventures that don't advance the plot.

Anyway, my B-Team character is going to be a Cavalier.

And a centaur.

So instead of getting a mount, the centaur is his own mount.

[PLA]

[Kinokokao]

Pathfinder has a Cavalier Archetype that lets you pick any animal companion you are capable of riding, or any other beast with DM approval, at 7th level.

My DM and I are working out the mechanics of a centaur player character, since no existing character race appears. I think I'm going to get some monster feats instead of the normal mount bonuses, since they wouldn't apply to me since my character won't have a mount, he just is a mount.

I'm pretty excited. There's apparently a centaur plot hook I'll get introduced as a part of, and I get a cool rare longbow.

My DM wants me to go Paladin and take a specific archetype. I was going to go Cavalier, but whatevs! I'm not picky. Paladins get extra stuff like healing and that, and better saves.

[Drathi]

Would other people be able to ride your Centaur? It might add some encumbrance, I think.

[PLA]

[Kinokokao]

I'm asking my DM if I can let the PCs ride me.

We don't bother with encumbrance as a gameplay mechanic, so I'm trying to trade the standard centaur's armor-based movement restriction to a rider-based one -- normal movement 50feet, 35 feet if being ridden.

[PLA]

Do you have any lifting mechanics left? Could just repurpose those and give you a four legs lift bonus or something.

[Starfe]

I'm fairly certain Centaurs have an awesome racial strength bonus already.

[Kinokokao]

We don't mess with lifting mechanics, I have no idea what those are.

Pathfinder Centaurs have better dex than strength. I've ended up with insane saves, since I'm Centaur/Paladin (monster HD base saves + paladin base saves + charisma + modifiers = 12 is my lowest save, and I have 8 class levels). I'll be using a longbow the DM is going to give me as an artifact of my people.

[Drathi]

[Starfe]