Hello friends!
Game so far:
Starting the game we return from a long mission into the underdark to find our hometown destroyed. After some digging around we find out while we were under ground that something happened on the surface. One day most magic items suddenly stopped working. Then casters and children started disappearing. A army of cyric or bane(details unclear) marched through our town and took all children age of 8, and casters. New items can be made but for some reason it takes more materials now.
So I will spare you most of the details but eventually we catch up to a small part of the army and help defend a little village.
We started at 5h level, and just leveled up to 6 at the end of the game. The DM really hates way over powered characters so the optimizers in the group(myself included) had to kind of take it easy.
Other PC's are
Human paladin - tank. Not actually present for first game so idk details. great optimizer though
Dwarf fighter - trident + net style. seems pretty weak so far. not really optimized
zeph soulknife? - pretty sure thats what he is. sneaky.. ranged. a good optimizer, seems decent enough for a soulknife
Whisper Gnome, Were-Murder of Crows, Factotum - this is my character.. il go into more detail below.
House Rules
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1. No evil alignment
2. No book of 9 swords
3. Any class/race + 1 template from official wotc content is allowed
4. 25pt buy, starting gold 9k, ecl 5
5. Wondrous items are going to be rare/expensive and hard to aquire.
6. Magical enhancements to equipment have a x2 modifier unless you craft it your self.
7. Most items will not be for sale. Anything with a caster level over 10 has to be self made or found.
8. Material enhancement is allowed, ie mithral, cold iron, feycraft etc
9. To encourage not dumping stats he has given addition skill points per level based off of how close togather your stats are.
for my character how has stats 6 numbers apart I get 4 extra skill points per level.
10. You may take two flaws. Each flaw gives you 2 feats, or 1 stat point, but each flaw must be rolled randomly.
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My PC
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K so first off we modified the lycan template. Basically I dropped all the crow HD, BaB, Skills, Saves. What I kept were the special abilities, and the bonus feats
I just leveled up again, but this is my character as of now without adding the 6th level.
Whisper Gnome Were-Murder of Crows-2, Factotum-3 .
Str 10 hp:29
Dex 14 (18 when in hybrid) ac: 19(23 when in hybrid-size/nat etc)
con 14 spd:30/40 fly(ave)
int 16
wis 10 F:4/R:6/W:2
chr 10 Inspiration Points: 9
BaB: 2
Atk's: Swarm- d6/ blinding&distraction
Feycrafted Quickrazor - using grease/iajutsu focus
Feats(including flaws etc): Knowledge Devotion, Nymphs Kiss, EWP gnome quickrazor, darkstalker, font of inspiration x3
Special Abilities: *1/day silence/ghoust sound/mage hand/message
*Blinding(DC dex based), *Distraction(DC con based),
*swarm traits- half-damage from slashing and piercing, -immune to single target spells. cant be flanked/grappled etc
*DR 5/silver
Scent/LowLight Vision/Darkvision
Crow Empathy +4/communicate
Class Abilities:
cunning insight, cunning knowledge, trapfinding, arcane dilettante(grease), brains over brawn, cunning defense.
Equips:
*Wildshaping feycraft shadowsilk muffling - hide armor
clock of resistence +1
feycraft quickrazor
My main skills are: hide/ms, diplomacy/bluff, iajutsu focus, knowledges, search/spot.
Although I do have like 1 rank in everything pretty much
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So im not really sure where to go from here. Iv briefly looked over the factotum handbook and have decided chameleon would be nice so i can possibly craft my own items. But in this last game I ended up being the main damager/tanker pretty much. So im considering making more of a skillmonkey/battle factotum. AND!! at the same time, we have no healer really.. and it looks like we will be having a hard time getting any magic items..
so im kind of tossing afew diff ideas around in my head here as you can see. Also please take a look at the side note below
*interesting side note:*
[spoiler] My character for RP purposes is slightly insane. I have decided and gotten DM approval that once every 4 levels(this level!) a crow within the swarm gains its own intelligence, and personality. You may have seen me post afew threads on this before.
So this personality doesnt get any of my lycan stuff. just straight whisper gnome ecl 6. all equipment is the same, the physical stats must be the same. but i can move any mental stats around as i see fit.
Now to keep this balanced im making certain conditions for each personality to manifest.
So basically I get to make a new character!! Depending on what my factotum goes is how I will make this one. Im really considering making some sort of ultimate buffer cleric using persist and what not.
can you persist spells at 6th level? unfortunately for me cleric happens to be a class I have never really dabbled in.
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K so as you can is this is a lot to deal with here
Im getting alittle flustered lol.. this is my first factotum and they have huge potential. and so my brain is starting to slap me.. i have to go play goldeneye on the wii now.
must pwn newbs online
all help is super appriciated.