chaoschristian
2009-01-18, 07:01 PM
First, I want to thank everyone who helped me out a few weeks ago when I asked how best to get my kids started into rpgs. We picked up copies of Faery's Tale and Ork, are reading those and preparing for some fun.
Now to the business as hand.
There's a new group starting up in town and and I've beening thinking of various different kinds of characters I could play (depending on the setting of course.
Should we decide on DnD as the system (most likely) there is one character I would like to play, but don't know how to build.
I want to make a puppeteer. No, not a Puppet Master. I've seen the thread on that and elsewhere on the net. I'm not interested in a character who manipulates puppets of death remotely. I am thinking more in terms of a bard style person, who instead of using music and instruments to alter the outcome of events uses magical puppets.
For example, one puppet could have a personality that is very suave and smooth talking and would impart a bonus to diplomancy and bluff checks.
Another might be very fiesty and inspire courage or give a bonus to taunt checks.
The point being is that the character uses different puppets for different situations and it's through the puppets that he interacts with the world. Without them he is very bland and ordinary save for his one talent of being able to make magical puppets.
But that's the hook, how do I build a character who can have both the mechanical skill of crafting a puppet and the magical skill of infusing them with personalities that manifest when he uses them as well as the puppets themselves being able to effect outcomes.
I guess in a way it would be like a character who could craft magic wands, but being completely ignorant of the details of this and not having any of the material I'm at a loss. I just have the concept, no way of seeing if it would actually work.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Now to the business as hand.
There's a new group starting up in town and and I've beening thinking of various different kinds of characters I could play (depending on the setting of course.
Should we decide on DnD as the system (most likely) there is one character I would like to play, but don't know how to build.
I want to make a puppeteer. No, not a Puppet Master. I've seen the thread on that and elsewhere on the net. I'm not interested in a character who manipulates puppets of death remotely. I am thinking more in terms of a bard style person, who instead of using music and instruments to alter the outcome of events uses magical puppets.
For example, one puppet could have a personality that is very suave and smooth talking and would impart a bonus to diplomancy and bluff checks.
Another might be very fiesty and inspire courage or give a bonus to taunt checks.
The point being is that the character uses different puppets for different situations and it's through the puppets that he interacts with the world. Without them he is very bland and ordinary save for his one talent of being able to make magical puppets.
But that's the hook, how do I build a character who can have both the mechanical skill of crafting a puppet and the magical skill of infusing them with personalities that manifest when he uses them as well as the puppets themselves being able to effect outcomes.
I guess in a way it would be like a character who could craft magic wands, but being completely ignorant of the details of this and not having any of the material I'm at a loss. I just have the concept, no way of seeing if it would actually work.
Any help is greatly appreciated.