WarKitty
2011-01-08, 02:46 PM
The character I've created currently is a PF core only bard. Since this is a short campaign, I'd like him to be a back-up character for another game. The other game is PF with all 3.5 supplemental material allowed, excepting setting-specific or online-only material and spell compendium. Since this raises the power level, I'd like to get some advice on more powerful ways to do what I'm doing.
http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=11273 there's the link to the character.
Things that are not negotiable:
Race
Alignment
The Skill Focus (perception)
Things that are semi negotiable - must be replaced with a fluff equivalent:
The dazzling display (note weapon focus is a prerequisite)
Mechanical goals:
I am a trapfinder for the party. I am also a general sneak/bluff/diplomacize my way out of things character and the party face. Would like to be moderately competent in melee, but does not need to be top of the line, just able to hit things most of the time. Other abilities along the lines of dazzling display are also welcome in lieu of this.
Backstory:
Junren is the half-breed child of elven mage Ahilana, and a human mage. Junren believes his father to be a wandering magic item dealer. In reality, he is a carful breeding of his mother's.
Ahilana, always the politician, had chosen the father carefully. Her contacts at the human mage's guild had informed her of a particularly bright young man. She had used her powers of mundane disguise to pass off as a half-elf barmaid. The young man was easily seduced into becoming her lover. Once she had assured herself of a pregnancy, she pled her excuses and left town.'
The child was born safely. The boy was named Kamani for the sturdiness he had over an elven child. He grew quickly by elven standards, and his mother watched him closely for signs of the magical talent she had so carefully selected for. None came. In disappointment, she consigned him to the care of a maid, as he reached the age of 8.
The maid, true to her charge, began educating Kamani in the ways of elven nobility. Among these was music. Kamani took to the art as soon as he was introduced to it, learning rapidly.
One day, Kamani had been put into his court garb for a public showing. The outfit was a sky blue, a color the boy detested. He was playing his lyre. Suddenly the nurse noticed the color of his tunic changing, deepening from a light blue into a dark purple.
The nurse informed Ahilana of this development. Surprised, she called for the boy and put him through various magical tests, with his lyre and without. The boy performed various effects through music but was utterly incapable of doing them without.
Delighted that her careful planning had come through after all, Ahilana embarked on her original plan for Kamani's training. The 10 year old boy was given into the care of a bard and former thief, hired from a distant human city. He learned both musical training and how to sneak and not get caught from his mentor.
As he grew, Kamani began receiving small assignments from his mother. They started with little things, like finding out who a minor noble's lover was. Slowly they grew in difficulty and importance. Sometimes Kamani would be called upon to steal a rare scroll from someone's library. Sometimes he was even called upon to ensure a particular person fell ill at the right time.
One day, Ahilana called her son into the room. She had a special assignment for him. A certain noble was investigating too closely into Ahilana's trade with the dark elves. He needed to be made to go away - permanently. Ahilana gave her son two doses of powerful poisons and instructed him to kill the man.
Something in Kamani revolted at the idea. Nonetheless, he told his mother that he would. He put on his usual court garments of a young man out travelling between courts for pleasure, and grabbed his favorite horse, a fast courier, before setting out on the road. Not intending to return, he stuffed his pack with everything he thought he might need.
Once dusk approached, he turned his horse aside as if to camp for the night. He set up a false camp, then took his lyre out and concentrated very hard on being human. Thankfully, it worked - his ears rounded out and his skin yellowed into the appearance of the nearby humans. Then he rode as far as he could.
About 2 hours after dawn, Kamani reached a small city within the human lands. Recasting his spell, he formed his appearance into the darker semblence that his tutor had displayed. At the gate he declared himself to be Junren, a travelling sorcerer who had been visiting the elves to study his craft but was now going home to his family. He lodged for the night at an inn and rode off the next morning.
The young man provided this same story until he reached the coast. Leaving his horse and saddlebags at the temple of Ehlonna, he bought passage on a ship to the lands he knew of across the ocean. Once there he finally relaxed into his true form, a half-elf bard who traded his music to the innkeepers for his board. Still concerned about his mother's reach, he kept moving constantly.
Notes:
Since this is Pathfinder, you don't need trapfinding to find traps, although you do need it to disable magic traps. I would likely eventually want the ability.
I'm using the street singer variant from the APG: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/bard#TOC-Street-Performer
http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=11273 there's the link to the character.
Things that are not negotiable:
Race
Alignment
The Skill Focus (perception)
Things that are semi negotiable - must be replaced with a fluff equivalent:
The dazzling display (note weapon focus is a prerequisite)
Mechanical goals:
I am a trapfinder for the party. I am also a general sneak/bluff/diplomacize my way out of things character and the party face. Would like to be moderately competent in melee, but does not need to be top of the line, just able to hit things most of the time. Other abilities along the lines of dazzling display are also welcome in lieu of this.
Backstory:
Junren is the half-breed child of elven mage Ahilana, and a human mage. Junren believes his father to be a wandering magic item dealer. In reality, he is a carful breeding of his mother's.
Ahilana, always the politician, had chosen the father carefully. Her contacts at the human mage's guild had informed her of a particularly bright young man. She had used her powers of mundane disguise to pass off as a half-elf barmaid. The young man was easily seduced into becoming her lover. Once she had assured herself of a pregnancy, she pled her excuses and left town.'
The child was born safely. The boy was named Kamani for the sturdiness he had over an elven child. He grew quickly by elven standards, and his mother watched him closely for signs of the magical talent she had so carefully selected for. None came. In disappointment, she consigned him to the care of a maid, as he reached the age of 8.
The maid, true to her charge, began educating Kamani in the ways of elven nobility. Among these was music. Kamani took to the art as soon as he was introduced to it, learning rapidly.
One day, Kamani had been put into his court garb for a public showing. The outfit was a sky blue, a color the boy detested. He was playing his lyre. Suddenly the nurse noticed the color of his tunic changing, deepening from a light blue into a dark purple.
The nurse informed Ahilana of this development. Surprised, she called for the boy and put him through various magical tests, with his lyre and without. The boy performed various effects through music but was utterly incapable of doing them without.
Delighted that her careful planning had come through after all, Ahilana embarked on her original plan for Kamani's training. The 10 year old boy was given into the care of a bard and former thief, hired from a distant human city. He learned both musical training and how to sneak and not get caught from his mentor.
As he grew, Kamani began receiving small assignments from his mother. They started with little things, like finding out who a minor noble's lover was. Slowly they grew in difficulty and importance. Sometimes Kamani would be called upon to steal a rare scroll from someone's library. Sometimes he was even called upon to ensure a particular person fell ill at the right time.
One day, Ahilana called her son into the room. She had a special assignment for him. A certain noble was investigating too closely into Ahilana's trade with the dark elves. He needed to be made to go away - permanently. Ahilana gave her son two doses of powerful poisons and instructed him to kill the man.
Something in Kamani revolted at the idea. Nonetheless, he told his mother that he would. He put on his usual court garments of a young man out travelling between courts for pleasure, and grabbed his favorite horse, a fast courier, before setting out on the road. Not intending to return, he stuffed his pack with everything he thought he might need.
Once dusk approached, he turned his horse aside as if to camp for the night. He set up a false camp, then took his lyre out and concentrated very hard on being human. Thankfully, it worked - his ears rounded out and his skin yellowed into the appearance of the nearby humans. Then he rode as far as he could.
About 2 hours after dawn, Kamani reached a small city within the human lands. Recasting his spell, he formed his appearance into the darker semblence that his tutor had displayed. At the gate he declared himself to be Junren, a travelling sorcerer who had been visiting the elves to study his craft but was now going home to his family. He lodged for the night at an inn and rode off the next morning.
The young man provided this same story until he reached the coast. Leaving his horse and saddlebags at the temple of Ehlonna, he bought passage on a ship to the lands he knew of across the ocean. Once there he finally relaxed into his true form, a half-elf bard who traded his music to the innkeepers for his board. Still concerned about his mother's reach, he kept moving constantly.
Notes:
Since this is Pathfinder, you don't need trapfinding to find traps, although you do need it to disable magic traps. I would likely eventually want the ability.
I'm using the street singer variant from the APG: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/bard#TOC-Street-Performer