Everest
2011-08-01, 06:06 PM
This seemed like the appropriate subforum to use for this. Anyone interested in making One Piece characters? It's rather ambitious, as there are a lot of absurdly powerful One Piece characters, but will prove interesting if anyone wants to contribute. Also, if this thread has been done before, if you point me that way, feel free to lock this thread.
I've been in the habit of wanting to make monsters on a whim lately, but then I thought, why not try characters? I downloaded Sandstorm and wanted to make Crocodile. So far, I'm thinking put the Sand Golem and Elder Air Elemental together in a Medium chassis, though with slightly different ability scores and maybe not quite the same feats, because they both have stuff I like that I think would work for him, as a baseline. Yes, this includes both monsters' Hit Dice crammed together; in the War of the Best, he got tackled by a guy who had just been shown throwing an iceberg (think of how much mileage a Hulking Hurler would get out of an iceberg) and all but shrugged it off a few panels later if I recall correctly. Crocodile has a lot of HP. Then give him most of the sand-based spells in Sandstorm as at-will supernatural abilities (not SLAs, because using his powers doesn't leave him open like casting a spell does) and a few as his primary melee attack form (using touch attacks), plus whirlwind, maybe some quickened/altered for better action economy, and some as constant effects, plus immunity to . . . well, just about everything except maybe spells that attack Will, unless hit by someone with Haki (which we should work on as a mechanic) or when he gets wet.
Being a Logia user, he's probably going to be well above what a non-epic party could handle unless you get just plain cheesy or something or if you specifically prepare lots of water-based attacks (admittedly, if he didn't begin the fight airborne, a tsunami spell would do him in pretty well). If we find ways for him to be more damaging, the CR is gonna be pretty high, but the above stuff sounds about right, though it might also include a few things that he didn't originally do, but that might make him that much more interesting/threatening.
Anyone have their own ideas, for other characters or for if my idea for Crocodile is too haphazard? By the way, is there a Sand Elemental, and if so which book is it in?
I've been in the habit of wanting to make monsters on a whim lately, but then I thought, why not try characters? I downloaded Sandstorm and wanted to make Crocodile. So far, I'm thinking put the Sand Golem and Elder Air Elemental together in a Medium chassis, though with slightly different ability scores and maybe not quite the same feats, because they both have stuff I like that I think would work for him, as a baseline. Yes, this includes both monsters' Hit Dice crammed together; in the War of the Best, he got tackled by a guy who had just been shown throwing an iceberg (think of how much mileage a Hulking Hurler would get out of an iceberg) and all but shrugged it off a few panels later if I recall correctly. Crocodile has a lot of HP. Then give him most of the sand-based spells in Sandstorm as at-will supernatural abilities (not SLAs, because using his powers doesn't leave him open like casting a spell does) and a few as his primary melee attack form (using touch attacks), plus whirlwind, maybe some quickened/altered for better action economy, and some as constant effects, plus immunity to . . . well, just about everything except maybe spells that attack Will, unless hit by someone with Haki (which we should work on as a mechanic) or when he gets wet.
Being a Logia user, he's probably going to be well above what a non-epic party could handle unless you get just plain cheesy or something or if you specifically prepare lots of water-based attacks (admittedly, if he didn't begin the fight airborne, a tsunami spell would do him in pretty well). If we find ways for him to be more damaging, the CR is gonna be pretty high, but the above stuff sounds about right, though it might also include a few things that he didn't originally do, but that might make him that much more interesting/threatening.
Anyone have their own ideas, for other characters or for if my idea for Crocodile is too haphazard? By the way, is there a Sand Elemental, and if so which book is it in?