Ayedi_Star
2011-10-19, 09:56 AM
Playgrounders!
I'm currently looking up all I can for an amusing scene for my group: there's no real plot significance, though they may have the opportunity to earn themselves some nice XP or loot somehow.
I want to design the realm's "cutest" small-scale NPC adventuring group.
As such, I'm looking for all races that aren't just small, their Tiny or smaller!
Small may be okay in some circumstances, as long as they fit the micro-party idea. some things I've heard about / already seen but either I'm not sure on size or I want other options:
Race and possible role, this is meant to be deliberately cliche.
Petal (currently thinking cleric or druid, what would be her AC?)
Kenku (Rogue or 'the little Factotum that could')
Musteval (...I admit it, I'm thinking a Ferret-Paladin, here. special mount options?)
If it's possible to find tiny-sized plant creatures (Bonsai?) or a Tiny warforged, these would be amazing additions.
Currently also looking for an arcane caster race... a tiny, Awakened Raven is a possibility but I'd rather scope out the options.
Any other races that are naturally Tiny and liable to give my party diabetes, even if I have to stuff a "Reduce Person" on a small race?
The general idea is for them to encounter this party sometime within the next 3 sessions in one of the following ways:
1 - rescuing the npc party from a 'terrifying' Worg or similar.
2 - if the situation calls it, BEING rescued by them... I have no clue how the paladin would function in this instance, as everything else is not subject to size for at least one method of attack. (enlarge person him to small could work.)
3 - meeting them in town, on a non-combat situation, perhaps even trading a few things between the two groups, as magic items auto-size to suit.
It shouldn't matter, but if you want to take a crack at building one, ECL should be 4, I will most likely waive all racial LA (like the petal's) simply because they aren't going to matter unless they need to be useful - this isn't a request for build advice, but if anybody has anything to share, I'd appreciate the wisdom of the community.
TL;DR: Planning on a cute little Tiny-sized adventuring party, after input and offering a decent thought exercise on how they could at least provide assistance in "the big world".
I really don't know where this idea's appeal came from, I just keep remembering these races and thinking (as long as my memory is right and they -are- tiny... but I'd just make them that way, if they are not already) I want to make them and run them through an RNG-ran dungeon encounter, see how they do, and say "Yes, I made an npc group that took on a vicious Dire winged housecat and lived."
The story alone would be worth the time it would take to come up with it and RNG it all, I feel.
I'm currently looking up all I can for an amusing scene for my group: there's no real plot significance, though they may have the opportunity to earn themselves some nice XP or loot somehow.
I want to design the realm's "cutest" small-scale NPC adventuring group.
As such, I'm looking for all races that aren't just small, their Tiny or smaller!
Small may be okay in some circumstances, as long as they fit the micro-party idea. some things I've heard about / already seen but either I'm not sure on size or I want other options:
Race and possible role, this is meant to be deliberately cliche.
Petal (currently thinking cleric or druid, what would be her AC?)
Kenku (Rogue or 'the little Factotum that could')
Musteval (...I admit it, I'm thinking a Ferret-Paladin, here. special mount options?)
If it's possible to find tiny-sized plant creatures (Bonsai?) or a Tiny warforged, these would be amazing additions.
Currently also looking for an arcane caster race... a tiny, Awakened Raven is a possibility but I'd rather scope out the options.
Any other races that are naturally Tiny and liable to give my party diabetes, even if I have to stuff a "Reduce Person" on a small race?
The general idea is for them to encounter this party sometime within the next 3 sessions in one of the following ways:
1 - rescuing the npc party from a 'terrifying' Worg or similar.
2 - if the situation calls it, BEING rescued by them... I have no clue how the paladin would function in this instance, as everything else is not subject to size for at least one method of attack. (enlarge person him to small could work.)
3 - meeting them in town, on a non-combat situation, perhaps even trading a few things between the two groups, as magic items auto-size to suit.
It shouldn't matter, but if you want to take a crack at building one, ECL should be 4, I will most likely waive all racial LA (like the petal's) simply because they aren't going to matter unless they need to be useful - this isn't a request for build advice, but if anybody has anything to share, I'd appreciate the wisdom of the community.
TL;DR: Planning on a cute little Tiny-sized adventuring party, after input and offering a decent thought exercise on how they could at least provide assistance in "the big world".
I really don't know where this idea's appeal came from, I just keep remembering these races and thinking (as long as my memory is right and they -are- tiny... but I'd just make them that way, if they are not already) I want to make them and run them through an RNG-ran dungeon encounter, see how they do, and say "Yes, I made an npc group that took on a vicious Dire winged housecat and lived."
The story alone would be worth the time it would take to come up with it and RNG it all, I feel.