fake magic in a magicless martial 3.5 game

[crillitor]

My friend and I are taking part in a lvl 3 purely martial game in 3.5. No arcane, we have clerics available but they have been nerfed/limited. I have a scout/dervish already to go but my friend want to play a more difficult character to make. We have the standard level 3 starting gold of 2700gp to play around with.

He want to make a character (maybe rogue?) that uses "smoke and mirrors" tactics to appear to use magic. DO you guys have any suggestions on how to go about starting a character like this?

[Snowbluff]

I heard there is a PrC called Charlatan (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?PHPSESSID=ml458sgvm2tji6oi0pa3pq6e03&topic=6543.0). Sounds pretty sweet. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsx9xGY9bc) They pretty much do magic tricks to pretend to have magic, and the rest of their class features are Bluff-based.

[Urpriest]

There was a whole "Rogue refluffed to caster" thing awhile back. Quite well done. Does anyone remember who did it/which thread it was in?

[Kazyan]

There was a whole "Rogue refluffed to caster" thing awhile back. Quite well done. Does anyone remember who did it/which thread it was in?

Lord_Gareth, I believe, in what he referred to as THE THREAD. Pick it out of the current thread asking when refluffing steps out of bounds.

[Waker]

Originally Posted by Lord_Gareth View Post
Since you didn't go ahead and define this in any meaningful fashion, here goes nothing:

Kyria Thorne, Battle Conjuror [Rogue 11]
Spoiler
"Olidammara preserve, would you shut up? I'm trying to think here."

Appearence: Kyria is a lean, well-muscled elf that favors light leathers, breeches and her ever-present belt of many pockets, which is usually overflowing with an odd assortment of materials and components. She keeps her blonde hair in a short pixie cut and has the grin to go with it; she always seems to be laughing at people, rather than with them. Kyria can often be found streaked with soot or grime from her arts.

Combat: Kyria would rather avoid a direct confrontation if she can, but she's not adverse to the odd scrap or even a fight to the death if something she cares about. Her opening action is to conjure one of her knives into her hand from her belt of many pockets [Mechanically: she uses her Quick Draw feat] with a quick gesture. If at all possible, she opens up the battle with an ambush, taking advantage of an unaware enemy to line up her storm of steel into their vital areas [Mechanically: Sneak Attack]. Once she's been ousted, Kyria will try and gauge the abilities of her foe and act accordingly, sweeping her cloak over herself to vanish into her pocket dimension [Mechanically: Cloak Dance feat followed up by a Hide Check].

On the defensive, Kyria makes extensive use of both protective magical items and conjured defenses to keep more physical attacks at bay; temporary walls of magic allow her to avoid extreme harm from mass-scale attacks if she times it right [Improved Evasion] while phantasmal knives and short swords watch her flanks to keep foes at bay [Improved Uncanny Dodge]. If the going gets rough, Kyria vanishes into her cloak before using her phantasmal stride [Tumble] to step past her enemies and flee the scene and live to fight another day.

Took a bit of digging.

[Vladislav]

I also recall there was a thread about the the mighty Barbarian Wizard somewhere

[TuggyNE]

I also recall there was a thread about the the mighty Barbarian Wizard somewhere

Korg the Magical (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195049)! Fear his arcane powah! :smallbiggrin:

[Vladislav]

Broken link fix: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=195049

That's the real Korg

[ThiagoMartell]

Korg is not actually refluffed, he just believes he is a wizard.