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Dread Angel
2013-04-21, 03:28 AM
So in the game I'll be running starting next Saturday, there's something similar to the Heroes Guild in Fable. Except it's actually government-run. The only restrictions here are non-Evil and the characters have to have some form of loyalty to the country - be it to the crown, to the military, to the people, the common good, etc. It works like an adventurers' guild, with each Herald intended to be able to work with others. They are ranked according to their mission success rate.

And I'm currently compiling a list of various NPC Heralds, some of whom will have cameos at some point. some of whom will be more actively involved in the campaign and story, depending on how things unfold.

So what I would like is for you to throw some bare details of your favorite PC you've ever played in Pathfinder at me, with the following format please:

Name:
Race:
Age:
Class:
Personality:
Favored Combat Style:
Trademarks:


For example, here's one of my PCs laid out in this style:

Name: Aelric De'Vair
Race: Human
Age: 29
Class: Rogue
Personality: Amiable, witty, mischievous, Aelric has a tendency to pull elaborate pranks on everyone around him.
Favored Combat Style: He makes it look easy, the way his rapier dances through his opponents' armor.
Trademarks: His rapier inflicts both fire and cold damage in a spectacular blaze of red and blue fire, he wears an elaborate mask with enchanted ruby lenses, and is always dressed impeccably and elegantly in expensive-looking, high-fashion clothing - kept tidy with a little magical help, of course.


UPDATE:
Your PCs written in so far: Arkhan the Magus, playing the role of a veteran Herald who teaches aspiring Heralds the basics of martial and magical combat as well as advanced Magus students. A supporter of the PCs in general, who will eventually step in to defend them from unjust allegations and backstabbings.

Chen the Halfling Ninja: A member of the group of Heralds who graduated shortly before the PCs, first encountered on their way to their first mission. Her group is just returning victorious from their first mission, and they put the PCs to the test. All in the name of good practice, of course. Chen is not a vocal supporter of this idea, but goes along with it because she sees it as the quickest way to have done with the whole thing and get back to the Heralds Hall.

The Drifter, Gunslinger: Planned in as a Herald who is sometimes seen around the hall but stays aloof and only takes solo jobs, who will intervene in a timely manner and save the PCs from an ambush at some point.

Felandria the Sorceress: A direct competitor to the PC's caster - she's slightly older, slightly farther along in her training, and picked on him somewhat. Another one of the group of Heralds who have the run-in with the PCs, she's the principal instigator of the encounter.

Zedior the Wizard: I've advanced his age somewhat - he's the main Wizardry and Magic Theory instructor with the Heralds.

PlusSixPelican
2013-04-21, 03:52 AM
Here's two of my current (and very different from each other despite both being Chaotic Good) Bards;

Name: Alice Walsh
Race: Human
Age: 19
Class: Bard (Soundstriker)
Personality: Vivacious, idealistic, brilliant; loves challenges, hates tedium.
Favored Combat Style: Distracting her enemies and bolstering her allies, or literally breaking people with words.
Trademarks: Hats with a feather, green eyes, freckles, (usually) blonde hair, very charismatic, a flair for melodrama and the arts, a healthy (pan)sexual appetite. She also has a noticeably excellent rear end. (As pointed out by the DM.)

Name: Claudia
Race: Catfolk
Age: 9
Class: Bard
Personality: Curious, inventive, has a sweet tooth.
Favored Combat Style: Using magic and music to overcome her obstacles, occasionally whunking things with a big sword she has.
Trademarks: Having no parents, shortness, naivete, Spanish guitar, being adorable to deceive her foes, being a carnie, frequently asks inappropriate questions.

BWR
2013-04-21, 05:02 AM
Name: Ar'lynith Tiri-elle von de Dr'chenflamme (Lady Ar'lynith to you)
Race: Human Dragon Disciple (red) female
Age: 21
Class: Sorcerer 7, Dragon Disciple 3
Personality: Haughty, stylish, elegant
Favored Combat Style: Fireball, scorching ray, Fear, magic missile
Trademarks: Heir to one of Alphatia's kingdoms, has a tendency to look down her nose at non-casters (all casters are by law nobles in Alphatia), can sweet-talk or scare you into anything (Diplomacy +32, Intimidate +27) and is always perfectly attired (numerous minor spells to hide scales, make clothes look and smell good, etc.)


Name: Othariel Ainamar
Race: Elf female
Age: 22 (Mystaran elf, not PHB)
Class: Paladin/Ranger
Personality: joyful, kind, enjoys a good joke or a minor prank, vow of chastity
Favored Combat Style: elven curveblade (power attack, cleave)
Trademarks: relaxed and happy so long as people do not act un-lawfully or evil. Often willing to allow minor slips go with a warning. Minor pranks (like sneaking into the dwarf's room at the in and tying a pink ribbon in his beard) are just fun.


Name: Ranya
Race: human female
Age: 20
Class: cleric
Personality: seductive, fun,
Favored Combat Style: healbot or shield and mace (terrible at using it)
Trademarks: out of adventuring gear is dressed very provocatively and by many standards she is rather promiscuous. However, her Immortal is one of passion and drama, and she would rather promote a love story among NPCs (or PCs) than just spread her legs. If she picks up on romantic tension between two people, she will keep an eye on them and nudge things if they aren't getting anywhere.


Name: Arkhan
Race: Elf, male
Age: 24 (again, Mystaran elf)
Class: magus, bladebound
Personality: strict, law-abiding, loyal to his king and his friends, in love with Othariel
Favored Combat Style: bastard sword with intensified shocking grasp
Trademarks: Long wavy brown hair, serious, big Black Blade (which is actually a relic of ancient Blackmoor, with the explicit purpose of trying to convince elves that technology is better than magic. It hasn't quite grasped that it is no longer a tech artifact)
Fond of his pegasus (Bucephalus), his sword and ruminates continually about finding and killing the dragon that stole his bag of holding. When he's not pining over Othariel, that is.

Dread Angel
2013-04-21, 05:47 AM
Thanks for contributing - those are all awesome, I'll definitely add them to my list!

Xerxus
2013-04-21, 05:59 AM
Name: Delin Okrak
Race: Dwarf male
Age: 53
Class: Cleric (Crusader archetype) of Torag
Personality: Gruff, tough, loyal and quick to judge.
Favored Combat Style: Full Plate, Tower Shield, Warhammer, cast some appropriate buffs then enter the fray. Bulls Strength, Compel Hostility and Shield of Faith are typical.
Trademarks: First and foremost, he is a dwarf and devoted to Torag. He will look out for the interests of dwarves and attempt to benefit dwarves at every turn. Will always favor as heavy arms and armor as possible.

Tokuhara
2013-04-21, 06:01 AM
Name: The Drifter (Called Blondie by his former compatriots)
Real Name: Simon Blackmarsh
Race: Human
Age: early 30's
Class: Mysterious Stranger Gunslinger (note that he also has No Name [Grit] and Without a Past)
Personality: The Drifter is a mysterious man who likes to keep to himself.
Favored Combat Style: He's known as "The Fastest Gun in Golarion" for a reason. His trademark Vicious Dragon Pistol is his preferred weapon, though he also carries a handaxe he earned from the Dwarves for his service to their king.
Trademarks: The Drifter always has a lit cigarillo in his mouth, especially during a fight. He's very much the kind of guy who will help you, while expecting a reasonable reward. Has a hatred for any bandits.

Baroncognito
2013-04-21, 06:06 AM
Name: Meridash Tumbly
Race: Halfling
Age: 23
Class: Ranger (shapeshifter) 6/Bard (Archeologist 1)/Dragon Disciple 6 (copper)
Personality: Cheerful, friendly even while fighting, is an awful liar but doesn't let that stop him, he'll continue with the lie long after the truth is obvious to everyone involved.
Favored Combat Style: Up close and personal with claws and teeth. He's conscious of the flavour with every bite.
Trademarks: He's something of a minimalist. He's got his armour, what he's wearing (which includes his magic items), a bag of coins, and an ioun stone of continual flame. He has a change of clothes and he remembers exactly where he buried it if he ever needs it again. He never packs food, eating just whatever he can scavenge with his survival skills.

Dread Angel
2013-04-21, 06:14 AM
All kinds of awesome stuff here! I'm a big fan of some of these, and it's gonna be fun having them pop up in the game..

Amnestic
2013-04-21, 07:50 AM
Name: Elen "Elly" Verin
Race: Human
Age: 26
Class: Bard
Personality: Vain, but outgoing and kind nonetheless.
Favored Combat Style: Support.
Trademarks: Her magic violin and a vocal disdain for religious institutions. Known as a smooth operator, she'd much rather sweet talk her way out of a situation than fight.

Fouredged Sword
2013-04-21, 08:24 AM
Name: Fin Cornala
Race: Elan
Age: 60ish, 25 since rebirth
Class: Vitalist (sadist, life-leech)
Personality: Everyone loves to dislike Fin. He is abrasive and rude, without tact or good grace. He is a good guy, and wants to help, but he is injury prone and tends to make enemies.
Favored Combat Style: Support / damage.

Trademarks: Fin clambers around in full plate with a tower shield. He almost falls over in it, but he doesn't care. He is pathetically weak and uncoordinated. He is even more unlikable than he is weak and clumsy. He focuses almost entirely on buffing allies with animal affinity and vigor while steeling HP with his life leech abilities. He has a massive pain target on his back and if he wasn't so dang tough he would have been dead a long time ago. Between a high constitution and the ability to spend PP to mitigate damage he is rather hard to kill.

He doesn't trust horses. He gets from place to place with an ox drawn medium wagon. (He has a single rank in prof (driver) to help this). He is also a gifted mundane surgeon who can stitch up wounds without needed magic. He has the Combat surgeon trait allowing him to sew up people twice in a day.

Jeff the Green
2013-04-21, 04:08 PM
These are 3.5/3.P, but should be fine as NPCs in a PF campaign.

Name: Davkhur
Race: Undead Illumian
Age: 41 (21 alive, uncertain dead, 20 undead)
Class: Beguiler//Archivist (could be converted to Wizard 20)
Personality: Egotistical, cunning, and utterly unconstrained by the truth, Davkhur works as an "acquisition specialist," specializing in religious artifacts. He characteristically speaks in short phrases when not expounding on a topic he's interested in, leaving out subjects, verbs, articles, and prepositions wherever he feels they're unnecessary. He prefers to work alone as much as possible, and tends to treat his colleagues as patsies, but when necessary he can work with a team. Strictly speaking, he wouldn't be loyal to a country, but war and chaos is bad for business.
Favored Combat Style: A combination of illusions and summons. Generally a few powerful creatures and then illusions of slightly weaker ones. The illusions distract enemies while the real ones tear them apart.
Trademarks: He typically wears only loose-fitting pantaloons and paints his body, the patterns depending on what he's doing. If he's busy, he paints garish, off-putting designs to discourage people from speaking to him. If he's trying to assuage someone's doubts, he goes for calm swirling patterns. He frequently makes use of ancient designs.

Name: Malachi
Race: Halfling
Age: 37
Class: Dread Necromancer
Personality: Malachi considers himself a paladin first and foremost. It's not his fault his uncle and teacher turned out to be evil and taught him forbidden magic. He wears armor and wields a lochaber axe into battle and speaks in an archaic tongue. He rides a ghostly hound into battle named Black Shuck.
Favored Combat Style: He specializes in causing fear in his enemies, though he can also animate dead bodies and typically has some large fearsome zombie or skeleton under his control. He is also at least proficient with weapons and more than willing to use them.
Trademarks: He wears a helmet with four heads: a dragon that serves as his visor, a lion facing right, a demon facing left, and an angel facing his rear.

Name: Atalanteia ('Teia)
Race: Dryad
Age: Ancient
Class: Cleric
Personality: Brave and intelligent, but also vengeful, 'Teia began her career when her tree was cut down. She quickly bound to a livewood log that had also been felled, shaped it into a bow, and hunted down the men who destroyed her forest. After that she wandered.
Favored Combat Style: Climb up walls, cling to them with alchemy or magic, and pepper her foes with arrows.
Trademarks: She is, to her amusement and occasional frustration, worshipped as a god by a "pack of nutters." Her bow, if broken, can be repaired with a plant growth spell. She also can grow tree-branch like limbs and tendrils out of her back to help her climb.

Duboris
2013-04-21, 05:53 PM
I'll do you one better and give you hero that turns on them at one point.

The Boz
2013-04-21, 06:06 PM
If you ever end up needing an evil character that isn't a villain, possibly turned down by the guild, you can have my monk.

Name: Ashvale
Race: Human
Age: 19
Class: Monk (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=13536035#post13536035)
Personality: Silent, suspicious, logical. He believes that mortal combat is the purest form of self expression, and that rules and contests only muddy the waters. He is, however, willing to pull his punches, but only if he is convinced that the fight will not even come close to testing his prowess.
Favored Combat Style: As a physically weak melee combatant, Ashvale uses precise unarmed attacks that inflict internal bleeding, and he sometimes causes fiery blasts to appear when he strikes. Surprisingly durable and athletic for someone who appears so physically weak. Uses throwing knives (functionally identical to shurikens) when needed, but prefers hand to hand combat.
Trademarks: Short, thin, his hunched posture shields a scroll case he hides under his robes, and the scroll case always contains some kind of text that he's been studying. He is a student of ki, anatomy and linguistics, always looking for an edge to further perfect himself.

Slipperychicken
2013-04-21, 06:32 PM
Name: Randall Greene
Race: Human (side note: we need to diversify the races a bit... too many humans)
Class: Master Summoner4.
Personality: Commanding, cautious, arrogant, uncaring, yet loyal to the Mage's Guild. His complete control over summoned monsters detaches him, and makes him feel like his allies are chess pieces to be ordered around the board.
Combat Style: Spams his SM ability, ordering them to form flanks for his allies, then buffing them with spells like Haste, and sometimes throwing down a Grease to CC enemies. Tends to order his allies around.


Can I enter a PC who I haven't played yet?

Kane0
2013-04-21, 07:51 PM
Name: Vardon Stonehewer

Race: Human

Age: 23

Class: Warlock (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274643)

Personality: Quietly confident, easygoing with his own ideals (Treat as Chaotic Neutral with a decidedly good bent). He tries to stay tuned to his surroundings and is overall a caring and responsible individual (if a little immature), but often when under duress will give way to much more Lawful Evil behavior, which he attributes to an unknown entity that he cannot expel.

Favored Combat Style: Ranged Blasting with a peppering of debuffing and battlefield control.
He likes to use his Darkness together with his See the Unseen to force attackers to find him whilst taking damage while he throws around Brimstone / Hellrime Bursts or iterative Eldritch Blasts. If in serious trouble he attempts to Flee to a safer location where his Fiendish Resilience can patch him up. He also keeps his Dispels ready just in case.
Favored Invocations: Eldritch Burst, Brimstone Blast, Hellrime Blast, Darkness, See the Unseen, Fell Flight / Flee the Scene, Voracious Dispelling

Trademarks: Vardon is a competent jeweller and accomplished creator of magic items. He also has a large working knowledge of the planes, magic and religion but has had no real education, leaving the source of his knowledge a mystery. He is a constantly filling well of magical energy, which must be regularly dissipated in some way lest it injure and eventually consume him. This also means that a detect magic cast in his direction will make him light up like a Christmas tree.

Because of this Vardon is always wearing a magic vest under his armor which allows him to safely dissipate the magic energy he is constantly generating. He also wears a custom made gauntlet with silver bracelet attached that he uses to control his Eldritch blasts (acts as a combined Gloves of Eldritch Admixture (Electrical, it's unique) and Chasuble of Fell Power). He is also never seen without his snakeskin belt, which is actually his Viper Familiar.

Starbuck_II
2013-04-21, 07:52 PM
So what I would like is for you to throw some bare details of your favorite PC you've ever played in Pathfinder at me, with the following format please:

Name:
Race:
Age:
Class:
Personality:
Favored Combat Style:
Trademarks:


For example, here's one of my PCs laid out in this style:

Name: Aelric De'Vair
Race: Human
Age: 29
Class: Rogue
Personality: Amiable, witty, mischievous, Aelric has a tendency to pull elaborate pranks on everyone around him.
Favored Combat Style: He makes it look easy, the way his rapier dances through his opponents' armor.
Trademarks: His rapier inflicts both fire and cold damage in a spectacular blaze of red and blue fire, he wears an elaborate mask with enchanted ruby lenses, and is always dressed impeccably and elegantly in expensive-looking, high-fashion clothing - kept tidy with a little magical help, of course.

Name: Zgyjhu Chestman
Race: Human
Age: 23
Class: Rogue (Ninja)
Personality: Bart tries to do the right thing, but the has trouble knowing it sometimes. He takes jobs depending on money value.
Favored Combat Style: Kusarigama or blowgun depending on range on target are often used by him.
Trademarks: Poison is used a lot by him, Dhabba Spittle is commonly used
because it is cheap and nauseates foes.
Sadly dame ended before got far.

Lhurgyof
2013-04-21, 08:02 PM
Oh, cool.

This character was in Dark Sun, so he can come from a "Desert land far away" if need be, or another plane as he can escape the crystal sphere.

Name: Seefi Lüs

Race: Athasian Yuan-ti Pureblood (They look like normal purebloods, but have jamaican features). Looks almost like a thri-kreen in his armor.

Age: I think he was like 10 years old? Yuan-ti mature quickly in Dark Sun. But he could be older if need be.

Class: Monk/Psion/Warrior of the Sun (Custom Prestige for levels 41-60)

Personality: (Lawful Neutral) Very wise and outspoken. Confident and cocky, but reserved around those who wield more power than him. Purpose in life is to bring balance to all things, holds the title of "Leveler".

Favorite Combat Style: Old school kung-fu movie style fighting. Mostly jumping kicks. (Jump-kick as a line attack, flurry on charge, then kick someone to the moon!).

Trademarks: Clean white Ghi with gold trimmings. Life-shaped Thri-Kreen "armor", (Thri-kreen helm, tendons, and boots), Still Suit (http://cinetropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dune-paul.png).

Eyes glow a serpentine blue, and he worships the sun. Can jump anywhere he can see with no skill check involved (could just be ridiculously good at jumping in a low-level setting).

(Rediculous level 60 character sheet for reference (http://m1riotworldhistory.wikispaces.com/lhurgyof))

Scow2
2013-04-21, 08:05 PM
Name: Dagryl the Gnoll

Race: Gnoll

Age: Young adult.

Class: About as much as the Jerry Springer Show Ranger, with a possible 1-level dip in Bard (To get Linguistics and Bluff as a class skill, and access to cantrips).

Personality: (Alignment - Chaotic Good/Neutral) She loves to toe the dangerous line between "Socially acceptable for a gnoll" and "Why do we even keep this goddamn bitch around". She takes refuge in audacity, and can often be crass and vulgar. Her behavior tends to cross lines multiple times. Prone to hedonism, sick jokes, backhanded compliments, excessive double-entendres (Her comments should come across less "Someone shut her up" and more "Did she really say that?"). Also a voracious eater. One of the best crazy friends/drinking buddies you can ask for, though.

Favored Combat Style: Switch-hitter, with judicious use of Ghost Sound and other cantrips (If bard) to set up ambushes. Also prone to confusion-fu. Loss of Ranger levels means she's not as good at ranged combat as she is in melee, where she favors the Heavy Flail.

Trademarks: Perfect imitation of other's voices, an obnoxious laugh, and exotic 'body art' on her shoulders (Usually every icon possible mashed on top of each other). Also, brightly-dressed and usually well-groomed, to distinguish her from her smiteable brethren

DaOldeWolf
2013-04-21, 08:06 PM
I´ll post both characters of a slightly out of the norm campaign where each player got to play two chars. They are a band based a round the theme of luck:

Name: Citrine Swiftclaw
Race: Catfolk
Age: 21
Class: Summoner
Personality: Cit is a happy-go-luck catfolk with a great desire to help and serve. Cit is quite naive and truly believes that know is evil. Thanks to being raised in the high society, he is a good diplomatic character but he can be also be picky due to his high standard. He is an optimist to the very end and doesnt care much for being the spotlight.
Favored Combat Style: Cit mostly uses buff and debuff spells with a few summoning spells when he believes it necessary. His main weapon in battle its his partner, an eidolon with an appearance of a huge dragon with great battling capabilities. Together, they assist their teammates in any way possible.
Trademarks: Cit is a black catfolk that wears a purple robe in runes on the ends of the sleeves, both wear a headband on their forehead to cover the rune and his spear has a design similar to a dreamcatcher just before the pointy tip. He also carries a banjo which he uses in his performances with his eidolon, Slyfe and his animal companion Strips. The eidolon is known for its beautiful voice when performing.

Name: Slyfe Faraway
Race: Bunnyfolk (HB*)
Age: 23
Class: Cleric with Animal and Travel Domains
Personality: Slyfe is a cynical and grumpy character. He offers a more pragmatic point of view for life. He is a careful planner but also a veteran. He prefers to be battling at the front line but knows when it is more important to offer support in the back. He is quite an extremist and prefers to deal with the problems for good (even killing). Still, he also possesses a fun side, he likes to joke and party when isnt on duty or battling. He also has a great belief in destiny.
Favored Combat Style: By whacking the forces of evil with his morningstar, one head at a time while being assisted by his tiger companion, Strips. Using a few debuff spells and healing after battle. He also summons monsters as a favorite tactic of his. In emergency situations, he always spells from his travel domain.
Trademarks: Slyfe is a silver bunnyfolk that wears leather armor and his holy symbol on his neck. He also carries in his back, the tiger´s red drums and his small light blue trumpet.

*Mechanically speaking they are almost the same as the catfolk. They possess only three differences:
*Racial Score: +2Dex, +2Wis, -2Cha
They have a burrow speed of 15 feet.
Their defensive trait is like the Cat's Luck trait but it applies to Fortitude.

about50heavies
2013-04-21, 09:18 PM
Vivisectionist alchemist
Alignment chaotic neutral

Human

Alestor krory
Formerly a doctor who found regulation to be impeding progress so he abandoned the profession to see the world and find new test subjects
Personality

- mildly crazy, snarky
- sorta the doctor who can heal all your sicknesses in a semi painful way
- doesn't mind psi as he has experimented with his body
- always aims for the most painful spots
- prefers taking enemies alive for mild experimentation

Mjollnir075
2013-04-21, 10:29 PM
Name: Rolan, The White Wolf
Race: Human

Age: 30

Class: Druid (Wolf Shaman)/Ranger (Natural Weapon Style) with Shapeshifting Hunter feat

Personality:Quiet and serious to a fault, unless in battle, where he lets the bloodlust free. He feels most at home in the form of a white wolf, of any location appropriate size. He favors scouting ahead in this form. He has a strong lawful bent, and punishes those that would bring chaos to the natural world.

Favored Combat Style: Buffs himself while in wolf form, then goes to town on his enemies. He understands the way of teamwork, and willingly works together to flank enemies and bring them down.

Trademarks: He wears a wooden helm shaped like a snarling wolf head, covered in runes. He is lightly armored, wearing a darkwood set of breastplate, gauntlets and greaves, enchanted to grant him speed and stealth.

Felandria
2013-04-22, 12:43 AM
Name: Felandria
Race: Half Elf
Age: 22
Class: Sorcerer
Personality: Self centered but extremely loyal, she craves excitement and is desperate to prove she's as awesome as she thinks she is, and she despises when people treat half breeds as inferior.
Favored Combat Style: Despite her aversion to the idea of dying, she is always in the middle of the fray, using touch attacks and party buffs to end battles as quickly as possible
Trademarks: Very tall with long flowing red hair, she favors tight outfits for the combat advantages, she knows she's beautiful but doesn't rub it in, and loves to gently mock her allies, but will gladly put her own safety at risk to defend them.

Ravens_cry
2013-04-22, 01:22 AM
Chen
Race: Halfling
Age: 29
Class: Ninja
Personality: Cynical and pragmatic with a heart of ice, she hunted down her unfaithful husband (a gnome) to the other side of the world. Finding that he was dead, she agreed to help an adventuring party in exchange for getting him raised.
Having completed her side of the bargain and received her reward, she killed him again herself.
Very long term goal orientated, she works well with others if they can help attain said goals. Her morals and ethics tend to be a simple "What gets the job done." Lies are just another tool to her, though she does not lie explicitly to her companions, favouring the 'You never asked' approach if it ever becomes necessary.
Combat style: Two Weapon Fighting with twin Agile wakizashi, she favours going invisible, and cautiously, scouting ahead using ninja abilities, such as turning invisible even after attacking, walking through walls, and jumping to high perches. Various wands, especially fly, are used frequently. Fly in particular can be great way to get around traps and foes.
When faced with unfamiliar enemies, she goes invisible from a hiding spot and then does a seemingly ridiculous dance, watching her foes reactions carefully. If they seem to notice her, she knows they can see her. This makes her very cautious, almost timid. While she will move to a flanking position if all else fails, she prefers her enemies to never have even known she exists.
Trademarks: Wearing a conical straw hat and peasant's clothing typical of the common people of Tian Xia, her skin, dark, and hair, short and curly, mark her family as having been originally native to the Mwangi Expanse. Her eyes are an icy blue, startling in contrast to her dark complexion.
Unless forcibly taken from her, she is never without her twin wakizashi, "Master Fang's Teeth", named for her late teacher and master to whom they once belonged.

SeekAndDestroy
2013-04-22, 02:14 AM
Name: Hlaine Larkin (I know, it was intended as a tribute to the Gaunt's Ghosts character)
Race: Human
Age: 26
Class: Targeteer Fighter/Deepwood Sniper
Personality: Very jovial, upbeat and humorous. However, when it comes time to do his job (ie. shoot things), he can get very serious.
Favored Combat Style: Blitzing as many crossbow bolts as he can into a target, from as far away as possible, with as big a crossbow as he can find/purchase/get someone to steal/abduct. (Splitting, various weapon modifications to allow full attacks with the real big ones, etc.) Uses a silvered longsword as a backup weapon, and isn't above mixing some unarmed combat into his melee (Snap Kick and the like.)
Trademarks: Carries an enormous crossbow, as noted. Easy to get along with, but will poke and prod at characters who he feels are "too uptight" (stereotypical paladins/clerics of LG deities, knights, anyone who takes themselves too seriously). Dresses in a fairly utilitarian manner, and carries ridiculous things that you wouldn't expect someone to just keep on hand ("Of course I have a mirror, a shovel and flasks of acid! You never know when you'll need these things!")

Name: Tir'miel Orian'kiir
Race: Elf, not that you could really tell without looking at the ears...
Age: 120
Class: Warmage
Personality: Boisterous, hot-headed...some might call him hammy, but those people would be simply OUTRAGEOUS to do so!
Favored Combat Style: Light 'em up and blow 'em away. Fire spells are a particular favorite, but he's not above blasting them with whatever it takes to get the job done. One favorite trick to annoy enemies is to light them up with violet faerie fire before blowing them to kingdom come.
Trademarks: Far rougher around the edges than your average elf, almost to the point of behaving like a human in most situations. Favors dark blues with green trim.

The Boz
2013-04-22, 02:43 AM
Hlaine is jovial, upbeat and humorous?
O...K.

Sivarias
2013-04-22, 03:47 AM
This is from 3.5 but I've heard it's an easy calculation

Name: Merrilor Shar'nodel (Savage Moon-Hunter in Elven)
Race: Wood-Elf
Age: 120
Class: Elven Ranger 1/Ranger2/Elven Ranger1 (Maxing favored enemy vs. Lolth's servants)
Personality: No-nonsense Tacturn. Chaotic-Violent. Driven. Focused
Combat-Style: Elven Warhound flanks foes while he trips and rakes them with his classic longsword-handaxe combo (Think Jack be quick with a vicious large dog.
Trademarks: Deep forest green cloak to better hide in darkness. White bandana to cover a gash from left eye to right chin that is inflamed-red, never heals and oozes puss, kept as a reminder. Longsword and handaxe dual weilder. Mastiff sized green feral elven warhound beside him. Will stop at nothing to end the drow's miserable existance. The servants of Lolth will perish, and if you are in my way I WILL go through you without a second thought.

Spuddles
2013-04-22, 04:07 AM
Name: Calls himself Xerxes, appelatives include the Wise, Scalekin, the Fair, and the Shrewd
Race: Human (kobold). His skin is a little too hairless and his pupils a little too slitted for him to pass off as a regular human.
Age: 105
Class: Sorcerer (scaleykind bloodline) 6/Sandshaper 1
Personality: Pragmatic, loquacious, conciliatory, logical, reasonable, devout. He serves law and community, seeking to spread the benefits of trade and civilization to the wilds of Golarion. His patron is Abadar.
Favored Combat Style: A silver tongue and a staff of fire. Summons creatures made of sand to protect himself. Gets a lot of mileage out of Ray of Stupidity & Create Pit as he loathes to kill when he can subdue.
Trademarks: Always impeccably dressed and clean no matter the weather, thanks to prestidigitation & endure elements. Carries a large alabaster key (designs inlaid with gold, mithral and jade) about his neck. It is both the holy symbol of his Lord in the Beyond, Abadar, and the key to the City of the Dead, the place of his ancestors.

Hyena
2013-04-22, 06:40 AM
Name: Theresa Traynor
Race: Half-hobgoblin
Age: Early thirties
Class: Swordsage
Personality: Deeply religious, kind and forgiving. She wants to be a hero, despite being obviously unsuited for the job. Loves people and tries to be in the center of the crowd eveywhere, but those tries are groan-inducing. Bears a strange love for bad puns and unwelcome snark. Every time she fails, she is into a short period of depression, but quickly gets over it and is ready to fail in new, spectacular ways.
Favored Combat Style: Because of extreme lack of physical strength, sneaks up to her enemies, uses underhanded tactics like choking her enemies from behind and paralysing wands to avoid combat at all, but when she is forced to fight, she fights with her lightning-infused quarterstaff and tries to take down the enemy as quickly as possible and hide in shadows again.
Trademarks: Bad luck. People she likes tend to die painfully, while she gets crippling injuries because every time she thinks she is to take down a weak gang, she meets an orge. Every time she plans to fight the ogre, a demon attacks. When she goes out of her way to defend against the demon, a dragon wakes up after years of slumber and curb stomps her. No matter how hard she tries, she can not best those around her around her, and while the true heroes meet the appreciation of the folk, she is always somewhere near them, failing horribly in helping people and green of envy.

fishjam
2013-04-22, 06:57 AM
Name: Cassius Merrow

Race: Human

Age: 23

Class: Wizard(focused specialist conjurer)3/cleric 3(farlaghn)/mystic theurge 4

Personality: obssesive compulsive book work, Severely lacing in martial skill, or willing. A serious wanderer, on a constant quest for more books and stories. Very likely to be a librarian if he wasnt an adventurer. Loves to draw maps and never likes to cheat his travel. Irritatingly clever, but allows others to try things before he solves them, because otherwise they will never learn.

Favored Combat Style: Hide behind the fighters and give encouragment.
Trademarks: 4 Spellbooks, All filled with spells. No weapons. Dirty clothes and poor footwear. Always without money. Refuses to every "cheat" travelling ( no teleports, flying etc) as life is about the journey, not the desitnation (his catchphrase that he reminds people off). Abject coward when a fight is involved.

yougi
2013-04-22, 07:20 AM
Name: Zedior Greatblade
Race: Human
Age: 22
Class: Wizard 9
Personality: In public, boasts a lot, tells exaggerated stories of his own adventures, puts on shows using his spells as SX; in private or while on an adventure, tries to understand every small details, often does experiments to learn what is really going on.
Favored Combat Style: Likes hit-and-runs. Likes to cast confusion on one enemy in a bunch while from hiding to soften them up before attacking. His equipment is defense-focused, and as such often ends up too close to the enemy. He uses the fact that he's fire resistant to cast melee fireballs.
Trademarks: He always wears blue, although his clothes usually end up singed within the minute. Usually has his two war dogs (from his robe of useful items) around him while not adventuring.


Name: Small Loo (real name Luknescor Ravensborn)
Race: Halfling
Age: 59
Class: Spellthief 11/Abjurant Champion 2
Personality: Small Loo has a pretty important inferiority complex, which many would blame on his height (he's small, even for a halfling). He however has a strong and enjoyable personality and always seems to have a new couple of minions around him, whom he convinced into helping him (i.e. acting as meat shields). Does not actually go in dungeons, only accepts in-town missions.
Fighting Style: Likes to snipe from higher ground (often rooftops). Obviously focuses on spellcasters. Also likes to use summon monster spells (from wands mostly). When the fight is all but won, will come into melee to finish off his enemies from up close.
Trademark: Pirate-themed clothes (bandana, tricorne hat, trenchcoat). Often seen sitting on the shoulder of his latest meatshield.

SeekAndDestroy
2013-04-22, 08:33 AM
Hlaine is jovial, upbeat and humorous?
O...K.

I'd like to defend myself slightly here. I originally started using the character when I was in middle school, so I was fairly creatively bankrupt. I basically took the name because I liked it and needed one for an archer-style character. He was never intended to be a direct one-to-one parallel to the Larkin of the books. That's why he's fairly young and in decent mental health, not a middle-aged schizophrenic who sees spirits.

I've got other characters I can pull out of the bag of tricks if having that name attached to that personality is going to be too weird/disruptive. I've just used the character so long that he's become kind of a default for me.

Chained Birds
2013-04-22, 10:29 AM
Name: Oars B. Wisely
Race: Half-Orc (Adopted by Human Family)
Age: 21
Class: Barbarian (Invulnerable Rager)
Personality: Optimistic, Friendly, Intimidating if his brother or friends are in danger.
Favored Combat Style: Uses his Intimidating figure and voice in combination with his massive weapon strikes to demoralize and destroy his adversaries. He has trouble holding back.
Trademarks: Large, Bushy Mustache that connects to his sideburns. Suffers a bit from Gynophobia. Misses his human brother who left on a spiritual journey as a Cleric of Cayden. Wields a Minotaur's Great Maul that is a Heirloom Weapon from his blood relatives he visited when he was a teenager. Carries a large, stone coffin around with him that is actually a weaponized trap that sprays a cone of acid when opened.

Samshiir
2013-04-22, 10:49 AM
Name: Atorian Silverspear
Race: Elf
Age: Young Adult
Class: Neutral Good Fighter/Bard/Wizard (Bladesinger)

Personality: Atorian follows in his father's footsteps in the art of the elven Bladesong style. He is not as powerful of an archmage as his father, but makes up for it in martial expertise with his Moonblade, passed down to him by his father.
Atorian has a twin sister named Sharlaria who is a very talented mage. Sharlaria is considered the voice of reason and patience of the siblings, while Atorian is widely known as the ambitious boy that was always eager for adventure.

Favored Combat Style: Longsword (Elven Moonblade) / Defensive Magic

Trademarks: Always dressed as if he is going to an elegant elven dance, even when he is ready for battle. He uses his abjuration spells and defensive fighting techniques to protect him. He also has an elven Moonblade passed down by seven generations of Silverspears before him.

Gwazi Magnum
2013-04-22, 10:59 AM
Name: Urik Garrul
Race: Orc
Age: 15 (Just hit adulthood and left his tribe around a year ago)
Class: Fighter
Personality: Blunt, to the point, Logical (As in he's not like most people who will let emotional mishaps and humans needs for drama blur things, he'll just look at the situation and act accordingly), honor and respect for those proven to be powerful in battle may it be from sword, bow, magic or other means
Favored Combat Style: Longaxe or Double bladed sword when aiming to kill. Longbow when something simply cannot be reached while his blades, his fist when his aim is not to kill the other person.
Trademarks: His strength is almost things of legends. It's rumored he's strong enough to lift and throw a full sized dragon with little effort. Punching through walls, tossing a normally unmoveable object out of the way are common solutions of his when need be. Also when he trying to intimidate foes he sometimes has a habit of juggiling them for nothing more than to make a mockery out of them.

navar100
2013-04-22, 12:11 PM
Name: Mord
Race: Human
Age: 19
Class: Oracle, Life Mystery
Personality: Jovial
Favored Combat Style: Buff himself and others, go into Energy Body, heal people, occasional Power Attack/Furious Focus with a long spear.
Trademarks: Wears shades to cover his eyes. His pupils are malformed into a shape of an ancient rune. It was a birthmark. Likes to pretend he's blind even though he's not truly completely so, just has clouded vision. Always drinks with a straw, even ales at the pub.

Deathkeeper
2013-04-22, 01:15 PM
Name: Jacen Vallarm
Race: Human
Age: 19
Class: Sorcerer (Arcane)
Personality: Laid back and calm in most instances. He's not necessarily snarky, but he has a good sense of humor. (He once told a devil possessing a friend and spitting hellfire to please leave before he singed the carpet).
Favored Combat Style: Buff teammates with Haste or X's Y, start blasting with Fireball and such. Usually in the middle of the group to move wherever he's needed.
Trademarks: Blue cloak. At all times. Very dynamic relationship with his familiar, which usually sits on his shoulder or in his hood. Goes by "Jace." He's very big on team-playing and will try to lead, but is very careful about making sure everyone makes it out okay. A very musical person, he likes to talk, but not in an arrogant way, he's just friendly. He's pretty good at the piano, although he's no bard. He has exactly one berserk button: do not threaten his familiar for any reason. Jace has had some emotional problems he's only gotten through with his familiar's help, and he treats him like a little brother.

Also including his familiar, because Jace simply doesn't work without him

Zebes
Pseudodragon (copper-scaled)
Age: 4
Familiar
Personality: Take Jace. Now give him the snark and cynicism that comes from being nine inches tall. That's Zebes. He's very good-natured, but has a sharp tongue (metaphorically) and makes sure everyone knows his opinion. At the same time, he knows when to shut up and will stop before he gets actually hurtful. Fiercely loyal, and loves puns, especially dragon-based ones.
Favored Combat Style: Taunting foes via telepathy or relaying Jace's orders to the party silently. Will only use his Sting if absolutely necessary or the enemy is a level 1 goblin.
Trademarks: He'd never hurt someone over it, but never call him Jace's pet. He does his best to act as a group's mascot and morale support, entertaining or annoying them enough not to worry about their dire predicaments. He makes affectionate nicknames for everyone, although they're never hurtful and only ever says them to the person's face (He calls Jace "Boss.") He can use his telepathy to be heard by everyone nearby, which is usually how he talks. He's also a harmonica player. If you ever see Jace gesticulating without saying anything, he's probably exchanging banter with Zebes, which they do very often. It's created more than one problem when Jace starts laughing in the middle of a serious conversation.