Rasman
2013-11-21, 08:48 AM
There are only a few characters that I really, REALLY, enjoy playing. Over the years I have come to love my Druid, mostly because he is very much a lot like me if I were trying to save the world, but there is one character that everyone who has ever gotten the brief chance to interact with him has always told me was my best roleplay ever.
That was a Thri-kreen named Clicky. His actual name wasn't Clicky, I believe it was something like "Chor'rack," but it was the name that the party in the Spelljammer game he was in gave him since he only spoke Thri-kreen and no one in the party could speak Thri-kreen, (he understood common, but could not speak, write or read it).
Clicky was fairly deep for a one dimensional character. He was a combat brute, but he also loved cats and cooking. The rakshasa assassin in the party never figured out where the salt and other spices came from, nor why he always watched over her while she slept. She was pretty sure, in and out of game, that they were simply the 'best of friends' because he drew a picture of a heart and a cat while talking to her, drawing was how he 'spoke' since no one could tell what he was saying.
However, I digress. I have decided that I want to build Clicky for the 3.5/PF systems in order to honor his memory, one also never knows when I'll get to dust him off in a game that one of the members of that party may run.
So far, I know that I will use the non-psionic version of Thri-kreen from Savage Species, so a +1 LA. After that, a level of Spirit Totem Barbarian from Complete Champion for Pounce just makes sense, then the remaining 18 levels will SIMPLY be the Savage Warrior Fighter Archtype from the Advanced Players Guide. I know, Fighters aren't strong in comparison to other classes, but Clicky doesn't cast spells of any kind, nor does he have any desire to, he simply rends and tears flesh with his bare hands and MAYBE a pair of Dire Flails and a Pair of Battle Axes.
Deflect Arrows Racial Feat
Thri-Kreen Feat:
Level 1:
Level 3: Fighter 3:
Fighter 4:
Level 5:
Fighter 6:
Level 7:
Fighter 8:
Level 9:
Fighter 10:
Level 11:
Fighter 12:
Level 13:
Fighter 14:
Level 15:
Fighter 16:
Level 17:
Fighter 18:
Level 19:
That's 21 Feats over 20 levels.
So far, feat wise, I've found Battle Jumper, Imp Bull Rush, Shock Trooper, Jumper, Imp Nat Attack, Eldritch Claws, Imp Nat Armor, Multiweapon Fighting, Travel Devotion, Strength Devotion, Luck Devotion, Fire Devotion, Destruction Devotion, Measured Response, Friendly Switch, Imp Unarmed Strike, Feral Combat Training, Weapon Focus (Claw), Bleeding Attack, Imp Grapple, Greater Grapple, Chokehold, Intimidating Prowess, Death From Above, Pinning Rend, Power Attack, Rapid Grappler, Imp Sunder, Greater Sunder, and Sundering Strike as feats that I like.
Where to begin is the hard part and I'd more than love some insight into making him a, mostly, natural attack monster. For now, because I'm out of my mind tired, I'll let this simmer as you read it so I can get some insight before I start piecing him together.
That was a Thri-kreen named Clicky. His actual name wasn't Clicky, I believe it was something like "Chor'rack," but it was the name that the party in the Spelljammer game he was in gave him since he only spoke Thri-kreen and no one in the party could speak Thri-kreen, (he understood common, but could not speak, write or read it).
Clicky was fairly deep for a one dimensional character. He was a combat brute, but he also loved cats and cooking. The rakshasa assassin in the party never figured out where the salt and other spices came from, nor why he always watched over her while she slept. She was pretty sure, in and out of game, that they were simply the 'best of friends' because he drew a picture of a heart and a cat while talking to her, drawing was how he 'spoke' since no one could tell what he was saying.
However, I digress. I have decided that I want to build Clicky for the 3.5/PF systems in order to honor his memory, one also never knows when I'll get to dust him off in a game that one of the members of that party may run.
So far, I know that I will use the non-psionic version of Thri-kreen from Savage Species, so a +1 LA. After that, a level of Spirit Totem Barbarian from Complete Champion for Pounce just makes sense, then the remaining 18 levels will SIMPLY be the Savage Warrior Fighter Archtype from the Advanced Players Guide. I know, Fighters aren't strong in comparison to other classes, but Clicky doesn't cast spells of any kind, nor does he have any desire to, he simply rends and tears flesh with his bare hands and MAYBE a pair of Dire Flails and a Pair of Battle Axes.
Deflect Arrows Racial Feat
Thri-Kreen Feat:
Level 1:
Level 3: Fighter 3:
Fighter 4:
Level 5:
Fighter 6:
Level 7:
Fighter 8:
Level 9:
Fighter 10:
Level 11:
Fighter 12:
Level 13:
Fighter 14:
Level 15:
Fighter 16:
Level 17:
Fighter 18:
Level 19:
That's 21 Feats over 20 levels.
So far, feat wise, I've found Battle Jumper, Imp Bull Rush, Shock Trooper, Jumper, Imp Nat Attack, Eldritch Claws, Imp Nat Armor, Multiweapon Fighting, Travel Devotion, Strength Devotion, Luck Devotion, Fire Devotion, Destruction Devotion, Measured Response, Friendly Switch, Imp Unarmed Strike, Feral Combat Training, Weapon Focus (Claw), Bleeding Attack, Imp Grapple, Greater Grapple, Chokehold, Intimidating Prowess, Death From Above, Pinning Rend, Power Attack, Rapid Grappler, Imp Sunder, Greater Sunder, and Sundering Strike as feats that I like.
Where to begin is the hard part and I'd more than love some insight into making him a, mostly, natural attack monster. For now, because I'm out of my mind tired, I'll let this simmer as you read it so I can get some insight before I start piecing him together.