Minty_Illness
2014-10-22, 04:29 AM
I'm joining in on a "3.5 Campaign set in Feudal Japan with a fantasy twist" as my DM's words go and I was struggling with coming up with a character. Originally I wanted to reprise my Artorias-based Two-Handed Fighter Half-Giant to be more like Ser Alonne from the DkS2 DLC but decided that I'd try to branch out of usual routine of see-it/kill-it and go with something a little more flavorful. I'm trying to come up with a character based on the legend of Koi fish swimming up a waterfall and becoming a dragon. (Yes. I know this is Chinese mythology. DM said go for it.)
In the wild, koi are cold water fish who gain strength by swimming against currents. It seems they have captured the imagination of fish fanciers for centuries. Many years ago, in a time before recorded history, a huge school containing thousands of koi swam up the Yellow River. The colors of their well muscled bodies flashed in the sunlight making them seem like a million living jewels. All was going well until the koi reached a waterfall. Immediately, a large number of them grew discouraged and turned back, finding it much easier to simply go with the flow of the river. Yet, a determined group of 360 koi stayed on. Straining and leaping, each koi strove to reach the top of the falls. Again and again they flung their bodies into the air only to fall back into the water. All this splashing noise drew the attention of the local demons who laughed at the efforts of the struggling koi. Adding to their misery, the demons sadistically increased the height of the falls. Still the koi refused give up! Undeterred, the koi continued their efforts for one hundred years. At last, with one heroic leap, a single koi reached the top of the falls. The God’s smiled down in approval and transformed the exhausted koi into a shining golden dragon. He joyfully spends his days chasing pearls of wisdom across the skies of the vast and eternal heavens. Whenever another koi finds the strength and courage to leap up the falls, he or she too becomes a heavenly dragon.
This is becoming a problem for me though, because I've only ever been a Fighter or a Wizard/Elemental Savant. To pull this off I was thinking of using an aquatic-subtype race like Aquatic Elves, Sahuagin, or the Malenti Sahuagin, and one of the draconic classes like Dragonfire Adept and cross-classing this with Monk. Any suggestions on race/class mixture to stay true to the goal?
In the wild, koi are cold water fish who gain strength by swimming against currents. It seems they have captured the imagination of fish fanciers for centuries. Many years ago, in a time before recorded history, a huge school containing thousands of koi swam up the Yellow River. The colors of their well muscled bodies flashed in the sunlight making them seem like a million living jewels. All was going well until the koi reached a waterfall. Immediately, a large number of them grew discouraged and turned back, finding it much easier to simply go with the flow of the river. Yet, a determined group of 360 koi stayed on. Straining and leaping, each koi strove to reach the top of the falls. Again and again they flung their bodies into the air only to fall back into the water. All this splashing noise drew the attention of the local demons who laughed at the efforts of the struggling koi. Adding to their misery, the demons sadistically increased the height of the falls. Still the koi refused give up! Undeterred, the koi continued their efforts for one hundred years. At last, with one heroic leap, a single koi reached the top of the falls. The God’s smiled down in approval and transformed the exhausted koi into a shining golden dragon. He joyfully spends his days chasing pearls of wisdom across the skies of the vast and eternal heavens. Whenever another koi finds the strength and courage to leap up the falls, he or she too becomes a heavenly dragon.
This is becoming a problem for me though, because I've only ever been a Fighter or a Wizard/Elemental Savant. To pull this off I was thinking of using an aquatic-subtype race like Aquatic Elves, Sahuagin, or the Malenti Sahuagin, and one of the draconic classes like Dragonfire Adept and cross-classing this with Monk. Any suggestions on race/class mixture to stay true to the goal?