Help Me Spend 6000 GP!! (—but there's a catch.)

[Palanan]

The essence: I need to kit out a fourth-level nature oracle.

The catch: this is an elven nature oracle who disdains worked metal. (For cultural reasons, rather than mechanical restrictions.) So, I’d like suggestions for gear and magic items which rely on natural materials (wood, bone, scales, leaves, etc.) rather than forged metal.

I’m sure I could refluff a lot of things, but I’m more interested in finding unusual items with a nature or wilderness theme. The game is Pathfinder, and I’m open to all official Paizo sources—but I’m open to 3.5 items as well, from official sources plus Dragon content. 6000 gp is the limit, and the woodsier the better.

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[Geddy2112]

As an oracle, a headband of charisma is going to be your bread and butter of must have items. The description is "This attractive silver headband is decorated with a number of small red and orange gemstones."

There is no reason the silver is just the color-perhaps from silverish horse(or unicorn) hair and instead of gemstones, use coral or shells. For a more woodsy theme, mushrooms and lichens can be orange and red. You could have red or orange painted feathers, antlers, etc. Woodland rivers have freshwater mussels that would have mother of pearl that coudl also do the silver color. A +2 headband of cha is 4000gp

A ring of sustenance has no fluff description, so it can be anything. A woodsy nature oracle would probably have theirs be a band of holly or mistletoe, or some other vine. It is a nourshing thing, so a plant makes extra sense. It costs 2500gp. A ring of protection also has no fluff description, so making one of wood or bone is plenty fine.+1 ring is 2000gp

Your cloak of resistance can be animal hide. While it says "flecks of silver or steel are often sown amid the fabric of these magical cloaks." the word is often and not always. Again, you could use freshwater mother of pearl, or unicorn hair, or eschew the silver for more animal hide, pine needle, or what have you.

For actual wilderness items, a ring of sacred mistletoe is a big one, but won't help a nature oracle mechanically much. It also costs 6000gp. A hollywreath band is a headband item, produces goodberries, and makes any spell that affects plants/plant domain spells cast as 1CL higher. For 4000gp. There are also verdant vine bracelets that give you six entange spells a day, but with a range of 30ft and a set DC. You can afford them at 6k, but they are kind of meh. For foot items, the boots of friendly terrain are really cheap and good if you are in a select terrain a lot. Boots of the winterland are a good alternative if you are constantly in artic areas. They clock in at 2400 and 2500, respectively. If you deal with fey, a feychild necklace is an okay option at 6k, and it also comes with speak with animals as an SLA. If you like hiding, the treeform cloak lets you tree shape once a day for 7 hours, and you gain 1d6hp for each hour spent in the sun as a tree. It costs 6k as well.

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Geddy2112
A ring of sustenance has no fluff description, so it can be anything.

Sure, I’m aware I can refluff generic items, but I’m really looking for wilderness-themed alternatives, such as leafweave armor, etc.

For my purposes, materials like chitin, feathers, butterfly wings, etc. would all work fine, as well as silk, linen, cotton, spidersilk, etc. Effortless Lace is a perfect example.


Originally Posted by Geddy2112
For actual wilderness items, a ring of sacred mistletoe is a big one, but won't help a nature oracle mechanically much. It also costs 6000gp. A hollywreath band is a headband item, produces goodberries, and makes any spell that affects plants/plant domain spells cast as 1CL higher. For 4000gp. There are also verdant vine bracelets that give you six entange spells a day, but with a range of 30ft and a set DC. You can afford them at 6k, but they are kind of meh. For foot items, the boots of friendly terrain are really cheap and good if you are in a select terrain a lot. Boots of the winterland are a good alternative if you are constantly in artic areas. They clock in at 2400 and 2500, respectively. If you deal with fey, a feychild necklace is an okay option at 6k, and it also comes with speak with animals as an SLA. If you like hiding, the treeform cloak lets you tree shape once a day for 7 hours, and you gain 1d6hp for each hour spent in the sun as a tree. It costs 6k as well.

And there are some excellent suggestions in here, perfectly thematic and exactly what I’m going for. More suggestions along these lines would be ideal.

[Florian]

Avoid "overthinking things", be pragmatic about it and also look at the Automatic Bonus Progression table (PF Unchained), as that has a very good grasp on the underlying math.

Grab a +1 Cloak of Resistance, a +1 Lamellar (Horn) armor and a +1 Longspear. Get a 1st level Pearl of Power, a 1st level wand and a bunch of 1st and 2nd level spell scrolls, as on he level we talk about, one-use items beat class features.

[thecrimsondawn]

15 Tree Feather Tokens! :D

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/e-g/feather-token/tree-token/

Got an issue? BAM! giant tree in your face.
Eaten by a dragon? Bam! Dragon now has a broken jaw, or ruptured inside. He can forget his natural armor.

Cross a river? Got it covered!

Need to use nature magic on plants or trees but none around? Consider it a material component!

Need a distraction, or an escape from a wooden house or basement? break that sucker wide open!

Need an elevated platform? Hang on tight!



Ok I am just being silly here, but you should really pick up 1 of these. They are hella useful for the price.

[Geddy2112]

Sure, I’m aware I can refluff generic items, but I’m really looking for wilderness-themed alternatives, such as leafweave armor, etc.
For my purposes, materials like chitin, feathers, butterfly wings, etc. would all work fine, as well as silk, linen, cotton, spidersilk, etc. Effortless Lace is a perfect example.

In this case, special materials (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment/special-materials/) for normal things may be the way to go. A lot of these depend on your build(light vs heavy armor, and what kind of weapon you use) but here are some picks.
Darkleaf cloth reduces ACP by 3 and dex bonus by 2 for leather, studded leather, fur or hide armors. +750 for light +1500 for medium, is always masterwork.

Darkwood reduces the ACP of shields by 2, halves the weight of anything primarily made of it(shields, spears, bows) and is 10gp more per pound of a regular masterwork item. A darkwood buckler keeps your off hand free, has no ACP and is a +1 shield bonus to AC for 205 gold, a total steal.

If you want to use a breastplate or heavy armor, dragonhide costs double as the masterwork version of the same armor.

Arena silk tunic costs 1150 and gives DR/3 slash and bludgeon and is worn under armor, but is 3rd party. Regular silk doubles the price and halves the weight for normal clothes, which is free considering you start with an outfit of 10gp or less, and doubling most basic outfits falls in 10gp or less.

Other weapon haft options include greenwood, which can self repair if it breaks, but must be watered and put in soil. Whipwood gives +5HP to a weapon and +2 to CMD against sunder for 500gp, limited to wood weapons and wood hafted weapons. Wyroot is good but only for monks or magi.

[Biffoniacus_Furiou]

I usually first turn to this general list of essential PF items (https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_RPG/comments/2cv8z8/master_list_of_essentialuseful_magic_items/) for low-cost ideas.

For this character, I'd probably go with the following items:

Ring of Sustenance (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/rings/ring-of-sustenance) (2500 gp), carved from wood, stone, jade, etc.

Muleback Cords (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/m-p/muleback-cords) (shoulders, 500 gp) if your Str is low, otherwise a +1 Cloak of Resistance (1000 gp).

Handy Haversack (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/a-b/bag-handy-haversack) (2000 gp) or Bag of Holding (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/a-b/bag-of-holding) (2500 gp), just one can be shared by the whole party for a while, so everyone should pitch in.

Wand (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wands/) of Cure Light Wounds (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/cure-light-wounds/) (cures 1d8+1, 750 gp for 50 charges, or 15 gp per charge if acquiring it partially charged), the whole party should all pitch in for at least one of these.

Cracked Dusty Rose Prism Ioun Stone (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/h-l/ioun-stones/dusty-rose-prism-ioun-stone) (500 gp) provides +1 Initiative.

Ioun Torch (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/h-l/ioun-torch) (75 gp) is a cheaper everburning torch (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment/goods-and-services/hunting-camping-survival-gear/#TOC-Torch) that you don't need to carry.