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Efrate
2020-10-23, 08:48 PM
Ok so I my chop socky campaign one of the pcs has become a chef searching the world for the 5 great noodle brothers and 2 noodles sisters. Having met 4 brothers and 1 sister means his journey is nearly completion, but I want the final member of the noodle family to somehow weaponize noodles and be a silly but challenging encounter.

For reference final noodle boss should be level 9 to 10ish, and in my game ONLY npc, city of 7 seraphs, and DSP classes exist. Magic is strictly the purveyance of monsters and all magic items are crafted by mystics, viziers etc. So I cannot go brawler improvised weapons etc.

How can I make an effective and hilarious noodle master? Thinking something with improvised weapons with reach and the fragile property that can be repaired somehow quickly (move action?) and can entangle/disarm?

I would like wacky to the 9s but still effective vs. a party, specifically vs. a primal fury/golden lion focused warlord since his pride will likely make him fight 1 on 1 for ultimate noodle secrets.

Any takers? I know its weird and a lot but I'm kind of lost where to go. Any help is appreciated thanks!

InvisibleBison
2020-10-23, 08:54 PM
I'm not hugely familiar with Pathfinder, so I can't say how effective this would be, but here's my idea:

Noodles are cooked in pots of boiling water, and they can be kind of sticky. So how about the guy hurls pots of noodles at people, that deal some damage when they hit from scalding the target and then more ongoing damage from the hot noodles clinging to their body?

Palanan
2020-10-23, 09:03 PM
Or, maybe the noodle master has a mystical connection with his noodles, and can launch noodles like the strands from a roper (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/roper/). The noodles are gummy enough to have the same stickiness as roper strands, and if you cut one the noodle master can simply launch another.

And for extra noodle wackiness, maybe the noodle master has a whole selection of seasonings with extra properties, such as sneezing powder, blinding spice, and for the ultimate in noodle danger, face-numbing uberspice.

Efrate
2020-10-23, 09:13 PM
I like spicey noodle options. I'll take that down. Teafung into combat performance right now, I can see ways to make it work.

Also fyi, asian style noodles which are stretched and make by hand into long rope like strands which are then cut, not European style noodles fwiw.

MaxiDuRaritry
2020-10-23, 09:43 PM
Whips and nets would be the weapons of choice, obviously.

Too bad Infested With Chickens isn't available. Because, y'know, chicken noodle soup.

Maybe the character used to have such a chicken infestation but lost them due to a certain noodle incident.

He also worships a certain noodly-appendaged spaghetti monster.

Firebug
2020-10-23, 10:07 PM
Kraken Caller (https://aonprd.com/ArchetypeDisplay.aspx?FixedName=Druid%20Kraken%20C aller) Druid, refluff tentacles as noodles. At 10 that would be 5 tentaclesnoodles.

Segev
2020-10-25, 11:31 AM
Various potions in noodle form that only the Noodle Master can recognize as a free action (takes a standard action and a Cooking check for everyone else). The noodle master can also consume them as a swift action by slurping them out of the air as they’re flying about Wire-fu style.

Kicking noodles into the air, he can air walk on them and they provide a fog cloud like obfuscation. Through which he can see with Noodle Sense. It’s Blindsense, but noodles have to be in the area he’s sensing.

In the haze, noodle clumps shaped roughly humanoid act as false targets. Noodle-clone ninjitsu.

Web spell, but it’s noodles.

Grease spell from noodles covering the floor.

The noodles force a will save if eaten: if you fail, you must eat them again as a move action on your next turn. Triggering another save.

MaxiDuRaritry
2020-10-25, 11:36 AM
Refluff spells as desired. I mean, black tentacles is just asking for noodle-fication. And I don't think I need to tell you what weather effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudy_with_a_Chance_of_Meatballs_(film)#:~:text=C loudy%20with%20a%20Chance%20of%20Meatballs%20is%20 a%202009%20American,by%20Judi%20and%20Ron%20Barret t.) should be refluffed as.

Kurald Galain
2020-10-25, 01:30 PM
There's a couple spells that are noodle-shaped spells in PF, like Tripvine. I think there's a spell that creates a noose around people's necks, too.

Palanan
2020-10-25, 03:36 PM
Burning Entanglement (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/b/burning-entanglement/) could work for the effects of a roomful of noodles coated in deadly-hot spices.

And you can use Animate Hair (https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/oozes/animate-hair/) to stand in for lengths of noodle that attack on their own.

Kurald Galain
2020-10-27, 10:13 AM
That's the one I meant,

https://aonprd.com/SpellDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Limp%20Lash
https://aonprd.com/SpellDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Tripvine