Skull & Shackles: Pirates of the Skies [Pathfinder | Now closed]

[Chulanowa]

That +2 bluff bonus may come more often into play than you imagine :P Sailors/Pirates rarely get to see women on ships (expect so far party composition is female heavy).

Golarion is pretty well-established as mostly being egalitarian between the sexes, so there's probably plenty of pirate ladies out and about. Now, a life of piracy still has a certain physical toll, so the pretty ladies - and lads - are in for a world of timber-shiverin' and booty-plund'rin', b'yarrrrr.

[Muse]

Hehe.  Piracy was one of the most egalitarian lines of work in the pre-modern world. 

If you were suficiently cut throat and bad ass to be a priate, you were a pirate! 

Don't believe me?  Ever here of this girl?

[Heady Dionysus]

Golarion is pretty well-established as mostly being egalitarian between the sexes, so there's probably plenty of pirate ladies out and about. Now, a life of piracy still has a certain physical toll, so the pretty ladies - and lads - are in for a world of timber-shiverin' and booty-plund'rin', b'yarrrrr.

Ditto.  It's a pretty rare place that has one sex dominant over the other in the setting, and the only pretty prominent one I can think of are the drow.

So far, everything is looking good.  I'll just compile the list of what I can see, which results in:

Zaer Darkwail - CN Male Half-Elf Inquisitor of Besmara
Vergil Tanner - CG Female Tiefling Fighter
kingmaster1 - N Female Changeling Witch
Changingsaint - NG Male Human Summoner
Muse - NG Female Aasimar Cleric of Shelyn
Kathyan - NG/CN Female Skinwalker Vigilante
Ziether - Male Tiefling Bloodrager


No one should feel rushed to get a character in as I'll be keeping this open until middle to end of next week.

[Saric]

Ditto.  It's a pretty rare place that has one sex dominant over the other in the setting, and the only pretty prominent one I can think of are the drow.

So far, everything is looking good.  I'll just compile the list of what I can see, which results in:

Zaer Darkwail - CN Male Half-Elf Inquisitor of Besmara
Vergil Tanner - CG Female Tiefling Fighter
kingmaster1 - N Female Changeling Witch
Changingsaint - NG Male Human Summoner
Muse - NG Female Aasimar Cleric of Shelyn
Kathyan - NG/CN Female Skinwalker Vigilante
Ziether - Male Tiefling Bloodrager


No one should feel rushed to get a character in as I'll be keeping this open until middle to end of next week.

Does that mean you are still taking applications? I wasn't sure given how many players you have.

[Heady Dionysus]

Well, at the end of the day, I'm going to see what type of characters I can reliably give a game for, so I'll even be considering last minute entries.  At present, I'm mostly just checking and copying stats to make sure they're ok, and avoiding looking over the bios too in depth so that I can give everything an impartial look over when I close recruitment.

If you've got something feel free; it certainly can't hurt :-)

[kingmaster1]

We've got 3 guys and 4 ladies so far, we clearly need at least 2 more women :-P

[Saric]

Well, at the end of the day, I'm going to see what type of characters I can reliably give a game for, so I'll even be considering last minute entries.  At present, I'm mostly just checking and copying stats to make sure they're ok, and avoiding looking over the bios too in depth so that I can give everything an impartial look over when I close recruitment.

If you've got something feel free; it certainly can't hurt :-)

If you've got a limited number of spots I'm rather late to the party and would rather not steal a spot from someone who got here earlier.

Edit: Maybe add me to a list of people to PM if people have to drop out unexpectedly?

[eBadger]

We've got 3 guys and 4 ladies so far, we clearly need at least 2 more women :-P

That's accurate smut-math, yes. 

[kingmaster1]

That's accurate smut-math, yes.

*Adjusts professor smut hat*

[Chulanowa]

Finding myself pulling towards monk or swashbuckler; maybe, just maybe druid or gunslinger? Hmmm. Will have to mull.

[kingmaster1]

Finding myself pulling towards monk or swashbuckler; maybe, just maybe druid or gunslinger? Hmmm. Will have to mull.

A druid would get along well with Camilla! She's got the animal patron! ^_^

[Muse]

Buckaneer!  Awesome human-speciic gunslinger alternate!  :)

[Vergil Tanner]

Alas, my first thought for Gunslinger didn't pan out. I wanted to create a sword and pistol-eer, but unfortunately Pathfinder doesn't have, like...any support for that kind of build xD

[Muse]

It doesn't kick imediatly into hgih gear, but unchained rogue with the amateur gunslinger rogue talents.  :) 

[Vergil Tanner]

Nah, I have a decent idea how I would do it, but to make it anywhere near useful would require either a way to reload a pistol with one hand, or access to revolvers. Since you need two hands to reload a firearm, you'd either need a gun with more than one shot in it, or just a fuckton of guns that you could fire, drop and quickdraw the next one. >.>

I think the Trench Fighter Archetype of the Fighter would work best, especially since it's very Feat intensive.

[TFcommando]

There's a swashbuckler archetype called the Picaroon which does the sword and gun trick.

This could work for level 1.  Go Human.  Take Quick Draw and Rapid Reload.  Buy the the alchemical paper cartridges, which reloading a pistol down to a free action with Rapid Reload.  Shoot & stab as a full-round action, take your 5 foot move back, drop your sword to free a hand, reload your gun, draw another sword.  Instead of having several guns, have several swords!  They're cheap!

[Zaer Darkwail]

Considering he has quick draw I can allow sheath your weapon, load your gun, unsheath weapon again (or more cooler version; throw weapon in air, load gun and catch sword as it lands to your hand). But indeed above swashbuckler archtype fits on fantasy of 'gun and sword' user :). More so give all other swashbuckler abilities and skills which fit for pirate. Also can take Corsair archtype along with above archtype (they replace different things).

[Ziether]

Well, at the end of the day, I'm going to see what type of characters I can reliably give a game for, so I'll even be considering last minute entries.  At present, I'm mostly just checking and copying stats to make sure they're ok, and avoiding looking over the bios too in depth so that I can give everything an impartial look over when I close recruitment.

If you've got something feel free; it certainly can't hurt :-)

Do you have a preferred format for mechanical information? I did the basics to make sure the character was viable, but I was waiting on any instructions before doing up a full sheet.

Also my image is a massive placeholder. Finding images I can stand to use for tieflings is problematic at best.

[Zaer Darkwail]

I posted one format in first page. I myself used it.

[Vergil Tanner]

There's a swashbuckler archetype called the Picaroon which does the sword and gun trick.

This could work for level 1.  Go Human.  Take Quick Draw and Rapid Reload.  Buy the the alchemical paper cartridges, which reloading a pistol down to a free action with Rapid Reload.  Shoot & stab as a full-round action, take your 5 foot move back, drop your sword to free a hand, reload your gun, draw another sword.  Instead of having several guns, have several swords!  They're cheap!

Yeah, but that still requires having loads of swords, which affects encumbrance. And at higher levels? Yeeaaaah, that doesn't work as much. Although, the Picaroon does offer some good options. Later in the game, I'd likely want something like a pepperbox pistol, so I get six shots off before I reload. Probably best to Multiclass between Picaroon gunslinger and Trench Fighter. *nodnod*

Also, Zair, awesome...but not all GM's would do that :P It depends on GM discretion :P

[Vergil Tanner]

Ok, so...I have a possible Sword and Pistol build!

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Level 1: Picaroon Gunslinger 1
- Gunsmithing as Bonus Feat.
- Weapon Finesse with Light or One Handed Piercing Weapons.
- Two Weapon Fighting with one handed weapon and one handed firearm.
- Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot

Level 2: Picaroon Gunslinger 1 / Trench Fighter 1
- Weapon Focus Pepperbox Pistol

Level 3: Picaroon Gunslinger 1 / Trench Fighter 2
- Rapid Shot, Snap Shot

Level 4: Picaroon Gunslinger 1 / Trench Fighter 3
- Dex to Damage on Pistols

Level 5: Picaroon Gunslinger 2 / Trench Fighter 3
- Rapid Reload

Level 6: Picaroon Gunslinger 3 / Trench Fighter 3
- Sword and Pistol

Level 7: Picaroon Gunslinger 4 / Trench Fighter 3
- Clustered Shots, Improved Two Weapon Fighting

Level 8: Picaroon Gunslinger 4 / Trench Fighter 4
- Mobility, Shot On The Run

The reason I bring this up:

1) Looking for feedback and suggestions.
2) If the above is decent...who thinks I should change Ari to be a Sword and Pistol rather than a two handed sword user? It kind of relies on there being the chance for her to use her Gunsmith Feat to make a Pepperbox Pistol at some point, since I doubt we'll be getting access to revolvers. :P

[Vergil Tanner]

Though I might change two of those Feats to Weapon Focus: Rapier and Fencing Grace. :P

[kingmaster1]

With some big help from muse I should have Camilla's stats and stuff up in not too long ^_^

[Kathyan]

I was thinking myself going Picaroon at the beginning or swashbuckler but at the end the Vigilante with its two personas won the contest, but yeah I think it'd be cool if you went sword and pistol Vergil.

[Vergil Tanner]

My problem is, it relies heavily on finding the right gun quickly, and is not very useful until like...Level 4. >.> It's an interesting concept, and I would love to play it...buuuuut it relies heavily on not dying until my first few levels have come past. :P