LF Pathfinder GM for Planescape Rock(?) Band on Tour

[Chanticleer]

Simple binary poll: rotate GMs or find one true GM and staple them down to the role.

Simple binary poll: Band transport challenge level stage

[Bibliophilia]

I would personally feel more comfortable running for 3rd level characters.  I'm not familiar with how to balance encounters, yet, so having them be a bit lower level will help...I think.  Hell, maybe there's no difference.  -giggles.-  Anyhow, luckily there's a lot of advice and guides online to help me figure things out.

Chant, I like the minigame idea.  Plus, we as the players never know what will affect it, either positively or negatively, because that will largely be based on the GM's discretion.  Like, if the band is playing in a rough town full of angry dwarves who like bloodsport (I assume there's something like that somewhere in the multiverse), they might actually increase attendance to their concert with a rowdy bar brawl the night before that ends in battered faces, broken teeth and harsh names being bandied about.  However, the same thing happening in an Elven enclave with a bunch of man-buns, feather earrings and the medieval equivalent of yoga pants would greatly diminish their turn-out.

[Chanticleer]

And upon further investigation of the Warlock, it's clear I was totally confused and misremembering it as the DnD3.5 warlock, not this weird batman vigilante thing.

So now I need to figure out what my character is, besides a male kobold who looks hot in hose and heels.

Thank goodness I've got the important bits figured out!

[Bibliophilia]

Oh god...I just realized that he is going to ruin so many pairs of fishnet stockings with those scaly legs.

[Chanticleer]

Oh god...I just realized that he is going to ruin so many pairs of fishnet stockings with those scaly legs.

Hey, the slightly shredded look is in, right? Right?!

[Bibliophilia]

Slightly?  You try putting stockings on a komodo dragon and see how shredded they turn out!

[Chanticleer]

Slightly?  You try putting stockings on a komodo dragon and see how shredded they turn out!

Are you impugning my character's sleek, sexy, scaly legs?

[Thorne]

 Eh, we can get him a few pairs that have been designed for scaly-legged wearers. Just tattered enough...

I think Cyr's stage aesthetic is going to be a touch less … vivid. Blue dreads, slick purple or black.. whatever... silk! Yhesss… silk. And corsets. *sage nod*

[Chanticleer]

This place is awful, it drives me to think about how to put hose on lizard legs.

So. Hose with no toes. Rolled up, it becomes a torus. Roll it (don't drag it!) up to the thigh, then unroll it down the leg. Voila. No dragging or friction against scales has taken place.

[Bibliophilia]

And sliding with the grain of scales is perfectly silky smooth!  Genius.  I concede to your top-down stocking invention.

[Chanticleer]

Foolish question:

We never talked about alignments. Anybody got any ideas so far? I'm thinking Lawful Good would be a difficult sell...

[Bibliophilia]

I'm leaning Chaotic Good for Mynx.  Like, she wants to be this bad-ass rebel, but deep down she would give her half of the stolen bread to the starving homeless children.

[Thorne]

I'm leaning Lawful Neutral - yes, Lawful - for Cyr, although I can be talked into alternatives. Mostly, because of her Curse; I went for the one where you can't go back on deals, but damn if you aren't a master of making them! This seems like something that would be useful to a band fulla hard-rockin' rebel scum stars.

[Vergil Tanner]

I'm feeling Chaotic Neutral for Camilla. She just wants her cake, all the time.

[Chanticleer]

So, we're looking at a band that probably looks scarier than they really are. :)

[Vergil Tanner]

I dunno, I have an image of Camilla inviting a pair of cute fans up on stage, drinking their blood live, then sending them back to the VIP for her to fuck their brains out later

[Bibliophilia]

Isn't that par for the course?  -giggles.-  I'll bet anything at least one of the members of Gwar has had their nails painted by a niece or daughter.

[Chanticleer]

Also, if I'm reading the scrollback correctly, we've got, uhm...

1x Dhampir Skald,
1x Gnome Witch,
1x Tiefling Scout,
1x Chula Unknown
1x Kobold Unknown

So we've got a rage-y bard-y type, a debuffer type, a ranged skirmisher type, and a pair of unknowns.

Hm. How to make an effective melee kobold.

[Chulanowa]

Hm. How to make an effective melee kobold.

3 levels in Unchained Rogue; Finesse Training will give you free weapon Finesse and dex-to-damage for a finessable weapon, and you'll have 2d6 sneak attack damage. Fighter has a few routes: the simplest is just taking the Devish Dance and sashaying around with a scimitar; this actually works fine on any melee, but I like fighter for the feats and HP on a kobold. Another, if you want to eat all your feats, is Weapon Finesse -> Weapon Focus (Glaive) -> Bladed brush -> Slashing Grace: That way you end up with dex to attack, dex to damage, on a weapon that you can use as a one-handed, two-handed, or two-handed reach weapon.

basically anything that trades your Strength for Dexterity is good. Another route to go is to just make up for the lack of Strength with bonus damage: Ranger, Paladin, and a few others tack some damage on the back end of some of your attacks. And of course there's the quantity over quality approach; Monks get flurry of blows and shifters get natural attacks.

You can also go the "I have a friend" route and go hunter, druid, summoner, spiritualist, basically any "pet" class. Spiritualist might actually fir your theme pretty well. Plus: proficiency with scythes!

And lastly, there's always the Kineticist, whose damage is based off constitution... Which kobolds do get a penalty to, but it's not nearly as big as the -4 to Strength... plus those elemental attacks are pretty sweet.

[Chanticleer]

3 levels in Unchained Rogue; Finesse Training will give you free weapon Finesse and dex-to-damage for a finessable weapon, and you'll have 2d6 sneak attack damage. Fighter has a few routes: the simplest is just taking the Devish Dance and sashaying around with a scimitar; this actually works fine on any melee, but I like fighter for the feats and HP on a kobold. Another, if you want to eat all your feats, is Weapon Finesse -> Weapon Focus (Glaive) -> Bladed brush -> Slashing Grace: That way you end up with dex to attack, dex to damage, on a weapon that you can use as a one-handed, two-handed, or two-handed reach weapon.

basically anything that trades your Strength for Dexterity is good. Another route to go is to just make up for the lack of Strength with bonus damage: Ranger, Paladin, and a few others tack some damage on the back end of some of your attacks. And of course there's the quantity over quality approach; Monks get flurry of blows and shifters get natural attacks.

You can also go the "I have a friend" route and go hunter, druid, summoner, spiritualist, basically any "pet" class. Spiritualist might actually fir your theme pretty well. Plus: proficiency with scythes!

And lastly, there's always the Kineticist, whose damage is based off constitution... Which kobolds do get a penalty to, but it's not nearly as big as the -4 to Strength... plus those elemental attacks are pretty sweet.

Thanks, Chula. I think I was just chasing my tail in circles. I have this thing where I'm gradually trying to play all the PF classes, and so of course that means I almost reflexively try to avoid the obvious stuff like Rogue Dervish Dancers. I hadn't realized there was a way to get Dex to Damage with a fighter, though! That's new. I actually was poking at Kineticist, a little bit, but I hadn't made up my mind about it.

Alternately I might just go 'rule of cool' since this is mostly a social-seeming game and 'for fun' not 'for minmaxers.'

Have you any ideas about your character, yet?

[Bibliophilia]

Oh!  So, are we all good with 25 point buy?  I kinda like the high fantasy point buy, especially since we seem to be going with the lower end level option.

Plus, you know, they need to be impressive...even if they're also kind of fuck-ups.  Seriously, in my head these are totally the kids in high school whose teachers were all 'they have so much potential, if they'd only apply themselves'!

-mutters.-  ...maybe I'm just projecting, though.  -kicks rocks.-

[Bibliophilia]

WE NEED A BAND NAME!

Uhm...-ahem.-  We should discuss that at some point, too.

[Chulanowa]

Have you any ideas about your character, yet?

I suspect they may be bipedal! 

But no, I need to go looking for ideas; it's been too hot to think today

[Thorne]

WE NEED A BAND NAME!

Uhm...-ahem.-  We should discuss that at some point, too.

I think I suggested one earlier, but it probably got lost in the shuffle. ^^;

Six Demon Bag?
(I know some people who'd probably start yelling 'Nuclear Krill!' - but you'd have to justify THAT one.)

[Chanticleer]

Oh!  So, are we all good with 25 point buy?  I kinda like the high fantasy point buy, especially since we seem to be going with the lower end level option.

Plus, you know, they need to be impressive...even if they're also kind of fuck-ups.  Seriously, in my head these are totally the kids in high school whose teachers were all 'they have so much potential, if they'd only apply themselves'!

-mutters.-  ...maybe I'm just projecting, though.  -kicks rocks.-

I'm perfectly happy with 25-point buy, yes.

And I love your vision of them.

Also, regarding the other 'is everyone alright with' questions.

4 people have responded to the GMing query. Currently it's 3-1 in favor of rotating GMs.
5 people have responded to the 'Do we own a bus?' query. Currently it's 4-1 in favor of 'No, but we've got thumbs.'

I don't know why someone didn't vote on the GMing query, but even if they do vote on the low side that'll still give us 3-2.

So I consider these questions basically resolved, but open to discussion if it's a deal-breaker for anyone.