The character I'm playing in a Pathfinder campaign. Her name's Guinefort, she's a cloistered cleric of Seranrae, and a goddess certified good girl. She is quite capable of healing allies, the licking is not optional. She is also fully able to cleanse heathens in the DIVINE FIRE OF THE SUN!... ahem.
She was once a hunting dog, and was valued enough to have sired a few litters before she was awakened. Once awakened she escaped her owner. Finding asylum in the church of Seranrae, she spent much time in the libraries and became a cleric. Unfortunately it was difficult to find much respect as a talking dog, so she set off on adventure to make a name for herself.
I've wanted to do a similar concept for SO LONG, but my usual GM has hang-ups with anything 'weird'. Love you're making it happen. Seranrae is only beaten out by Shelyn in my book... but just barely. 10/10, would offer donations of dried meats and fancy cheeses to The Dawnflower's bestest puppo.
I've wanted to do a similar concept for SO LONG, but my usual GM has hang-ups with anything 'weird'.
Yeah, I'm fortunate that my dm and also my whole party are all about assembling a motley crew of strange people. In a way it makes sense that the weird adventurers would band together.
Yeah, I'm fortunate that my dm and also my whole party are all about assembling a motley crew of str
LOL, cloistered cleric is so much better than regular cleric. What's better than wearing full-plate and swinging a mace around? Having Knowledge (History, The Plains, Geography, Religion, and Archetecture), bardic lore, and access to three different spell domains, that's what. It's not like your party's primary healer was about to be getting stuck in next to the fighter anyway.
LOL, cloistered cleric is so much better than regular cleric. What's better than wearing full-plate
Very nice drawing! The Awaken spell is one of my favorites for that very reason (with Reincarnate as a close second).
In Pathfinder 1e, I once played a Pegasus as my character; they naturally possess the same level of intelligence as an average human. Although, on its own, a Pegasus couldn't speak... even though it could understand what was said. For the backstory, I used an idea that is in the Bestiary's Aasimar entry for the Aasimar template: that such a transformation could occur through contact with the residual magic of a powerful spell or a Celestial creature that had once been present in an important way. I also incorporated the concept that Pegasus often interbreed with ordinary horses, leading to the rare occurrence of a Pegasus being born into a wild horse herd. Combining all this, I created an Aasimar Pegasus. A standard Pegasus is CR 2, and adding the Aasimar template it turned out to CR 3. According to the rules, that made it comparable to a level 3 character. So, after the group's first encounter, and some roleplay and travel, my character had to sit out until the rest of the party reached that level (all following the rules). The fact that his size prevented him from entering caves actually fit perfectly. Later, I started taking levels in Sorcerer, as it was the perfect fit (Celestial Bloodline, of course); this made me a level 4 character with just that first level of Sorcerer, since I could eventually use spells like Telepathy to communicate. Still, it was very interesting and fun to have to focus so heavily on body language during roleplay. It was quite an experience, since I usually play Kobolds.
Looking at the illustration you made, I see you’ve given the character a buckler and a sword, along with the holy symbol that serves as your spellcasting focus. In my case, my character went around naked, despite even being male, and fought unarmed. Since you were a dog, you had the bite attack... so I can't quite picture how you'd use a buckler and a sword. I suppose if the GM didn't take the rules too seriously, or acting a bit in your favor, it’s somewhat reasonable to interpret that having a holy symbol hanging visibly means you don't need to hold it (though I don't think the rules actually allow that; I'm not sure, I never played a Cleric, but in all the illustrations, Clerics are always holding their spell focus). However, it wouldn't be right for a buckler to grant its armor bonus just by hanging there. Even if that was also a bending of the rules for you, wielding a sword in your mouth should incur significant penalties; after all, Pathfinder imposes a -4 penalty on attack rolls just for using weapons you aren't proficient/trained with, and up to -8 or -10 for using a weapon in your off-hand... and using your mouth is far more clumsy than using an off-hand. That rule really must apply no matter what, because failing to enforce it would be unfair to the other characters, especially if someone else is using two-weapon fighting, and with all the rest already quite too much bending for you. One can do whatever concept, but if you ignore the consequences and costs to avoid the hasle of dealing with the obstacles then that don't will feel so much real or satisfying. The very concept of featuring an intelligent dog as a protagonist in a human world, where no other such cases exist, is already a bit of a stretch... so with more reason everything else should be made more plausible to make it fit as more real, endure the difficulties. But... professional artists do this sort of thing very often (like giving the Cosmo dog psychic powers in the Guardians of the Galaxy comics, or ignoring the language barriers that should exist between characters from different planets, especially when no one else originated on Earth, and Earth was supposedly very isolated until relatively recently). Yet, even if done by professionals, all of that tends to make the stories feel ridiculous, or diminishes their substance and coherence.
Very nice drawing! The Awaken spell is one of my favorites for that very reason (with Reincarnate as
I mean, the very rules of pathfinder 2e remastered state essentially that awakened animals are to be treated as a normal player and that they've been modified by the awakening to be semi-feral, essentially. I'm the one taking artistic liberties here for the sake of my own entertainment and preferences. The magic probably makes her paws magically sticky or something, idk. Also no, did not end up taking the sword, and if I do end up doing so it will just be decorative, because yeah, bite is just better. Also I have damage cantrips that deal more damage than even that.
That's all the reply I've got, I'm too ADHD for walls of text unfortunately.
I mean, the very rules of pathfinder 2e remastered state essentially that awakened animals are to be
So now, in 2e, does it also transform the body to make them semi-bipedal, or occasionally bipedal, and/or give them hands capable of grasping things? The Awaken spell was supposed to grant only a human-like mind, that is why the name refers to awakening intelligence, not a transformation. Ugh... that’s so convenient... at least Reynard the Fox is just a fairy tale, like Puss in Boots, for children; totally fantastical.
I chose not to go to 2e, even though I supported the idea of moving away from the WoTC license... because what I saw of it left me underwhelmed. The book reads like the text on Magic The Gathering cards or in a video game; that’s the same sort of thing that caused D&D 4e to be so poorly received back then... so much so that it was a big factor in the birth of Pathfinder directly from D&D 3.5e, which also enjoyed a massive surge in success and actually outsold D&D for the duration of the 4e time.
Pathfinder 2e does have some interesting ideas (like the way stats were made, where each one affects the others rather than having a character with 18 Strength but 7 Constitution... I don't know who would do it aside for getting that dice rolling the stats but it was possible to happen), but aside from that, it’s more restrictive regarding character creation options, among other things that make it inferior to 1e.
Semi-feral? Like the German illustrations of Reynard the Fox? https://e621.net/posts/543087 https://
Yeah, kinda like those illustrations. So they're semi-bipedal canonically, with usable hands. I know I like role-playing the effective disability of being an intelligent animal, but to be honest, its more fun as a story telling metaphor than as a game protagonist for me. I save serious downsides to be an animal for when I'm being dragged into GURPS.
I've never played 1e, and this is the first time I've played 2e remastered, so I don't got no opinions there.
Yeah, kinda like those illustrations. So they're semi-bipedal canonically, with usable hands. I know
I liked GURPS Uplift, that setting was really interesting to know, and one of the very few with intelligent feral anatomy species, but made more seriously than that Cosmo telekinetic and telepathic dog character.
I liked GURPS Uplift, that setting was really interesting to know, and one of the very few with inte
