John, 2e

[john]

Character Name: John
Alignment: TN
Race: Human
Class: Fighter
Faction: Fated (Namer)
Kit: Myrmidon
Deity:
Home Plane: Outlands

Gender: Male
Age: 23
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 200
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Skin:

Level: 7
XP: 117050
RXP: 125000
Base MV: 12
Weight Carried:
Current MV:
Hit Points: 71/71
THAC0: 14
AC:

STR: 18/00
DEX: 10
CON: 16
INT: 15
WIS: 10
CHA: 8

Saves
Paralysis/Poison/Death Magic: 10
Rod/Staff/Wand: 12
Petrifaction/Polymorph: 11
Breath Weapon: 12
Spell: 13

Basic Class Abilities and Limitations:
Weapon Specialization/Mastery
Martial Instructor
War Machines
Supervisor
Leadership
(9th) Building
(9th, with stronghold) Followers

Faction Abilities:
Haggle price 1d6+4%
10% Pick Pockets

Kit Abilities and Limitations:
Free lodging while in faction service
Stands out in public due to soldierly demeanor

Weapon Proficiencies:
Bastard Sword (1 WP)
Bastard Sword Specialization (kit bonus)
Bastard Sword Mastery (level 3 slot)
Two-Handed Style Specialization (1 WP)
Morningstar (1 WP)
Heavy Crossbow (1 WP)
Punching specialization? Martial arts? (2 CPs)
(level 6 slot to be applied to High Mastery)

Nonweapon Proficiencies:
Ancient History: the Great Upheaval (kit bonus)
Fire-building (kit bonus)
Local History: Sigil (1 NWP)
Gaming (1 NWP)
Intimidation (1 NWP)
Planar Survival: Outlands (2 NWP)
Bargain: (1 NWP)
Dirty Fighting (1 Int slot)
Tactics (1 Int slot)
Information Gathering (1 Int slot)
Danger Sense (3 CPs)
Ambush (level 3 slot)
Bureaucracy (3 CPs)
Mountaineering (3 CPs)
Jumping (level 6 slot)

Languages:
Common -- Literate (1 Int slot)
Githyanki (2 CPs)

Equipment:

• Splint Mail (wt 40)
  
• Acheronian Clearsteel Bastard Sword +2 w/scabbard (wt 6, damage 1-10) (+1 on Baator/Mechanus/Outlands/Astral)
  
• Knife w/sheath (wt .5, damage 1-3)
  
• Medium shield (wt 10)
  
• Basinet (wt 3)
  
• Large Belt Pouch (total wt 10.1)
  • Personal funds
    
  • Whetstone
    
  • Flint and steel (wt .1)
• Bolt Case (total wt 2)
  • Light Quarrel x10 (total wt 1)
• Backpack, Deluxe (total wt 53)
  • Bag of Holding (wt 15, capacity 30 cubic feet/250 lbs)
    
  • Morning Star (wt 6, damage 1-8)
    
  • Light Crossbow (wt 4, damage 1-8)
    
  • Small Tent (wt 10)
    
  • Winter Blanket (wt 3)
    
  • Hemp Rope (wt 20)
    
  • Grappling Hook (wt 4)
    
  • Iron Pot (wt 2)
    
  • Crampons, set (wt 2)

Total weight carried: 137.6

Clothing:
Riding Boots
Breeches
Tunic
Vest
Cloak

Wealth
Platinum: 497
Gold: 215
Silver: 95
Copper: 101

CP awards and usage:
20 CPs (Human single-classed Fighter -- Myrmidon)
+4: Int bonus -- 24 CPs
+13: Irritating personality, Greed -- 37 CPs
-20: Planetouched -- 17 CPs
-10: d12 hit die -- 7 CPs
-5: 2% MR/level -- 2 CPs
-2: Githyanki language -- 0 CPs
+5: Fighter 2 -- 5 CPs
-2: Punching specialization? Martial arts? -- 3 CPs
+5: Fighter 3 -- 8 CPs
-3: Danger Sense -- 5 CPs
+5: Fighter 4 -- 10 CPs
-3: Bureaucracy -- 7 CPs
+5: Fighter 5 -- 12 CPs
-3: Mountaineering -- 9 CPs
+5: Fighter 6 -- 14 CPs
+5: Fighter 7 -- 19 CPs

Combat
Initiative modifiers:
Attack modifiers:
Damage modifiers:
Number of Attacks:

[john]

Also, what bad traits for John would you take? I was thinking irritating personality and the like.

I was thinking about taking the planetouched one, so that he can hit big nasties without needing a blasted magical poopydoo for everything, since damn near everything in planescape requires +s to hurt them.

I was definitely looking at Myrmidon from the complete fighter, if you remember the kit +awesome to you.

[Stix]

2e XP: 117050

Single-classed, John could be a 7th-level fighter (you could spend some CPs on Thief abilities and extra proficiencies to equal the Rogue skills). He'd also be a very short distance from hitting 8th.

To dual-class from Fighter to Thief and back again would require 17 Strength and 17 Dex. If you want to rearrange stats to meet those minimums, he could be a Fighter 7 and Thief 2-7 (the more Thief levels, the further it puts him from gaining his next Fighter level). This'd give him all the Rogue skills he'd need, plus the full Fighter hit die and the best saves of both classes.

Multiclassing John wouldn't require any stat change. He'd be a 6/7 Fighter/Thief, if you went that route. It'd give him the same number of abilities as dual-classing, but he'd average the two hit dice when gaining levels. In exchange, this option would give him the most overall CPs.





Dammit, I posted Planetouched without editing it. It should read:

"The PC’s body is charged with a curious planar energy that temporarily renders non-magical melee weapons the fighter wields into a magical weapon (so long as the fighter maintains physical contact with the weapon). For every 4 levels of the fighter, the non-magical weapon strikes as though it bears a +1 enchantment (i.e., +1 at 1st level, +2 at 5th, etc., to a maximum of +5). This ability does not provide a bonus to attack or damage, only allows the character to hit beings that cannot be injured by normal weapons."

Actually giving the attack/damage bonus got WAY out of hand when I allowed it in a tabletop game. Between strength, mastery, and Planetouched, the fighter in question was so unbalanced that no other PC even made a difference in a fight.

Of the disadvantages, irritating personality and greed could both make good sense for John. Both involve making wisdom checks (with the former, to suppress the annoying or foul side of his personality -- ha! -- and with the latter, to avoid taking bribes or to miss an opportunity to pursue wealth or power).

[john]

That's fine. I was thinking it read like that anyhow. I just wanted something that would allow me to crunch big nasty bads, as it were.

[john]

I like those two flaws, count me in.

[john]

Let's move charisma to 8 then. He's more nasty-looking and acting... but he does have a sort of grimy-nailed honor to him. Do we have CP/level costs for those proficiencies?

[Stix]

Weapon: 2 CPs
Language: 2 CPs
1-slot Nonweapon: 3 CPs
2-slot Nonweapon: 5 CPs
3-slot Nonweapon: 6 CPs

A Fated Fighter starts with 4 WPs and 6 NWPs. John gets an extra 4 NWPs and 4 CPs for Int.

[john]

Righto then. Time to start laying down the awesome. He's taking a Kit, known as Myrmidon. Yes, I know it's not the plane-fighter one, but who gives a crap, John's a mercenary and that's what the myrmidon does. It gives him a free specialization but he's always got to fight for money or some other kind of pay, even if it's just the price of the fight itself. And he's always on someone's payroll.

Weapon Proficiencies are Knife, Heavy Crossbow, Mace, and two-handed style specialization. His free Specialization would be in bastard sword. At 3rd level he'd be saving the weapon proficiency for mastery at 5. He'd get the 2nd slot of mastery at 6, assuming you're cool with that, which would bring him to.... High Master. There's still Grand Master past that.

His NWPs would be... err fuck. Ancient History (myrmidon kit) Local history, Dirty Fighting, Ambush, Reading/Writing, Bargain, Intimidation, Jumping, Githyanki Language, Tactics, Planar Survival, and Gaming. 12, so all my NWps spent up through level 6 there...
Planetouched
Greedy
Obnoxious Personality
17 starting CP
d12 hit dice
7 CP remaining...
Magic resistance: human version, so he's got some small magical resistance to begin with, works for him since he despises magical interference to begin with. At level 7 it'd be 14%

32 banked CP for the levels after 1st, I'll spends them once I know what to do with them.

[john]

Well, I just figured it out. 2 CP for Pummeling Proficiency, so I can make my full allotment of attacks with it. 3 CP for Danger Sense, 3 CP for intelligence gathering. 3 CP for Bureacracy. 3 mountaineering. So a remainder of 18. I'll probably be spending some for blood warrior if I end up fighting some fiends soon.

[Stix]

John's ineligible for Planewalker Warrior, but Planetouched makes up for it.

Mastery requires 3 months of training and a monetary expense (which we'll say has been taken care of). High Mastery requires an additional 6 months of uninterrupted study and another 1000 GP, so he'll be able to learn it after the Deva story arc is over. Grand Mastery requires 9th level, one year of training with a grand master (who you'll have to find -- with the Doomguard around, that can't be too hard), and 2000 GP in expenses.

Here's what I've got so far for the CP log/proficiencies (I shifted things to spare you a point), correct me if I'm wrong:

20 CPs (Human single-classed Fighter -- Myrmidon)
+4: Int bonus -- 24 CPs
+13: Irritating personality, Greed -- 37 CPs
-20: Planetouched -- 17 CPs
-10: d12 hit die -- 7 CPs
-5: 2% MR/level -- 2 CPs
-2: Githyanki language -- 0 CPs
+5: Fighter 2 -- 5 CPs
-2: Punching specialization? Martial arts? -- 3 CPs
+5: Fighter 3 -- 8 CPs
-3: Danger Sense -- 5 CPs
+5: Fighter 4 -- 10 CPs
-3: Bureaucracy -- 7 CPs
+5: Fighter 5 -- 12 CPs
-3: Mountaineering -- 9 CPs
+5: Fighter 6 -- 14 CPs
+5: Fighter 7 -- 19 CPs

WPs:
Bastard Sword (1 WP)
Bastard Sword Specialization (kit bonus)
Bastard Sword Mastery (level 3 slot)
Two-Handed Style Specialization (1 WP)
Morningstar? (1 WP)
Heavy Crossbow (1 WP)
Punching specialization? Martial arts? (2 CPs)
(level 6 slot)

NWPs:
Ancient History: the Great Upheaval (kit bonus)
Fire-building (kit bonus)
Local History: Sigil (1 NWP)
Gaming (1 NWP)
Intimidation (1 NWP)
Planar Survival: Outlands? (2 NWP)
Bargain: (1 NWP)
Dirty Fighting (1 Int slot)
Tactics (1 Int slot)
Information Gathering (1 Int slot)
Danger Sense (3 CPs)
Ambush (level 3 slot)
Bureaucracy (3 CPs)
Mountaineering (3 CPs)
Jumping (level 6 slot)

Languages
Common -- Literate (1 Int slot)
Githyanki (2 CPs)

[john]

Looks good to me. That looks like a proper ploin, it does. Hold on while I check something out. Hey, do you want me to write up who his weapons master is? I was also thinking maybe he learned it from a book his teacher, the Githyanki named Scree gave him. Githyanki female no less. SHe's got to be getting old and near to the point where the lich queen will eat her.

[Stix]

If you've got ideas, hey, by all means.

[john]

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[john]

John has 65 hitpoints at level 7,
his AC is 4 with his splint mail on,
he's got a THACO of 11 for anything he's proficient in, THACO 8 for the bastard sword. His damage with a bastard sword held two-handed is 2d4+9 normal 2d8+9 large creatures. Other attacks to be determined later.

[Stix]

Minimum half the hit die, +14 HP from Con, so it works out to 71 HP.