Blazing Trials: Fists of the Ruby Phoenix (11-20th Level)

Creating your character

Check out the Player's Guide for character options suggestions! It's really helpful. https://paizo-images.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/image/download/Fists+of+the+Ruby+Phoenix+Player's+Guide.pdf We will discuss character creation in more detail in session 0. Here's some details to keep in mind. - All uncommon and rare options need to be discussed with me first! Please do so, I will often allow things, but I need to see them first to make a judgement call. - Uncommon and rare classes are allowed for this adventure (i.e. inventor, gunslinger, and exemplar) - We'll discuss whether to use Free Archetype in session 0. I don't like unrestricted FA, but I would be open to a thematic FA choice to give your party a common theme! - Remember that you will start at 11th level as well established adventurers. Your character should be one that is accustomed and willing to work with their party.

Preparing for the session

You will need a web browser to run FoundryVTT on, and a Discord account. Make sure to find art for your character, hopefully art that I can crop easily so I can make nice tokens for you (bonus points if it's transparent background!). This isn't necessary, but just nice.

What Rigo brings to the table

Thanks to the map remakes by Kalnix, we will have high quality maps. I'm a fan of tactical combat as well as roleplay, and I engage in both heavily! I'm knowledgeable about the rules, and I'm not afraid to bend them sometimes if it serves the story or lets things run smoother. However, for the most part I run the game RAW. I'll certainly make use of music, especially JRPG stuff. Of course, if you have music suggestions I'll be more than happy to add some custom playlists of your favorite tracks, especially if they add to the anime feel of this adventure!

Homebrew rules

- We can use the Hero Point Deck if you want (a.k.a. cards that you can spend Hero Points to use with little effects). I have my personal deck that expands upon the original. - For each additional language your ancestry would grant due to your Intelligence modifier, you can choose to become trained in a Lore skill instead. - In the case of a character willing to fail a saving throw or attacking a willing target, we will use the Gliminal sidebar rules: “[. . .] You can allow an ally to improve their outcome by one degree of success against a willing target or allow the target to worsen the result of their saving throw by one step.” - Wizards with a curriculum have access to a homebrew level 6 feat that allows them to gain a focus spell from a different arcane school and alter their curriculum a bit. This doesn't mean we can't talk about altering a curriculum without that feat, of course! - Inventors can opt into a homebrew that makes unstable actions behave like focus points. We can get into details if someone does want to play one!

How Rigo creates a safe table

We will have a session 0, a Lines and Veils document, Stars and Wishes, and X Card!