The Growing Tower

Creating your character

1. Roll 4d6 and dropping the lowest per ability score, in discord (we have a dice bot) (4d6kh3). (Re-roll any score below 8). Alternatively, you may do a point buy 25, minimum score of 8. (Cannot switch to PB after rolling poorly) 2. Elephant in the Room is in use. 3. Start at level 6, with 16,000 gp 4. Banned races: -Any race over 20 Race Points -Because of lore: Android, dhampir, and the aliens (Kasatha, Triaxian, Lashunta, Reptoids). 5. Backstory- A minimum of 3 bullet points 6. One free teamwork feat per character 7. Max HP at every level 8. Chained or Unchained Classes 9. Magic items have crafting limitations because of lore reasons 10. Any way to reduce the price of crafting is limited to a total of 10%off 11. Hero points are in use, you start with 3. 12. Emerging/early firearms 14. For multiclassing- use fractional bonus system Abilities like divine grace or monk AC that add an ability score to something are capped at your level in that class if you are multiclassing. Taking levels in a prestige class does not count as multiclassing for this purpose. 15. 2 traits +1 more if you take a drawback 16. Bonus feat at level 1 if you take a major drawback 17. https://www.d20pfsrd.com/skills/background-skills/ are in use 18. Generic Favored Class Bonuses The following favored class bonuses may be selected by any characters with a favored class: Gain +1 hit point. Gain +1 skill point. Gain +1 foot to base movement. In combat, this only has an effect for every five increases to the movement’s speed. Gain +1/8 of a combat feat. Add +1 hit point or +1 skill rank to a subordinate. +1/6 bonus to the DCs associated with spells of one school of magic of your choice. You cannot improve the DC of a single school of magic by more than 1 with this favored class bonus. Choose one class ability that can be used a number of times per day equal to 3 + one of your ability score modifiers (such as a domain ability). You may use that ability an additional +1/2 times per day. +1/6 bonus to the DCs associated with your class features of this class (such as channel energy but excluding spellcasting, and other similar abilities). Add +1 to the character’s CMD when resisting two combat maneuvers of the character’s choice. Increase the total number of negative hit points you can reach before dying by 2. Add one spell known or one spell to your spell book from your class’ spell list. This spell must be at least one level below the highest spell level you can cast. +1/8 of an item creation feat. +1/8 of a metamagic feat. Gain a +1/4 bonus to all concentration checks

Preparing for the session

You need discord for VC You need an internet browser for foundry, chromium based is recommended but I use firefox w/ duckduckgo and it works fine for me.

What Benjamin brings to the table

The biggest thing you really have to worry about is that I do not use CR, mostly because I utilize mostly custom made enemies. As such, it is very possible you end up in a fight you can't win without that being my intention. As such, be prepared to retreat, run away, or otherwise make a tactical advancement towards the rear.

Homebrew rules

It's mostly basic add-ons, like new races, uses for skills, feats, traits, etc, and a few homebrew systems, such as - - Blessings- Some gods grant some or any of their followers a boon that comes with a drawback, such as "you can't divine information about the future, but other divination abilities are at a higher caster level". Some gods don't have them. - ritual casting a feat that among other things, allows you to mimic spells without spending spell slots, knowing the spell, etc, by making it take much longer, cost a lot, etc. - Transformatives- An idea I stole from another GM (who will likely play in this game). Basically, a skilled alchemist (craft alchemy skill, not the class) takes monster parts and makes a transformative out of them, allowing you to consume it, rolling on several charts to determine what aspects of the creature you take on. You always get ability score boosts, and usually don't change too much cosmetically.

How Benjamin creates a safe table

Session 0 will involve character creation, world introduction, and voting on home rules, such as mechanical things like "Should a nat 1 and 20 on skill checks do +/- 10?" as well as comfort and safety limits for those involved.