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PLaying Pathfinder (ugh)

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Since I am not able to play a actual rpg in person. I've decided to try myth-weavers.

Unfortunately, it's a pathfinder game.

So, the current plan is to play a Strix Samurai.

I was wondering if there were any helpful tips on the build?
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Cynic wrote:Since I am not able to play a actual rpg in person. I've decided to try myth-weavers.

Unfortunately, it's a pathfinder game.

So, the current plan is to play a Strix Samurai.

I was wondering if there were any helpful tips on the build?
Be a Samurai of the Tome (actual option, not me being facetious). Grab the fastest mount you can. Get a composite longbow. Get to level 8. Start abusing buff scrolls. Become a Cleric Archer in miniature. Enjoy helping win encounters.
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The game starts at lv1. So until lv 7, it's a frigging climb. Until then, I need to figure out a proper way to handle myself in battle.


Edit: The first version of this post was retarded and unnecessary.
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At level 1, you can still be of pretty reasonable help. Play a human, pick up Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot, grab your mount, and go nuts. You won't be amazing, but you won't suck too hard either - unlike most of your non-caster friends.
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So, I have to figure out if I 60 ft of flight vs. firing into melee.


Maybe, I"ll pick up PBS but use a lance until 3rd level.

Really, both of them are pretty shitty for the low levels.

The stupid thing about the Strix is that they don't have a ground speed. THey have 60 ft fly. THat's it... I"ll probably just drop the strix into being a human.
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Cynic wrote:So, I have to figure out if I 60 ft of flight vs. firing into melee.


Maybe, I"ll pick up PBS but use a lance until 3rd level.

Really, both of them are pretty shitty for the low levels.

The stupid thing about the Strix is that they don't have a ground speed. THey have 60 ft fly. THat's it... I"ll probably just drop the strix into being a human.
To be honest, I'd stay a strix to keep the fly speed. It's pretty useful, although it makes your mount a fat amount of retard. See if you can trade it into something more suited to fighting, rather than riding on.

Your idea with lance use until 3rd level is actually pretty sensible - magic gear doesn't really kick in much until later, so by then, you can start turning yourself into an archer. Plus, once you can (ab)use scrolls, GMWs should be flowing (fairly) freely, making the magic weapon problem less of an issue - hopefully.
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The 60 ft flying apparently just became obsolete. Apparently, the adventure he's planned is to be mostly underground tight squeezes and such. Since everybody except me is able to fit in there and have made them suitable for that environment. So, my idea just screws up the group.
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Cynic wrote:The 60 ft flying apparently just became obsolete. Apparently, the adventure he's planned is to be mostly underground tight squeezes and such. Since everybody except me is able to fit in there and have made them suitable for that environment. So, my idea just screws up the group.
In this case, even being a samurai is kinda pointless, as your mount is literally twice your size. If the tight squeezes are gonna be such that flying blows, then ranged combat and having a mount is gonna suck pretty hard also.
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So... I got bumped from the game because I didn't have a coherent enough backstory. I"m calling sour grapes because who the fuck takes you out of a game because your backstory isn't good. I bet if I had said that I woke up without any memory of my past, then the dm would jump all over that like white on rice.
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"The Bjorn Identity: A grizzled warrior wakes up with no memory of his past or who he is, but lethal fighting skills and improvised violence are as part of him as his black hair...as is a huge manful of Rage (Ex) (TM)"
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

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Cynic wrote:So... I got bumped from the game because I didn't have a coherent enough backstory. I"m calling sour grapes because who the fuck takes you out of a game because your backstory isn't good. I bet if I had said that I woke up without any memory of my past, then the dm would jump all over that like white on rice.
Well, what did you expect of a Paizil GM anyway?
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Maxus wrote:"The Bjorn Identity: A grizzled warrior wakes up with no memory of his past or who he is, but lethal fighting skills and improvised violence are as part of him as his black hair...as is a huge manful of Rage (Ex) (TM)"
Does he have craft (baby harness)?
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Maybe. Or craft "jewelry" or craft "whittling"
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Cynic wrote:So... I got bumped from the game because I didn't have a coherent enough backstory. I"m calling sour grapes because who the fuck takes you out of a game because your backstory isn't good. I bet if I had said that I woke up without any memory of my past, then the dm would jump all over that like white on rice.
I'm not really surprised. I had a DM who was a bit generous with the starting gold but then seemed thrown off guard when I just plonked down a fighter with a light warhorse, hide armor as well as a lance and great club. I guess coming from the richest family in Dirt Farmer Town was way too confusing for him.
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