I have been thinking abou this NPC for a while and I know what she looks like, how she acts, how she fights and the nature of her magic. All that really remained were the actual skills on the page and which profession best realised the concept.
She has a working title of DruTam as part of her original concept was a mix of Drusilla from Season 2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and River Tam from Firefly/Serenity. the actual character name will be decided when her twin brother is created and has a name.
The dilemma with DruTam was always that she she could easily be one of several classes. What I have done is create her as each class, Astrologer, Seer, Monk and Mystic. We have the same stats, potentials and background options (all skill with magic and all ended up as stat bonuses) The only variable was the character profession. That of course changed the stat costs, professional level bonuses and to some degree the spell lists available.
All the character sheets are below, the one marked Ch is the character sheet with stats equipment etc, skills is the full list of skills and totals and the spells is the list of spell lists and actual spells.
None of these characters can cast spells at first level. The lists chosen just do not not have first level spells on them, except for the monk who simply did not make the spell gain roll. She is capable of defending herself as descussed in this post on her kick boxing fighting style. She also has an interesting mix of predictive skills in weather watching, stargazing and divination. By changing the two spell lists she has aquired you could easily make her far more proactive if that was your choice.
It should be noted that I do not use stat bonuses on spell gain rolls. This would make a significant difference as she would possibly have had four or five more development points per level to play with.
I think the most agressive character here is the mystic but the best fit for my game and the party I have in mind will be the Seer.
- DruTam 1st Spells Astrologer
- DruTam 1st Skills Astrologer
- DruTam 1st Ch Astrologer
- DruTam 1st Spells Seer
- DruTam 1st Skills Seer
- DruTam 1st Ch Seer
- DruTam 1st Spells Monk
- DruTam 1st Skills Monk
- DruTam 1st Ch Monk
- DruTam 1st Spells Mystic
- DruTam 1st Skills Mystic
- DruTam 1st Ch Mystic
As an aside I have also created another version of this NPC but in this case I have used slightly more mainstream rules, stripped out the combat abilities and taken her all the way to 20th level. I will be submitting her with her story to the Guild Companion this week. If they publisher her then I will post a link to the article, if not I will share her here. She has a sligthly diferent name but you would recognise her.
I have been using RCU since 2002 and have always had printing problems with skills and character sheet. Anything you have experienced? Is there a workaround?
Hi Lars,
I have replied to your email directly. Good Luck with the RCU.