Supine Arcanum

So, since we are all quarantined and I have recently left my job, I now find myself with a lot of free time and some creative projects to work on. So, I'm going to try some new ideas and see what I like, and what sticks with my audience, what of you may exist. So lets get at it! For those of you who do not know, I run a weekly Pathfinder game with friends in a homebrew setting. We have been running for about a decade now, and the current narrative has been happening for about... 5 years? This link should take you directly to our wiki if you are interested in learning more about our current campaign. So the challenge. For the longest time one of my favorite classes in Pathfinder's 1st edition has been the Cavalier, and one of my favorite things about the Cavalier has been the Orders. These various Order Options draw on the idea of the fraternal orders of knights of old or other political factions with militant orders from histories past, and the potential for their meddl...

Ability Scores and Design Intent So we've got our concept and we've got a template to work from, so lets construct. To start, lets work on the stats. As I talked about before in the ability scores post, ability scores are the core from which all characters concepts spring from on a mechanical level. Build these stats in the proper priority and the character will sing on the field, build it without thinking about what stats you need and you'll be struggling the whole game trying to make it work. From our base, we have a stat line that looks something like this, Str 13, Dex 17, Con 14, Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 8 Good Dex & Con, okay Str and bad Cha. This is the basic prebuilt, "elite" array for ranged NPCs from the core rulebook. Now, for a ranged based character like the bow wielding hussar we started with it's great, but for this cow riding lancer whose meant to charge into melee these stats aren't really that helpful. The high Dex is fine for good A...