I was trying to figure out a good way to do that! But the loxodons are so peaceful and they came to our rescue so I wasn’t sure how to spin it.

I also have a mouse familiar (with the DM’s approval since it’s technically supposed to be a rat) so maybe he can be the one who gets up to those shenanigans…once I figure out what I’m supposed to do with a familiar as a psychic…

The GM said to thank you for the ideas because being a psychic opens up some new story possibilities that he’s excited about.

Part of my character’s backstory is that he was one of the few survivors when his village of psychics was destroyed during a razorback stampede (and I, as a baby, was the only one who “saw” it coming). He and his family were then taken in by a loxodon/minotaur clan and it just so happens that another player made a minotaur from that same area so we’re gonna be buds and I’m going to (mostly) ride on his shoulder so we’re gonna get a few more fears. Like if I heal him while in tow, I get healed for half of it, too. Sounds like it’s gonna be a pretty fun campaign!

Ohh I like that one! He has a feat for smell (+2 perception) but I pitched him the elf heritage one and he’s on board

I’ve got an oddball one for ya if you feel like getting creative…

The GM hasn’t finished fleshing out the subrace I picked and said if I have any ancestry feats to suggest, he’d be down with implementing them. It’s a very small (1-2ft) Ysoki and I’ve got nothing even after looking up Mouse Facts™. I guess mice have really good hearing?? No idea how that translates to a TTRPG

Got any fun feat ideas for when Fievel Goes West? No big deal if not. I’m asking as a creative exercise more than anything!

Ok, great - I’m much more confident in the choice and I appreciate your help in getting there!

Sorry for the delay, I started looking into this last night and fell into the rabbit hole…but I’m sold. I put together a rough character on one of the builder sites and started working out the backstory with the GM.

I will be playing a Skitterpaw (unique to this campaign) Ysoki Psychic

Background: Scholar (Occultism)

Conscious Mind: The Infinite Eye

Subconscious Mind: Gathered Lore

Cantrips: Telekinesis Projectile, Void Warp, and Void Step

Spells: Soothe and…undecided because the builder only gives me True Strike as an option…? I think I should have other choices but I don’t know

Soothe seems good enough for what I want but out of curiosity, are there other healing spells to pick up later?

And do deities even matter outside of RP for non-Clerics? I couldn’t quite figure that out…

First and foremost I want to be able to heal in and out of combat. But I’m saying Support and not Healer because I want to have other spells/actions to take - like making my party do more (or take less) damage or blind/confuse enemies.

If I’m sounding weird about describing it, it’s because I find my current character pretty boring in combat. I basically just shoot my bow, miss with Electric Arc, or cast Haste. The monk in our party (veteran player) does so many different things and the druid (another veteran) seems to bust out situationally-useful spells every session.

I want more options in a fight so it feels like my choices matter. The problem is…I have no idea what the options are except what I’ve seen in this campaign.

I prefer quiet characters over braggadocios ones. Ironically, Gambit is my favorite X-Man followed by the much more appropriate Professor X. I like when characters avoid the spotlight and take care of stuff “from the sidelines.” Some other characters that fit the description (I think, not too into these franchises): Samwise Gamger, Ron Weasley, Podrick

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The race I am leaning is Ysoki, specifically the tiny subrace unique to this campaign. I don’t want to be a hero, I want to support the heroes as they do their hero things. I don’t care if others see how I’m helping as long as my party knows it - I’m not big on getting recognition.

The DM wants to work out our back stories together so he can weave it into the campaign so I haven’t given a ton of thought to it just yet

Someone’s gotta heal! I don’t want everyone to rely on potions

I’m having trouble finding much info on the healing abilities of wizards but I swear I read about it a few weeks ago…

I just meant I wasn’t considering Clerics before this because I thought they only healed. If this campaign is any indication of the group tactics, we definitely don’t need a healbot.

I will check out battle cleric!

• Starting at level 1 this time, thankfully!

• I had to look that up and I have no idea so I’ll have to ask lol it is not free archetype

• I am both a newbie to TTRPGs and fantasy. The only thing that comes to mind is my Pandaren Brewmaster in WoW…but I do not want to tank. If you’re familiar with WoW classes/specs, my other favorite characters were prot paladin, survival hunter, and holy priest

• I don’t know the details yet but it seems like a typical fantasy setting

Oh really? I guess I had Clerics all wrong…I thought they were pure healbots! There’s a few playable races that would work well for a Cleric so that class is back on the table.

I was initially thinking bard because there’s been a few times this campaign when someone has said “if only we had a bard in the party” but I think I’ve been hesitant because it’s such a common beginner class, though it’s obviously for a reason

I appreciate the reply but that definitely sounds scary and daunting lol

I can’t imagine I’ll be doing much spell swapping each day. Is there a “base” build for support? And does it have heals?

Tagging @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca because in another thread he told me to let him know when I posted this!

That seems like what I should have started with, then.

Yeah, I joined their campaign when someone had to drop out. We’re up to 14 now and I deeply regret the decisions I’ve made along the way but it’s too hard to backtrack now lol

When we’re done with this one we’re gonna do the GM’s homebrew and I’ll be putting more thought into what I want to play. I’m sure you’ll be seeing my post requesting input in the coming weeks…the possibilities are very daunting.

I’m sure it also didn’t help that I only had a day or two to put together a level 7 character. Having to manually enter everything for a game I’ve never played was a lot

Is it a shorter campaign? I’d be willing to join a group of strangers if it’s only a couple sessions, I just couldn’t commit to a long one

The group I’m with can’t stand d&d and I didn’t want to play with strangers so I’m “stuck” with it. It’s not bad, just a lot to take in

I would love to play a Baby’s First Pathfinder Campaign that introduced the systems one by one. Though maybe that’s just a d&d campaign…