Scoffney Shever
Personality
While his family continually pushes him into poliics, Scoffney is not particularly interested. Fairly apathetic and possessing no work ethic at all, Scoffney tends to wander through life, letting it happen to him as it may.
Appearance
Not your average dwarf, Scoffney is more slight of build and smiling, sometimes giggling, in presentation. He has Auburn hair and brown eyes.
History
Affiliations
Born into Hose Shever, Scoffney tries to deal with them as little as possible. He knows enough not to antagonize family members, but most of them view him as a slacker. This causes some to simply ignore him, while others feel obligated to "rehabilitate" him.
What little drive Scoffney does have is dedicated to the Longfingers Guild.
Scoffney is a guildsman in the Delver's Guild, giving him access to guild information, library, maproom and waystations. He also gains a 10% discount at Ebbert's Outfitters.
On the rare occasions that Scoffney feels a religious urge, his thoughts tend toward The Lady, a goddess of luck, fate, long shots and last chances. She is also a protection goddess.
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Future Advancement
Some possibilities for future advancement. This is not an exhaustive list.
The most obvious use for a new level is to continue with either rogue or bard. These would provide:
- Rogue 3: +1 BAB, +1 Fort save, +1 Will save, sneak attack damage to 2d6, trap sense +1, +1d6 hp, +11 skill points
- Bard 4: +1 BAB, +1 Reflex save, +1 Will save, learn two second level spells, cast one extra 1st level spell and 1 2nd level spell per day
Not to many prestige classes leverage the rogue/bard mix, so there will probably not be many that would appeal to Scoffney. Some exceptions are:
- The Dungeon Delver prestige class has some cool dungeon-crawling features, which would be useful in a setting like Ptolus. To qualify for it, Scoffney would need to bump a number of skills and acquire the Endurance and Blind-Fight feats.
- The Virtuoso prestige class would put Scoffney well into the performer part of his personality. He would need to buy some specific skills to qualify for this.
- The Seeker of the Song is a more esoteric prestige class dealing with the power of primal music. It requires 13 ranks in knowledge (arcana) and perform skills and the Skill Focus (Perform) feat.
All characters gain a feat every three levels. Since his next level will make his total character level (CL) 6, he gets a new feat of his choice. His next such feat will come at CL 9. Some of the feats he has the prerequisites for are (there are, of course, others):
- Scoffney has Combat Expertise. He has not really used this and, in retrospect, some other feat (like Point Blank Shot) might have been a better choice. Les will allow Scoffney to swap this feat for another one, if desired.
- Point Blank Shot: Adds +1 to attack and damage for ranged attacks at less than 30 ft. Also acts a as gateway feat to a large number of other ranged attack feats.
- Precise Shot (requires Point Blank Shot): Eliminates the -4 penalty for firing into melee.
- Far Shot (requires Point Blank Shot): Increases range by 50% (100% for thrown weapons).
- Rapid Shot (requires Point Blank Shot): Gain an extra ranged attack per round when making a full attack. The attack is at your highest base attack bonus, but each attack you make in that round (the extra one and the normal ones) takes a -2 penalty. This feat does not provide any additional reload ability, so to use this with guns, you'd either need Rapid Reload, a gun that could somehow fire more than one shot per round, or multiple guns.
- Shot on the Run (requires Point Blank Shot): Move both before and after ranged attacks, though you cannot exceed your normal movement rate.
- Rapid Reload: Reload a gun or light crossbow with a free action, or a heavy crossbow with a move action. You still need both hands free to do this and reloading still provokes an attack of opportunity.
- Skill Focus (Perform): Adds +3 to all Perform skill checks. This feat is a prereq for the Seeker of the Song prestige class.
When spending skill points, if Scoffney wants to eventually take levels in the prestige classes mention above, they have some specific skill requirements that should be planned for. Some other non-obvious skill choices would be to branch out into other types of performance, such as Perform (strings) or Sense Motive. Scoffney is also the only member of the group who has Escape Artist, Forgery, Gather Info and Rope Use as class skills (meaning these skills cost twice as much for others to learn).