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New challenge!
You are a Level 20 Warrior, Aristocrat, Expert or alternatively Commoner. You can't pick Adept unfortunately, but by ROB-Fiat you can take Wedded To History as a free feat for this challenge, and why wouldn't you? You'll be needing it.
Every year you can retrain one of those levels to the corresponding equivalent of Fighter, Noble, Rogue or Monk (haha!). Unchained allowed, because why not? You suffered through a year of having even one level as a Commoner, let alone multiple.
The year is 114 BC, Valyria has Fallen and magic has gone out of the world. You appear in a major city with small purse of coinage in whatever denominations or origin you desire so long as it is native to Planetos, enough to feed yourself for a month, and keep a roof over your head for that timeframe AND charter a ship to most places, exercising common sense. A trip to Yin from Volantis might be somewhat with reasonable expectations but a Westerosi captain would balk at it. They don't know that route and it will take you a while to find someone willing to take you, and they will probably charge you an arm and a leg.
But they'll get you there... maybe. Pirates and bad weather (and war, lots of war) could get in the way. You can have period and culturally appropriate clothing to sell any guise you wish, but you can't have a whole wardrobe. Whatever you can pack in one bag is the rule. Finally if you took Ride as a skill you can have an old nag to take you somewhere, though I wouldn't ride her too hard as you'll wear her out.
The goal is to survive until 289 AC, or a little over four centuries, and you have to be involved in local events. You don't have to take quite "Daemon Targaryen jumps off his dragon's back and shoves his sword into Aemond's eye socket" level risks, but you have to actually attempt to keep things interesting. Attempts to either play it completely safe and stay hidden or uninvolved will result in events coming to you sooner rather than later, and not in a way you'll be able to predict, but otherwise you'll be free to take your time to plot out your course in Good Faith clause of the challenge so long as you make the attempt.
You don't have any special ability beyond the mundane to change your appearance, so disguises are useful, and eventually someone might figure out that you're some kind of unaging man (or woman, no judgment) of mystery and will investigate. Probably invasively. Makeup can go a long way here, unsurprisingly, but you will probably have to deal with the pain in the ass process involved with forging a new identity in strange lands at some point, doubtlessly multiple times.
Edit: 36pt Buy start. Go nuts.
For all of the entertainment you have provided, you are rewarded with the opportunities:
1) Retrain all of your Fighter levels into Martial Adept ones. Pathfinder, 3.5, custom PrC handforged by ROB!TNE. Go crazy, but probably not any crazier than Ser Richard would be if he had access to Path of War disciplines. Which is already pretty crazy.
2) You get to retrain ONE level into a Tier 1 class. You have the same latent potential as any of the other characters, so later on PrCs are a-go, but can only thereafter either accumulate the requisite XP to train the equivalent level (no small task with your ginormous LA) or alternatively retrain one for free every year until you've retrained all of the ones you had from beforehand.
3) Matched levels with Viserys AND matched Mythic Rating. You're probably going to be at least level 18 and MR 2 within less than four years, and you can do any kind of build you feel like pretty much beyond changing your race. The DM has left the building and couldn't care less even if he was there. Hell, he/she/it welcomes what you have planned. And best of all from 289 AC onwards you don't have to do anything special to enjoy the benefits of this or any of the above two. No getting involved with the main cast or the plot. Plane Shift to Armun Kelisk the moment you can from your carefully prepared island retreat in the Summer Isles the moment you can if that's what floats your boat.
New challenge!
You are a Level 20 Warrior, Aristocrat, Expert or alternatively Commoner. You can't pick Adept unfortunately, but by ROB-Fiat you can take Wedded To History as a free feat for this challenge, and why wouldn't you? You'll be needing it.
Every year you can retrain one of those levels to the corresponding equivalent of Fighter, Noble, Rogue or Monk (haha!). Unchained allowed, because why not? You suffered through a year of having even one level as a Commoner, let alone multiple.
The year is 114 BC, Valyria has Fallen and magic has gone out of the world. You appear in a major city with small purse of coinage in whatever denominations or origin you desire so long as it is native to Planetos, enough to feed yourself for a month, and keep a roof over your head for that timeframe AND charter a ship to most places, exercising common sense. A trip to Yin from Volantis might be somewhat with reasonable expectations but a Westerosi captain would balk at it. They don't know that route and it will take you a while to find someone willing to take you, and they will probably charge you an arm and a leg.
But they'll get you there... maybe. Pirates and bad weather (and war, lots of war) could get in the way. You can have period and culturally appropriate clothing to sell any guise you wish, but you can't have a whole wardrobe. Whatever you can pack in one bag is the rule. Finally if you took Ride as a skill you can have an old nag to take you somewhere, though I wouldn't ride her too hard as you'll wear her out.
The goal is to survive until 289 AC, or a little over four centuries, and you have to be involved in local events. You don't have to take quite "Daemon Targaryen jumps off his dragon's back and shoves his sword into Aemond's eye socket" level risks, but you have to actually attempt to keep things interesting. Attempts to either play it completely safe and stay hidden or uninvolved will result in events coming to you sooner rather than later, and not in a way you'll be able to predict, but otherwise you'll be free to take your time to plot out your course in Good Faith clause of the challenge so long as you make the attempt.
You don't have any special ability beyond the mundane to change your appearance, so disguises are useful, and eventually someone might figure out that you're some kind of unaging man (or woman, no judgment) of mystery and will investigate. Probably invasively. Makeup can go a long way here, unsurprisingly, but you will probably have to deal with the pain in the ass process involved with forging a new identity in strange lands at some point, doubtlessly multiple times.
Edit: 36pt Buy start. Go nuts.
For all of the entertainment you have provided, you are rewarded with the opportunities:
1) Retrain all of your Fighter levels into Martial Adept ones. Pathfinder, 3.5, custom PrC handforged by ROB!TNE. Go crazy, but probably not any crazier than Ser Richard would be if he had access to Path of War disciplines. Which is already pretty crazy.
2) You get to retrain ONE level into a Tier 1 class. You have the same latent potential as any of the other characters, so later on PrCs are a-go, but can only thereafter either accumulate the requisite XP to train the equivalent level (no small task with your ginormous LA) or alternatively retrain one for free every year until you've retrained all of the ones you had from beforehand.
3) Matched levels with Viserys AND matched Mythic Rating. You're probably going to be at least level 18 and MR 2 within less than four years, and you can do any kind of build you feel like pretty much beyond changing your race. The DM has left the building and couldn't care less even if he was there. Hell, he/she/it welcomes what you have planned. And best of all from 289 AC onwards you don't have to do anything special to enjoy the benefits of this or any of the above two. No getting involved with the main cast or the plot. Plane Shift to Armun Kelisk the moment you can from your carefully prepared island retreat in the Summer Isles the moment you can if that's what floats your boat.
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