<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=237173.msg11688955#msg11688955">Quote from: Thorne on 02-10-2015, 02:31:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Okay. So, much later.... The 'On the Payroll' trait is pretty specific. The person it applies to is supposed to be super-experienced and knowledgeable and ... I swear, this thing refers to, at minimum, a third level character. That's not a starting trait, at least, not to me. So, I treated it as Innoki wasn't the expert there. He was the expert's apprentice, and thus, he was along for a good many of the digs, schlepping things, being bounced off surfaces (because his training wasn't allowed to suffer) and occasionally being grilled about his weapon and the accompanying technique (because, let's face it, Innoki is not carrying around a falchion here), and offered advice and such. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=237173.msg11689647#msg11689647">Quote from: eBadger on 02-10-2015, 08:50:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">*Nods* That's one of my issues with making level one characters, although they've always been The Thing.  It's hard to put a lot of personality into 'I just left the farm and I have this stick, see, that I can poke you with'.  Aesa wasn't originally imagined as a newbie; her original incarnation was 6th, and, well...<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/wG4lhwj.jpg)   </div>This game's version is both less experienced and much, much nicer (although she still hides a few anger management issues behind her cheerful facade).  I'm also intending to put in some spin that she's remembering old spells and abilities that she's out of practice with, rather than discovering new ones, for the next couple levels.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I dealt with it via this rationalization: I've known plenty of professors who got their position by diligent study but were no great shakers and movers in their fields; they were persistent, had a few people to speak for them, and ended up in lower-order positions as lecturers.<br/><br/>That's pretty much where I see Senthaynatrix. In addition to having Lorrimorr's patronage, she probably owes a little of her success to being a curiousity of sorts as a kobold scholar (It is not how well the bear dances, it is that it dances at all.).<br/><br/>Rules-wise, I tend to think in terms of old D&D where 98% of the world weren't adventurers, they were 0th level characters. In that regard, any 1st level character is a fair bit above the average, run-of-the-mill farmer or city-dweller. I don't recall off the top of my head if that's the case with Pathfinder, but even if the average citizen is 1st level...Then she's only a just-adequate professor, and given her skills at alchemy and a few of her knowledges I don't think that's too terrible. I am almost certainly going to be spending more points on her knowledges as time goes on, and posting a bit later tomorrow as SO SLEEPY NOW.