How would you make a genuine angel PC work?
Envoy of their god sent to keep an eye on the party for "reasons." It's the only sensible reason I can come up with. If a god thinks the party important enough to warrant continuous monitoring, then they must be a big deal.
>>43789489
By not making them phony.
>>43789489
The answer is as always:
>>>IT DEPENDS
Your setting decides it, maybe the ange is sent by the heavens on a mission or it is an individual angel that is exploring the world. Maybe it got lost it's way and a storm of the aether flung it down to earth. Maybe it was dormant protecting a relic from evil that is long gone and the party was also looking for it and accidentally (or purposely) liberated it from dormancy. Maybe it is a mortal that was reborn in an angel body because of a grat deed he has done in a previous life.
Just use your damn creativity!
High level campaign
>>43789595
>Maybe it was dormant protecting a relic from evil that is long gone and the party was also looking for it and accidentally (or purposely) liberated it from dormancy.
This one is good as well. The angel awakens and finds its charge has gone missiong, so he conscripts the party into helping him find it before it falls into the wrong hands.
>>43789489
On probation after the incident in the celestial cafeteria. Assigned to do charity work by making sure an adventuring party doesn't make too much collateral damage.
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>>43789595
>Maybe it is a mortal that was reborn in an angel body because of a grat deed he has done in a previous life.
The opposite. An angel was reincarnated as a human so that they'd be free to act on Earth, and only just regained their memories and powers.
Maybe the PC is still a little fuzzy on the matter, and spend most of the campaign trying to figure out what they are and why they can do these things.
You're a pseudo-eldritch being created by the OG god inhabiting a body manufactured by magic smiths. Bonus points if you play a monk.
By restricting her power levels to an asimaar.
The excuse, she can't use most of her divine powers on a material plane because its far away from her heaven.
Chose the wrong side during the rebellion.
Because it was on the wrong side due to being a gullible idiot rather that an actual disloyalty it is allowed a second chance. This basically amounts to being sent down as a mortal and dicking about as mortals do. It will then be judged as a mortal.
The character should be inhumanly proud and haughty but also extremely diligent, temperate and honest.
Not wrathful unless provoked by pushing some extremely specific buttons.
Tendency towards getting fixated on its mission and ignoring context of that mission. A certain brittleness of thought.
Class should either be Cleric or Paladin. Obviously. Possibly Sorcerer as it does low level reality bending things as part of its inherent nature.
Played a game that there was an angel character in. His mere presence was inimical to all living things, and the mere exposure of any part of his body produced a searing light of divinity that not only caused burning but also radiation damage and severe sickness. Looking at him directly like this for more than a moment, caused permanent blindness, and hearing him speak enough would similarly cause deafness. Don't even think about making physical contact.
Basically his ongoing presence meant the death of things, from sheer divine potency. And despite it all, people and things still felt a desire/compulsion to want to be near him and bask in his divine presence and grace.
>>43789489
If it's D&d, savage species exists.
>>43789489
Get plenty of practice playing a paladin or LG cleric first?
>>43789489
Race as Class rules, maybe just use Paladin and a Race that can fly and refluff a bit
>>43789489
Now I want to play a Guardian Angel for an all-Divine-class party
>>43789489
SAN damage every time other PCs glance at the angel character doesn't exactly lend to fun times.
>>43789489
Try a hardcore asskicker. None of that fairy crap.
>>43789489
Well I did have a campaign featuring a dungeon with an unknown amount of floors (100 total) to a party of adventurers. One of them wanted to make an angel, I had the pathfinder 3rd party splat and looked it over and gave them the okay, as long as they could have a good reason for adventuring with the party.
Enter Priscilla, a minor angel of Arr En Jesus, God of gambling and random chance. She ended up joining with the party after she lost a bet with her patron god. Essentially she bet that the outcome of a coin toss would be heads, he said it would be tails. If she won the bet, she gained a lot more power from him. If she lost, she was stripped of almost all her power and had to adventure in the Material Plane. She lost the bet and got punted out of her Gods domain and basically fell from the sky onto a party of a Druid and his elephant companion, a Cleric of Desna who had taken the luck domain, and a necromancer looking to create good undead through magic. All brought together in a town near some kind of sacred dungeon who nobody had made it out of once they entered, but was rumored to hold a holy artifact of great power (Literally the Holy Grail). Everyone wanted a piece of that, the druid basically thinking that something like that could be used for evil. The necromancer thought it could possibly change all the undead in the world to being good. The cleric just being an adventure junky and going where the world takes him in general, thinking 'yeah that'd be cool.' Priscilla thinking 'Oh cool, that wasn't too hard. I can go back soon.'
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(cont.)
Thing was the dungeon was basically an entrance to a bunch of different pocket dimensions. The first level was your standard cave-like setup. Had skeletons and bats and a couple goblins. It also had a Minotaur in a back room of sorts as a bonus boss. The party handled everything including the Minotaur rather admirably working as a team and getting some decent loot out of it. They found a sigil that lead them to the next floor. After exiting that floor they found that things were quite different down the stone spiraling staircase. They walked out to see pic related splayed out below them and took hovering rocks to the land below. The dungeon, as a string of pocket dimensions of varying sizes isn't actually just a dungeon. We've still got more fun to be had, but with lack of free time I had to put it on hold for a bit. We're looking to restart it around christmas time perhaps.
>>43794021
Sounds fun. RNGesus is a great idea for a divine caster's patron deity.
>>43796755
We all had a good laugh about it, but we all did agree it was a good way to justify such a naturally powerful being working with the party.
>>43789489
Genuine angel, but angels in the setting aren't necessarily strong.
Basically sent to serve as moral guidance and assistance for a group of mortals believed to one day achieve great power.
>>43789489
>How would you make a genuine angel PC work?
Depending on what the foundation for your settings mythology is, the entire concept of an "angel PC" could easily be impossible, especially if it's an Abrahamic angel.
