What race and level are the commoners, and how many is the cat fighting at once?

also, what level is the cat currently

>>13416411
Good thinking. We'll need the cat's ECL.

Cat is level 1
Fighting 1 vs 1 fights with level 1 human commoners.

>>13416443
Three and one-third, but experience is only awarded once an encounter is complete.
So four.

>Kill
>Cats

IS THAT WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, MORTAL?

>>13416443
it should take about two to reach level two, four more for three

A level three cat would then tear through commoners at a horrifying rate so if he had enough he could reach great levels very fast

>>13416451
>lmao-1cat.jpeg

>>13416447
What if the cat loses the last encounter but manages to get away and take 1/3 of a human with him?

Should Paladins take cats as cohorts?

>>13416472

Fail at encounter= no XP

Aren't commoners CR 1/2 tho? It's human warriors who are CR 1

>>13416447
>>13416462
What? No.
If the cat's ECL 1, it needs 1000 xp to level.
A CR 1/2 encounter (i.e. something with 1 level in an NPC class) is worth 150 xp.
7 commoners bite the dust before the cat gets level-up music.

>>13416473
That depends on how often they find themselves at odds with peasants, and in dire need of aid.

>>13416366
Well, many first level quests involve killing vermin, so I would say that cats give twice as much xp as a rat, since they are one "rung" up on the food ladder.

>>13416366
Depends. Basic D&D had kobolds in the orcs of Thar supplement, they only needed 500xp to level up.

Basic/1st/2nd AD&D it would probably need 250xp, so not that many commoners.

It is probably getting xp for successful use of hide in shadows, move silently and climb for each one. The specialist book for 2ed gave folks 25-100xp for successful skill use, let's say the Cats thief abilities are 25xp per successful use.

So a move silently and hide in shadows preceded by a climb to sneak into the commoners room unnoticed before a ambush would be at least 75xp. Assuming the GM gave you 50xp for a successful assassination against a o level target (cats are a assassin subclass unless it is Oriental Adventures where they are Ninja) then 2 commoners should do it.

Congrats, distribute 15% among your 3 thief abilities, roll d2 + con (max bonus 1) for your HP, subtract 1 from your AC and add 1 to your climbing movement speed as well as jump distance.

>>13416492
Firstly, logic doesn't apply. This is D&D.
Secondly, you should reread the OP, an possibly brush up on subject-object.
Thirdly you need to get your /tg/ knowledge on: housecats kill commoners.

>>13416506

He might have a point thought...I mean...he is wrong and has misread the thread but a commoner is like 1 step in the food chain above a rat.

Well almost.

>>13416504
Fuck it, i'm 2ed stating the things as a racial class.

*digs out MM and GMs guide*

>The story, passed on by a pregnant woman is about cats that get jealous of newborn infants. As it was described to me, the cats, no longer afforded the attention they once got prior to the infant's birth, will actually attempt to suffocate the infant. Specifically, she described a cat, "sucking the wind out of the baby," by placing its nose in the infants mouth while the infant is asleep. This immediately seemed unreasonably far-fetched, yet she maintains it's true since she has it "on the authority" of a number of other women.

>Cats have long been viewed as evil, and for centuries a number of superstitions featuring their bringing bad luck have abounded. Similar to the "sucking life from a child by swallowing its breath" superstition was one about not raising a kitten and a baby together, lest the cat thrive and the child waste away. In that superstition, the cat was supposed to be stealing the child's vitality by magic.

>As to how widely believed the "breath sucking" tale is, a 1929 article in the Nebraska State Journal quoted a doctor as having said he had seen "the family pet in the very act of sucking a child's breath, lying on the baby's breast, a paw on either side of the babe's mouth, the cat's lips pressing those of the child and the infant's face pale as that of a corpse, its lips with the blueness of death."

re-stat cats /tg/

>>13416542
>quoted a doctor

A Doctor who had obviously been drinking the cleaning alcohol, and everything else he could find.

Also everyone should find "Cat - A Little Game About Little Heroes" it's a fun wee rpg to read through.

>>13416600
What you're saying is we should repurpose that game so we can play a group of infernal, Satanic cats luring witches into dark service and stealing the lives of babes?

>>13416542
It's not breath-sucking, it's heat-leeching.
Humans, even little humans, are warm.
Cats LIKE warm.
Little humans can't remove cats from their mouths, and suffocate.

I'm curious how exactly a cat would be able to take down a person... Commoner or not. Its a fucking cat.

>>13416702
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19560858/Cat_vs._Commoner

>>13416658
Since you have no hands, your weapon choices are limited. I suggest spiked armor, which is a light martial weapon. It can be used in addition to your bite and 2 claw attacks, but it drops the hit bonus on your claw arracks down to the level of your bite. I sugest picking up the multiattack feat as soon as you can get it.

Your major problem is gonna be your lack of range. You have 0 range: you must step into the square of an oponent to attack them. Defenses against attacks of oportunity are a must.

>>13416658
Yes.

>>13416713
in the example given, he's awarding AoOs against the cat taking a 5 ft step. That guy is a moron.

"You can move 5 feet in any round when you don’t perform any other kind of movement. Taking this 5-foot step never provokes an attack of opportunity. You can’t take more than one 5-foot step in a round, and you can’t take a 5-foot step in the same round when you move any distance. "

>>13416702
Slash an artery with claws. Watch human bleed out from a tree.

this >>13416658

>>13416658
>>13416805

Could do.

Though in that RPGs setting cats are good it wouldn't exactly be hard to play a more twisted version.

I'd rather play a cat in Little Heroes or maybe Don't Rest Your Head, but then thats just because I'm not a massive fan of DnD, atleast not 3-4th ed.

depends on the system

in ars magica the cat is one of the strongest units
it is only surpassed by the naked man with a sharpened stick

so since its fairly easy for a cat to kill a commoner I say 100exp each
making it 10 for reaching 2nd level

>>13416713
give the cat a morning star too and the commoner wonÄt stand a chance

Cat isn't a class, right?

As the cat can't wield weapons I'd suggest it go Ranger so it can eventually cast spells to enchant his own natural weapons.

Kitty: the Mewping

As a cat, it is your sacred duty to caterwaul, roll around and look cute. Of course, you have to defend your territory against vicious strangers while protecting your owner from stupid little dragons that claim to have created Atlantis. Possible enemies are pit bulls (raging wall-smashers), tortoises (eldritch magic-users) and crows (obnoxious neighbors).

You have to be careful, as your Cuteness can be depleted by aggressors and using your special kitty-cat gifts. Doing cute kitty-cat things will restore your Cuteness. Some particularly gifted cats can kill the average man through Cuteness alone!

>>13418832

>>13418832

>>13418883
I died a little inside from the d'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw

>>13416857
You are correct, partially. A 5-foot step usually doesn't provoke Attack of Opportunity, but stepping into other creature's space does provoke it. That's why Bullrush, Grapple, and those things provoke it too, you step in their personal space and they don't like it.

This thread is making me squee in measures beyond all reason. Damn you, cats. Damn you.

Is it caturday?

>>13419122
YAY!

>>13418832

There should be some kind of second primary stat other than cuteness, for the grizzled old tom cats with the patches of missing fur and extensive scarring that murder things.

>>13416702

I definitely lost a scuffle with a housecat a year or so back. I totally believe it. Shit got super infected, too. I have a bit of a case of Sakaki Syndrome; I have to pet them, and a lot of the time it just doesn't work out.

>>13419191

That is what happens when they get to 0 Mewrality =o

>>13419157

CATURDAY YOU SAY?

>>13419242
Meh. At least you get to touch them somehow. Me, I seem to be in possession of some sort of a magnetic repulsion aura that works only on kitties. If you tried to drop one on me it'd learn to fly.

I just want to pet them. ;___;

How would a level 5 cat do against a legion (6000) of level 1 unarmed commoners?

Caturday?

On Thursday?

In my /tg/?

Not only is it more likely than I thought, but I'm totally okay with it!

>>13419298
Cat's are fine with me.

Probably because that they instinctively recognise that I'm absolutely no threat to them.

>>13419300
Hmm... a raging barbaricat with great cleave... or just plain ol' awakened cat caster class.

It would be brutal.

>>13419383
Is that the same cat?

Because damn, that's just cute overkill.

>>13419399
It is implied that it is the same cat

Remember to do all of this under the knowledge that cats auto-pass all agility tests.

>>13419426

Unless on polished wood or laminate flooring.

Then they take a bit of time to get started and can't turn so fast.

Also starting archive request...

>>13419191
Some cats are pretty hardcore. Pic related.

>>13419615

>>13419620
russian cat is your new BBEG, due to wizard shenanagins he is stuck in your D&D game untill he kills 333 wizards to reopen his portal home. you have been hired by a group of fearful wizards to stop him. what do?

>This thread.

>>13419710

Forever alone..

>>13419735
What the f... Is that even a real animal?! Dear God, it looks like the mad work of some crazed taxidermist. It's so horrible, but I can't look away.

I dont trust those cats for a second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4og9AE8Pk_o

>>13419735

That looks like a really fat cat with a lion cut.

Poor cat...

>>13419710

>this thread

I love you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxW3GWZ5hI

this is what makes /tg/ so glorious

we stat cats

>>13419954
The cat stats are already there, we just extrapolate their consequences.
Specifically, their consequences upon the underclasses.

>>13419999
Housecat attacks are becoming a growing concern among commoner families...

I know I missed the party, but a cat's ECL is not 1. It is 1/2, since they only have half a hit die. So how does that change the situation?

A DM has to have a groups' first adventure be stopping a mysterious monster that's terrorizing a city. Turns out the monster is a level 5 house cat.

HELLO EVERYNYAN

Now also avaliable in Sci-fi settings.

>>13420168

I don't think it would make a huge difference. All it means I guess is that if you choose to start the Cat at Lvl 0.5 you would get an advance to Lvl 1 after something like 500xp maybe?

I think it is maybe fair to start player character Cats at level 1 though as no doubt they are some of the most dangerous of their kind.

>>13421463
By core rules, cats don't level. They are ineligable to take class levels because they're too low int.

So, no number of commoners is enough.

>>13421801

Pfft...in my opinion one of the biggest problems with D&D, and other rules heavy systems too is that they reduce the creativity and imagination.

That's why I would rather play a Cat in Don't Rest Your Head. Or at the very least if it did HAVE to be DnD I would mod the hell out of it.

Cat mages and rangers and stuff can have humans as familiers/companions right?

>>13421463

For 3.5, the formula to level is (Next level x Current level) x 500.

1x0.5x500=250 xp.

So not that many commoners at all until they can take their first level.

>>13423772

Haha, cool.

Hmm... what advances should a cat be allowed?

A regular cat not like a barbarian wizard cat.

Maybe bonuses to stealth and stuff? An extra natural spell for invilisiblity or stealth...

>>13423849

Pounce.

Can a cat with a certain intelligence take levels in normal classes?

>>13423920

Yes. However, as far as I know the only way to increase a cat's intelligence is to cast Awaken. Or Wish, of course.

>>13418832
>>13419191
>>13419277

It made me sad when after these comments /tg/ didnt start to make their own cat rpg...

>>13424009
TBH I kinda assumed it had already been done.
Are we still doing /tg/-gets-shit-done-caturday, or did that die?

>>13424009

But we don't NEED to.

There are already Cat RPGs, like the one >>13416600 mentioned.

And flexible RPGs like Don't Rest Your Head you don't even need to change anything, just change how you and the GM decide difficulties and stuff.

>>13424002
Of course a Cat could have such a spell cast on it by a god/demigod. And if that Cat then learned how to cast such spells itself it could bring more up to the same.

Of course that is assuming that Cats are actually like their human centric bestiary entry says.

Cats could well be far more intelligent than they let on to us.

Ambush?