I have recently begun re-watching the most recent Planet of the Apes movies. This has inspired me to want to write an NPC for my campaign I am doing with my friends that is an Intelligent Chimpanzee. My current idea for his backstory will be that he was captured and experimented on by an evil wizard and will either be saved by the party or has already been saved by another prominent NPC and now is a companion of said NPC. He will be able to talk telepathically due to a side effect from the experiments that were performed on him. However, does anyone have any suggestions on how to build his character sheet. I would like to eventually have events lead to him joining the party and assisting them in their adventures, so he will be fighting alongside them. I was thinking of just using the Human race as a base guide for making his character but wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas for making his character and what racial bonuses a chimpanzee might would get.
There’s the flying monkey that’s meant to be a familiar. Just say the wizard cast awaken on it and bump its int up to 10. At that point it can also speak out loud, no telepathy required.
Then I’d use sidekick rules for making an expert, and turn it basically into a little rogue.
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I have recently begun re-watching the most recent Planet of the Apes movies. This has inspired me to want to write an NPC for my campaign I am doing with my friends that is an Intelligent Chimpanzee. My current idea for his backstory will be that he was captured and experimented on by an evil wizard and will either be saved by the party or has already been saved by another prominent NPC and now is a companion of said NPC. He will be able to talk telepathically due to a side effect from the experiments that were performed on him. However, does anyone have any suggestions on how to build his character sheet. I would like to eventually have events lead to him joining the party and assisting them in their adventures, so he will be fighting alongside them. I was thinking of just using the Human race as a base guide for making his character but wanted to see if anyone had any other ideas for making his character and what racial bonuses a chimpanzee might would get.
There’s the flying monkey that’s meant to be a familiar. Just say the wizard cast awaken on it and bump its int up to 10. At that point it can also speak out loud, no telepathy required.
Then I’d use sidekick rules for making an expert, and turn it basically into a little rogue.