is this a thing

Hippies only rely on Charisma when stoned, and even then the bonuses only apply to interactions with other hippies. The problem with Hippie/Nerd synergy is that Nerds are very much the opposite of Hippies, in that they enjoy doing things (albeit nerdy things) while Hippies enjoy smoking weed and not washing. You could try Hippie/Musician, since they both work off Charisma and music written under the influence gets bonuses depending on genre.

Nerds suffer a LOT from multiclassing.

>>15006685

if by "thing" you mean "that meme where we all pretend to play a fake game" then yes. yes, it is.

we only play with the rule you cannot play the opposite gender, or as frat guys.

After the third session of "Teehee, i flash him and drink the roofied beer!" we finally said enough was enough.

My friend rolled the wierdest fratboy in my group, for some un-fucking-believeable reason he chose CON as his dumpstat, so he can't drink for shit so all of his abilities are weak or useless.

On the plus side because he put everything into CHA he's basically Van Wilder.

>>15006746
Yeah, but a Nerd absolutely has to multiclass to unlock the Valedictorian prestige class, because without the skills from either being a Debate Team member or Class President, it can't be done.

But man, those Valedictorian feats are outrageous.

>>15006764
You're missing out there. If you play an all-Frat group and use the Company rules from Reign to represent different Fraternities and college groups, epic shenanigans happen.

My group is currently running a community college campaign. I'm playing a single mom.

I rolled a Nerd 5/Musician 5 in my current campaign. Although Musician relies mostly on CHA, INT helps with composition which improves the quality, while CHA helps the Nerd get laid, a major exp giver.

My DM is a bitch though, he keeps throwing Bitches and Whores in our way that leave our party depressed.

I rolled the Not-Traditional Student class. I have the option for the Crushing Debt drawback with the Flush with Temporary Flush With Cash benefit. Or I can go the Vow of Poverty Paragon path and earn the Hard Work Is Its Own Reward skill increase; what should I do?

Without the Flush With Cash benefit, I can't score the hot Sophomore Paramour companion, and I would like at least three before I ascend to Adulthood: The Burgeoning.

The gf is running a cute but nerdy freshman who's got a rank in stripper on the side to pay for college.

>>15006870
Community College games are the best. Drop the level and class restrictions and see what people come up with is fun.

I rolled up an Autodidact. Pretty sweet how I can cross class without penalty.

Currently I'm a Auto 4/ Occultist 3/ Spokesman 1.

I'm running with a Financier 5/ Politic 3 and a Artist 2/ Occultist 4/ Salesman 2.

I just hit lvl 3 as a Jock, should I continue until I can get the Inexplicably-High-Grades feat or multiclass into Frat Boy for the synergy bonus to nerd harrassment?

When I played, I was a Metalhead/Goth.

>>15007157

Levels are: 12/5

I'm currently multiclassing a Japanese minor with my CS major for flavor reasons, but they aren't really gel together very well. Also would help if I put more skill points into Studying.

Nerd 7/ Soldier 12/ Mechanic 3/ Blacksmith 6/ Farmer 6

My DM decided that throwing me around the world would be a good thing. I guess it was in the end.
My char's backround is very fucked up and allowed me to gather many bonuses.

One of my best characters was playing as a Junior Lecturer(High Level campaign, obv) with the Rampant Libido and Alcoholism. He ended up being stripped of his tenure after some wild nights with the Sorority girls, though. Fun times.

Hippie/Nerd here, it works but it takes quite a bit of cheesing to be decent

>>15007243

I hate GMs who go out of their way to make players lose tenure.

Hippy/Nerd is hard. The bonuses to Cha the hippy gets from a penalty to Wis is pretty much the antitheses to the bonus Nerds get to Wis from their high Int (which gets bumped from the penalty in Cha).

I'm looking at Hippy specialising in Fine Art after getting a couple of levels in Nerd. It's going to be almost impossible.

>>15006942

If you're continuing into an adult game, don't take Crushing Debt. It will absolutely 100% fuck you in ways you can't even imagine.

I took "Study my fucking ass off" at first level, so I got a shitton of Scholarship feats. Shit was cash, yo.

>>15007451
Listen to this man, if you don't plan your build early you're fucked.

Master economist here. Tremble in awe of my power, undergrads.

Has anybody ever actually played using the rules from the Post-Doctoral Handbook? It seems to me like the rules system really breaks down at such high level. I mean, in my experience it even gets a little unwieldy in grad school play.

>and taichi
Yeah, I know all about the Rec Center Handbook, captcha.

Has anyone actually played a nerd/fratboy? Because I think that might work in some circumstances.

rolled 6449 = 6449

I played for a bit, pure nerd, but my character got suspended. Failed a few too many Int tests before I could start multiclassing. I've been looking to get back into it but having trouble getting the stuff I need. Last time the DM was providing everything, but now I'm on my own. Managed to roll a semi-decent int but all my other scores were shit.

>>15007484
Only if you're playing the core game. Any of the international expansions give you so much more freedom than a game set in America.

I laughed super hard.

I laughed super hard because trolls never base fake systems on something good.

>>15007311
The same with GMs who make players regret their Major. I rolled up an English/Theater Major with specs in Fiction (Fantasy) and Tech (Lights). Then he introduces the English professor Who Hates Everything You Do. I got lots of XP from it, but continuing on the class progression wasn't worth it.

Then another player rolled a Theater Major with maxed ranks in Drama (not the acting kind) and the game kind of fell apart from there.

>>15007527
I played a nerd/frat boy for 9 semesters. The trick was that instead of splitting my drinking ranks between beer and hard liquor, I put it all in the hard stuff and took Mixology for my third semester feat.

Now mind you, this was in a campaign where everybody had ranks in frat boy. Frat boy/nerd, frat boy/engineering student, even frat boy/redneck.

>>15007527

That could work. Kinda like a fighter/mage, right?

I was involved in the Anime Club guild. It was fun.

I took the Insanity flaw at the same level I cross-classed into nerd. I figured I'd have a good chance of getting Asperger's Syndrome and all the crazy int bonuses you get. I rolled Crushing Depression instead, though. That level drain is fucking hard to get past. But it works out, because the build I'm working with now is ten times better than the Goth build I started with.

>>15007527
Rolled a pretty good nerd/frat guy a couple years back, but had to take the Friendzone flaw with my paramour to take a couple levels in marine about halfway through the campaign. Shit's cash though, paramour finally started another campaign on the east coast and her fear of starting again let me take the flaw away now that I've moved to So Cal and she's all alone or something.

I was lucky enough to have had a couple levels in jock in my highschools and whores campaign prior to, in addition to having a ridiculously high stat block (had to take the Lazy, Spoiled, and Entitled flaw though, it's been giving me problems lately). It's let me put some skill points in just about everything, but I haven't levelled my Nerd in awhile, just training every so often on ever-present sci-fi training books

>>15007579

Yeah, I took a level in artist and got a series of abstract art hippie professors. Basically it came down to the point where passing your skill checks was akin to failing them because your painting actually looked like the thing you were painting..

>>15007527

I had a friend play that, but he had to take the WoW flaw.

>>15007598


Goths are at a disadvantage, but I still rolled one. Loved it, despite being alone a lot. Few people want to join your party when you roll a goth. The fratboy classes tend to taunt you as well.

However, I put points into Resist Taunt.

>>15007610
Sorry for interrupting the flow, but I lol'd pretty hard.

That said, has anyone done Metalhead/Nerd? The Progressive Metal feat allows you to use INT for pretty much all the Metalheads class features.

>>15007631
Yeah. It's just too bad the creators put the 'Blows' property on the vast majority of Music. So no matter what you get penalties against specific classes.

>>15007631

I never took the Nerd class, but the Metalhead allowed me to back up my Goth levels with enough kick ass and Partying to be passable.

>>15007647
Yeah, seriously. It's gotten to the point where my character actually has to make a will save to keep him from attacking whenever someone mentions that pop is their favorite genre. I've actually had to start increasing my STR and CON because of it now.

>>15007670

My ranks in Pretentiousness made life difficult

>>15007670
Well to be fair, Pop does have the largest number of songs with "Blows." But that does tend to be because there's so many songs that cross schools with Pop.

>>15007711
I feel your pain. Looking back, I'm a dumbass for not putting anything in Tolerance (Popular Culture).

I'm actually starting a community college game in the fall any one have any builds to recomend?

>>15007774
Plan your character based on what looks the coolest to you. It's kind of like Warhammer in that respect. Because if you decide to change, it's expensive as fuck lol.

>>15007774

I recommend a build where you are the most versatile to all kinds of parties. You should dabble in a bit of everything.

>>15007774

word of advice, think end game when picking a class, what do you want to the do once you hit grad level?

Also, charisma is by far the most important stat, even if you roll a nerd take as many charisma feats as you can.

Hate to pull back to the OP question, but I've found the secret to multiclassing Hippie into Nerd is to focus on specializing in Discipline (Philosophy). The special rule "Like, Woahhhh" allows you to turn the penalties from being Stoned into bonuses when taking Int tests.

>>15008121


> charisma

THIS. I have almost NO charisma.

>>15008051
Multiclassing is fine at lower levels, but once you hit levels 3 or 4 you're gonna be looking at some serious penalties to all metafeats if you haven't picked a specialization.

>>15007774
Pick something like Economist, Chemist, or Physicist. Then keep an even balance between course-specific and generalist skills.