D&D 5E [D&D 5e] Planescape- In Through the Out Door (Full)
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CanadienneBacon
Explorer
I'm sticking with Bard. And looking forward to playing in a party with two bards, if Fenris does indeed go with Satyr Bard.
Unsung
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Two bards, and two very different bards, makes for an interesting party dynamic and I have no complaints. It gives them something in common, a reason to talk shop. And I did suggest the master/apprentice idea. This isn't quite what I was expecting, but all the more interesting for it, I'd say.
I'm guessing you're at work on your characters and that's why the thread's gone a little quiet. I'm in no mood to rush and this has all come together surprisingly quickly, in fact, but I will put to you the question: how long do you want to take to come up with your characters? And along those same lines, do any of you want to establish bonds and background story elements between yourself and the other characters before we start the game proper?
I'm guessing you're at work on your characters and that's why the thread's gone a little quiet. I'm in no mood to rush and this has all come together surprisingly quickly, in fact, but I will put to you the question: how long do you want to take to come up with your characters? And along those same lines, do any of you want to establish bonds and background story elements between yourself and the other characters before we start the game proper?
KirayaTiDrekan
Adventurer
I'd like to have a PC to follow around like a beaten puppy. Perhaps [MENTION=8058]Queenie[/MENTION]'s character?
Queenie
Queen of Everything
I've actually gotten a good chunk of my character done and so does Fenris, which is surprising for me lol. Just kind of came together. Though we are usually better getting them done and up with a deadline. I am excited to start playing such a unique character (for me). Definitely going with Pixie / ancient fey Warlock.
Kira, I'm totally cool with your mondron following around my Pixie! She's going to be good hearted, whimsical, kind and very attracted to light and life. Hopefully lol. So while I was looking for someone for her to be attracted/attached to, it wouldn't be a Frankenberry mondron with no emotions, and she probably be afraid in some way of a ghost and a paladin of the God of death! :-o hopefully no one takes offense to that - it'll be fun playing the dynamic out.
So it looks like she'd naturally be drawn towards the Satyr. So I think we decided to just make a history together. I would think your little mondron would in turn be attracted towards my little light character. It will be fun!
Kira, I'm totally cool with your mondron following around my Pixie! She's going to be good hearted, whimsical, kind and very attracted to light and life. Hopefully lol. So while I was looking for someone for her to be attracted/attached to, it wouldn't be a Frankenberry mondron with no emotions, and she probably be afraid in some way of a ghost and a paladin of the God of death! :-o hopefully no one takes offense to that - it'll be fun playing the dynamic out.
So it looks like she'd naturally be drawn towards the Satyr. So I think we decided to just make a history together. I would think your little mondron would in turn be attracted towards my little light character. It will be fun!
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
Picayune Leveaux
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Effigy Bard 3
Medium-size Undead (Augmented Humanoid) (Incorporeal)
Chaotic Neutral
Hit Dice: 3d8 + 3
hp: 18
Initiative: +1
Speed: Fly 40' (perfect)
AC 13 (+1 Dex, +2 deflection bonus granted by Charisma modifier)
STR 8
DEX 13
CON 12
INT 10
WIS 14
CHA 15
[sblock=Effigy Racial Traits]
Ability Score Increase: None
Age: You have the age you had when you became an effigy. While an effigy, you do not age.
Alignment: Effigies have an innate tendency toward chaos, and many wind up evil. Chaotic or not, an independent nature means that alignment can run the gamut.
Size: An effigy takes the same size it had in its mortal life.
Speed: Fly (perfect) 40 feet.
Sunlight Sensitivity: You have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. Your movement is halved as if difficult terrain when you are in direct sunlight.
Darkvision: Thanks to your incorporeal nature, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial.
Undead: You are immune to poison damage, exhaustion, and the paralyzed, petrified, and poisoned conditions. You don’t need air, food, drink, or sleep. Healing magic has no effect on you (but you can still benefit from temporary hit points and resting). You are susceptible to turning.
Incorporeal: You have resistance to any non-magical, physical damage; this never includes force, psychic, or radiant damage. You are also immune to the grappled, prone, and restrained conditions. You cannot taste, touch, or smell, and you automatically fail Perception checks based on these senses. You can only pick up or lift a tenth of what a creature of your size and Strength normally could, and your ability to carry objects is limited to what you can hold in your hands. You cannot wear armor or clothing.
Phasing: You can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your turn inside a solid object, you take 1d10 force damage.
Corrupting Thoughts: You know the spell vicious mockery. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it. Your ability with this cantrip is restrained to that of a 1st-level spellcaster, and when used as a racial trait, never increases in power. You may cast vicious mockery as a racial ability a number of times per day equal to your Charisma modifier. These limitations do not apply to vicious mockery if taken as a class-based spell, however.
Infusion:
[sblock=Bard Class Features]
Proficiency Bonus: +2
Armor: Light armor. May not wear armor while incorporeal.
Tools: Trombone, Voice, Trumpet
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
Skill Proficiencies: Perception*, Performance*, Persuasion, Insight, Deception, Stealth
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbow, longsword, rapier, shortsword. Limited to carrying items weighing 12 pounds or less while incorporeal.
Features: Spellcasting, Bardic Inspiration (d6), Jack of All Trades, Song of Rest (d6), Bard College, *Expertise
Cantrips Known: Minor Illusion, Message; Vicious Mockery (racial spell, 2/day)
Spells Known: Dissonant Whispers, Faerie Fire, Healing Word, Tasha's Hideous Laughter; Detect Thoughts, Phantasmal Force.
Spell Slots:
(4) 1st-level spells
(2) 2nd-level spells
Equipment:
Trombone, 4#
Bardic Inspiration:
Jack of All Trades: You add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include you proficiency bonus.
Song of Rest: You can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance regain hit points at the end of the short rest, each of those creatures regains an extra 1d6 hit points.
Bard College: College of Jazz.
Bonus Proficiencies: When you join the College of Jazz at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.
Additional Magical Secrets: At 6th level, you learn two spells of your choice from any class. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as bard spells for you but don’t count against the number of bard spells you know.
Peerless Skill: Starting at 14th level, when you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration. Roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to do so after you roll the die for the ability check, but before the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail.
Expertise: Choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chose proficiencies.[/sblock][/section]
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Effigy Bard 3
Medium-size Undead (Augmented Humanoid) (Incorporeal)
Chaotic Neutral
Hit Dice: 3d8 + 3
hp: 18
Initiative: +1
Speed: Fly 40' (perfect)
AC 13 (+1 Dex, +2 deflection bonus granted by Charisma modifier)
STR 8
DEX 13
CON 12
INT 10
WIS 14
CHA 15
[sblock=Effigy Racial Traits]
Ability Score Increase: None
Age: You have the age you had when you became an effigy. While an effigy, you do not age.
Alignment: Effigies have an innate tendency toward chaos, and many wind up evil. Chaotic or not, an independent nature means that alignment can run the gamut.
Size: An effigy takes the same size it had in its mortal life.
Speed: Fly (perfect) 40 feet.
Sunlight Sensitivity: You have disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. Your movement is halved as if difficult terrain when you are in direct sunlight.
Darkvision: Thanks to your incorporeal nature, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial.
Undead: You are immune to poison damage, exhaustion, and the paralyzed, petrified, and poisoned conditions. You don’t need air, food, drink, or sleep. Healing magic has no effect on you (but you can still benefit from temporary hit points and resting). You are susceptible to turning.
Incorporeal: You have resistance to any non-magical, physical damage; this never includes force, psychic, or radiant damage. You are also immune to the grappled, prone, and restrained conditions. You cannot taste, touch, or smell, and you automatically fail Perception checks based on these senses. You can only pick up or lift a tenth of what a creature of your size and Strength normally could, and your ability to carry objects is limited to what you can hold in your hands. You cannot wear armor or clothing.
Phasing: You can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. If you end your turn inside a solid object, you take 1d10 force damage.
Corrupting Thoughts: You know the spell vicious mockery. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it. Your ability with this cantrip is restrained to that of a 1st-level spellcaster, and when used as a racial trait, never increases in power. You may cast vicious mockery as a racial ability a number of times per day equal to your Charisma modifier. These limitations do not apply to vicious mockery if taken as a class-based spell, however.
Infusion:
One living creature that the effigy can see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be possessed by the effigy. The effigy can use Infusion a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier. You must complete a long rest before you can do so again.
The effigy then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. The effigy now controls the body but doesn't deprive the target of awareness. The effigy can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn undead, and it retains its alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and immunity to being charmed or frightened. It otherwise uses the possessed target's statistics, but doesn't gain access to the target's knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, the effigy ends it as a bonus action, or the effigy is forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the possession ends, the effigy reappears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the body. The target is immune to this effigy’s Infusion for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or after the possession ends.
[/sblock]The effigy then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. The effigy now controls the body but doesn't deprive the target of awareness. The effigy can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn undead, and it retains its alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and immunity to being charmed or frightened. It otherwise uses the possessed target's statistics, but doesn't gain access to the target's knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, the effigy ends it as a bonus action, or the effigy is forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the possession ends, the effigy reappears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the body. The target is immune to this effigy’s Infusion for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or after the possession ends.
[sblock=Bard Class Features]
Proficiency Bonus: +2
Armor: Light armor. May not wear armor while incorporeal.
Tools: Trombone, Voice, Trumpet
Saving Throws: Dexterity, Charisma
Skill Proficiencies: Perception*, Performance*, Persuasion, Insight, Deception, Stealth
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbow, longsword, rapier, shortsword. Limited to carrying items weighing 12 pounds or less while incorporeal.
Features: Spellcasting, Bardic Inspiration (d6), Jack of All Trades, Song of Rest (d6), Bard College, *Expertise
Cantrips Known: Minor Illusion, Message; Vicious Mockery (racial spell, 2/day)
Spells Known: Dissonant Whispers, Faerie Fire, Healing Word, Tasha's Hideous Laughter; Detect Thoughts, Phantasmal Force.
Spell Slots:
(4) 1st-level spells
(2) 2nd-level spells
Equipment:
Trombone, 4#
Bardic Inspiration:
You can inspire other through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a bonus action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier. You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Once within the next 10 minutes, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier. You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Jack of All Trades: You add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include you proficiency bonus.
Song of Rest: You can use soothing music or oration to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest. If you or any friendly creatures who can hear your performance regain hit points at the end of the short rest, each of those creatures regains an extra 1d6 hit points.
Bard College: College of Jazz.
Jazz musicians know something about most things, collecting bits of stories and music from sources as diverse as the Heritage and Blues Festival to the jazz funeral. Whether whispering folk ballads to newborn infants or elaborate oratories that preface a jazz funeral march down Dumaine Street, these bards use gifts of music and voice to hold audiences spellbound. When the applause dies down, the audience members find themselves questioning everything they held to be true, from their faith in God to the sanctity of marriage.
The loyalty of a jazz musician lies in the pursuit of music, not in fealty to goodness or in following the tenets of society. A patron of the arts who sponsors a jazz musician knows that music is its own end, its own truth, and revels in the harmony of ethos and pathos that is Jazz.
The college’s members gather in speakeasies, juke joints, and often on street corners to share their lore with one another. Jazz musicians give freely of their craft; sharing a riff, a beat, a story, a smile with anyone who shows interest. Their job is not to expose corruption as with bards of the College of Lore, but—by the playing of music or the gift of oratory—to show that the world is but a shadow of Beauty, Truth, Sadness, and Justice.
The loyalty of a jazz musician lies in the pursuit of music, not in fealty to goodness or in following the tenets of society. A patron of the arts who sponsors a jazz musician knows that music is its own end, its own truth, and revels in the harmony of ethos and pathos that is Jazz.
The college’s members gather in speakeasies, juke joints, and often on street corners to share their lore with one another. Jazz musicians give freely of their craft; sharing a riff, a beat, a story, a smile with anyone who shows interest. Their job is not to expose corruption as with bards of the College of Lore, but—by the playing of music or the gift of oratory—to show that the world is but a shadow of Beauty, Truth, Sadness, and Justice.
Bonus Proficiencies: When you join the College of Jazz at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with three skills of your choice.
Additional Magical Secrets: At 6th level, you learn two spells of your choice from any class. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip. The chosen spells count as bard spells for you but don’t count against the number of bard spells you know.
Peerless Skill: Starting at 14th level, when you make an ability check, you can expend one use of Bardic Inspiration. Roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to your ability check. You can choose to do so after you roll the die for the ability check, but before the DM tells you whether you succeed or fail.
Expertise: Choose two of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of the chose proficiencies.[/sblock][/section]
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Unsung
First Post
Same goes for me. 
The College of Jazz is a nice little vignette.
[MENTION=11146]CanadienneBacon[/MENTION] Like Shayuri said, don't feel like you have to be 1st level for balance reasons.
You should assign both Strength and Constitution. Unlike 3rd Ed, 5e undead often have fairly high Con scores to represent their toughness, even though their immunities mean they don't roll it very often otherwise.
Don't forget you get vicious mockery as a racial cantrip (meaning you've got one more pick from bard).
Given his age, we could talk about adding proficiencies, or maybe expertise in an instrument or two, if that fits your ideas for the character.
The College of Jazz is a nice little vignette.[MENTION=11146]CanadienneBacon[/MENTION] Like Shayuri said, don't feel like you have to be 1st level for balance reasons.
You should assign both Strength and Constitution. Unlike 3rd Ed, 5e undead often have fairly high Con scores to represent their toughness, even though their immunities mean they don't roll it very often otherwise.
Don't forget you get vicious mockery as a racial cantrip (meaning you've got one more pick from bard).
Given his age, we could talk about adding proficiencies, or maybe expertise in an instrument or two, if that fits your ideas for the character.
CanadienneBacon
Explorer
Thanks. It's always super neat to get a compliment from a respected peer. Seeing everyone else elevate their character offerings makes me want to elevate my own roleplay, makes me dig deeper to drum up viable characters of my own. I'm grateful. Given that Picayune is supposed to be superior at trombone, I will probably up him to Bard 3 just so I can place him in the College of Jazz. With all his racial abilities as an Effigy, I don't know that bumping him to Bard 4 or Bard 5 would be best. I want everyone to shine.
I assigned Str 8 and Con 12. In trying to balance the racial traits, I dropped Undead because I was concerned it was too overpowering. Right now, Picayune is just an "Augmented Humanoid." He definitely died during the gas explosion during Katrina, so I consider him to be undead. In the iteration posted above, he's just not Undead. If you take my meaning. I can add Undead back, if you think it weakens him. Undead makes him susceptible to being turned, so maybe that would be good for balance?
In this iteration, I tried to clean up and aimed for balance. Shayuri pointed out that Bards can select vicious mockery as a cantrip, so my thinking when I re-drafted Picayune was that I shouldn't take vicious mockery as a racial feature since I can take it as a class feature. No need to double dip.Unsung said:
Picayune is a trombonist. Sometimes he uses his voice, but his main thing is the trombone. He plays a little trumpet, but not to the extent that he's brilliant with the trombone. Expertise in Perform (trombone) would be a good fit. If Picayune's life merits adding a Proficiency, I'm less clear what that Proficiency ought to be. Deception might be a good one; jazz musicians make excellent story tellers and liars. I'm open to suggestions for other Proficiencies. I skimmed the 5e PHB section on Proficiencies but nothing stood out and grabbed my attention.Unsung said:
I'm excited to give him a whirl on the dance floor. I hope he pans out as I envision him. And, hey, if he's something different, then I'll enjoy the surprise.
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