(Recruiting) Kiss of Darkness--Adventure in my Homebrew Setting

[Legildur]

I assume you mean for him to be a Rogue rather than a Monk, right?

<grin> Yeah, just 'borrowing' Boddynock's character outline code to save reinventing the wheel. Got as far as skills, but nearly 2am over here, so I'll complete him tomorrow.

Aiming for spiked chain trip specialist (and maybe disarm at later date), but will have to rely on quarterstaff for the meantime as max gold for monk won't even cover for a chain! (and not that he can qualify for one until 3rd level anyway because of the +1 BAB requirement for EWP feat).

 

[Rystil Arden]

<grin> Yeah, just 'borrowing' Boddynock's character outline code to save reinventing the wheel. Got as far as skills, but nearly 2am over here, so I'll complete him tomorrow.

Aiming for spiked chain trip specialist (and maybe disarm at later date), but will have to rely on quarterstaff for the meantime as max gold for monk won't even cover for a chain! (and not that he can qualify for one until 3rd level anyway because of the +1 BAB requirement for EWP feat).

Ah, that explains the strange chimera of Monk and Rogue

 

[Nonlethal Force]

EDIT:
Nevermind. I totally missed a page of posts. Thanks Rystil. I figured someone should have gotten to this.

There are a lot of posts in this thread!

 

[Rystil Arden]

I hate to keeping butting my nose in ... but if you drop a 15 you'll have 15, 11, 11, 9, 8, 8. I believe that's good enough for a hopeless character and a reroll - although only Rystil can confirm that, I'm not the DM. [Maybe that is setting the table straight for a true "third roll." ]

Rystil says--see Rystil's telling him to maybe reroll, then Bront, then his actual reroll itself, then his posting the new char

 

[Shayuri]

LOL

I can't leave this thread alone for one night without it sprouting two new PAGES!

My oh my. Well, it looks like we're gonna be doing at least two PC groups, so there's room for some overlap...

Grazing the list, I note a paucity in primary arcanists...which is a traditional love of mine. Clerics, though I'm having second thoughts about a kobold. Rystil, would a nonhuman "monster" like a kobold be limited in RP opportunities? I'd certainly try to get him a disguise item ASAP, but it'd be several levels before he could afford one...

And Aliyas is definitely still in the running, with one or two "ranger" or "archer" builds proposed, but nothing solid forthcoming yet. A question here too, Rystil. Rangers normally don't gain companions until level 4. Would taking Natural Bond earlier allow an earlier selection of companions? I realize I could just buy a horse at 1st or 2nd level and not worry about its status, but I'm curious about how you think that would (or not) work.

Decisions, decisions.

 

[Rystil Arden]

My oh my. Well, it looks like we're gonna be doing at least two PC groups, so there's room for some overlap...

Yup, plus with six per group, there's bound to be intergroup overlap, and that's okay too

Grazing the list, I note a paucity in primary arcanists...which is a traditional love of mine. Clerics, though I'm having second thoughts about a kobold. Rystil, would a nonhuman "monster" like a kobold be limited in RP opportunities? I'd certainly try to get him a disguise item ASAP, but it'd be several levels before he could afford one...

Individuals from monstrous races that aren't too outlandish are generally tolerated at least as individuals, even an Azer in my face-to-face game, so monstrous races should be able to RP--obviously, if you pick a good-aligned (for sure) or neutral-aligned (sometimes, depending) monstrous race, there will be even less to worry about than a traditionally evil race.

And Aliyas is definitely still in the running, with one or two "ranger" or "archer" builds proposed, but nothing solid forthcoming yet. A question here too, Rystil. Rangers normally don't gain companions until level 4. Would taking Natural Bond earlier allow an earlier selection of companions? I realize I could just buy a horse at 1st or 2nd level and not worry about its status, but I'm curious about how you think that would (or not) work.

The Natural Bond feat adds +3 to effective class level, to a maximum of the full character level, for the purpose of animal companions, but this only helps if you already have the Animal Companion ability, which a Ranger only picks up at level 4 on her chart of abilities. So a Ranger with Natural Bond as her level 3 feat would gain a companion at level 4, but the companion would immediately be selectable from the chart of 4th-level Druid companions

 

[JimAde]

Aiming for spiked chain trip specialist (and maybe disarm at later date), but will have to rely on quarterstaff for the meantime as max gold for monk won't even cover for a chain! (and not that he can qualify for one until 3rd level anyway because of the +1 BAB requirement for EWP feat).

Just a heads-up that I was planning to go there as well. Since there will apparently be two groups there should be plenty of room for 2 trip monkeys (there probably is in one group in fact) but I just wanted to let you know. I've got Improved Trip and a guisarme at the moment. I couldn't afford the money or the feat yet either.

Which brings me to a silly question. I forgot to check the starting wealth for a fighter last night and don't have my books here. Can anybody help? If not, I'll just double-check my equipment/gold over the week-end. Thanks.

 

[Shayuri]

Rystil, how do you feel about ranger substitution levels from Races of the Wild? Specifically, the elf ranger substitution that allows selection of a cooshee as a companion.

 

[chod]

Im thinking on a dody half-elf fighter, or some kind of sorcerer. I can post at least 1 times pr day, and maybe more.
I will write some character background out tomorrow, right now I have to prepare my adventure that I'm gonna DM tomorrow

And I live in Norway, so I post on very different times then you from USA.

 

[Eluvan]

240gp is max starting gold for a fighter JimAde.


Hmmm... this thread more than doubled in size overnight.

Anyhow, I have to go to work in about 20 minutes and won't be back until past midnight, so I guess I won't have a character done tonight. I'll post my character up over the weekend though, for sure.

I'm leaning away from my cloistered cleric idea, because the stats I rolled are horrible for it - a prime spellcasting stat of 15 just doesn't really cut it for a pure caster. The wanderer idea, too, doesn't really work for me with those stats now that I think about it. So I guess I'm finding myself drawn to the dwarf... he'll probably be a ranger.

My preliminary ideas for a background are that he was raised in a clan that was in a state of unceasing war against some kind of evil enemies or another. I'm open to who/what precisely they might have been. He fought in the wars once he was old enough to heft a sword, and by that time the dwarves were slowly driving their foes back and my character spent most of his active service hunting their stragglers as they retreated. He eventually left his own lands entirely in pursuit of one of their leaders, and the trail led him on to wherever the adventure starts, and was the bait that led him to munch on the adventure hook and get pulled in.

Of course, I have no clue if that will work with the story you have planned. I'm just throwing it out there to get some feedback and work towards something that will work.