Leif's Homebrew 4E, OOC1

[Walking Dad]

I don't know how powerful it is. But I like controllers and this is another spin of the 'magic swordman' archetype. If we get now a Hexblade and a melee Bard, we have 4 times the same archetype with all different roles

 

[Leif]

I have not seen the 4E Hexblade. Where is it praytell? Never mind, found it in Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms, p. 201.

 

[Lou]

So I was wrong, I do want to play a defending swordmage. Eladrin, at that. Perhaps Walking Dad and I should have our characters be brothers?

5 Feats: Intelligent Blademaster, Improved Swordmage Warding, Quickdraw, Eladrin Soldier, Sun Elf Grace

He will be a Long Sword kind of guy.

What's the point buy?

 

[Leif]

Perhaps ALL of the characters could at least be related somehow? That would limit choice of races, but I could see Eladrin having distant Elf cousins, and Half-Eladrin could be handled mechanically the same as Half-Elf. Having a half- would allow one or more Humans to be stuck onto the family tree, and the Human(s) could have short kinfolks who'd be Halflings or Gnomes for game mechanics purposes. Anyway, just a weird thought. But if everybody did want to do it, it'd be easiest to stick with Eladrin, Elves, Half-Elves, and Humans, plus maybe a more exotic fey from the Monster Manual, a la Tarrk? [For those who don't know, Shayuri, Tarrk was Walking Dad's Minotaur Barbarian in the first 4E game that I ever ran.]

"Point Buy" is a 3.5/Pathfinder concept. [Well, not really....] 4E has the more limited choices of A) Rolling, B) Standard Array (16,14,13,12,11,10), or C) B*stard Point-Buy with 22 points to add to fixed starting numbers (10,10,10,10,10,8)*. Personally, I like the Standard Array, but if somebody prefers to do Option C) that would be ok, too. Just for giggles, let's try NOT to just have totally random rolls for scores, ok?

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09 : -(1) [costs 1 to make the 8 a 9, costs -1 to make a 10 a 9, or that's my reading of it anyway]
10 : 0 (2) [costs 2 to make the 8 a 10, then you can raise it normally from 10]
11 : 1
12 : 2
13 : 3
14 : 5
15 : 7
16 : 9
17 :12
18 :16
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[Walking Dad]

work in progress sheet. Things still to do: Skills and Power Details

level 8
Eladrin, Bladesinger (Wizard)
Background: Sunelf (speaks draconic)
Themes: Guardian

FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 10, Con 14, Dex 18, Int 20, Wis 13, Cha 10.

STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 10, Con 14, Dex 14, Int 16, Wis 13, Cha 10.


AC: 25 Fort: 19 Reflex: 22 Will: 21
HP: 66 Surges: 9 Surge Value: 16

TRAINED SKILLS
Arcana, Acrobatics, History, Perception

UNTRAINED SKILLS
Athletics, Bluff -0, Diplomacy -0, Dungeoneering +5, Endurance, Heal, Insight +3, Intimidate -0, Nature +3, Religion +1, Stealth +2, Streetwise -0, Thievery +2

FEATS
Level 1: Wand Expertise
Level 2: Heavy Blade Expertise
Level 4: Improved Defenses
Level 6: Eladrin Soldier
Level 8: Toughness

POWERS
Wizard at-will 1: Dazzling Sunray
Wizard at-will 2: Frost Bite
Wizard at-will 3: Unseen Hand
Wizard at-will 4: Magic Missle
Wizard Utility 1: Bladesong
Wizard Daily 1: Grasping Shadows / Force Orb
Wizard Utility 2: Shield / Jump
Wizard Daily 5: Fireshroud / Colorspray
Wizard Utility 6: Fireshield / Levitate

ITEMS
Adventurer's Kit,

level 9: Battle Harness Leather Armor +2
level 8: Sandstorm Longsword (Re-flavored as Feymist) +2
level 7: Cloak of Resistance +2

2,600gp
520gp Bracers of Mighty Striking (Heroic)

 

[Leif]

No hurry, WD. I got an email from Scotley today -- seems he wants to join us, but he requested that we cool our jets for a few days to give him time to finish up something urgent he is occupied with at work. I told him we would wait. So that's you [Walking Dad], Lou, and Scotley who have confirmed so far. I'd like to add one or two more. Rhun and Shayuri spring immediately to mind. Do any of the players have any preference for who rounds out the party? And I have no idea who may even be interested. We can approach players individually, or I can re-open our recruitment thread.

 

[Walking Dad]

I played with both Rhun and Shayuri and have no real preference.

 

[Leif]

I played with both Rhun and Shayuri and have no real preference.

Hate them both the same, do you?

 

[Scotley]

I'm back finally. I'll do a little reading and see if I can come up with a concept for you over the next couple of evenings.

 

[Leif]

So far, then, we have:

Eladrin Bladesinger (Wizard) - Walking Dad
Eladrin Swordmage (Defending) - Lou

What we need now is a Hexblade (Warlock), a Rogue (or an actual Thief), a 'regular' Warlock, and/or maybe a Sentinel (Druid). But I can't help but think it would be good to have a couple of martial types, too, maybe a Warlord and a Fighter. Leaders are always good friends to have, too, let's not forget, even though that's less important in 4E than ever before.

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All this time I've been saying Eladrin as "Ella-Drin" but on the movie thingy on the ENWorld homepage, Will ("Wesley Crusher") Wheaton says it "El-LAD-rin" and it sounds much better that way.
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