Recent content by costermonger

I think an anti-druid of some kind is possible. 2e had a kit for it and 3e had various flavours including variant class abilities around death including getting turn undead and atleast one prestige class (blighter). don't know about 4e but that still shows a history for the archetype. Other...

I agree that the brand is secondary to the game quality. Baldurs gate was my intro to D&D. That game made me want to try the ttrpg. While I played a few other crpgs based on d&d none of them were up to that standard. If my first taste of D&D was the pool of radience game from 3e era I wouldn't...

Exactly. One of my players ran a vengeance paladin a while ago. he smited almost all the time. occasional heal when the party didn't have a cleric for a couple of levels. only time i remember any other spell being used was branding smite against an invisible enemy.

IIRC he started as a fighter in a band of outlaws/freedom fighters, then spent time as a thief in the city and became a cleric when he broke into a deserted temple of Mystra. Only later did he take up arcane study as he began life hating all wizards...

Just reskin a monster. I used a planetar to represent my bbeg warrior with divine blessings. Gave me a good melee warrior with spell casting without having to build from scratch.

5e group playing in westhoughton. Just lost a player leaving us with DM and two players. Any level of experience including noobs welcome. Our ages are early 20's to mid 30's. We meet every Sunday.