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I've played BG2 extensively, but including lots of solo runs. Favorite wizard: Edwin; he's around earlier than Imoen Favorite cleric/druid: Viconia and Anomen. Cernd is...annoying... and extremely squishy. Aerie and Jaheria's casting suffers substantially from multiclassing. Favorite rogue...

Str: Fighter. Archetypes are Weaponsmaster, Paladin, Battlerager Dex: Rogue. Archetypes are Bard, Ninja, Thief Con: Shaman. Archetypes are Druid [nature magic & totems], Ranger [less magic, more fighting], Shapechanger [no magic, some kind of strain or dice pool]. Int: Wizard. Archetypes...

The rogue, because having a rogue sniping you is annoying, and harder to get away from.

Finally! Thank you, set to notify on launch. I hope they have some adventures/campaigns with the setting. It's foreign enough to me (history-major American) that I'd need some help getting started. It's hard to even find good books about the history of India... nothing at all at the local...

Isn't that already what the druid spell list is all about for spell levels 7-9?

We'll just have to get used to posca (vinegar in our water).

Crossbows with a decent amount of punch take time to reload. Historically, you got a higher rate of fire out of conventional bows, but better armor penetration out of your crossbows.

Player familiarity with the characters and a table culture that encourages "Know what you're doing before it's your turn, and have your dice ready. Possibly even roll before the DM calls on you." Some of my players can take 10 seconds to complete a turn. Others take 3 minutes.

Oh and *posting in this thread does not grant any permission or express any particular interest in being placed into this or any other similar interplanar/cross-world scenario. I'm content where I am, thank you. (I don't actually believe in that stuff being possible - committed Christian - but...

Shortbow (I draw about a 40lb bow +-, so longbow would be too much) Spear & shield (ACOUP has a nice series about the Mediterranean Omni-Spear - there's a reason it's so prevalent) plus shortsword as backup. Light to medium armor, in D&D terms a chain shirt. Then supporting gear in terms of...

Very nice!

1. No blobs of just HP and attacks. Attack things other than AC. Force saving throws and skill checks. One of the few times I made my 18th level part run away was when they were investigating an old mine that was set up as a baited trap by a nearby mindflayer city. The paladin looked into a...

My high level campaign (13-20+2 epic boons each) had some player shifts due to RL, but the ending party was Vengeance Paladin Fathomless Warlock Samurai Fighter Kensei Monk 18/Rogue 2 Only one full caster. Not a ton of healing either. The original Castle Dracula party that preceded it was...

It usually doesn't match up to the fantasy players are looking for. I had a player who started as a trickster cleric and went tempest. In my games, at least, regular healing is preferred over Healing Word, partly because going to 0 gets you a level of exhaustion. Cleric or druid would both be...

RAW yes Rule of Cool yes Doylist yes: It gives the barbarian some actual use in a campaign where spying and being stealthy and gathering info without beating people up is worth doing.

We have a Belt of Dwarvenkind, and boots and cloaks of Elvenkind. What edition did they originate in, and why don't we have, I don't know, Vests of Halflingkind, Dragonborn pendants, a shark-tooth Necklace of Orcishness, etc.?

I saw it used once (someone showed up with a pre-made character including the spell and a few others from books I don't allow). It was very meh. I think the main use was the charm function, which they used via yelling through a door to get the troll to stop blocking them.

Which is a bit funny considering even Tolkein had a Green Dragon. It was a pub...but still, the idea was out there.

This looks like a super awesome setting book. I would love to play in this or run it.

Yeah, if you get rid of full plate you nerf armored Str characters. Chitin or ankylosaurus shell might be an option, too.