Dragonlance: Young Heroes 4e (Closed)

[Zweischneid]

Shouldn't Sturm be a Paladin rather than Warlord? Possibly a Paladin with the Warlord multiclass feat. Paladin is the heavily armored knightly type more than the Warlord.

In a way.. yes. Though the 4e Paladin comes, if anything, with even more divine magic engergy effects, radiant blasts, lay-on-hands, etc.. than 3e.

Hard to see Sturm doing that. I was looking back and forth at fighter and warlord options actually. Fighters do lack the help-others option a bit. Multiclass in 4e won't really come into play until 4th level more or less.

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Though looking through the Paladin again, lots of things like 'Valiant Strike', 'Paladin's judgement' or 'Martyr's blessing (!)' just carry lots of 'Sturm flavour'...

 

[Jerrand Redband]

To Zweischneid: Sturm and his mother fled Solamnia when he was a boy and during his five year absence from his friends he went back and recovered his father's sword and armor. So since we will be starting before the five year break he doesn't have that armor to start.

To Bialaska: I'm think Knight of Solamnia as a build path?? Still learning the 4e stuff I guessing they took out Prestige class and went the path route? So a young knight starts out as whatever the want and when they want to build to knighthood they will get armor benefits and special traits. Just look at Galen (Weasel's Luck) he was a rogue who became a knight.

 

[Zweischneid]

To Zweischneid: Sturm and his mother fled Solamnia when he was a boy and during his five year absence from his friends he went back and recovered his father's sword and armor. So since we will be starting before the five year break he doesn't have that armor to start.

To Bialaska: I'm think Knight of Solamnia as a build path?? Still learning the 4e stuff I guessing they took out Prestige class and went the path route? So a young knight starts out as whatever the want and when they want to build to knighthood they will get armor benefits and special traits. Just look at Galen (Weasel's Luck) he was a rogue who became a knight.

Yah.. Knight of Solamnia (Knight Commander is in the book) is likely a Paragon path. However, there is this little thing about Sturm:

Raistlin told the young man, however, that he liked Sturm better after he discovered the man was only made a knight shortly before his death, that Sturm had all his life been living by a code he was not bound to--a code that many so-called true Solamnic Knights were only playing lip service to, that in his opinion Sturm had been a true knight his entire life.

So even as Sturm is not a knight.. he behaves like one, always!

 

[Bialaska]

To Bialaska: I'm think Knight of Solamnia as a build path?? Still learning the 4e stuff I guessing they took out Prestige class and went the path route? So a young knight starts out as whatever the want and when they want to build to knighthood they will get armor benefits and special traits. Just look at Galen (Weasel's Luck) he was a rogue who became a knight.

What is that path route thingie? Not sure where you get that. But yeah, multiclassing as we know it from 3.5 and prestige classes are gone. You now take the class that fits you the most (in this case I think Fighter or Paladin suits Sturm the most) and then simply fits the rest.

 

[Jerrand Redband]

My stat thoughts

Sturm                                    Raistlin

STR: 14 (+2 for raciacl=16)                STR: 11
DEX: 10                                    DEX: 16
CON: 14                                    CON: 10
INT: 13                                    INT: 16 (+2 racical= 18)
WIS: 12                                    WIS: 12
CHA: 14                                    CHA: 13

The paths might just be for Paragon level characters let me get back on that .

 

[Jerrand Redband]

So even as Sturm is not a knight.. he behaves like one, always!

And that I'm sure you will play him that way maybe will make alittle honor code thing to help you follow. That this will be a heavy role play experience I didn't say before there won't be alot of combat encounters to start (need to get hp up and all that) because there won't be a cleric or cleric type in the group. Alot of action will take place once we start DL1 count on that.

 

[Bialaska]

And that I'm sure you will play him that way maybe will make alittle honor code thing to help you follow. That this will be a heavy role play experience I didn't say before there won't be alot of combat encounters to start (need to get hp up and all that) because there won't be a cleric or cleric type in the group. Alot of action will take place once we start DL1 count on that.

Well, since all characters have healing surge, a party doesn't need a cleric as much as they did in 3.X. In fact they recommend 1 leader, but that doesn't have to be a cleric, it could be a warlord instead.

 

[Jerrand Redband]

Healing surge is only 1/4 hp so if you were playing it as 3.5 a fighter with a 14 CON would have 12hp and a healing surge of 4 that's like a 1st level cleric coming up and rolling a 3 on his cure light wounds. It will be really beneifical at higher level say that same fighter is level 5 and has 48hp his healing surge would be 12 pts more than any cure light wounds. Your right no clerics need thats what gave me the ideal to play the Innfellows at first level.

 

[Zweischneid]

Healing surge is only 1/4 hp so if you were playing it as 3.5 a fighter with a 14 CON would have 12hp and a healing surge of 4 that's like a 1st level cleric coming up and rolling a 3 on his cure light wounds. It will be really beneifical at higher level say that same fighter is level 5 and has 48hp his healing surge would be 12 pts more than any cure light wounds. Your right no clerics need thats what gave me the ideal to play the Innfellows at first level.

Well, a 4e fighter with 14 CON would have 27 hp already at lvl 1. He can use 1 healing surge as second wind (per encounter) and another one if he chooses powers like comeback strike.

Also, Cleric and Warlord (and other) healing is often keyed to surges (i.e. allow people to take a surge with a CHA bonus added or soem such, additional surges, free surges, etc... ). There is no cure light wounds anymore.

 

[ShaggySpellsword]

I'd love to play Tanis.

Any chance I could do him as a Ranger with the Warlord MC feat instead of as a Inspiring Warlord?

Otherwise, Tasslehoff would be really fun.