[FR] Silver Marches (FULL!)

[Thels]

Long run is all in Dex, so 15's in other scores won't help me until age/wishes, which is a bit far away for my taste.

I corrected some minor stuff.

 

[Li Shenron]

As I havn't heard anything from Hurricain until now, I'll let you in instead, Li.

You'll enter the stage when the group reaches Sundabar, which will take a couple days still, so there should be enough time to make a character, or to ask questions.

Bye
Thanee

Thank you a lot! I have planned a character which I can post on the Rogue Gallery thread. You have to let me know if the following is a too much worn-out idea, if you don't think it fits with your plans, if it is incompatible with the rest of the group, or if it just sucks...

I want to try once to play a character who is not evil but comes from a culture where he was pushed to be evil; being not evil enough was the reason of his failure and for becoming an outcast of his race. Ok, I know it is not the most original idea, but being in FR I couldn't help but thinking of a Drow (since it's +2 ECL I couldn't play one, so I'd rather thought of a Half-Drow, as the PHB Half-Elf but with Drow heritage in the physical appearance, it doesn't need to be different mechanically).
What I want to see is if I am able to roleplay such a character so that he is effectively not evil (I think True Neutral would make the best) but often cruel in combat or with enemies and prisoners; he should be facing a contrast between his good human side and his evil drow side, between an instinct of goodness and an education of cruelness, so that sometimes he definitely wants to lean towards goods, mercy, and love, and may feel horrified by his own violent behaviour, while other times his thought would be brought back to the (evil) drow values he was educated at, and he would feel somehow morally compelled to pursue them.

In terms of gameplay, I can make him a Fighter so that it will fit the party's current composition. I think straight single-class is ok, although we may decide for him to later become multiclass if we see that the party needs to be adjusted, or even a PrCl if the story gives any opportunity. The concept idea around which he is built is that of a quite stealthy warrior: the Fighter class is not the best to do this but it doesn't matter that much.

 

[Thanee]

Wow! Now that was a late response!

You could make him a Fighter/Rogue, the Skills and Sneak Attacks would fit your idea quite well, I think.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Li Shenron]

Wow! Now that was a late response!

You could make him a Fighter/Rogue, the Skills and Sneak Attacks would fit your idea quite well, I think.

Bye
Thanee

You can see him in the Rogue Gallery, background and personality coming soon.

 

[Thanee]

Interesting feat choices there.

Even fighters don't have that few skill points. You should have 25 to spend total, and have used up roughly half of that so far.

You also have Undercommon as an automatic language and another 2 bonus languages (Drow Sign? Abyssal?).

Attribute rolling (see initial post under attributes) yes or no?
If yes, which attribute should be left untouched?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Li Shenron]

Feats: Blind-Fight was chosen mostly because of background (having always lived in the dark without having darkvision); the other feats are because I try to make him learn some Int- or Dex- based combat feats for smart-fighting rather than being a brute.

Skills: I have indeed spent 25 points (ranks are indicated with *), only that besides Intimidate they are all cross-class skills (Gather Info, Hide, Move Silently, Tumble and Listen, each 4 points = 2 ranks).

I didnt know Undercommon was automatic, I used the PHB Half-Elf. Note that I only have used SRD, not the FRCS. If UC is auto, then Drow Sign language as second bonus language will be fine. Infernal also was chosen for background.

Finally, if you let me choose, I think I'd rather skip the ability bonus rolling.

I know it's not a very optimized character but... who cares?

 

[Thels]

I could be mistaking, but didn't under 3.0 Halfdrow have the same abilities as Halfelves, except their lowlight vision was replaced by darkvision? Under 3.5 Halfelves gained +2/+2 Diplomacy/Gather Information. It might make sense to give Halfdrow bonuses to other skills, like +2/+2 Sense Motive/Survival, but that's entirely up to Thanee.

 

[Li Shenron]

Thanee, I don't own the Silver Marches sourcebook but I am able to borrow it from a friend. Do you think it's best if I read it or do you prefer that I don't?

I don't know what is in the Marches' underdark for example (besides the famous Menzoberranzan), that's why I didn't write any names in the background. I could check the book so to be able to name a Drow town from which I come from for example.

If you think it's better that the character already knows about the Marches' aboveground, let me know which part of the book I should read: I would probably not remember many details after I return the book, but that could make for a realistically incomplete knowledge of the PC.

 

[Thanee]

As long as you don't look into the adventure section in the back, feel free to read the book!

And I agree with Thels, we should switch those half-elven bonuses to something more fitting.

How about Move Silently and Hide? Those are useful and probably quite fitting, too.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Li Shenron]

As long as you don't look into the adventure section in the back, feel free to read the book!

Luckily you mentioned this before it was too late!

And I agree with Thels, we should switch those half-elven bonuses to something more fitting.

How about Move Silently and Hide? Those are useful and probably quite fitting, too.

MS and Hide would be definitely more useful if you want them to be.

But I really don't mind to keep the base 2. In fact, as I had some more skill points to spend from your house rule about Half-Elves, I got the idea of buying cross-class skills in Gather Info only because I had that +2 already, and then I came up with the fact that the PC might have been assigned some investigation tasks to justify his ranks in GI.

So, from my side I have no problems in keeping the bonus as they are in PHB (I don't really mind if I am not going to exploit them a lot). But if you really think they should be changed, that's ok as well. I have no idea if in the FRCS there is a specific entry for Half-Drow that we should follow...