Grugach (wild elves)--preferred class??

[candidus_cogitens]

Rules question: What is the preferred class for a wild elf? Is it wizard, for all elves? In the monster manual, it says "Nomadic and rugged, wild elves favor the sorcerer class rather than wizard, although many are barbarians as well." Does that change their preferred class? (You could ask the same thing about wood elves: is ranger their preferred class?)

General question: How would you play a wild elf, in terms of personality, motivations, quirks? I am creating a grugach barbarian (possibly windrider, eventually), and I'd like some tips. What kind of speech pattern should I try to affect? And most importantly, why would they ever come out of their secretive and secluded woodland homes and travel abroad?

 

[Mr Fidgit]

about the rules question...

the FRCS was errata'd to make the wild elves preferred class sorcerer, and the wood elves preferred class ranger (originally it was unchanged from wizard...)

 

[candidus_cogitens]

But I'm a barbarian!

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Yeah, it's sorcerer for wild elves and ranger for wood elves. You can be a barbarian wild elf. In fact, that should be a very fun character to play. You can throw in a level or two of sorcerer with no XP penalty, too. That is what favored class is all about, or vice versa.

 

[Mr Fidgit]

do you plan on multi-classing?

(i'd ask your DM about it, wether you're playing in FR or not...maybe a new house rule in your favor)

 

[Darklone]

KoK wildelves have barbarian as favored class, FR wildelves sorcerer.

Take two levels barbarian and go ranger

 

[candidus_cogitens]

Yeah, I wanted to take one level as a ranger, in order to get certain skills that would be cross-class otherwise--skills that i need for a PrC (windrider).

I'm excited about being a barbarian wild elf. Barbarian/Ranger would be cooler still.

 

[kreynolds]

(i'd ask your DM about it, wether you're playing in FR or not...maybe a new house rule in your favor)

Definately. I wouldn't be surprised if he house-ruled it for you. I house ruled the favored classes of drow to Female-Cleric and Male-Fighter. It just seemed silly to me that drow males are predisposed to Wizard. I mean, if that were indeed the case, then you would see 10 wizards for every fighter, instead of 10 fighters for every wizard.

 

[AuraSeer]

Definately. I wouldn't be surprised if he house-ruled it for you. I house ruled the favored classes of drow to Female-Cleric and Male-Fighter. It just seemed silly to me that drow males are predisposed to Wizard. I mean, if that were indeed the case, then you would see 10 wizards for every fighter, instead of 10 fighters for every wizard.

I look at it the other way around. A race's favored class doesn't mean that everyone chooses that as a career; it means that it's very easy to mix in a few levels of that class, to enhance your ability in your primary class.

If drow males favor the wizard class, that doesn't make a Wiz9/Ftr1 any more likely than a Ftr9/Wiz1. But it does make a Rog7/Wiz3 far more likely than a Rog7/Ftr3.

Am I making sense?

 

[kreynolds]

Am I making sense?

Not really. Any way you look at it, their favored class is saying that it is the class that is easiest for them to learn, the one that comes most naturally to them, the one that doesn't slow them down when they want to learn something else. It's seems silly that the class which drow males have the easiest time learning is very rarely taken by them.

Basically, it breaks down like this.
1) Drow males make awesome wizards because it comes more easily to them.
2) Drow males rarely ever are wizards.

See? Silly.