I finally get to be a PC!

[Wachman]

Ok, now I’ve not actually played a character in 3rd Edition, I’ve only been a DM, that’s all about to change. My current campaign is about to be put on hold for awhile and in the mean time we will be running a something new with a new DM. My problem is “What do I play?”

We’re using a generous point buy so we’ll have good stats. I know the initial setting will be in the wilderness near a fort on the ‘frontier’ so to speak. There will be 4 PCs. I’m not sure exactly what the other PCs are. I believe one will be a druid and one will be a monk, but nothing is definite. We’re restricted to the races in the PHB, although I think we can use feats from the splat books and from FR.

Here’s some of my thoughts so far:

Paladin: (Human) good fighting and some spells. Never actually played one in all my D&D years. Not sure weather to go with mounted feats or divine feats from DoF.

Barbarian: (HO) good at dishing out damage, bad at not getting hit. The damage output potential is quite high, however the low AC at lower levels I fear will have me calling for healing quite often.

Rogue: (Human/Elf/Hallfing?): Not sure the race, Elf and Halfling get the Dex bonus but the Human gets the extra skill points. The elf gets better movement than the halfling. Thinking about concentrating on archery feats.

Fighter: (?): Hah the old stand-bye, simple, direct. Thought about going archery, but without a good front line I’m afraid the party will simply get overrun. Also I thought about going with Amb & TWF and using a sword with shield bash. Although not the most damaging combo it seemed interesting.

Wizard: (Gnome): With a toad familiar the potential for hit points is well, silly. Is it cheezy to have a gnome wizard with a toad familiar just for the double con bonus and all those hit points?

Well those are my ramblings. Any thoughts, opinions always welcome.

 

[Mark]

Congrats and welcome to the boards!

Why not wait until everyone else has chosen and pick something that rounds out the group? Having been a DM for so long, you are certainly qualified to play just about anything, eh?

 

[Dave G]

That's great advice, Mark. You might end up with a party like the newest D&D game I'm in now. We have a bard, a wizard, a cleric and a fighter... unfortunately, we made the characters pretty much in isolation, and my fighter is an archer type, and not front-line at all. Other than the short bow, he uses a cane as a weapon...

It should be an interesting campaign...

 

[Sixchan]

It depends on the way the campaign will be. If it's going to be a combat orientated campaign, you should probably go with one of your own ideas. if it'll be mostly roleplaying and characterisation, you can't go wrong with a Dwarven Wizard or a female Elven Barbarian.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

We’re using a generous point buy so we’ll have good stats. I know the initial setting will be in the wilderness near a fort on the ‘frontier’ so to speak.

Take a level of Ranger, it's great for wilderness locations.

 

[drakhe]

My 2 cents:

If you like Roleplaying more than Rollplaying: Go back to the books you read, the movies and TV shows you've seen. At some point you'll be thinking "Yeah, I want to play a character like Legolas/Connan/Zorro/Tarzan/Gandalf/Harry Potter/....." and base your character on that.

If you prefer Rollplaying over Roleplaying, or there's a specific need/requirement, I guess you should work out your character with the DM and/or the other players to fill the holes.

In both cases play a character that

a) is approved by the DM
b) you WANT to play

(as a DM I'll help out by indicating gaps/needs, for instance I'll remark that there is no healing in the party, but I'll never force anybody to play a cleric. If nobody wants to play a cleric, than so be it, the party will have to work out other ways of healing)