[OOC] Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden [closed but waitlist is available]

[VLAD the Destroyer]

@Quickleaf I took the Guild Artisan background. Normally it gives you Insight and Persuasion as skills. Can I change one of those for the Commerce skill instead?

 

[Neurotic]

I'm noticing the artificer has all the thieving skills needed. Should I switch to druid? We don't have many full casters...

 

[VLAD the Destroyer]

Lacking expertise makes them not nearly as reliable. Play what you want, either class would add to the party.

 

[Quickleaf]

@Quickleaf I took the Guild Artisan background. Normally it gives you Insight and Persuasion as skills. Can I change one of those for the Commerce skill instead?

Absolutely, yes.

Make any little narrative modifications like this if they make sense for your PC's background. Just let me know. No need for my permission for this though.

 

[Quickleaf]

Hey DM, it looks like me having a Headband of Intellect would give me more skills. Imma let you pick them. Make them appropriate to the game, or around a certain theme. They’re skills that are basically given to me when I wear the headband, so they belonged to someone else who wore it. I like surprises!

4 bonus skills? How about Alchemy, Arcana, Investigation, and Sage Lore (astronomy)?

 

[Quickleaf]

So I had a reading failure. I completely missed that an artificer got Mechanics and a Craft for free.

Yeah, that's basically it.

RAW artifiicer gives you:

Tools: Thieves’ tools, tinker’s tools, one type of artisan’s tools of your choice
Skills: Choose 2 from Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Sleight of Hand

My hack replaces all the tools with Mechanics (subsuming thieves' tools & tinker's tool) and Craft (choose one). You get these "for free."

And then you get to "Choose 3+your Intelligence modifier from Airways, Alchemy, Arcana, Commerce, Craft, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Roadways, Sleight of Hand"

 

[Quickleaf]

I'm noticing the artificer has all the thieving skills needed. Should I switch to druid? We don't have many full casters...

If you're choosing between Rogue and Druid, both have strong narrative connections. Without giving away too much...

In addition to locals, Icewind Dale is home to many exiles and runaways dodging the law back home. Being familiar with them and knowing Thieves Cant can be of great help navigating the Ten-Towns and the prison Revel's End if you venture there.

There are evil druids in this adventure, and Druidic can be helpful for interpreting certain runes or figuring out what the evil druids are saying to each other. The default in this setting is not Druids = hippies with woodland animal friends. These are old school blood-sacrifice kind of druids.

edit: In terms of full casters, I think @happylace was contemplating druid (wildfire) or some other options. Also @Aethmud was contemplating sorcerer or wizard.

 

[Necropolitan]

@Quickleaf does the backstory I sent you work for my character?

 

[Quickleaf]

@Quickleaf does the backstory I sent you work for my character?

Ah, sorry, saw some of you PMed me now. Yes, it works! I only have one suggestion to make it "play nicer" with the overarching campaign goal, but I'll message you privately.

 

[Quickleaf]

Oh! One thing I'm planning on doing is creating a list of everyone's name/race/background/class(subclass) which will be posted in the Rogues' Gallery thread and in this thread.

I will not publicly post secrets.

If for whatever reason any of the above – (name/race/background/class(subclass) – is something you want me not to publicly reveal, let me know.