Optimize my Party

[PwrMnky]

(oh! my first POST!)

Ok.
We're running Rappan Athuk.
DON'T GIVE AWAY ANYTHING!
Don't give anything away. Just in general ...

But what do you think my party will need, in reference to classes or skills:

- Paladin
- Barbarian/beast master
- Wilshape druid variant
- Beguiler
- Mage specialist/Conjurer
- Cleric
- Scout

Thoughts?

 

[Nyaricus]

Disclaimer: never played RA, but here are my two coppers for dungeon crawls:

Between the Beguiler and the Scout, you are sorta short on opening locks and the like; maybe have one or both pick up a level in Rogue?

A Paladin with some Divine feats is always good. Divine Vigor, Might or... can't remember the other one are all very good.

With that many players, and the druid focusing on shapechanging (or so it seems) your cleric should consider the Healing Domain. Pally and Cleric should both be packing wands of Cure Light Wounds or the like.

With that many party members, in a dungeon-delve like RA appears to be, a conjuring mage (which I assume will be focusing on summons, right?) might make the relatively/presumably small hallways pretty frickin' crowded, right? Maybe that character should consider a different mage concept - abjuration is a decent one, to protect all you party members

Don't have much for the Barbarian character. Just stuff his highest score into Con - it'll keep him alive longer, and in his rage longer, which is a Good Thing (tm). Seriously. Constituition. Oh, and get him to take the feat Mad Foam Rager from PHBII - he can shove off any effect for one round, giving a cleric time to heal him so he doesn't die, etc. It's really nice (thanks Mearls!).

Hope that helps!

cheers,
--N

 

[PwrMnky]

Thanks for the insight.

Our priest is nothing but a healing battery righty now. Which is cool, but our pally is major front line.

The shifter seems to be melee focused as well.

I'm playing the conjurer and I'm not focusing on summoning spells. I'm focusing on creation spells/battlefield control. (Stinking cloud, web, EBT, orbs ...). Thus far my character has been pretty helpful.

I'm worried we don't have a plethora of magic being tossed around ...

We get thrown up against some nasty demons and some HUGE will saves!