D&D 5E [RAVENLOFT] [5e] Death House OOC

[Wrex]

Greetings all,

Thanks CB for the kind words, though you may have set the bar a bit high for me!

Super excited to play, and I greatly appreciate the invite. I'll try not to slow you all down! I'm picking up a PHB tomorrow morning. I'll pour through that tomorrow, check out some of the site stuff, and try to get a character made. I will probably go something basic while I get used to things again.

Bit about me gaming wise; I haven't played 5e yet, but I have played tabletop RPGs before. I started in 2e and then stopped somewhere in the 3-3.5 era. After that I played a few Dark Heresy (Warhammer 40k) campaigns that I really liked before starting my new and current job about 5 years ago. So its been a bit since I played, but hopefully it will be easy to get back into the groove.

Can't tell you how excited I am to make a character. One question, how do I generate ability scores?

 

[Kobold Stew]

Welcome, Wrex, and welcome to the boards!

There's a free (legal) downloadable pdf that's worth knowing about, here <http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/BasicRules_Playerv3.4_PF.pdf>

It's got many of the rules, and the most basic character generation guidelines. For a rogue or fighter, it's pretty much all you need at first level (clerics and wizards have choices at first level, as do some of the other classes).

For making characters, the point-buy system is best (see page 8) -- 27 points allows you to start with one or two stats at 16 normally. It can at least familiarize you with the system before you get your PHB.

Glad to have you aboard! Let us know if we can help with the learning curve at all.

 

[Yavathol]

Welcome aboard Wrex

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Great! Welcome, [MENTION=6829052]Wrex[/MENTION]! (smart thinking, creating a short username)

As KS said, we used a 27 point buy to create our characters. Since you played 3.x, and 5e and 3.x have similarities, you'll want to be careful to avoid imputing knowledge. A good example of what I mean (and a critical difference between 5e and 3.x) is the 5e point buy method of generating ability scores, which uses a base of 8. The 3.x model uses a base of 10. I, uh, might have made about a million DMing errors my first dance with 5e, half the time because I assumed certain rules were the same between the systems. As I write, that sounds like a boneheaded error, but 3.x and 5e are similar enough that I was lulled into comfort.

I'm irrationally excited for you to have your PHB tomorrow. That's a neat moment, getting one's mitts on a new PHB in a new system.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Here's a link to the community IG set up for us. It's our centralized repository for links, images, and the treasure log. It's also got a thread containing everyone's finished character sheet.

Curse of Strahd Community


[MENTION=23298]industrygothica[/MENTION], will you please send Wrex an invite?

 

[lowkey13]

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[Wrex]

Happily reading through the PHB, thinking about classes. Looking at all of your PCs, looks like a cleric, a bard, a warlock, and two barbarians?

Another fighter/rogue still fit the mix? A paladin? There about 1000 characters I'm excited to play.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Yup, you've correctly pegged party composition to date. Any of what you mention above is viable. I played a NE paladin earlier this year and had fun with him.


I think you should play whatever most juices you.

 

[Yavathol]

Wergil, one of the barbarians, will switch to a battle master (type of fighter) around level 3 or 4; there are two other types of fighter though. Paladins are pretty cool in 5e too, not as constrained in terms of lawful stupid characteristics.. You could even play a charismatic, dextrous CG paladin/rogue, in that 5e is flexible enough to make the mechanics & roleplay work

Or, you know, play a druid, monk, sorcerer or wizard!

 

[industrygothica]

Invitation sent. Welcome to the game Wrex; glad to have you.