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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redclaw" data-source="post: 4019319" data-attributes="member: 53791">Bloodweaver--There are currently no warforged in the party, so some of the artificer's strengths would be less so.  Still, with the use of magic items the artificer can be quite useful.The favored soul is absolutely fine.  The divine caster who I'm currently NPCing for his absentee player is a favored soul of the Flame.Decide which you'd rather go with and pitch me the concept.Tyreus--a gnome illusionist could be interesting.  I think I'm going to say no to Races of Stone, as I don't own the book and am not a huge fan of what I know of the shadowcraft mage.  That being said, there's no reason you need to focus on AoE, I had just observed that that was an area missing from the current party's repertoire.Leif--Thanks for the positive feedback.  I think we're all having fun with it so far.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> The rogue/wizard combo is fine by me, but with the scout in the party already, you'd want to avoid too much overlap in your sneaky natures.  The party isn't heavily languaged at this point, so that would be appreciated, I'm sure.  They have a few, but are missing many.As for how I'm choosing, it's about what I think is the best fit for the current party.  I see the current players as my first priority, and therefore will do my best to select characters that will work best with the group as it currently exists.  All else being equal, I also love a good concept/background.  Since this is really a collaborative storytelling exercise, I want the players who are most likely to add interest and excitement through their characters.S@squ@atch--I'm fine with the ultimate magus, and think the conflict between education and latent talent can be an interesting one, especially with a bard and a duskblade in the party representing the different sides.  My only question is why someone with that much focus on melding the two magics together would leave his studies to go into the wild jungle of Q'barra.</blockquote>

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