Will Doyle
Explorer
Has anyone ever tried to create a solo PC class?
I was thinking how neat it would be to have a 4E solo character you could airdrop straight into an unmodified, 5-character adventure. After all, scaling an adventure for one player is a headache, and loses much of the cool monster synergies that make encounters shine. Running multiple characters is something I've never been keen on. But one-on-one gaming can be fun.
Such a class would be best-off being built from scratch, instead of creating some hybrid monstrosity. Loads of reaction powers that let you take actions off-turn. Elevated healing, naturally. Perhaps something a bit more left-field, like a hardwired power that lets you summon minions. Roles become a bit tricky, so maybe just a single uberclass based on each power source?
On a different tack, I'd also like to see some sort of template I could slap onto an existing, normal character to boost their powers up to elite status. So I could play an adventure pretty much as-is with 2 characters. No idea how that would work though...
Anyway - has such an idea ever been discussed/attempted, and if so, can you point me to where?
I was thinking how neat it would be to have a 4E solo character you could airdrop straight into an unmodified, 5-character adventure. After all, scaling an adventure for one player is a headache, and loses much of the cool monster synergies that make encounters shine. Running multiple characters is something I've never been keen on. But one-on-one gaming can be fun.
Such a class would be best-off being built from scratch, instead of creating some hybrid monstrosity. Loads of reaction powers that let you take actions off-turn. Elevated healing, naturally. Perhaps something a bit more left-field, like a hardwired power that lets you summon minions. Roles become a bit tricky, so maybe just a single uberclass based on each power source?
On a different tack, I'd also like to see some sort of template I could slap onto an existing, normal character to boost their powers up to elite status. So I could play an adventure pretty much as-is with 2 characters. No idea how that would work though...
Anyway - has such an idea ever been discussed/attempted, and if so, can you point me to where?