Suggestions Welcome

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

I'm joining a new FR game in the coming weeks, and the GM is allowing monstrous races for the first time in his experience

He's set a limit of ECL+3, and owns Savage Species.

Anyone have any good ideas as to what monstrous race would be fun to play? Not neccesarily min/max or munchkin or PG, but just simple fun.

He's apparently planning several dungeon encounters, and has commented on the difficulties of a centaur in small dungeons, and the benefits of a pixie.

Currently, I'm leaning towards the pixie, and he's said something about levels of pixie before I can take a class level. Can anyone explain what abilities a pixie gets at each 'pixie level'??

Or propose a more fun ECL+3 type monstrous race to play?

I'm considering asking about awakened animals or oozes
Also animated objects, awakened, or constructs - though I probably won't (just a little too far out there for me)

Suggestions?

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

18 views and not a single comment - rather impressive

I've settled into the concept of an albino drow wizard raised by priests of the deity of magic (Mystra in FR?)

Any suggestions on personality quirks? I'm contemplating a 'red necked wizard' type

 

[MarauderX]

You could be a Rakshasa with a heart of gold... very cool abilities there, but you would again have to 'level in race' before leveling in PC classes.

Pixie sounds cool, but you will be the butt of every fairy joke there is.

How about something tougher, like a gnoll barbarian? I would look forward to carrying around a pole arm lopping off heads... or even a minotaur would be pretty tough.

I guess it depends what you are going after, really, I think there are races enough to 'amplify' any character class that you want to play.

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

I guess it depends what you are going after, really, I think there are races enough to 'amplify' any character class that you want to play.

But I'm not seeking to 'amplify' a character class - I'm looking for a monster/class combo that would be a) fun and b) unusual... Something along the lines of a Orc Paladin, or Ettin Bard.

I've pretty much settled into the Drow Wizard concept now though - and I'm just looking for personality quirks to add in...

My fellow players shot down the rednecked idea. I truly don't want to play the typical enigmatic, withdrawn type.

Any ideas? Any at all?

 

[Pyske]

Illusionist / enchanter, specializing in social skills and deception? That would give you a pretty outgoing, social wizard-type.

How about a drow teacher, looking for lost pupils on the sly, hoping to find them before he gets in trouble. He's on their first "field trip" when they disappeared... and some of them are the children of very important people.

. . . . . . . -- Eric

 

[cdsaint]

Two words.... Gnoll Paladin!

Yes,
A gnoll paladin would be great. you could start by taking some levels of barbarian, then be "blessed" by a helm of opposite alignment. Pick up at least a level of paladin. Not only do you get to ply a gnoll, you have an excuse to do a barbarian / paladin multiclass!

Chris

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

Yes,
A gnoll paladin would be great. you could start by taking some levels of barbarian, then be "blessed" by a helm of opposite alignment. Pick up at least a level of paladin. Not only do you get to ply a gnoll, you have an excuse to do a barbarian / paladin multiclass!

Chris

heh - you just established my secondary backup character

A few more details have trickled in from the GM:

Campaign is set in the area of Deeping Dale, near HighMoon in the Dalelands of the Forgotten Realms.

My Drow will be described as bleached white skin, golden eyes, and black hair. I'll be starting off as an apprentice for wizard0/cleric0, becoming Wizard1/Cleric1 at 3000XP. I'll take the improved Drow abilities Feat from Races of Faerun, thus granting access to a few second level spells as spell like abilities (which counts as arcane caster, 2nd lvl spells). I'll take Cleric to third level, then take mystic theurge at 6th character level. His personality will be a coward who runs away as often as possible and since he is LN, he'll just not care provided he follows any rules and/or structure around himself...


My backup character (fairly lethal game), is a gnoll barbarian who is plagued by visions of 'good' that he calls nightmares. This will cause him, within a couple of levels, to drift through a few alignments. When he hits lawful good, his next level will be to take a Paladin and adopt a LG god that would normally by highly opposed to gnolls

My second backup character will be a half-orc rogue who thinks he's a halfling... Constantly getting stuck in small openings, etc.

 

[der_kluge]

Hey, this isn't any fun - you come looking for suggestions, and in the second post, you tell us that you've made up your mind! Bah! A pox on you.

Besides, a drow is not a *monstrous* race. It's cliche, and overdone, IMHO.

A pixie sorcerer would be far more interesting.

 

[MarauderX]

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A pixie sorcerer would be far more interesting.

Add in a few levels of barbarian and you become a renowned exterminator! Rats, mice, & insects beware!!

 

[Tilla the Hun (work)]

Add in a few levels of barbarian and you become a renowned exterminator! Rats, mice, & insects beware!!

-rofl-

I made up my mind because A) suggestions were long in coming, B) the GM made gagging noises when I first suggested an albino drow wizard, and upon investigation I found that not only had he never heard of such a thing, it managed to quite neatly sidestep his 'drow social stigma' lethality towards all drow.

It was originally a joke i made at him about cliched race/types, but then he gagged and commented he'd never heard of it before... ::boggle:: The experienced GM has never heard of a PC albino drow??? ::sigh::


However, now I have two good sugestions for backup characters

1) Albino Drow Wizard (Coward)
2) Gnoll Barb/Pala ('Loose Cannon' anyone?)
3) Pixie Sor/Barb ('I am the Terminator!' vermin exterminator extraordinare... I can just see it - Pixie4/Sor1/Barb1/RogueX)

-rofl-

Any more good suggestions like a Pixie Barb??? My creativity is running slow, and now a long time friend of mine is joining the game as well He has the same attitude towards the ECL+3 as I do...


Oh, and do try to remember the ECL+3?