Talk about your Eberron character concepts

I also had an idea for a Half-Orc Ranger/Rogue(and perhaps the Bounty Hunter Prestige Class from the Scarred Lands player's Guide to Rangers and Rogues) from house Tharashk making his way in the world as a tracker of fugitive criminals.
 

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JPL said:
I'm still working my way through the book, but a few things are percolating...

- An urban ranger/master inquisitive. I'm thinking Robert Parker's Spenser, basically --- a riff on the classic gumshoe. He could easily be partnered up with a Hawk type character...maybe more of an assassin or legbreaker.

Anyone else?
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It's funny you mention the ranger/master inquisitive as a take-off of Spenser from the Parker novels because my original D&D 3.0 character is a take-off of Hawk. He's a pure neutral fighter/rogue half-orc. See picture icon of him next to this message.

I think that would be a great idea. I think of the Spenser character as perhaps an ex-paladin (cop), neutral good, who is some type of fighter/ranger. The ranger/master inquisitive I think would be a good combo.

-Collin :)
 

collin said:
It's funny you mention the ranger/master inquisitive as a take-off of Spenser from the Parker novels because my original D&D 3.0 character is a take-off of Hawk. He's a pure neutral fighter/rogue half-orc. See picture icon of him next to this message.

I think that would be a great idea. I think of the Spenser character as perhaps an ex-paladin (cop), neutral good, who is some type of fighter/ranger. The ranger/master inquisitive I think would be a good combo.

-Collin :)
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Hawk is one of my favorite characters --- both in the novels and as portrayed by Avery Brooks. I like the idea that he and Spenser each follow a code --- but they are very different codes, despite substantial overlap.

Spenser would be an interesting inspiration for an urban paladin. He'd be a far cry from the traditional knight in shining armor --- in fact, he might come off as little more than a mercernary snoop. But he's pure of heart, even thought neither the church nor the secular authorities give him much credit.
 

My first DnD character was a half-elf sorcerer and seeing the House Lyrander makes me want to recreate him. I see him as a disenchanted dragonmarked character who no longer uses the family name. He is haunted by the neutrality of his house in the Last War, and particular horrors he witnessed during it.

I also like the thought of a warforged monk, seeking spirtual enlightenment and questining whether or not he even has a spirit to enlighten.

I would like to know more about the Travler, a CN god in a purportedly evil pantheon is facinating. I am picturing a Changeling Rogue/Cleric of the Travler who fears that he society emergin after the Last War will enter a stagnet period and just wants to keep things moving.
 

I really want to play a railroad-bandit type. Robbing 'trains' and, depending on alignment, giving to the poor, or getting rich. Using an Immovable Rod to slow/damage/disrail (depending on your interretation of the rules on Immovable Rods) the trains, then getting everything he can haul out.
 

It occurs to me that you could rip off "Firefly" for character concepts and they'd be right at home.

Mal, the disillusioned ex-patriot who is still a better man than he wants the world to know, a forgotten soldier of the Last War, now scraping by doing dirty jobs.

Book, the holy man with a mysterious past, disturbingly skilled in combat.

The man they call Jayne, a true mercernary who wavers between Neutral and Neutral Evil and dimly recognizes from time to time that he's not a very good man. He'd make a damn fine half-orc.

River, the strange girl with the strange powers being hunted by strange and powerful enemies. Maybe she bears the thirteenth dragon mark?
 

Only one remaining creature on Eberron bears the 13th dragonmark.
Vol the Lich.

Though, i'm already salivating with ideas for adventures or characters heralding the return of the mark of death...
 

MDSnowman said:
You'll need the Knight Training Feat to multi-class as a paladin too
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Not necessarily. Start as a fighter, take the monk class, then take Monastic Training (Paladin) or Knightly Training (Monk) and you can freely multiclass between the two. Says so in the feat description.
 

BrooklynKnight said:
Only one remaining creature on Eberron bears the 13th dragonmark.
Vol the Lich.
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Sure, that's what VOL thinks. That's what EVERYONE thinks.

Which is why everyone is so upset by rumors about this strange girl born to a noble house...spirited away by her healer brother, and on the run from Vol [and pretty much everyone else].
 


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