Unbalanced Player Characters?

[Arrgh! Mark!]

I wouldn't know how the psionic would go, but your shifter (eventually) will be hard to deal with. Not overly powerful, neccesarily, but annoying to deal with. Be prepared to deal with any number of circumstances.

Swashbuckler - I'd suggest a race with better charisma. A swashbuckler with no charisma? What horror!

Your halfling cleric is honestly going to be the most powerful member of the party.

Don't run big, hard-hitting battles. I'd see if you could go for an intrigue-laden plot from the very beginning, to be honest. Just remember : Bigotry is your friend!

 

[the Jester]

I've had a high level shifter in my epic game, but she died like the rest of them when the tpk came.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

If you want to get really technical, this combination is illegal. Druids can't take Selune as a patron (which, IMHO, is stupid). Faiths and Pantheons has a complete list of nature deities, and clearly states that druids and rangers MUST take one of these deities as their patron (because other deities can't grant nature spells).

Well, it sounded cool, so I okayed it. It's not as if he gets any bonuses from it. Besides, thanks to this backstory I could come up with a cool archenemy for this character - a half-fiend shifter who worships Shar and now dwells in the Underdark as formless, many-tentacled monstrosity...

 

[ruleslawyer]

Heh.

I happen to disagree with allowing Selune as a nature deity in general (Shaundakul should be, OTOH, but Selune doesn't have a wilderness portfolio, whereas the god of wanderers does). However, with your story ideas, it sounds good!

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

So now I've been informed that the halfling cleric will be a cloistered cleric, from Unearthed Arcana...

I wonder what my players will think of next?

 

[Merlion]

Well that I'd take as a good thing since although the "cloistered cleric" still has archtype issues, it at least is balanced unlike the standard cleric.

 

[Chimera]

Haha that's actually an issue I have with tons and tons of monsterous manuals. I mean geez if all of these monsters were in the world they'd be stacked miles high like firewood! haha

Not to mention the fact that there'd be no real reason for humans to be so powerfull...

That's one reason why my homebrew world has four (of 9 or 10) landmasses with no humans. There's got to be somewhere for those other races to breed unchecked and dominate the landscape!

And the reason humans exist on every other landmass has less to do with their "power" and fecundity than the fact that they were brought over by a more powerful race that used them as agricultural slaves. (Same reason there are Orcs in these same places. The Orcs were used as a buffer to protect the more valuable human slaves from whatever else was on the continent.)

 

[Chimera]

Your halfling cleric is honestly going to be the most powerful member of the party.

A lot of people made this comment in this thread. Has seriously made my day for the humor value. Oh, I don't doubt it may be true. I'm just picturing some villain asking them to send their most powerful member forward and having these extra-planar beings part to reveal nothing...oops...camera pans down to reveal the dreaded Halfling Cleric!!!

AAAAIAIIIEIIEIEEE!!!!

 

[Darklone]

Noone laughs about the halfling inquisition!

 

[diaglo]

Noone laughs about the halfling inquisition!

read the story hour in my sig around page 18 or so...