Samurai
Adventurer
The caption on this picture on the front page brought home something I've noticed in our WotBS game (just now entering the Elven kingdom)... this campaign seems suited to a more diplomatic party than ours.
Our group does not have a single character with Bluff or Diplomacy. We do have 1 Cavalier with Intimidate (played as a gruff commander type who barks out orders in combat but otherwise keeps quiet), and my character has a good Sense Motive, but otherwise, we are useless in diplomatic situations. The DM has already had to skip over or quickly through some diplomacy-heavy sections of the campaign, and we wondered whether it might not be a good idea to get at least 1 character for whom Charisma was not the dump stat (seriously, I think the party's average Chr is an 8, my dwarf has a 6). We didn't plan it that way, we just all came up with our characters on our own and it so happened no one took a diplomatic type.
So are we really handicapped in a campaign that seems to be at least somewhat about diplomatic relations? I can only imagine the elven princess's reaction to our party of social misfits that couldn't talk their way out of a paper bag, and to a man have net penalties and no skill ranks at diplomacy...
PS: I appreciate the nice looking previews on the front page, but also remember not to give away too many spoilers for people who are playing the campaign!
Our group does not have a single character with Bluff or Diplomacy. We do have 1 Cavalier with Intimidate (played as a gruff commander type who barks out orders in combat but otherwise keeps quiet), and my character has a good Sense Motive, but otherwise, we are useless in diplomatic situations. The DM has already had to skip over or quickly through some diplomacy-heavy sections of the campaign, and we wondered whether it might not be a good idea to get at least 1 character for whom Charisma was not the dump stat (seriously, I think the party's average Chr is an 8, my dwarf has a 6). We didn't plan it that way, we just all came up with our characters on our own and it so happened no one took a diplomatic type.
So are we really handicapped in a campaign that seems to be at least somewhat about diplomatic relations? I can only imagine the elven princess's reaction to our party of social misfits that couldn't talk their way out of a paper bag, and to a man have net penalties and no skill ranks at diplomacy...
PS: I appreciate the nice looking previews on the front page, but also remember not to give away too many spoilers for people who are playing the campaign!
