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General D&D Discussion / Re: Boy, does 4e SUCK...!
« on: June 29, 2014, 01:13:55 PM »
I seem to have failed to explain myself  :-\

My interest in in the suggestion that Pathfinder is as good, if not better, than 4E (this being a 4E thread) at Concept Driven Characters.
I hope it is, and Unbeliever seems to think it is, so I hope for his advice.

My Concept is for a character who blasts foes with the forces of nature - cold, lightning, thunder/sonic, sunlight.

I don't care if it is of the Druid Class or not - whatever the class is, I'll re-fluff it and pretend to be a druid.

Your mention of Elemental Spell is very helpful. Its level increase is +1, so I guess I can convert an Orizon into a level-1 spell? Ouch  :???

Which base class would work best for that Concept, in your opinion?

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General D&D Discussion / Re: Boy, does 4e SUCK...!
« on: June 28, 2014, 04:34:51 PM »
Hi Unbeliever,

I was struck by your earlier comment about concept-driven vs. Chinese Menu, and I was surprised & intrigued by you thinking that 4E was more the latter.
So, rather than argue about it, I was hoping for your advice.
I've played 4E (not much) but never 3E, but have just started Pathfinder, as in, 1st level, 1 session in!

So, yeah: I had this character concept for a "druidess" who "smites my enemies with the forces of nature - thunder, lighting, frost, maybe radiant sunlight".
In 4E, I'd know what to do:
  • Realise that the druid class chassis is all about shape-shifting, and not what I want, so I'll have to re-fluff from another class
  • Invoker could work, lots of thunder & lightning there.
  • Sorcerer also works, Storm Sorc, there are at least 2 good paragon paths
  • either way, I'll be blasting away with thunder & lightning from level 1, and they perform at top-tier, so I won't feel useless

But, turns out the DM (and old friend) uses Pathfinder instead, so hopefully this is where you come in:
The options seem to be the Druid or Sorcerer class, the former has a Weather domain, with a 'Wisdom mod+4' per day personal raincloud, which is nice, but there seems to be a huge lack of thunder, lightning, frost, and sunlight spells at low level.
Also, the char-op choice seems to be for summoning, which is easy for me to do for both Druid & Sorc (or even Wizard) but isn't at all derived from my Character Concept.

So, yeah, how would you build a 3E or Pathfinder character based on the concept of "druid blaster-with-forces-of-nature"?

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Introduce Yourself / Introductions to you all
« on: June 28, 2014, 04:15:12 PM »
Hi all,

Call me Bormun around here, or on the Piazo boards.

D&D player, played & DMed BECMI, 1E, 2E, & 4E, but never 3E! … until just now: I've just started playing Pathfinder.
Bit of a war gamer. Also played Traveller.

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