basicly I not a min/maxer by nature but I am playing d&d with a few who have had much more expernice than me. I have played a little bit of d&d but this is going to be my 1st real game.
I care more about the flavour of my charater but I still need to be at least useful to be in the party. Also this is a evil game and there has been 2 player pvp deaths by the hands of one charater (one being my charater).
I know you guys can make every exp point count when it comes to build a character. I am playing a game kinda based off gestalt but more. Basically you can play
single class for 100% exp
Two for 2/3 exp
Three for 1/2 exp
most are 2 or 3 classes
I think my gm is a bit mental (he think beguiler is broken) so that’s why I’m going rogue//wizard. But the system he has in place is you get all the skill points of both classes (more classes means more maxed out skills). I picked up fighter as I’m going to be splitting my feats with wizard and rogue. You can take a prestige class with any of your classes (dagger spell mage). You can also drop a class (fighter when I get what I need) so for me if I did drop fighter after that I would be getting 2/3 exp.
I got fighter to get into dagger spell mage and I will drop it so the exp hit will not be so bad.
the party is
Sun Elf Bard2/fighter3/Cerlic3 of Bhaal CE (lol he already killed 2 of the party, one being me) He is going for pure damage (melee and spells) he dropped bard when he drank from a cup with 100,000 souls killed by Bhaal and he is from singing to stop fights to killing other follows of Bhaal (he doesn’t really care who he kills) carrying on with fighter/Cleric
Human Paladin3/???? LE (2nd person to die, not sure if he has another class. (Planning on going more control, fear auras and melee)
Sun elf Rogue3/Ranger3 /? E (Ranged, Disguise dude, doesn’t turn up every session don’t know much about the character. Not sure if he has 2 classes or 3)
Half-orc Cerlirc3/Barbarian3 CE (fav person in the party, eats people, likes to fight (wearing a G-string made of a player character, elf skin is comfy, charge and hit things hard)
Human Druid3/Fighter CE(stands there and sends in the wolf, uses a wand sometimes, got a good charge, some region feat. going shape shifting and magic)
Sun elf Noble3/expert3/wizard3 N (or something like that, wants all the skills. wants all the craft. our group min/maxer feats to cheapen crafting costs, all the gear type of character and will try for the strong magic combos)
The main dudes to watch out for the Mr.crafter but he doesn’t see me as a threat
and Mr Bhaal (killed a PC for not wanting to go on a mission to kill a child, oh and the loot. also killed me as the was a small window between contracts with the thieves guild where PVP was an option. that’s why he killed the other PC. I found out about that and the fact that the cup he drank out of he told it to kill me. So I tried to find out where he lived for a night gank. Botched a move silently check to see where he lived and one shot me)
one thing to note is my GM thinks that rouges can only do one sneak attack a turn on a full attack (which makes kinda sense for jumping out of hide or being invisible) but flanking or if they are paralysed I'm going to convince him with logic (he likes logic, but also like balance and he think beguiler is broken)
This is going to be role play heavy game, most of the games we play we dont do much combat (not because we doing like it but why would a bunch of demons fresh out of hell try and take on a warehouse of other demons when you have the lord of hell right in front of you and they can do it quicker). so stuff like that.
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My character likes to stay out of the lime light, doesn’t like to be the leader but still wants power. So to make or take an identity to take control of power bases without building them up. He is a wizard but that is his trump card. You can't dispel a hide check. I was thinking of going to add the 1st level of exemplar to buff/disguise. I’m leaning to buff. I going to social my enemy’s so I need to be good at lying. Also when you gank a PC you need to convince the other PC's it was not you. also thinking of spymaster and not im not so sure.
Right as my GM said the reason my with version of the game works is because if you are a fighter wizard you can only do one attack a round. So either be the fighter and hit with your sword or be a wizard and zap people. Yeah... This is a good way to combo my rouge and wizard. I’m not looking for damage in this build but a type of character, a style of play but I’m looking to get the most out of it if possible. I have going shadow weave and going to do focus on shadow spells. Looking for options
My character learned magic for one reason. Because it is not something everyone can do or learn. Anyone can sneak or hide (maybe not well but they can) before becoming a wizard he saw it as how magic is for sorcerers. A rare gift. Not something that can be learned by any that has the mind to understand how the world really works. He has learned to enjoy magic but he is not looking to do major damage. That’s too easy to be expected. The threat of it works just as good.
I want to make the enemy think that when they try to hit me and fail they are hitting an illusion. Waste turns taking to them through an illusion as they think it me.
I want to get a few good damage touch spells. One of each element really. Shadow evocation/conjratation should fill any gaps and for more options.
Im going for illusions really and pulling out magic when I need to but it is important the other PC dont know what I can do.
These book are legal for the game. others are up to the gm to say otherwise
Complete series
Spell Compendium
Forgotten realms books
to mutilclass for example you would need to be a rogue for being a halfling for example
rogue//wizard//bard
but you will be stuck with the rogue or a prestige class for the rogue.
you can do fighter/rogue//wizard but would would have to be a elf, human, half-elf. you could drop the wizard if you wanted and go pure fighter/rogue (which is one line of classes) as an elf. the way he is running it is if you want to dual class thats when you need a favoured class
thewse are my stats
str 13
dex 17
con 15
int 17
chr 15
wiz 13
these where rolled
at the moment I am rogue//wizard//fighter level 3
this is what i am thinking of doing.
rogue5/dagger spell mage10/????//wizard5/shadowcraft mage5/????
maybe shadowcrafter after?
I know you are meant to be a gnome but the thing is im part of the church of Shaar and you really think there wouldn't be anyone with that class in the reglion. so I think I can get him to agree to this class. Im going to be taking the shadow template at some point which is mostly for flavour. but it up to the gm.
I need TWF for dagger spell mage but i dont think I need to go more down that tree.
