Supermouse
2012-03-28, 06:36 PM
Hi guys.
There's a long time that I don't play D&D, and some friends started a campaign and invited me to enter, so now I'm thinking about the class to play, mainly because of power balance issues.
Thing is, I like characters with magic, I always played as an Wizard or Cleric, but I was hoping to avoid a Tier 1 class to not overshadow the rest of the group.
The characters start at lvl 2 (they only played one session, already at lvl 2), and the party so far is an Dwarven Barbarian, one Elvish Bard, one Goliath Fighter and on Human Rogue, so I was thinking about a Tier 3 or 4 class to maintain balance with the group.
On Tiers 3 and 4, the magic users are the "specialist sorcerers", and I was thinking of going with one of them, but I don't know if a Warmage would be usefull to this group, I don't know how I could use a Necromancer (never played one before) without people in towns chasing me and trying to burn me in a spike, and I think the Beguiler will have some problems because of the campaign they're playing:
It's an original, generic world made by the DM. He didn't develop it to much, so he can throw almost anything he wants into it, any cosmology, race, kind of civilization, whatever. Only thing he won't accept is Psionic characters, because he doesn't feel confortable with them. Heck, he'll even let me use an Strongheart Halfling or a Whisper Gnome. He even suggested me to pick an outsider class with a +1 level adjustment, as he was allowing LA classes (ence the Goliath), but I'm not wanting to min/max (I just want to be small, and have my 2 feats as an human :P).
The history is as follows: the player characters are part of a mercenary band that was hired to investigate some strange occurences in a small, isolated village. Up there, they already saw that there where trouble with planes (something about they overlapping at the place), and already discovered that Demons where behind it. It was no surprise, as I already know the DM, and I know he really likes to use Demons and Undead in his campaigns.
Well, he already told me that he will be using a minimum of Undead, because he doesn't want to hinder the Rogue, but already told me that Demons and Devils will be abound. So I think Beguiler will have a hard time being usefull, because of the See Invisibility, True Seeing and overall enchantment resistance of the enemies.
So, I want you guys to give me sugestions. There is a way that I can play any one of the Specialist Sorcerer classes? I don't want to be overpowered (that's why I'm forgoing Wizard, Druid and Cleric, they don't need to be min/maxed to be overpower), but I also don't want to be an stupid, useless waste of space in the party. I also take sugestions of PrCs that I may take, maybe start with something else, then take a PrC that gives me casting abilities, but I don't know much of these.
Other thing I was thinking on doing was a Factotum/Chameleon (spellcasting without the cheese), but I'm afraid that the Factotum will steal the Rogue's role on the party.
I'm open to any sugestion, and we can use any book (except Psionic-related stuff).
There's a long time that I don't play D&D, and some friends started a campaign and invited me to enter, so now I'm thinking about the class to play, mainly because of power balance issues.
Thing is, I like characters with magic, I always played as an Wizard or Cleric, but I was hoping to avoid a Tier 1 class to not overshadow the rest of the group.
The characters start at lvl 2 (they only played one session, already at lvl 2), and the party so far is an Dwarven Barbarian, one Elvish Bard, one Goliath Fighter and on Human Rogue, so I was thinking about a Tier 3 or 4 class to maintain balance with the group.
On Tiers 3 and 4, the magic users are the "specialist sorcerers", and I was thinking of going with one of them, but I don't know if a Warmage would be usefull to this group, I don't know how I could use a Necromancer (never played one before) without people in towns chasing me and trying to burn me in a spike, and I think the Beguiler will have some problems because of the campaign they're playing:
It's an original, generic world made by the DM. He didn't develop it to much, so he can throw almost anything he wants into it, any cosmology, race, kind of civilization, whatever. Only thing he won't accept is Psionic characters, because he doesn't feel confortable with them. Heck, he'll even let me use an Strongheart Halfling or a Whisper Gnome. He even suggested me to pick an outsider class with a +1 level adjustment, as he was allowing LA classes (ence the Goliath), but I'm not wanting to min/max (I just want to be small, and have my 2 feats as an human :P).
The history is as follows: the player characters are part of a mercenary band that was hired to investigate some strange occurences in a small, isolated village. Up there, they already saw that there where trouble with planes (something about they overlapping at the place), and already discovered that Demons where behind it. It was no surprise, as I already know the DM, and I know he really likes to use Demons and Undead in his campaigns.
Well, he already told me that he will be using a minimum of Undead, because he doesn't want to hinder the Rogue, but already told me that Demons and Devils will be abound. So I think Beguiler will have a hard time being usefull, because of the See Invisibility, True Seeing and overall enchantment resistance of the enemies.
So, I want you guys to give me sugestions. There is a way that I can play any one of the Specialist Sorcerer classes? I don't want to be overpowered (that's why I'm forgoing Wizard, Druid and Cleric, they don't need to be min/maxed to be overpower), but I also don't want to be an stupid, useless waste of space in the party. I also take sugestions of PrCs that I may take, maybe start with something else, then take a PrC that gives me casting abilities, but I don't know much of these.
Other thing I was thinking on doing was a Factotum/Chameleon (spellcasting without the cheese), but I'm afraid that the Factotum will steal the Rogue's role on the party.
I'm open to any sugestion, and we can use any book (except Psionic-related stuff).