lytokk
2014-06-23, 10:44 AM
So, one of the players in my game wants to run a game in his own homebrew world in addition to the normal game we all play together. (two of our group members have been getting worse and worse about being able to make time for the game and rather than not meet to do anything for months at a time he wants to run a game in those off weeks) His world is a "magipunk" world ala Final Fantasy 6, but a little more techy. And I can't for the life of me decide what to play.
My first thought was to play a dragoon type character (the final fantasy spear jumper, not an actual mounted dragoon), and I made a little build with warblade as the main chassis, using maneuvers to jump around the field and leap/power attack.
But after hearing more about the setting, I brought up the Warforged as a potential race, and he felt they fit his setting perfectly. That brought in the multitude of warforged character concepts I had.
There's the warforged Soulknife (he said he trusted my judgement and is allowing me to use the pathfinder version instead of 3.5) who would eventually go soulbow, though I would have to do some skill translations, with more than likely just using the 3.5 skill list and weapon enchantment list.
After the soulknife, there's the Wildshape Ranger Primeval warforged build I've talked about wanting to play ad-nauseum, but the whole dragonborn part of it really doesn't fit with the campaign setting, and while it can be refluffed, it just seems better to hold this back as a replacement character, mostly due to the fact the build really doesn't come online til level 9, and we're starting at 1.
After all of that, there's the Unarmed Swordsage I had wanted to play. Again warforged, focusing on throwing people around the battlefield.
Another thing to consider is my wife will be playing in the game, and has decided on playing a Duskblade. One of the things missing in my game is someone for her to play off of, since everyone in the game is in sets of couples, and while they don't exclude her in RP situations, they don't interact with her as much as with thier SOs, so I want to be sure to build something that can interact with her well, which keeps me from wanting to use a warforged, as they don't exactly RP out romance well, if we even decide to do that, but I wouldn't want to close off that option right away. Though it would be an interesting concept. Warforged Crusader who's the re-incarnation of her husband akin to Robocop. Danget, another concept.
We rolled out stats together, and I got good enough rolls to really pull off anything. 18, 17, 16, 16, 14 and 12. I'm not normally a big fan of playing full casters, they seem boring to me and since I spend a lot more time on forums such as this I know my optimization potential is a lot higher than theirs, and I want to stay on par with the rest of the group.
My first thought was to play a dragoon type character (the final fantasy spear jumper, not an actual mounted dragoon), and I made a little build with warblade as the main chassis, using maneuvers to jump around the field and leap/power attack.
But after hearing more about the setting, I brought up the Warforged as a potential race, and he felt they fit his setting perfectly. That brought in the multitude of warforged character concepts I had.
There's the warforged Soulknife (he said he trusted my judgement and is allowing me to use the pathfinder version instead of 3.5) who would eventually go soulbow, though I would have to do some skill translations, with more than likely just using the 3.5 skill list and weapon enchantment list.
After the soulknife, there's the Wildshape Ranger Primeval warforged build I've talked about wanting to play ad-nauseum, but the whole dragonborn part of it really doesn't fit with the campaign setting, and while it can be refluffed, it just seems better to hold this back as a replacement character, mostly due to the fact the build really doesn't come online til level 9, and we're starting at 1.
After all of that, there's the Unarmed Swordsage I had wanted to play. Again warforged, focusing on throwing people around the battlefield.
Another thing to consider is my wife will be playing in the game, and has decided on playing a Duskblade. One of the things missing in my game is someone for her to play off of, since everyone in the game is in sets of couples, and while they don't exclude her in RP situations, they don't interact with her as much as with thier SOs, so I want to be sure to build something that can interact with her well, which keeps me from wanting to use a warforged, as they don't exactly RP out romance well, if we even decide to do that, but I wouldn't want to close off that option right away. Though it would be an interesting concept. Warforged Crusader who's the re-incarnation of her husband akin to Robocop. Danget, another concept.
We rolled out stats together, and I got good enough rolls to really pull off anything. 18, 17, 16, 16, 14 and 12. I'm not normally a big fan of playing full casters, they seem boring to me and since I spend a lot more time on forums such as this I know my optimization potential is a lot higher than theirs, and I want to stay on par with the rest of the group.