Fossegrim
2016-09-13, 07:53 PM
So in a couple of weeks it's time for my first 5e game/campaign. I've played some pathfinder before but just consider me a total noobie.
I've read thru the player books and I think I have come up with some sort of concept for a character but I'm not sure it will work out thematically or mechanically, maybe you guys can give me some pointers on how to make it work.
So basically it's a tiefling paladin, he's a star-based S/B duelist and has sworn the oath of vengeance. I'm also thinking about a dip in warlock for extra tiefling fluff and spell synergy.
How many levels of warlock would be appropriate and what patron/boon do you recommend? I'm thinking fiend/tome myself.
Theme/storywise I'm going for the field agent background atm. My PC (let's call him Jeff) is part of the Gauntlet order and has been for as long as he can remember. While away on some regular butt kicking mission for the Lord in some foreign land, things go terribly bad. Jeff watches how his comrades are cut down by the enemy just before he also receives a deadly blow from the back. Lying in a pool of his own blood Jeff reaches for his holy symbol and starts praying, yada-yada-yada, a deity from hell appears in front on him instead. The deity tells Jeff some story of his origin and offers to save his life and grants him powers to use for his retribution and further killing of evil doers. Jeff suspects that the deity/fiend has some hidden agendas with this but s/he seems trustworthy enough and Jeff is not really in a bargaining position. A deal is made.
This is what I got so far, not very original but I think it has some roleplaying and plot points potentials for later.
Do you think this can work out? I'm not planing on making Jeff an corrupted or evil Paladin (at least not intentionally from the start). He still believes in enforcing justice and punishing the wicked, and he's new friend from the planes down below helps him do it. He's just not sure (or even sure if he really want to know) in what way this is in the interest of the deity he made a pact with, or why he (Jeff) was chosen to begin with.
I've read thru the player books and I think I have come up with some sort of concept for a character but I'm not sure it will work out thematically or mechanically, maybe you guys can give me some pointers on how to make it work.
So basically it's a tiefling paladin, he's a star-based S/B duelist and has sworn the oath of vengeance. I'm also thinking about a dip in warlock for extra tiefling fluff and spell synergy.
How many levels of warlock would be appropriate and what patron/boon do you recommend? I'm thinking fiend/tome myself.
Theme/storywise I'm going for the field agent background atm. My PC (let's call him Jeff) is part of the Gauntlet order and has been for as long as he can remember. While away on some regular butt kicking mission for the Lord in some foreign land, things go terribly bad. Jeff watches how his comrades are cut down by the enemy just before he also receives a deadly blow from the back. Lying in a pool of his own blood Jeff reaches for his holy symbol and starts praying, yada-yada-yada, a deity from hell appears in front on him instead. The deity tells Jeff some story of his origin and offers to save his life and grants him powers to use for his retribution and further killing of evil doers. Jeff suspects that the deity/fiend has some hidden agendas with this but s/he seems trustworthy enough and Jeff is not really in a bargaining position. A deal is made.
This is what I got so far, not very original but I think it has some roleplaying and plot points potentials for later.
Do you think this can work out? I'm not planing on making Jeff an corrupted or evil Paladin (at least not intentionally from the start). He still believes in enforcing justice and punishing the wicked, and he's new friend from the planes down below helps him do it. He's just not sure (or even sure if he really want to know) in what way this is in the interest of the deity he made a pact with, or why he (Jeff) was chosen to begin with.