MisterABM
2017-07-09, 08:18 PM
Hello fellow dnd travelers! Thought I would make my first post here about a sorcerer/warlock idea I have for a new campaign. I've seen many wonderful guides on maximizing the potential of character classes, so I hope this doesn't sound like a silly idea!
The campaign premise is a homebrew set in the jungle. I've already heard that part of the background will involve nagas and yuan-ti being main enemies. So I've been having a bit of trouble picking a particular race. I have asked and been allowed to use a pureblood yuan-ti if I want, and there is a lot of reasons why I do.
Yuan-ti pureblood get poison spray among other things like speak with snakes and 3rd level suggestion. Which fits into the Draconic acid ancestry I want to choose from the sorcerer background list. Being a yuan-ti and understanding the enemy while scouting or during combat just seems like a win, it's always so situational when you have a party of 7 and no one speaks the one language of the enemy we happen to be fighting.
I have a general idea about the background of this character. Kadenzi would be an albino pureblood outcast. His tribe murdered his parents for being curious about the outside world, and Kadenzi was abused for years for both his parents crimes and his color.
A big part of this campaign will involve machines and a sort of industrial revolution. The dm has created three new classes, two of which reflect this change in the world. There is the ranger rifle marksman, the gunslinger, and the class that I am choosing, the sorceress voodoo witch doctor.
The witch doctor is essentially the same as the sorcerer so I'm told, but with the change of being able to craft voodoo dolls. The power these dolls will have on certain enemies and individuals will be determined by crafting skill and maerials used. I am really interested in trying this class combined with the additional blasting power of the warlock to create a powerful, multi talented sneaky shadowman (much like Disney Facilie in the princess and the frog). But I'm having some issues in deciding background, future warlock pact, and so on.
I'm pretty sure I will use this character as a sorcerer up until level four since sorcerer level 5 grants nothing besides and additional spell slot. Then tale pact of the tome for additional flavor spells and the ability to copy more. However there is the possibility of pact of the blade, taking the life drinker invocations to represent a dark, sacrificial ritualistic character.
I may just be spreading myself thin with too many ideas. But it seemed very opposit of what my friends have started choosing and I'd like to have a balanced party. One is choosing a tabaxi gunslinger, and the other a water gensai druid.
Any advice.is greatly appreciated, I hope to enjoy these forums as much as you all do!
The campaign premise is a homebrew set in the jungle. I've already heard that part of the background will involve nagas and yuan-ti being main enemies. So I've been having a bit of trouble picking a particular race. I have asked and been allowed to use a pureblood yuan-ti if I want, and there is a lot of reasons why I do.
Yuan-ti pureblood get poison spray among other things like speak with snakes and 3rd level suggestion. Which fits into the Draconic acid ancestry I want to choose from the sorcerer background list. Being a yuan-ti and understanding the enemy while scouting or during combat just seems like a win, it's always so situational when you have a party of 7 and no one speaks the one language of the enemy we happen to be fighting.
I have a general idea about the background of this character. Kadenzi would be an albino pureblood outcast. His tribe murdered his parents for being curious about the outside world, and Kadenzi was abused for years for both his parents crimes and his color.
A big part of this campaign will involve machines and a sort of industrial revolution. The dm has created three new classes, two of which reflect this change in the world. There is the ranger rifle marksman, the gunslinger, and the class that I am choosing, the sorceress voodoo witch doctor.
The witch doctor is essentially the same as the sorcerer so I'm told, but with the change of being able to craft voodoo dolls. The power these dolls will have on certain enemies and individuals will be determined by crafting skill and maerials used. I am really interested in trying this class combined with the additional blasting power of the warlock to create a powerful, multi talented sneaky shadowman (much like Disney Facilie in the princess and the frog). But I'm having some issues in deciding background, future warlock pact, and so on.
I'm pretty sure I will use this character as a sorcerer up until level four since sorcerer level 5 grants nothing besides and additional spell slot. Then tale pact of the tome for additional flavor spells and the ability to copy more. However there is the possibility of pact of the blade, taking the life drinker invocations to represent a dark, sacrificial ritualistic character.
I may just be spreading myself thin with too many ideas. But it seemed very opposit of what my friends have started choosing and I'd like to have a balanced party. One is choosing a tabaxi gunslinger, and the other a water gensai druid.
Any advice.is greatly appreciated, I hope to enjoy these forums as much as you all do!