Dreadfull
2017-09-30, 10:19 AM
I im joining a new campaign soon and are trying to think up a new character to play. I get to be level 9, default starting gold, one magic item of choice that has to get approved by the DM, and she rolled me the following stats to work with: 18, 16, 15, 12, 11, 9.
At first i wanted to make a guy based on narayan sing from the black company books. but it turns out the rules on strangulation dont support the quickness of combat in 5e and i dont wanna spend all my time strangling one guy while the rest wipes all the enemies.
So once upon a time i made a warforged ninja in 3.5. I kinda want to rebuild this guy but the way of going about this is not very clear to me. I have good memmories to him as i once killed my party by jumping off a tower in a panic while being attacked by a dragon. the rest of the party followed my jump thinking i had found a safe exit. i made my falling dmg save. the others didnt. lets just say it was a very anticlimactic ending to a pretty intense campaign that still makes me chuckle.
anyway, on topic:
I found warforged in UA so that helps, but the bonusses dont seem too great.
To get to the ninja feel, i will need sneak attack and some form of shadowstep/minor teleportation from either the monk or the warlock. ninja also had some minor spells but they all worked off ki, kinda like the monk. i dont really care much about most of them although i did end up using a lot of illusions later on in that game but this would be a nice falvour bonus and i dont require it in there.
yeah the ninja feel/flavour is pretty important but not as important as acutally being functional.
i dont have much experience with 5E character creation and the last time i played D&D is over 2 years ago, so i noticed im a little rusty in figuring this all out and its taking way too long for my short attention span.
any and all help in how to approach this would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Dread
At first i wanted to make a guy based on narayan sing from the black company books. but it turns out the rules on strangulation dont support the quickness of combat in 5e and i dont wanna spend all my time strangling one guy while the rest wipes all the enemies.
So once upon a time i made a warforged ninja in 3.5. I kinda want to rebuild this guy but the way of going about this is not very clear to me. I have good memmories to him as i once killed my party by jumping off a tower in a panic while being attacked by a dragon. the rest of the party followed my jump thinking i had found a safe exit. i made my falling dmg save. the others didnt. lets just say it was a very anticlimactic ending to a pretty intense campaign that still makes me chuckle.
anyway, on topic:
I found warforged in UA so that helps, but the bonusses dont seem too great.
To get to the ninja feel, i will need sneak attack and some form of shadowstep/minor teleportation from either the monk or the warlock. ninja also had some minor spells but they all worked off ki, kinda like the monk. i dont really care much about most of them although i did end up using a lot of illusions later on in that game but this would be a nice falvour bonus and i dont require it in there.
yeah the ninja feel/flavour is pretty important but not as important as acutally being functional.
i dont have much experience with 5E character creation and the last time i played D&D is over 2 years ago, so i noticed im a little rusty in figuring this all out and its taking way too long for my short attention span.
any and all help in how to approach this would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance.
Dread