jaappleton
2018-05-19, 09:14 AM
So I play Friday nights. I needed a new character for last nights session, and after wracking my brain all week, I had nothing. Over 6 different possible builds in my head, and they all worked quite well, but the CHARACTER never seemed appealing.
I showed up to the table last night empty handed. The DM and I discussed things a little. It’s a small party, two people and three characters. Myself, with one character, and the other player with two. I don’t want to do the two character thing myself, so the DM softens the edges of certain things for us due to party composition.
The other two party members are a Gunslinger and a modified Vengeance Paladin.
I knew I needed to have a connection to the character in order to care about it. Wanted it to be more than stats on paper. So how can I do that? I needed something to bite into, RP wise, and immerse myself in.
So my character bumps into the Paladin on the street and recognizes a symbol etched into her armor. It’s the symbol of her Order.
My DM absolutely adores Eladrin, and so do I. With the new version just appearing in Mord’s Tome, I went for that as my Race.
And lo and behold, that her Paladin was trained in how to be a fighter, but doesn’t know what it means to be a Paladin. To be the beacon of hope for the commoner, to be the eternal flame when darkness envelops the world. She doesn’t know what that means, and how important it is.
So... Spur on the moment, I’m a Paladin, too. Far from the best thing for party composition, but... We’re here now.
She was never trained to completion before her mentor was killed, and she took up his armor. This is something I can care about, this is development for myself and her. I have an apprentice, she learns what it all means. Yes!
After talking with the DM, in the interest of us being different, I am allowed a Finesse Sunblade Greatsword. So I have a 2H sword keying off Dex. The other Paladin is Sword n Board.
So my questions are:
1. What Oath makes sense? The story so far involved hunting down a Vampire Clan, that’s on deck. Being the one to teach her about being the Light, I think Devotion works well. However, seemingly pretty much everything on Devotion's spell list is also on the vanilla Paladin list. This brings me to question 2.
2. The DM is willing to let me exchange bonus spell lists with another Paladin Archetype. What would you recommend? We’re lacking a pure caster, but each of our single target damage is fairly high. Maybe take the Ancients list? Not sure. Redemption gets Counterspell...
3. Any feats or anything you’d recommend? I’m eyeballing GWM in tandem with Elven Accuracy right now.
I showed up to the table last night empty handed. The DM and I discussed things a little. It’s a small party, two people and three characters. Myself, with one character, and the other player with two. I don’t want to do the two character thing myself, so the DM softens the edges of certain things for us due to party composition.
The other two party members are a Gunslinger and a modified Vengeance Paladin.
I knew I needed to have a connection to the character in order to care about it. Wanted it to be more than stats on paper. So how can I do that? I needed something to bite into, RP wise, and immerse myself in.
So my character bumps into the Paladin on the street and recognizes a symbol etched into her armor. It’s the symbol of her Order.
My DM absolutely adores Eladrin, and so do I. With the new version just appearing in Mord’s Tome, I went for that as my Race.
And lo and behold, that her Paladin was trained in how to be a fighter, but doesn’t know what it means to be a Paladin. To be the beacon of hope for the commoner, to be the eternal flame when darkness envelops the world. She doesn’t know what that means, and how important it is.
So... Spur on the moment, I’m a Paladin, too. Far from the best thing for party composition, but... We’re here now.
She was never trained to completion before her mentor was killed, and she took up his armor. This is something I can care about, this is development for myself and her. I have an apprentice, she learns what it all means. Yes!
After talking with the DM, in the interest of us being different, I am allowed a Finesse Sunblade Greatsword. So I have a 2H sword keying off Dex. The other Paladin is Sword n Board.
So my questions are:
1. What Oath makes sense? The story so far involved hunting down a Vampire Clan, that’s on deck. Being the one to teach her about being the Light, I think Devotion works well. However, seemingly pretty much everything on Devotion's spell list is also on the vanilla Paladin list. This brings me to question 2.
2. The DM is willing to let me exchange bonus spell lists with another Paladin Archetype. What would you recommend? We’re lacking a pure caster, but each of our single target damage is fairly high. Maybe take the Ancients list? Not sure. Redemption gets Counterspell...
3. Any feats or anything you’d recommend? I’m eyeballing GWM in tandem with Elven Accuracy right now.