Group Idea: Diablo's Strike Team

[jdolch]

So you make a normal Group but everybody takes a few levels in Warlock. With the same Patron. This would give you awesome RP options. Imagine the awesome campaign you could make with this. You could also make them all Tieflings if you wanted. Not sure if making them Evil is a good Idea but you could go full bonkers. And it also opens the door to fun Shenanigans like "Everybody takes the Devil's Sight Invocation and the Darkness spell" :smallbiggrin: You could literally have a lair somewhere. How about Dimension Door "Combat drops"?

[Man_Over_Game]

So you make a normal Group but everybody takes a few levels in Warlock. With the same Patron. This would give you awesome RP options. Imagine the awesome campaign you could make with this. You could also make them all Tieflings if you wanted. Not sure if making them Evil is a good Idea but you could go full bonkers. And it also opens the door to fun Shenanigans like "Everybody takes the Devil's Sight Invocation and the Darkness spell" :smallbiggrin: You could literally have a lair somewhere. How about Dimension Door "Combat drops"?

The main concern with teams like these is that you're no longer a "hero", you're one guy in a team. Working as a team is cool when you're given a very difficult goal and you have a specific skillset to accomplish that goal, but DnD is more about Roleplaying in ways that make you stand out.

A Gloom Stalker, a Shadow Monk, and a Devil's Sight Warlock aren't "Stealth Guy #1-2-3", they're "the Scout", "the Brute", and "the Blaster". Yes, they're the "Stealth Team", but you're only going to have fun by investing in that which makes you unique.

Do you really want to be spending every other weekend for the next year being "Stealth guy #3?", or would you rather be "the Infiltrator", using things like Disguise Self and Actor in a team of diverse stealth operatives?

All of you using the same patron, the same invocation, and the same spell is going to lead to maybe 3-4 sessions before people stop showing up.

[Nhorianscum]

As a premade oneshot-short thing monoclass/monodip parties are pretty damn fun and warlock is flexible enough to make it work. I'd play it.

Note:

Using different subclasses fluffed into a common partron entity seems more flexible than standardizing the subclass. (Unless it's goolock and the setting is innsmouth). Pregens seem like a good plan here.

[FieserMoep]

Every good "team" story has diversity. Take the A-Team for example or even something as generic as the Expendables. Stories always try to make singular characters as diverse as possible within the setting to they are actually interesting and fun to watch and engage with. I also play Shadowrun where you are literally a team of "professional" operatives but nothing would be more boring than everyone actually following the same assault rifle/pistol elf infiltrator build just because it is efficient. People want their team to turn around and look at you, because they know this is your specialty, this is the moment they brought a troll with a super machine gun for.