jaappleton
2020-09-01, 01:18 PM
So my friend made a Ranger in our previous campaign. Beast Master.
No lie, the character made it about 30 minutes before they died.
Curse of Strahd Spoilers:
If you've played or DMed the CoS adventure, you know Esmerelda's wagon parked outside the tower? Well, he opened it. Kablammo! :smalltongue:
And he's sort of lamented he never even really got to play the PC. Which I totally understand. And he also laments how much the Beast Master overall is kinda... Not amazing.
I told him that if we get to a point in the campaign where we both want to replace our characters (Which I'm almost always willing to do, because I'm me), if he wants to have a character with some sort of animal companion, I'm willing to be that companion.
I wouldn't use a monster stat block, but a class. I can see a PC bear being a reflavored Leonin Barbarian or Fighter, using the Unarmed fighting style. This could work, I think, and the DM is fully on board with it, and is willing to let us share a bond to where we can communicate with eachother to a degree.
Anyone have experience with this? Any ideas?
No lie, the character made it about 30 minutes before they died.
Curse of Strahd Spoilers:
If you've played or DMed the CoS adventure, you know Esmerelda's wagon parked outside the tower? Well, he opened it. Kablammo! :smalltongue:
And he's sort of lamented he never even really got to play the PC. Which I totally understand. And he also laments how much the Beast Master overall is kinda... Not amazing.
I told him that if we get to a point in the campaign where we both want to replace our characters (Which I'm almost always willing to do, because I'm me), if he wants to have a character with some sort of animal companion, I'm willing to be that companion.
I wouldn't use a monster stat block, but a class. I can see a PC bear being a reflavored Leonin Barbarian or Fighter, using the Unarmed fighting style. This could work, I think, and the DM is fully on board with it, and is willing to let us share a bond to where we can communicate with eachother to a degree.
Anyone have experience with this? Any ideas?