Runa
2008-01-16, 03:22 PM
NOTE: Please for the love of , READ the specifics of my request before you respond. I've inexplicably had trouble with this here before, and I'm frustrated with having to re-explain stuff I explained in the opening post, and will possibly not even respond at this point to "advice" that completely ignores stuff I've already said in the OP. OK? I'll even organize it into lists for the sake of convenience! ;)
We are switching out DMs again in a couple of weeks after taking a break from playing over the holidays; the DM in question has stated that the following will be the kind of campaign we'll be trying:
1.) NOT, I repeat, NOT Gestalt.
2.) NO magic, though apparently psionics and things like barbarian's rage ability will be allowed, because they're not, well, magic so much as natural abilities.
3.) Monsterous races only for PCs - anything in the Monster Manual [b]except for drow (not sure why, but he was very specific about this).
4.) LOW LEVEL. We'll be starting at lvl 1, or at least the equivalent thereof (since at least one person playing wanted to play a half-dragon Wemic, which has some crazy kinda level adjust, though he may end up just playing a Wemic) Either lvl 1, or ECL 21 to battle a ECL 37 villain, depending on what the group agrees to. It sounds like the DM would rather do epic level now.
5.) We work by 3.5 rules.
That was what the DM required for the campaign.
What I like to play as a PC is:
1(b): Character interaction, and roleplaying - I like playing high-CHA characters, basically.
2(b): I'm equally happy playing skill monkeys as I am a melee fighter; I've been most happy playing Paladins (of various types) or Bards, for instance, though I had fun the one time I tried playing a Rogue as well, even though said rogue wouldn't have been what most of you would probably consider "efficient" (worked well for the party makeup though).
My previous characters have included:
*A Fey'Ri Paladin (very liberal DM on that one, heh; I had an interesting character development for that one, and was basically the tank, since I had an AC of 26; so it was fun, I was melee that doubled as a secondary healer, basically),
*An Elistraee-worshiping drow Bardadin of Freedom (AWESOME CRAZY FUN from our thus-far only experiment in Gestalt, I was a little squishy for a Pal, but was a fantastic buffer, a decent skill monkey performer, and came up with some crazy performance ideas that actually got us a lot of XP, since the story there was we were a group of traveling performers),
*A half-elf sorceress (which was annoying to play; NEVER PLAY A HALF-ELF SORCERER ARGH),
*A CG Moon elf Healer (frustrating 'cause of the campaign, but not a horrible character to play in and of itself)
*And a CG Moon Elf rogue with a slight proficiency for archery (like I said, most of you would probably consider it "inefficient" - but was kind of fun once I got the hang of it, and it really worked, believe it or not, because of the unique party dynamic we had in that one).
Not all in that order, though. The Bardadin, for instance, was my most recent character, and the Fey'Ri Pal was my first. ALL of my previous characters were female, as I prefer playing my own gender.
Details on the group:
1 (c): It will be a probably very large party, since we have a large group of players,three other PCs at least, but possibly, even probably up to five others or so, depending on how everyone's schedule works out.
2 (c): At least one person is considering making a barbarian, not sure what everyone else is doing which is frustrating, because as you can see, the games I've enjoyed most were ones where I fit well into the group dynamic so that I had something to contribute a lot of the time (nobody likes sitting and doing nothing while everyone else's doing something, right?). Basically, this means I'll probably need several options, just in case somebody does something weird or the party makeup skews one direction, like everybody else deciding to do melee characters or something.
3(c): I DO NOT have quick/easy access to anything not in the d20SRD site, since none of the books our group has are mine, and I don't see all the others every day. Additionally, it sounds like the DM may want to restrict us mostly to core books, and will almost definitely restrict us to books we already have (which include: PHB, DMG, Complete Warrior, Complete Psionic, Faiths & Pantheons, and I think Complete Adventurer, and the Miniatures Handbook which I'm not sure we'll be using)
4(c): We're all still kind of new to it, we've been playing maybe a year, on and off, but as you all know, it can be a kind of complex game sometimes. So, you may need to explain some things! :smallredface: Please be patient.
One of my first thoughts was Bard because my Bardadin was more Bard than Pal and she was tons of fun (in, you know, a large party whose loose backstory was that they were basically an entertainment troupe), but then I realized in a non-magic campaign if I'm not mistaken, I'm better off playing a rogue with high CHA and skill points in perform, since I won't be able to buff or cast anything, and that way I could get Sneak Attack. :P
But even that is just one option, and since I don't have a copy of the Monster Manual, I still haven't picked a race. So, hence the advice-seeking thread. :smallsmile:
Any thoughts?
-Runa
We are switching out DMs again in a couple of weeks after taking a break from playing over the holidays; the DM in question has stated that the following will be the kind of campaign we'll be trying:
1.) NOT, I repeat, NOT Gestalt.
2.) NO magic, though apparently psionics and things like barbarian's rage ability will be allowed, because they're not, well, magic so much as natural abilities.
3.) Monsterous races only for PCs - anything in the Monster Manual [b]except for drow (not sure why, but he was very specific about this).
4.) LOW LEVEL. We'll be starting at lvl 1, or at least the equivalent thereof (since at least one person playing wanted to play a half-dragon Wemic, which has some crazy kinda level adjust, though he may end up just playing a Wemic) Either lvl 1, or ECL 21 to battle a ECL 37 villain, depending on what the group agrees to. It sounds like the DM would rather do epic level now.
5.) We work by 3.5 rules.
That was what the DM required for the campaign.
What I like to play as a PC is:
1(b): Character interaction, and roleplaying - I like playing high-CHA characters, basically.
2(b): I'm equally happy playing skill monkeys as I am a melee fighter; I've been most happy playing Paladins (of various types) or Bards, for instance, though I had fun the one time I tried playing a Rogue as well, even though said rogue wouldn't have been what most of you would probably consider "efficient" (worked well for the party makeup though).
My previous characters have included:
*A Fey'Ri Paladin (very liberal DM on that one, heh; I had an interesting character development for that one, and was basically the tank, since I had an AC of 26; so it was fun, I was melee that doubled as a secondary healer, basically),
*An Elistraee-worshiping drow Bardadin of Freedom (AWESOME CRAZY FUN from our thus-far only experiment in Gestalt, I was a little squishy for a Pal, but was a fantastic buffer, a decent skill monkey performer, and came up with some crazy performance ideas that actually got us a lot of XP, since the story there was we were a group of traveling performers),
*A half-elf sorceress (which was annoying to play; NEVER PLAY A HALF-ELF SORCERER ARGH),
*A CG Moon elf Healer (frustrating 'cause of the campaign, but not a horrible character to play in and of itself)
*And a CG Moon Elf rogue with a slight proficiency for archery (like I said, most of you would probably consider it "inefficient" - but was kind of fun once I got the hang of it, and it really worked, believe it or not, because of the unique party dynamic we had in that one).
Not all in that order, though. The Bardadin, for instance, was my most recent character, and the Fey'Ri Pal was my first. ALL of my previous characters were female, as I prefer playing my own gender.
Details on the group:
1 (c): It will be a probably very large party, since we have a large group of players,three other PCs at least, but possibly, even probably up to five others or so, depending on how everyone's schedule works out.
2 (c): At least one person is considering making a barbarian, not sure what everyone else is doing which is frustrating, because as you can see, the games I've enjoyed most were ones where I fit well into the group dynamic so that I had something to contribute a lot of the time (nobody likes sitting and doing nothing while everyone else's doing something, right?). Basically, this means I'll probably need several options, just in case somebody does something weird or the party makeup skews one direction, like everybody else deciding to do melee characters or something.
3(c): I DO NOT have quick/easy access to anything not in the d20SRD site, since none of the books our group has are mine, and I don't see all the others every day. Additionally, it sounds like the DM may want to restrict us mostly to core books, and will almost definitely restrict us to books we already have (which include: PHB, DMG, Complete Warrior, Complete Psionic, Faiths & Pantheons, and I think Complete Adventurer, and the Miniatures Handbook which I'm not sure we'll be using)
4(c): We're all still kind of new to it, we've been playing maybe a year, on and off, but as you all know, it can be a kind of complex game sometimes. So, you may need to explain some things! :smallredface: Please be patient.
One of my first thoughts was Bard because my Bardadin was more Bard than Pal and she was tons of fun (in, you know, a large party whose loose backstory was that they were basically an entertainment troupe), but then I realized in a non-magic campaign if I'm not mistaken, I'm better off playing a rogue with high CHA and skill points in perform, since I won't be able to buff or cast anything, and that way I could get Sneak Attack. :P
But even that is just one option, and since I don't have a copy of the Monster Manual, I still haven't picked a race. So, hence the advice-seeking thread. :smallsmile:
Any thoughts?
-Runa