Expolar

Pioneer guild

Been busy with work and life stuff, but still okay

Pioneer guild

Have a rough idea of a back story, just looking into the type of class and subclass that I would enjoy playing as I plan to try focusing on making him a spell caster.

Pioneer guild

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Still thinking of how to build my high status but sheltered elf who seeks his own path than one given to him, as level three character and what exactly to write for his backstory.

@Bacon is fluffy
Did you have any thoughts of having a very basic/minimal character sheet for use to fill here on the forum? Or should a link to our character sheet suffice?

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

Yea, I thought it was cool, just wish it was used more. I recently finished part 6, the ending honestly angered me at first, but I slowly came to understand it better. I still don't care for it though.

@Borosev

Yeah, I've been hearing that Part 6 is low on people's list. But Part 7 I've usually hear is pretty high, if not the highest, of people's favorite. But ability aside, I do wonder how his personality would be like as Jonathan and Joseph are two very different people (which I really liked) but of course there are other hamon users out there and each their own kind of people and anyone else. My guess if you are going into this direction for your character is either monk, paladin, or homebrew.

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Why not combine both? Maybe they could be a wealthy elf, sneaking out as a rogue because they are tired of waiting for incompetent doctors to deal with his brother's illness already. They want to help their sibling rather than focus on the family business, so they sneak out in guise of a rogue seeking out a cure money can't find them.

Just a suggestion of course.

@Idea

The idea to have the two character ideas mixed is a nice idea, especially as my response to such ideas is also, "Why not both?" lol. But I think I would prefer them to be separate.

The elven character finding his own meaning of what he should do with his life than simply following the path given to by his family made for him makes it a bit interesting for me for when I step into his mind as he finds himself. As he think short term goals and past accomplishes, it helps me and my character think of what he feels is important and should truly pursue as a goal that it worth seeking and accomplishing.

The tiefling is a revamped version of a character I played in a old campaign like 2 years back. Felt a bit unsatisfied with how I made his initial story and motivation, especially as we progressed through the campaign as I questioned what he wanted. But with the current changes mentioned here. I like as it gives him the short term focus on his siblings and the long term focus of finding answers to their parents disappearance.

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I have a few possibilities in mind. A fey warlock with some manner of gimmicky pact. A simic hybrid with levels in druid and barbarian, just wild all the way. I've also been looking into the possibility of playing a cleric or bard or an alchemist artificer.

Lots of ideas, maybe will be able to organize them better as questions are answered and thoughts are exchanged / discussed.

How about yourself? Any plans or hopes?

@Idea

Well with a warlock with a gimmicky pact, I can only imagine the warlock being involved with a fey entity lol

The simic hybrid druid/barbarian sounds fun as seeing how druids and barbarians can be, they can be great tanks and powerhouses if built in certain ways. And what do you "just wild all the way"? Like they have a more of a animistic behavior or more of how you plan to use the class?

@Bacon is fluffy
Thank you for letting us start with level 3, I do enjoy already having access to subclasses.

For the theme of adventures that we may go on, I do enjoy a mix of things, thus I have been enjoying the current discussion on it. Although I do prefer the difficulty of encounters for when it suits the narrative, if that makes sense. This may just be a unpredictable/uncontrollable thing as I have seen battles/puzzles where DM is surprised, players are surprised, or both surprised of how such things goes. But again, I'm generally open to most things as what I enjoy most is variety as it helps makes things feel refreshing, open, and alive as I immerse myself into a world. But of course, no pressure to over do the setting up of things from the start. As mentioned before, as we progress, things are discovered, learned, and developed. One quest can focus on one part of a theme while another quest focuses on another part. So again, I've been enjoying the current discussions.

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That being said, I always encourage players to bring in their own elements and control npcs that I didn't make to craft a story.

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So feel free to be as creative as you want within the bounds of dnd. I'm not a purist, but can be.

@Bacon is fluffy

If we were to create NPCs, what would you allow or restrict in the creation of one or more NPCs?

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

One idea i've had in mind of using was a hamon user, or one of the warhammer based characters i've made.

@Borosev

I binged Jojo Part 1 to 4 during July, which I've been calling Jojo July lol. Was a really fun show and currently taking my time as I watch Part 5. And although I do enjoy how the Stands and their surprising abilities, I still miss seeing hamon being used.

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

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I have a few possibilities in mind. A fey warlock with some manner of gimmicky pact. A simic hybrid with levels in druid and barbarian, just wild all the way. I've also been looking into the possibility of playing a cleric or bard or an alchemist artificer.

Lots of ideas, maybe will be able to organize them better as questions are answered and thoughts are exchanged / discussed.

How about yourself? Any plans or hopes?

@Idea

Still thinking of other character ideas:

One that have not done yet and would like to try is elf who grew up in a wealthy family. But he would find the lifestyle and expectations of following the family business to be very uninteresting, especially if he has to do it most of his life. This life of his spanning longer than most people who are not elves and wanting to find something else to do with it than business is probably what brought him to the guild to discover what that may be. For the class he would play as, probably fighter or wizard as I want to have a bit of a battle mage feel.

The other being a inquisitive rogue tiefling who is simply trying to save money to help his younger brother and sister with finances as their working parents are missing. During this time he tries to find out what happened to their parents who mysteriously vanished.

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

I suppose while we wait, does anyone want to have a character build discussion? Like, does anyone already have thoughts on who or what their character may be?

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

@Expolar I actually didn't know that character sheets being kept a secret was a thing in dnd. I still ran my past games like a forum rp where we posted sheets. oops. xD

but no i meant stuff like. Do we limit character creation to the base 5e book? Or is everyone fine with unearthed arcana, which if i recall correctly is beta testing stuff essentially.

@Bacon is fluffy

Well I meant more of the backstory stuff than mechanic things in the character sheet. Again, I do enjoy surprises and reveals of what a character, PCs or NPCs, can do. But know our each other's backstory could be helpful as perhaps it could help probably build some prior connection a two or more characters before or when they started working with the guild.

Officially released 5e books and Unearthed Arcana (beta testing stuff as mentioned) sources are cool with me.

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

@Bacon is fluffy
I am indeed still interested and thanks for the current idea of when this may start, but no pressure from here as I'm pretty patient.

What exactly do you mean by material? If you mean sharing what we plan to have our character to have or be, I don't mind as it may be helpful to know a few things about another character as we are building our characters for mechanic or story reason. Spending this time t prepare our characters could be good while you are preparing plans for idea 3. Also, if there is something that someone wants to keep private for story or any other reason, I don't mind as I do enjoy surprises.

So currently my questions at the moment would be what should we be aware about for character creation (mainly the level, as the question of the source we can use has been answered) and what should we expect of the setting of idea 3 could help with character creation?

Looking to start a DnD 5e campaign

Greetings,

I've been playing D&D for about 3 years now and of the ideas, I'm really unterested in Idea 3 and its example as it feels like it could be a great way for us to get into a groove of our characters and each other as we do small things and possibly learn new things about world.

Also I'm quite the fan of Inkarnate as I always have fun make world maps with it.