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[Neonivek]

One day I am going to make my squad based 5e game.

Basically instead of having a character you control a squad that you hire.

You then pit them up against monsters and try to eek out victories.

This is pretty much only possible in 4e and 5e... but the most fun in 5e

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Sigh... I need more dnd friends I can discuss dnd with and consult on DMing matters.

[highmax28]

One day I am going to make my squad based 5e game.

Basically instead of having a character you control a squad that you hire.

You then pit them up against monsters and try to eek out victories.

This is pretty much only possible in 4e and 5e... but the most fun in 5e

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Sigh... I need more dnd friends I can discuss dnd with and consult on DMing matters.

I know it would be virtually impossible on bay12, but I would love to play a game like that

[Neonivek]

It would flat out NEED a lot of work to get off the ground and for additional assets to be made.

For example a Shield Bearer whose ability is that they protect units behind them from AoE.

[highmax28]

It would flat out NEED a lot of work to get off the ground and for additional assets to be made.

For example a Shield Bearer whose ability is that they protect units behind them from AoE.

Isn't that what Shield Master does? Or is it just for them?

[My Name is Immaterial]

I think it's a Shield Master for other party members.

[highmax28]

I think it's a Shield Master for other party members.

I mean the feat in 5e

[Neonivek]

I think it's a Shield Master for other party members.

I mean the feat in 5e

No, the effect you are thinking of is that they can use a reaction to take no damage if they succeed in a dexterity saving throw versus "half damage"

[My Name is Immaterial]

I think it's a Shield Master for other party members.

I mean the feat in 5e

I know. I understood his intention to be a character who could apply that effect, or something similar to other party members.

[highmax28]

I think it's a Shield Master for other party members.

I mean the feat in 5e

I know. I understood his intention to be a character who could apply that effect, or something similar to other party members.

I think a slight overhaul or additions to feats would work. Shield master could add that effect for example

[BlackFlyme]

Two people didn't show for today's session. Including the DM. He didn't let anyone know until about five minutes before the session was supposed to start.

So we started a new campaign. Again. Hell's Rebels. Not spoiling anything. Four of us, thirty point buy.

We have a Half-Elf Arcanist, whose background is that of a court advisor, who dreams of building his own Deity so that he may worship it, and is feeling very useless as a level one spellcaster.

We have a Human Swashbuckler, from a noble house.

We have a Lizardfolk Cleric, with the Strength and Destruction domains, whose deity's favoured weapon is a greatsword, though the lizard is much more effective with his natural bite and claws.

I am a Strix Unchained Monk. I wanted to be a Ninja, but Strix have a Charisma penalty. I've looked into some of the UC Monk's abilities, and some are actually weaker than the Core Monk's.

[highmax28]

Two people didn't show for today's session. Including the DM. He didn't let anyone know until about five minutes before the session was supposed to start.

So we started a new campaign. Again. Hell's Rebels. Not spoiling anything. Four of us, thirty point buy.

We have a Half-Elf Arcanist, whose background is that of a court advisor, who dreams of building his own Deity so that he may worship it, and is feeling very useless as a level one spellcaster.

We have a Human Swashbuckler, from a noble house.

We have a Lizardfolk Cleric, with the Strength and Destruction domains, whose deity's favoured weapon is a greatsword, though the lizard is much more effective with his natural bite and claws.

I am a Strix Unchained Monk. I wanted to be a Ninja, but Strix have a Charisma penalty. I've looked into some of the UC Monk's abilities, and some are actually weaker than the Core Monk's.

This sounds like a weird party... Remind me what Strix are?

I want to bring up the question to kind of start a discussion:

What was the most interesting character you made plot-wise or RP wise? What was your strongest/most overpowered character? How are they different or if they're the same guy, what made them stand out?

My most interesting character seems to be Olon Rotlaw, and people who played in my 4e game might remember his name. He wasn't exactly overpowered, but he was REALLY good at what he did. He was a 4e human artificer who was Neutral Evil and was a demon worshiper. What made him interesting was he tinkered a lot with random garbage, going as far as, pretty much, rebuilding a destroyed warforged and reviving him twice, both times resulting him getting punched in the face (second time infected Olon with a spellscar because he was using magic, reawakened him, activating the warforged's spell scar, and getting punched in the face from 10ft away). He, however, could craft gear that was 7 levels higher than his current level, meaning he could make gear from the next tier, provided he had the funds to make it. And he did make one item that was level 13 (we were level 8 at this time) for some vampire kid he wasn't fond of to protect him from the sun, but due to him trying to hide his intentions, he did it. He actually became a villain when he got ejected from the party for killing an innocent man who almost ratted him out for being a demon worshiper. He then killed the party's monk/leader's boyfriend and then escaped without anyone knowing it was him (this pissed off the leader, who thought she would recognize me in the crowd as shes trying to snipe me, but lucky for me, she didn't know what I looked like under my black cloak).

Now my most overpowered character is Haldor Ragnar, who is the seventh son in a family of nine brothers. His younger brother died without him knowing, and then on his youngest brother's (my ranger) quest, he found out this information, and then his youngest brother died fighting his brother's killer. Because he doesn't want to lose any more of his brothers, he stepped forward and fights with the party. He felt estranged because he was an aasimar born into a family of humans, and he ended up leaving them for many reasons (he wasn't built to be a soldier in the army, he didn't feel like he fit in a family of warriors stuck to old traditions, etc). He's a pyrokineticist, and because his aasimar trait is he doesn't sweat and he gets nourishment from food through sunlight, hes been living most of his life in what is the equivalent of Arabia, where he practiced using his abilities a lot to impress people. He eventually got "magically possessed" (actual possession rules don't apply, so it acts more like insanity) by a dwarf named Visilie Kroznov, who showed him what happens when men try to dabble too deep into hybridizing magic and tech. He learned the secrets of immortality, though he cannot decipher it, and he ended up killing a party member's "father" while possessed (I wouldn't tell the party it was willing, even though it fully was) where he pulls off the same scene from Black Ops 1 where he shoots the guy in the head and screams the guy possessing him's name while my guy sees Kroznov shooting him in the face.

They're different because one is a crafter and an evil manipulator and the other is a duty driven, slightly insane, lazy ass who's only motivation is to make sure the world doesn't get destroyed

[Jimmy]

Our game had its first PC death last session.

The party was keeping watch for our friendly neighbourhood NPC tribe when it was attacked in the night by a fiendish dire tiger. The monk goes racing off into the dark to try and find it first, followed swiftly by the party rogue. Monk gets mauled for more than half their health in the first round, backs off and starts begging for heals. The rogue thinks it's a good time to go in for the attack.

One grapple and a few rake attacks later, and we have one dead rogue. It's not a big deal, since we're around level 10 and the average loot per encounter is enough to cover a Raise Dead spell. Unfortunately the DM's been stingy with loot recently, and we've had three sessions in a row without any treasure, despite having combat every session.

[BlackFlyme]

This sounds like a weird party... Remind me what Strix are?

Raven-like people. The original description when I first heard of them was of an unusually small bird-like people, only growing to a height of six feet and typically weighing a light 200 pounds, with an massive wingspan of 12 feet. The description has since been corrected a bit, but the wingspan is still too small. Though if they meant 12 feet per wing, it would be more accurate.

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Can't say any of my characters have been too memorable or powerful. Except my current mythic/gestalt character, but that's just cheating. I also had a Dhampir Oracle who was notable, because the Juju Mystery makes for great necromancers, and because he is the only character I have made that actually had a backstory.

[NullForceOmega]

My 'best' character was a second ed fighter by the fairly basic moniker of 'Sir Renault'.  I was pretty young (just 13) when I got into my first 'real' roleplaying group, the other guys were college age and the DM (who was a medieval history buff) had some very impressive house rules for combat.  He told me that I could make my fighter a specialist in anything I wanted, bows, shields, axes, whatever.  I chose full plate.  Renault was about three levels lower than the rest of the party at 12 (I jumped in mid-campaign.) He was, simply put, a monster.

This is somewhat abridged as the events took three 4-6 hour sessions:

The very first thing I did as part of the group was help rescue the abducted ten-year old princess of the kingdom we used as our home base.  The girl (Mirelle) had been kidnapped by an evil cult, who were casting a spell to cause the downfall of the kingdom, and required her as a sacrifice.  We got wrecked in the first big encounter.  Our mage was knocked out of the fight almost immediately, the paladin had to carry him back to the city for medical aid.  Our cleric had an arm lopped off and had to use most of his healing to stop the bleeding.  Our thief had his main arm broken, and lost his dagger.  Only I could still fight, and the clock was ticking.  I had to stealth my way through three levels of underground temple, there were guards everywhere, I lost track of how many rolls I had to make, but finally we made it to the antechamber to the altar room.  Here was the cultists' best fighter and several more cult members, we charged, the cleric went down, the thief and I got through the door (and while we as players knew that the paladin and the mage were just a few moments behind, our characters were convinced that we had but seconds to save the girl) I saw the leader of the cultists raise his dagger and I did the only thing I could think of, I threw my body across the girl and took the hit.  At this point the paladin and the mage arrived on scene and cleaned house.

I stayed with that group for around a year, Sir Renault had some pretty awesome adventures (even fought an ancient red dragon to a standstill) and eventually retired from the campaign as the king of the realm we worked from (it's been almost two decades, some details escape me now.)

[NullForceOmega]

stupid doublepost.