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[wierd]

That's it, it's official. the stolen artifact is a flaming baby skull, that in addition to causing horrible nightmare visions of incomprehensible horror-- also shouts an endless stream of ethnic profanities to everyone in earshot.

[Kagus]

Wasn't that an episode of Black Mirror?


Anyways, yeah. No word yet on actually getting accepted into the group (or denied, for that matter), I should probably do some sort of follow up and ask about stuff. I'm gonna have to get my hands on the books somehow, and presumably it's encouraged to bring snacks or something. Also might be helpful to know where it's supposed to happen, if it does happen.

Hopefully I can find a suitably stupid gimmick character to make in 5e. I remember a lot of extremely excellent ideas I slapped together back when Wrex was fiddling with some homebrew stuff, like the beefy psionic who conjured psy-greatswords and flung them at enemies, or the asshole spellcaster who transformed into a wolf and made everyone fall over. I also remember the difficulties in choosing between Mr. Crab and Mr. Bear for level one +30 grapple check shenanigans, and making a horrifying four-armed rat surgeon who could sneak attack for obscene amounts of damage.

I really shouldn't be allowed within 20 paces of character generation systems.

[IcyTea31]

You could create a heavy metal bardbarian. Nothing in the rules stops you from using your bardic inspiration while raging. Then just homebrew an axe that is also an axe, pick a suitably metal race, practice your viking accent and you're set.

[wierd]

Valhallen, is that you!?

[Kagus]

You could create a heavy metal bardbarian. Nothing in the rules stops you from using your bardic inspiration while raging. Then just homebrew an axe that is also an axe, pick a suitably metal race, practice your viking accent and you're set.

Pretty sure everyone in the group is of nordic heritage, myself included. Not entirely sure how well pushing the pop-viking aspect would go...

Spoiler: There's always the craft berserker though (click to show/hide)

Ever wonder why so many things in fantasy worlds are just normal items that have been overly decorated with skulls? This is why.

Also, I do still try to make characters that can at least hold their own in some way... I'm not quite at the point where I'd do a strength wizard just for the sake of doing a strength wizard; who then would be incapable of defeating or surviving anything. I would definitely do a "strength wizard" focused around using actually useful/horribly thoughtless magic to make them beat stuff up though, like Tenser's and whatnot.

Really though, I only know one other character in the group, so I haven't the foggiest what type of niche might need filling. With a batch of 8 people, I can't imagine there are too many areas left uncovered.

[IcyTea31]

Pretty sure everyone in the group is of nordic heritage, myself included. Not entirely sure how well pushing the pop-viking aspect would go...

Make it a realistic viking, then. Or play it even further with a Swedish Chef accent.

Really though, I only know one other character in the group, so I haven't the foggiest what type of niche might need filling. With a batch of 8 people, I can't imagine there are too many areas left uncovered.

With 8 characters, there's bound to be overlap in party roles, unless you invent silly new ones or go for rarer archetypes like mounted combat. And since it's 5e, don't worry about party composition so much.

[scriver]

Go for a Finnisher.

[pikachu17]

If you start at least 6th level, how about a strength based blade singer;
or a strength based rogue at any level?
A rogue is actually surprisingly susceptible to being strength based. Nothing requires you to use dexterity to sneak attack.

[Kagus]

Well, group's decided not to take on any new peeps seeing as they're already pretty big, so I'm off the hook in a sense. I know a couple other peeps who have semi-regular groups in the area, I suppose I could attempt to get out of my shell and actually ask if there are some openings.

[GiglameshDespair]

If you start at least 6th level, how about a strength based blade singer;
or a strength based rogue at any level?
A rogue is actually surprisingly susceptible to being strength based. Nothing requires you to use dexterity to sneak attack.

Sneak attacks must use a ranged or finesse weapon, so while you can use str with a rapier, no great sword sneak attacks, alas.

[pikachu17]

But you can dual wield a lance and a whip with proper feat and a mount.
Though you don't start proficient with it as a rogue.

[Rowanas]

I'd like to suggest that you take up the mantle of GARY, MASTER OF THE MUNDANE!

I can find the exact class order if you like, but it's rogue (1), knowledge cleric (2), knowledge bard (however many are left), warlock (2). Get all the skills, be the best wisdom/charisma castery sorta whatever.  Chew the scenery with every sentence and totally overdo the entire thing. 8 people is too many for a functional party and you're probably going to get bored as hell, so make your moment in the spotlight matter.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

My party came within 2hp and a mediocre roll of merking our nemesis an entire story arc early. Good, yet frustrating.

[Kagus]

I keep trying to find this thread in the "Other Games" board... Hasn't worked yet.

So, since the first group didn't work out, I'm gonna see if I can man up to ask around a bit more and see if someone else has an opening. In the meantime, I've been trying to brush up a bit on 5e knowledge, and to that end I've been browsing some kind of repository/wiki-type thing.

Anyways... I've always had kind of a fascination with warlocks, having never gotten the chance to play as one (either in PnP form or in any vidyer games that actually happen to have playable warlocks featured in them, which aren't many). Reading up on 5e warlocks, there's a mention of a "pact boon" that you can pick up at 3rd level. One of the choices for such a boon is a tome you can put three cantrips in, regardless of which spell list the cantrips officially belong to. These can then be cast "at will".

Now, presumably that means forgoing any sort of material cost or other limits to spamming the damn things... So, naturally, I immediately thought about stuffing a book full of goodness like Prestidigitation and Thaumaturgy and proceeding to just ruin everything by making rocks yell incessantly, opening and slamming doors repeatedly, or changing the flavor of someone's food right before they're about to eat it. Also the classic interpretation of Prestidigitation's "cleaning" effect to polish the fuck out of a surface and make it into either a fancy mirror or a frictionless death slab. Someone also brought up using Shape Water to form a bit of water into a small item, then freeze it into a solid so you now have a temporary whatever-it-is to do things with. Combine with Presti's flavoring and make popsicles on demand!

Seems like a big point towards being a warlock, honestly.


...again, I should never be allowed to design characters. Or play them, clearly.

[NullForceOmega]

I mean, if your group is okay with those kinds of munchkin shenanigans go ahead, but if they aren't then all a character like that does is wreck the game for everyone.  Not a judgment against you for wanting to play that way, just an observation of standard group dynamics.

Also, it can be amusing and educational about the system to come up with things like that.  Hell, I've experimented with some of the most asinine possible combinations of classes and races in a lot of different systems, it has allowed me as a DM to better deal with disruptive players.