Heroes of the Purple Wastes

Please post a write up of your character and your sheets here. As well as a completed sheet I would like to see the following details as well:

Name:
Race: PHB+1
Class: PHB+1
Age:
Alignment: Non-Evil please
Personality Traits: At least two
Ideal:
Bond:
Flaw:
Background:

Appearance: Include both a picture and a description of your character.
Personality: A more in-depth look at your personality traits. As part of this ask yourself the following:
Character Backstory: The game will begin in the city of Kuo Te'Lung in the country of Shou Lung, on a merchant caravan due to head east over the Dragonwall and into the mysterious Hordelands. Consider how you came to be there and why you are signing up for guard duty on this caravan.

For reference the character generation details are:

Permitted Sources: PHB+1. No UA with the exception of the Revised Ranger
Beginning Level: 3
Ability Generation Method: Point Buy
Starting Gold: Standard
Magic Items: Yes, each can start with a potion of healing and one other chosen magic item not above what I would consider it feasible for a level 3 character to have - I do realise that this is open to interpretation so please run it past me for approval first.

Quick question, what does the +1 mean in the context of PHB?

+1 means that you can use a combination of the PHB and any other one sourcebook as the basis for creating your character.

Thanks. I'm interested in trying out the Samurai archetype for Fighter.

Follow-up question: Is there a list of languages originating from Kara-Tur? I'm picking the variant human (if allowed, taking human anyway) and would like to base the second language in the region, even if it's just "Common (Shou Lung)" or "Common (Tuigan)."

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I was planning on making an archer of some kind. Likely one of the following: Fighter (Battle Master), Fighter (Arcane Archer), Ranger (Revised), or some type of rogue archer. I will try to decide tonight :)

I'll take Trade Tongue as a second language. Since starting gold is set as standard, I'm assuming that means we roll for wealth and buy what we want?

Correct

Name: Shiroyuri Kurumi

Ok, I'm going to bring some magical firepower. Tossing up between a drow bard and a human sorcerer. Do you allow the variant human rules with a free feat?

Rolling gold!

You may take the variant human.

DM, I'm looking into being a wizard of some kind. I haven't played a spell caster since 3.5e but I'm confident that I'll get it in time. What are your thoughts?

Plan changed slightly. I am going to go paladin, oath of the crown

I believe I will be going with a High Elf Wizard, School of Abjuration

Couple of quick questions for the DM:

1. For the 27 point buy for abilities, are you ok with three 15's and three 8's?
2. For HP since we are starting at level 3, do you want us to take max hit dice for levels 2 and 3 or do you want us to roll for levels 2 and 3?
3. If anyone could help me figure out a good magical item to have starting out, I'd greatly appreciate it! I'm not sure where to start or what would be a good choice for my race and class.
4. Will we be playing with weight?
5. How will currency work? Will we stick with just gold or will copper, silver and platinum work their way in?

With a wizard in the group I'll make a drow bard. How do you feel about Pipes of Haunting an uncommon magic item?

I would like to revive an old character from a game that fizzled out: Feng, the Aaracokra Monk. I hope you have nothing against Aaracokra.

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Name: Fēng
Race: Aaracokra
Class: Monk
Age: 15
Alignment: Neutral Good



The tribe of aarakocra who build their eyries high in the mist-shrouded Q’sulth Mountains spend simple lives of peaceful isolation from the outside world. But the tribal elders understand that isolation and ignorance are very different things. To pretend that the outside world does not exist is folly because evil from the outside is constantly threatening the peace of their mountain enclave. That is why the best among them are trained from youth to become warrior monks and are sent out into the world to learn of its dangers before returning to the mountains as true guardians of their home.

Fēng was raised in the Golden Talon Sanctuary where the days are spent in quiet contemplation and the perfection of the art of Kuang Fong ("wild wind"), an aggressive fighting style centered around the flow of personal energy, using the aarakocra’s natural speed & agility and their flying ability to deliver whirling attacks, and strikes from above with talons and weapons.

It is a great honor for an aarakocra family to offer one of their hatchlings with utmost gratitude and devotion
to the Sanctuary to become a monk of the Golden Talon Order. Once a hatchling has been given to the Sanctuary in this way, all familial ties are severed. The Order becomes the monk’s family. Thus, monks do not have family names.

Fēng is a young aarakocra, truly devoted to his people and his order. All his young life he has trained to fight, but is yet untried in real combat. He is quick of both body and mind. Perhaps a little distracted at times because of his newness to things outside his cloistered experience. His curiosity sometimes gets the better of him, something that the Sanctuary Masters have always reprimanded him for. His sense of wonder and his fierce loyalty are his best personality traits.

Trait: I am innocent to the ways of the world. I am often distracted by things that are new to me.
Ideal: Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment of oneself.
Bond: My Order and my tribe are the most important thing in my life, even when they are far from me.
Bond: My honor is my life.
Flaw: I’ve spent my entire life in the Sanctuary and so I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world