Dirteshot Character Discussions

Okay have a question on your Ability Scores -- this is what I have you rolling : 18, 18, 17, 16, 14, 13

But this is what you put in for Ability Scores :
Str 16 .. Con 18 .. Dex 18+2 .. Int 14 .. Wis 13+1 .. Cha 12??

If I might make a suggestion put the 17 in Wis and the 13 in Cha and leave everything as is.

Also for Wanderer I gave you expertise in Survival based on your character's background and the skills you selected.

Is the purpose of 5 daggers to mean you have 5 throwing knives? Because daggers cannot be thrown they are melee weapons and you can use a throwing knife in melee but it is with Disadvantage.

Did you look at my weapons list -- the Short Bow and Long Bow are both Martial Weapons granted you can use the Long Bow as a Martial Arts Weapon (which you get to pick Int Mod of initially aka pick any 2 Martial Weapons to be used as Martial Arts Weapons) if you want but the Rogue's Short Bow is replaced with a Light X-Bow & Case w/Bolts x20

The Background does not give you a Musical Instrument it just can give you the Proficiency which by the way I do not see listed -- I got the Skills you took but what did you take for the optional 2 Tools or 2 Languages or 1 of Each ??

Also are you keeping your Thieves Tools or selling those as I did not see them as part of your equipment.

Did you want to sell the Hempen Rope and buy Silk Rope it is lighter.

What is the "Trophy from an Animal you Killed" ??

Also we kind of need to discuss the "Stranger in a Strange Land" as your background does not cover that.

Strength 16 +3 +3
Dexterity 20 +5 +7
Constitution 18 +4 +4
Intelligence 14 +2 +4
Wisdom 18 +4 +4
Charisma 13 +1 +1

This is copy and pasted from my character sheet as far as Ability scores go. I just realized I forgot to add Saving Throw proficiencies.

I will have to look at your weapons list apparently.

I just forgot to add Theives Tools.

Elves have a Longbow proficiency as far as I know, so I was planning on using the longbow.
That is actually part of the Scout class... So I don't really want it from my background and will change my background if needed. I was looking more at the PhB version of the backgrounds. I had not fully decided on a trophy at the time.
I will have to review this. Again, I was going by the PhB.

Right forgot about the Elf Weapon Proficiency my bad -- but you still get to pick 2 Weapons to be considered Martial Arts Weapons and you get more later on so eventually a total of 7 for this character. I am doing it this way because they do not clearly define what a Martial Art Weapon is and is not... and again you could choose a Kama which is just a Hatchet for purposes of properties and any other exotic weapon would simply be mapped to a weapon on one of the current lists. Keep in mind what happens to one of these weapons is it acquires the Finesse feature which means if the weapon already has Finesse or can use your Dex Modifier with To Hit and Damage then it counts as a Martial Arts Weapon thus it includes all Missile Weapons as well.

Okay even in the PHB it states -- basically Choose Any 2 Skills that could be associated with your background and choose 2 Tools or 2 Languages or 1 of Each that could be associated with your background. They just make suggestions in the lists.

Next if you look at Wanderer there are a total of 3 Skills that can have Expert applied to them but you would have to have one of those with Proficiency to do that.

Next and by far foremost -- I have been dealing with the inadequacy of the Backgrounds (as I understood most players are not going to want to take a background that has a next to meaningless Feature when there are Backgrounds that have good Features) and I have already listed quite a few under the Character Creation Guidelines as to the new Features they have.

However, (now with the Features fixed) the most important thing about your background ought to be its flavor. Currently your background does not really line up with Outlander and I think another background might better serve this character --- again look at the flavor and its description and ask yourself does this fit my character. Since every Background has or will have 2 Quality Features. If you cannot find a current Background that fits let me know and we can discuss creating one. One of my players has already done this.

Changed stuff. Background is changed to Wanderer and added lots of travel details. Tool proficiency is a cartographer's tool. I don't really want to carry around another toolset, but he carries a panflute and plays it on occasion. I don't really care if the character has proficiency with it or not, it helps pass the time and calms the nerves of others when he plays it. It is also not a loud instrument when played softly. Not sure if my number of skills is correct, but I chose nature as the expertise. I am not sure where the Wanderer Background comes from so I am not sure if I did it right. Do I still have an "animal trophy"?

Dagger and Quarterstaff are the "martial weapons". Added a quarterstaff as any traveler would have one of course.

Anything else that needs adjustments?

Just checking that things look good/better for Stalvos now after the changes?