blue Character Discussions

This thread is for discussing blue's character please do not post anything here that is not related to blue's character and yes collaborating with blue is consider fair postings.

Please make all rolls in here and outline what you are are doing so that I can give you feedback on the world. Do note though this game borrows heavily from the Forgotten Realms so you can use information from that setting to outline your background.

Okay blue here is your thread for character creation -- you are going to want to pay attention to 3 other threads in this game
Character Creation Parameters where you will find the stuff relating to how to create a character and other extra options
House Rules (please read) where you will find various guideline tweaks to aspects of the game as well as spells -- at the bottom of that is a section that goes over Masterwork and Special Material Armor and Weapons which you will want to read carefully
In the World Dynamics forum in the Patrons and Races thread you will find the deities being used within this game.

Hokay, here go rolls, I think! Please bear with me while I figure out how GP works.

If I did these rolls right, I'll take a look at them and mull them over while I read up on the rules threads.

Edit: I think this means stats are 13, 12, 16, 16, 13, 14. Mulling commencing.

Yes you got the stats correct -- are you taking one of the standard races or is there some other race you might facing existent or not as Forgotten Realms has quite a few no standard races that have not been fully fleshed out as well as some allowable races that fit its setting --- no the metal droids from Eberron are not viable but some of the others might be.

I was leaning towards tiefling, actually, but not 100% locked on that, yet. I'll know more this weekend.

Speaking of races, though, are you okay with the tiefling variants in Mordenkainen's Tome, or would you prefer I stick to the PHB version?

Hey Blue not sure why you might be choosing Tiefling but if you wanted something a bit unusual that gives you bonus to Wisdom you might consider a Githzerai if you think you might be interested in that race I can outline it in full for you.

Now other than for story purposes (which are very important) for a cleric the following races get +1 to Wisdom. Hill Dwarf, Wood Elf, fFolk (Half-Elf), Human, Protector Aasimar, and Water Genasi (I'd have to stat this out)

As for the Tieflings in Mordenkainen's Tome I would have to look at them but if you are interested in a specific one I can take a look and see if it needs any tweaking to bring over.

Felt like playing high charisma, and tieflings are fun. My highest roll was 16, so I'd be at a +3 for WIS with all of those options until an ASI, just like I would be with the tiefling. The gith is the exception, of course, but githzerai feel a little too self-righteous/monk-like for the vibe I was wanting.

If you would prefer I didn't go the tiefling route, though, I could live with protector aasimar without complaint.

No Tiefling is fine as I said concept trumps mechanics ;) so which Tiefling Sub-Race were you considering?

The Zariel variant. It bumps STR +1 instead of the stock INT +1, and changes the racial legacy from this:
You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the hellish rebuke spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the darkness spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

to this:
You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the searing smite spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the branding smite spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

So a more combat oriented one than the one that bumps your Wisdom score -- yeah I know no difference in a 16 to a 17 other than being 1 point closer to being an 18 -- but then unless you are putting a 13 in Strength the bonus to strength is going to be fairly insignificant as well.

More importantly what patron (deity) do you think your character is going to be following?

Yeah the STR bump I could take or leave; I just like the legacy spells better.

I hadn't nailed down a patron yet. That's next on the list so I can figure out domain.

Okay I will post my final take on the Tiefling Sub-Races maybe later tonight -- so you might want to look them over as some of them will change from what is in the book. I wanted to make them more exclusively theme based and cover many of the different energy/damage types.

The one you picked though did not change as based on what he was about there was no reason to change him.

Do you mind pinging somewhere when you finish with the subrace write up?

Also, you have races listed with the patrons. Is this meant to suggest an identity of the patron or just that they're popular with a certain race, or something else? Is there a penalty for choosing a patron who has a different race listed than what the character is?

The primary race associated with a deity is its per-sae favored avatar or form and nothing more. For a deity is actually formless it simply appears as an avatar of its choosing and some choose to appear more frequently as one avatar over another. For that matter, they are also genderless being neither male nor female and as such may appear as either if they choose. Some avatars are not even humanoid as a physical form is fairly meaningless to a being of energy.

I hope that helps and yeah thanks for the reminder will get that posted hopefully this evening RL Holiday weekend and all

Okay blue I have added the Tiefling Race and Sub-Races to the Character Creation Guidelines thread. Let me know if that changes anything for you.