OOC Character Creation

@Stefron - Hey, I’m curious about Wanderer ability scores. In DnD 5e, the Ranger class prioritizes DEX and then CON. But for AiME they are saying Wanderer is STR/CON? Don’t Wanderers need a high DEX?

Duinhir got a high-ish dex and I have used stealth a few times but do not take any advice from me regarding DnD. I'm very noob.

Gotcha, yeah I’m not the most experienced either. But I was thinking about the wanderer and wanted to boost dex at least to 14 for +2 AC. And I was thinking of focusing on archery, so not sure if strength will benefit me too much.

That's what I did, boost to 14.

Yeah that makes sense. I think I’ll boost my dex a little more. I might not be making the most optimized choice, but we’ll see.

To be very honest with you, AIME made Strength very nearly obsolete by making the Broadsword (otherwise vanilla Longsword) a Finesse weapon.

So if you're going into DEX, you're good.

Interesting! Well, that sounds good then. So far, the AiME materials look really nice, but it makes sense that there will be issues like that.

Yea, it's unfortunate.

The player-facing elements are some of the weakest design changes they made.

The Classes, the Backgrounds, even the Cultures have some problems, and the Equipment and Money overhauls... I wonder if they were the first things they did, or what, but they're the weakest elements in my opinion.

They're not outright BAD, mind you, but just not as well done as the new sub systems and monsters and NPCs and adventure hooks and region guides, etc. Which are all pretty fantastic imo

I've contemplated buying the Fria Ligan "Lord of the Rings 5E" player handbook (they took over the Tolkien license after Cubicle 7), and seeing if I can just use their Classes and stuff with AIME's DM material and sourcebooks...

Yeah that sounds right. Your house rules are a good addition. I only did some basic research into AiME/LoTR5e but it seemed like the latter is built on the first.

I’ve been looking into the IC Resource thread at the history that the PCs all know and…