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Welcome to Dungeons and Dragons! I am one of the veteran players that Gamemaster spoke of, with 30 years of D&D myself. My name here will change once I decide on a character, but I'm looking forward to playing with you all.

Also welcome from myself. A recent acquaintance to the GM and Psy, I also have had 30+ years experince in D&D....but only a few in this edition.

I will also change name once we finalize characters.



....should be fun

If anyone needs some help deciding what character you want to play, just give us an idea of what things you want to do, which character from a book/movie/comic inspires you, or which of the party roles from the character creation thread sounds fun to you, and we'll be happy to make suggestions.

What characters are you all interested in playing?

We have 5 players, let's start rolling out those characters, I know Psy and Rai will find a way to cover the gaps, so tell us what you want to play.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:41, Wed 13 Apr 2022.

Akrai and Rainy, are either of you wanting to be healers with those characters?

hey quick question, do you have a Party Face already? if not, I'm down to be that.

In reply to Psynister (msg # 7):

Yes, I would hope so, it’s the first time I’m playing dnd in a while tho, so I would have to understand more.

Either you or Rainy, based on class choices. No one has spoken up about which roles that want to take, though, so you're the first one to mention it. If you're going to stick with Rogue, that means you'll have our traps and locks covered as well.


Sounds good. If you've got heals covered, then I can look at filling a different gap in the party. Bards are good at a little bit of everything, and all of the bard's normal healing comes in the base class so you can take whichever subclass you want. Lore Bard can get you access to new spells, so that's one to consider if you want to really focus on healing.

In reply to Psynister (msg # 10):

Sounds like a plan

With the Tiefling Life Cleric in the group now too, you won't need to heal as often, so you can prepare healing spells but not feel like you have to use your spell slots only for healing.

In reply to Psynister (msg # 12):

Thank you !

Plus, there are many classes that can heal.  As said earlier, bards can heal, as well as druids and artificers (Which i am)

For those playing spellcasters, it's generally a good idea to have at least one person who can cast the Guidance cantrip, and one person who can cast a spell that provides light (Light, Dancing Lights, or Produce Flame).

If anyone plans to take any of those four spells, let us know. It's alright if multiple people take Guidance, but we don't want more than 1-2 people taking light-producing spells.

The only cantrip that should really be avoided, in almost every situation, is True Strike. Blade Barrier is also generally considered to be pretty bad.

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Those of you who are playing races that give you a bonus feat from level 1, there are some feats that are really bad, and some of them actually sound pretty cool until you use them a few times. If you want to know whether or not a feat is good before you take it, just ask.

Planning to start this next weekend, let's get those chars ready to go by Thursday this week

All right, some chars still need adjustments, but let's get this thing moving this week-end

Coifrish and Zuchinni, if your chars are not completed by tomorrow, you will not start with the others.

Mike, with that much dex, you would be better off as a fighter, dex barbarian lose the +2 bonus to damage that they inflict with strength base weapons while raging. you also don't have any weapons equiped.

The rest is pretty much ok, so we'll start with Rainy, alistair, geno, brankx, lerissa, vyn'al and tentatively mike

Mike, if you're wanting to be a tank, then a Dex Barb is actually pretty good (and the only time I would suggest Dex over Str for a Barb). Take a Rapier for your martial weapon, and then spend 10 gp on a Shield. That should give you a 17 AC with your current build, and a +5 Attack at 1d8+3. You will always miss out on the damage benefits from Rage using a Dex build, but if you're doing it to be a tank then Dex is the only semi-reliable way to do that and -2 damage for +2 AC isn't a bad trade for a tank to make. If you want more damage, then any time from level 3 onward you can take some levels in Rogue for Sneak Attack damage, which you can use every round if you activate Reckless Attack (level 2 Barbarian feature). If you go that route, then I would suggest taking 4-6 levels of Barbarian before taking more than 1 level of Rogue.

If your priority is to deal damage, don't go for Dex on a Barb. You want all the Strength you can get and a nasty two-handed weapon. If you want to play a Dex character that deals damage, then Fighter, Rogue, or Ranger would be a better class option.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:19, Fri 22 Apr 2022.

OK guys....game will be starting soon according to the GM.

I have already helped Alistar (Jmash) with his character.

With most of the others, you may need some tweaks.

All right, let's start this joy ride. Psy and Rai have given you all great advice on how to tweek you chars, I will still allow some minor changes to the char make up even if we are playing, as this is a first time for most of you. Mistakes will be made, don't worry about it.

The name of the game is to have fun all together, so let's get to it, the first IC post is out!

I'm railroading a little for starters, since I can't customize your starts without a background, but basically you have been hired by two churches in Neverwinter for the missions: find a young paladin and investigate a rumor.

Lets get ready to RUMBLE PLAY!

Nice start Mash! Welcome to the world of forum roleplay! ;)

Thanks! means a lot.

Thanks for participating Lerissa! Welcome to the new roleplay addiction! ;)

BTW, Alystair is a Dragonborn, not a Dwarf ;)