New character. Woot?

[gabe]

Hey guys! This is Gabe. Um. I'm that one kid with the hat that sat in on the game on your Revenge of the giants game on March 14th. Thanks for letting me do that by the way. And thanks for inviting me to play with you guys!

So. As for the actual character himself, I want to fill a roll. I was thinking invoker (probably wrathful). And probably human just cause apparently everyone in the party is human, and i like that theme. =P But if anyone has any suggestions i'd really appreciate them.

Thanks in advance guys! Look forward to playing iwth you.

[earthwizard]

Hey Gabe,

Welcome to the boards, and welcome to the game. A human invoker would be great. Let me know if you have questions about the game or ideas for a background story. I'll get you set up and you can play with us next week.

Kyle Devon (DM for "Revenge")

[reiphil]

Pal/Warlock just to rub it in JP's face. Has to be dragonborn.

[The Keeper]

NOT cool phil hahaha. So I brought the pal/lock up to lv 15 and changed his items around. he just became MORE beastly. his damage output was already stupidly high with divine challenge and curse interacting but now he resists 2 damage from melee, resists 5 from ranged, and is insubstantial on charge and can charge through enemy squares. >.> mwahahaha! thanks for the suggestion on arcane imp prof, that helped a lot.

i'm posting the summary to see what u guys think. suggestions are gladly accepted. focused breath feat is actually battle caster defense because builder hasn't updated for phb3 yet. chose it that way i can point blank fire off hellish rebukes and if he DOES hit me on opp att then he'll take 1d6 + Con mod (4). If he misses he misses and gets to take a hellish rebuke in the face. this is all assuming he missed me on his actual standard.

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Heskan, level 15
Dragonborn, Paladin|Warlock, Hexer
Hybrid Paladin: Hybrid Paladin Reflex
Eldritch Pact (Hybrid): Infernal Pact (Hybrid)
Hybrid Warlock: Hybrid Warlock Reflex
Hybrid Talent: Paladin Armor Proficiency
Arcane Implement Proficiency: Arcane Implement Proficiency (heavy blade group)
Dragon Breath Key Ability: Dragon Breath Strength
Dragon Breath Damage Type: Dragon Breath Cold

FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 22, Con 18, Dex 8, Int 12, Wis 13, Cha 20.

STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 18, Con 15, Dex 7, Int 11, Wis 12, Cha 16.


AC: 33 Fort: 26 Reflex: 25 Will: 25
HP: 111 Surges: 12 Surge Value: 31

TRAINED SKILLS
Diplomacy +17, Endurance +12, Intimidate +19

UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +2, Arcana +8, Bluff +12, Dungeoneering +8, Heal +8, History +10, Insight +8, Nature +8, Perception +8, Religion +8, Stealth +2, Streetwise +12, Thievery +2, Athletics +9

FEATS
Level 1: Crimson Fire
Level 2: Focused Breath
Level 4: Curse of Io's Blood
Level 6: Hybrid Talent
Level 8: Toughness
Level 10: Mighty Challenge
Level 11: Dragonborn Frenzy
Level 12: Contagious Challenge
Level 14: Arcane Implement Proficiency

POWERS
Hybrid at-will 1: Forbidding Strike
Hybrid at-will 1: Hellish Rebuke
Hybrid encounter 1: Witchfire
Hybrid daily 1: Armor of Agathys
Hybrid utility 2: Virtue
Hybrid encounter 3: Heedless Fury
Hybrid daily 5: Majestic Halo
Hybrid utility 6: Fey Switch
Hybrid encounter 7: All the Sand, All the Stars
Hybrid daily 9: Knightly Intercession
Hybrid utility 10: Ethereal Sidestep
Hybrid encounter 13: Cursegrind (replaces Witchfire)
Hybrid daily 15: Divine Vengeance (replaces Knightly Intercession)

ITEMS
Fey-Blessed Circlet (heroic tier), Greaves of Fortunate Falling (heroic tier), Adventurer's Kit, Imposter's Specter Plate Armor +4 (10), Battle Spirit Khopesh +3, Raven Cloak +3, Shield of Deflection Heavy Shield (paragon tier), Demonskin Tattoo (heroic tier)
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[gabe]

Well I managed to come up with an Invoker/Morninglord whose sole purpose is to make people vulnerable to radiant and proceed to smack them with radiant damage. But after managing to see how PJ's warlock/rogue somehow gets to like +20dmg on his burning spray (which i think is an at will) and Phil's neji gigantic damage output, i Feel as if i hadn't min maxed my character as much as i could've.

[earthwizard]

Phil, JP - you've created a monster! lol.

Gabe. Don't worry about maxing your character. Just make something that you'll have fun playing. The Invoker will be cool.

[The Keeper]

hahaha, u may be right kyle. but seriously gabe, make sure u enjoy playing the character first and foremost. i made darkfire for fun and i've enjoyed playing him for months now. i joked a lot about wanting him to die so i can get the next character in but it's all just kidding around. make sure ur dude has personal role playing value and u have fun playing him that way u don't ask the DM to change ur dwarven cleric/invoker to a human fighter mid-campaign >.> i've said too much...lmao.

all that said, if u happen to find a min/max character u love playing, kyle can't stop u just like he can't stop Darkfire. hahaha

JP (DM for "The Land of Coven")

[reiphil]

Here's my monster...

====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ======
level 16
Half-Orc, Ranger, Avalanche Hurler
Fighting Style: Marauder Fighting Style
Ranger: Running Attack

FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 24, Con 15, Dex 22, Int 11, Wis 17, Cha 13.

STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 18, Con 14, Dex 16, Int 10, Wis 16, Cha 12.


AC: 31 Fort: 30 Reflex: 29 Will: 24
HP: 102 Surges: 9 Surge Value: 25

TRAINED SKILLS
Dungeoneering +16, Nature +16, Perception +16, Acrobatics +18, Athletics +19

UNTRAINED SKILLS
Arcana +8, Bluff +9, Diplomacy +9, Endurance +11, Heal +11, History +8, Insight +11, Intimidate +11, Religion +8, Stealth +13, Streetwise +9, Thievery +13

FEATS
Level 1: Thirst for Battle
Level 2: Furious Charge
Level 4: Lethal Hunter
Level 6: Two-Weapon Fighting
Level 8: Weapon Proficiency (Drow Long Knife)
Level 10: Weapon Expertise (Heavy Blade)
Level 11: Predatory Action
Level 12: Weapon Focus (Heavy Blade)
Level 14: Heavy Blade Opportunity
Level 16: Powerful Charge

POWERS
Ranger at-will 1: Throw and Stab
Ranger at-will 1: Marauder's Rush
Ranger encounter 1: Off-Hand Strike
Ranger daily 1: Jaws of the Wolf
Ranger utility 2: Invigorating Stride
Ranger encounter 3: Disruptive Strike
Ranger daily 5: Wounded Beast
Ranger utility 6: Weave Through the Fray
Ranger encounter 7: Sweeping Whirlwind
Ranger daily 9: Ranger's Recovery
Ranger utility 10: Agile Escape
Ranger encounter 13: Answer with Steel (replaces Off-Hand Strike)
Ranger daily 15: Blade Cascade (replaces Jaws of the Wolf)
Ranger utility 16: Ranger's Parry

ITEMS
Battle Spirit Drow Long Knife +3, Horned Helm (paragon tier), Badge of the Berserker +3, Iron Armbands of Power (heroic tier), Boots of Adept Charging (heroic tier), Summoned Earthhide Armor +3, Magic Drow Long Knife +3
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The Magic Drow Long Knife is actually a Dislocating Weapon from PHB3.

Basically... At-will, +23 atk - 1d8 + 3 dmg... granted charge =+24 atk - 1d6 (weapon) + 2d6 (helm) + 2d8 (quarry) + 18 ... + free shift.

total = 3d6 + 3d8 + 21 dmg, avg 45 points per at-will.

not to mention an 8 speed from charging

All defensive utilities/encounters to back out of combat, or do damage to aggressors to make them think twice.

Super powerful dailies to finish fat guys

Nom nom nom to kyle's encounters

[reiphil]

oops.. should be 1d8+5 << Weapon Focus! , means avg dmg is 47

and... +2 when using the charge... avg dmg 49!

[gabe]

Alright guys! I've got it! I'm going to combine the pal/lock and the ranger together for ultimate ownage.

But in all seriousness it's gonna be an invoker. Just, now i'm arguing in my mind between the radiance vulnerability invoker (which doesn't actually get his badass 'give everybody he hits vulnerability' until lvl 16) or a critvoker. (i'm not exactly sure when that gets really badass)

So. Do are there any characters in the party that have any attacks that deal radiant damage on the regular basis?

Also, I do wanna come up with a backstory...just i don't know anything about the place where we're playing. (Including the name(s) of the place(s) we're playing.)

Help would be appreciated.

[reiphil]

vincevsgary.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=paragon&action=display&thread=330 << this is the land thread. We are newly recruited heroes to the city of argent to stop the rise of the giants and elementals. lots of stuff

[gabe]

Ooh. thanks for the link phil.

So, i think i finally settled on a character, it's gonna be that invoker/morninglord. But the only thing i want to ask is that the morning lord requires my deity to be amaunator, and so i was wondering is if it would be ok for my deity to be pelor instead. I kidna wanna stay out of the forgotten realms deities at the moment. It won't affect anything mechanically, as the only domain related feat i have comes from the sun domain, which they both have. Its just a flavor change.

Thanks in advance.

[earthwizard]

Use the deities from the player's handbook. Pelor is a fine choice.

[reiphil]

whats a morninglord?

[The Keeper]

yeah i've been wondering what a morninglord is as well.

as far as backstories go, you could be...the descendant of an ancient hero of argent? some crazy drunk guy that yells at the gods to grant him power? sent to kill the lazy ass Rowlthar while he's twiddling his thumbs in Argent cause that's all he does in addition to dropping off heroes like a school bus?

i think all would be fine choices, especially the last one.

do u use paper and pencil to create ur characters? i'd love to take a look at what u have so far.