So, finally it came to character creation. And for the first solo playthrough I chose a character that I had for a considerable amount of time. A mascot that I used for many test videogame runs and testing character creations in tabletop rpgs. Most of the time I try create and play as an unarmed ranger. Finally it's his time to shine as a character for his own adventure.
Introducing Harold T. Trend. What follows is a bit of world building thrown into the creation process. Such things actually helps me with all the process.
--- The Book of Fates: Censor's Entry 200502 ---
" Harold's story is a story of an urchin. A street rat with no parents, nor home. And he was unlucky enough one day to pickpocket someone he shouldn't. His mark was young scholar Airus Trend of Edasi Tribe alongside his back-then girlfriend Esther of Ik'hadi tribe who took the urchin under their wing. Maybe out of pity or maybe they've found something in this kid to their liking.
Edasi are know as scholars and planeswalkers (among other things) and Airus is not an exception. He and his soon-to-be wife taught the child everyithing they knew and all that could help the boy in the future. And the help he needed indeed, for Harold is one of those few who has blood of the Nor'yen Tribe in his veins, a tribe of Beastmasters who rulled supreme in their Homeworld over Beasts, Beastmen and Men alike.
Millenia have passed but Nor'yens are still shun especially by the former slaves, the beastfolk.
Harold is known to travel across the World believed to be searching for any traces of his native tribe or to be dragged around by numerous cohorts, especially Ardet Kleid of Re'sha Tribe, a spirit dancer and the heir to Kleid dynasty.
The person of interest is well trained and notorios enough to have a bounty on his head in several Worlds. Not to be apprehanded because of the fact being protected by Trends the Godslayers and Ik'hadi heiress to the position of Chieftess. Additional surveillance is needed. "
Specifically for this build and all related to the character and setting I use the point-buy option, provided in Players Handbook with addition of using 30 points instead of 27, described in Dungeon Masters' Guidebook which is suggested to use exactly with 7 stats.
So, the actual buy was looking like this: 13 (5), 13 (5), 13 (5), 12 (4), 12 (4), 12 (4) 11 (3) = 5 + 5 + 5 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 = 30.
Harold is both troublemaker and troublshooter, so he needed to hit hard and avoid being hit. And again, he is a pacifist of sort, he tries not to kill unles he can't help it. And thus, his Strength and Dexterity are 13 (+1), he is not tough but can take a few punches, so his Constitution is 12 (+1). Inteligence is 12 (+1) he is not booksmart but he had a best education that anyone in his place could dream of. Furthermore, Harold is stubborn and due to his upbringing and the people he tag alone with he needs a lot of common sense. Especially if he needs to survive another crazy plan of Ardet Kleid and as such his Wisdom is 13 (+1) Charisma is not his forte, plus he can come out as a bit of an "edgelord" (The benefit of playing solo is I can go as crazy and cringy as I want). But he is nice to the eyes even if he has a freekisly big scar across his cheek, though some would argue that this is part of his charm. Charisma 11 (+0), Comeliness 12 (+1)
Furtermore I needed to establish his race in terms of D&D and the modifiers that goes with it. Way back in the days I was really hooked at the idea of Dragonmarked houses in Eberron setting for 3.5 ruleset. Back then I had this idea: "What if it's not the house or clan or family that has a specific king of power gifted by the Dragon God but the whole society" Thus the idea of Tribes was born.
Harold belonged to the Nor'yen tribe a tribe of beastmasters (also known as Beasttongues) inspired by House Vadalis and their Dragonmark of Handling from Eberron setting and for a long time I had problems with depicting the power list of house in 5e/next ruleset. I was thinking using feats that grant spells for limited uses, but then the ruleset of playing Eberron in 5e came out. I am talking about Wayfinder Guide to Eberron (Eberron" Last War came out later, when the character was finished and I was far in adventure) that had rules on playing Vadalis Chapter House all I had to do is just refluff te stuff.
I won't bore you with the fluff stuff (that will a discussion for another post) I'll just write the important bits.
Improved Attributes. + 1 Dexterity (Dexterity: 14(+2), +1 Wisdom (Wisdom 14(+2), + 1 Player’s Choice. I chose to put this extra 1 into Strength pumping it up to 14 (+2)
Beast scense. The Beasttongue gift allows Nor’en to add d4 to Animal Handling (Wisdom) and Nature (Inteligence) rolls
Taming Hand. Nor’en can perform “aid action” giving an advantage to an alliened beast or beastfolk companion within 30 feet instead of 5, according to rules of the initial game.
Beastmaster. All spells that affect beasts and animals also affect monsters with Intelligence equal or less than 3. The eyes of Nor’en when this ability active change the color to a vibrant green.
So now we approached the Class. There's no dillema hear. I chose the standard Ranger, that gives me proficiency with all simple and martial weapons, proficiency in wearing light and medium armor, d10+1 hit die, which was divided between Health 5 and Stamina 6, Natural Explorer ability that I decided to give him a proficiency over Coastlines and Favorit Enemy ability that gives him advantage in tracking and information gathering over Humans and Gnolls. And finally the proficiency in such skills as Perception, Survival and Animal Handling
As for a background I wanted to show his status as a student that comes from the very bottom. To do this, I decided to use the homebrew content and picked the background: Street Scholar that gives the character proficiency with Caligraphers tools, and mastery over Sleight of Hand and Arcana skills.
Remembering that the character is "an edgelord but pacifist" I didn't give him any weapon and spend all the money on differents tools and instruments and bought a Studded Leather Armor (12+Dexterity Bonus), then to show character's "edginess", the armor was fluffed into a Duster Coat.
With all the preparations done and out of the way, we can start the adventure.
P.S. Here's the link to the Wayfinder Guide to Eberron
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/247882/Wayfinders-Guide-to-Eberron-5e
You can also use the material, from this book for free as part of Unearthed Arcana. The Dragonmarks were the main inspiration for a concept of Tribes (September 2018) - https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_Dragonmarks.pdf
And the link to the community-brewed Street Scolar background (Web Archive link since the code of the parental EnWorld page is broken)
http://web.archive.org/web/20160510041943/http://www.enworld.org/forum/5ebackgrounds/showentry.php?e=54
Introducing Harold T. Trend. What follows is a bit of world building thrown into the creation process. Such things actually helps me with all the process.
--- The Book of Fates: Censor's Entry 200502 ---
" Harold's story is a story of an urchin. A street rat with no parents, nor home. And he was unlucky enough one day to pickpocket someone he shouldn't. His mark was young scholar Airus Trend of Edasi Tribe alongside his back-then girlfriend Esther of Ik'hadi tribe who took the urchin under their wing. Maybe out of pity or maybe they've found something in this kid to their liking.
Edasi are know as scholars and planeswalkers (among other things) and Airus is not an exception. He and his soon-to-be wife taught the child everyithing they knew and all that could help the boy in the future. And the help he needed indeed, for Harold is one of those few who has blood of the Nor'yen Tribe in his veins, a tribe of Beastmasters who rulled supreme in their Homeworld over Beasts, Beastmen and Men alike.
Millenia have passed but Nor'yens are still shun especially by the former slaves, the beastfolk.
Harold is known to travel across the World believed to be searching for any traces of his native tribe or to be dragged around by numerous cohorts, especially Ardet Kleid of Re'sha Tribe, a spirit dancer and the heir to Kleid dynasty.
The person of interest is well trained and notorios enough to have a bounty on his head in several Worlds. Not to be apprehanded because of the fact being protected by Trends the Godslayers and Ik'hadi heiress to the position of Chieftess. Additional surveillance is needed. "
Specifically for this build and all related to the character and setting I use the point-buy option, provided in Players Handbook with addition of using 30 points instead of 27, described in Dungeon Masters' Guidebook which is suggested to use exactly with 7 stats.
So, the actual buy was looking like this: 13 (5), 13 (5), 13 (5), 12 (4), 12 (4), 12 (4) 11 (3) = 5 + 5 + 5 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 3 = 30.
Harold is both troublemaker and troublshooter, so he needed to hit hard and avoid being hit. And again, he is a pacifist of sort, he tries not to kill unles he can't help it. And thus, his Strength and Dexterity are 13 (+1), he is not tough but can take a few punches, so his Constitution is 12 (+1). Inteligence is 12 (+1) he is not booksmart but he had a best education that anyone in his place could dream of. Furthermore, Harold is stubborn and due to his upbringing and the people he tag alone with he needs a lot of common sense. Especially if he needs to survive another crazy plan of Ardet Kleid and as such his Wisdom is 13 (+1) Charisma is not his forte, plus he can come out as a bit of an "edgelord" (The benefit of playing solo is I can go as crazy and cringy as I want). But he is nice to the eyes even if he has a freekisly big scar across his cheek, though some would argue that this is part of his charm. Charisma 11 (+0), Comeliness 12 (+1)
Furtermore I needed to establish his race in terms of D&D and the modifiers that goes with it. Way back in the days I was really hooked at the idea of Dragonmarked houses in Eberron setting for 3.5 ruleset. Back then I had this idea: "What if it's not the house or clan or family that has a specific king of power gifted by the Dragon God but the whole society" Thus the idea of Tribes was born.
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Harold belonged to the Nor'yen tribe a tribe of beastmasters (also known as Beasttongues) inspired by House Vadalis and their Dragonmark of Handling from Eberron setting and for a long time I had problems with depicting the power list of house in 5e/next ruleset. I was thinking using feats that grant spells for limited uses, but then the ruleset of playing Eberron in 5e came out. I am talking about Wayfinder Guide to Eberron (Eberron" Last War came out later, when the character was finished and I was far in adventure) that had rules on playing Vadalis Chapter House all I had to do is just refluff te stuff.
I won't bore you with the fluff stuff (that will a discussion for another post) I'll just write the important bits.
Improved Attributes. + 1 Dexterity (Dexterity: 14(+2), +1 Wisdom (Wisdom 14(+2), + 1 Player’s Choice. I chose to put this extra 1 into Strength pumping it up to 14 (+2)
Beast scense. The Beasttongue gift allows Nor’en to add d4 to Animal Handling (Wisdom) and Nature (Inteligence) rolls
Taming Hand. Nor’en can perform “aid action” giving an advantage to an alliened beast or beastfolk companion within 30 feet instead of 5, according to rules of the initial game.
Beastmaster. All spells that affect beasts and animals also affect monsters with Intelligence equal or less than 3. The eyes of Nor’en when this ability active change the color to a vibrant green.
So now we approached the Class. There's no dillema hear. I chose the standard Ranger, that gives me proficiency with all simple and martial weapons, proficiency in wearing light and medium armor, d10+1 hit die, which was divided between Health 5 and Stamina 6, Natural Explorer ability that I decided to give him a proficiency over Coastlines and Favorit Enemy ability that gives him advantage in tracking and information gathering over Humans and Gnolls. And finally the proficiency in such skills as Perception, Survival and Animal Handling
As for a background I wanted to show his status as a student that comes from the very bottom. To do this, I decided to use the homebrew content and picked the background: Street Scholar that gives the character proficiency with Caligraphers tools, and mastery over Sleight of Hand and Arcana skills.
Remembering that the character is "an edgelord but pacifist" I didn't give him any weapon and spend all the money on differents tools and instruments and bought a Studded Leather Armor (12+Dexterity Bonus), then to show character's "edginess", the armor was fluffed into a Duster Coat.
With all the preparations done and out of the way, we can start the adventure.
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| The illustration is the courtesy of Shailo "Siciel" Kou, you can find more of her works here https://www.deviantart.com/shailo |
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/247882/Wayfinders-Guide-to-Eberron-5e
You can also use the material, from this book for free as part of Unearthed Arcana. The Dragonmarks were the main inspiration for a concept of Tribes (September 2018) - https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_Dragonmarks.pdf
And the link to the community-brewed Street Scolar background (Web Archive link since the code of the parental EnWorld page is broken)
http://web.archive.org/web/20160510041943/http://www.enworld.org/forum/5ebackgrounds/showentry.php?e=54
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