d&d character rebuild to 5e
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chickiedeared&d rebuild babbling
i think the race/class/role from the 3.5 game is just humorously useless at this point - the things the class needs are not at all what the background or racial bonuses actually help with.
->solution: just import the stupid desert subrace! it’s fine! cha bonus instead of strength. make a case for the urchin background getting survival, insight and/or perception proficiencies - but the rp notes are good. take the arcana + history off the class feature. riff the desert background into getting persuasion instead of intimidation. look at where I put skill points originally.
build a ranger flavored patron off of the UA raven queen stuff. sit down with the dumb spell lists and do it. (except hunters mark is cool but i wouldn’t want it to be at like 4th level eventually) (replace it! it’ll be fine!) tbh i don’t actually want to do pet management in any meaningful way, except I also don’t particularly care for any of the pact pathways as written. but I do think I’d like the way the spells work
->have the 6th level pact bonus be the favored terrain/enemy stuff that was already built into the vestige
->the counteroption that I’m stuck on is doing the ranger and having the pact be all for flavor/rp so I have to do less homework, except why do u need a d10 hit die if you’re gonna take archery.
as far as party comp, turns out i want to tank but... so does everyone else. my character has the most hit points but is so far away (as the one ranged attacker) that the last game we played i don’t think there was even a single attack roll against her. so maybe don’t emphasize that con score this time and put it into wisdom.
what’s compelling to me as story is unfortunately not mechanically helpful as written in the srd, but it’s also all I've got bc i feel so uncreative and unable to come up with any backstory even though I've thought about it a ton :( I don’t really understand a lot of the components of how to build something effective either - I can tell what I like the idea of, but in this first iteration that didn’t really play out for me.
I also feel hemmed in by the louder players at the table tbh - like a hexblade would be so cool, but that role is taken by the guy who is basically trying to play through a video game about his character.
but hey. remember that it was hard to start playing this game, emotionally - things I had never done and taking chances in the moment in front of people. i did it. i felt good about it. and then i worked on resolving player conflict and I will have to again. and then i learned how to play without alcohol.and then this week I hosted people over for dinner in my apartment for the first time in at least a year, and it was these friends who like me and invite me to things. I'm also learning how to play *this* game with *this* dm, and picking up how the sessions work and what kinds of things are useful and what we actually tend to do. maybe time to reconnect with that emotional spirit of rp as practice vulnerability. okay? okay.
i think the race/class/role from the 3.5 game is just humorously useless at this point - the things the class needs are not at all what the background or racial bonuses actually help with.
->solution: just import the stupid desert subrace! it’s fine! cha bonus instead of strength. make a case for the urchin background getting survival, insight and/or perception proficiencies - but the rp notes are good. take the arcana + history off the class feature. riff the desert background into getting persuasion instead of intimidation. look at where I put skill points originally.
build a ranger flavored patron off of the UA raven queen stuff. sit down with the dumb spell lists and do it. (except hunters mark is cool but i wouldn’t want it to be at like 4th level eventually) (replace it! it’ll be fine!) tbh i don’t actually want to do pet management in any meaningful way, except I also don’t particularly care for any of the pact pathways as written. but I do think I’d like the way the spells work
->have the 6th level pact bonus be the favored terrain/enemy stuff that was already built into the vestige
->the counteroption that I’m stuck on is doing the ranger and having the pact be all for flavor/rp so I have to do less homework, except why do u need a d10 hit die if you’re gonna take archery.
as far as party comp, turns out i want to tank but... so does everyone else. my character has the most hit points but is so far away (as the one ranged attacker) that the last game we played i don’t think there was even a single attack roll against her. so maybe don’t emphasize that con score this time and put it into wisdom.
what’s compelling to me as story is unfortunately not mechanically helpful as written in the srd, but it’s also all I've got bc i feel so uncreative and unable to come up with any backstory even though I've thought about it a ton :( I don’t really understand a lot of the components of how to build something effective either - I can tell what I like the idea of, but in this first iteration that didn’t really play out for me.
I also feel hemmed in by the louder players at the table tbh - like a hexblade would be so cool, but that role is taken by the guy who is basically trying to play through a video game about his character.
but hey. remember that it was hard to start playing this game, emotionally - things I had never done and taking chances in the moment in front of people. i did it. i felt good about it. and then i worked on resolving player conflict and I will have to again. and then i learned how to play without alcohol.and then this week I hosted people over for dinner in my apartment for the first time in at least a year, and it was these friends who like me and invite me to things. I'm also learning how to play *this* game with *this* dm, and picking up how the sessions work and what kinds of things are useful and what we actually tend to do. maybe time to reconnect with that emotional spirit of rp as practice vulnerability. okay? okay.
