Comments | ambersknave: D&D 4th Edition

ambersknave

D&D 4th Edition

May 29, 2008 19:15

I might get a chance to play in a the new module Keep on the Shadowfell, so the DM asked about a character concept. Dashed off between calls at work today, I present
( Riardon Rimer, Eladrin Rogue )

Comments 3

joannahurley May 30 2008, 17:51:00 UTC

Just....don't ask me to proofread for you (my style is simple...yours is not). :)

Seriously, though, it sounds like a good background. I'm sort of kicking around a knight errant type character. Among other things, I want to find out if paladins still have to be lawful good. Lawful gets you into trouble in D&D. Also realized I have never played a dwarf in D&D, just in Shadowrun, so that's another piece of the puzzle. I tend to wait to see what's not in the party yet, though.

ambersknave May 31 2008, 12:17:03 UTC

Nope, you can play an unaligned paladin even... You just have to match your diety's alignment.

Yeah, that second paragraph sucks. Like I said, it was slap-dash junk between calls here. Needs a serious rewrite.

I too normally wait and see what the party has and tries to balance, so I get it. I'm thinking Eladrin Rogue (Martial Striker). Dwarven Paladin fills the Divine Defender role, which would leave us needing a Controller (Wizard), and a Leader (Cleric or Warlord), and preferrably a second Defender(Fighter since you'd be our paladin, and who needs two of those?)... Although we could substitute another Striker (Ranger or Warlock) if we get all the other roles filled.

As I mentioned on the Y!Group, I'm fairly easy. I've a Human Warlord floating around in my head if we don't get someone interested in the Leader role. And that's a misnomer of sorts, Leader character role doesn't translate to party leader.

Revision1 ambersknave May 31 2008, 12:47:59 UTC

The thick black smoke hung about the tower's base like a rust monster to a paladin's plated mail. Even as it burned, it was a beautiful sight, heartbreakingly so for young Riardon. The alchemical workroom of Hadarai Firehand was well warded against such accidents, but not against his own young son's curiosity and mischief. The chance that an eladrin of Riardon's age might successfully liberate such volatile arcane solutions from the top tower room only to clumsily spill his great treasure on the displacer beast rug in the foyer seemed unlikely. Years later on his first return to Avaellor since the tragedy he would argue with his father that he did not seen the rug that morning and besides that, it was not there when he first came down the stairs, and question how he should have known that the fire would spread so quickly ( ... )