More About Celedras [gaming]

[the_gneech]

I posted some thoughts about Celedras' writeup and his potential future development on the ENWorld boards and (aside from some snide remarks from the "You dare multiclass? Rules rapist!!!" crowd) got some interesting suggestions.

My current favorite (which actually I thought up during the course of conversation) was customizing Celedras' Ranger class so that it loses the Favored Enemy bonus in return for getting Evasion sooner and gaining Balance and Tumble as class skills; another option is using the optional Wild Cohort feat from the WotC site in order to keep Hyzenthlay on board and going pure Scout a la the Melfaeren writeup I did the other day. That would burn up feats quickly, tho, as he'd have to take Track, Two-Weapon Fighting, and Wild Cohort in order to retain his most important Ranger abilities.

The final option that appeals to me is making Celedras a Wood Elf, instead of a High Elf as he is now. That would require juggling his stats a bit (as Wood Elves get +2 Str, -2 Int), but it would give him Ranger as his favored class.

I'll chat w/ jamesbarrett about it and see if he has any input.

-The Gneech

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Huh? When did multiclassing become a bad thing? Its not bad, its called 'diversity'! I like multiclassing, because thieves are ok, but sometimes you really need a few more hitpoints with a few levels in fighter. And a larger weapon selection too. ^_^

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Well, there is a certain school of thought that holds that it is somehow always preferable to pick a single class (or one or two classes) and stick with it, rather than to spread out over a variety of classes. I think the main argument is that many classes are heavily "front-loaded," and so you get all the goodies of a class in the first few levels.

This was occasionally true in 3.0, particularly in regards to the ranger and the barbarian; but it is patently false in 3.5 (and one of the major things they worked to change in the revision).

-The Gneech

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, I was about to say... I was just curious. I mean, most of the uber cool stuff comes later on with classes now. I mean, multi-classed mages are especially Underpowered with spells unless you've got overlapping spells and what not. Oh, anyways, yeah, don't listen to the nay sayers. Go for it!

Kind of OT

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I prefer the Spycraft system to d20 Modern is, I hate being this shallow, that the names for the classes are just so bland in Modern. Fast Hero? Tough Hero? Charismatic Hero? Just doesn't have the ring of such greats as D&D's Paladin and Ranger or Spycraft's Soldier and Infiltrator, or Star Wars' Fringer or Noble. No point I guess, just needed to get it off my chest.