Character Creation Thread

[Kramerman]

oh, i need to add my god, heironious (SP?)

oh, and will the DM allow mounted characters? and if you do, would this be apporpriate for the campaigns?

[Kramerman]

oh yeah, and did anyone reply to me on how tower shields are going to work? i had some questions about that earlier, adn dont recall a response

[The Mad Monk]

From what Victor said about rangers and druids, I suspect this will start off as a urban campaign. Mounted combat might be difficult.

[Jon Miller]

questions for victor

which comes first?? the picking the class or picking the feat (can I pick lightning reflexs and than artificer at level 3??)

also, can I save some of my skill points now to spend later? (like when I am a wizard)

Jon Miller

[Bookwyrm]

Picking the class you level up in is the first thing you do when you earn a new level, and all skill points must be spent immediately. These rulings are what the prestige classes in any official WotC product, and all the unofficial 3rd party products which pay attention to the rules, were designed for. You're not supposed to be able to take a prestige class earlier than your sixth level, though there are a few exceptions where the designer's broke this rule, iirc.

[Jon Miller]

I can deffinitely take the artificer class by level 4

at least as far as requirements go

thanks for telling me, I guess it will be at level 4

Jon Miller

[Bookwyrm]

Actually, you definitely need 5 levels in basic classes before you'll be able to be an artificer. One of the requirements is 8 ranks in your choice of several craft skills. Max ranks in a class skill is 3 + level, therefore you'll need five levels to get eight ranks, and, as I said, you have to choose your class before doing anything else when you level up.

[Jon Miller]

you can get skill focus

that gives you increased ranks

Jon Miller

[The Mad Monk]

That's true -- but is it worth the trade off? You've already sacrificed ability points to maximise skills (a choice I certainly considered); do you really want to burn those precious feats just to become the world's lowest level articifer?

[Bookwyrm]

No, skill focus gives you a bonus to skill checks, ranks are purchased with skill points and skill points alone.

[Jon Miller]

you are required to spend feats on skill focuses to become an artificer (namely craft focus)

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

hmm, in that case I may change things a bit

I may start out a wizard instead of a rogue (probably will in fact)

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

actually, yah, I think you are right

now I have to think a bit (whether to still go rogue/illusionist or just illusionist)

Jon Miller

[The Mad Monk]

Why waste the huge skill boost? Stick with rogue.

[Jon Miller]

Character

My character will be a Wizard(illusionist)\Gnome Artificer (the gnome artificer is a prestige class open only to gnomes and humans from Lantan)

'Tarna' (after my brother's girlfriend who I think has a cool name)
Human Female Wizard (Illusionist)
Neutral Good
17 years 2 months
5 foot even, 95 pounds
Level 1

Str 10
Dex 14, +2 missile, +2 AC, +2 Reflex Save
Con 14, 6 hp, +6 per level, +2 Fort Save
Int 18, 28 Skill Points, +7 per Level
Wis 10, +2 Will Save
Cha 8, -1 Modifier

Skill Ranks Cost
Alchemy 2 2
Craft (Weaponmaking) 8 4
Craft (Armorsmithing) 4 4
Craft (Metalworking) 4 4
Profession (Apocrathy) 4 4
Knowledge (Architecture) 4 4
Knowledge (Engineering) 4 4
Appraise 3 2

Feats:
Skill Focus: Metalworking +2 to craft metalworking
Mercantile Background +2 to appraise and craft Metalworking
Scribescroll (?)

prohibited spell schools are necromancy and divination

Equipment: (120 GP)

Dagger, punching (2 of them) cost 4 GP 4 lb
Crossbow, Heavy cost 50 GP 9 lb
Bolts, crossbow (10) (x6) cost 6 GP 6 lb
Artisan's Outfit cost 1 GP 4 lb
Spellbook, wizards (blank) cost 15 GP 3 lb
Artisan's Tools cost 5 GP 5 lb
Book on Artificers (Lantan) cost? probably 3 lb
Backpack cost 2 GP 2lb
Bedroll cost 1 SP 1 lb
Blanket, winter cost 5 SP 3 lb
Ink cost 8 GP
Inkpen cost 1 SP
Flint and Steel cost 1 GP
Paper (10 sheets) cost 4 GP
Lamp, common cost 1 SP 1 lb
Sack (2) cost 2 SP 1 lb
Rope, hemp cost 1 GP 10 lb

left 22 GP and 1 SP (an additional 10 GP if I get an outfit for free)

Armor is 12, speed is 30 ft/s

Worships Gond.

Speaks Lantanese among other languages (alphabet is Draconic).

Has large Green Eyes, Copper Hair, and Parchment-colored Skin.

Tarna was always a tinkerer with different gadjets and intended to follow her father's footsteps in becoming an artificer all her life. Well read and studied, she developed a strange wish to see what the other artificers of the world (the gnomes) were doing, right in the midst of her studies. She left on a merchant ship from Lantan and made her way to that cernter of learning, Waterdeep.

She intends to Study Illusion for a time (5 levels) and than follow the path of the Artificer.

spells will be picked later

Jon Miller
(I will probably edit skills a bit also)