Advise me about a new party, please...

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The strange thing is that I have my monk26/fighter4 Sfirvneblin solo tank on my computer... as my characters got lost my first party on my new system consisted of:
Half-orc barbarian20/fighter10
Shield Dwarf Battleguard of Tempus30
Human Ranger5/Fighter10/Rogue15
Drow Sorcerer30

I wonder what to pick next. Any advises thoughts and etc. I would like to test something different with this scheme - tank, healer/helptank, scout/decoy and exterminator...?

 

I don't understand you fully. Do you actually want to run through the game with level 30 characters and therefore not a single level-up during a roleplaying game?

 

Perhaps he already finished the game?

 

yep, I already finished the game... Sorry for the inconvenience.... I want to try new party.

 

Try something different then, like a Druid or Bard.

 

You could come up with a theme for your party. Maybe all-humans or all-sorcerers or something... It might be fun to roleplay.
Druids and Bards can be very good. I'm currently playing with a Druid(15)/Fighter(4)/Barbarian(3) (has multiclassing penalty) and a Cleric(11)/Bard(11) and it's pretty much fun.

 

Have you tried the "UPP"?

- Shield Dwarf Fighter-4/Barbarian
- Shield Dwarf Cleric of Tempus
- Human Cleric of Lathander
- Drow Rogue-1/Conjurer
- Human Sorcerer
- Aasimar Sorcerer

If you go through the game in both modes with this party it would be interesting to read what you thought.

 

The UPP is quite boring I found, the lack of RPing is depressing, then again I am a hardcore RPer. My advice is just solo the game, it will make you quite well versed in it's ways. But don't use a mellee character use a mage or sorceror or something weak. Mage with Greatswords is nice to have, using mine right now.

 

A mage with Greatswords?

 

Probably stands just behind the tank and swings harder when out of useful spells.
And why is it difficult to think of a mage using weapons in IWD II? Mine uses flails

Edit:
Just noticed, SOLO!
How?

[ August 25, 2004, 06:29: Message edited by: Shrikanth ]

 

A flail is quite different from a greatsword. I don't have issues with mages using flails (sort of takes me back to old school FF when black mages could use whips). A single class mage using a greatsword though? As a hardcore RPer I would definitely question that.

If I was DMing 3E, which I don't, and one of my players came to me with something like that, they'd better have a damn good explanation for it. Or at least do some good fast-talking. ;_;

In my eyes RP is not trying out wacky things for the sake of it (although that can be fun too), it's coming up with plausible motivations and explanations for *why* a character would do such a thing. The majority of single class mages simply wouldn't have the strength to lift a greatsword, much less wield it to great effect. And the average mage wouldn't want to, I believe--most of the single class mages I have played think hand-to-hand melee combat is crass and the tool of mental incompetents, only to be used as a last resort. Of course, you might not have the average mage--maybe his mother was a blacksmith or a great warrior who made him learn swordplay, kinda like how many people irl force their kids to take piano. I dunno. ^^; I really don't see it as plausible, though. YMMV of course.

Now, if we were talking a fighter/mage, this argument flies out the window. The fighter/mage in my group uses greatswords almost exclusively, as they are sort of his signature weapon.

 

How about a "David and Goliath" match? Play with a Halfling Rogue who's only weapon is a sling.