Evaluate this Party (newbie in 3E rules)

[Ulfgar Prigor]

Originally Posted by Jedi_Sauraus

I was going to take Discipline for the added will save, but If I'm going to get only 1 feat per 4 levels it's a luxury I can't afford. The reason I like high will saves is because the one thing I hate is when I get disabled in anyway. I mean fail a reflex save you take more form a fireball, fail a will save and your essentially out of that fight.

JS

If your sorceror is of lawful good alignment, you can improve all of her saving throws in one fell swoop by taking one level of paladin, and thus obtaining the benefit of Divine Grace (charisma bonus added to all saving throws).

[Aerich]

But if you do that, the sorc is less effective as a (paid) diplomat.

[Claudius]

I would try a drow Barbarian but it makes no roleplaying sense. Drow are usually wizardz clerics of Lolth or fighters. A Barbarian is a steeled warrior type who lived his whole life in the extremely harsh frozen north and gained his skills from fighting random things, as opposed to being taught in a school as Drow are. Maybe I'm being to picky

Yeah I think so too but once had a party with 1 page stories for each. One character was a drow barbarian who had to escape his city due to politics...
He lived as a barbarian (which I interpreted as just a beserking warrior NOT a tribesman) in the wastes of the underdark and escaped to the surface after a stint as a duergar owned slave (part of the story of how the characters met eachother)..the black raven monastery was used as a waypoint and they advised he go to the surface with the others suggesting Targos. I think one of my characters starts as a monk and one as a deep gnome merchant. Forget the whole story...

He was a powerful barbarian by the way!!!

claudius

Edit: now that I recall it correctly he didn't learn his 'rage' ability in the wild of the underdark he was actually promptly captured by duergar. He learned it in an arena as a pitfighter. He was neutral evil and used halberds

[Jedi_Sauraus]

Well here's another progress update to keep the thread going

I have just managed to free Shaengarn bridge successfully, man o man does the difficulty keep increasing exponentially ?? That was one hell of a fight for a level 4 team. I can see now why many of you urged me to power-play ??

Strangly enough, contrary to what many of you said, my Ranger is one of my most powerfull chars. I've got him dual wielding a dagger and a short sword and he's routinly doing 6-10 dmg wth only 10 in STR his charm animal ability is extremely usefull and has turned the tide in many fights. He also seems to attack faster, probably due to dual wielding. (Drow 10,20,14,14,12+1,10)

I've also noticed the game has some rather nasty bugs. After leaving the Bridge area, I came back into it because I wanted to find a direct route to Targos, suddenlly the map had changed and the bridge is now gone ????
Although I was sure I managed to save it in time. I go to town talk to the mayor and I can only tell him I'm still working on the quest. I reloaded a quicksave that I made just after I finished the fight..... It turns out I needed to slaughter some poor wild cat that my ranger charmed. Apperantly he was responsible for destroying the bridge and keeping me from getting my journal entry. After killing the cat in cold blood (it wouldn't even defend itself) I was able to report full success.

Anyway off to the Goblin Fortress tommorow!!

Oh 1 more thing, what are the most usefull enemies to take as favoured enemies for a Ranger ?? I have Orcs so far I'm thinking undead will come next since it's a broad category ????

[kmonster]

Most useful favoured enemies are goblins. But if the first chapter is over when you ranger reaches level 5 you'd better take something else. Since you already have orcs I'd say take undead followed by yuan-ti.

[Claudius]

At level 5 I would consider taking trolls. There are a lot of them..Goblins would be good for the warrens but then there aren't too many after that.

claudius

[Jedi_Sauraus]

I think I'll take Trolls then Yuanti. Goblins aren't much of a challange for a wizard with fireball. heck goblins are no challange whatsoever, I cut straight through them at level 1. Undead can probably be handled by a single-class cleric which I have