<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=269768.msg13301176#msg13301176">Quote from: greenknight on 25-06-2017, 23:03:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Are the character options from Curse of Strahd available? I think both of my options could use that background.<br/><br/>I need some help from the collective. Both character ideas use the Haunted One background from Curse of Strahd (http://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/DND/CoS_Character_Options.pdf). I need some help working out what classes best represent them.<br/><br/>The first, the son of a woodcutter, was raised by hag. He came back out of the swamp haunted by the experience and carrying an axe. He's also the bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks fathers keep their daughters away from and daughters sneak away to see. Key points: Charisma, enough fightiness to make daddy back off, an axe, pale. My initial thought was some combination of barbarian and bard, perhaps even all one or the other, but I'm also leaning toward an ancients paladin. Fighty, charisma based, aligned against fey and fiend; I'm just not sure the broody haunted one works for the "light and joy" aspect of the oath.<br/><br/>The second is haunted by his upbringing as the twisted child of a servant in a noble house with dark secrets. Maybe more rumors than secrets. The first question is whether or not he embraces his role as the monster. I see him as a martial character, either as a barbarian due to profound anger management issues from his haunting or a fighter, perhaps another half-orc eldritch knight based on learning more about the horrors his house inflicted on its people. As far as his half-orc-ness, I'm taking the tack Sword and Sorcery used with calibans for their Ravenloft license (https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Caliban#In_Ravenloft) in the 3e era. Essentially, their Ravenloft had no orcs and the race was re-skinned as children twisted in the womb by foul magics. Same stats, different origins; think Quasimodo or Igor, maybe even the albino.<br/><br/>Which would you rather play with, the pretty, pale sweet-talker or the smart but brutish tank? <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Personally, I really like the first concept. To me, it just fits so perfectly in a gothic setting without being, well, too... monstrous, I suppose?<br/><br/>As for a class, you might want to take a look at Oath of Trickery actually. Sounds more up your speed than the Oath of the Ancients, I think.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=269768.msg13302187#msg13302187">Quote from: Kathyan on 26-06-2017, 05:59:21</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hey everyone, I'm almost finished with my character. I might have to redo a few details to her backstory since she's a character I made for another game (Wispyr's Shadowlight RP) and I'm just adjusting her and still have to think about some superstitions as well. By the way I'll be playing a charlatan warlock bard with a like for switching disguises quite often.<br/>(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/7a/02/74/7a02743dc3e0ea18333c1d1df6a52ae2.jpg)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I really like the picture. Zatanna AND tentacles  :D What are you going with re: levels? More of a bard, or more of a warlock? :) As a fellow warlock I'm quite curious!