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New player here

Farr1s 05 Nov 2011 01:30

Hello I am a new player and while I have played D&D with my friends a couple times I am completely inexperienced at playing online so any tips would be appreciated. This looks like a great community and I am excited to get started but it does seem a little intimidating for someone with such limited experience and any help would go a long way.

Re: New player here

Gribel 05 Nov 2011 01:41

I'd sugest asking for help with a build before creating a character, as people optimize quite a bit here. Brilliant Gameologists is a great board to get such help, but since it is down atm, I'll gladly lend you help here, as will other people, I'm sure.

This is my first time playing online aswell and I must say, it is quite simple and fun. The interfaces we use are very intuitive, you should have no problem adapting.

Re: New player here

Farr1s 05 Nov 2011 04:21

At the moment I am just focused on learning the more nuts and bolts of using this wiki format to make a page for my character etc. As far as character creation goes I am interested in playing a fighter or maybe a rogue that has a duelist type of flavor using a rapier, any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Re: New player here

(account deleted) 05 Nov 2011 04:44

tome of battle classes do melee better than base classes. They are also harder to play imho. If you want to be a fighter type here…Druid+natural spell at 5th level and you are done with the build.

Re: New player here

Duralan 05 Nov 2011 04:47

Greetings fellow player.
If you are really into a duelist-flavored character with some scoundrelish flavor… Well a mix of Warblade/Rogue or Warblade/Swordsage would suffice I guess (do not bother taking the duelist prc). Feel free to PM or something or make a new topic on the forums.

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Re: New player here

Ichai 05 Nov 2011 06:13

I would strongly suggest a rogue-type PC. A swashbuckler is very easy to start out with for new players, and has some good survivability, without requiring intimate knowledge of the system. If you don't want to do that, there's a number of other classes that are good starters. Off the top of my head, I'd suggest Ranger, Rogue, Barbarian, or Hexblade.

Re: New player here

(account deleted) 05 Nov 2011 09:21

I'd link you to the tiers for classes, but BG is down. Regardless, if you want to fill a single role, consider that alot of characters here and classes in general just do everything better than the rest.

Fighter, Rogue, and especially duelist prc are considered weak.

druid/wizard/cleric/artificer are considered the tops.

The middles are the splat book classes when wotc started to understand their own system and are my preferred classes.

These are the tome of battle classes for fighters. Might want to brush up on that pdf as it is pure gold imho.

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Re: New player here

Farr1s 05 Nov 2011 10:07

Well Cleric was going to be my second choice so I think maybe I will give that a whirl. Can anyone give me any pointers on how I create a page for my character after I finish building him? I tried clicking edit to see how the pages were formatted and the amount of brackets and slashes and whatnot were a little overwhelming.

Re: New player here

Ichai 05 Nov 2011 13:33

Easy way is to just copy the source from Bill's template character, and edit it to fit.
And cleric is an excellent choice. It's an easy class to learn with, just don't pigeonhole yourself into a healer role. (You can do that in your spare time with spontaneous casting, so take spells that let you kick ass!)

Re: New player here

Kajhera 05 Nov 2011 13:55

… Hurrah, we will have a cleric again! :) Welcome aboard.

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