10 hours ago, scootloops said:

You can only concentrate on one spell/ability at a time. Think of it like trying to solve a really hard math problem with one hand and painting a masterpiece simultaneously with the other.

Well, considering I'm pretty good at math and pretty bad at painting, I would say the results wouldn't change. 🤣

I got the message. I gotta choose.

12 hours ago, Coruja said:

I got a question. Does Favored Foe (optional ranger feature) works with Hunter's Mark (ranger spell)? My main issue is that both say it uses concentration, but are from different sources (feature and spell). The book says I can only have one spell that uses concentration. So it's up to you, @scootloops.

What about my question? Regardless of the answer, the character is done (I think) and ready for inspection.

Description

Physical Description

Sarah is a redheaded woman who dresses in dark leather. Her yellow eyes feel almost supernatural looking. She's average height and weight, never standing from the crowd. She likes to keep her luxurious hair loose under normal circumstances, but tie them back to a knot during a mission.

Personality

Sarah is a victim of tragedy. She experienced pain, desperation, desolation in first degree. There's a kind of trauma you can never overcome, but that you can learn to live around it. She dedicated her life to learn how to face and fight the horrors that inhabit the world so that they could never do harm again. Not on her watch. She does get recognition for her deeds, but that's not what she is after. What drives her is the very existence of evil lurking in every shadow. And perhaps it's more effective to cut it by the roots. That's why she decided to join the company heading west.

Knives

A named person your character cares about, living or dead (e.g. sibling, spouse, childhood friend): The abbot father Jerome.
A phobia or trauma your character has experienced: the hamlet she was born was attacked by undead when she was 5.
A mystery in your character's life (e.g. unknown parents, unexplained powers): parents unkown, but unique eye color runs in the family, probably a family of monster hunters like Castlevania's families (Belmont, Belnades, Danasty ...).
An enemy your character has: Probably a BBEG behind the attack to the hamlet. It was not a random act. They intended on erasing Sarah's family from the living, but she survived. They might be after her. More might have survived too. Or perhaps a parent has been turned vampire? Oh, the irony!
Any discrimination experienced (e.g. fantasy racism): Being a woman isn't easy, specially in medieval times. Even though she is a renowned monster hunter, she usually has to prove who she is to small brained people.
A secret your character is keeping: the source of her fame is a lie, since she didn't kill a vampire or necromancer, but a cursed man.
A vice: Sarah likes to drink heavy and live on today. No strings attached. She can't make sure the people she care about will stay living.

 Backstory

Sarah was born in a peaceful hamlet of no more than 200 people. Everybody knew everybody. There was little to zero criminality and no militia. The hamlet was led by a council of the heads of the five major families. She remembers vaguely her grandmother being one of them. What she trully remembers and keeps to the heart was all the time with her father and mother in the gardens, doing gardening and learning about all kinds of herbs, flowers, fungi, leaves, roots, vines and so on. The colors, shapes and smells engraved deep in her mind, so much that they mix with her very parents faces.

She was only five years old when evil stroke the hamlet. Chaos and fire engulfed the wooden buildings. Screams and smoke traveled through the air, alerting others to the dangers lurking and marching. She remembers seeing her parents arming themselves and giving her to a serf so she could escape. She remembers many known faces being attacked to death, eaten alive, blood spilling. The monsters should be dead, but weren't. The putrid and foul smell was a testimony of the unearthly nature of the attackers. Finally the serf was caught and Sarah fell to the side of the escape road, rolling down a slope in the woods and vanishing from sight.

These faces are now but a blur, a fragment of memory. Her own family name and faces, she has trouble remembering. They are never clear enough to get a picture. She only get glimpses of a stroke of hair, a chin, the sweet smile on her mother's lips, the hardworking hands of her father, but never the whole picture.

Some time later, a pilgrim found the girl. He took her with him and carried her to the Abbey of the Saint Lady Heart. Due to her young age and not remembering her family name, she was baptized as Sarah Heart, after the saint patroness of the abbey. She wasn't the only orphan kid in there. And all kids had to study and to work. In Sarah's case, her liking to the earth made it easier for her to find her fit. She worked the land in the morning and attended school in the afternoon.

But the nightmares wouldn't let her rest. She would countless times wake up in the night screaming. Father Jerome, the abbot, thought carefully about her case, and finally concluded that there was no treatment for her case unless she faced her demons. She was moved from the civilian side of the abbey and into the military side, where the acolites would train. The Abbey of Saint Lady Heart used to brew clerics, paladins and evil hunters alike. Her classes changed to learning about the creatures of the night and how to properly fight them.

The nightmares never really gave away, and eventually she reached an age of rebellion. She couldn't stand it anymore, and despite she was very thankful to all the years and care and teachings at the abbey, she had to leave to breath and live her life. She traveled the land and decided to stay at a small village. She sought work and a place to stay. It wasn't hard considering she was a young pretty woman at the peak of her blossoming. It didn't mean people would do harm to her, but that they would be extra helpful for no reason. Soon she learned that the village was governed by a tyrant at the keep in the hill. The village was also haunted by undead creatures that would raise from time to time. It didn't take much for Sarah to connect the dots, and after defending the folk from some zombies, she dashed to the keep to face the greater evil she thought to be a vampire or a necromancer. She did slay the tyrant noble, but he was neither a vampire nor a necromancer. He was indeed cursed, and by killing him, she cleased the land from the raising of undead. The whole town really thought she fought a vampire lord, a necromancer, and so much more. The truth she kept as a secret.

Now she's a famous monster hunter known by the name Sarah Heart. She's still looking for her family, albeit she doesn't even remember where the hamlet was settled. In the meanwhile, she pursuing the calling to save as many people as she can by preemptively destroying evil wherever it is.

Sarah Heart

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!"

Personal Quest

Monster Slayer. I wish to leave behind a heroic legacy by defeating dread beasts. My personal quest is to slay three of the greatest monsters rumoured to dwell in Drakkenheim, and bring back their heads as trophies. Each must be a notable creature with a challenge rating greater than my own level when I defeat them. My allies can assist me, but I must strike the decisive blow myself!

Traits

 Languages Common, Infernal, Abyssal.

 Detail-Oriented You double your proficiency bonus when making any ability check to search the ruins of Drakkenheim.

Proficiency Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields.
Weapons: simple weapons, martial weapons.
Tools: herbalism kitProficiency with an herbalism kit allows you to identify plants and safely collect their useful elements.

Components. An herbalism kit includes pouches to store herbs, clippers and leather gloves for collecting plants, a mortar and pestle, and several glass jars.

Arcana. Your knowledge of the nature and uses of herbs can add insight to your magical studies that deal with plants and your attempts to identify potions.

Investigation. When you inspect an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details and clues that others might miss.

Medicine. Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds by augmenting your methods of care with medicinal plants.

Nature and Survival. When you travel in the wild, your skill in herbalism makes it easier to identify plants and spot sources of food that others might overlook.

Identify Plants. You can identify most plants with a quick inspection of their appearance and smell.

Herbalism Kit Activity DC
Find plants 15
Identify poison 20, alchemist's suppliesAlchemist's supplies enable a character to produce useful concoctions, such as acid or alchemist's fire.

Components. alchemist's supplies include two glass beakers, a metal frame to hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients, including salt, powdered iron, and purified water.

Arcana. Proficiency with alchemist's supplies allows you to unlock more information on Arcana checks involving potions and similar materials.

Investigation. When you inspect an area for clues, proficiency with alchemist's supplies grants additional insight into any chemicals or other substances that might have been used in the area.

Alchemical Crafting. You can use this tool proficiency to create alchemical items. A character can spend money to collect raw materials, which weigh 1 pound for every 50 gp spent. The DM can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. As part of a long rest, you can use alchemist's supplies to make one dose of acid, alchemist's fire, antitoxin, oil, perfume, or soap. Subtract half the value of the created item from the total gp worth of raw materials you are carrying.

Alchemist's Supplies Activity DC
Create a puff of thick smoke 10
Identify a poison 10
Identify a substance 15
Start a fire 15
Neutralize acid 20, cook's utensilsThese special tools include the items needed to pursue a craft or trade. Proficiency with a set of artisan's tools lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make using the tools in your craft. Each type of artisan's tools requires a separate proficiency.

Adventuring is a hard life. With a cook along on the journey, your meals will be much better than the typical mix of hardtack and dried fruit.

Components. Cook's utensils include a metal pot, knives, forks, a stirring spoon, and a ladle.

History. Your knowledge of cooking techniques allows you to assess the social patterns involved in a culture's eating habits.

Medicine. When administering treatment, you can transform medicine that is bitter or sour into a pleasing concoction.

Survival. When foraging for food, you can make do with ingredients you scavenge that others would be unable to transform into nourishing meals.

Prepare Meals. As part of a short rest, you can prepare a tasty meal that helps your companions regain their strength. You and up to five creatures of your choice regain 1 extra hit point per Hit Die spent during a short rest, provided you have access to your cook's utensils and sufficient food.

Cook's Utensils Activity DC
Create a typical meal 10
Duplicate a meal 10
Spot poison or impurities in food 15
Create a gourmet meal 15.

Healer You are an able physician, allowing you to mend wounds quickly and get your allies back in the fight. You gain the following benefits:
You have advantage on all Wisdom (Medicine) checks. When you expend one use of a healer’s kit to stabilize a dying creature, make a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check. On a successful roll that creature regains 1d6 + your wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus (if you are proficient in medicine) hit points. (If you fail the check the creature is not stabilized.) As an action, you can spend one use of a healer’s kit to tend to a creature that has at least 1 hp, make a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check. On a successful roll that creature regains 1d6 + your wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus (if you are proficient in medicine) hit points + additional hit points equal to the creature’s maximum number of Hit Dice. The creature can’t regain hit points from this feat again until it finishes a short or long rest. You may not do this on yourself.

Favored Foe When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the target as your favored enemy for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can increase that damage by 1d4. You can use this feature to mark a favored enemy a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. This feature's extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level.

Deft Explorer You are an unsurpassed explorer and survivor, both in the wilderness and in dealing with others on your travels. You gain the Canny benefit below, and you gain an additional benefit below when you reach 6th level and 10th level in this class.
Canny Choose one of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen skill. You can also speak, read, and write two additional languages of your choice.

Fighting Style Archery: You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Spellcasting Spell Slots: 1 ■■□
Spells Known: entangleEntangle

1st-level conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Grasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square starting from a point within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

A creature in the area when you cast the spell must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the spell ends. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

When the spell ends, the conjured plants wilt away., hunter's markHunter's Mark

1st-level divination
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You choose a creature you can see within range and mystically mark it as your quarry. Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target whenever you hit it with a weapon attack, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find it. If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to mark a new creature.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd or 4th level, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 8 hours. When you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 24 hours., snareSnare

1st-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: S, M (25 feet of rope, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 8 hours

As you cast this spell, you use the rope to create a circle with a 5-foot radius on the ground or the floor. When you finish casting, the rope disappears and the circle becomes a magic trap.

This trap is nearly invisible, requiring a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC to be discerned.

The trap triggers when a Small, Medium, or Large creature moves onto the ground or the floor in the spell's radius. That creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be magically hoisted into the air, leaving it hanging upside down 3 feet above the ground or the floor. The creature is restrained there until the spell ends.

A restrained creature can make a Dexterity saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Alternatively, the creature or someone else who can reach it can use an action to make an Intelligence (Arcana) check against your spell save DC. On a success, the restrained effect ends.

After the trap is triggered, the spell ends when no creature is restrained by it..
Spellcasting Ability: Wisdom
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus 2 + your Wisdom modifier 2
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus 2 + your Wisdom modifier 2
Spellcasting Focus: You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells. A druidic focus might be a sprig of mistletoe or holly, a wand or rod made of yew or another special wood, a staff drawn whole from a living tree, or an object incorporating feathers, fur, bones, and teeth from sacred animals.

Hunter's Prey Colossus Slayer. Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it's below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

Primal Awareness You can focus your awareness through the interconnections of nature: you learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class if you don't already know them, as shown in the Primal Awareness Spells table. These spells don't count against the number of ranger spells you know.
Primal Awareness Spells
Level    Spell
3rd    speak with animalsSpeak with Animals

1st-level divination (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes

You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the DM's discretion.
5th    beast sense
9th    speak with plants
13th    locate creature
17th    commune with nature
You can cast each of these spells once without expending a spell slot. Once you cast a spell in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Spells

Slots 3.

1st Level

Entangle Conjuration. Casting Time: 1 action. Range: 90 feet. Components: V, S. Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute. Grasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square starting from a point within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain. A creature in the area when you cast the spell must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the spell ends. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself. When the spell ends, the conjured plants wilt away.

Hunter's Mark Divination. Casting Time: 1 bonus action. Range: 90 feet. Components: V. Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour. You choose a creature you can see within range and mystically mark it as your quarry. Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target whenever you hit it with a weapon attack, and you have advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check you make to find it. If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to mark a new creature. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd or 4th level, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 8 hours. When you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 24 hours.

Speak with Animals (Sub-class) Divination (ritual). Casting Time: 1 action. Range: Self. Components: V, S. Duration: 10 minutes. You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. The knowledge and awareness of many beasts is limited by their intelligence, but at minimum, beasts can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the DM's discretion.

Snare Abjuration. Casting Time: 1 minute. Range: Touch. Components: S, M (25 feet of rope, which the spell consumes). Duration: 8 hours. As you cast this spell, you use the rope to create a circle with a 5-foot radius on the ground or the floor. When you finish casting, the rope disappears and the circle becomes a magic trap. This trap is nearly invisible, requiring a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC to be discerned. The trap triggers when a Small, Medium, or Large creature moves onto the ground or the floor in the spell's radius. That creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be magically hoisted into the air, leaving it hanging upside down 3 feet above the ground or the floor. The creature is restrained there until the spell ends. A restrained creature can make a Dexterity saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Alternatively, the creature or someone else who can reach it can use an action to make an Intelligence (Arcana) check against your spell save DC. On a success, the restrained effect ends. After the trap is triggered, the spell ends when no creature is restrained by it.

I got a question. Does Favored Foe (optional ranger feature) works with Hunter's Mark (ranger spell)? My main issue is that both say it uses concentration, but are from different sources (feature and spell). The book says I can only have one spell that uses concentration. So it's up to you, @scootloops.

Allow me to use this for discussion. 😀

5 hours ago, scootloops said:

Crunchy Criticals

When you roll a successful critical strike, instead of doubling the dice, assume maximum damage for the second damage die(s).

When you roll a critical failure on any attack roll, you damage the nearest ally within reach, or yourself if there is no one within reach. For ranged attacks, choose an ally this would reasonably hit based on your line of sight, or yourself if there isn't anyone

NPC's and Monsters follow this rule
 

Example 1:
Your attack does 2d6+4 Damage. On a critical, you roll [2,4] on the d6's, and assume [6,6] for the second roll, totaling 18 on the dice, and 4+4 on damage bonus, for a total of 26

 

Example 2:
Sarah failed her crossbow attack roll, her bolt goes wide and strikes her ally Uzgath, who happens to be in melee with Sarah's target.

I didn't know the flat bonus would double as well. I always thought they wouldn't.

Also if Sarah fails, how much damage does she do to her ally? Same as a normal attack?

4 hours ago, scootloops said:

Wound Points

When an adventurer suffers a major wound, it can sometimes take a lot more than an elixir or a magic wave of the hand to mend it. Wounds impose the same disadvantages as exhaustion, and have the same six point system. They also STACK with exhaustion points, but they are removed differently. Monsters and NPC's also follow this system.

Acquiring Wounds

• If your HP drops below 1/2 of it's maximum between long rests, take a wound point
• If a 1 is rolled on a saving throw, even for INT, WIS, and CHA.
• If an attack roll beats the AC by 10
• If a critical attack does max damage

Removing Wounds

• A healing spell or elixir can be used to remove an injury point, at the expense of regaining lost HP. So you either remove 1 point, or gain the noted HP back. If using an HP pool such as a paladin's Lay On Hands pool, at least 10 points must be spent to remove 1 wound point.
• A full day between long rests where you don't gain any more injury points will remove all wound points acquired.
• Using half your hit dice during a long rest to regain HP will remove 1 point.

I would like to advocate for Lay on Hands to cost only 5, since that's the amount the book already set for other recoveries other than HP.

4 hours ago, scootloops said:

Alternate Hit Dice:

• You may only use 1 hit die to recover HP during a short rest
• You roll your remaining hit dice during a long rest to recover HP, instead of automatically gaining all of it back
• If your roll exceeds your HP max, gain that many temporary HP for the next day, up to a max of 10.

Does long rest recover HP at all? I know the haze is bad, but not sure how bad.

13 hours ago, scootloops said:

d8 roll comes out as a 5, and the extra damage from the critical hit would be max, so 8, for 13 total? I'm okay with that. I'll make a post (eventually)
 

Nailed it.

I like this rule. It's just not clear if it's every 4 levels or every 6 levels. The description says 4 levels, and down the road it says 6 levels.

There's another houserule that I love, called Crunchy Critical. Instead of rolling twice the damage dice, the damage goes as maximum damage plus roll the damage dice once. This avoids you rolling less damage in a critical hit than you roll on a normal hit.

The factions play a crucial role in everything. But we do not need to pick one faction and be married forever and ever.

1 hour ago, scootloops said:

I’m okay with those rules. I’ll make a polls and list one of my other house rules so we can take votes.

this link outlines the healing suggestions from a RAW standpoint and the changes that are made if you have questions about that.

I've read the link. I prefer Chris Perkins' fix. It escalates with wisdom bonus and proficiency instead of a flat +4.

2 hours ago, scootloops said:

I don’t know the term you’re referring to, but I am okay with an alternate healing rules if y’all want a little challenge:

1.) only 1 hit dice allowed during a short rest to recover HP

2.) any # of hit dice can be used for a long rest, you don’t get full HP back automatically.

3.) injury point system (homebrew) makes losing half or more of your HP result in a consequential injury that takes extra care to heal, and imposes a penalty until its healed. If it sounds interesting, I’ll go over the details

Otherwise, fill me in on Der Kluge rules and we’ll see if the group is up for that one

 

Scoot, will you use Der Kluge's healing rules?

Sarah Heart

Variant Human Hunter Ranger 3 | Custom Treasure SeekerSkill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Two tools Alchemist's Supplies, Cook's Utensils

Equipment: A set of artisan's tools (one of your choice, Alchemist's Supplies), a letter of introduction from your guild, a set of traveler's clothes, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp

Treasure Hunters’ Secrets: You carry an old compass that doesn’t point north, you hope it points towards a great treasure.

Personality Trait: If someone is in trouble, I'm always ready to lend help.

Ideal: Respect. People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. (Good) Sincerity. There's no good in pretending to be something I'm not. (Neutral)

Bond: I have a family, but I have no idea where they are. One day, I hope to see them again. I protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Flaw: I have a weakness for the vices of the city, especially hard drink. | Age: 20 | Height: 5' 6" | Weight: 100 lb | Alignment: NG | Inspiration 0d6
StrBonus: +0
Save: +2

+0 Athletics

Carry:
Lift:  10| DexBonus: +3
Save: +5

+5 Acrobatics*
+3 Sleight of Hand
+5 Stealth*

AC: +3
Initiative: +3 16 | ConBonus: +2
Save: +2

HP: +2/die 14 | IntBonus: +1
Save: +1

+1 Arcana
+1 History
+1 Investigation
+1 Nature
+1 Religion 12 | WisBonus: +2
Save: +2

+2 Animal Handling
+4 Insight*
+6 Medicine**
+4 Perception*
+4 Survival* 14 | ChaBonus: -1
Save: -1

-1 Deception
-1 Intimidation
-1 Performance
-1 Persuasion 8 | PB +2 | ACBase: 10
Dex: +3
Armor: +2 15 | HPHit Die: d10
Constitution: +2
Hit Points: 12 + 8 + 8 28/28 | HD 3/3 | Init +3 | PP 14 | Speed 30 ft | DV 0 ft | Coins 181 gp
InventoryBackpack, 5 lb. Bag of Holding, 15 lb (Alchemist's Supplies, Herbalism Kit, Cook's Utensils, Bedroll, Mess kit, Tinderbox, 10 torches, 10 days of rations, Waterskin, 50 feet of hempen rope, Letter of introduction from Saint Lady Heart Abbey, 9 healer's kits). | EquippedLongbow A:+7 D:1d8+3 piercing T:ammunition 40 (150/600 ft), heavy, two-handed

Rapier A:+5 D:1d8+3 piercing T:finesse

Whip A:+5 D:1d4+3 slashing T:finesse, reach

Studded Leather Armor 13 lb, AC 12 + 3 (Dex)

Traveler's clothes, 4 lb

Amulet of Saint Lady Heart, 1 lb

Healer's Kit (10), 3 lb | Favored FoeWhen you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can call on your mystical bond with nature to mark the target as your favored enemy for 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell).

The first time on each of your turns that you hit the favored enemy and deal damage to it, including when you mark it, you can increase that damage by 1d4.

You can use this feature to mark a favored enemy a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

This feature's extra damage increases when you reach certain levels in this class: to 1d6 at 6th level and to 1d8 at 14th level. It works with the Foe Slayer feature. ■□ | Deft ExplorerYou are an unsurpassed explorer and survivor, both in the wilderness and in dealing with others on your travels. You gain the Canny benefit below, and you gain an additional benefit below when you reach 6th level and 10th level in this class.

*Canny*

Choose one of your skill proficiencies (MEDICINE). Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen skill.

You can also speak, read, and write two additional languages of your choice. | Fighting Style*Archery*

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons. | SpellsSpells Known: entangle, hunter's mark, speak with animals, snare.
Spellcasting Ability: Wisdom
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus 2 + your Wisdom modifier 2
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus 2 + your Wisdom modifier 2 1 ■■□ | Hunter's Prey*Colossus Slayer*. Your tenacity can wear down the most potent foes. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, the creature takes an extra 1d8 damage if it's below its hit point maximum. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn. | Primal AwarenessYou can focus your awareness through the interconnections of nature: you learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class if you don't already know them, as shown in the Primal Awareness Spells table. These spells don't count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Primal Awareness Spells
Level Spell
3rd speak with animals
5th beast sense
9th speak with plants
13th locate creature
17th commune with nature

You can cast each of these spells once without expending a spell slot. Once you cast a spell in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. ■

Description. Thoughts "Speech."

That's great! I think I have already settled my character.

Race: Dhampir (if everyone is okay with it, else human). I'll have to go with human because of the feat. I'll take Healer this time to help healing, since healing is a critical factor in the city.

Class: Hunter Ranger.

Personal Quest: Monster Slayer (we can keep this a secret from each other, but I think we should be open with each other for better bounding and fun).

Background: Treasure Seeker, Soldier of Fortune.

That's a nice pick! I'm looking forward the Treasure Seeker variant Soldier of Fortune. That aligns with my monster hunter concept.

I hope to help you guys by sharing this bit of common knowledge about Drakkenheim's backgrounds. There are quite a ton of videos explaining a lot of things regarding Drakkenheim.

Appendix F: Character Backgrounds

Many types of Adventurers travel to the ruins of Drakkenheim in hopes of uncovering things once lost. Whatever their call to the city may be, there is a chance that their history is ripe with danger. Some have colourful pasts that have readied them for the dangers ahead, some have crimes and mistakes they seek to hide from in the ruins, and others are bound to those who fight for what’s left of the crumbling empire.

Continental Nobility

Mageborn

Devoted Missionary

Survivor

Treasure Seeker

Also about the setting, Drakkenheim comes from tyranny of the arcane spellcasters. That left the people suspicious of arcane magic, and ensued magic regulation under the control of a faction.

Will we take on this approach? How about backgrounds? Continental nobility, treasure seeker, and so on?

7 hours ago, PureChance said:

As in just the favoured enemy & favoured terrain you mean? Compared to favoured foe and deft explorer?

I agree the latter are more generically useful. I still think there's a place for the former options depending on the campaign and story style, but that requires a degree of cooperation with the GM. Especially for the favoured terrain as exploration is often a pillar that gets glossed over, especially with all the features that trivialise surviving the wilds (looking at you Outlander background, and to a lesser extent Goodberry). For it to be a fun feature I think it needs to have up and downtime, anything that's permanently on risks being forgotten rather than being "aha, my character has got this!"

In general though, I'd agree putting the usefulness of a feature in the hands of the GM rather than the player is poor design.

As for favoured enemy Vs favoured foe, I think the former has way more flavour, but again requires some kind of cooperation with the GM to make sure you're not picking something useless

I completely agree with you. But even Favored Enemy, the usefulness is not all that good. Favored Foe has a lot more mechanical impact. In the case of my own character, I can keep it delicious, full of flavor, because she's some kind of monster hunter, and she focus on each enemy she's facing at a time, recollecting information about them and preparing specifically for them.

4 hours ago, scootloops said:

Okay, so it sounds like we're gonna go with Drakkenheim. If we want to do the whole thing, it's gonna be a long commitement which I'm down for. But we can probably do a few of the dungeon areas and cover a few level ups and then part if keeping this going for super long isn't working for anyone.

We'll take a few weeks to level up your PC's to L3 or rebuild entirely at L3 if you wish. I'll re-list the game so we can try and fill out six spaces as I feel thats a good number for groups.

So far, @Coruja @8w_gremlin @KingGoblin @Passione and @morgan_ are on board (did I get those all correct?)

Character recreation guidelines: Sources allowed are Core, Tashas, Xanathars, and the Drakkenheim sourcebook (I'll post a link to a players guide for that)
I know it can be a chore to recreate a PC for a different class and shift to a new game after getting started, so I really appreciate you for going with the flow on this one. Y'all are good writers so I hope I can do you justice for the future.

Gimme the weekend to rejigger the game layout so it's less complicated. I'll start a new thread for Drakkenheim PC's, and get the advertising listed up on Monday if we want to add a sixth player, or if someone listed above needs to jet.

Again, thanks for all your patience as we work through this. @Aspekt still hasn't even logged in since March 12 according to their profile, so I'm hoping everything is alright with them and they just had to cool off of the games or something like that.
 

I assume you are going to start a new game of your own, instead of trying to keep using this one. I'm eager to get the invitation. We are already 5 people. Do you really feel like having a sixth person?

About my character, I would like to keep the whole backstory, but I would like to check my options regarding class and subclass. I'll keep the monster hunter theme in mind.

43 minutes ago, PureChance said:

What don't you like about it out of interest?

Things are either very situational or outright useless. I prefer the variants. They are more versatile in order to help the group.

12 hours ago, KingGoblin said:

Looks like the drake thing is most popular. I would be fine trying that. Although a dungeon crawl makes me wonder if my character fits any more.

It's preferred to keep the characters, but scoot already said it's fine to either fine tune them or change them completely.

I myself would like to tweak or change it. I don't like vanilla ranger.

Sarah Heart

Variant Human Hunter Ranger 2 | Coins 99 gp 5 sp 3 cp
HP 20/20 | AC 15 | Init +3 | PP 14 | Speed 30 ft | DV 0 ft
Hand Crossbow A:+7 D:1d6+3 piercing T:ammunition 36 (30/120 ft.), light, loading
Rapier A:+5 D:1d8+3 piercing T:finesse Whip A:+5 D:1d4+3 slashing T:finesse, reach
Inspiration 0d6 | Spells 1 ■□ | Cart cart, 2 mules, 2 barrels of water, 6 gallons of ale, 1 bottle of common wine, 10 hunk of cheese, 3 two-person tent, 20 day animal feed.

They had finished the three threats. "Nice one, guys! Almost no injury on our side. We are doing great! Let's check the perimeter first, and deal with the corpses. We should also call for their mayor, or whatever they have for it. Looks like Mosswood is but the tip of the iceberg. We should reconvene back at the Eagles HQ and report. There might be more ahead of us ..."

To be continued ...

So far this is what we get. @scootloops, you can paste it on your first post, first page, for easy access.

1 hour ago, 8w_gremlin said:

I kind of know those people, I've roleplayed and larpped with some of them. They are from Auckland, New Zealand.

That's amazing! I follow them since forever and love their videos. The series Epic NPC Man and Bored are priceless. I wish I could meet them, but I live quite far away.

I think you guys would like to see this too. XD

I wold pick either Grendelroot, Arcane Library, or Drakenheim.