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thoughts on the initial c3 character pitches?? — bevthefifth

!!! okay so. I love a lot of the ideas they brought up. jake's character seems like fun, I love him having a coddling overprotective family - loved the way Jake played hardwon's relationship with Lydia and I'm really hoping he'll go for a full mama's boy. originally I was kinda skeptic of playing an icy elderitch knight since iirc they don't have that many icy spells but you can def reflavor some stuff, plus they have so few spells anyways that it really doesn't matter. also whole the name calder is v cool it's also gonna be so fucking confusing I'm kinda hoping he'll change it.

Caldwell seems to be the most excited abt Astral self monk (understandable) and if he goes for grung playing a monk would be v fun with the poison, but I have to say I am kinda rooting for him to go for bard. like my personal bard caldwell agenda aside, if caldwell plays a monk it means emily is the only one with any healing capability which really restricts her in combat, plus there's been a lot of situations in the past where they would've been absolutely fucked if only one person had healing capabilities, so I just feel like it's better for the party composition. that being said I would love him either way, I fucking love monks so much.

emily's characters were all v fun (of course) but I really am rooting for the rainy eladrin. the bard paladin build is fun and I love the character concept but i agree with murph and emily that it doesn't make as much sense narratively. the rainy eladrin who got dumped and has a duck following her feels so classic emily and I would love to see that so much! I do hope murph and emily find some alternative wild magic surge tables if she goes for this character and build, I love wild magic sorcerers so much flavor wise but the table is so underwhelming and I know murph said they feel like they've already seen it all with d20, but there are some interesting alternatives online that I think could solve that. I really like the idea of her swapping subclasses when she changes seasons, that's just v fun and I did spend a lot of time today just looking at sorcerer and cleric subclasses to see which ones work well together.

I'm also really happy they're starting out all knowing each other! whenever they've done it before it lead to some truly great party dynamics (trinyvale, hexbuds, bon freres) and it allows them to get right into the adventure. idk I'm just v excited abt this campaign in general and I trust that it'll be as fun as always