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Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

Also, on the Racial Feats since someone asked me about them in a PM;

the Racial Feats are intended to be baked in goals to mechanically represent a cultural heritage. An incentive for a player to pursue race-appropriate goals- though I gave ample room for deviants in each race to exist.

Things like that are just easy little GM tools; usually players will make their characters and go ‘I want to achieve this tangible goal’ and it makes planning simpler for a DM.

Nobody will begin eligible for their Feat, and on the Storied Road and Journey of Du’Eld ones I will elaborate on those tasks alongside my brief language primer and game-start scenario. Those two have very specific requirements, whereas the others are more ambiguous or situational.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

Honestly I hadn’t thought about the starting equipment for a Behemoth; for the most part just disregard it since you can approximate the gear as desired. Unless you specifically want the flavor of Behemoth Barding you don’t even need to take the chain mail unless you want to.

The holy symbol is somewhat important unless you’re going for ‘Oath driven’ rather than ‘religious’ stylisms (which is fine, if so just reflavor it as a symbol of oath; like an oath of conquest might have the Clawed Amulet of Tyrania as an example).

The various packs can all be explained as having pouches in your body to function as backpacks and whatnot; why shouldn’t a Behemoth be able to carry things, after all? Kangaroos can, fantasy chimera nomads can too.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

That sounds good to me; In my mind the Noctem were definitely on that edge of ‘gypsy performers’ and ‘respected historians’, so a bladesinger makes perfect sense.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

They are able to be assigned as you desire, not in-order. Fair question!

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

@XxFellsingxX

Absolutely. I made six races, so six is my soft cap before I have to start thinking.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

As an update for future information; I do need to do a brief section on Languages as well as the proper game-start scenario. It seems folks are interested in this! Goodie goodie.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

@karamonnom Total adds to 68, so feel free to do so if you want; with a feat you can still reach 20 dexterity with that set though (15 +4 racial mod + 1 from a relevant feat), and placing the 13 in wisdom to give it your racial’s other +1 would give you an AC of 17 to start out. You’d just be struggling in other categories, likely strength and charisma/intelligence. So in terms of what a Monk ‘needs’ to do you can excel, but you may suffer in other ways with two negative mods.

In short; rerolling all could definitely give you a better spread, and being four points lower than average can be a drag if you’re not keen on being a weaker link/playing a flawed character.

@Vertigo As for you, that’s a perfect spread for someone like me lmao.

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I will definitely continue to do so; it has been a fun experiment for me and has lead to rather fulfilling characters and situations. I’m now of the mind that fantasy really is enriched by having music in it, even if it can stand on its feet without it.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

10) We will begin the game at level 3, but be absolutely blitzing our way through the low tiers. Your characters are competent adventurers at the get-go.

Aesithas, a D&D 5e Experiment by Fading Memory

@karamonnom This is my first time running a D&D game on a forum, so we can both learn together.

@Guardian Angel Haruki lightning fast response person rolls hot dice, I dig it.