A Couple of Questions

[aradan]

Hello all

I was looking into trying a new Role Playing PW that was CEP, and saw yours on the vault.

But I am not familiar with the Forgotten Realms setting, and so just had a couple of quick questions to help me with starting my character off on the right foot so to speak. My Characters name is Aradan Baseborn, and you can find his bio in forums. My question is what area should I hail from, as reflected in my bio (a peaceful area, but not too far away from orcish incursions)? Also, my phenotype will be pale skin, blond hair, 5' 10", blue eyes...so what people should I pick? Maybe inane questions, but I want to start out right, and I noticed that right off the bat I have to pick a starting location, so to speak.

My intention with this character is to become a Paladin of Tyr, and possibly a Weapon Master of the Bastard Sword...which he will relate to because of his name as I see it. But I want to RP his assumtion of his religious beliefs and class...no one starts out as a Paladin without training as an acolyte as well as squire, in my opinion. Any ideas where this would best be sought out? I would assume stay away from the evil areas...but it is a huge world Is one area better than another in this regard? And lastly, are there holy guilds that take on and mentor prospective Pallys?

Thanks for your help in advance, all

Aradan Baseborn

[Munroe]

aradan said:

Hello all

I was looking into trying a new Role Playing PW that was CEP, and saw yours on the vault.

But I am not familiar with the Forgotten Realms setting, and so just had a couple of quick questions to help me with starting my character off on the right foot so to speak. My Characters name is Aradan Baseborn, and you can find his bio in forums. My question is what area should I hail from, as reflected in my bio (a peaceful area, but not too far away from orcish incursions)? Also, my phenotype will be pale skin, blond hair, 5' 10", blue eyes...so what people should I pick? Maybe inane questions, but I want to start out right, and I noticed that right off the bat I have to pick a starting location, so to speak.

My intention with this character is to become a Paladin of Tyr, and possibly a Weapon Master of the Bastard Sword...which he will relate to because of his name as I see it. But I want to RP his assumtion of his religious beliefs and class...no one starts out as a Paladin without training as an acolyte as well as squire, in my opinion. Any ideas where this would best be sought out? I would assume stay away from the evil areas...but it is a huge world Is one area better than another in this regard? And lastly, are there holy guilds that take on and mentor prospective Pallys?

Thanks for your help in advance, all

Aradan Baseborn

This is primarily a response to your second paragraph. Paladins in Forgotten Realms have limited multi-classing options by which deity they serve. Tyr's paladins may only multi-class as clerics, fighters, and divine champions so a paladin/weapon master of Tyr would be out. As for starting out as a paladin, no one starts out at level 1 in any class and it can be assumed that a character has at least enough training to reach level 1 in a base class at character creation. That is to say, a level 1 paladin has received enough training to become a paladin at level 1. The way I was reading what you were saying, it sounded like you were saying you intended to multi-class into paladin rather than begin as one.

Regarding which area/ethnicity your character is, we have a listing on the forum of some of the human ethnicities (taken from Player's Guide to Faerun) here: Faerunian Human Ethnicities
The one that most fits your physical description is Illuskan ethnicity by my guess, but I just skimmed over them. Tethyrian ethnicity may also fit as they are diverse in appearance. As to temperment, I'm not sure that either of those would fit. Tethyrians distrust Big Government and Illuskans tend to be warlike. However, those are just generalizations about each group.

As for a small village, relatively peaceful, with proximity to orcs--that could be most places.

Take a look at the ethnicities list then maybe we can narrow down your starting options a bit.

Oh yeah, and welcome to the server. The first or second question I ever asked on the forum was about paladin multi-classing myself, then I never did get around to making that paladin.

[MTGPackFoils]

I do not see any Paladin order that allows multi-classing to the Weapon Master prestige class.

If you wish to follow Tyr, pick the longsword instead as it is his favored weapon (plus you don't have to pick a feat for it ;D).

If you're going to multi-class with your Paladin then imho Fighter or Cleric are the best options...depending on if you want feats or spells.

Welcome to FRC.

[aradan]

Thanks for the replies I notice in the Paladin thread that Tyr allows multi-classing to a Divine Champion...I assume that is the FRC version of Champion of Torm?

As to race/ethnicity, I have never had to pay much attention to this detail before, but then again, I have never had such a rich and varied stock to pick from either!

So upon further reading, Tethyr it is...we'll see how it plays out

And am I reading it right that there is but one starting location in the mod for characters?

Thanks, Aradan

[Kharn597]

Paladins of Torm are allowed to multiclass as one other class of thier choice. Though if I read the paladin class correctly in the player manuals and other sources, you can start another class that is not listed but you may no longer gain levels as a paladin. Not sure how the dms deal with that.

[Munroe]

Kharn, Forgotten Realms has different rules for multi-classing paladins than core D&D rules.

In core D&D rules, if a paladin multi-classes, they may never level-up as a paladin again. In Forgotten Realms rules, paladin multi-classing is limited by which god the paladin worships. Torm, god of duty and paladins, allows his paladins to multi-class freely as any one other class (barring alignment restrictions). That means they can take paladin and one other class and still continue to advance as a paladin. Kelemvor, god of the Dead, allows his paladins to multi-class as rangers or clerics, but they cannot multi-class freely. This means once Kelemvorite paladins take a level in ranger or cleric (the only classes they can take and maintain their paladin abilities), they may no longer take any more levels in paladin.

And, yes, Aradan, Champion of Torm prestige class is treated as the general Divine Champion class on FRC. The only real differences between the two classes are:

Champion of Torm has more possible levels than Divine Champion (which, according to the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, is only a 5 level prestige class).

Champion of Torm prestige class has an alignment restriction of non-evil so evil characters can't use it as the substitute for the Divine Champion class because of game mechanics.

Divine Champion prestige class requires that the character have Weapon Focus in their deity's chosen weapon whereas Champion of Torm prestige class only requires that the character have Weapon Focus in a weapon. It's encouraged here that Divine Champion characters should have weapon focus in their deity's favoured weapon, but it isn't a requirement and quite simply cannot always be satisfied. (In some cases, the deity's favoured weapon doesn't even exist in NWN and in others the deity's favoured weapon doesn't have Weapon Focus associated with it because it is part of the CEP.)