Combat Advantage

Somewhere in my mid-90s dungeons and Dragons gaming I became a miniature addict.   My friends and I would spend hours scouring local game stores for the perfect miniature for our player characters.   We never were satisfied with buying just one mini either.  This lead to creating more PCs, and miniature painting days, and returning to buy specific paints and more minis.   A vicious circle of awesome nerdity!

Today, I still buy a lot of minis (I went all plastic though.) and I still have a habit of getting inspired to create PCs based on the minis I really love.   I’m still looking for the perfect PC for the Goliath Mini from the Player’s Handbook Mini sets and I’m still hunting for a good Tiefling Mini (The Tiefling Necromancer is pretty close).

I modded this medium owlbear up for my Fey Beast Trainer Theme characters.

I’ve always been a sucker for playing Lycanthropes and I’ve done so in every edition.   Some of my favorite things about 4e were the Razorclaw Shifter (Yes, I know they were in 3e Eberron but not as cool.), level-1 shape changing druids, and now themes (Pack Outcast & Dead Rat Deserter)!

Neverwinter Capaign Guide incorporates werewolf packs in the story.

Recently I bought an impressive amount of unopened Dreamblade boosters for $2 each.  I came across this gem!

Right now I’m thinking about making an gothic-steampunk alchemist/artificer with the pack outcast theme to use him.

This got me thinking about how fun it is to use inspirations to create characters.   I was looking at the Dreamblade Gallery and nerding-out on all the things i could do with my newly acquired cheap mini jackpot.

I also recently started playing my hunter (PDF) again after adding  Brian Patterson – @d20monkey‘s finished art commission to his character sheet.

After DDXP I really wanted to level up my Dragonborn from Philippe A. Ménard @chattydm‘s great 0-level adventure Temple of the Weeping Goddess.

I often also re-imagine old PCs from other editions and games and convert them into the current edition.    I’ve taken Erasmus the vampire-hunting archer from Tom Martin’s @LichKingMetal Knights of the Silver Quill/Knights of Spellforge Keep Storyhour on ENWorld  into 4e but haven’t touched my favorite PC of all time, Sir Vek Mormont the Lich Cleric of Wee Jas quite yet.

So, I’m pretty sure I  know what insanity drives my character generation process.

How about you?

Doug

Avangel is a servant of Shevarash, the elven deity of revenge, loss and hatred of the Drow.

Level 5 character sheet

http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/100/a/a/prince_nuada_silverlance_by_silvern_geo-d3dn5ko.jpg

Griff, Elven Ranger/Bard, Fey Beat Tamer and Montecore the Owlbear.

Character Sheet - Griff – Level 3 and Montecore, Medium Owlbear – Level 3

Montecore the Medium Owlbear - Fey Beast Tamer companion

Fey Beast Trainer is a new theme in which you can get a medium owlbear.

I decided to make my own mini!

I lobbed the head of of the Celestial Giant Owl and slapped it on a headless Cave Bear .

It was my first attempt at ever using Green Stuff but I wanted my OwlBear to be fat and spotted.  Almost WoW Moonkinish.

This is the final product!   (Wish the picture came out better.)

Hope you enjoy!

Human Druid (Shaman Multi-class), Pack Outcast theme -

• Level 1  Character Sheet (PDF).
• Level 2  Character Sheet (PDF).
• Level 3  Character Sheet (PDF).

“Inside me, there are two wolves fighting. One is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego…

… the other is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.”

“Which one will win?”

Looking into the little boy’s wide eyes, the man answered. “The one I feed.”

Level 1 Wilden Druid (Sentinel) – Character sheet.

and Mr. Grumbles the Bear (animal companion).

Core books

[x]  Player’s Handbook
[x]  Dungeon Master’s Guide
[x]  Monster Manual
[x]  Player’s Handbook 2
[x]  Monster Manual 2
[x]  Dungeon Master’s Guide 2
[x]  Player’s Handbook 3
[  ]  Monster Manual 3

Essentials series
[  ]  Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game (red box)
[x]  Rules Compendium
[x]  Heroes of the Fallen Lands
[  ]  Dungeon Tiles Master Set: The Dungeon
[x]  Dungeon Master’s Kit
[  ]  Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms
[  ]  Monster Vault

Power books
[x]  Martial Power
[x]  Arcane Power
[x]  Divine Power
[x]  Primal Power
[  ]  Martial Power 2
[x]  Psionic Power

Campaign settings
[x]  Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide
[x]  Forgotten Realms Player’s Guide
[x]  Eberron Player’s Guide
[x]  Eberron Campaign Guide
[  ]  Dark Sun Campaign Setting
[  ]  Dark Sun Creature Catalog
[x]  Neverwinter Campaign Setting

Other hardcover books
[x]  Adventurer’s Vault
[  ]  Draconomicon: Chromatic Dragons
[  ]  Manual of the Planes
[  ]  Open Grave: Secrets of the Undead
[x]  Dungeon Delve
[x]  Adventurer’s Vault 2
[x]  Dragon Magazine Annual
[  ]  Revenge of the Giants
[  ]  Draconomicon 2: Metallic Dragons
[  ]  The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos
[x]  Underdark
[  ]  The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea
[x]  Dungeon Magazine Annual
[  ]  Player’s Strategy Guide
[  ]  Demonomicon
[  ]  Tomb of Horrors
[x]  Heroes of Shadow
[  ]  Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Emporium (September 2011)
[  ]  Heroes of the Feywild (November 2011)
[  ]  Elemental Hero’s Handbook (February 2012)

Boxed sets
[  ]  D&D Roleplaying Game Starter Set
[x]  The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond
[x]  Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale
[  ]  Madness at Gardmore Abbey (September 2011)

Softcover books
[  ]  Wizards Presents: Races and Classes
[  ]  Wizards Presents: Worlds and Monsters

Accessories
[x]  Dungeon Master’s Screen
[  ]  Player’s Handbook Races: Dragonborn
[  ]  Hammerfast
[  ]  Player’s Handbook Races: Tieflings
[  ]  Vor Rukoth: An Ancient Ruins Adventure Site
[  ]  Dungeon Master’s Keep — Ultimate DM Screen
[  ]  Book of Vile Darkness (December 2011)
[  ]  Haunted Temples Map Pack (January 2012)

Folder-format adventures
[x]  H1: Keep on the Shadowfell ( revised version )
[x]  H2: Thunderspire Labyrinth
[x]  H3: Pyramid of Shadows
[x]  FR1: Scepter Tower of Spellguard
[  ]  P1: King of the Trollhaunt Warrens
[  ]  P2: Demon Queen’s Enclave
[  ]  P3: Assault on Nightwyrm Fortress
[  ]  E1: Death’s Reach
[  ]  E2: Kingdom of the Ghouls
[x]        Seekers of the Ashen Crown
[  ]  E3: Prince of Undeath

Other adventures
[  ]   HS1: The Slaying Stone
[  ]   HS2: Orcs of Stonefang Pass
[  ]   Marauders of the Dune Sea

Free RPG Day releases
[x]   Treasure of Talon Pass
[x]   Khyber’s Harvest
[x]   Bloodsand Arena
[x]   Domain of Dread: Histhaven (June 2011)

RPGA Rewards
[x]  Village of Hommlet
[x]  Tomb of Horrors

Game Day adventures
[  ]  Into the Shadowhaunt
[x]  One Dark Night in Weeping Briar
[x]  Journey through the Silver Caves
[  ]  A Passage Into Mystery
[  ]  Beneath the Lonely Tower
[x]  The Lost Cistern of Aravek
[x]  Sunderpeak Temple
[x]  Gates of Neverdeath

Delve Night adventures
[  ]  The Tower of Maraj (October 2008)
[  ]  Into the Shadow (November 2008)
[  ]  The Dragon Twins’ Lair (December 2008)
[  ]  The Sewers of Silence (January 2009)
[  ]  What You Wish For (February 2009)
[  ]  Company of the Griffon (March 2009)
[  ]  The Disquiet Spirits (April 2009)
[  ]  Deepwater Rising (May 2009)
[  ]  Sanity’s Precipice (June 2009)

D&D Encounters
[x]  Halaster’s Lost Apprentice
[x]  Fury of the Wastewalker 1: An Obsidian Rain
[x]  Fury of the Wastewalker 2: Tomb of a Long Lost Age
[x]  Fury of the Wastewalker 3: Flight to Tyr
[x]  Keep on the Borderlands 1: A Season of Serpents (Chapter 1)
[x]  Keep on the Borderlands 2: A Season of Serpents (Chapter 2)
[x] Keep on the Borderlands 3: A Season of Serpents (Chapter 3)
[x]  Keep on the Borderlands 4: A Season of Serpents (Chapter 4)
[x]  Keep on the Borderlands 5: A Season of Serpents (Chapter 5)
[x]  March of the Phantom Brigade
[x]  Dark Legacy of Evard
[  ]  Lost Crown of Neverwinter
[  ]  Beyond the Crystal Cave (2011)

Weekend in the Realms adventures
[  ]  Beneath Haunted Halls
[x]  The Icy Queen’s Crossing

Miscellaneous RPGA adventures
[  ]  Return to the Moathouse
[  ]  CCQ1-5: Honor Bound
[  ]  CCQ1-6: Cold Hard Cash
[  ]  CCF1-1: The Jaws That Bite, the Claws That Catch
[  ]  CCF1-2: Trials of the Tanglewood
[  ]  CCF1-3: Float Like a Dragonfly
[  ]  CCF1-4: Razing Aerithmas
[  ]  The Sands of Time
[  ]  Beyond the Door
[  ]  Curse of the Gray Hag
[  ]  Ringing in the Deep
[  ]  Lair of the Dread Witch
[  ]  Glory and Blood

Level 1 Living Divine Monk Character sheet

The Cat Lord manifests as a dark-skinned human, a pale-skinned human with black hair, a black cat, a panther, or as a hybrid of panther and human. In human form he always wears black clothing decorated with gold and gems of feline colors. He has a muscular, compact form, and his eyes are feline in whatever shape he takes.    (Inspired by this)

Level 1 Shade/Vampire – Character sheet.

“I grant you the gift of death.”

4e re-imagining of Sir Vek Mormont from the Knights of the Silver Quill/Knights of Spellforge Keep Storyhour.

Revenant Warpriest (Death)

• Character sheet- Level 2 (Encounters Build)