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Greetings all!

I am playing Zugras es-Sumarr, a Minotaur Fighter :)

I'm new to Dragonlance, though experienced with Savage Worlds, so if anyone needs help with crunch, I'm happy to help.

Also, I've flexible to change my character if others want to try something similar and new to the system.

Hey Zugras, I am also new to Dragonlance.

I am thinking I'm going to make Liandra a monkish type character.

That's not set in stone yet, but it's the initial plan for this character.

I knew about dragonlance many years ago, and I've played some SADE too.

Berthold is a Ranger like character

Monks are rare in the setting but they do exist. Most follow the god Majere: https://dragonlance.fandom.com/wiki/Order_of_Majere

Interesting, it was just an initial thought for my character. I may go a different route, I'll think about it a bit.

I was planning to play a more brawling based character, with Martial Arts and Brawler. But that would be WAY too close to what you are planning Liandra.

I wasn't thinking being a monk, more a brawling pugilist, but it still involves hitting people unarmed rather than using weapons.

Hey, go for it. I'm thinking of making Liandra more of a weapon specialist instead actually. I play monks so much, a change could be fun too.

I guess she'd be more like a Fighter Battlemaster from D&D 5e instead of a monk.

Oh, can you make our character sheets user editable please GM?

Then fear my one-armed brawler ;)

And are you thinking possibly Leadership edges then? Or Combat edges, and doing combat with flair, maybe even various Tests to influence the battlefield?

I honestly don't think that far ahead. :P

Seriously though combat edges seem the way to go, for Liandra anyway. So yeah, a bit of flair, maybe some battlefield control stuff, I'll take a look at the edges and see. We are only novices and since I'm not human, I don't get the free edge that humans get. So got to be selective, ya know?

I was tempted to put all more hindrance points into +2 attributes, but edges really add flavour.

Playing Deadlands, I'm too used to having a free human edge, but it's also why I wanted to look at a non-human race, again to mix it up.

Half-Elves can start with a free Edge though they sacrifice their elven Agility to get it. :-)

User sheets should be editable now.

So far we have two humans, two half-elves and one minotaur. It's also looking like quite a combat heavy party.

Yeah, I might give up the agility since Liandra is going more combat focused. That's a good idea. Thanks Mr. GM ;)

Well, if too combat heavy, I might make Berthold more a bard-like carácter...

This was the alternative idea I had in mind when I joined...

Hey all,

Still working on some particulars, but Amberyl is, as our DM put it, an disillusioned knight.

This actually works out because I was going for the idea of a "knight" as a leader/strategist/tactician to push Amberyl to using either Leadership Edges and/or Tests of Will in combat.  Maybe not right away because that takes a lot of advances but it gives a general idea.  Yes a knight is a warrior but a knight is also strong willed, well trained and educated etc.

And here I was thinking folks might go for clerics or wizards!

With so much martial, I'm happy to swap to something more magical.

That is true to the setting however.  There really aren't a lot of "magical" characters, rogues, etc. compared to the number of warriors in Dragonlance.  Even among the Heroes of the Lance, only Raistlin, Goldmoon and Tasslehoff weren't Fighters.  I know people argue Tanis is a ranger, but I think that's head canon.


Differences in talents, tactics, culture, species, beliefs, etc. always defined the characters a lot more than their character classes did.