Alesk, 2nd Level

[bryant]

Danger, Will Robinson! D&D post! (I know. But I can’t bring myself to clog up the community with boring crap about a character nobody actually plays with. Er, clog it up more than once, anyhow.)

So Alesk is your typical melee cleric — not super-twinked, he doesn’t have a reach weapon, although I know that’d be more efficient and he may have to swap over to that at some point. He hit level 2 and picked up a +1 lightning bastard sword to replace his old mace at the same time. Woo, +3 more to hit than he had a moment ago!

I am giving into the siren call of roleplaying and taking Bless over Cure Light Wounds. I figure since I have Healing Strike, I’m still in the ballpark as far as overall healing throughput goes compared to a laser cleric. I do have 16 Wisdom and a +1 Symbol of Life, so I’m down a point or two of healing from the laser cleric but I have some nice burst capacity.

Since he plays in Living Forgotten Realms, I have another leader in the party as often as not anyhow. Am I nuts for not maxing my healing? Alesk just likes hitting things more…

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Ah, the blue box.

Wait. 2nd Level and he's got a +1 Lightning Bastard Sword? What kinda magic level is this campaign playing? Maybe I just played too many campaigns where the GM was stingy with the magic items, but that seems pretty generous for a 2nd level character!

[bryant]

Standard 4e. The expectation for 4e is that a group of five PCs will get four magic items among them each level; those items will range from one to four levels above the party level. A +1 lightning weapon is level 5, so that's well within the appropriate range.

In Living Forgotten Realms, you can expect to get one magic item per level period (not counting anything you buy). Since the +1 weapon was available in the adventure in which I hit level 2, I grabbed it -- there's nothing that'll improve him more than that, and I'll worry about magic armor later. I should have enough cash to buy a decent suit in a couple of sessions anyhow.