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kysus
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 04:55:55
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I have a question for all the sages here thats been nagging at me for awhile now. In the cormanthyr book its listed as Dathlue mistwinter been a 22 level ranger, but in the fall of myth drannor book when they describe her death, it makes it sound as if she also had mage levels as well and i was wondering if it was some type of typo. Unless im wrong in this thinking and she is a ranger with some really weird wizard like spells. Anyway any help in this matter would be great. thanks
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 05:07:51
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I think the ranger listing is a typo... Cormanthyr also goes on to describe her as one of the tertiary casters in the raising of Myth Drannor's mythal, which means she was an arcane spellslinger. And Code of the Harpers (page 20) describes her as "An idealistic and powerful elven mage".
It's also possible that she was a ranger-mage, I suppose. |
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kysus
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 07:53:25
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| I was sorta thinking the same thing. though im curious what do u think her levels for each class would be? A split between the 22 levels or something different all together. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
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Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 11:30:47
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Probably the author overlooked something or maybe its something like Drizzt, who has over a dozen fighter levels and only a few ranger levels, yet he is considered a Ranger  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 14:13:12
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Originally posted by kysus
I was sorta thinking the same thing. though im curious what do u think her levels for each class would be? A split between the 22 levels or something different all together.
My answer would be to just have her as a mage.... But if I was going to make her multi-class, I'd make her really powerful -- Ranger22 (since we have that number in print) and 20-23 as a mage (because we know she's a powerful mage, too). |
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Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 16:49:21
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Originally posted by Alisttair
Probably the author overlooked something or maybe its something like Drizzt, who has over a dozen fighter levels and only a few ranger levels, yet he is considered a Ranger
Well, this depends on the books. In the early novels, he was clearly just a fighter (Menzoberranzan box has him as a Fighter 17). When he went upstairs, he learned the rangers' ways and that's where he's got most of his fame from. "Drizzt the Drow Ranger". Rulewise, this lead to him being turned into a ranger 16 (e.g. The Accursed Tower), something impossible by AD&D rules, but that was of no real concern for the author (or the gereal audience). When 3E happened by, his career was included into his stats, so his fighter levels represent the days spent in Menzo, the ranger levels his early years on the surface and that barbarian level was thrown in to rule-explain his bouts of Hunter-rages when fighting orcs. That was way back in 2000 though. By now, people would rebuild him somewhat, utilizing some fancy classes and prestige classes, substitution levels and all. I'd probably make him a fighter / scout / (tempest) and that's that.
Obviously, if you read a book of 1995 or something, he's obviously referred to as a ranger ... something that carries/-ied on till today. No matter whether he actually is something else statswise. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
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Posted - 15 Apr 2009 : 18:08:05
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FR 5 (page 58) says that he is a 10th level Ranger.
I think it would be safe to assume that DM's should stat him out however they want too for their games. Thats if you choose to use him. 
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Alisttair
Great Reader
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Posted - 16 Apr 2009 : 11:52:48
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| And with 4E, NPCs don't need classes, only whatever powers that suit them (they can have classes though, but its optional if they are villains to be killed by the PCs, which Drizzt CAN be if you run an evil party lol) |
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