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So I have an idea in mind for a battle that I want some opinions/feedback/ideas for.
First the setup, in summary; players are traversing an abandoned pass/underground cavern system. Entrance has caved in behind them (of course), and they are beset by morlocks. They out ran the morlocks to the best of their abiliy until they took a wrong turn and are cornered. They fought some, got their heads handed to them in the battle, but survived, only to look down the hallway to see a Moria-esque horde of morlocks descending upon them. One of them sees a fissure in the floor, and the session ends with everyone jumping into the hole!
So it's going to be a tough battle because everyone is still messed up a bit from the last fight. But that's ok, it's supposed to be a high risk option.
The tunnel esentially leads to an underground river which can carry the players along until it dumps into a subterranean lake. So as morlocks come through the hole the party just came through, they go to attack the party who is now flowing downriver. I'm thinking the river will be shallow enough to stand in, but deep enough that swim checks will be needed to stop from being carried off by the current. And perhaps a strength check to hold ground. The sides of the river will be climbable at different spots.
And I'm using roll20. I'll esentially make a long map, and move the whole party downstream at the end of every round unless they manage to hold their ground if they so choose. The morlocks will probably be both in the water and on the shore.
Anyways that was kind of long, but I look forward to anyone's ideas that wish to contribute!

Thanks everyone for the input, though I forgot one big thing; the setting is like, low magic. I'm not toooo into it but I did just want to play a martial class anyways. Last time I played (my only long running character in fact) I was a verdant sorcerer. Got him all the way up to level 12 so I definitely got my fill of casting!
What's your guy's opinion on the Sword lord? With a dueling sword. Sounds pretty cool. Maybe multiclass with ranger like was suggested, or the afore mentioned urban barbarian.
Dueling sword is also viable for weapon finesse erego maybe making this guy a dex based build?
I don't usually speculate on builds like this, I just come up with a concept and go, but seeing as I aven't played in so long, and this is a new group I'm playing with, I want to make sure I'll have it fairly ironed out in my head.
Thanks again for your help!

So I'm going to be playing for the first time in forever. I thought it would be cool to play a high-born son of an elven noble (setting is a bit Game of Thrones inspired). Like all the high-born kids in GoT, he was trained to fight in a castle, but has little real world experience. The whole concept is that he is very technically skilled but has a bit of a wild streak for a high-born elf.
I thought the idea of him having kind of what me and my friends jokingly call a "Rurouni Kenshin" mode, where when the battle gets tough he goes a little berserk. So I thought maybe a Mobile Fighter/Urban Barbarian might be cool. Would be lightly armored and using an elven curved blade. Not sure how it would work ou, but I'd like some input.
We'll be rolling for stats but It might be safe to theorize the build using 20 point buy. We'll be starting at level 1.
Thanks to anyone who has some suggestions!