I have never played a 3.5 cleric, but I want to make a kobold cleric. I have some ideas, but could really use some advice. He starts life as a slave and is resolved to his crappy life until he finds some old religious text. He memorizes the text because he is afraid to be caught with contraband. He becomes an ardent believer and fashons a crude holy symbol out of natural materials, probably soap stone. By the grace of his god he escapes and pledges to help free slaves to the best of his abilities.
Can someone suggest a god to follow and domains to take for a FR campaign? I want to be NG and NOT a follower of Kurtulmak.
Also, I would like him to use a shot put as a weapon. There is something about 2 hops and whipping the tail around as part of the spin that seems to make this a perfect choice for a kobold. Is there stats for using shop put as a weapon in a book? If not, has anyone ever used a shop put and made up stats for it?
Thanks in advance.
What an interesting idea! As for the shotput, yes, there was the Orcish Shotput in Sword & Fist, and reprinted in the Arms & Equipment Guide.
As for god and domains, I don't know squat about the FR cosmology, sorry! I'd think a domain like Protection would be a good pick, but that's about all I can say.
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God suggestions:
Any God will do. That's how i play it in my campaigns. Gods arent too picky who there followers are. In the end, Gods dont care about your race, class, etc. Pick a cool God and have fun with him, her, it, they, what-the?!, or whatever. Heck, create an unusual up and coming weaker Lesser God with delusions of grandeur and have your character create churches and add to his numbers of followers. Your Gods added power granted by your efforts would be appreciated. You can go anywhere with this. This is D&D, have fun and do what's fun. For in the end, the difference between good and evil is perspective. Think about it.
Thoth-Amon
I like your idea and playing a kobold rocks ass! The shot put thing is gonna be tough because you're going to need exotic weapon proficiency either way. I can point you towards a deity though. In FR try Ilmater. He's the LG (you can be NG) deity of endurance, suffering, matyrdom, and perseverence. His domains are Good, Healing, Law, Strength, and Suffering. I suggest taking Healing and Strength, both are useful domains for any type of cleric. ANd all of this seems to fit in with your back story.
Thanks everyone. These are all great ideas. I found the orcish shot put in sword and fist. I will have to see if the DM will allow it without the -3 penalty. I don't mind spending the feat on exotic weapon if it lets the character grow into what I imagine.
Ilmater is indeed fitting (and there is a sect of his church which has taken up living as hermits in the underdark, so if your character was a slave to the Drow, it might be where he got his religious text from).
Otherwise you could also have him worship a gnomish god. That would be taking it a bit too far, maybe, but you could play it as "he found the text and became a follower of Callarduran Smoothhands but he did not realize that he is a gnomish deity". If the text speaks of "folks of small size living under the earth" he might think it was meant for kobolds!
It could be fun to roleplay a kobold trying to convince unwitting race-mates that they should start worship the gnomish deity of earth and caverns.
You can find a short text on this god in the free web enhancement for the FRCS book over at WotC.
Bocklin
If you are still looking for a god and you're not too picky about which one, you might want to give a look at Shundukel (I know I butchered the spelling), god of caverns and travel. Sure he's one of the "dead" gods, but with the Sevant of the Fallen feat from the Lost Empires of Faerun book it's not all that problematic.
Celric
Shundukel?
If you mean Shaundakul, he is indeed the god of travel, but he is well and alive.
The dead god of caverns/underdark (killed by Shar, iirc) was something like "ibrandul" (sp?).
Bocklin
Shundukel?
If you mean Shaundakul, he is indeed the god of travel, but he is well and alive.
The dead god of caverns/underdark (killed by Shar, iirc) was something like "ibrandul" (sp?).
Bocklin
Yeah, Ibrandul - that's what I meant. Thanks.
That would also be a nice character concept: a kobold cleric of dead Ibrandul...
LEoF really opened the door for so many nice ideas!
Bocklin
That would also be a nice character concept: a kobold cleric of dead Ibrandul...
LEoF really opened the door for so many nice ideas!
Bocklin
Yes it did! Lost Empires of Faerun is fairly critical to my campaign at this moment. Athamault still gives my players the heebie-jeebies - lightly toss with an army of steel predators that are still hell-bent on guarding it, it makes for a really creepy adventure.
I have a creepy true necromancer/cleric/sorcerer who was trapped in the negative energy plane who worshipped Jergal. Imagine her surprise when she became un-trapped and found out Jergal wasn't quite the same as she remembered!