My girlfriend and I will be joining a new campaign, starting at level 9. The campaign will be based in and around Varisia, and the GM said it would by 50% exploration (dungeon crawling/ wilderness) and 50% drama (power politics/ personal intrigue/ maybe kingdom building). There will be two other players. Neither any of the players nor the GM is even remotely optimizers.
The two other players plan to play:
Edrian Scarnetti (Male Human; CN; Cavalier of the Order of the Cockatrice): Edrian is one of the younger sons of the aristocratic Scarnetti family of Sandpoint. Several years ago he was disowned by his father Titus, after a truly epic bout of debauched drunkenness and womanizing, while he was supposed to be attending to family business in Magnimar. Have since made his way teaching swordplay, taking on mercenary work and engaging in the occasional bit of monster hunting. His latest contract was acting as hired back-up for the Black Arrow rangers of Fort Rannick, who are still short in man-power, after being almost wiped out by ogres five years ago.
Build: Straight forward charge-focused cavalier. GM had told us not to expect a lot of actual dungeons, so I think he will get to fight from his mount most of the time.
Balt the Green Mage (Male Halfling; CG; Verdant Sorcerer): Balt was raised in a halfling village, hidden deep within the Ashwood forest. When he was still a young child, he began to manifest his magical talent and was apprenticed to the village’s resident sorcerer, who taught him the magic of the forest. Balt quickly exceeded his tutor in arcane might and eventually felt he had to leave his home, to fully grow into his power.
Build: Will focus on battle-field control spells (entangle, glitterdust, stinking cloud and black tentacles have been mentioned). I think the GM might allow him to take some plant-themes spells from the druid list, to support his theme.
With that in mind, here is what my GF and I plan to play:
The GM is generally okay with custom content, especially when it is in order to support a setting-based concept. I just wanted to see if anyone here think that the stuff I have come up with is horribly unbalanced in some way, which I can’t see for myself.