Newbie on the game!

[Big Buffalo]

I messed up on my current group and have no evil characters...Just sold some good (evil) armor because it needed someone evil to wear. But I was told a Druid was a must, and so far my Druid is great. This is my first time with a Druid and it looks like a good person to have. I had a Bard years ago, in a game now on the 5" disk shelf and thought he was a real waste. When he sang he couldn't fight!! If he fight's while singing, I'll try one in my secound group that I'll be starting soon. I normally start a secound "better" party as I reach a 7th level in my first.

[ZFR]

btw, i found that to make a druid even better have a fighter and dual class to druid as soon as possible... this will allow
.Wear armor
.Have 2 proficiency points in 2 weapons (daggers, clubs, slings or spears i would suggest)
.Have 18/## strength

[Yanez]

Originally posted by ZFR: btw, i found that to make a druid even better have a fighter and dual class to druid as soon as possible... this will allow .Wear armor .Have 2 proficiency points in 2 weapons (daggers, clubs, slings or spears i would suggest) .Have 18/## strength

Dualclassed fighter/druid can be amazing indeed, but the difficulty is to roll a decent stats for him. I did that once in my solo game and after almost one hour of rerolling i had to sacrifice almost all of his INT points, to keep other stats high enough (note: you have to have at least 15 STR, 17WIS and 17CHA and true neutral alignment).

[pritchke]

Originally posted by Yanez: quote: Originally posted by ZFR: btw, i found that to make a druid even better have a fighter and dual class to druid as soon as possible... this will allow .Wear armor .Have 2 proficiency points in 2 weapons (daggers, clubs, slings or spears i would suggest) .Have 18/## strength

Dualclassed fighter/druid can be amazing indeed, but the difficulty is to roll a decent stats for him. I did that once in my solo game and after almost one hour of rerolling i had to sacrifice almost all of his INT points, to keep other stats high enough (note: you have to have at least 15 STR, 17WIS and 17CHA and true neutral alignment). [/QUOTE]For me it just isn't worth rerolling that long, use 10 rolls maximum take the best one. I usually equip my druid with slings and scimitars, and max out Wisdom, and dexterity. Strength while somewhat important there are items in the game to boost it temporary or permanently, not usually concerned with charisma to much while you may take a penalty in selling and buying goods as a solo you are going to be going through the game finding all the items, and gold as a full party would. You will be rich even with a low charisma, in a party a mage is the one who cost the most for me, with a fighter/druid I may purchase a nice scimitar somewhere along the way. Just a difference I guess in how to play the druid.

[ 06-18-2003, 11:04 AM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

[ZFR]

cha 17 is needed or you wont be able to dual class... i sacrifice CON.. you get around 20 less HP... no such big deal

[pritchke]

Originally posted by ZFR: cha 17 is needed or you wont be able to dual class... i sacrifice CON.. you get around 20 less HP... no such big deal

I never tried to dual a fighter/druid always multi class them. Is there other combinations that require such a high cha to dual? The only class I have dualed was Fighter/Mage and I don't remember having to have such high charisma.

[ 06-18-2003, 12:47 PM: Message edited by: pritchke ]

[Yanez]

In order to dual the primary stat for the first class must exceed 15 and primary stat for second class must be of 17 or higher. Only paladin, druid and IIRC bard have more than one primary stat, but pally and bard cannot be dualed.
Primary stats for druid are WIS and CHA and both of them must be higher than 17.
If you are dualing fighter/mage CHA doesn't matter but you must have at least 15 STR and 17 INT.

Edit: typos

[ 06-18-2003, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Yanez ]

[ZFR]

Originally posted by Yanez: If you are dualing fighter/mage CHA doesn't matter but you must have at least 15 STR and 17 INT. Edit: typos

and if youre dualclassing into a specialist you need other stats too