Playing an Halfling priest of Lathander
Rigel
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Hello everyone - I have just started a new game with an Halfling priest of Lathander. Her name is Myrtle Leafshadow.
I love Halflings - and I think that Gorion's ward really could be an Halfling. From the age point of view, it would fit, and I can imagine a young halfling running in the corridors of Candlekeep and annoying the monks and the scholars there.
Why Priest of Lathander ? It seems to me that in the atmosphere of Candlekeep, a young girl with a thirst for knowledge and a developing faith (perhaps due to her "divine blood") could become attracted to the priesthood, and particularly the Lathander priesthood, as a kind of unconscious urge to do good in the world, to repair the wrongs by her deeds. Perhaps she feels that there is something wrong in her, and she wants to fight this bad heritage by becoming a beacon for goodness. So she is NG of course.
Abilities : S 8 C 17 D 19 W 17 I 16 C 15
The strength score is low, but it fits my view of Halfling. It is difficult for me to imagine an Halfling with a greater strength score, because of the weight allowance. Of course it will be a penalty for the equipment. But again, it seems to me more logical that she will not be able to wear full plate and even plate mail.
She started with proficiency in club and slings of course.
The first proficiency she gained at level 4 was War hammer, because after killing Bassilus, she discovered that she could wave his light magic war hammer (min strength 8). To cope with the equipment weight, she bought an expensive Chainmail +1 at the Fedelpost Inn (otherwise it was a bit difficult to have a chainmail + small shield + club + helmet which gives already 50 wight which is her maximum). But of course, she uses generally her sling.
It is fun to play a Priest. Usually, my priest is Branwen, who is a great NPC, but this time, because the priest is my character, I spend more time developing it and learning how to use her spells. They are of course less powerful than the Arcane ones, but there are some nice pearls.
Some rules that I have defined:
- this is a good party and I will stick with some basic principles : no thieving (for example in Beregost, this means no Mace of Disruption nor Wand of Lightning nor Nymph Cloak- I have not yet decided what to do when we arrive in BG, regarding the thieves guild, but I will certainly not steal the telescope for Brevlik), no unnecessary fights (no fights with Sendai, with Kiran's group, with Meilum), spare your opponents when it is possible (Tranzig, Tamoko, Cythandria and Mulahey even if at the end he will betray you).
- Because Myrtle is an Halfling, which means she has a pretty small size, she will not be able to wear armors found during her adventures. She needs to have the armor crafted specifically for her, and as a consequence, her armors will not fit others (with the exception of Halflings or gnomes). This means for example that she cannot wear the Ankheg armor found in Nashkel. But she will be able to have Taerom craft a special Ankheg armor for her). Same thing for the caps of course. I think of letting her wear a cap after having it reduced by a craftsman (and spend some money for it - to give it to a Temple even if the reputation is already 20).
- War hammer : she can wave the Ashineeda but with two hands (it means without shield).
For the moment, she is still in Beregost's area, with Imoen and Neera whom she has just recruited.
I love Halflings - and I think that Gorion's ward really could be an Halfling. From the age point of view, it would fit, and I can imagine a young halfling running in the corridors of Candlekeep and annoying the monks and the scholars there.
Why Priest of Lathander ? It seems to me that in the atmosphere of Candlekeep, a young girl with a thirst for knowledge and a developing faith (perhaps due to her "divine blood") could become attracted to the priesthood, and particularly the Lathander priesthood, as a kind of unconscious urge to do good in the world, to repair the wrongs by her deeds. Perhaps she feels that there is something wrong in her, and she wants to fight this bad heritage by becoming a beacon for goodness. So she is NG of course.
Abilities : S 8 C 17 D 19 W 17 I 16 C 15
The strength score is low, but it fits my view of Halfling. It is difficult for me to imagine an Halfling with a greater strength score, because of the weight allowance. Of course it will be a penalty for the equipment. But again, it seems to me more logical that she will not be able to wear full plate and even plate mail.
She started with proficiency in club and slings of course.
The first proficiency she gained at level 4 was War hammer, because after killing Bassilus, she discovered that she could wave his light magic war hammer (min strength 8). To cope with the equipment weight, she bought an expensive Chainmail +1 at the Fedelpost Inn (otherwise it was a bit difficult to have a chainmail + small shield + club + helmet which gives already 50 wight which is her maximum). But of course, she uses generally her sling.
It is fun to play a Priest. Usually, my priest is Branwen, who is a great NPC, but this time, because the priest is my character, I spend more time developing it and learning how to use her spells. They are of course less powerful than the Arcane ones, but there are some nice pearls.
Some rules that I have defined:
- this is a good party and I will stick with some basic principles : no thieving (for example in Beregost, this means no Mace of Disruption nor Wand of Lightning nor Nymph Cloak- I have not yet decided what to do when we arrive in BG, regarding the thieves guild, but I will certainly not steal the telescope for Brevlik), no unnecessary fights (no fights with Sendai, with Kiran's group, with Meilum), spare your opponents when it is possible (Tranzig, Tamoko, Cythandria and Mulahey even if at the end he will betray you).
- Because Myrtle is an Halfling, which means she has a pretty small size, she will not be able to wear armors found during her adventures. She needs to have the armor crafted specifically for her, and as a consequence, her armors will not fit others (with the exception of Halflings or gnomes). This means for example that she cannot wear the Ankheg armor found in Nashkel. But she will be able to have Taerom craft a special Ankheg armor for her). Same thing for the caps of course. I think of letting her wear a cap after having it reduced by a craftsman (and spend some money for it - to give it to a Temple even if the reputation is already 20).
- War hammer : she can wave the Ashineeda but with two hands (it means without shield).
For the moment, she is still in Beregost's area, with Imoen and Neera whom she has just recruited.
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Once i played and illegal halfling paladin, but only in bg1 never goes to bg2.
I do not like to recruit Kivan before chapter 3 because I had a bad experience one time when meeting Tazok ... at the moment, I hesitate between Khalid-Jaheira and Minsc-Dynaheir...
I will tell all the story but to make it short :
- Xzar was killed by a wolf after stupidly running at it with his dagger
- Montaron was killed by an ogrillon south of Beregost
- Neera was killed by Minsc when he was struck by a Dire Charm spell
- Dynaheir disappeared and it seems that she was one more time captured by gnolls
- Rasaad was killed by two lightning strikes in the Sword Coast area, apparently a vengeance of Talos
- Minsc was grievously wounded in the Firewine Ruins labyrinth and is currently resting at Gullikin village. He plans afterwards to go looking for Dynaheir.
And during the raid on the bandit camp, Kivan was killed by a traitorous bandit archer. Myrtle, Imoen and Xan had to finish alone the raid. More to follow....
I forgot to mention that Ajantis was recruited as well but died in the valley of the Dead, south of Nashkel.
As a matter of fact, I play (try to play) following some rules
- It is not a no-reload game, but almost (I say it is not, because I plan for example to do the Werewolf island, and in a no-reolad playthough, it may be pretty fearful ... even if last time, I did it without too many problems, I just lost one NPC)
- NPC deaths : I take into account (more or less) the body weight. If I am far away from a temple and my characters are "weak", they will not be able to bring back the body of a warrior to a Temple. + after two deaths, I consider that the third one is definitive. Kivan was killed in the bandits camp and the last surviving characters were Myrtle (S 8), Imoen (S 9) and Xan (S 13). It would have been difficult to bring back Kivan's body to a Temple...
Your run sounds like mine. Death everywhere!
I wonder if a halfling cleric can solo serevok
Summon to distract follow with dispel magic and maybe Doom...Boots of speed... Wand of heavens...Sanctuary
There are options. Try to save up a mage to make all that easier, Quayle is available late for example. Or one of the evil ones if desperate.
Pathfinder: kingmaker portraits are superb, yes.
I like the way you rp your character.
I´ve also made a halfling cleric of lathander in IWD with custom rules. Mine´s also included no boots. A halfling worth his salt walks with his/her hairy feet and nothing else!
Usually, before starting the exploration of Cloakwood, I "prepare"equipment for Coran, a good armor, the nice longbow that one gets in the bandit camps, a lot of arrows. This time, I tried to be more realistic. Myrtle and her friends would not have thought of carrying all this equipment with them "just in case"they would meet a very good bowman in the forest... So Coran will have to manage with arrows that Imoen will give to him and what he will find on his way... same thing for Faldorn and eventually Yeslick that I intend to take in the team.
More to follow ...
But I want to go back to Myrtle who at the moment is in Shandalar's Island with her team (Yeslick, Imoen, Xan, Alora and Coran). SO I hope to post back news of her very soon (after the island I plan to do Balduran Island and Durlag's tower).