What would be a fun character for a SoU/HotU run?

Tad_Has_A_Cold_Olive

So, I recently finished the Neverwinter Nights Original Campaign with a Bard 6/Fighter 1/Dragon Disciple 10. It was fun enough, but especially once I got ridonkulous strength and +4 halberd.

Anyway, I’ve heard that the combined Shadows of Undrentide-Hordes of the Underdark campaign is better than the OC, and I’m trying to come up with a character for my first run through of the campaign.

So I’m soliciting some advice, I suppose. What characters have you all played in those modules, and why were they fun?

WarChiefZeke

I personally enjoyed my run as a monk/rogue/staff weapon master. Pumped most of my skills into Use Magic Device for the magic items and scrolls, and Tumble for AC. There's a lot of miscellaneous magic items floating around the game so you can get a lot of mileage out of UMD, or just by being a caster.

Druids are also always enjoyable because Dragons.

Isewein

Paladins get a special treat in SoU. Mages are underrepresented among the companions.

Tad_Has_A_Cold_Olive

Thanks for the suggestions so far, folks. UMD does sound like a neat skill to boost, and so far I'm thinking that a Cleric with a dash of Rogue levels might be what I go with.

Does that sound like a good idea? If it is, is there a 3rd class that I should throw into the mix?

Cerabelus

I know this is a bit late to comment but my personal preference is Wizard, in SOU there are several sections that benefit from having a Caster with an adaptable spellbook and at one section there is an Orb in some ruins and if any Caster uses 3 defensive spells on it you get a Spellstaff that lets you use those 3 spells once per day as a Spell Sequencer at the LVL you cast them.

In HOTU there is a Golem crafting bench and it requires Sorcerer or Wizard to active, also there are 4 pillars attached to the bench and the combination of spells you can cast on it gives you a bit of personalisation.

Throughout both XP's you come across some powerfull Casters and I found the Wizard was my favourite way to match their power.

Downside.....low HP ?

Cerabelus

Oh and without giving names the final boss in HOTU doesn't have Acid resistance, good old 3rd LVL spells Mestils Acid Breath comes in handy.

ByTheSword

There are some nice quests/items for the Paladin.

Prince_Raymond

@Tad_Has_A_Cold_Olive Holy crap! Stephen Colbert in a fantasy role-playing game portrait. Thank you for reading, and happy gaming to all.

alesplin

I just finished a run of SoU and HotU playing as a Bard/Champion of Torm. Basically I did 10 levels of Bard (got me well into the last chapter of SoU), then added Champion of Torm levels until I was Bard 10/Champion of Torm 14, then I added my last 3 levels before I finished HotU as Bard to boost my Persuade skill for the final persuasions. I viewed this character as sort of a Bladesinger concept, with the longsword as my main weapon, graduating to 2 longswords around the end of the Underdark portion of HotU.

It was an amazingly fun play through. Bard song was a key factor (though it would be awesome if my song and Deekin's would stack), and I focused mainly on defensive casting. It was certainly no walk in the park. There were a couple of fights that were difficult due to not having super high AC (I was holding myself to 10% arcane spell failure chance, as I viewed the casting aspect of Bard-hood as a Thing I Was Doing™), but by the time I got to the last chapter of HotU I was a devil-mowing machine.