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One character I made to excel at specific investigative social encounters was a half ogre (reskinned Goliath) shepherd druid with 3 levels of inquisitive rogue. He basically stays wild shaped as a tiny animal that is commonly used as a familiar. He stays perched on the shoulder of the party face anytime they're talking to an npc, and does expertise insight and perception checks with his insanely high druid wisdom score for every word said and move made by the npc the party face is talking to. If his lie detector goes off he nips the party face, or just turns to them as a crow and says "Boss, this guy is lyin' through his teeth." And when combat starts the "familiar" flies into the face of the biggest enemy and "holy crap where the hell did that ogre come from!" Shillelagh, spirit totem, shillelagh, maybe a grapple check to grab small size enemies with his giant ogre mitts and swing them around by the legs as improvised weapons, and another shillelagh for good measure.
I think I remember reading somewhere that it got it's name from it's towers resembling a collection of candles that have melted to various heights. Might have been in an old Dragon magazine? Or maybe I imagined it.
Our party has two running campaigns going on most of the time, one run by me and one run by the other. We usually leap frog between the two, with whoever having something prepared running stuff until they don't, and then we jump to the next campaign. Sometimes, however, life gets in the way and neither one of us has something written. That's where this book comes in! We've come up with a bit of a plan where if neither one of us has something prepared, we'll pick up this book and run one of the seventeen (same characters each time).
I clicked because I thought there were going to be *new* subclasses with this book. :( Edot: Oh nice they changed the name to be a little less clickbaity!
Currently running Candlekeep with a Wizard/Knowledge Cleric, an Arcane Trickster Rogue, an Edge Lord Rogue and a Fighter. Just decided to roll a new character. Was playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer who was trying to figure out the origin of her powers. Her long lost father was one of the Avowed at Candlekeep and she was trying to get a hold of him. Made myself a Nature Cleric. We are able to hit level 5. I think having a character who is good at things like tracking and hunting has made a big difference. Its obvious to make a character for this campaign who is an intelligent scholar type, but having a wise character is good because you are going to be traveling to different locations and may find yourself in the forest/ wildernesses lacking food or having to track criminals through a city.
Lol. We have a low intelligence dwarven fighter in my Candlekeep group who rolled that he solves all problems by fighting. He also likes to break things to show that he is strong. Doesn't cause any problems whatsoever.
I like the rogue inquisitor conceptionaly as i like sherlock holmes, especially the mvie versions, but mechanically i find most festures rarely usefull especially if the dm does not care for walking speed in their perception checks etc. also advantage can easily given by a pc so its not that useful.
From what I remember, Joe Hardy is for sure a Monk Boxer. Frank might be either a fighter or a Paladin whose Oath is made towards the ideal of truth (he fights too, but his hits are more tactical than Joe's approach, and therefore he would benefit flavorfully from extra damage given by Smites). Never touched Nancy Drew. Maybe Arcane Trickster?
Matt Mercer put his latest rework of the Cobalt Soul monk and his new paladin oath of the sea up on DM's guild or d&d beyond. I even think the pdf is free. Edit: it's funny watching his wife play the subclass he made in their second campaign and slowly realizing over the first 90 episodes that the first iteration of the class had too many ribbon abilities that actively prevented her from being an effective monk whenever she tried them.
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One character I made to excel at specific investigative social encounters was a half ogre (reskinned Goliath) shepherd druid with 3 levels of inquisitive rogue.
He basically stays wild shaped as a tiny animal that is commonly used as a familiar. He stays perched on the shoulder of the party face anytime they're talking to an npc, and does expertise insight and perception checks with his insanely high druid wisdom score for every word said and move made by the npc the party face is talking to. If his lie detector goes off he nips the party face, or just turns to them as a crow and says "Boss, this guy is lyin' through his teeth."
And when combat starts the "familiar" flies into the face of the biggest enemy and "holy crap where the hell did that ogre come from!" Shillelagh, spirit totem, shillelagh, maybe a grapple check to grab small size enemies with his giant ogre mitts and swing them around by the legs as improvised weapons, and another shillelagh for good measure.
The Knowledge Cleric feature is at level 17.
The book's highest level adventure is 16.
I think I remember reading somewhere that it got it's name from it's towers resembling a collection of candles that have melted to various heights. Might have been in an old Dragon magazine? Or maybe I imagined it.
Sword Coast Adventures Guide has a bit about Candle Keep that says that... and 13:52
This is about making backgrounds more important and creative usage of various subclasses
I can't believe the basis for the founding of Candlekeep was just Oghma saying "Books or it didn't happen."
Our party has two running campaigns going on most of the time, one run by me and one run by the other. We usually leap frog between the two, with whoever having something prepared running stuff until they don't, and then we jump to the next campaign. Sometimes, however, life gets in the way and neither one of us has something written.
That's where this book comes in! We've come up with a bit of a plan where if neither one of us has something prepared, we'll pick up this book and run one of the seventeen (same characters each time).
*hears about the homebrewed spell Echos of the Past*
....I want that spell 😍
I clicked because I thought there were going to be *new* subclasses with this book.
:(
Edot: Oh nice they changed the name to be a little less clickbaity!
Same. ;(
Oath of the Shush Paladin
Same here :( :(
Currently running Candlekeep with a Wizard/Knowledge Cleric, an Arcane Trickster Rogue, an Edge Lord Rogue and a Fighter. Just decided to roll a new character. Was playing a Divine Soul Sorcerer who was trying to figure out the origin of her powers. Her long lost father was one of the Avowed at Candlekeep and she was trying to get a hold of him. Made myself a Nature Cleric. We are able to hit level 5. I think having a character who is good at things like tracking and hunting has made a big difference. Its obvious to make a character for this campaign who is an intelligent scholar type, but having a wise character is good because you are going to be traveling to different locations and may find yourself in the forest/ wildernesses lacking food or having to track criminals through a city.
I made a scholar class to share intelligence for spellcasting with the wizard. I look forward to being a scholar.
Gotta say I miss Mr. Hulmes telling me to preorder now. Will he be back eventually?
Time to play a Low intelligence barbarian and start fights
Lol. We have a low intelligence dwarven fighter in my Candlekeep group who rolled that he solves all problems by fighting. He also likes to break things to show that he is strong. Doesn't cause any problems whatsoever.
My villain in my whodunnit adventure was a subtle spell shadow sorcerer and very nearly won against the PCs!
I like the rogue inquisitor conceptionaly as i like sherlock holmes, especially the mvie versions, but mechanically i find most festures rarely usefull especially if the dm does not care for walking speed in their perception checks etc. also advantage can easily given by a pc so its not that useful.
I thought Elminster liked Cola, didn’t know it was MTN Dew specifically 😂
i want to play in this campaign
maybe candlekeep uses a bunch of candles lit by the eternal flame spell, so they dont burn but they do provide light
That Barbarian joke re: hitting hard enough was 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽
It was the TellTale Batman games that had him looking through the past of the Crime Scene.
a barbarian that gets ineaged when knowledge is threatened
If Agatha Christi is a rogue inquisitive, what classes are the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew?
From what I remember, Joe Hardy is for sure a Monk Boxer. Frank might be either a fighter or a Paladin whose Oath is made towards the ideal of truth (he fights too, but his hits are more tactical than Joe's approach, and therefore he would benefit flavorfully from extra damage given by Smites).
Never touched Nancy Drew. Maybe Arcane Trickster?
A party of inquisitive rogues with bags of holding and an order of scribes wizard as their mastermind. The goal: steal as many books as you can
Isn't way of the cobalt soul in the guide published by wizards
No, it's in the Green Ronin one for Tal'dorei
Matt Mercer put his latest rework of the Cobalt Soul monk and his new paladin oath of the sea up on DM's guild or d&d beyond. I even think the pdf is free.
Edit: it's funny watching his wife play the subclass he made in their second campaign and slowly realizing over the first 90 episodes that the first iteration of the class had too many ribbon abilities that actively prevented her from being an effective monk whenever she tried them.
19:27 I caught that Airplane reference XD
All the towers look like candles?
Warlock not mentioned 🙁 no good for this?
I was worried we were getting more subclasses right after Tashas
Imagine my horror when they just choose Assassin and Life cleric again
Just a consideration for how your names are shown... red text + dark background = very difficult to read on mobile!
Two words: SPIRITS BARD
Ooh