[OOC] The Antler and the Thistle

[Nasrith]

Gee, who would've thought...

[Spizzow]

it's all good though, I'm glad I rolled well. I have a feeling that willpower or con will come in handy.

[Spizzow]

Out of curiosity, those of you that chose to be human, did you take the stats or the feat. and which feat if you did?

[Skylarious]

I'm still not quite sure, but I most likely will go variant human. I could pick up a feat that would give another +1 to an ability so I have another 14 (Resilient - Wisdom might be good). Also considering Mobility and some others.

[Spizzow]

I'm kind of skimming the feats now. I think the melee feats are a lot better than the caster choices. Sentinel is basically a free oa every round, charger adds +5 dmg, crossbow expert gives you another attack as a bonus action every round, as well as dual wield. Even lucky that gives you free advantage 3x/day is pretty sweet. In this version I really feel like the only good time to take a feat is as lvl 1 human. Other than that the points are almost always better.

[MasterMind007]

Other than that the points are almost always better

I agree with that, but I'll have to spend one stat increase to get dual wield, though...

[Nasrith]

Yeah, I'm probably going to go with what Skylarious did and pick a feat that gives me a bump to one of my ability scores.

[Skylarious]

The other consideration is that 5e has a max of 20 for ability scores, so once you've already got a key ability or two at 20 the feats become more appealing.

[G in Japan]

Hello all. I will shore up my character sheet and post everything sometime today.

[Ganguropocky]

I'm taking dual wielder.

[Trinity]

Hi all, looking forward to playing with you

[Spizzow]

I am designing a cleric for another game, and decided to take the heavy armor feat. I see what you mean about maxing out your key stat. I think once I get the cleric to 20 wis (Level 8) I probably will hit up some feats. (It's going to be casting based...Light domain.)

[G in Japan]

In regards to the stats discussion in the other thread, I believe the highest total modifer you can get with point buy is +5. So if your rolled stats equal a higher total, you technically have better than you can get with point buy even if the numbers don't sound as high. You are just more well rounded.

[Spizzow]

No it specifically states that 15 is the highest you can raise a stat with point buy, assuming you can get +2 from race highest you can get is 17 +3

[G in Japan]

Yes, so you can get three 15's with point buy (a total of +6) but that would give you three 8's (a total of -3) making a total modifer of only +3, which is even lower than I previously thought.

That's not taking into account racial bonuses. Sorry, I didn't make that clear in my previous post.

EDIT: Now that I've had a chance to look at the basic rules, the standard array gives you a +5 total modifer before racial bonuses and the levelling out stats gives a +6, but nothing higher than 13 before racial modifers. So my previous estimate from memory of a total of +5 was pretty close.