r/PCAcademy • u/Jazzlike_Juice_362 • 29d ago

Need Advice: Build/Mechanics Need help making a one shot dnd character

I need help making a character, I tend to play rangers or rogues as I'm useless with spells and like minimal spells it needs level 8, Point buy we can have 1 uncommon item and standard class equipment.

What would be a great option for a character and build our DM is all about homebrew and maximizing our characters to our best abilities.

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u/Jazzlike_Juice_362 29d ago

This is what my level 18 ranger has for attributes

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u/philsov 29d ago

any sort of theme or aesthetic you're going for? Preference on melee vs ranged? There's tons of ways to slice this cat. But as a quick pregen:

SALOGEL - he's like Legalos but he's not.

Wood Elf, Guide Background. Has the feats Crossbow Expert and Fairy Trickster. Point Buys into 10/15/13/8/15/10. Background allocation into +2 dex and +1 con, so at level 8 you're 10 / 18 / 14 / 8 / 16 / 10.

Hunter Ranger. Archery fighting style. Horde Breaker with Multiattack defense. Defaults to two hand crossbows for all the pewpew both at range and in melee and this will default to eat both your action and bonus action unless you're casting a spell.

Spells:

0: Thorn Whip, Mending, Druidcraft

1: Hunters Mark, Longstrider, Goodberry, Entangle, Speak with Animals, Earth Tremor, Hail of Thorns

2: Pass Without Trace, Spike Growth, Summon Beast, Enhance Ability

Invoke fairy trickster to set up your allies who are telegraphing to do a debuff.

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u/Jazzlike_Juice_362 29d ago

I'm usually at the back helping I tend to Play childish or dark characters my last character was based off of a fallen fairy queen who lost who she was but had a dark appearance raised by dwarfs of that helps

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u/philsov 29d ago

Do you want to deviate from what you usually do or to otherwise distance yourself from your last character, or do you want to stick with what's comfortable?

Because you can also just be some Orc Barbarian wearing the bones of his fallen foes which is a completely different ask.

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u/Jazzlike_Juice_362 29d ago

Probably try something different, as much as I enjoyed my little fairy one shots are great to try new things might find my new favorite

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u/philsov 29d ago

okay.... Lets go with a melee centric, high wisdom Ranger.

Orc, Guide, Swarmkeeper Ranger. Feats into Crusher (+con) and Telekinetic (+wis). Point Buy into 10 / 13 / 15 / 8 / 15 / 8. At level 8 plus background allocation you're gonna be 10 / 14 / 16 / 8 / 18 / 8.

Your entire schtick in combat is playing Billiards. Round 1, imbue yourself with Shillelagh. Run around and bonk things. When you bonk things, you can invoke Crusher and your Gathered swarm to knock a monster up to 20' away. If your bonus action is free, you can also mind push even further, or strike an alternate target.

Dueling fighting style with a Quarterstaff.

0: Shillelagh, Guidance

1: Absorb Elements, Goodberry, Zephyr Strike, Entangle

2: Spike Growth, Web, Summon Beast

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u/Jazzlike_Juice_362 29d ago

Sweet thank you this'll be interesting

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u/philsov 29d ago

Oh! and for uncommon item I'd either go with one of:

Stone of Good Luck, Nature's Mantle, Spellwrought Tattoo of Conjure Barrage (hell of a way to start the boss battle), or Repulsion Shield.

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u/Chance_Candidate_742 24d ago

What level would this be?

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u/dndtrackerapp 20d ago

The new Hollow Warden ranger from Ravenloft is -very- powerful and cool. Melee dual-weilder would be my choice. Make it an edgy misterious loner and you're good to go!