So for my campaign I have a Raven Queen paladin who in her youth made a choice out of arrogance and cost her the lives of her two friends, they were half elves twins, and while the sister was confirmed dead, the brother’s body was never found, I have it laid out that this half elf became a Vampire Lady’s slave turning him into a warrior that cannot defy her, and I have the idea of narrowing it down to him being some kind of arcane archer, but am still unsure of how to stat him out to give the future encounter with him more weight and danger.
Man, there's really a lot of factors to consider here, depending on how you want this to play out.
A few questions I would ask first:
What level is your party and how many of them?
What's their class/race make up?
How many magic items do they have, are they already cleaving through things that could give them trouble?
How much of a danger do you want this enemy to pose? and in what way?
Simply being deadly to the party
Creating turmoil by attacking them in other ways (Their family, a favored NPC maybe?, desecrating somewhere they like to spend their time?)
An omen of an even greater threat?
Based on the answers to those questions I can better help, but it's good to narrow these things down first. Only you know how strong your party is and only you know what you're trying to accomplish with this entity. Once we have answers to these we can start helping you accomplish what you need.
Just a thought for a build to start off as a template so maybe I'm underthinking it but you could start off creating a character using the 'Randomize" option in the 'Character Builder' page. I created a 5 level Half-Elf Fighter which randomized all the stats, etc then went and added the Arcane Archer to the Martial Archetype. From there you can pick and choose how the character is designed to fit your need.
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So for my campaign I have a Raven Queen paladin who in her youth made a choice out of arrogance and cost her the lives of her two friends, they were half elves twins, and while the sister was confirmed dead, the brother’s body was never found, I have it laid out that this half elf became a Vampire Lady’s slave turning him into a warrior that cannot defy her, and I have the idea of narrowing it down to him being some kind of arcane archer, but am still unsure of how to stat him out to give the future encounter with him more weight and danger.
Man, there's really a lot of factors to consider here, depending on how you want this to play out.
A few questions I would ask first:
Based on the answers to those questions I can better help, but it's good to narrow these things down first. Only you know how strong your party is and only you know what you're trying to accomplish with this entity. Once we have answers to these we can start helping you accomplish what you need.
Just a thought for a build to start off as a template so maybe I'm underthinking it but you could start off creating a character using the 'Randomize" option in the 'Character Builder' page. I created a 5 level Half-Elf Fighter which randomized all the stats, etc then went and added the Arcane Archer to the Martial Archetype. From there you can pick and choose how the character is designed to fit your need.