The Sidekick rules in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything are pretty much that. If you’ve not come across them, you take the stat block of a CR1/2 or lower creature, then apply one of three simplified class templates (Warrior, Expert or Spellcaster) to it. They allow the sidekick to level up alongside the party.
In the whole span of D&D? As noted, there’s the Tasha’s stats for sidekicks and doubtless there’s been some other official material for it over the past 5 decades, but it’s always been tertiary. The game has assumed since at least 3rd edition that all the party members will at least theoretically be peers in terms of approximate power level and engagement. Obviously the various aspects are too diversified and gameplay too asymmetric to avoid a lot of variance in practice, of course.
So I’m going to be staying with family over the Christmas holidays and one of my family members asked me to run a oneshot for her kids. They haven’t played dnd before and so I’m building their characters for them. One kid asked to be a princess, which was friends with animals, I’m going to make her a Druid with noble background. One of the kids asked to be a weather wizard which, I’m using a reflavoured tempest cleric, and the youngest ask to be a dinosaur, which I couldn’t figure out how to make it work at level three.
Reflavor a dragonborn as a dinosaur. I'm betting he would be happiest playing a barbarian. Ask him what type of dinosaur he wants to be. If he wants to be a bigger dinosaur, just tell him he is a midget version of that dinosaur.
Reflavor a dragonborn as a dinosaur. I'm betting he would be happiest playing a barbarian. Ask him what type of dinosaur he wants to be. If he wants to be a bigger dinosaur, just tell him he is a midget version of that dinosaur.
Tell him he can't be as big as normal so that he can fit through the same doors as everyone else. And go Path of the Beast barbarian so he can hit enemies with his claws or tail.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I played with someone who played this princess class for many levels. A foul tempered drow princess, but that’s a whole story. It becomes more complex as you get to high level, but at low level I think you could fit everything on one page. And you can choose things that let you have an animal companion and summon animals. There’s no spellcasting feature, just a list of princess features you choose to customize what you can do.
So I’m going to be staying with family over the Christmas holidays and one of my family members asked me to run a oneshot for her kids. They haven’t played dnd before and so I’m building their characters for them. One kid asked to be a princess, which was friends with animals, I’m going to make her a Druid with noble background. One of the kids asked to be a weather wizard which, I’m using a reflavoured tempest cleric, and the youngest ask to be a dinosaur, which I couldn’t figure out how to make it work at level three.
Do you have Mythic Odysseys of Theros? I would suggest a reskinned Leonin instead of Dragonborn. They get a 1x short or long rest roar that the youngest may enjoy.
So it turns out they have seen Jurassic Park recently and the youngest wants to be a velociraptor. So I was thinking Leonin rogue thief. That way he can roar, climb, use his claws and use sneak attack as a kind of pack tactic when working with the other players. For the princess I’m thinking more ranger then Druid as wild shape might be a bit complicated for a first game, either hunter or primal beast master. For the tempest cleric I’m thinking making him Goliath, so he is not to vulnerable as the only pure caster. thanks everyone for your suggestions, it’s really been great having help figuring this out.
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I don’t mean a class that comes with a pet, like beast master. I mean literally playing an adventuring party’s pet.
The Sidekick rules in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything are pretty much that. If you’ve not come across them, you take the stat block of a CR1/2 or lower creature, then apply one of three simplified class templates (Warrior, Expert or Spellcaster) to it. They allow the sidekick to level up alongside the party.
In the whole span of D&D? As noted, there’s the Tasha’s stats for sidekicks and doubtless there’s been some other official material for it over the past 5 decades, but it’s always been tertiary. The game has assumed since at least 3rd edition that all the party members will at least theoretically be peers in terms of approximate power level and engagement. Obviously the various aspects are too diversified and gameplay too asymmetric to avoid a lot of variance in practice, of course.
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So I’m going to be staying with family over the Christmas holidays and one of my family members asked me to run a oneshot for her kids. They haven’t played dnd before and so I’m building their characters for them. One kid asked to be a princess, which was friends with animals, I’m going to make her a Druid with noble background. One of the kids asked to be a weather wizard which, I’m using a reflavoured tempest cleric, and the youngest ask to be a dinosaur, which I couldn’t figure out how to make it work at level three.
Reflavor a dragonborn as a dinosaur. I'm betting he would be happiest playing a barbarian. Ask him what type of dinosaur he wants to be. If he wants to be a bigger dinosaur, just tell him he is a midget version of that dinosaur.
Tell him he can't be as big as normal so that he can fit through the same doors as everyone else. And go Path of the Beast barbarian so he can hit enemies with his claws or tail.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I played with someone who played this princess class for many levels. A foul tempered drow princess, but that’s a whole story. It becomes more complex as you get to high level, but at low level I think you could fit everything on one page. And you can choose things that let you have an animal companion and summon animals. There’s no spellcasting feature, just a list of princess features you choose to customize what you can do.
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Do you have Mythic Odysseys of Theros? I would suggest a reskinned Leonin instead of Dragonborn. They get a 1x short or long rest roar that the youngest may enjoy.
Path of the Beast fills in the other gaps.
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So it turns out they have seen Jurassic Park recently and the youngest wants to be a velociraptor. So I was thinking Leonin rogue thief. That way he can roar, climb, use his claws and use sneak attack as a kind of pack tactic when working with the other players. For the princess I’m thinking more ranger then Druid as wild shape might be a bit complicated for a first game, either hunter or primal beast master. For the tempest cleric I’m thinking making him Goliath, so he is not to vulnerable as the only pure caster.
thanks everyone for your suggestions, it’s really been great having help figuring this out.