Welcome, possible contestants, to the fifth monthly Throwdown (Backup Band Edition) - Version 2.0!
I know there hasn't been a throwdown since my last try to rescue that beautiful tradition failed like a Goldfish falling on rocks from a 1000ft cliff taking 363 points of damage. But I remain hopefull that it can be rescued.
This time, because it's starting to get to that time of the year I will recycle another old theme:
Concept
HAPPY HOLYDAYS!
The smell of gingerbread, cinamon and magic is in the air! The holydays are upon us! Bring me the most festive, most joyous characters there are!
Your Character shall be a holyday themed one: It doesn't matter to me which holyday you celebrate, christmas, chanukka or any other one!
The Rules
- No UA or homebrew rules, only published material. Critical Role content (Gunslingers, Cobalt Soul/Oath of the Open Sea, Blood Hunters) is permitted.
- Stats must be included at each point of the build. Stat arrays can utilize either standard array or point buy, as the builder desires.
- Demonstrate how your build grows, with a description of how it performs at levels 1, 5, 11, 17, and 20 IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE BREAKDOWNS AT THESE LEVELS, YOUR BUILD WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. If you provide breakdowns at every level, make sure that the ones at these levels are more in-depth than those of any other level. How your character grows, both mechanically and thematically, needs to be clearly spelled out at these levels. Keep us engaged with both, as they are both important.
- Multiclassing is in play; multiclass prerequisites are as per the book(s). Feats are also in play.
- Start your build with a supernatural gift (chosen from the Hollow One or those listed in Mythic Odysseys of Theros) or feat of your choice.
- Any legal species, subspecies, or variant species is valid.
- Magic items are not allowed, unless you’re an artificer using Infusions or otherwise have a way to get magic items from your features (Pact of the Blade, Forge Warlock, etc). EXCEPTION: Characters can use common items with no significant in-game effects, such as prosthetic limbs, ersatz eyes, capes of billowing, or other ‘fluff’ items to help sell their aesthetic/character.
- Your character can use any weapon from first level outward. Expensive armor (anything above a hundred gold) is assumed to be obtained after level 5. FIREARMS ARE ALLOWED AFTER LEVEL 5 (both Exandria and Renaissance versions, no Futuristic or Modern). You are only proficient in them if you are an Artificer, Gunslinger, or have the Gunner feat. If your build uses guns, you must still follow the theme of the build (being "indestructible" and able to take multiple hits). Repeating Shot will be allowed to work with firearms with the Reload (4-6) or Loading properties.
- Catchy names and engaging stories are MANDATORY. Entertain us! Demonstrate your ability to weave words, craft engaging stories, and charm people with your characters as well as your build's numbers! Build a character, not just abuild. Characters have personality, are relatable, and should be people we care about. If you need some examples, here they are: 1, 2, 3
- You can edit your post to fix mistakes or make changes to your build entry(s) at any time before submissions are closed and voting begins. Edits caught after that period will disqualify your build. Catch your typos before the deadline, folks!
Suggested Format
Name (level 20 class/classes) Stats: (Str | Dex | Con | Int | Wis | Cha) Species Background
First-Level Stats and Commentary
Fifth-Level Stats and Commentary
Eleventh-Level Stats and Commentary
Seventeenth-Level Stats and Commentary
Twentieth-Level Stats and Commentary
ART
You must provide at least one piece of art that fits your character. This can be through the excellent resource of HeroForge to create 3D, fully colored characters of a vast variety of races, or any other piece of art you can find that fits your character (if you use someone else's art, credit them). We need to not only be able to relate to your character, but we also need to see them. (Yes, I'm changing things up a bit. This is an experiment.) The more art, the better!
VOTING
In this contest, each person who votes gets five points they can distribute as they please amongst any/all builds in the Throwdown. Love one build to death? Give it all five points! Can’t quite pick between two great builds? Give one three points and one two! Wanna spread the love? Give five different builds a point each (if you have to, anyways). The winner of the Throwdown will be the build that accumulates the most points once voting is tallied.
Some additional rules: >Each poster only gets one voting post. You’re more than welcome to vote even if you didn’t enter. >If you enter a build, you must submit a vote as well for your build to qualify to win. >Clearly Label your voting post. Examples of acceptable voting posts are in this thread. >You cannot assign points to your own build(s). >You can enter more than one build, so long as they respect the forum’s rules against double posting. >Votes must be cast AFTER the end of submissionand the opening of voting. Any votes cast or points assigned prior to that date will be ignored. Everybody gets a chance to enter. >To encourage feedback: anyone who writes feedback on everyone else’s build in the Throwdown (even just a line or two) gets a bonus point added to their own entry. If they have more than one build, the point will be added to their highest-scoring entry.
This experiment will run until December 10th (or thereabouts), when I will close submissions and open voting. Until I post and say submissions are closed, feel free to enter abuild (or multiple builds). After that, voting will run for roughly a week before I announce an end to the voting stage and start tabulating up a winner.
The only prizes I can offer are the satisfaction of winning, a place in the Hall of Victory in future Throwdowns, and a digital trophy (in the form of this emoji; 🏆).
DorkForge, the originator of these Throwdown contests here in DDB, has a Youtube channel discussing D&D 5e mechanics, character builds, and newly released character options. Recently, DF’s been plugging through the big mess of nonsense that came from Tasha’s Cauldron. Give it a look-see if you enjoy that sort of content.
Welcome, possible contestants, to the fifth monthly Throwdown (Backup Band Edition) - Version 2.0!
I know there hasn't been a throwdown since my last try to rescue that beautiful tradition failed like a Goldfish falling on rocks from a 1000ft cliff taking 363 points of damage. But I remain hopefull that it can be rescued.
This time, because it's starting to get to that time of the year I will recycle another old theme:
Concept
HAPPY HOLYDAYS!
The smell of gingerbread, cinamon and magic is in the air! The holydays are upon us! Bring me the most festive, most joyous characters there are!
Your Character shall be a holyday themed one: It doesn't matter to me which holyday you celebrate, christmas, chanukka or any other one!
The Rules
- No UA or homebrew rules, only published material. Critical Role content (Gunslingers, Cobalt Soul/Oath of the Open Sea, Blood Hunters) is permitted.
- Stats must be included at each point of the build. Stat arrays can utilize either standard array or point buy, as the builder desires.
- Demonstrate how your build grows, with a description of how it performs at levels 1, 5, 11, 17, and 20 IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE BREAKDOWNS AT THESE LEVELS, YOUR BUILD WILL BE DISQUALIFIED. If you provide breakdowns at every level, make sure that the ones at these levels are more in-depth than those of any other level. How your character grows, both mechanically and thematically, needs to be clearly spelled out at these levels. Keep us engaged with both, as they are both important.
- Multiclassing is in play; multiclass prerequisites are as per the book(s). Feats are also in play.
- Start your build with a supernatural gift (chosen from the Hollow One or those listed in Mythic Odysseys of Theros) or feat of your choice.
- Any legal species, subspecies, or variant species is valid.
- Magic items are not allowed, unless you’re an artificer using Infusions or otherwise have a way to get magic items from your features (Pact of the Blade, Forge Warlock, etc). EXCEPTION: Characters can use common items with no significant in-game effects, such as prosthetic limbs, ersatz eyes, capes of billowing, or other ‘fluff’ items to help sell their aesthetic/character.
- Your character can use any weapon from first level outward. Expensive armor (anything above a hundred gold) is assumed to be obtained after level 5. FIREARMS ARE ALLOWED AFTER LEVEL 5 (both Exandria and Renaissance versions, no Futuristic or Modern). You are only proficient in them if you are an Artificer, Gunslinger, or have the Gunner feat. If your build uses guns, you must still follow the theme of the build (being "indestructible" and able to take multiple hits). Repeating Shot will be allowed to work with firearms with the Reload (4-6) or Loading properties.
- Catchy names and engaging stories are MANDATORY. Entertain us! Demonstrate your ability to weave words, craft engaging stories, and charm people with your characters as well as your build's numbers! Build a character, not just abuild. Characters have personality, are relatable, and should be people we care about. If you need some examples, here they are: 1, 2, 3
- You can edit your post to fix mistakes or make changes to your build entry(s) at any time before submissions are closed and voting begins. Edits caught after that period will disqualify your build. Catch your typos before the deadline, folks!
Suggested Format
Name (level 20 class/classes)
Stats: (Str | Dex | Con | Int | Wis | Cha)
Species
Background
First-Level Stats and Commentary
Fifth-Level Stats and Commentary
Eleventh-Level Stats and Commentary
Seventeenth-Level Stats and Commentary
Twentieth-Level Stats and Commentary
ART
You must provide at least one piece of art that fits your character. This can be through the excellent resource of HeroForge to create 3D, fully colored characters of a vast variety of races, or any other piece of art you can find that fits your character (if you use someone else's art, credit them). We need to not only be able to relate to your character, but we also need to see them. (Yes, I'm changing things up a bit. This is an experiment.) The more art, the better!
VOTING
In this contest, each person who votes gets five points they can distribute as they please amongst any/all builds in the Throwdown. Love one build to death? Give it all five points! Can’t quite pick between two great builds? Give one three points and one two! Wanna spread the love? Give five different builds a point each (if you have to, anyways). The winner of the Throwdown will be the build that accumulates the most points once voting is tallied.
Some additional rules:
>Each poster only gets one voting post. You’re more than welcome to vote even if you didn’t enter.
>If you enter a build, you must submit a vote as well for your build to qualify to win.
>Clearly Label your voting post. Examples of acceptable voting posts are in this thread.
>You cannot assign points to your own build(s).
>You can enter more than one build, so long as they respect the forum’s rules against double posting.
>Votes must be cast AFTER the end of submissionand the opening of voting. Any votes cast or points assigned prior to that date will be ignored. Everybody gets a chance to enter.
>To encourage feedback: anyone who writes feedback on everyone else’s build in the Throwdown (even just a line or two) gets a bonus point added to their own entry. If they have more than one build, the point will be added to their highest-scoring entry.
This experiment will run until December 10th (or thereabouts), when I will close submissions and open voting. Until I post and say submissions are closed, feel free to enter abuild (or multiple builds). After that, voting will run for roughly a week before I announce an end to the voting stage and start tabulating up a winner.
The only prizes I can offer are the satisfaction of winning, a place in the Hall of Victory in future Throwdowns, and a digital trophy (in the form of this emoji; 🏆).
DorkForge, the originator of these Throwdown contests here in DDB, has a Youtube channel discussing D&D 5e mechanics, character builds, and newly released character options. Recently, DF’s been plugging through the big mess of nonsense that came from Tasha’s Cauldron. Give it a look-see if you enjoy that sort of content.
HALL OF VICTORY
Throwdown #1: The Gish – Yurei’s “Aine, Avandra’s Blade”
Throwdown #2: The Terminator – Yurei’s “AS7 ATLAS”
Throwdown #3: The Solo Tour – GoodBovine’s “The Dark Angel”
Throwdown #4: Powergamer’s Potluck – Yurei’s “Yferna, the Feywarden”
Throwdown #5: Spooky Circumstances – Archeolexi’s “Arissa, the Dark Princess”
Throwdown #6: Magus Maximums – Third_Sundering’s “Impending Doom”
Throwdown #7: Dash Action Through the Difficult Terrain - Yurei453's "Santa's Little Helper"
Throwdown Backup Band #1: The Gish 2: Booming Boogaloo - Third_Sundering's "Urik Zorhav the Steelwarden"
Throwdown Backup Band #2: The Terminator 2.0: Judgement Day Will Come - HeironymusZot's "Inoshishi, the demon of Rinkoku" tied with Sutlo's "Little Jacky Oaths - the Iron Rider"
Throwdown Backup Band #3 : The Villain: There is eeeevil afoot!- TabaxiRogueFighterClericWarlock's Kauss Nielots
Well i think that covers everything, tell me if i did anything wrong in this post and i'll edit it, but until then may the best holyday build win!
Come on guys, someone must be ready for this?