then character concept preamble finished i proudly present episode NUMBER_TOKEN the martyr before we jump into the build i wanted to give a shout out to the sponsor for the video this week an upcoming NUMBER_TOKENe supplemental book from scoundrel game labs called fey encounters as many of you know i love all things fae in d d i love the potential for danger mixed with the whimsy and the magic of fae creatures and face settings and if you're like me in that regard or at least fake curious then i highly encourage you to check out the kickstarter for this book which actually launches today at the time of the release of this video quite simply fan counters is loaded with NUMBER_TOKEN encounters meant to be used to supplement your own adventure whether your entire adventure takes place in the feywild or you simply want to enhance your adventure with some fay flavored spice these like plug and play type encounters are great if you simply need a random encounter in your session or you need to flesh out a particular story arc or even if you wanted to like take several of them and use them to create maybe a one shot or even a longer campaign sort of building blocks for a larger campaign it can do all of those things the book is filled with lots of new monsters like the elemental tree ant or the faemire serpent there's new magic items like the chuckle chime which is a little bell that you can ring once per day to cast hideous laughter a very faesque spell indeed i think and each encounter even gives advice on how to scale them up or down to provide like the appropriate difficulty for your party's level and size several of the encounters even offer suggestions for how your party might resolve the encounter without violence if they're not a bunch of murder hobos as well as like tips for potential development if you wanted to take something from the encounter and work it into your campaign's larger story so overall i think the book would be a really fun and useful tool i strongly encourage you to go check out their kickstarter and back the project every campaign could use a little more faye check out the link in the video description to get to their kickstarter page big thanks to scoundrel game labs for their support good luck with your kickstarter and let's jump into the build all right at level one for our character class i think this character is best served by going cleric for a variety of reasons that will be made clear but not least of which i think it fits thematically so yes we are starting cleric at level one as for our race as a character who fuels the healing that they do by expending their own vitality having a character with a well-stocked pool of hit points to draw from will be really important hill dwarves unique to all races i believe get an additional one hit point per level so i think they are the best choice here so yes i'm recommending hill dwarf an alternative i think would actually be a shifter if you can play with the eberon book shifters have a great way to give themselves some temporary hit points which would serve a similar function and the idea of like a self-sacrificing werewolf type character is pretty compelling but with hill dwarf i also really love the fact that you
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN before we jump into the build i wanted to give a shout out to the sponsor for the video this week an upcoming NUMBER_TOKENe supplemental book from scoundrel game labs called fey encounters as many of you know i love all things fae in d d i love the potential for danger mixed with the whimsy and the magic of fae creatures and face settings and if you're like me in that regard or at least fake curious then i highly encourage you to check out the kickstarter for this book which actually launches today at the time of the release of this video quite simply fan counters is loaded with NUMBER_TOKEN encounters meant to be used to supplement your own adventure whether your entire adventure takes place in the feywild or you simply want to enhance your adventure with some fay flavored spice these like plug and play type encounters are great if you simply need a random encounter in your session or you need to flesh out a particular story arc or even if you wanted to like take several of them and use them to create maybe a one shot or even a longer campaign sort of building blocks for a larger campaign it can do all of those things the book is filled with lots of new monsters like the elemental tree ant or the faemire serpent there's new magic items like the chuckle chime which is a little bell that you can ring once per day to cast hideous laughter a very faesque spell indeed i think and each encounter even gives advice on how to scale them up or down to provide like the appropriate difficulty for your party's level and size several of the encounters even offer suggestions for how your party might resolve the encounter without violence if they're not a bunch of murder hobos as well as like tips for potential development if you wanted to take something from the encounter and work it into your campaign's larger story so overall i think the book would be a really fun and useful tool i strongly encourage you to go check out their kickstarter and back the project every campaign could use a little more faye check out the link in the video description to get to their kickstarter page big thanks to scoundrel game labs for their support good luck with your kickstarter and let's jump into the build END_SPONSOR_TOKEN