Scion of Darkness
In the post about the adventure hook contest , I chose to award The Forbidden Legacy with the note that I wanted the protagonist—who in the hook is an NPC to escort—to be one of the PCs. Today I’m using that hook as an excuse to build a character based on that theme for a 4th-level adventure. I’ll be using the new D&D 2024 rules for the first time. I’ll rely on the SRD found here . Class Selection As per the guidelines, the first thing to do is to choose a class. The hook mentions a lineage of banned sorcerers . The obvious choice would be to start as a sorcerer. However, doing so would lessen the impact of the twist where the protagonist discovers his dark heritage during the campaign. There’s nothing wrong with doing that, but I’d like this element to emerge through the character build. So I’ll go with a multiclass build. Let’s look at our options: paladin: the most thematically contrasting option. A paladin who eventually discovers this heritage an...