Erystelle Feadial, Fighter of Dorneryl (3.5e D&D, Mystara)

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Class: Fighter 1, Level: 1

Race: Elf, Sex: Male

Alignment: Neutral Good

Religion: Elven Immortal Veneration Cult

Characteristics

  • Strength: 14 (+2)
  • Dexterity: 16 (+3)
  • Constitution: 11 (±0)
  • Intelligence:  16 (+3)
  • Wisdom: 11 (±0)
  • Charisma: 10 (±0)

Combat:

  • Initiative: +3
  • Base Attack Bonus: +1
  • Melee Bonus: 1 + 2 = +3
  • Ranged Bonus: 1 + 3 = +4
  • Armour Class: 10 w/ Scale Mail (+4) = 14
  • Hit Points: 10

Saving Throws:

  • Fortitude: 2 + 2 = +4
  • Reflex: 0 + 3 = +3
  • Will: 0 + 0  = ±0

Coin:

  • gp - 1
  • sp - 9

Skills:

  • climb 3 + 3 = 6
  • handle animal 3 + -1 = 2
  • heal 3 + 4 = 7
  • hide 2 + 3 = 5
  • jump 2 + 3 = 5
  • knowledge geography 3 + 1 = 4
  • knowledge nature 3 + 1 = 4
  • listen 2 + 4 = 6
  • move silently 3 + 3 = 6
  • spot 2 + 4 = 6
  • survival 4 + 4 = 8
  • swim 2 + 3 = 5

Equipment:

  • Dagger 1d4
  • Longsword 1d8 (1)
  • Longbow 1d8 (1)
  • Arrows (20) (3)
  • Scale Mail +4 (1)
  • bedroll 5lb
  • flint & steel
  • 1 week trail rations
  • backpack

Feats & Special Abilities:

  • tracking
  • armor proficiency light
  • armor proficiency medium
  • armor proficiency heavy
  • martial weapon proficiency
  • point blank shot
  • shield proficiency
  • simple weapon proficiency
  • tower shield proficiency
  • Immune to Sleep

Languages: 

  • Common Human (Eastern Brun common Thyatian)
  • Alfheim Elven 

Story:

Erystelle is still young for an elf, but his parents know that living as close to the northern tip of the Canolbarth Forest with the Broken Lands not very distant and Darokin's Northeast Territories a mountainous and untamed hinterland just as close by, he will need to learn.

Thus, they have sent him west to meet a Darokin ranger who will join him at a frontier keep in the borderlands.

Commentary:

Continuing with rebooting my old D&D Mystara campaign, the name Erystelle comes from adventure module O2 Blade of Vengeance by Jim Bambra. I was soloing an elf character already when I found this module in a Leisure World store in Truro, Nova Scotia. Those stores were great, and we have never seen anything like them since.

I don't remember what my elf's original name was. Something vaguely sylvan plus something vaguely Tolkienian if I had to guess. It didn't matter back then. I wasn't attached to character stories, and I didn't see yet the long campaign form D&D games could be. It was a series of episodes, much like 80s television, or the original Conan short stories. 

But after Blade of Vengeance, then adventure module CM7 The Tree of Life, and a few of the Gazetteers it began to make sense. 

My first reboot was trying to make everything 1e AD&D, but I preferred the BECMI/Gazetteer skills and the weapon mastery system. So the rules became a mashup irrespective of any origins. That's when yesterday's character was first created as a first edition AD&D ranger. 

The second reboot was 3rd edition when it initially came out, but I didn't gain traction with it and wound up a player in someone else's game. 

More recently I attempted a 5e reboot, but nothing about the new edition made me think it was superior or even equal to any of my AD&D/BECMI mashup, third edition, or just playing 1e Pathfinder or Castles & Crusades. 

The thing is, I have this hang-up with Mystara. I just want to play D&D in that world. I'll play C&C in Airdhe. Probably 1e AD&D in Greyhawk. 2e in the Realms. Rolemaster has to be in Kulthea. OSR retro-clones I'll use in randomly generated worlds. 

Who am I kidding?

I tried at least 59 games since 2020. Those are the ones I kept a record of, so it's not including various indy one-pagers and artsy creative experimental thought experiments. It's also not counting a few that just aren't worth speaking about. 

But Mystara's been on my list a long time. 

So who knows.

I've copied Erystelle's characteristics from the O2 module since I can't find my original character sheet. I'm starting him as a fighter and will give him a wizard level at his first level gain to attempt to emulate a B/X-BECMI elf class with 3.5e. 

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