Radal Earthhewer, Dwarven Runepriest
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In anticipation for the upcoming “conversion“, I was told by Bridget that my sister-in-law wants me to play a character as well as DMing. I think she thinks the party will be safe as long as I’ve got a stake in the party as well.
I decided to give a character a try I’ve never played before, and went with a Dwarf. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been a fan of Dwarves (at least 12 years or so), so I thought it would be a welcome change of pace. I was originally planning on having him be a Beastmaster Ranger, but thought better of it when Bridget brought home a mini of an arabian girl with a pair of swords and Bridget said she wanted to play a Ranger with it.
So I began looking through the books, and stumbled upon the Runepriest. It’s an easily ignored class in PHB3. While everyone’s been focusing on the Psionic classes, they’ve ignored the Runepriest.
So why not give him a whirl?
I’ve been looking over the book, and he looks like a pretty solid Divine Leader, with some very strong Defender elements, in that he’s definitely the type to take the brunt of attacks.
I also picked up a mini for him, and got him painted. To the right, you can see the results. The lighting is really horrible, but hopefully you can see what I’m going for. I made his eyes glow, and, failing to make a good glow effect from his axe, it’s just sort of a metallic blue.
Bridget will get up photos of the minis she’s painting soon, I’m sure.
I’m doing something similar with my Truth & Justice campaign just now, where my character is the one who provides all the cool gadgets for the rest of them. Of course, it’s far too easy to wander into character building with your own character or dialogue with yourself as an NPC.
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We actually have a goliath runepriest in our 4e game right now and he is holding his own pretty well. Seems like it could be a really fun class to play.
I think the Runepriest is great. I hadn’t even heard of it last fall when I started playing an artificer whose flavor was runic magic. My DM suggested, when the book came out, that I could switch classes if I wanted; do a complete and total rebuild of the character as a Runepriest rather than Artificer. I took him up on it and, after an interesting RP session explaining the change to the other players, it’s been a ton of fun. The biggest thing to remember with the Runepriest is that there are a lot of things going on all the time. Your rune states each have a persistent aura 1 effect while encounter and at-will attacks have additional effects, many of which are “until the end of your next turn.” Also, each build choice has a special effect that boosts your damage against enemies who either hit or miss you. It can be overwhelming at first. I know I’ve forgotten my bonus damage a few times.
The flavor of the Runepriest is a lot of fun and I hope to hear your thoughts on it in the future.
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I find it odd that on your end of the world the Runepriest is overlooked cause in my house the Runepriest is considered one of the cooler classes of PHB3 (the Ardent is simply a Warlord who is too lazy to talk and the Psion is basically Jean Grey). The Runepriest is great and William O’Connor made him look pretty bad ass to boot.
Jammi, the Girlfriend DM, plays a Minotaur Runepriest in my campaign. He worships The Shadow, but is actually more of a good-aligned character than the rest of the party. She also brings a sack of runes to the game for flavor.
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