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Oct 14, 2012 -- 9:27AM, GamersSociety wrote:

DMing my first full campaign, and I ned to build the "antiparty". I've got most of them figured out, but there's one I just can't figure out how to do. For story purposes, she's a Dragon Tamer. Unfortunately, I can't really think of any class that's good to fit this role....Little help?

4E? And you're asking about classes for NPCs? Throw the lot out and start over.

Well, don't exactly throw them out. Keep them as a first draft, and use them as a guide to what sort of abilities your NPCs built according to NPC rules might have.

For the dragon-tamer, on that line your three best things to look at are (a) beastmaster ranger, (b) Fey Beast Tamer theme, or (c) if she is taming a dragon that is still very very young and very very small, Animal Master theme.

(Personally I think the latter would rock for RP. "Yes, I'm really one of the dreaded Dragon Warriors of Overthere. Would you like to meet my dragon? Oh, it's no trouble, she's right here in my backpack sleeping." Mechanically, though, it's a bit weak.)

A bit more seriously, you need to determine whether she has a dragon with her (and if so, how capable, obedient, and loyal it is, and whether it has an "instinctive action" like a Druid summon), and then what abilities she has on her own. Do these dragon-tamers ride their dragons? Then I would expect proficiency with weapons suitable for use while riding a dragon, as well as weapons suitable for use in taming and training young dragons. Thrown weapons, particularly nets and spears, I think. If they don't then I would expect an ordinary assortment of melee and ranged weapons. Plus whips, maybe.

I'd say that a dragon-rider would be a skirmisher, assuming of course that she has a rideable dragon. With a combat-worthy but non-rideable dragon I'd go with a controller, or possibly artillery by directing a flying dragon where to attack.

Oct 14, 2012 -- 3:09AM, Plaguescarred wrote:

Oct 13, 2012 -- 11:34PM, VoyRager wrote:

Do anyone here know where is the DC lores for spellplagued's or/and spellscar's conditions on creatures and the source's where these formalized DC checks' information are listed?

No general DC exist for Plaguechanged or Spellscarred Lore AFAIK. You can use the default Knowledge Skills check in Rule Compendium pg. 129 to dispense informations using the Skill you think is most appropriate (Arcana is a good choice).

More informations on Plaguechanged and Spellscarred can be found in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide pg. 51. More information on Plaguescarred can be found here XD


KNOWLEDGE CHECK
Information     DC
General            Easy
Specialized       Moderate
Esoteric            Hard

Thanks Plaguescarred, with your information I have manged to put this together:
 
KNOWLEDGE CHECK
Spellscarred Information DC
General Easy:
An active spellscar might appear as jagged cracks of blue light racing across the forearms and hands, a corona of cerulean flame, a blazing blue glyph on the forehead, or perhaps even wings of cobalt flame. In all instances, blue fire is a sure indicator of a spellscar.
Spellscars are usually gained when creatures come too close to a certain type of strange arcane energy weaving either inactive or active in a vicinity of an object or an area. Rare enough a spellscar is a physical abnormality, yet in all cases the sign a being is spellscar is a blue colored physical irregularity but more than often this blue marling is an intangible mark that appears only when its power is activated. The more evident the spellscar’s marking is the more control the spellscar victim has over the weaved energy’s effects and conditions.  

Specialized Moderate:
Even though these afflict beings who never had came close or made any contact with the main center of the contagion rampant magical focus; the energy can travel as a weave energy been attracted to or drifting into pockets of similar energies.
 A creature can learn to master its spellscar through a variety of methods. Some beings travel to the site of events where such affliction has occurred in hopes of gaining a spellscar; these such “scar pilgrimages” are mainly an indication that an individual or a group are seeking to obtained or harnessed a powerful arcane source from within themelves.
 
Esoteric Hard:
Most of these similar energies are created by powerful necromancers or dark sorcerers whom have developed their own unique methods for harnessing the dark energy from and in places like far realms of the Elemental landscape and the mysterious realms of the Shadowfell. There has been documented and witnessed events recorded in even more regions of these cases and in every such of an event occurrence the creation of these weaving energy manifested in a plagued-like affliction yet in the Shadowfell Realm such affliction following a strange event seems to be limited to one or two of the witness instead of wide-spreading.

Do you think this accurated enought to fly (or to put in DnD play)?