u/GuttzuGeist

As the title says, my son and I are joining a campaign starting at level 1 with plans to play for a while.
We bought the PHB and world book and have been reading to get ideas.

I made a different post about building a character for me, Guts from Berserk, but my son has asked if we can legit play as father/son, and I told him we can create and do whatever we can imagine within the game rules, and DM approval.

I play a bard in my 5E campaign, but my son is new to ttrpg’s so his imagination is going wild with what he wants his character to be and do both in and out of combat.
Reading through the handbook and world book I think we have settled on Thaylen characters to be family sailors and adventurers.

I enjoy RP and would like to be useful outside of combat and will look to be the face for the group, or at least strong social skills to lean into the merchant type mindset.
This combat is new to me, but I like the idea of an adventuring sailor that can also throw down.
Bard in 5e is all magic, but magic is odd in this world. I’d like to be more focused on dps but curious if ranged attacks are useful or if melee is stronger. Enter the concept of radiants, and not really sure what that needs to look like. Advice and help with building this out would be appreciated.

My son loves the idea of being a scientist outside of combat taking meticulous notes on experiments and research projects to learn about the world around him and how things work and why. He’s not too excited for combat, like I am, and would like to go more of the buffer role in battle. Not really sure what this needs to look like in this game but at the core we will be father/son sailors/merchants/scientist son that we travel and explore.

Only comparison I can think of in 5e would be a bard like character for me and a researching/scientific wizard for my son.

Help with optimizing these characters out would be appreciated. I’d like to build them out to level 10 or so for now because I’m not sure how far we will play but we should be consistent. Thank you :).

Long time ttrpg player here that is joining a new cosmere campaign. I’ve played DnD and pathfinder and went through the cosmere character introduction and it was very interesting to be asked questions and that dictate your character.
Although fun to see what my choices resulted in for character items, I’d like to ask advice on a build for a character I’ve been wanting to play for a while.

I love the anime Berserk, and Guts is my dude 100%. I appreciate how he doesn’t have any crazy skills other than he’s just insanely stubborn, amazing fighter, and has an indomitable will. He never quits. Swinging the dragon slayer is awesome and golden era guts will always have a place in my heart.

All that being said, I’d like advice on building Guts out in this game. Warrior path stuff looks good and so many potential dips into other things to make this character come to life.

Any advice on building him out would be much appreciated :). Thank you.