Tyranny of Dragons, died and need a replacement
Hey y'all. I'm in a Tyranny of Dragons campaign and the DM is running it vanilla (updated to 5.5e statblocks where needed), but he's running combats pretty offensively and at level 7 I'm in need of a third PC because my last two are dead without chance of resurrection. To be clear, we're all on board with it being relatively high lethality and I'm loving it, but I would now like to not die.
My first two were a yuan-ti daolock (killed when a monster grappled me and dragged me through the druid's spike growth) and a tortle watchers paladin (killed outright from full hp when rolling low initiative and getting attacked by 2 5-armed trolls including a named one) before getting a turn.
The party is 5 people including myself. The other PCs are:
- Fire genasi gloom stalker 5 rogue 2, will be going assassin next level
- Bugbear spores druid
- Goliath life cleric
- Goliath barbarian 2 battlemaster 5
The two goliath players are there about 2/3 of the time due to real life scheduling issues. It was only 3 of us playing last night when my pali got killed.
We're in need of a face so I do feel locked in to a charisma character. I don't really want to repeat a class (dips are okay) so that leaves me with sorc or bard.
We've got a custom array (everyone has the same, rolled at the start of the campaign) and it's really good - 16, 15, 15, 13, 12, 12.
I'm still not overly-familiar with 5.5e as most of my games are in 5e. We're all competent players otherwise.
I'm thinking possibly a high elf swords bard with the Tough starter feat, high elf so I can pick up a good offensive cantrip, but I wanted to get advice. As a 5e player this sounds good to me but I dunno if I should multiclass. Bardlocks or bardadins are great, and ofc there's great synergy for sorcadins and sorc/bards too. Maybe I can even run a pure sorc and focus on defensive spells, or even pull off a different multiclass because the stats are good enough that 2 spellcasting stats isn't horrific.
Aside from being a face we're a little bit lacking in skill monkey utility (ranger/rogue is pulling ALL the weight here) and if the goliaths are away we're lacking in frontline combat significantly - the druid has to diversify their spell list for healing/cc/utility so they can't focus on one thing, and the ranger/rogue is ranged.
Very much open to suggestions. What do we think?