D&D Encounters Season 4: March of the Phantom Brigade begins on February 9. Today we’re sharing copies of the pre-generated characters. When comparing these characters with the ones provided over the past three season I have to say that these are by far the best yet.
Not only are the characters built better, but the character sheet layout is fantastic. Finally we’ve got all of the skills actually listed on the character sheet. I was also impressed by the fact that on each character sheet some tactics are provided. This will be a tremendous help for newer players and should speed things up considerably.
Each character also has a difficulty rating from 1-3 stars indicating how much experience is required to easily run each PC. Again, I think this is a fantastic improvement.
One thing that is missing is alignment. I guess Wizards figured that it’s up to the player to determine their own alignment and run the character accordingly.
You can find these six official pre-generated characters along with all of the other pre-gens Wizards has provided since the inception of D&D Encounters in the Dungeon’s Master
Pre-Generated Character Library.
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| Belgos |
| Male Drow |
| Ranger (Hunter) |
| Difficulty *** |
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| Brandis |
| Male Human |
| Paladin (Cavalier) |
| Difficulty ** |
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| Fargrim |
| Male Dwarf |
| Fighter (Slayer) |
| Difficulty * |
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| Jarren |
| Male Human |
| Wizard (Evocation Mage) |
| Difficulty ** |
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| Keira |
| Female Elf |
| Rogue (Thief) |
| Difficulty * |
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| Valenae |
| Female Eladrin |
| Cleric (War Priest) |
| Difficulty *** |
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1 2 3 Next »Aaaaaand the only leader is female. Way to propagate gender stereotypes, WotC.
@adamjford
Six pre-gens have been provided for each of the four seasons of D&D Encounters so far. Of those 24 total characters there have been five leaders, four females and one male.
Season 1 – Eselda (Cleric) – Female
Season 2 – Phye (Ardent) – Female
Season 3 – Hagen (Cleric) – Male
Season 3 – Sola (Cleric) – Female
Season 4 – Valenae (Cleric) – Female
I don't know if I'd call the female leader a stereotype, but I see why it might raise some eyebrows. Is it just a coincidence that there has been a female leader in each season? Personally I think it's just coincidence. After all there's been a male striker in each season so far and I wouldn't call that a stereotype either, just coincidence.
I live in Idaho, and I haven't been able to find a hobby shop within any of the hobby shops that sell dnd books that runs dnd encounters in my area. Me and a bunch of my friends have been trying to get a campaign going, but honestly none of us has even seen someone play the game. We thought that maybe dnd encounters would kind of help up get on our feet, as far as being able to run our own stuff, but we seem to can't find a place to sign up. So my question is if you could like apply to have the dnd encounters material sent to you, to give you an idea of how the dm job works or just the general flow of combat and such things, even if it is material from previous seasons of dnd encounters.
I agree, the new pre-gens are well put together. This current season (3) we only had one person (out of 14) use a pregen from start to finish, and this is only because she prefers pre-gen cards over character sheets. I think she will be pleased with the upcoming selection, and I am fairly certain she will play Valenae.
@ Jameson Rodriguez: Wizards definitely prefers a storefront, through the Wizards Play Network (WPN), you can designate pretty much any public place as a place to play and receive the needed materials. My recommendation would be to hit up your public library and see if they would help sponsor a weekly game session.
Find someone who is willing to spearhead this every week, as there is a lot of work involved in running Encounters, but it is very rewarding.
http://www.wizards.com/WPN/Default.aspx
@Jameson Rodriguez - Where in Idaho do you live? Anywhere near Moscow?
New to d&d 4e so excuse this question but.... I thought slayers added their Dex to damage as well as strength. Love these reports by the way thanks for posting them.
Thanks for the help, ill definitely try that. The library would probably be the perfect place to not only get me and my friends into dnd, but it may spark enough interest in my area that it would be something our hobby shops would actually start sponsoring.
I still don't agree with having Drow included in "Essentials". Traditionally, Drow are the bad guys, not the Drizzts. I totally agree with having it in the regular stuff (I'm primarily a 3.5 player, after all) but Essentials is supposed to be about the original basic feel.
I've already had one player try to use being a Drow as an excuse to start PvP in Encounters. He won't get away with trying it again. =/
@Funkfugiyama I actually live in the Caldwell area, by Boise.
@James -
Yes, the Slayer adds his Dexterity to damage, but the character sheet is correct.
His damage is: 1d12 + Str + Dex
= 1d12 + 4 + 2
= 1d12 + 6, as the sheet says.