My LoTR Party - need help please

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Oh, okay I'll stop jumping to conclusions.

 

What are everyones thoughts on an evil LoTR party instead of the Fellowship?

I think it'd be interesting using Sauron, Wormtongue, Gollum and a couple more I can't quite think of

Sauron - Sorcerer/Wizard type
Saruman - Sorcerer

I am a bit lost for everyone else to fill in the party. I haven't read the books for a while - I may have to.

 

Sauron could be tiefling or drow. Chao evil of course. But still, I think it's not really in the vein of the books to start of Sauron at level 1. You might have to drop Sauron, he doesn't even have a form.

Soooo, who are we left with then? Well Saruman of course. Chao evil Aasimar sorc? That's probably closest. Or maybe a few lvls of paladin (cf Gandalf)
-Wormtongue: rogue, bard? seeing as he's so smooth with words and like to hide in the shadows
-Gollum... But what class in all the world IS he anyway? Of course he's sneaky. likes to kill from behind... It suggests rogue, but I'm not really convinced.
-For your tanks you could take some halforc barbarians as Uruk-hais. That easy enough I would say. Power 'em up, low on cha, int and wis. Just chop chop chop.
This leaves you without a cleric. You might take the king of the Nazgul as a Talos Stormlord or something. Anyway, I'm just suggetsing.

 

Hey Laccessit, just as an addition to your idea to the evil LoTR party...

-Saruman. It states in the ADnD 2nd Ed. that all demons and such are lawful evil, and he did used to be a white wizard, so lets make him Lawful evil Tiefling sorcerer/wizard. That's probably closest.

-Wormtongue: Wormtongue was a sleazy scumcrawler and a traitor to boot, so lets make him chaotic evil. Rogue of course, but make his con. sleazy so he is a pansy. Give him a ditchload of dex. though. An idea would be to make him a monk, as he was pretty clever, so the wisdom bonus would come in handy, and they do get kick arse armour class.

-Gollum... Gollum is "something resembling a hobbit" so we shall make him a halfling. He was stalking for a while, but it says in the books that he was sneaking around because he had the malformed body and such, and of course, the ring, so i would make him a ghostfoot halfling barb/rogue.

-Ourik-Kai?? (spelling?). Well, the lead general was pretty clever, so a decent wizdom (as in not 3) and a whole load of Str. and Con. WE have a barazoid, so lets make them fighters, for Wep Spec. Orc, of course. Neutral Evil, as they were only serving saurmon.

-Witch King. Well, he was a corrupted ruler, made into a lich by one of the nine rings for mortal man. You will want some fighting power, and also spell power. I havent checked out the paladin classes, but if there is, try Anti-Paladin, or the closest thing.

-Sauron. Blasphemy, i know, but enable the console and start him off at level 3. Make him Chaotic evil, although i said before that all demons are Lawful Evil, he "poured his malic greed ect" so he had to have it to start off with.
He had extreme magic power, but also major damagin mele power, so we will want a Mage/Fighter. Prof. in mace. 2 in mage, 1 in fighter. What race is he??? We'll go tiefling, as you will not need the charisma. Give the diplomacy skills ect. to wormtongue or Gollum. Drow might work. Dunno, ill try it next time.

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This might seem a bit odd... But what about Beorn?? (from The Hobbit ) He would be a good druid character - the whole bear/shapeshifting thing - maybe throw in a few levels of barbarian for attack bonuses and the like. Not too bad of an idea... I may try it tonight!

 

Ranger/Druid combo would also be pretty good for Beorn, as would Fighter/Druid. The way he cares for his animals and shapeshifting would definitely be druidic, and the way he reveres nature and moves easily through the wood seems rangeresque.