It’s a surprisingly hard question. Basically, we’re doing Spelljammer, so I can either bump up my existing character (half-orc NG cleric of Tyr) to fifth level, or start a new character. If I play a new character, it will absolutely be a giff with mirrorshades, a long leather coat, and as many firearms as I can carry*. On the other hand, my cleric is in the habit of trying to tell the good news of Tyr to every entity that can talk back, and it’s been working surprisingly well so far (it’s also funny).
So I’m stuck: cool old character, or cool new character. Thoughts? Note that fifth level is where my cleric can start getting access to third level spells and just vaporize weak enough Undead, which is nice.
Moe Lane
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*Giff are large humanoids with hippo heads and advantage on Strength checks, so they can carry a lot of guns.
I dunno, I think I’d keep the cleric. Sounds like more fun for you, the DM, and the rest of the party.
New character.
Spelljammer is its own gonzo thing. Treat it like that, rather than trying to force a square peg in a round hole.
I like the giff concept, and with guns there are so many great line variants you can drop like “good, bad, I’m the giff with the guns”
Keep the cleric, but hold the giff gunner in reserve in case something happens.
Keep the cleric .. but get some good marksman scores …
Mew