Hi there! I'm new to ALFA and for my first character I thought that I would try to play a wood elf of some sort. However, aside from the information in the player's manual I do not know too much about them. I was wondering if anyone had any information about wood elves, and also if anyone would be willing to help me craft a believable backstory for one. Thanks in advance to any who reply to this.
Sarge
Wood Elves
For decent information about Wood Elves, best check out Races of Faerun, the D&D 3rd Edition book.
Wood Elves are the only elven race native to Faerun. They are the type of elves that can build fantastic abodes in the trees or not and live harmoniously with nature. They can be found in the deep in the High Forest, The Great Dale, Cormanthor and the Wealdath.
They rarely leave their hidden dales to adventure and they are not really a nomadic people. They arent really into magic unless it is in harmony with nature.
Wood Elves have not descended into barbarism like their wild elf cousins but believe strongly in not acquiring dominion over nature. They have turned from elven high magic and ancient elven lore in favour of a new existence at one with their surroundings.
They make excellent rangers, druids or naturally aligned rogues. Barbarians and warriors are less common and there are few clerics or mages in their society.
I hope that helps mate
PS. If you are going to play one in ALFA NWN1 best choose Daggerdale or Shadowdale as they'd be more common in those areas.
If you are making one for ALFA NWN2 here's a run down of how often you'd see them in the server regions
The Moonsea - Very Rare (except Elmwood and Elventree where they are common, these areas will be late in our build schedule however)
Myth Drannor - Common
Waterdeep - Very rare
Island Kingdoms - Uncommon (I believe there is a community of them on the Moonshaes)
The Coldlands - Rare
The Far North - Rare
The Savage Frontier - Uncommon
The Northdark - Extremely Rare, and they will be KOS (killed on sight)
Wood Elves are the only elven race native to Faerun. They are the type of elves that can build fantastic abodes in the trees or not and live harmoniously with nature. They can be found in the deep in the High Forest, The Great Dale, Cormanthor and the Wealdath.
They rarely leave their hidden dales to adventure and they are not really a nomadic people. They arent really into magic unless it is in harmony with nature.
Wood Elves have not descended into barbarism like their wild elf cousins but believe strongly in not acquiring dominion over nature. They have turned from elven high magic and ancient elven lore in favour of a new existence at one with their surroundings.
They make excellent rangers, druids or naturally aligned rogues. Barbarians and warriors are less common and there are few clerics or mages in their society.
I hope that helps mate
PS. If you are going to play one in ALFA NWN1 best choose Daggerdale or Shadowdale as they'd be more common in those areas.
If you are making one for ALFA NWN2 here's a run down of how often you'd see them in the server regions
The Moonsea - Very Rare (except Elmwood and Elventree where they are common, these areas will be late in our build schedule however)
Myth Drannor - Common
Waterdeep - Very rare
Island Kingdoms - Uncommon (I believe there is a community of them on the Moonshaes)
The Coldlands - Rare
The Far North - Rare
The Savage Frontier - Uncommon
The Northdark - Extremely Rare, and they will be KOS (killed on sight)
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Wood elves are tough.
Stats wise, when you log on for the first time you will lose 2 points of intelligence and 2 points of charism and gain 2 points of strength.
Bearing this in mind, you are basically playing an elven shaped half-orc. I'm not sure they are quiet the same attitude wise but I do know wood elves are less for elven pretenciousness and more for having a direct point of view on something and acting on it.
Their favoured class is ranger and obviously they are a reclsuive sort that tend to live in the forest. If you want a back story for a wood elf that comes out and and starts living in a city then it's gonna take some thinking. They are the sort of elf humans are much less used to seeing.
I would play a wood elf in the regions around the high forest or cormanthor. It's a shame TLR isn't up anymore. Cormyr is probably your best bet for starting a wood elf off in but then the way ALFA is with NWN1, you best just playing where the other players are and trying to make up your back story for how you got there.
With the wood elf ability of having stats like strength 16 Dex 16 you might find you can build a really awsome archer. Get a x3 mighty bow and you will be one hell of a shot and lay on some nice damage too. If you go ranger it could be fun to try somethgin fun like a double sword in melee. With all that dex and strength you can wear the light armour and use a double weapon and still have a decent AB.
Wood elfs aren't much for magic either btw. You tend to find most are rangers, druids, fighters and the like. They are your front line kind of elf, not scholars.
Personally I think you could make a nice evil fighter/rogue build from a wood elf. A reject of their own society, exiled, seeking a new place in human lands.
But i always play those sorts.
[EDIT] *Points up* Thangorn's post is better then mine. He beat me too it.
Stats wise, when you log on for the first time you will lose 2 points of intelligence and 2 points of charism and gain 2 points of strength.
Bearing this in mind, you are basically playing an elven shaped half-orc. I'm not sure they are quiet the same attitude wise but I do know wood elves are less for elven pretenciousness and more for having a direct point of view on something and acting on it.
Their favoured class is ranger and obviously they are a reclsuive sort that tend to live in the forest. If you want a back story for a wood elf that comes out and and starts living in a city then it's gonna take some thinking. They are the sort of elf humans are much less used to seeing.
I would play a wood elf in the regions around the high forest or cormanthor. It's a shame TLR isn't up anymore. Cormyr is probably your best bet for starting a wood elf off in but then the way ALFA is with NWN1, you best just playing where the other players are and trying to make up your back story for how you got there.
With the wood elf ability of having stats like strength 16 Dex 16 you might find you can build a really awsome archer. Get a x3 mighty bow and you will be one hell of a shot and lay on some nice damage too. If you go ranger it could be fun to try somethgin fun like a double sword in melee. With all that dex and strength you can wear the light armour and use a double weapon and still have a decent AB.
Wood elfs aren't much for magic either btw. You tend to find most are rangers, druids, fighters and the like. They are your front line kind of elf, not scholars.
Personally I think you could make a nice evil fighter/rogue build from a wood elf. A reject of their own society, exiled, seeking a new place in human lands.
But i always play those sorts.
[EDIT] *Points up* Thangorn's post is better then mine. He beat me too it.
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