TOPIC: GC Golden Ticket - Eldest Ice 7/30 at 7:02 pm

I thought it might be a good idea to start planning for the Gen Con Golden Ticket runs. I'm on the 7:02 pm Eldest Ice Unbroken run with my husband Brian and our friend Flik. As of this writing, it looks like 7 tickets have been claimed. Bard, Druid, Dwarf Fighter, Monk and Wizard are still open. If you are so inclined, chime in if you are on this run too!

ETA: Revised 4/29 per posts/DMs; revised 5/7 per TD Events character choices

1. Barbarian - BeLinda
2. Cleric - Flik
3. Dwarf Fighter
4, Elf Wizard - Eseell
5. Fighter
6. Monk - Kathy S.
7. Paladin - Steve
8. Ranger
9. Rogue - Brian
10. Wizard - Chris

Sent in my token and just waiting for my confirmation email. If there is space for a monk at that point, I would love to jump in with you folks!

Kathy S wrote: Sent in my token and just waiting for my confirmation email. If there is space for a monk at that point, I would love to jump in with you folks!

Let me know if you take the Monk spot and I’ll update the list!

BeLinda Mathie wrote:

Kathy S wrote: Sent in my token and just waiting for my confirmation email. If there is space for a monk at that point, I would love to jump in with you folks!

Let me know if you take the Monk spot and I’ll update the list!

I got my code and took the last ticket for 7:02 today if you want to enter Kathy for the Monk. Thanks!

Chris and I are on this run. Chris would like Wizard and I Paladin

Thanks for the updates. Looks like all 10 tickets are now taken. Two people haven’t selected a class in TD Events. Let me know if anyone notices issues/errors.

Hey 7:02 Friends!

Monk here. Excited to jump in this run with some veterans as I've only run TD 4 times total, all on Normal. I was so very lucky to find a GT token, and I assume this group will want to run at a higher level. I was gifted the small TD token package as a retirement gift, and have been trading and buying tokens since, so I have been able to upgrade my previous years' tokens a bit. However, I could really use some advice on what else I should be looking for prior to our run (within budget). I do have some tokens other than what I have listed in this build, but this is what I put together so far. I made an assumption and added some fire damage tokens that I could sub out if they aren't really that useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Monk 4-16-25

Hi Kathy! Thanks for sharing your build. For someone who has only run 4 times so far, you have assembled a very nice collection of tokens. In my opinion, your build is now "solid hardcore." For example, Enchanter's Whetstone and +1 weapons are an excellent combo. I think the +2 Cloak of Resistance is the best rare cloak in the game. The Ring of Dark Health is also a great choice for a melee-based monk. It might be worthwhile to swap the Robe of Deftness (+2 Dex) for a Robe of Aset (+2 AC and +2 HP), which would result in +1 AC, +2 HP, and -1 reflex save.

(Disclaimer: I don't usually play Monk, so people who actually do might have better advice than I do. Feel free to listen to them instead of me!)

Unfortunately, you've done such a good job already that there aren't a ton of cheap upgrades I can think of. Long term, if you'd like to play at a higher level, the biggest recommendations I have would be increasing your HP and melee to-hit, and getting your saves up maybe 2-5 per save. Getting your character up to Level 5 (purple side of the character card instead of yellow) would also be nice. Also, if you'd like to get more than 3 treasure chips per run, you could add some treasure enhancers. An inexpensive option is this year's Charm of Guidance. You'll also get +1 treasure draw when you become a Level 6 player, so keep putting in those XP cards. You'll be there before you know it.

For our GT run, if you would like, you're welcome to borrow the following tokens. This would get your character up to Level 5 and give you quite a bit more HP, saves, melee to-hit, and damage. Feel free to play around with the character generator to see how adding any of these would impact your build. Happy to discuss if you want, either here, by DM, or in-person before the run.

Slotless: Auri's Candle (+2 HP), Harlax's Helpful Lamp (+5 HP), Skull of Cavadar
Feet: Boots of the Four Winds
Legs: Kilt of Dungeonbane (you could set it to Strength or Constitution)
Neck: Necklace of the Spirit Drake
Shirt: Arcanum Shirt
Wrists: Greater Charm Bracelets
Ears: Earcuff of Orbits, Arcane Earcuff
Charms: Charm of Awakened Synergy, Charm of Brooching (adds 1 back slot), Charm of Glory (can equip up to 3 rings), Lucky Charm
Back: Charm of Shadowskin (in addition to your +2 Cloak w/ extra slot from Brooching)
Ioun Stone: Add Ioun Stone Elfstone Shard with w/ extra slot from Orbits
Finger: Add Greater Ring of Havoc w/ extra slot from Charm of Glory

I updated the first post to include the current list of selected classes. If you're on this run, feel free to chime in with your selected class and/or preferred difficulty level. Thanks.

Sent you a DM regarding your post. Thank you for all your help!

I am your Elf Wizard. I'm good with any difficulty level and have a thoroughly alright (not optimized) monk build, any of which is up for loan. tdcharactercreator.com/#/character/edit/6482aed1-858a-491c-ac0d-a2ff82b60a5e

Is there a thought on what difficulty level the rest of you would like to play? It looks like I would have lots of options to bring my Monk's build up (or potentially just borrow a whole build), and I'm down to try whatever. Thank you so much to everyone who has volunteered to help me with my build. I greatly appreciate it!
No Bard in the group, eh?