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Barbarian Gnome or Halfling would be quite apt actually, as would just plain fighter. Throw away your preconceived ideas about those races. Think pygmy.

Look at the post for the game, and let me know if you need more info.

Len

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Great, Drogo Toe-chomper lives!

Will have a read through my books tonight and see what i can come up with.

You may have to give me a hand with a back story though, but that just means it will fit in better with your setting i suppose

Woohoo, excitementations, and all that 'short' of thing!

This distrust and hostility that no one seems to really know how it all started between the Halflings and Gnomes - Did anyone make a popular board game out of it..?
Just wondered...

Anyway. I've just been to Halflings R Us and it seems they have a deal on at the moment, for a nominal fee I might get Charlie Halflingised. Lose a few feet and the dancing (And therefore the associated Prestige class that meant he wouldn't actually be playable until about 5th level anyway), keep the harmonica and we're sorted!

Seeing as he was a member of a travelling acting troupe I expect copious opportunities to utilise the Disguise skill! That's erm... that's a Halfling disguised as Santa...

Oh and also cause I'm a bit of a cross-class junky (And I have thus far resisted the urge to bastardise Elessar, Carlton, and Astra in such a way) this Halfling'll likely be a Bard come Rogue cross breed.

So all in all, if it pleases your honour;

I present your first short character for your short campaign. Hopefully following shortly will be shorter characters, but in short... okay I've had enough of that.

I'll drop you his back-story if you like for your perusal, feel free to discuss, disagree, disallow, disparage, or disinfect anything you dislike.
By no means do I have to stick with this if it ain't not no good for you. Besides, the Gnome Superstore is just down the road, and it looks like they have a sale on too!

Oh also... how carried away is too carried away..?

Charlie. I believe the current record for "carried away" is an 8000 word backstory with a seven page appendix indexing potential NPCs involved. And that was not in any game that I DM.

@ Rob. Which race is Drogo?

Len

Halfling, I'll be converting and painting up a mini for him too

Just because I can and because I like painting

ok being new to this, what do i do about rolling for stats and such? in fact i have no idea what i am doing! lol

It was actually 8500+ words and I managed to complete reading it the other night...now it is being amended, my hope is it doesnt get longer as minor details are changed!!

Well, I am a fairly lenient guy, but you are a noob. I would honestly suggest you roll up a character using what is called the 4 drop 1 method. and also bring a blank sheet so you can try rolling up and assembling your character with the help of others the first time. Provided your rolls are believable, I would be willing to accept them.

4 drop 1 means that you roll 4 D6, and discard the lowest one, adding the other three up and write down the number. You repeat this six times until you have six numbers in the range 3 - 18. Then you allocate these numbers to the six stats in whatever order you want, and continue from there.

I know from the two other interested parties that they would be happy to offer good advice, and the DM might be able to remain impartial too after all these years.

Len

ok, i'll see how i go making my own and will leave the rolls until i get there if i can. I have a rough idea of what i want for him

You will need to roll stats in order to work out all the things that depend on them.

I suggest you try your own, and see how you go. If you get stuck, then we'll work with you on the night. Don't sweat it if you can't get what you want, we can always take the time to help.

Len

I have had a play about with a builder programme and have got a sheet together, i can email it over for you to check if that will be easier?

I rolled my own dice (4d6 less the lowest dice) and got these:
16
13
18
8
15
17
for my stats and 4,4,4,5 for my starting gold. Are they ok? if not i am happy to re-roll on the day

The starting gold rolls are D4 not D6. (Can't roll a 5 on a D4) Otherwise that's a very good set of numbers. A lucky Halfling Barbarian.

Len

Oops, read that wrong then but only used a few gp on equipment so will re-roll when i get home from work later.

they were good, but hppy to roll again if they are too high, rolled 4 d6 took away the lowest dice.

might be better if i build my character when i get there in case i make any more mistakes.

Hmmm, I'm intrigued by this pygmy-esque society of Halflings. It suggests Knowledge(Nobility), a fake ‘tache, and a butler's outfit would not be as useful as previously thought...
No bustling city life? No country manors full of the idle rich wishing to spend their money on highbrow entertainment while being blissfully unaware they’re also being robbed blind?

And I should have guessed it'd be Ash writing away like there's no tomorrow! Took me long enough to read her Armagada letters! but they were lovely letters though.

And as for mister Apoc, we're always glad to help, but you may be less glad once you've experienced some of the help, but oh well. I'll refrain from the general advice right now on the basis that very little that just floats into my head is of any real use to anyone, but feel free to fire question if you gots any, no matter how stupid they may seem, chances are I've asked a stupider one... that's a genuine word right?

Anyway, look forward to seeing you and your Barbarian on Tuesday. Not this Tuesday, but the following Tuesday right?

If we get two (three more at a push) more players in time, that is indeed the plan. Stuart/Charlie Gestalt.

Basic information for all players.

The campaign is set in Armagada in the very south of a land now called Arvel. Arvel is an Elf-ruled land, but towards the south it is not well governed. Its woodland has petered out to only the occasional area of sparse scrubby woodland. Agriculture is not the strongest card in the economy in this region. What agriculture there is tends to be cattle and sheep herding by semi-nomadic human and halfling tribes.
The land is not productive enough to produce plentiful crops for sale, so subsistence farming is the norm. Farmers grow crops for their own use, or to support fairly small towns and villages where several farmers will specialise in their own crop, and produce more than they can use, bartering or selling their excess in exchange for other products they do not grow or produce themselves.
Though there are some Gnome farmers, most farmers are Halfling or human. Conversely few Halflings produce crafted goods, this usually being the forte of Gnomes.
Some dozen years ago the ruling elf family changed the name of the country from Invar to Arvel. The reason was that the Ruling line passed from the Invars to the Arvels. Of little interest to any except the Royals, the change was apparently peaceful enough. The ruling Invar line died out to the point where the next in line was not an Invar, but an Arvel. Apart from the change of name, little appears to have changed in the country, and there are many die-hards who still ‘accidentally’ call the country Invar out of many hundreds of year’s ingrained habit.
In order to understand the land, think South America, well south of Rio de Janeiro. So basically where Argentina would be. The mountains in the west are not the the Andes, but The Spina Armagada. A range higher than the Andes, which runs almost without break from the icy wastes thousands of miles to the north into the frozen south; ending just a few hundred miles from the deadly sea strait that separates the land from the southern ice pack in summer. In winter, even this 50 mile gap is covered in thick ice.
The Spina Armagada forms a practically impenetrable barrier to travel in and East-West or West-East direction. North of Arvel is a land called Ayray, and North of Ayray is an area called The Devastation. This forms a total barrier to North-south travel on the Eastern side of The Spina Armagada. No one is known to have passed across The Devastation in the 700 years since it began. Many believe the land to the North was completely destroyed in the terrible catastrophe that caused The Devastation.

Across the practically non-existant and certainly porous border to the south, the land belongs to the barbarian tribes. (Barbarian PCs may even have originated there.) Travel is not restricted to the south, but in all honesty, the grass is marginally greener this side.

Len

re-rolled with d4 this time got 11 only spent 78 on gear so no problems with my build

... Ominous silence? I think Gnomes and Halflings are too small - they're too easily over looked by the big-folk round 'ere!

But it sounds like the Barbarian is pretty ready, and he's got coin left over! Right, first tavern we end up in the first round is on Rob!

Also if me Halfling Bard is too inappropriate for the setting, and as it's always good to have a back-up, I've put together a rather nimble Gnome Rogue who should slip very nicely into Invar Arvel. And cheers Len for the useful info.

Incidentally; do you think a medium sized quarterstaff would be suitable for some impromptu pole-vaulting for a Gnome..? Just wondered...

Anyway, who we waitin' on? Don't people know Halflings and Gnomes are the new 'in things'?

I have got the 3 halfling miniatures from Heresy Miniatures, will be using the barbarian but can paint up the other 2 if anyone wants to use them

We are probably waiting on Leah. We know she's a busy girl, but we should allow her time to respond.

Len

Now to whet the appetite of other readers.

Very occasionally adventurers, always halflings it appears, enter the land from the south with diamonds for sale. They do not tell where the diamonds come from, as naturally they wish to keep their source confidential. This is well known by the elves, humans and dwarves of Invar Arvel who will often come to town to find out if there have been any more diamonds brought in.

Now we all know that the saying is that big things sometimes come in small parcels. But none of you has any idea where the diamonds come from. But diamonds often feature in the oldest legends of the time when Gnomes and Halflings worked together. It is damned obvious to all but the most gullible that there is a little more to this than meets the eye.

Rumours of greedy people trying to find out about the diamonds usually end with a phrase something like "and then they found his body ...". However that has never stopped the occasional band of adventurers attempting to follow the adventurers when they leave. None of these bands of keen young adventurers has ever returned to show any diamonds for their trouble. In fact ... none has ever returned with diamonds, or even just their health ... or alive for that matter, ... or at all.

Len.