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Old 11-16-2017, 12:17 AM   #1
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"Wolf-Girl"
250-point Halfling Barbarian
She wasn't entirely raised by wolves, the forest fairies occasionally helped out with the babysitting. She has only dim memories of plump halfing parents and otherwise doesn't remember much about where she came from or how she came to dwell in the forest. Halflings live longer than wolves, so she outlived her adopted family, and the fairies lost interest in her as they do.

One day she saw some people traveling through the woods and decided to follow them. She continued to follow down into a maze-like cavern complex. The delvers were surprised when she suddenly appeared to help them fend off the ogre, and surprised again when she followed them back all the way to the outskirts of town. They weren't as surprised when she was waiting for them as they embarked on the next quest. They probably will be surprised again when she finally says something to them, because they think she is mute.

While it is a stretch to call what she does "backstabbing", she prefers to start combat by sneaking up behind a foe and braining them with her humongous club (Exploits p. 57). After that, if there aren't any enemies in reach, she will often drop her pack and switch to her sling.

ST 14 [40]; DX 14 [80]; IQ 10 [0]; HT 14 [40]
SM -2; Damage 1d+1/2d+2; BL 39 lbs.; HP 21 [14]; Will 10 [0]; Per 12 [10]; FP 14 [0].
Basic Speed 6.50 [-10]; Basic Move 5 [-5]; Move 4.
Dodge 9; Parry 13U (Club); Block 9.

Advantages
Combat Reflexes [15]
Discriminatory Smell [15]
Halfling Marksmanship 2 [10]
Honest Face [1]
High Pain Threshold [10]
Outdoorsman 2 [20]
Silence 2 [10]
Striking ST 2 [10]

Disadvantages and Quirks
Gluttony (9) [-7]
Ham-Fisted 1 [-5]
Illiteracy [-3]
Kleptomania (12) [-15]
Odious Personal Habit (Unrefined Manners) -5]
Sense of Duty (Adventuring Companions) [-5]
Social Stigma (Minority Group) [-10]
Wealth (Struggling) [-10]

Distractable. [-1]
Doesn't like to speak, and communicates in wolf noises. [-1]
Has to be coaxed into town buildings; food works. [-1]
Unaware she is a halfling. [-1]
Will always claim one item from the horde as a show of dominance. [-1]

Skills
Animal Handling (Canines)-9 [1]
Brawling-14 [1]
Camouflage-13* [2]
Climbing-12 [1]
Disguise (Animals)-12* [2]
Fishing-14* [1]
Gesture-10 [1]
Hiking-13 [1]
Intimidation-10 [2]
Mimicry (Animal Sounds)-11* [2]
Naturalist-10* [1]
Navigation-12* [2]
Observation-11 [1]
Running-13 [1]
Sling-16† [4]
Stealth-15/17/19‡ [4]
Survival (Woodlands)-13* [1]
Swimming-14 [1]
Tracking-17*§ [2]
Two-Handed Axe/Mace-19 [20]
Weather Sense-12* [2]
Wrestling-14 [2]
*Includes +2 from Outdoorsman
† Includes +2 from Halfling Marksmanship
‡Use higher skill against hearing: highest if motionless. Silence 2.
§ Includes +4 from Discriminatory Smell
Equipment
$500, 71.02 lbs. (Light encumbrance)
Blanket. $20 4 lbs
Canteen. Full. 1 qt. water. $10. 1lb.
Clothing. $0, 2 lbs.
Coin. 1 copper. $1. 0.02 lbs.
Furs. Suit. DR 1. $150 18lbs
Heavy Sling. 2d+4 cr (Acc 1 Range 48/96 Shots 1(2) Bulk -5). $20 1 lbs
Humongous Club. 2d+8 cr (Reach 2,3*). $100 15 lbs
Necklace, Bear Claw, $90 neg.
Personal Basics. $5 1 lb
Rations. 12 meals. $24 6 lbs.
Shaped Rocks (20). $20 20 lbs
Small Backpack (holds blanket, canteen, personal basics, rations and rocks) $60 3 lbs

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Old 11-16-2017, 10:50 AM   #2
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Old 11-16-2017, 02:02 PM   #3
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This makes me smile.
Yeah I want to play her now. Unfortunately that is highly unlikely.
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Old 11-16-2017, 02:06 PM   #4
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Why the low Animal Handling (canines)?
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Old 11-16-2017, 02:08 PM   #5
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Why the low Animal Handling (canines)?
IQ 10, 1 point in an average skill, and I didn't give her any levels of Animal Friend.

Being raised by wolves doesn't necessarily mean that you are good at training dogs, though.

Edit: Her quirk points went into Stealth (which is pretty vital for the concept), Camouflage (ditto), Tracking (because I imagine that is a big niche for her in most parties), and Mimicry (to support the quirk).

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Old 11-16-2017, 05:05 PM   #6
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Her "backstab" is at skill-16 and does an average of 52 points of injury to a helmless foe, and a knockdown roll at -10 (unless they have 104 HP!).
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Old 11-19-2017, 08:10 AM   #7
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A few of minor things I noticed while inputting this fun character into GCS:

I come up with Tracking-18. Two points should give a base skill of Per which is 12, +2 for Outdoorsmen and +4 for Discriminatory Smell = 18. I'm probably missing something, but I can't figure out what it is.

A full canteen should weigh 3 lbs. (1 lb canteen + 2 lbs of water), bringing her total encumbrance to 73.02 lbs, still comfortably below the 78 lb. cutoff for light encumbrance.

GCS calculates base Stealth-14. After some investigating I realized that this includes the -1 penalty for light encumbrance. I only mention it here because I don't know what standard practice is in terms of including this (i.e., not sure if your unencumbered value was intentional). It gets complicated with skills like stealth where it depends on whether you are moving and which senses you are trying to defeat.

Thanks for sharing this great concept. My five-year-old daughter was immediately obsessed with the idea of a girl raised by wolves and faeries! (And, while pillaging the internet for a suitable character portrait, we had a fruitful discussion about the fact that a shocking number of female barbarians look like swimsuit models with lipstick and bikinis arranged just-so. RPG art is such a reliable intro to the concept of the male gaze in media.)
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Old 11-19-2017, 05:02 PM   #8
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Yeah Encumbrance penalties. I will need to look up what the next footnote symbol is.

Edit: Actually never mind, neither Kromm or PK are including encumbrance penalties.

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Old 07-08-2021, 05:19 PM   #9
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It's been a while, but I've had this character in my Templates folder ever since she was posted here. I included her this week in a set of pregens for our long-awaited DFRPG Camp (originally planned for the summer of 2020, but canceled due to some pesky virus). She was very popular with the students. (We had variants: Wolf-Girl, Wolf-Boy, and gender-neutral Wolf.)

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Old 07-10-2021, 11:32 PM   #10
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I love Halfling Barbarians. It's a fun concept to put in the game because of the hobbit stereotype. I played a Barbarian spearman with boomerangs and I wanted to train War Baboons but never found any for sale. I probably should have taken Animal training Alligator. That would have been excellent.

My Halfling Barbarian didn't fit well with Kleptomania because he was prideful kith of an honorable clan. So I worked out with the GM that rather then being tempted to steal treasures, I would make a self control roll any time someone slighted me or embarrassed me and if I failed I walked up to them and took something of theirs while making eye contact so they knew it was me stealing it.
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