PAHVELORn
Character
Character
SHEETs
My most played
character of late has been Beni Profane, an OD&D (well Greyhawk) thief, who
has survived in Necropraxis’ long running Vaults of Pahvelorn. The campaign is on hiatus, with the party
having just slain some kind of lich and the floating ruins that have long
loomed over the Vaults (a huge pit in the earth with several entrances)
descending back to earth. The campaign
is thus poised on the brink of either victory or destruction, as what exactly
will happen next is very much an open question.
Beni Level 1-3 |
Beni began as a “rat
catcher” which was largely an excuse to include “sack with six rats” on his
sheet. The rats have proved their usefulness, as did Beni’s faithful
terrier. The dog died in the last
session (which was almost a TPK, the survivors of a huge fireball blasted and unconscious
on the floor except for one Cleric who managed to cast hold person on the
lich/awakened arch mage and save the
group.
This is Beni’s first
character sheet, with the portrait based on a woodcut from the 17th
century. He has his ratting pole (with hook, dead rat and flag) and his
ridiculous hat (with floral scarf and emergency/sneaking candles).
Beni Level 4 -7 |
Now Near the height of his
powers, Beni has picked up some scars, and upgraded his armor again to a
magical cuirass, immune to blades, incorporated into a suit of purple wyrm
leather armor with strange anti-acid properties. He also has a magic sword,
which doesn’t do much, except occasionally allow him to hit incorporeal undead,
and a dwindling collection of magical arrows.
Beni - Level 7. |
While I can’t find the
sheet for Beni’s most beloved (and recently deceased) companion Treacle, the
small but vicious dog, his two other henchmen are below. Donkeyteeth the orphan apprentice died badly
when a bunch of cave dwelling troglodyte types (hairy pale men with crazy eyes)
stabbed him with six spears in an ancient saint’s tomb, but Lau Taxan is still
with Beni. Lau Taxan is a fanatical
shaman priest of the rat goddess, and seems to be trying to summon packs of holy
dire rats into every dungeon that the party enters, but is otherwise quite
useful at 4th level (the Dire Rats are useful as well, at least
until they run off and form their own colonies, restocking the level with 2HD
backstabbing rat-things).
As a whole these are very basic character sheets, and while fun to draw, useful and intuitive to a long time D&D player, they lack something compared to the style I have used for Dungeon Moon.
Donkeyteeth - Thief 1 |
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