And now for our resident dwarf. This, my friends, is Farkrim Graufels. He is the typical angry dwarven fighter. But he is played by the most unlucky of my players. You can imagine how that usually goes.
I remember a moment when Farkrim had to make a perception check and actually rolled (after all the minusses that he had to add) a “-2″. I was stunned by this roll. Yes he is strong and can take a punch but thinking and being witty is not his speciality.
In an other moment he was drinking himself into oblivion in the stonehill inn. He failed his constitution check and went unconscious. Then he had to roll a dice to find out if the revelers around him did something with his limb body. Well he rolled a 1 and thus found himself, after getting up, completely shaven (even the eyebrows) and bawdy songs scrawled all over his face.
But he also had failed a con check against the bite of a wereboar (the only party member who failed that of course.....) and so we had a clean shaven dwarven warrior who was also struggeling against the curse of the wereboar, desperately trying to keep it together and not just murder everyone. It was hillarious. :-D
Farkrim is not just an ordinary dwarven fighter though, he also is a runesmith and wears a chainmail made of mithril. He has crafted a rune of earth into his armor and thus reduces all mundane damage by 3 (at least that is what I think). But add to that the damage resistance that comes from being nearly a Werboar (I could not give him damage immunity while fighting the curse) he can be an unmoveable tank in battle. We had a fight once where at least 3 Orcs and 2 Orcboar riders for 5 rounds tried to take that wild dwarf out but could not do much more than 3 damage per round, while he was cleaving them left and right. It was spectacular.
By the way, the way to give my Farkrim player a decent chance of controlling the curse, I gave him a “potion of control”. This potion is only good for one time but stays in the system of the hero for 10 hours. It gives the drinker a +8 on willpower checks. Nueleth (our average druid) is an alchemist and herbalist. Once she has learned the recipe she can spend one day and half the incredients of her herbalism kit to create another one of those potions. Farkrim only really needs this potion in the night with a full moon.
He is trying to get rid of the curse but it will take time and money to do so (I require a greater restoration to get rid of curse) and he will come in situations where he will have to do willpower checks to control himself, but only on a full moon is there a chance that he will go “full boar” against his will.
Anyway, sorry for the way too long write, but let me add, that this miniature was made by “Scibor Miniatures” (https://www.sciborminiatures.com). I love the dwarves Scibor makes. They truly are the most dwarfish I can imagine. Whenever I look for a dwarven mini I check them out first.