Key:
Stats in Blue = Shifting ONLY
Stats in Yellow = Raging ONLY
Stats in Green = Shifting AND Raging
Stats in Pink = Post rage
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Rawhide[/smallcaps]
Male Shifter Bar1; Size M; HD 1d12+2
[[1d12+3]]; hp 24
[[25]] [[26]] [[27]]; Init +2
[[+0]] (+2 Dex); Spd 30 ft.
[[40 ft.]]; AC 16
[[18]] [[14]] [[16]] [[14]] (+2 Dex, +4 scalemail,
[[+2 (Beasthide)]]); BAB +2; Grp +2; Atk +4
[[+5]] melee (heavy mace, 1d8, crit x2, 12 lb., one-handed, bludgeoning OR greataxe, 1d10/1d12, crit x3, 12 lb., one-handed, slashing), +4 ranged (throwing axe, 1d4/1d6, crit x2, range: 10 ft., 2 lb., slashing); Full Atk as Atk; SA See below; SQ See below; AP 5; AL CN; SV Fort +5
[[+6]] [[+6]], Ref +2
[[+0]], Will -2
[[+0]]; Str 14 (+2)
[[18 (+4)]] [[12 (+1)), Dex 15 (+2)
[[13 (+1)]], Con 15 (+2)
[[17 (+3)]] [[19 (+4)]] [[21 (+5)]], Int 10 (+0), Wis 6 (-2), Cha 8 (-1).
Skills and Feats: Climb 10
[[12]] (6 ranks, +2 Str
[[+4 Str]], +2 racial), Jump 8
[[10]] (4 ranks, +2 Str
[[+4 Str]], +2 racial), Tumble 8
[[6]] (6 ranks, +2 Dex: cross-class skill); Extend Rage: Add 5 rounds to the duration of your rage; Uncanny Dodge.
Shifter Traits: Humanoids with shapechanger subtype, shifting: once per day, as a free action, is able to use Beasthide (Su): +2 to Con and +2 natural bonus to AC- lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + Con (even if modified by this ability) modifier, low-light vision, +2 racial bonus to Balance, Climb, and Jump checks.
Barbarian Abilities: Rage 1/day (temporarily gains +4 to Str, +4 to Con [hit points go up by 2 points/level], and a +2 morale bonus on Will saves, suffers a -2 penalty to AC – rage lasts for 3+ newly improved Con modifier, post rage results in fatigue [-2 to Str and Dex, can’t charge or run]); fast movement (+10 feet when wearing no, light, or medium armor), Uncanny Dodge.
Equipment: scalemail (Armor bonus +4, Max Dex +3, Armor Check penalty -4 weight 30 lb.), heavy mace, greataxe, throwing axe (4), waterskin (full), trail rations (2 days), "spider-jaw-sticky-sac", 0 gold pieces = Light load (64 lbs.)
XP: 100 xp / 1000 xp
Description and Personality: Prone to wild fits of yowling rage and terrifying bouts of anger, Rawhide is everything that his name infers him to be. The coal black, burly and bushy shifter is more often than not semi-intelligible, but one thing cannot be denied – that he is a force of nature in battle. When his blood becomes churned by the heat of battle, there is very little – wound or word that can pull him off of his intended victims (and occasionally, his friends)!
Rawhide appears as a exceedingly shaggy, utterly unkempt man who looks far older than he truly is - this is primarily due to his harsh upbrining (as well as the effect of that upbringing upon his current view of the world and himself). For instance, Rawhide knows nothing or bathing or grooming, nor of personal hygeine - as these concepts are nearly alien to goblinoids (which are the only examples he's ever had) and even more foreign to the slaves of said goblinoids. As such, Rawhide does not bathe (at least willingly), nor brush his scraggly, frazzled hair, nor does he clean his teeth, his hands, his gear, or even his food before consuming it. He has no manners to speak of, though he has managed to learn that there are a few things that will quickly spell danger or death in civilized lands (just because he knows these things, however, does not always mean he follows them...). His gear is likewise patchworked, barely functional and in aplorable condition; it is usually covered in a thick layer of dirt, mud, offal, blood or a mixture of all.
While shifting, his appearance grows even more fearsome and wild, causing him to look more like a rabid, raging animal than a humanoid...
While Rawhide is neither smart nor wise, he is incredibly
intuitive and
canny - traits that he owes wholly to his background. Somehow, the shifter seems to know when a situation just ins't right and he generally reacts very dramatically to such situations. While Rawhide hates injustice, he is not above taking an eye for an eye, should the situtaion call for it - about the only thing he hates more than injustice is slavery, which he deplores and about the only thing he hates more than slavery are gobliniods, which he attacks ON SIGHT, unless he is simply overwhelmingly outnumbered (and even then, sometimes, he just might anyway).
Height, Weight, Age: 4 ft., 190 lbs., 23 years old.
Region of Origin: Darguun
Languages: Common
Background: In one way or another, Rawhide has always been a slave... Born into bondage within the horrific goblinoid slave pits of Rhukaan Draal - his mother (who was raped and beaten daily as he grew up) was captured from Breland during the Last War. She always told Rawhide that he was the child of shifter lords and that no matter what, if he should some day escape, he should go to the far off place called "the Reaches", claim his birthright, and then return to avenge her. She made him promise, daily, to do this for her.
And so, Rawhide became a slave to his word...
Rawhide and his mother were the property of a particular cruel hobgoblin lord - a lesser chieftan of the Rhukaan Taash, or Razor Crown, clan - known as T'ktash. He kept them on chains and when he was not beating, abusing, or defiling them he forced them to do tricks and shift upon command. Occasionally, he would have them fight wardogs, goblins, wolves, wargs, or even other shifters for nothing more than entertainment. When his interests wandered to his other slaves, he left them to languish in their own waste, starving them into servitude and compliance.
And so, Rawhide became a slave of the flesh...
The young shifter grew and finally, when she felt that he was old enough to fend for himself, Rawhide's mother ripped her own throat out right before her son's eyes. Her dying words were that he should be strong where she failed and that she was sorry for the life she had given him. This horrible scene would become the single most important moment in the young shifter's life; awakening something in him that he had always held in check, for the sake of his mother. He knew that if he did the things that he desired...yearned...ached to do that it would be his mother who would suffer most gravely for them. It was at that moment that Rawhide found his rage.
And still, Rawhide became a slave of his own memories...
That very night, Rawhide killed the despondent hobgoblin guards charged to watch over the shifters - he ripped them into shreds and then gorged himself on their bodies until he could eat no more. Then he fled, finding his way, somehow, to the Ghaal River and then to the Marguul Pass. He knew that he very well would be hunted, but he did not care - any death was far better than the only life that he had ever known.
And so, Rawhide became a slave to his past...
Now, with nothing more than the few weapons, armor, and scrabbly possessions that he has cobbled together, he seeks something that he has never known: freedom, peace, friendship and equality.
And yet, Rawhide is still, and always shall be, a slave to his rage...
And it is that rage that drives him, ever onward...