Uhm... My connection is still working a bit unreliably... I started slowly reading allll the threads I've left behind these days (and there's a lot!). I'm starting from here since I did work a bit on Anostor these days...
Yeah, that was just a temporary sheet I was working on. Too many items, some bad choices, etc. The one I'm posting below is more complete, although it's still not final. Ideas and suggestions are welcome.
First of all, in this version Anostor is actually
less optimized than before, but he reflects better the idea of him I had. I dropped scale armor proficiency, which reduces his AC by one, but nets me +3 to reflexes, and 2 more feats. I lose that minor action healing surge, but I took Rageblood vigor which is a free action surge per ecounter (in theory) so that's fine.
Some choics are consciously un-optimized and dictated by flavour. A couple of powers are lower level than they should be, most notably I think I'm not taking Winter Phoenix Rage, it really doesn't fit with my idea of Anostor.
As for feats , cov asked us to use that extra feat from the free Expertise to get a skill training: Acrobatics.
I also took Improved grab for sheer fun, I doubt I'll use it in combat. In that regard, here's a request for a custom magic item, covaithe. I looked with interest at a couple of items in AV, the Goliath's belt and the Giant Gloves (which are listed in my equipment). Would it be possible to merge their effects in a ring? I still have some more money to spend so a bit higher-level item is fine.
Finally, I didn't like any of the PHB2 backgrounds much, is it okay to make my own?
Shameless Scoundrel: Anostor abandoned his country, his army, his father, wife, and a huge quantity of illegittimate sons. Benefit: Bluff is selectable as a trained skill.
A last note: Anostor Duran is the father of Alexander Duran, my first L4W character. I was pretty fond of the idea of playing him in a high-level game sooner or later, so here he is. He's 30 years old now, at this moment Alexander would be 12, and, of course, on another Material Plane. I might well start a legacy of characters, if I have the chance!
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"I was given this strenght, and this wilderness,so that I would not be bound by any chains, nor of the body, nor of the mind."
"I got LUST FOR LIFE!!!"
"Wanna see the Great World Serpent, babe?"
There he is, standing 8ft tall*, bigger than any orc you've ever seen. A man, long black hair loose in the wind, a couple of thick dreadlocks held by silvery wires. He scratcthes his dark beard lazily, and yawns, spreading a not-so-refreshing reek of booze. Must have been a long night. A black, leathery hide armor, long to the knee and stripped away by a fearsome Astral Stalker, ripped on the chest and the arms, reveals big, hard muscles, and they look like they could lift hills. Battered iron armbands and half-gloves with sturdy metal knuckles cover his arms, a heavy torque of lead at the neck.
He's spinning and rolling on his arms, hands and shoulders a big, jagged axe giving off a menacing sparkle, like a juggler would play with a light rod. He moves slowly, like a bear that just got out of its long sleep.
A split second later, you see a blur, hear a roar that shakes your skull, and then no more. The Storm has come, and went right through you.
Anostor Duran was born in a far away world, in a big, strange place called the Imperium, from Kratos Duran, a soldier, a renowned commander of the empire, and, most of all, a strict father.
Too many rules didn't do much good, though, because even though Anostor displayed great strenght and endurance since a very young age, when he entered the first military academies, he also showed to have absolutely no love for discipline and military life. When in his Teens he was unished for the hundredth time, and kicked most of an instructor's teeth out of his mouth, his old man first beat him senseless, and then brought him on a warcamp in a frontier land where he had been assigned.
Figuring out that defying his father would be way tougher than ditching lessons at the academy, Anostor waited for a moonless night, and fled.
There started the first adventures of a man that would later become a living legend. He started out gaining experience in mercenary war bands, on ships of varying moral nature, occasionally as a bandit, though of mild character. In those early years, he started to develop his neverending love for booze and women.
Half of Bacarte was stunned by surprise when he seemed to settle, at age 18, with a fine, fair girl, and a son was born soon. Alexander, he named, wishing him future glory, and glory the child would eventually grasp, but that is another story.
Three short years later, Anostor was tired of the small brawls at the Drowned Man, and set off on a ship heading to some newly-rediscovered, ancient continent, and was never to be seen again by his family.
He traveled, sailed, fought and generally trashed ethics, and when the world itself had started to seem too small for him, he started roaming in
other worlds.
His life of excesses and his incredible prowess in battle earned him a score of bardic songs and nicknames.
The Raging Storm, he was called by those that had witnessed the blinding speed of his axe. The Wyrm-Grappler, after he strangled to death a Red Dragon, after betting on it drunk. Or Roaring Duran, because of the noise he produced when he battered his foes against walls, or on the ground.
And then, perhaps less honorably, the Great Harasser, and even the Orc-lover, because of his hardly ethical behavior in regards to women; aside from the small army of half-elves, half-shifters, half-tieflings and what not, spread through at least five different planes of existance, and tales of a night in company of, some say four, some say more, succubi, perhaps the most renowned story tells of a time he got drunk with improbable quantities of
a certain popular drink from his world of birth mixed with Black Dragon's acid and then got laid by the female shaman of an orc tribe. They say a young half-orc** is looking for him through the Near Isles...
And in fact, Duran the Fearless, after participating to a siege at the City of Brass (still got a tan after two years!), making clothes out of Abominations, and eating Slaad eggs for breakfast, is still scared of two things: his old man, and orc women.
*I know the Eternal Defender size increase kicks in at 24th level, but it's just flavor anyway. It also makes more sense than growing up in the middle of an adventure, I guess
**Yeah, I'm pretty sure my 3rd L4W character will be a young half-orc barbarian... named after the drink that made his existance possible! (if cov will reveal its name)
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[sblock=stats]Anostor Duran,human Rageblood Barbarian/Adroit Explorer/Eternal defender
Str 26(+2 race,+6 level,+2 feature)
Dex 16(+2 level)
Con 20(+6 level)
Int 10(+2 level)
Wis 12(+2 level)
Cha 14(+2 level)
Languages:
Alignment:
Religion:
Init:+13
Senses
erception 27, Insight 21
Speed:
AC: 36
For:36
Ref:31
Will:28
HP:180
Surge value:45(50 when bloodied)
Surges/day:14
Racial Features:
Class features:
Rageblood Vigor:gain 20 temp HP when you Ko a foe.
Feats (*bonus):
-Action Surge*
-Power Attack
-Toughness
-Weapon Focus
-Deadly Rage
-Improved Rageblood vigor
-Improved Grab
-Student of the sword
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-Rageblood Vigor
-Armor Specialization
-Charging Rampage
-Skill Training: Acrobatics
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-Enduring Rage
-Primal Resurgence
Basic attack:
Background: Shameless Scoundrel (Bluff is a class skill)
Skills (*trained; °armor penalty):
Acrobatics° +18
Arcana +10
Athletics°* +23
Bluff* +17
Diplomacy +12
Dungeoneering +11
Endurance°* +25
Heal +11
History +10
Insight +11
Intimidate +12
Nature +11
Perception* +16
Religion +10
Stealth° +13
Streetwise +12
Thievery° +13
Basic attack: Greataxe +27 vs AC, 2d12+20
Grab: +29 vs Ref
Powers:
-will:
Howling Strike: 2d12+3d6+20 (during charge, move +2 if raging)
Pressing Strike: shift 2 squares and 2d12+20(+1d6 if raging) and push 1
Recuperating Strike: 2d12+2d6+20 and gain 5 temp hp(10 if raging)
-encounter:
S-Swift Charge
2-Tiger's Leap*
2-Stonebreaker*(10)
7-Curtain of Steel
12-Destined for Greatness*(P)
13-Storm of Blades
13-Storm of Blades(P)
13-Thunderfall(17)
-daily:
6-Combat Surge*
9-Oak Hammer Rage
15-Thunderfury Rage
16-Spur the Cycle*
15-Iron Hammer Rage(19)
20-Bloodied Greatness(P)
S-Rage Strike
Equipment-125,000(normal load 520; medium load 1040; maximum load 2600):
lvl 22-Jagged GreatAxe +5
lvl 21-Stalkerhide Armor +5(9 AC, 1 For)
lvl 20-Brooch of vitality
lvl 10-Belt of blood (5,000)
lvl 16-Iron armbands of power(45,000)
lvl 15-Carcanet of psychic schism(25,000? (+1 will)
lvl 13-Giant Gloves (17,000)
lvl 7-Rushing Cleats(2,600)
lvl 14-Iron ring of the dwarf lords(21,000)
lvl 5-Bag of holding(1,000)
lvl 4-Everlasting provisions(840)
lvl 4-Sunblade +1(840)
(107,080)[/sblock]
