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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7830835" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>Last week, my gaming group finished up the 60-adventure "Durnhill Conscripts" campaign <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-durnhill-conscripts.597733/" target="_blank">(Story Hour link)</a> my son Logan had been running for the past two years. This past Wednesday, the gaming group got together and we had a session where all we did was create the PCs for our next campaign, which Logan has decided to call "Raiders of the Overreach." The only campaign details he gave us were that we should create PCs that could have conceivably have been captured by the drow, since we'd be starting the campaign as slaves to the dark elves. Our PCs could be of any race and could have been captured in the Underdark or from the surface. The "Overreach" in the campaign title refers to the drow city we'll be held in, which consists of eight massive pillars in an enormous cavern at the bottom of which flows an Underdark sea.</p><p></p><p>So, these are the characters we came up with. I'll go in no particular order and will include a portrait of the PC in question when available (which means I'll be editing this first post as I receive the images the other players have selected for their PCs).</p><p></p><p>First up, my 12-year-old nephew Harry decided he'd be playing a dwarven fighter this time around. He wanted the warhammer to be his weapon of choice, so we ended up with <strong>Khari</strong> (pronounced "Cary") <strong>Hammerslammer</strong>. Khari was a scout for the Hammerslammer clan of dwarves who wandered a little too far out along an unexplored Underdark passage one day and was captured by the drow. Khari is unique among our group in having the lowest Intelligence, a 5. (I envision him as having fought off the drow with everything he had when he was captured and having suffered a brain injury as a result. Logan hypothesizes that maybe Khari was always that dim and his clan "suggested" to go wander off and explore dangerous passageways as a way of getting rid of him.)</p><p></p><p>In any case, here's what Khari looks like: <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/474x/28/50/00/2850004cbccf0ab971720d42b4a9636a.jpg" target="_blank">Khari Hammerslammer</a></p><p></p><p>Next up, I decided to try something different by running a lizardfolk character. I've never run a PC with a level adjustment before, so this will be a new experience for me: my first three levels will be as a lizardfolk only and it won't be until 4th level that I start picking up character classes (barbarian and ranger to start off, possibly spiced up with some fighter levels later on). In any case, my lizardfolk PC is <strong>Jhasspok</strong>, whose egg was taken from the surface world 5 years ago; as a result, being a slave to the drow is all Jhasspok knows. I've decided he doesn't believe in things he hasn't seen for himself, has never been to the surface world, and his primary role (up until the first adventure) will have been as a fisher, providing food from the Underdark sea to his drow masters. (If he catches enough, he's sometimes rewarded with a fish head or two.)</p><p></p><p>Here's Jhasspok, with a turtleshell shield and a club he'll be using in battle when the time comes for him to do more than fish: <a href="https://angrygolem-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lizardman.jpg" target="_blank">Jhasspok</a></p><p></p><p>My friend and coworker Dan decided he'd run a gnome cleric named <strong>Cramer Appleknocker</strong>. The "Cramer" is after "Kramer" of the "Seinfeld" TV show, specifically the episode where Kramer started working a corporate job at a company where he was never even hired; Dan figures Cramer - a gnome from the surface world - wasn't captured by the drow so much as he just casually wandered into their city one day and started hanging around the slaves. He's a cleric of Fharlanghn (in his gnomish aspect, of course).</p><p></p><p>Here's the image Dan's chosen to represent Cramer the gnome cleric of Fharlanghn: <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/ef/46/50ef46000c9f797373ea023af91ae5c4.jpg" target="_blank">Cramer Appleknocker</a></p><p></p><p>Dan's wife Vicki toyed briefly with the idea of running a kenku rogue character, but then - perhaps noticing a distinct lack in arcane spellcasting power thus far - opted to run a human sorceress named <strong>Marlo Pendragon</strong>. She decided Marlo has a toad familiar named <strong>Truffles</strong>. Vicki hasn't decided a whole lot about Marlo's backstory at this point in time, other than she was traveling to visit an aunt when she was captured by a raiding party and brought back to the drow city.</p><p></p><p>Here's the image Vicki found for Marlo (she really likes her robe): <a href="https://pre15.deviantart.net/e6a6/th/pre/i/2017/231/4/3/noble_sorceress_by_dmantz-dbklthc.jpg" target="_blank">Marlo Pendragon</a></p><p></p><p>Finally, Dan and Vicki's youngest son Joey (a high schooler) also decided on a dwarf and wanted him to be a physical brawler type (possibly due to having just run an elven wizard in our previous campaign). Joey often has trouble coming up with a name (and an image) for his PCs; with a bit of assistance from his parents, he ended up with the name <strong>Utred "Buckets" Butterflinger</strong> and decided his dwarf will be a barbarian. Utred's family, apparently, is in charge of making butter and other dairy products from a herd of rothé (stench kows - I'll bet that makes for some pretty smelly butter!).</p><p></p><p>Here's the image Joey selected for Utred, his dwarven barbarian: <a href="https://www.worldanvil.com/uploads/images/ecad6660fd836ce2a99396f0861f6f91.png" target="_blank">Utred "Buckets" Butterflinger</a></p><p></p><p>So, next Wednesday we'll start up this new campaign. Logan has decided that Khari, Marlo, and Utred were all captured the day before the campaign begins; Jhasspok's been a drow slave his entire life; and nobody's quite sure how long that weird Cramer guy's been hanging around with the slaves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7830835, member: 508"] Last week, my gaming group finished up the 60-adventure "Durnhill Conscripts" campaign [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-durnhill-conscripts.597733/'](Story Hour link)[/URL] my son Logan had been running for the past two years. This past Wednesday, the gaming group got together and we had a session where all we did was create the PCs for our next campaign, which Logan has decided to call "Raiders of the Overreach." The only campaign details he gave us were that we should create PCs that could have conceivably have been captured by the drow, since we'd be starting the campaign as slaves to the dark elves. Our PCs could be of any race and could have been captured in the Underdark or from the surface. The "Overreach" in the campaign title refers to the drow city we'll be held in, which consists of eight massive pillars in an enormous cavern at the bottom of which flows an Underdark sea. So, these are the characters we came up with. I'll go in no particular order and will include a portrait of the PC in question when available (which means I'll be editing this first post as I receive the images the other players have selected for their PCs). First up, my 12-year-old nephew Harry decided he'd be playing a dwarven fighter this time around. He wanted the warhammer to be his weapon of choice, so we ended up with [B]Khari[/B] (pronounced "Cary") [B]Hammerslammer[/B]. Khari was a scout for the Hammerslammer clan of dwarves who wandered a little too far out along an unexplored Underdark passage one day and was captured by the drow. Khari is unique among our group in having the lowest Intelligence, a 5. (I envision him as having fought off the drow with everything he had when he was captured and having suffered a brain injury as a result. Logan hypothesizes that maybe Khari was always that dim and his clan "suggested" to go wander off and explore dangerous passageways as a way of getting rid of him.) In any case, here's what Khari looks like: [URL='https://i.pinimg.com/474x/28/50/00/2850004cbccf0ab971720d42b4a9636a.jpg']Khari Hammerslammer[/URL] Next up, I decided to try something different by running a lizardfolk character. I've never run a PC with a level adjustment before, so this will be a new experience for me: my first three levels will be as a lizardfolk only and it won't be until 4th level that I start picking up character classes (barbarian and ranger to start off, possibly spiced up with some fighter levels later on). In any case, my lizardfolk PC is [B]Jhasspok[/B], whose egg was taken from the surface world 5 years ago; as a result, being a slave to the drow is all Jhasspok knows. I've decided he doesn't believe in things he hasn't seen for himself, has never been to the surface world, and his primary role (up until the first adventure) will have been as a fisher, providing food from the Underdark sea to his drow masters. (If he catches enough, he's sometimes rewarded with a fish head or two.) Here's Jhasspok, with a turtleshell shield and a club he'll be using in battle when the time comes for him to do more than fish: [URL='https://angrygolem-games.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lizardman.jpg']Jhasspok[/URL] My friend and coworker Dan decided he'd run a gnome cleric named [B]Cramer Appleknocker[/B]. The "Cramer" is after "Kramer" of the "Seinfeld" TV show, specifically the episode where Kramer started working a corporate job at a company where he was never even hired; Dan figures Cramer - a gnome from the surface world - wasn't captured by the drow so much as he just casually wandered into their city one day and started hanging around the slaves. He's a cleric of Fharlanghn (in his gnomish aspect, of course). Here's the image Dan's chosen to represent Cramer the gnome cleric of Fharlanghn: [URL='https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/ef/46/50ef46000c9f797373ea023af91ae5c4.jpg']Cramer Appleknocker[/URL] Dan's wife Vicki toyed briefly with the idea of running a kenku rogue character, but then - perhaps noticing a distinct lack in arcane spellcasting power thus far - opted to run a human sorceress named [B]Marlo Pendragon[/B]. She decided Marlo has a toad familiar named [B]Truffles[/B]. Vicki hasn't decided a whole lot about Marlo's backstory at this point in time, other than she was traveling to visit an aunt when she was captured by a raiding party and brought back to the drow city. Here's the image Vicki found for Marlo (she really likes her robe): [URL='https://pre15.deviantart.net/e6a6/th/pre/i/2017/231/4/3/noble_sorceress_by_dmantz-dbklthc.jpg']Marlo Pendragon[/URL] Finally, Dan and Vicki's youngest son Joey (a high schooler) also decided on a dwarf and wanted him to be a physical brawler type (possibly due to having just run an elven wizard in our previous campaign). Joey often has trouble coming up with a name (and an image) for his PCs; with a bit of assistance from his parents, he ended up with the name [B]Utred "Buckets" Butterflinger[/B] and decided his dwarf will be a barbarian. Utred's family, apparently, is in charge of making butter and other dairy products from a herd of rothé (stench kows - I'll bet that makes for some pretty smelly butter!). Here's the image Joey selected for Utred, his dwarven barbarian: [URL='https://www.worldanvil.com/uploads/images/ecad6660fd836ce2a99396f0861f6f91.png']Utred "Buckets" Butterflinger[/URL] So, next Wednesday we'll start up this new campaign. Logan has decided that Khari, Marlo, and Utred were all captured the day before the campaign begins; Jhasspok's been a drow slave his entire life; and nobody's quite sure how long that weird Cramer guy's been hanging around with the slaves. [/QUOTE]
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