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<blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7402381" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>Basically - backstory and personality. </p><p></p><p>Currently my favorite barbarian character is "Honey of the Badger Clan" - she's a stout halfling barbarian who was raised by badgers, and her totem is the Badger (the big hairless barbarians have a similar totem called the "Bear" but it's clearly inferior). </p><p></p><p>Her family was killed while traveling through a forest when she was an infant, pixies found her and being to lazy to raise her themselves, convinced a momma badger who had recently had a litter to nurse her. What little civilization she has came via infrequent visits from the pixies when they remembered her. She now travels around with a group of giant furless people (humans, dwarves, elves, etc) and does her best to annihilate anything they point her at. (she uses a quarterstaff with Polearm Master and found Gauntlets of Ogre Power early in her adventuring career (from the Lost Mines of Phandelver). </p><p></p><p>She frequently urinates on things to mark them as her own, tends to charge in without thinking (Honey Badger don't care), and often curls up for a nap immediately after a battle or a meal, regardless of where she's at. When forced to sleep in an inn she will make a "burrow" under the bed or in a closet using blankets and furs and sleep there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caliban, post: 7402381, member: 284"] Basically - backstory and personality. Currently my favorite barbarian character is "Honey of the Badger Clan" - she's a stout halfling barbarian who was raised by badgers, and her totem is the Badger (the big hairless barbarians have a similar totem called the "Bear" but it's clearly inferior). Her family was killed while traveling through a forest when she was an infant, pixies found her and being to lazy to raise her themselves, convinced a momma badger who had recently had a litter to nurse her. What little civilization she has came via infrequent visits from the pixies when they remembered her. She now travels around with a group of giant furless people (humans, dwarves, elves, etc) and does her best to annihilate anything they point her at. (she uses a quarterstaff with Polearm Master and found Gauntlets of Ogre Power early in her adventuring career (from the Lost Mines of Phandelver). She frequently urinates on things to mark them as her own, tends to charge in without thinking (Honey Badger don't care), and often curls up for a nap immediately after a battle or a meal, regardless of where she's at. When forced to sleep in an inn she will make a "burrow" under the bed or in a closet using blankets and furs and sleep there. [/QUOTE]
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