Level Up (A5E) Meet Mara, Halfling Sorcerer

The Level Up Starter Box launched on Kickstarter last week. We’ve already met at T’lingbet, the dragonborn ranger, Akanni, the human adept, Diamond, the planetouched cleric, and Gywven the dwarf rogue. Now let’s take a look at Mara, the halfling sorcerer.

 

[Corinnguard]

She has claws and burrow speed. So are halflings half badger people in level up? Or is this special to her? The art doest show the claws but at 1d6 damage I assume they are fairly big.

There is a sidebar in Level Up's Adventurer's Guide that talks about the origin of the Halfling heritage. Spoiler alert, they didn't arise from Badgers. Halflings aren't into badgering others.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

But her size is listed as Medium.

i think that's an error - level up halflings are small like you'd expect.

 

[Noddy Beholder]

Looking at the picture, she should have the feat "Demand to speak to your manager"

 

[Corinnguard]

Given that Mara's Sorcerer Manifestation is Hurricane, if she was singing the song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, she probably would tweak one of it's lines to 'Thunderbolts and lightning, I am very, very frightening' .

And she would mean it too.

 

[Noddy Beholder]

Given that Mara's Sorcerer Manifestation is Hurricane, if she was singing the song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, she probably would tweak one of it's lines to 'Thunderbolts and lightning, I am very, very frightening' .

And she would mean it too.

Mara, just killed a man....
Put a wand against his head,
Said the spell word, now he's dead.

 

[Corinnguard]

"Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me.... unless I am bringing on a HURRICANE......"

 

[Redthistle]

The Level Up Starter Box launched on Kickstarter last week. We’ve already met at T’lingbet, the dragonborn ranger, Akanni, the human adept, Diamond, the planetouched cleric, and Gywven the dwarf rogue. Now let’s take a look at Mara, the halfling sorcerer.

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This brings up the short-comings of the official Level Up A5E character sheet (and for that matter, character sheets for most TTRPGs): there is so much information about Mara here that would be good to include for any PC, but the space available is just not enough. Just listing the titles of different features (for heritage, culture, background, and class/archetype; destiny at least has it's own info block) sometimes doesn't fit in the allotted space: and that's with abbreviations (such as ASI for Ability Score Improvement). Mind you, I once wrote a short-story about the mother of a PC after creating some backstory for him, so I'm known for over-doing things, but still ...

 

[DevL]

While I agree that the she is unexpectedly short, I would rather want to know how and why she has claws.

 

[Redthistle]

While I agree that the she is unexpectedly short, I would rather want to know how and why she has claws.

Mara has claws because of the Halfling Gift that she has: Burrowing Claws. Having claws that can be used in combat is one of two traits (the other trait included in this gift is Burrowing) that help differentiate this type of halfling from others. Gifts, for any heritage, are taken at 1st level when a character is created. At 10th level, a Heritage Paragon becomes available, which can be a further development of the gift taken at 1st level.

 

[Corinnguard]

Think of them as heritage-specific feats.