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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5082535" data-attributes="member: 1225">In the books, he doesn't do much smithing, IIRC. I haven't read the Lost Chronicles, though, so maybe he goes to town there. It's been a long while, but as I recall, Flint was mainly the gruff fatherly comic relief in the novels. Wikipedia's description seems fairly accurate:I only read the first few modules, and ISTR he used a hand axe in those stats. I'm pretty sure the novels talked about a battle axe, though, as Wiki says, so make of that what you will. There's one big thing about Flint from the second novel (I didn't read the later modules, so I don't know if it holds true in the adventures, too, or not) that I don't think constitutes a spoiler, because if it does, your GM may be kind of a jerk. I'm going to put it here, in spoiler text: [spoiler]Flint dies of a heart attack towards the end of the second novel, and thus isn't part of the climax. Ergo, his &quot;role&quot; kind of gets chopped off suddenly. But if the GM kills your character off via fiated heart attack, and doesn't tell you ahead of time -- that would be a lame stunt.[/spoiler]Regarding Dwarven Defender: there's no Int requirement, though Combat Expertise works well with the Dwarven Defender schtick (more AC), and it has an Int 13 requirement. However, Dwarven Defender requires the Dodge feat, which requires Dex 13, which your Flint doesn't have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 5082535, member: 1225"] In the books, he doesn't do much smithing, IIRC. I haven't read the Lost Chronicles, though, so maybe he goes to town there. It's been a long while, but as I recall, Flint was mainly the gruff fatherly comic relief in the novels. Wikipedia's description seems fairly accurate: I only read the first few modules, and ISTR he used a hand axe in those stats. I'm pretty sure the novels talked about a battle axe, though, as Wiki says, so make of that what you will. There's one big thing about Flint from the second novel (I didn't read the later modules, so I don't know if it holds true in the adventures, too, or not) that I don't think constitutes a spoiler, because if it does, your GM may be kind of a jerk. I'm going to put it here, in spoiler text: [spoiler]Flint dies of a heart attack towards the end of the second novel, and thus isn't part of the climax. Ergo, his "role" kind of gets chopped off suddenly. But if the GM kills your character off via fiated heart attack, and doesn't tell you ahead of time -- that would be a lame stunt.[/spoiler] Regarding Dwarven Defender: there's no Int requirement, though Combat Expertise works well with the Dwarven Defender schtick (more AC), and it has an Int 13 requirement. However, Dwarven Defender requires the Dodge feat, which requires Dex 13, which your Flint doesn't have. [/QUOTE]

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