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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8820106" data-attributes="member: 6704184">So, as the OP might indicate, my favorite halfling PC I’ve played is the guy in the OP picture, Finnan O’Foalan. That the HeroForge mini I am considering having printed. He’s a Swashbuckler Rogue with 3 levels of Echo knight Fighter, and a wild history. He’s tall for a halfling at 4ft, but in 4e halflings we’re taller than gnomes so it’s partly just that. He’s quiet, hard working, and loyal. He’s also scary. Expertise in Intimidation represents an ability to just stare people down in total silence and squash whatever problem they’re trying to make into his problem, and his stealth abilities are nearly broken. [spoiler=his history]Started as a White Well Hexblade in 4e, so basically like a Blade Pact Archfey Warlock, but actually built to fight. Thematically, he was a thief with a magic sword and a lot of secrets. Eventually it was revealed that he was displaced in time, having been a saboteur and assassin in the Sembian resistance against Netheril before the spellplague. He was saved by Mask, who he served, at the moment of death upon being hanged for sedition. For 100 years he dwelt in stasis in the Shadow, and then his stasis failed, and Mask was nowhere to be seen, and he was near death, alone, in the Shadowfell. Then a light appeared, and a woman appeared sitting next to what should have been a fetid pool, but was instead a glassy well reflecting a moon not present in the sky, and The Lady asked him if he would help her, and he agreed. Then other stuff happens that is super involved and he became a revenant with split loyalties and then fully died and was brought back fresh without scars or supernatural strings, free to choose his own path. He also came back with no magic as he’d had before, but with a tiny sliver of Masks divinity, and the knowledge that he was the last true Chosen of Mask. (Level 11 feat based on the wood elf magic feat, giving him pass without trace, cure wounds, and the “no disad from dim light” trait) [/spoiler]Now he is in Abeir with his best friend Torkan the Dragonborn and his beloved Gnomish Artifcer, Nemain Trickfoot. He’s opened up a bit, teaching his friends halfling work songs he learned growing up in a little farm town just up the river from an even smaller fishing town, and later in the docks and on ships in the harbors of Sembia’s coastal cities. Recently he refreshed his fit, by commissioning a suit of armor that looks more like the traveling clothes of a noble (as pictured), and a mithral longsword (finesse, extra crit damage) and mithral shield in the Tymantherian style (straps to arm leaving hand free, only provides a mundane +1 AC, made up for by enchanted +1). He also hit fighter3, and took Echo Knight, which we are flavoring as him animating his shadow after having gone into his own subconscious (with friends) to battle the shadow of himself and face his Truth. Having conquered his shadow, he has much stronger access to the power of the shard of the divine soul inside, thus the new magic. Finnan couldn’t be anything but a halfling, for me. It informs how he approaches revolution, theft, and even assassination, and thus how he interacts with Mask, who he sees as a potential patron of avengers.</blockquote>

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