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<blockquote data-quote="Ilja" data-source="post: 4916251" data-attributes="member: 84300"><p>Thanks alot HolyMan!</p><p></p><p>My bio's ready, so here it goes:</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Trodder</span></p><p>Background</p><p>[sblock]</p><p>Born into a small elven tribe, Trodders life as a child was joyful and easy. However, a plague of epic proportions came along, spread by a necromancer who needed high elven bodies for experiments. Trodder, by that time fifteen years old, a small child by elven standard, was the only survivor and had to flee the village as his parents torn bodies were raised. He was dying, and would have been dead if it wasn’t for Erush, an orcish hermit that found him and took him in. The hermit healed him and took care of him, letting Trodder work in the gardens in exchange for his life. He educated him in orcish and common, and trained him as a hunter. Trodders mind was already beyond humanoid salvation though, and even though he quickly picked up whatever he was told he would still seem distant or disturbed at times, talking to himself in elven while staring into oblivion.</p><p></p><p>Then came the heroes; three men in shining armor, screaming to their “goodly” gods and slaughtering Erush where he stood. Trodder fled, grabbing Ripper, Erush wicked axe, swearing an act of revenge on the killers of Erush. He was sixty-three by the time, a young elven man, and skilled with both bow and axe. During that night, he tracked the heroes and set their camp on fire. The vengeance was complete when he saw their bubbling flesh and heard their panicked screams. But he was without a home, since he didn’t know enough to manage the farm alone without the divine help of Erush, so he went to the big city. There he was shunned due to both his scarred and twisted flesh and his dark mindset. After an accidently killing a merchant, he was banished, but he entered the city again at night, and after some time moved into the sewers where he lived for some years until meeting the wizard in red robes, promising a fine bow in exchange for his help with an experiment.</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Appearance</p><p>[sblock]Trodder is an elf of average length and quite muscular, but his skin and hair was ruined by the plague so many years ago. His skin is covered in scars after blisters and hair grows only in small patches on his head. His clothes and equipment are mostly stolen, found, or made, and his most precious item, “Ripper”, is a mean axe with a curved blade and more akin to a scythe than the axes used by mankind. He wears studded leather made from scraps of several different armors, with a bit of chainmail here and there and only wool in other, and he also carries a large, jagged dagger with a curved blade – a kukri-like weapon he took from the body of a headhunter the town had employed to find him.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Personality</p><p>[sblock]Throughout his life, Trodder has become more and more cynical and bitter. He doesn’t talk too much, and don’t get friends. He has had a few companions over the years, though these relations have been more to survive than because he actually has cared about anyone, and more than once has the relations ended with an axe on the back of his partner. He often seem to mutter to himself in a quite strange dialect of elven, much akin to how a child talks, and sometimes he becomes almost apathic for several hours. He has a passionate hate for so-called heroes, especially knights, paladins, and clerics of the goodly gods and takes a certain pleasure in hurting them, remembering the sweet taste of vengeance.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Stats</p><p>[sblock]</p><p>[code][B]Name:[/B] Trotter</p><p>[B]Class:[/B] Urban Ranger</p><p>[B]Race:[/B] Elf</p><p>[B]Size:[/B] Medium</p><p>[B]Gender:[/B] Male</p><p>[B]Alignment:[/B] Neutral Evil</p><p>[B]Deity:[/B] No specific</p><p></p><p>[B]Str:[/B] 14 +2 ( 6p.) [B]Level:[/B] 1 [B]XP:[/B] 0</p><p>[B]Dex:[/B] 20 +5 (16p.) [B]BAB:[/B] +1 [B]HP:[/B] 12 (1d8+4)</p><p>[B]Con:[/B] 12 +1 ( 6p.) [B]Grapple:[/B] +3 [B]Dmg Red:[/B]</p><p>[B]Int:[/B] 14 +2 ( 6p.) [B]Speed:[/B] 30' [B]Spell Res:[/B]</p><p>[B]Wis:[/B] 14 +2 ( 6p.) [B]Init:[/B] +5 [B]Spell Save:[/B] </p><p>[B]Cha:[/B] 8 -1 ( 0p.) [B]ACP:[/B] -1 [B]Spell Fail:[/B] 15%</p><p></p><p> [B]Base Armor Shld Dex Size Nat Misc Total[/B]</p><p>[B]Armor:[/B] 10 +3 0 +5 0 0 0 18</p><p>[B]Touch:[/B] 12 [B]Flatfooted:[/B] 16</p><p></p><p> [B]Base Mod Misc Total[/B]</p><p>[B]Fort:[/B] 2 +1 +2 +5</p><p>[B]Ref:[/B] 2 +4 +6</p><p>[B]Will:[/B] 0 +2 +2</p><p></p><p>[B]Weapon Attack Damage Critical[/B]</p><p>Masterwork Long Bow +7 1d8 20x3</p><p>"Ripper" +3 2d4+2 20x4</p><p>Kukri +3 1d4+2 18-20x2</p><p></p><p>[B]Languages:[/B] Common, Elven, Orc</p><p></p><p>[B]Abilities:[/B] Favored Enemy (Human), Track, Wild Empathy</p><p></p><p>[B]Feats:[/B] Toughness</p><p></p><p>[B]Skill Points:[/B] 32 [B]Max Ranks:[/B] 4/2</p><p>[B]Skills Ranks Mod Misc Total[/B]</p><p>Craft (Weapon) 1 +2 0 +3</p><p>Heal 3 +2 +2 +7</p><p>Hide 4 +5 -1 +8</p><p>Knowledge (Nature) 2 +2 0 +4</p><p>Knowledge (Local) 2 +2 0 +4</p><p>Move Silently 4 +5 -1 +8</p><p>Open Locks (cc) 1 +5 0 +6</p><p>Sleight of Hand (cc) 2 +5 -1 +6</p><p>Survival 4 +2 0 +6</p><p>Spot 3 +2 +2 +7</p><p>Listen 3 +2 +2 +7</p><p></p><p>[B]Equipment: Cost Weight[/B]</p><p>Studded leather armor 25gp 10lb</p><p>MW Long Bow 0gp 3lb</p><p>Quiver with 20 arrows 1gp 3lb</p><p>"Ripper" 18gp 10lb</p><p>Kukri 8gp 2lb</p><p>Knife 1gp 1lb</p><p>Backpack with: 2gp 2lb </p><p> Blanket, winter 5sp 1lb</p><p> Food for 2 days 1gp 2lb</p><p> Flint & Steel 1gp ---</p><p> Waterskin 1gp 4lb</p><p> Thieves' Tools 30gp 1lb</p><p> Healer's Kit 50gp 1lb </p><p></p><p>[B]Total Weight:[/B]38lb [B]Money:[/B] 41gp 68sp 55cp</p><p></p><p> [B]Lgt Med Hvy Lift Push[/B]</p><p>[B]Max Weight:[/B] 58 116 175 350 725</p><p></p><p>[B]Age:[/B] 116</p><p>[B]Height:[/B] 5'5"</p><p>[B]Weight:[/B] 143 lb</p><p>[B]Eyes:[/B] Green</p><p>[B]Hair:[/B] Black</p><p>[B]Skin:[/B] Fair[/code][/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ilja, post: 4916251, member: 84300"] Thanks alot HolyMan! My bio's ready, so here it goes: [SIZE="4"]Trodder[/SIZE] Background [sblock] Born into a small elven tribe, Trodders life as a child was joyful and easy. However, a plague of epic proportions came along, spread by a necromancer who needed high elven bodies for experiments. Trodder, by that time fifteen years old, a small child by elven standard, was the only survivor and had to flee the village as his parents torn bodies were raised. He was dying, and would have been dead if it wasn’t for Erush, an orcish hermit that found him and took him in. The hermit healed him and took care of him, letting Trodder work in the gardens in exchange for his life. He educated him in orcish and common, and trained him as a hunter. Trodders mind was already beyond humanoid salvation though, and even though he quickly picked up whatever he was told he would still seem distant or disturbed at times, talking to himself in elven while staring into oblivion. Then came the heroes; three men in shining armor, screaming to their “goodly” gods and slaughtering Erush where he stood. Trodder fled, grabbing Ripper, Erush wicked axe, swearing an act of revenge on the killers of Erush. He was sixty-three by the time, a young elven man, and skilled with both bow and axe. During that night, he tracked the heroes and set their camp on fire. The vengeance was complete when he saw their bubbling flesh and heard their panicked screams. But he was without a home, since he didn’t know enough to manage the farm alone without the divine help of Erush, so he went to the big city. There he was shunned due to both his scarred and twisted flesh and his dark mindset. After an accidently killing a merchant, he was banished, but he entered the city again at night, and after some time moved into the sewers where he lived for some years until meeting the wizard in red robes, promising a fine bow in exchange for his help with an experiment. [/sblock] Appearance [sblock]Trodder is an elf of average length and quite muscular, but his skin and hair was ruined by the plague so many years ago. His skin is covered in scars after blisters and hair grows only in small patches on his head. His clothes and equipment are mostly stolen, found, or made, and his most precious item, “Ripper”, is a mean axe with a curved blade and more akin to a scythe than the axes used by mankind. He wears studded leather made from scraps of several different armors, with a bit of chainmail here and there and only wool in other, and he also carries a large, jagged dagger with a curved blade – a kukri-like weapon he took from the body of a headhunter the town had employed to find him.[/sblock] Personality [sblock]Throughout his life, Trodder has become more and more cynical and bitter. He doesn’t talk too much, and don’t get friends. He has had a few companions over the years, though these relations have been more to survive than because he actually has cared about anyone, and more than once has the relations ended with an axe on the back of his partner. He often seem to mutter to himself in a quite strange dialect of elven, much akin to how a child talks, and sometimes he becomes almost apathic for several hours. He has a passionate hate for so-called heroes, especially knights, paladins, and clerics of the goodly gods and takes a certain pleasure in hurting them, remembering the sweet taste of vengeance.[/sblock] Stats [sblock] [code][B]Name:[/B] Trotter [B]Class:[/B] Urban Ranger [B]Race:[/B] Elf [B]Size:[/B] Medium [B]Gender:[/B] Male [B]Alignment:[/B] Neutral Evil [B]Deity:[/B] No specific [B]Str:[/B] 14 +2 ( 6p.) [B]Level:[/B] 1 [B]XP:[/B] 0 [B]Dex:[/B] 20 +5 (16p.) [B]BAB:[/B] +1 [B]HP:[/B] 12 (1d8+4) [B]Con:[/B] 12 +1 ( 6p.) [B]Grapple:[/B] +3 [B]Dmg Red:[/B] [B]Int:[/B] 14 +2 ( 6p.) [B]Speed:[/B] 30' [B]Spell Res:[/B] [B]Wis:[/B] 14 +2 ( 6p.) [B]Init:[/B] +5 [B]Spell Save:[/B] [B]Cha:[/B] 8 -1 ( 0p.) [B]ACP:[/B] -1 [B]Spell Fail:[/B] 15% [B]Base Armor Shld Dex Size Nat Misc Total[/B] [B]Armor:[/B] 10 +3 0 +5 0 0 0 18 [B]Touch:[/B] 12 [B]Flatfooted:[/B] 16 [B]Base Mod Misc Total[/B] [B]Fort:[/B] 2 +1 +2 +5 [B]Ref:[/B] 2 +4 +6 [B]Will:[/B] 0 +2 +2 [B]Weapon Attack Damage Critical[/B] Masterwork Long Bow +7 1d8 20x3 "Ripper" +3 2d4+2 20x4 Kukri +3 1d4+2 18-20x2 [B]Languages:[/B] Common, Elven, Orc [B]Abilities:[/B] Favored Enemy (Human), Track, Wild Empathy [B]Feats:[/B] Toughness [B]Skill Points:[/B] 32 [B]Max Ranks:[/B] 4/2 [B]Skills Ranks Mod Misc Total[/B] Craft (Weapon) 1 +2 0 +3 Heal 3 +2 +2 +7 Hide 4 +5 -1 +8 Knowledge (Nature) 2 +2 0 +4 Knowledge (Local) 2 +2 0 +4 Move Silently 4 +5 -1 +8 Open Locks (cc) 1 +5 0 +6 Sleight of Hand (cc) 2 +5 -1 +6 Survival 4 +2 0 +6 Spot 3 +2 +2 +7 Listen 3 +2 +2 +7 [B]Equipment: Cost Weight[/B] Studded leather armor 25gp 10lb MW Long Bow 0gp 3lb Quiver with 20 arrows 1gp 3lb "Ripper" 18gp 10lb Kukri 8gp 2lb Knife 1gp 1lb Backpack with: 2gp 2lb Blanket, winter 5sp 1lb Food for 2 days 1gp 2lb Flint & Steel 1gp --- Waterskin 1gp 4lb Thieves' Tools 30gp 1lb Healer's Kit 50gp 1lb [B]Total Weight:[/B]38lb [B]Money:[/B] 41gp 68sp 55cp [B]Lgt Med Hvy Lift Push[/B] [B]Max Weight:[/B] 58 116 175 350 725 [B]Age:[/B] 116 [B]Height:[/B] 5'5" [B]Weight:[/B] 143 lb [B]Eyes:[/B] Green [B]Hair:[/B] Black [B]Skin:[/B] Fair[/code][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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