Characterization the dump stat way

[james_davis_nicoll]

There's a chance we'll have another 5e campaign. I've enjoyed playing the party tank, so I was looking at fighter choices unlike Rose. Which gets me to Orilo Thuliage, Charisma 8 Goliath.



I'd like an efficient design, so with the Goliath pluses he's Str 16, Dex 12, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 13, Cha 8. Class fighter (with an eye to becoming a Monster Hunter at 3rd) and background Urban Bounty Hunter. He's even bigger than Rose at almost eight feet tall and 400 pounds (big enough his carrying capacity is doubled). Skills: athletics (+5), acrobatics (+3), stealth (+3), insight (+4), and perception (+4), plus the usual fighter stuff.

Goliaths generally live off in isolated mountain areas, so what's he doing in town? Notice the lack of a nickname. Goliaths always have nicknames. Orilo doesn't because he's tragically cursed: his flaw is "remarkable unremarkable" (I assume the flaws given are general guidelines, not the only options). He's not the "unpleasant and grating" sort of Cha 8, but the "completely fails to make an impression" cha 8. It's not in the rules but I'd roll all of his cha-based skills at disadvantage [1]. A Goliath Skywatcher (shaman) suggested the solution to Orilo's curse might be in a smallfolk community so Orilo left his tribe to go work in Campaign City

Obviously, the curse doesn't confer combat advantages.

(I think I will have him default to sneaking all the time unless I remember not to roll stealth)


1: Bounty hunters have Well Informed as a feature. Usually it means they know how to schmooze. In Orilo's, he just hangs around until someone has a telling conversation in front of the unremarkable eight foot tall guy.

Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

I do remember Kragar from the Brust series.

[james_davis_nicoll]

"eight feet tall and 400 pounds"

It's possible to roll a higher weight than the stated weight rank for the race.

[ariaflame]

So during rounds of dice games, he's the one that always misses his turn because others forget he's there?

[keith_morrison]

"Can you describe the perpetrator?"

"Um, not really. Maybe a bit over average height?"