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

[violsva]

"Morbidly obese" is a frequent BMI result for people with a lot of muscle.

[graydon]

Or even just some muscle.

[(Anonymous)]

Or who are taller than a hobbit.

[keith_morrison]

Or have slightly different proportions. I have somewhat shorter legs for my height, and based on my BMI from my days in the Forces, I would only have dropped down to the "ideal" category by maybe dropping down to under 5% bodyfat and possibly lopping off part of a limb.

Same time I was there, we had a cadet of Polynesian origin, so stereotypical barrel chest, about 5'5" and roughly six feet across the shoulders, looked like he bench-pressed trucks for leisure activities. Morbidly obese according to the BMI, of course.