Character Creation

Drow it is! Haven't played a Rogue yet, but my wife is playing one in our game and they seem kind of fun.

Changed to half-orc. Lost Alert feat. All set!

Best racial abilities for a tank. Also works better for character concept. He paints in seclusion to control his anger and rampage/blackouts. Normally with blood :)

Valinar is in. Just working backstory, languages and pic :)

Ohica Karn was born into a family of dwarven wizards, who wove their spells into the metals as they worked the forges. Ohica was a bit of a simpleton, however, and could never master the spells - either the memorization or the hand-eye coordination. But she tried, doggedly hard, for years. Her attempts were never good enough for her family, and her family finally sent her away at her majority to the temple of Ulaa, life goddess of the mountains.

By far the oldest of the initiates, Ohica worked hard, setting an unforgivingly high standard for herself (unconsciously mimicking her family's attitudes) and her performance. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing perfectly, on the first time. Care and attention to detail must be taken in order to ensure this level of performance. Trait: perfectionist This was good, because everyone in the temple had to work to feed the people at the temple as well as the needy in the dwarven community. But she wasn't good at most tasks. She excelled at fighting, and was quite meticulous in her work ethic. But she just didn't have the manual dexterity for many tasks: she failed as an egg farmer (she kept killing the chickens when they'd peck her), as a fisher (she was too clumsy to catch the fish), as a cook (nothing rose in the oven), as a brewer (people still joke about her attempts at "brew"), and so on. Eventually, the temple set her up as a carpenter, and she failed at that, too: she couldn't do the fine carving needed for furniture. But a member of the Teamster's Guild saw her work and was impressed at her speed. So they requested that the temple loan her to the Guild, and she quickly found satisfaction in repairing and improving carts, chariots, wains, phaetons, and wagons. She has been successful in this, and has become the temple's representative in the Teamster's Guild. Ohica has managed to befriend some of the younger dwarves in the temple (and all of her peers are younger than her), and she cares for them as if they were siblings. Once, one of them, Hammo Lithio, was accused of theft and was due to have his hand chopped off unless someone could pay the fine and reimburse the owner of the stolen property. Ohica snuck into the Teamster's Guild and stole the necessary money and paid off the officials with no questions asked. This has led to a great conflict within her, because she recognizes that the Guild is responsible for much of her success, but she really needed the money. She's still torn up about how to make amends to the Guild.

But the time of initiation always comes to an end, and Ohica is no longer an Initiate. Now she is a Missionary, and has been sent forth to do good work in the world abroad. She's reluctantly abdicated her position in the Guild and has traveled to Greyhawk as all do who seek their fortunes.

Submitted!