Tag: tabletop gaming

Eli the pitbull Shepherd. The healer of our little party for Pugmire. His focus item at the end of his prayer beads, the symbol of the Great Lady (a Starbucks drink bottle cap).

A pacifist by nature, his flaw is centered around the inability to kill another living being. He can not refuse to help another, but his companions are slowly teaching him that sometimes force is necessary and just before facing the Big Bad, he just took his first offensive spell.

Tuleo (Tu-LEY-oh) Cuervo, my current D&D character. He is a Kenku rogue who sounds like Zevran (for the Dragon Age people) or Antonio Banderas-ish (for the non-Dragon Age people). 

Him and his partner in crime Colbry (a Tiefling rogue) are after treasure dragons treasure.

Hatak’Verev: An original symbiotic race created for a Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition campaign. The Hatak (the big guys) protect the Verev (the little ones) but that is just a rudimentary explanation of their relationship. They work in tandem in all things, the Verev existing mostly on the Hatak’s back, referring to themselves only as ‘self’ as if one being. And as far as they are concerned, they are.

My wife and I play Kaso’Kai (Kaso: big guy, Kai: little one), a very young pair of these guys in a 5E game. They are SO MUCH fun. Inspired by a few things including but not limited to Ferra Torr from the latest Mortal Kombat game and Erin’s titan form from Attack on Titan. We did a whole race write up for them with flavor text and racial bonuses, etc. basing it on one of the ones from the Player’s guide.

Basic things: They can speak telepathically to one another, but the Hatak do not generally speak aloud at all finding it hard to mentally and physically deal with most languages. They can use a rudimentary sign language during times when their Verev partners cannot translate for them. The Verev do not have any issues speaking, though their isolation and tribal nature can lead to some interesting colloquialisms due to cultural differences.

Kaso’Kai is young and very curious. They left home and during their walkabout their clan was attacked and decimated. They returned to find all dead and nothing left of their village. Deciding it best to leave home for good, they struck out on their own eventually making it to a large town where they would hook up with the current party.

Despite being huge, Kaso is a big baby. He is scared of storms and freaked out by lots of people. He enjoys playing the drums and is quite a natural at it. Kai is a little spitfire and uses wild magic. She has come up with colorful nicknames for the rest of the party (’Beer’ for the dwarf, the halfling bard is ‘Songbird’, etc.). For those of you who have ever played Dragon Age Inquisition, she sounds much like Sera, weird phrasing and all.

One of the only ones in our D&D group that was not Hengeyokai, this samurai warrior was Crane clan (known for having light/white hair). She was the voice of reason in the group and as much of a leader as we had. She was the most sensible and kicked very much ass.

Another Hengeyokai who can become a cat. She was played by another of our group and she was a ninja. When not sneaking around, however, she was busy attempting to flash a bunch of celibate monks and get in Jinshiro’s pants. Her nickname amongst us quickly became “Slutty McCatpants”

Uma Kutsukani,or Kutsu, the old hermit. Also a Hengeyokai, this old traveler can transform into a horseshoe crab (the literal meaning of his name ‘horse shoe crab’) and carries a bunch of junk on his back, useless of course…until it isn’t. He is a quirky old crab who dislikes being knocked on his back.