Alas Poor Tamawold.

My plan for this post was to introduce and present another of my D&D characters back stories, however when I opened Tamawold Stormchild's back story this morning I found that it was missing. The file was in it's place but when I opened the file up over two thirds of the story had vanished. It must have fallen through the cracks during a hard drive crash I had a few years ago. I had a moment of silence for Tamawold.

Tamawold was my favorite character to date. As far as stats go he was a shifter warden from 4.0 (which I have mixed emotions about) based mostly on Con and Str, but he was much more than that. Tamawold was my first attempt at a very serious character and my best attempt at creating a fully fleshed out personality. I try to build character personalities out of a kerrnel of emotion and set of values that I can strongly empathize with or at least understand strongly. Dalin from my previous post was based on a very simple set of ideas: youth and naivety, "I just want to sing" and the idea of a reluctant adventurer. Tamawold was a heavier character he was a shield barer to the world,  refused to give in to anything and would eventually become a force of nature.

Dalin Arethi

I've been away for too long and I don't have any good excuses other than visiting family around Christmas.

I said I was going to post a small review about Mass Victory, however I don't feel that my memory is actually up to recalling all the pros and cons of that game since it has been months since I actually played it. Instead I'm revisiting one of my older D&D characters and will likely continue to go back and flesh out a few back stories that have been lost or where very short.

     Dalin Arethi is one of my very first D&D characters that I played for any length of time, he was mostly inspired by the poor child in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The setting was home brewed and I had to talk my DM into letting me use the Whaliendo. He ultimately left the party when my college load became heavy enough I had to make the choice between grades and D&D time, which was a very hard decision. Dalin was made with 3.5 rules and was tons of fun to play. The following story is the back story I submitted to my DM, with a few grammar and spelling corrections that I should have made at the time. Dalin did eventually reunite with Hammmy who had managed to become a celestial gerbil and ,after Dalin spent a few feats, became Dalin's familiar.