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Long long ago in the time of 3rd edition D&D (no, I’m not a grognard) I had a barbarian named Bitterroot. He wasn’t above average in the brains department but he pushed a little more iron than the village blacksmith. Using the info from Forgotten Realms I worked out with the DM that he was a member of the Red Tiger clan of the Uthgardt tribes that had made camp near the sacred tribal mound. Getting involved with the regular party was a matter of acting as a tail to the group during a hunt and just tagging along as a matter of seeking out what was the cause of poor hunting for the band. It turned out that a mage had been running experiments, letting his subjects go after he was done and the monsters were affecting the animals being hunted. During this first adventure Bitterroot was played up with the tribal disdain for magic, which does make for an interesting session of having the mage of the party perform some fast talk as he ‘didn’t do magic but deal with spirits’. Barbarian logic reasons that spirits are ok, they have shamans after all, but mages do unnatural things so there was no need to annihilate this scrawny spirit worker. Once you get into the realms of dealing with that most barbarians just nod and accept that’s the way things are and mine was no exception. So it was and he came to possess a magic hammer that could be recalled after throwing it by speaking a magic word. This he took to understand, with the help of that every so smart mage, as being a hammer made to possess an air spirit that was as loyal as any dog which would come to you when called. Not a bad thing when you need to get your weapon back after inflicting what would be fatal blunt force trauma to the head of a potential threat that happened to open the wrong door at the wrong time well out of arms reach when adventurers, perfectly well within their legal rights, explored property not overtly noted as being private for potential salvage opportunities.

It was on the next adventure after that where he broke his tribal symbols of oversize claws fashioned from wood (essentially primitive weapons he would berserk using in the same fashion as Wolverine from Xmen). As a matter of tribal respect and social status he went to the wilds in order to fashion a new set. Being without claws meant hunting barehanded, which can be quite a dangerous thing when beasts around you are apt to kill you easily when unarmed. It was during the hunt that he happened to be stalking a wooly rhino. A dice roll later proved that Bitterroot had been upwind of the rhino and it turned to charge. As many a gamer has heard “He who screams and runs away, lives to scream an run another day”. It worked in Monty Python and the Holy Grail for Sir Robin why not here? So Bitterroot made a brave strategic withdrawal, with rhino in pursuit, to try and regroup in a tree and rally a counterattack of some sort from in the branches. Again, the dice were not with him as he made it up to the lowest branch as the rhino hit the tree and both fall. The rhino hits the ground and Bitterroot lands on top but rolls off. The DM rolls some more and announces that the rhino is not getting back up after impact. Bitterroot seizes this chance and beats on the rhino’s head with the logic of “Stupid rhino trying to kill me. Bitterroot will kill you.” After a while it dawns on him that he has killed it, so he began field dressing the carcass and making new claws. In the meantime of doing the work the DM rolls a few times and announces that there is rustling in the trees. Bitterroot passes his INT and Survival skill checks when he notices a mini allosaurus breaking through the foliage as it followed the smell of blood and sound of the butchery. Monty Hall gaming was a forte of this DM and this was where this character lucked out. So, my character takes to the trees, since they were very helpful before, and ends up riding the back and eventually slaying the dinosaur with his fresh prizes. From that incident he claimed much for raw materials to fashion natural armor/weapons and achieve greater standing in the tribe.

 

@sundancer  Nice setup. I wondered what those might look like put together. The base for E-web  looks quite a bit larger than those for the speeders.