Poe
A reluctant, suicidal paladin of the Raven Queen eager to meet his fate
Author: kskopp
PC in: Moonsong City
Race: Human
Level: 5
Game System: D&D 4E
Description
Poe
Level 7 Paladin (Defender)
Medium Natural Humanoid (Human)
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<tr><td>Ability</td><td>Value</td><td>Mod</td><td>Mod+1/2L</td></tr>
<tr><td>Strength</td><td>14</td><td>+2</td><td>+5</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dexterity</td><td>9</td><td>-1</td><td>+2</td><tr>
<tr><td>Wisdom</td><td>18</td><td>+4</td><td>+7</td><tr>
<tr><td>Constitution</td><td>14</td><td>+2</td><td>+5</td><tr>
<tr><td>Intelligence</td><td>5</td><td>-3</td><td>+0</td><tr>
<tr><td>Charisma</td><td>18</td><td>+4</td><td>+7</td><tr>
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Alignment Unaligned
XP: 9117+
Languages Common, Giant
Initiative +2;
Senses Perception 17, Insight 22
Speed 4
Action Points 1
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AC 21
Fortitude 17
Reflex 14
Will 19
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Racial Traits: Bonus At-Will Power, Bonus Feat, Bonus Skill, Human Defense Bonus (+1 to Fort, Reflex, & Will)
Class Features: Paladin Defense Bonus (+1 to Fort, Reflex & Will), Channel Divinity (1/encounter) Divine Mettle, Divine Strength, or Raven Queen’s Blessing; Divine Challenge, Lay On Hands (4/day but only 1/round)
Surges Per Day
14 for +17 HP each
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Lay On Hands Per Day
4 for +21 HP each
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Temporary HP
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HP 70; Bloodied 35
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POWERS
Special
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Divine Challenge
Lay On Hands
Enfeebling Strike
Bolstering Strike
Valiant Strike
Encounter
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Daily
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Skills: Religion +12, Endurance +10, Heal +12, Insight +12, Intimidate +12
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Feats: Healing Hands (Add CHA mod to Lay On Hands), Raven Queen’s Blessing (see below), Durable (+2 healing surges/day), Toughness (+5 HP per tier), Weapon expertise (Heavy Blades) (+1 to hit)
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Possessions: +2 Frost Long Sword, +1 Dwarven Plate Armor, 1 daggers, +1 Frost hand axe, holy symbol (black prayer beads), backpack, bedroll, flint&steel, belt pouch, 50’ hemp rope, aleskin, various money being held by Sunny, Leather armor, map to necromancer’s house, Crossbow, 60 bolts
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BASIC ATTACKS – Standard At Will * Weapon
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<tr><td>Frost L Sword (2h)</td><td>N/A</td><td>+ 11 vs. AC</td><td>+ 13 vs. AC</td><td>1[W] (d8) + 5 damage (cold dmg at will)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Frost L Sword (1h)</td><td>N/A</td><td>+ 11 vs. AC</td><td>+ 13 vs. AC</td><td>1[W] (d8) + 4 damage (cold dmg at will)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Dagger (held)</td><td>N/A</td><td>+ 8 vs. AC</td><td>+ 10 vs. AC</td><td>1[W] (d4) + 2 damage</td></tr>
<tr><td>Frost Hand axe (thrown)</td><td>Ranged 5/10</td><td>+ 8 vs. AC</td><td>+ 10 vs. AC</td><td>1[W] (d6) +3 damage (cold dmg at will)</td></tr>
<tr><td>Frost Hand axe (held)</td><td>N/A</td><td>+ 8 vs. AC</td><td>+ 10 vs. AC</td><td>1[W] (d6) +3 damage (cold dmg at will)</td></tr>
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POWER DESCRIPTIONS
DIVINE CHALLENGE
Paladin Feature
At-Will * Divine
Minor Action Close burst 5
Target: One creature in burst
Effect: You mark the target. The target remains marked until you use the power against another target or if you fail to engage the target. A creature can be subject to only one mark at a time. A new mark supersedes a mark that was already in place.
While a target is marked it takes a – 2 penalty to attack rolls for any attack that doesn’t include you as a target. Also it takes cold damage equal to 3 + CHA (+ 4) modifier the first time it makes an attack that doesn’t include you as a target before the start of your next turn. The damage increases to 6 + CHA at 11th level and to 9 + CHA at 21st level.
On your turn you must engage the target you challenged or challenge a different target. To engage the target you must either attack it or end your turn adjacent to it. If none of these events occur by the end of your turn the marked condition ends and you can’t use divine challenge on your next turn.
You can use Divine Challenge once per turn.
Special:Even though this ability is called a challenge it doesn’t rely on the intelligence or language ability of the target. It’s a magical compulsion that affects the creature’s behavior regardless of the creature’s nature. You can’t place a divine challenge on a creature that is already affected by your or another character’s divine challenge.
LAY ON HANDS
Paladin feature
At-Will * Divine
Special:# of times per day equal to Wis modifier (min 1), but only 1/round.
Minor Action Melee touch
Target: One creature
Effect: You spend a healing surge but regain no hit points. Instead the target regains hit points as if it had spent a healing surge + CHA (+4). You must have at least one healing surge remaining to use this power.
ENFEEBLING STRIKE
Paladin Attack 1
At-Will * Divine, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: CHA vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + CHA damage. If you marked the target it takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.
Increase damage to 2[W] + CHA at 21st level.
BOLSTERING STRIKE
Paladin Attack 1
At-Will * Divine, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: CHA vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + CHA damage and you gain temporary hit points equal to your WIS modifier (+ 4).
Increase damage to 2[W] at 21st level.
VALIANT STRIKE
Paladin Attack 1
At-Will * Divine, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: STR + 1 per enemy adjacent to you vs. AC
Hit: 1[W] + STR damage.
Increase damage to 2[W] at 21st level.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: DIVINE METTLE
Paladin Feature
Encounter * Divine
Minor Action
Close burst 10
Target: One creature in burst
Effect: The target makes a saving throw with a bonus equal to your CHA (+ 4).
CHANNEL DIVINITY: DIVINE STRENGTH
Paladin Feature
Encounter * Divine
Minor Action
Personal
Effect: Apply your STR (+ 2) as extra damage on your next attack this turn.
CHANNEL DIVINITY: RAVEN QUEEN’S BLESSING
Feat
Encounter * Divine, Healing
Free Action
Ranged 10
Trigger: Your attack drops an enemy within range to 0 hit points or fewer.
Effect: You or an ally within 5 squares of the enemy can spend a healing surge.
Special: You must take the Raven Queen’s Blessing feat to use this power.
FEARSOME SMITE
Paladin Attack 1
Encounter * Divine, Fear, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: CHA vs AC
Hit:2[W] + CHA damage. Until the end of your next turn, the target takes a penalty to attack rolls equal to your Wisdom modifier (4)
RIGHTEOUS SMITE
Paladin Attack 3
Encounter * Divine, Healing, Weapon
Standard Action
Melee weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: CHA vs AC
Hit:2[W] + CHA damage and you and each ally within 5 squares of you gain temporary hit points equal to 5 + your Wisdom modifier (+4).
BECKON FOE
Paladin Attack 7
Encounter * Divine, Implement
Standard Action
Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: CHA vs WILL
Hit:2d10 + CHA (4) damage and you pull the target a number of squares equal to your Wisdom modifier (4).
RADIANT DELIRIUM
Paladin Attack 1
Daily * Divine, Implement, Radiant
Standard Action
Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: + CHA (+6) vs. Ref
Hit: 3d8 + CHA (4) damage and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn. IN addition the target takes a -2 penalty to AC (save ends).
Miss: Half damage, and the target is dazed until the end of your next turn.
MARTYR’S BLESSING
Paladin Utility 2
Daily * Divine
Immediate Interrupt
Close burst 1
Trigger: An adjacent ally is hit by a melee or ranged attack.
Effect: You are hit by the attack instead.
SIGN OF VULNERABILITY
Paladin Attack 5
Daily * Divine, Implement, Radiant
Standard Action
Ranged 5
Target: One creature
Attack: + CHA (+6) vs. FORT
Hit: 3d8 + CHA (4) radiant damage, and the target gains vulnerability 5 to radiant damage until the end of the encounter.
Miss: Half damage, and the target gains no vulnerability.
DIVINE BODYGUARD
Paladin Utility 6
Daily * Divine
Minor Action
Ranged 5
Effect: Choose an ally within 5 squares of you. You take half that ally’s damage until the en dof the encounter or until you end the effect as a free acton. No power or effect can reduce the damage you take from this power.
Bio
- Father was a priest of Pelor
- Ambushed by orcs while returning from his wedding with his new bride
- Left for dead – stabbed through the chest with a spear – while the bridal party was slaughtered (his family and friends) and his wife was carried off by the orcs
- Believing he was dying and not wanting his wife Alia to suffer through a life of torture, abuse and pain, he prayed to the Raven Queen to release his bride from her fate and allow her to die so that they could be together…
- He then was visited by a raven…crawling through the snow, he followed it
- The bird led him to a clearing where he found his bride dead – slain along with the orcs who had taken her when their band had been ambushed in turn by some more powerful group…
- The raven was the agent of the Queen and he learned that she had answered his prayer – saving his bride from her awful fate by granting her an untimely death – but was extracting a price in return – his servitude until his own death…which was not to be any time soon: She touched him with her power and through the Raven kept him alive through the cold winter
- Dismayed…since all he wanted to do was die and be with his love…he became suicidal…but the beliefs drummed into him by his father made it impossible for him to take his own life…or perhaps it wasn’t his fate to do so…
- He survived the rest of the winter in the wilds, subsisting on what little food he could find and what the raven, his constant companion brought to him…
- Eventually he came to accept his fate and though he doesn’t like it, has become a grudging servant of the Queen – hoping always and still to join his love Alia when he dies…
- He’s become stoic about life and fearless in battle since he is not afraid to die…and indeed welcomes it, although he has come to believe that the Queen has a fate for him other than a quick death…
- Resigned to his fate, he has taken to praying for guidance and instruction with the black prayer beads he keeps wound around his left wrist…his prayers are occasionally answered by the raven…who continues to appear to him occasionally, usually when the Queen has a message or task for him…for example, when winter finally ended he followed the bird to Havenbrow where he has the feeling something important is about to begin…
PoeReluctant Paladin of the Raven Queen Father was a priest of Pelor Ambushed by orcs while returning from his wedding with his new bride Left for dead – stabbed through the chest with a spear – while the bridal party was slaughtered (his family and friends) and his wife was carried off by the orcs Believing he was dying and not wanting his wife Alia to suffer through a life of torture, abuse and pain, he prayed to the Raven Queen to release his bride from her fate and allow her to die so that they could be together… He then was visited by a raven…crawling through the snow, he followed it The bird led him to a clearing where he found his bride dead – slain along with the orcs who had taken her when their band had been ambushed in turn by some more powerful group… The raven was the agent of the Queen and he learned that she had answered his prayer – saving his bride from her awful fate by granting her an untimely death – but was extracting a price in return – his servitude until his own death…which was not to be any time soon: She touched him with her power and through the Raven kept him alive through the cold winter Dismayed…since all he wanted to do was die and be with his love…he became suicidal…but the beliefs drummed into him by his father made it impossible for him to take his own life…or perhaps it wasn’t his fate to do so… He survived the rest of the winter in the wilds, subsisting on what little food he could find and what the raven, his constant companion brought to him… Eventually he came to accept his fate and though he doesn’t like it, has become a grudging servant of the Queen – hoping always and still to join his love Alia when he dies… He’s become stoic about life and fearless in battle since he is not afraid to die…and indeed welcomes it, although he has come to believe that the Queen has a fate for him other than a quick death… Resigned to his fate, he has taken to praying for guidance and instruction with the black prayer beads he keeps wound around his left wrist…his prayers are occasionally answered by the raven…who continues to appear to him occasionally, usually when the Queen has a message or task for him…for example, when winter finally ended he followed the bird to Havenbrow where he has the feeling something important is about to begin… The broken shaft of the spear shook against the cold blue sky keeping time with each ragged breath he drew into his tortured – and punctured – lungs. He faded in and out of consciousness but was aware enough to hear the screams of his new bride, Alia as the monsters took her away. Doomed, he thought – to a lifetime of slavery, abuse, and torment. Despite his upbringing as a worshipper of Pelor his prayers now flew to the Raven Queen. Please, he begged, spare her from this fate…let her die with me…anything but this fate for her..my beloved…let us be together in death if not in life…a gust of cold wind took his breath away and he lost consciousness. When he awoke, the spear remained. Night had fallen and without the winter sun it had become bitterly cold. The numbness dulled the pain and he seemed to breath easier. In the moonlit snow beside him stood a raven. It cocked it’s head at him and with knowing eyes, nodded. Afraid for his eyes, he feebly tried to shoe it away. His attempts failed, but the bird moved now closer, regarding him quisically and continuing to nod at him. Slowly understanding dawned – it wanted him to follow. The numbness in his chest made movement slow, but he did his best. Folding himself into a sitting position, he leaned forward, grasping the broken spear sha ft with both hands. A solid push sent it the rest of the way through his chest. A gurgle of blood nearly choked him. Cold, he thought as he spit it out. I must be dead…he extracted the rest of the spear under the raven’s watchful gaze. Then fell back to rest a second. Morning sun was lighting the sky when he next awoke. He stared directly into the ravens dark eyes…it sat on his chest now. Again, he tried to shoe it away…and this time it hopped a short distance and stopped. Looking back it moved again…ah yes, he thought. I’m supposed to follow it…his legs were solid blocks of ice so the best he could manage was a slow crawl. This satisfied the bird though and it led him though the wilderness for most of the morning… Not by choice – left out in the cold when village destroyed by orcs… Returning home with bride after wedding, attacked and whole party slain by orc raiders – stole wedding gifts, etc. Ran off with new bride and women and tchildren, left him for dead with sword through his stomach…lying frozen in the snow… Watched as wife, children were dragged off by orcs to become slaves…prayed to the raven queen that they would be allowed to die rather than face the horrors of raping, pillaging, etc that lay before them…the queen granted his prayer…a raven appeared and led him crawling through the snow to where the orcs who’d taken his wife had been in turn ambushed by elves and their whole party killed. Including the human slaves/prisoners they had with them. The raven sat on his wife’s dead body, then continued to lead him through the blizzard, to a cave, where he lost consciousness…awakening days later, he was able to shelter in the cave for the rest of the winter, subsisting off of what little food he could scrounge up and what the raven – who appeared to him daily – brought for him… made pact with raven queen to get vengeance, did so but now wants to be free of it? Thought everyone he loved was dead (I. E. Bride), recently found out that she is still alive – revealed to him by raven queen. Used by raven to keep loyalty, is afraid to approach them, but wants to protect them…bride is a slave somewhere in moonsong city… Raven queen appears to him as a talking raven occasionally…other times he just gets feelings…about people, etc. She sent him on to haven – provides direction? What’s his cover? Day job? Brooding stranger? Does small jobs for locals – or did – to earn room and board (a guys gotta eat…) In haven, did some big favor for the innkeeper or someone and now lives there? Performs funeral rites for locals to pay his bills… Simply works as a farmer like everyone else…keeps to himself mostly…waiting for a sign from the Queen…
