Thursday, January 27, 2022

2022 Character Creation Challenge - Day 26

Originally, I had planned for some Gangbusters! but I am a day behind and there is no letting up this week (I am the last non-COVID person on staff, so it's me in a building), so B/X it is.

11, 11, 15, 16, 12, 16 - this might be the best set of 3d6 I've rolled in my remembered history.  Could be a Cleric, could be a Thief.  A Thief is ever-so-slightly a stronger choice, maybe.  

I can combine some recurring themes from this month, and Thin Lizzy, the B/X Thief is what we get.

Thin Lizzy, Deft Duelist, by David Palumbo WotC 2008


Lisbet 'Thin Lizzy' Delacroix (known aliases: The Black Rose, the Fox), N Thief 7

S 11 - none

I 11 - reads and writes native languages (usually 2)

W 15 - +1 on magic-based saving throws

D 16 - +2 hit with missiles, -2 AC, +1 initiative

C 12 - none 

Ch 16 - +1 adjustment to reactions, 6 max retainers, retainer morale 9

current XP: 50,000        XP until next level (+10%): 80,001

HP 19

AC 8

Languages Known: Common, Elf

Thief Skills: 

Open Locks 55%

Find/Remove Traps 50%

Pick Pockets 55%

Move Silently 55%

Climb Sheer Surfaces 93%

Hide in Shadows 45%

Hear Noise 1-4

Equipment: thieves tools, daggers, disguise kit, sword, leather armor, caches of treasure and gear across several cities

History: Lisbet is actually the child of a noble family, but as a youth, she dreamt of a spirit dragon, who warned her to leave her house.  Terrified, she listened, narrowly avoiding the mass assassination of her family.  Rightfully fearing for her life, Lisbet disappeared into the shadows and soon into another city.

The dragon spirit comes to her in dreams, and offers advice, which Lisbet generally heeds.  Over the years, she has adopted several aliases in several cities, establishing contacts and allies in each place, all in a life-quest to retake her family lands and exact revenge on those that killed her family off.

Within the last year, in her guise as the Black Rose, Lisbet has discovered the people behind the plot, and now works to first discredit, then destroy them from within.  As the Fox, Lisbet has been orchestrating a series of targeted robberies to pauperize the same people.

All the while, the dragon spirit waits in the shadows, providing enough guidance to push Lisbet into unknowingly accomplishing its inscrutable goals. 


The spirit in Thin Lizzy's Dreams, from the album art for Chinatown 1980


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This may all suggest that I am huge Thin Lizzy fan.  Don't believe it; I am just treading the line of 'inspired, yet not too drunk to be silly and unfathomable.'  

Thin Lizzy's sigil when acting as The Black Rose, from the album Black Rose 1979

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