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And now for our resident dwarf. This, my friends, is Farkrim Graufels. He is the typical angry dwarven fighter. But he is played by the most unlucky of my players. You can imagine how that usually goes. 

I remember a moment when Farkrim had to make a perception check and actually rolled (after all the minusses that he had to add) a “-2″. I was stunned by this roll. Yes he is strong and can take a punch but thinking and being witty is not his speciality. 

In an other moment he was drinking himself into oblivion in the stonehill inn. He failed his constitution check and went unconscious. Then he had to roll a dice to find out if the revelers around him did something with his limb body. Well he rolled a 1 and thus found himself, after getting up, completely shaven (even the eyebrows) and bawdy songs scrawled all over his face.

But he also had failed a con check against the bite of a wereboar (the only party member who failed that of course.....) and so we had a clean shaven dwarven warrior who was also struggeling against the curse of the wereboar, desperately trying to keep it together and not just murder everyone. It was hillarious. :-D

Farkrim is not just an ordinary dwarven fighter though, he also is a runesmith and wears a chainmail made of mithril. He has crafted a rune of earth into his armor and thus reduces all mundane damage by 3 (at least that is what I think). But add to that the damage resistance that comes from being nearly a Werboar (I could not give him damage immunity while fighting the curse) he can be an unmoveable tank in battle. We had a fight once where at least 3 Orcs and 2 Orcboar riders for 5 rounds tried to take that wild dwarf out but could not do much more than 3 damage per round, while he was cleaving them left and right. It was spectacular. 

By the way, the way to give my Farkrim player a decent chance of controlling the curse, I gave him a “potion of control”. This potion is only good for one time but stays in the system of the hero for 10 hours. It gives the drinker a +8 on willpower checks. Nueleth (our average druid) is an alchemist and herbalist. Once she has learned the recipe she can spend one day and half the incredients of her herbalism kit to create another one of those potions. Farkrim only really needs this potion in the night with a full moon.  He is trying to get rid of the curse but it will take time and money to do so (I require a greater restoration to get rid of curse) and he will come in situations where he will have to do willpower checks to control himself, but only on a full moon is there a chance that he will go “full boar” against his will.

Well take a guess who that could be and who´s stories I have been reading lately. 

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Enough time? Well than here comes the big reveal. This my friends is of course the legendary Trollslayer Gotrek Gurnisson. 

I have read a lot of Warhammer novels in my time but never have I met with a cooler character than Gotrek who, in my eyes at least, is wielding one of the twin axes of the dwarven god Grimnir and thus is nearly undefeatable. 

Anyway I wanted to have a mini for this great character for a long time and than, Scibor Miniatures (http://sciborminiatures.com) created a “wild dwarf chieftain” that looked exactly like I imagined Gotrek to look.  So I bought that wild dwarf, sculpted a nosechain and an eyepatch for him and there he was Gotrek Gurnisson the mad slayer.

And now for the new leader of my dwarven army: Erebus der Eiserne (the Iron). When I saw that amazing mini on the Scibor website (http://sciborminiatures.com) I just could not help myself. I had to buy it and make it part of my dwarven army. I hope you can see why.

I know that there are no official rules for a bear riding dwarf but hey, I am a DM and love to make up my own rules. As you, at least the german speaking crowed, can see I have given him a name and his own warscroll. 

I think I mentioned it before, I play my own version of Age of Sigmar with halfway balanced rules that seem, to me at least, a little more immersive.

And now for something completely different - again.

I just wanted to show you the newest addition to my dwarven army: My Slayers!

These incredible cool looking minis were made by “Scibor Miniatures” (http://www.sciborminiatures.com). I think that they are the epitome of what a Slayer should look like. They are a bit expensive but man oh man, are these minis cool.