I recently picked up two books from Brian O'Sullivan, Fionn: Defence of Ráth Bládhma and Fionn: Traitor of Dún Baoiscne. While the books are about Fionn MacCumhail (Finn MacCool) they feature younger versions of the druidess Bodhmal and the warrior Liath Luchara.
Like I did, he has both women as lovers. I have not read the books yet, but a quick flip and I like what I see.
His Liath and Bodhmal are not exactly like my versions of them and that is cool.
Like what I have been doing with Skylla I wanted to do some versions of Liath and Bodhmall to test out different systems. I wanted to do "by the book" versions for both Labyrinth Lord:AEC (as a stand in for any OSR game) and D&D5. Another good choice would be Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea.
I made minor changes in each case to reflect what works best for that game.
Previous Versions:
Castles & Crusades
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, Essentials
Since I am currently running a D&D5 game around 5th-7th level, I set them around that. I did both versions of the characters around that level.
Liath Luachra
NG Female Half-elf*
Ranger 7th Level
Abilities
Strength: 13 (+1)
Dexterity: 16 (+2)
Constitution: 18 (+3)
Intelligence: 10 (0)
Wisdom: 10 (0)
Charisma: 11 (0)
Saves
Breath: 9
Poison or Death: 8
Petrify or Paralyze: 10
Wands: 9
Spells or Spell-like: 12
AC: 7
HP: 50
Base To Hit AC 0: 14
Abilities
Half-elf
Infravision 60'
Equipment
Long bow (1d8)
Spear +1 (1d6+1)
Leather Armor +1
Water skin, belt pouches, travellers gear, boots.
*I am going with half-elf since I am going with the idea that Liath has some fae or Sidhe blood in her ancestry. I have a lot of "in-universe" reasons for this, but for me it just works out nice.
Bodhmal
N(G) Female Human
Druid 8th Level
Abilities
Strength: 10 (0)
Dexterity: 10 (0)
Constitution: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 14 (+1)
Wisdom: 18 (+3)
Charisma: 11 (0)
Saves
Breath: 14
Poison or Death: 9
Petrify or Paralyze: 12
Wands: 10
Spells or Spell-like: 12
AC: 7
HP: 37
Base To Hit AC 0: 17
Spells
1st Level: Divine weather, detect magic, faerie fire, shillelagh
2nd Level: barkskin, cure light wounds, produce flame, charm person
3rd Level: call lightning, pyrotechnics, protection from fire
4th Level: flash fire, summon sylvan beings
Equipment
Scimitar
Leather Armor
Amulet of Protection +1
Water skin, belt pouches, travellers gear, boots.
Stating these two for LL was exactly like AD&D/D&D. I have made scores of characters for LL but I am always surprised how quick and easy it always is.
Having already done 5e versions; they were just as fast as these.
In the past I had made Liath a barbarian. Here I went a ranger. I thought a fighter might also work, but a ranger to me seems closer. I will have more thoughts on this when I post the 5th edition stats.
No comments:
Post a Comment