Wow, talk about a memory trigger.

Many years ago, I had a player ask to play a warforged barbarian. I allowed it. This was a side game of evil characters. He asked to set it up as a neutral character.

He wanted his warforged to be a taxidermist. But was absolutely inept at it. Like, stuffed small animals with rocks and sticks, and was very proud of his “work.”

We had a necromancer in the party who animated a squirrel corpse he has stuffed with rocks. It would occasionally spit them out and gnaw at them like acorns before eating them again. He lived inside the armored thigh of the warforged.

During a “negotiation” on acquiring carts, the barbarian saw a horse collapse from exhaustion, and thinking it dead, proceeded to stuff the farmer into the horse to “taxidermize” it. The negotiations quickly turned to a ransack and arson.

As far as combat went, he was a brutal and relentless character, using large axes and his entire body weight as weapons. Sometimes he would just plant himself firmly and become the obstacle. I miss that game. Thanks for this post, which reminded me of just how absolutely good that game was.