Slarty Barfast

In a game you sometimes have a few NPCs or zero level humans to absorb some of the damage you deal out to make a scene in a game more cinematic. You don't expect them to survive and attempt to kill them off as fast as possible.

Sometimes.... just sometimes one of them survives.

In this case the survivor had this mini.











Thus Slarty Barfast was born. My friend Todd named him after a character from Hitch Hikers Guild to the Galaxy and that was that. Through two game sessions Slarty Barfast has become a legend and even inspired me to draw a picture of him (based off of Homer Simpson). He is currently the wielder of the Fork of Werecow Slaying and also wields a "pig" of questionable nature (flash bang pig???).

Fork of Werecow Slaying

The Fork of Werecow Slaying came from a campaign I was playing which was more social based and less action. The characters where bored and of course sitting in a tavern. To amuse himself one of the players popped off about being a famous hunter of werecows. The character he was playing was in fact a "were" creature (a weretiger I think) and got the local peasants in a tizzy and told them they needed the fork of werecow slaying to protect their population of chickens. At the end of it the village had a "fork of werecow slaying" (a normal fork) and the group had 500 gold in their pocket.

In this current game I am running I decided to drop the Fork of Werecow slaying in as a real magic item. I am not sure if I will ever introduce a Werecow (There is a creature called a Devil Swine - I think - nothing like shape changing bacon) but it might be amusing. The NPC Slaty Barfast....

Fork of Werecow Slaying - Damage: 1d2 +1/+6 vs. Werecows (becomes +2/+12 when combined with the Steak Knife of Werecow Eatting)