You could play a male version of Goldwen if you prefer. Perhaps Goldwrake?
Waysoftheearth's Wyrmspear PBP
Alright can I have a (war)horse and a few oil bombs? Plus some bandages would be nice.waysoftheearth wrote: At the moment, you're all pretty lite on for tools of the trade... last call for shopping/choosing equipment coming soon
This is something very common in the Advanced line of D&D products as well as retroclones of that variety. B/X and RC are not innocent either. And it makes sense in two ways.waysoftheearth wrote: FWIW, a general comment on ability scores is that they are more descriptive and less number crunchy in OD&D than they are in later editions.
The original cast of DragonLance PCs have extremely improbable ability scores if we're talking about throwing 3d6 six times. All the humans (including Tanis) have 3 scores in the 14-18 range, whereas Flint and Tasslehoff (the non-humans) have "only" 2 scores that range. There are exactly 2 scores below 10 in the whole party of eight with 48 ability scores.
Giving everyone high scores simply makes high scores the norm. Whereas in OD&D, high (and low!) scores are a notable exception worth bragging about