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Farrow
Medium Humanoid (Farrow)
Hit Dice: 2d8+6 (15 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares)
AC: 17 (+1 Dex, +6 natural),
touch 11, flat-footed 16
Base Attack/Grapple: +1/+2
Attack: Gore +2 melee (1d8+1) or
greatclub +2 melee (1d10+1) or
shortbow +2 ranged (1d6/x3)
Full Attack: Gore +2 melee (1d8+1) or
greatclub +2 melee (1d10+1) or
shortbow +2 ranged (1d6/x3)
Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft.
The farrow are half-man, half-boar creatures that
have the intelligence and wit of a man and the
ferocity and tenacity of a boar. A typical farrow
stands at about the height of a man but walks
with a stooped posture giving it a shorter appearance. Its body
is covered with bristly dark hairs over similarly dark skin. Its
arms end in mannish hands, and its feet end in the cloven
hooves found among common barnyard swine. The face is a
strange mockery of human and boar: two surprisingly
human-looking eyes set behind a large
pig snout and enormous tusks jutting from the
thing’s mouth. The tusks are more pronounced
among the male members of the species and
may serve as a sign of dominance, good
breeding stock, or both. Whatever the case
may be, the tusks also serve as particularly
nasty natural weaponry.
While the farrow are not above and
may actually prefer using the weaponry
given them by their ancestry, they also rely
upon crude arms fashioned by
themselves or more elaborate
weapons pilfered from the bodies
of slain enemies. Farrow are
often seen sporting greatclubs
fashioned from the thigh bones
of great beasts and crude
shortbows of wood and sinew
or wielding the heavy iron weapons of the Iron Kingdoms,
presumably taken from one of the victims of their incessant
ambushes of foreign invaders.
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Special Attacks: —
Special Qualities: Scent
Saves: Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +0
Abilities: Str 12, Dex 12, Con 16,
Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 10
Skills: Hide +3, Listen +4, Move Silently +3,
Search +6, Spot +8
Feats: Alertness
Environment: Any temperate land
Organization: Family (5–20)
Challenge Rating: 1
Alignment: Usually neutral
Advancement: By character class
Level Adjustment: +2
The origin of these beasts is unknown and may remain
so. Cygnaran scouts first sighted them several decades ago in
Widower’s Wood. They’ve since been spotted ranging as far
south as the Gallow Hills and as far north as the Merwyn
region of Llael. Some believe there is a mad wizard lurking
somewhere in the dark recesses of history that felt the need to
tamper with nature and create these aberrations.
They are not all bad, however. I had the pleasure
of befriending Groth, a farrow shaman of
Widower’s Wood. If his name is indeed
Groth I’m actually not certain, but
when I asked for his name and
he replied with a series of
grunts and squeals, I decided
to call him Groth.
I met Groth while I was
hunting a particularly large
dracodile that had been
terrorizing a swampie village.
To hear the swampies
talk, the creature must
have been the size of Lord
Toruk himself! I’d soon
find out just how close to the
truth they were. I had been searching
fruitlessly for days when I heard
the sound of something very large
thrashing about in the water mere
yards away from me. I investigated, my lucky bow at the ready,
and saw what appeared to be a boar-like humanoid caught
in the jaws of the largest dracodile I had ever seen! The only
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