I don't tend to use generators or any external tools. I create characters and let the feel of their name suggest itself to me, as ephemeral as that sounds. I have a large number of familiar characters who make reprisals in various games, but for BG3's EA I created new people to help me test - several of you have met a bunch of them already, as part of my feedback threads on models ^.^

There's Kicks Docksward, a young halfling girl who grew up fairly street-rat style in Baldur's Gate. She's a rogue by trade these days, with tan skin, blue eyes and short, messy brown hair. Has been known to revoke people's shin-having privileges, not unlike a certain other mad, small and more famous small person.

Dia, of the White Darkness, is a halfling woman with pale skin and grey eyes, shock white hair, a thin, almost frail-seeming build and something a little bit alien and disturbed behind her eyes. She is a warlock, bound to the White Darkness, an otherworldly entity; it's debatable whether the trauma she escaped from in finding and binding herself to this entity is outweighed by the mind-rending experiences she's had since being bound to it, but you won't hear her complaining.

Vivian, of the Frozen Scintillation, is a male halfling in he early middle ages with light tan skin, an average to stocky build, and thanks to the touch of his patron, bright purple eyes and unnaturally purple hair. He is a warlock, and representative on Toril of the Frozen Scintillation (at lest for now), an otherworldly entity that doesn't really communicate much, or seem to have a conscious sentience that can be comprehended, but power comes, as do occasional compulsions.

Essy Strawlock, female halfling, early twenties with fair skin, blue eyes and messy blonde hair that looks like it was cut with a dagger. She's is built sturdy, and resilient, and tends to dress lightly - usually just a chest ban and leggings. She's a fighter, because she was made before Barbarian was released. She would, otherwise, be a barbarian. She's from a small village, not really marked on many maps, and is venturing from home to bring back stories.

Ava of Lurkwood is a female halfling with dark olive skin, brown eyes and longer, dark brown hair. She is a druid from the Lurkwood, travelling currently to seek answers about a creeping darkness seeping into the edges of her home.

Meerin, no last name that she chooses to use, is a halfling woman in her early thirties. She's a mercenary fighter, more or less, with a few other bits and pieces on the side. She's got light tan skin, green-hazel eyes and short black hair.

Jay-lark is a wild-magic sorceress - it's given her, originally brown, longer hair a light purple colouration and made her eyes swirl in many different colours. She's a halfling girl with tan skin and a build that's a little on the soft and comfortable side of things, for an adventurer.

Linna the Scale-Storm (as she styles herself), is a dragon-blooded sorceress who has yet to find a problem her magic can't solve for her, and it's made her very brash. She's a halfling lady just out of her teens, with pale skin, pale blue eyes and pale silver-blue hair, on a fit and athletic build.

Charlotte Aysee ('Lotta' to her friends) is a halfling woman who, upon being saved on the road from a marauding owlbear by a small group of Tyr devotees, dedicated herself to their service as thanks and has since become ordained as a Paladin in her own right, seeking to repay the good turn done to her and pass it forward to others as often as possible. She is small of build, but generally wears her full armour and has, at times, been mistaken for a dwarf. Out of the plate, she has wild orange-brown hair, fair skin and a fondness for painting her nails.

Wren is one of my existing characters, remade for BG3 when Bard was released. She's only just seventeen - not yet considered adult by halfling standards (who consider the age of maturity 22, and who won't treat you like an adult until you're 30). She's extremely slight, and between her diminutive stature and her bright green eyes and unnaturally red hair, some might identify her as having a touch of pixie in her ancestry (she's also extremely conflict averse, in the core of her being). Wren ran away from home (a small town in the moonshaes) to escape a life that wanted to cage her, and has begun a grand adventure on the mainland... but hasn't worked out how to face her family when she finally returns home.

Swiftriver has dark skin, brown eyes and tightly braided black hair, with a lithe yet still athletic build. She was a foundling, left in the care of a monastic order of Hin Fist practicing in Waterdeep, and was raised in their order. When she came of age, she departed the order to travel the sword coast and see more of the world. As a monk of the Hin Fist, she is, naturally, a halfling.

Woad Dewmirror is a slightly unusual halfling woman, in that she has never really enjoyed social situations. She doesn't feel she understands how they're meant to work, could never learn the rules that others seemed to understand intuitively, and she prefers to avoid dealing with people when she can. In her middle ages, she is lean of build, with olive skin and deep hazel eyes, and lives alone in the woods not too far from her original home settlement, hunting and trapping for herself and occasionally venturing into town to sell hides, meat and other materials. It was only a message from a distant family member that pulled her, nervously, out to a big city on the coast, with every intent to return as soon possible. Things didn't turn out that way.

Miranda Emberglow has brown hair that she keeps meticulously braided in a crown around her head. She has fair skin and blue eyes, and left home because she was dissatisfied with the breadth of lore available to her in her home town, and relying on merchants passing through. To really further her studies of the arcane, she needed a bigger city.

I do make rather a lot of halflings....

Let us not forget Ka'chu'ka, Githyanki Wizzard! The most effective way to Wizzard is with the most excellent Wizzard spells 'Shove' and 'Throw' - no other spells are necessary. Armour is also for weaklings, and anyone joining her party wearing more than underwear is clearly unfit to call themselves an adventurer. She invites all to study the way of the Wizzard with her.

Those are most of my EA characters, used for testing purposes. There were a few others used specifically for testing various scenes with different races, but they weren't properly named or characterised... unless you count Carrotav, human female with bright green skin and bright orange hair.

Last edited by Niara; 17/11/23 09:51 AM.