Maximillian 'Chip' Riffman

Maximillian 'Chip' Riffman is a Tiefling rogue adventurer with the Firebreathing Kittens guild, or as he would describe it, "in-sourced with the Firebreathing Kittens to ground-truth their process flow and upskill toward eventual synergistic collaborations." Blessed with an expensive but generalist education, he lives his life convinced there is no group, problem or issue that could not be vastly improved by the intervention of a confident man not afraid to roll his sleeves up, think outside the box, cut through the nonsense, take decisive action and most importantly, speak quickly and in meaningless platitudes. Something of a grifter and a confidence man, he is determined to 'master' adventuring so that he can pursue his dream career as a leadership and process improvement consultant to Guaso's legendary heroes. 
==Characteristics==
Height: 6'0 Weight: Average, trending lean. 
Hair color: Jet black 
Skin color: Red 
Eye color: Blue
Example clothing outfit worn: Maximillian wears almost exclusively gray 3-piece suits, each carefully tailored to his frame and adjusted to conceal the daggers he carries on his person for the rare emergency he can't talk his way out of. He wears these suits over shirts of silk in white, black and deep green. Depending 
Where is the tattoo of the firebreathing kitten on the shield?: The firebreathing kitten shield tattoo is emblazoned on the inner side of Maximillian's wrist, where he can flash it by flicking his sleeve downward but conceal it at all other times. 
Family members: 
* Father: Lord Xavier Riffman 
* Mother: Lady Jenevive Riffman 
==Background==
Born and raised in Jishoap, Chip was ensconced in the special kind of hell that is the childhood of the highly privileged. His father, Lord Xavier, was a perennially distant patriarch whose business trips were many and whose affection was virtually non-existent. Lord Xavier believed in "tough love" and "taking it on the chin," but took a far dimmer view of parental responsibility or actual child rearing. His mother viewed him as a conversation piece and status symbol, albeit one with temporarily disastrous implications for her figure. As a result, Chip spent the majority of his formative years surrounded by nannies, au pairs, tutors, and instructors, but rarely his own parents.
With a consistent pattern of substituting money for parenting, the Riffmans ensured young Maximillian never lacked for educational opportunities, introductions to the 'right people' or the latest in fashion. The result, somewhat predictably, was an over-educated young man desperate to prove himself to a distant and rather absentee father whose business dealings took him from Heintze to McCail Island but rarely out into the yard to play catch.
Determined to prove he could stand on his own two feet, entitled, and with all the proper connections, but with few actual skills, Chip inevitably fell into management consulting. His polished mannerisms, Tiefling charm and smooth tongue, all combined to largely obfuscate his utter lack of real world experience or knowledge of whatever field he was advising on until, typically, well after he had received payment and moved on leaving his clients to puzzle over his long, buzzword laden report. 
It was after one such venture, when Chip was toasting his earnings at a high end establishment, that Chip fell in with a group of guild mercenaries fresh from a lucrative assignment. It was there that Chip had his epiphany. He would leave behind the stuffy and rarely hyper-profitable world of telling minor merchants "how to streamline their marketing channels to best drive leads toward a revenue positive customer journey" and instead focus on the heretofore untapped goldmine that was advising adventuring parties. 
All he needed was an in, and a way to pick up the lingo... and that's when he spotted the recruitment poster for the Firebreathing Kittens. 
==Adventures==
Chip has been in the following adventures:
Times, They Are A Changeling
Category:Characters
Category:Firebreathing Kittens