Tam the Cautious

Tam Proudwalker (styled Tam the Cautious by Hobbes) is a halfling dungeoneer and warrior from Cramen.
== History and Personality ==
Tam was born into a halfling community in Vandahar, where he quickly made firm friends with other halflings on the lower end of society. They started off as thieves, but quickly established a more profitable method of acquiring riches - spelunking and tomb raiding. On one such expedition, Tam and his team were battling a number of ghouls when Tam became paralyzed. Quickly realising they were outmatched, Tam's accomplices fled, leaving Tam to distract the ghouls. His paralyzed body was savaged for almost a minute before Tam regained his senses, and he fled into the darkness of the caves, where he prayed for death. Instead, an adventuring mage happened upon the halfling, offered to share his rations and asked him if he had seen any undead. The mage assisted Tam's return to the surface, and Tam promised to repay him one day. He never saw his friends - or the mage - again.
Since that expedition, Tam has joined many adventuring parties over the years. He was recently enchanted by the oni Kamatu into joining the Blood Pits on the island of Kathrak. Tam has become a far more reserved warrior, abandoning the arts of absorbing blows and learning instead how to block them altogether. He is an excellent candidate to hold the attention of aggressive enemies, although he insists that he never feels comfortable doing this. 
== Skills and Powers ==
Tam is an extremely defensive warrior who can easily hold the attention of an enemy through the use of his combat expertise and collapsible buckler. Despite his heavy armour and shield, Tam is a trained rogue and is extremely capable of the mechanical and theoretical aspects of that role. He does his damage by baiting his enemies with an obvious miss, followed by a vicious sneak attack with the backswing.
== In the Campaign ==
Tam was among those who were rescued from the island of Ob by Mirage, Keldin and Salazar following Squidface's death. He accepted the offer of joining the Bloodsworn company, but was grudging in offering his blood to the sage Mallarus, and retained his dislike of Mallarus into the present day. Tam traveled to Ilvaska and fought the dragon Marrokystrian alongside many others, also retelling the tale of the slaying to Yelstrom's patrons at the Horn of Heroes.
== Character Sheet ==
Tam the Cautious  - Halfling Fighter 1/Rogue 7
HP 56  Initiative+2  AC 26 (with buckler)/ AC 29 (with tower shield) (T 12, FF 21/24) Speed-20(4)
Sword  + 12/ + 7 (d8 + 4/19-20) or Sword & Tower Shield + 10/ +5 (d8 + 4/19-20) or Expertise, Shield & Sword + 5/+0 (d8 + 4/19-20)
SQ - Halfling Traits, Sneak Attack +4d6, Evasion, Trap Sense + 2, Trapfinding, Uncanny Dodge
Feats - Bastard Sword Training, Bastard Sword Focus, Combat Expertise, Improved Feint
Abilities 16, 15, 16, 12, 13, 12   Saves+7/+8/+4   Skills - Bluff  + 12, Dungeoneering + 11, Disguise + 12, Intimidate + 14, Gather Information + 12,, Open Lock + 13, Forgery + 12, Search + 12, Trapwork + 13   Languages - Common, Halfling, Profane
Equipment - Breastplate + 2, Ring of Protection + 2, Collapsible Buckler +2, Bastard Sword + 1
Gold - 1800
Category:Halflings
Category:Adventurers
Category:Bloodsworn
Category:Cramenese