TOTEM OF THE DUCK

Primal Path Extension of the Totem Warrior

for the Barbarian Class

In the final arc of Critical Role's first campaign, actor Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory) was awesome enough to come guest for a couple of episodes. When I sat with him in advance to make his character, he settled on a charismatic Half-Orc Bard/Barbarian named Lionel Gayheart. When I asked which Primal Path Lionel wished to walk, he felt drawn to the Path of the Totem Warrior. When I presented the animals he could choose from, he simply asked me this inspired question: "Can my totem animal... be a duck?" From this was born this majestic build you see before you, now refined for general use!

Some warriors choose to take on the deep, spiritual journey of connecting with the natural creatures of the realm, letting the ascestrial knowledge of their chosen totem spirit to guide them through their worldly trials. This broad array of noble beasts eagerly bestow their ancient lessons unto the barbarian who binds their strength to their animalistic essense. Others instead discover the impossibly powerful majesty of the duck, eshewing the influence of inferior inspirations and instead devoting their strength and attention to these incredible beaked sentinels of ponds across the realms, in return being granted supernatural skill and ability in the image of their feathered patrons.

Others still may just be ducks themselves turned into people.

Regardless of the journey that has led a rage-fueled engine of destructon to discover the endless might and wisdom of these billed beasts that protect the planes, the rewards that lay in wait for those who prove their tenacity and will to their quacking masters shall be remembered as guardians of legend, flapping forces of nature whose deeds carve a bloody (and quite loud) path of glory through the ages to come. Inspired by the creative inquiries of actor Jon Heder in the development of the majestic Half-Orc Barbarian Lionel Gayheart, you too can now harness this unstoppable source of power.

Quack quack, mother ****er.