Brad Minors
Personal
Brad is highly intelligent, but notoriously forgetful, impulsive, and unobservant. This combination frequently gets him into trouble. He is engaged to Samuel Stanley. Brad is close with three of the four members of the Heroes of Cape Hildegard. He threw a belated bachelor party (as well as a "posthumous bachelor party" slash wake) for Loge Haderaa while traveling with him in Cantonova. He also considers Blanche de la Force and Nekrotzar among his best friends. (Tchelio dislikes him intensely.) He is also close friends with the members of Fiend's Bane Alola, particularly Ann Trulove and Sasha Vanderaa.OperaQuest
Brad Minors
Medium human, necromancer, Chaotic Good
STR
12
( +1 )
DEX
10
( +0 )
CON
14
( +2 )
INT
20
( +5 )
WIS
7
( -2 )
CHA
14
( +2 )
Ideals
Everyone should just be chill, bro.
Bonds
Samuel is the love of my life. I can't lose him again.
Flaws
I don't really stop to notice my surroundings or think about the consequences of my actions.
Brad is a 12th-level spellcaster. He uses Intelligence as his spellcasting ability (+9 to hit, save DC 17). Brad has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrip (at will): chill touch, mage hand, hideous laughter, prestidigitation, shocking grasp, toll the dead
1st level (4 slots): false life, thunderwave
2nd level (3 slots): scorching ray, phantasmal force, wither and bloom
3rd level (3 slots): life transference, revivify, vampiric touch
4th level (3 slots): blight, vitriolic sphere
5th level (2 slots): hold monster, negative energy flood
6th level (1 slot): eyebite
Frat of Skeletons Forme. As a bonus action, Brad conjures a group of hard-partying skeletons to surround him. He gains the following benefits:
- His base AC becomes 17.
- His size becomes Huge. Allies can enter and move through his space, ignoring any difficult terrain, but they cannot end their turn within his space. Enemies are pushed to a neighboring space, and must succeed on a DC17 DEX save or be knocked prone.
- He gains 36 temporary hit points.
- He cannot be grappled, restrained, or knocked prone.
Bound by Love. If Samuel is within 120 ft of Brad and has less than 10 HP, Brad has disadvantage on attacks against all targets besides the last one to damage Samuel. He must use all his movement to move closer to Samuel until immediately adjacent to him, provoking opportunity attacks as he does so.
Actions
Party Foul. Ranged Spell Attack: +9 to hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 3d6 magical bludgeoning damage, and target's movement speed is reduced by 10 ft. until the start of Brad's next turn.
Brad's Beast Mode (Frat of Skeletons Forme only). Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3d10 + 5 magical bludgeoning damage. The target is grappled (escape DC 17), and must succeed on a DC17 DEX save or be restrained. While a creature is grappled with Beast Mode, Brad can force it to move anywhere within his space. Any non-area attack against Brad has a 50% chance of hitting a creature grappled within Beast Mode instead.
Tattoo of Fireball (Recharge 5-6). Brad casts fireball at 3rd level.
Reactions
Arcane Echo. When Axel or Samuel casts thunderwave, Brad can use his reaction and a spell slot of at least first level to cast thunderwave at the same time. If the area of the spells overlap, a target in the overlapping area is affected only by the first spell cast.
You Good, Bro? When an ally within 30 ft. that Brad can see is hit by a critical hit, Brad can move adjacent to them, provoking no opportunity attacks, and heal them for 3d6 hit points. (If Samuel is hit by a critical hit, using this ability doesn't consume Brad's reaction.)
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Early Life
Brad Minors is the son of Kate Minors, at the time a junior seamstress working at Castle Adamant. His father has never been identified. Raised by a working single mother, Brad had a lot of independence as a child; he spent a great deal of time in the Gaeno Woods as well as in the palace library, and began teaching himself magic from an early age. He also learned medicine and herbalism from his uncle Paul Minors, one of the palace medics.Education
Around the age of 14, Brad was caught trying to steal a scroll from Chariz's collection of magical artifacts. The master wizard allowed the boy to work off his debt as an indentured worker rather than face punishment from the town magistrate; he eventually took a liking to Brad and took him on as an assistant and protégé. At 18, Brad graduated from Chariz's tutelage and started school at the Wizarding University of the Aquatic Kingdom on a full scholarship.Necromancy
On 28 October, Y1110, Brad witnessed a wildmagic accident that killed eight bystanders, including his boyfriend Samuel Stanley, a fellow WUAK student. Brad, mistrustful of head WUAK necromancy professor John Claggart's efforts to help the deceased, rushed Samuel to the office of the assistant necromancy professor, Mercédès. She resurrected Samuel via druidic reincarnation on the condition that both Brad and Samuel become necromancy majors and serve as her assistants for the remainder of their degrees. Since then, Brad and Samuel have focused their studies on expanding the field of arcane necromancy to include more aspects of healing magic and Resurrection (as opposed to mere corpse reanimation).Relationships
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