Dalia Starks
Dalia Starks
Sheet
AC 14 · HP 38 · 25 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
19 featuresBonus action
- Bardic Inspiration
When Bonus action, ally within 60 feet can hear her
Dalia adds a 1d8 inspiration die to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw made within 10 minutes.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
Dalia can use a bonus action to grant a creature within 60 feet a 1d8 Bardic Inspiration die. The die lasts for 10 minutes and can be used for an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.
Reaction
- Cutting WordsLevel 3
When Reaction when a creature within 60 feet makes an attack roll, ability check, or damage roll
Dalia subtracts 1d8 from a creature’s attack roll, ability check, or damage roll.
Always on
- Spellcasting
When When a known bard spell is cast
Dalia casts a spell using her voice, instrument, or other magical focus.
- Bardic Inspiration, d8Level 1
Dalia can inspire an ally who can hear her within 60 feet. The ally can add 1d8 to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw made within the next 10 minutes. She can use this feature five times per long rest.
- Song of Rest, d8Level 1
Dalia can use music or oration to restore magical energy during a short rest. Allies who hear her regain extra hit points when spending Hit Dice, adding 1d8 to one healing roll.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
Dalia can add half her proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that does not already include her proficiency bonus.
- Bonus ProficienciesLevel 3
Dalia has learned to use musical performance to distract and charm. She is proficient with three additional skills of her choice: Deception, Perception, and Persuasion.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
Dalia can choose two proficient skills, Performance and Persuasion, and double her proficiency bonus for ability checks using them.
- College of LoreLevel 3
Dalia gains two additional cantrips known and can learn spells from any class list. She learns three additional spells from any class list, and the chosen spells count as bard spells for her.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Dalia gains an Ability Score Improvement. Her Dexterity and Charisma scores have already been increased through this feature.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 5
Dalia can regain all expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when she finishes a short or long rest.
- TraitDwarfDarkvision, able to see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- TraitDwarfDwarven Resilience, advantage on saving throws against poison and resistance to poison damage.
- TraitDwarfDwarven Combat Training, proficiency with battleaxes, handaxes, light hammers, and warhammers.
- TraitDwarfTool Proficiency, proficiency with one artisan’s tool of choice, brewer’s supplies.
- TraitDwarfStonecunning, proficiency bonus doubled for Intelligence History checks related to the origin of stonework.
- TraitDwarfDwarven Toughness, maximum hit points increased by 1 per level. Dalia’s hit points include this benefit.
- By Popular DemandEntertainer
Dalia can always find a place to perform, usually earning modest food and lodging from tavern owners, festival organizers, or generous admirers. Common folk recognize performers and may offer shelter or assistance.
Spells
11 spellsSpellcasting. Dalia Starks casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): ,
1st level (4 slots): , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): ,
3rd level (2 slots): , ,
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- RapierA finely balanced dueling blade with a swept hilt.
- DaggerA light, flexible blade used as a backup weapon.
Armor
- Leather armorLight armor made from hardened leather, granting AC 11 plus Dexterity modifier.
Tools
- LuteDalia’s polished lute, fitted with mismatched strings and a hidden compartment beneath the bridge.
- Hand drumA second musical instrument, a small hand drum used for rhythmic accompaniment.
Gear
- Diplomat’s packA case containing a bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, waterskin, ten days of rations, and other travel necessities.
- Entertainer’s costumeA colorful performer’s costume designed to draw attention during festivals and tavern shows.
- Favor of an admirerA token from an admirer, useful as a dramatic prop and sentimental keepsake.
Purse
- 15×Gold piecesCurrency received as part of her starting entertainer’s equipment.
Appearance
Dalia is a compact, athletic hill dwarf with warm brown skin, a strong jaw, and bright amber eyes that seem permanently amused. Her copper-red hair is braided with brass rings and tucked beneath a feathered traveling hat. Her neatly trimmed beard is unusual for a dwarf woman, worn in two short braids decorated with tiny bells. She dresses in a fitted burgundy performer’s coat over light leather armor, with a rapier at her hip and a polished lute strapped across her back.
Mannerisms
Dalia taps rhythms on nearby surfaces whenever she is thinking. She leans dramatically toward the person speaking, as if listening for a punchline, and punctuates important statements with a quick flourish of her rapier or a pluck of her lute.
Personality
Dalia is quick-witted, theatrical, and impossible to intimidate for long. She treats every conversation as a possible performance and every stranger as a potential audience member. Beneath the swagger, she is observant and unexpectedly compassionate, especially toward outsiders, failed heroes, and anyone being laughed at by people with power.
Ideals
Freedom. No throne, temple, guild, or family has the right to decide what a person must become. Life is too short to spend it obeying rules written by people who fear joy.
Bonds
She carries a battered brass tuning fork that belonged to her late mentor, a dwarf musician who vanished after exposing a powerful noble’s crimes. Dalia intends to discover what happened and finish the song her mentor began.
Flaws
Dalia cannot resist making a clever remark, especially when silence would be safer. She distrusts anyone who claims to be humorless, and she often turns genuine danger into a performance until the last possible moment.
Quirks
Background
Dalia Starks was born beneath the mountain in a family of brewers, but she inherited none of their patience for quiet work. As a child, she learned that a well-timed joke could stop a fight, a clever song could soften a grudge, and a dramatic lie could get a person through a locked door. She became a traveling entertainer, performing dwarf drinking songs, exaggerated heroic ballads, and scandalous stories about nobles who were certain they had paid her to keep quiet. Her talent for turning embarrassment into applause made her welcome in both crowded taverns and refined courts, though rarely for long.
“Her talent for turning embarrassment into applause made her welcome in both crowded taverns and refined courts, though rarely for long.”
- Background
- Entertainer
Connections
Species
Dwarf
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