Duck (4e Race)

Summary::Moo!

Play a Duck if you want...
 * To be a duck.
 * To have feathers and quack alot.
 * To confuse your friends.
 * Did I mention you're a duck?
 * To be a member of a race that favors the assassin, druid, and ranger classes.

Physical Qualities
The overall body plan of ducks is elongated and broad, and the ducks are also relatively long-necked, albeit not as long-necked as the geese and swans. The body shape of diving ducks varies somewhat from this in being more rounded. The bill is usually broad and contains serrated lamellae, which are particularly well defined in the filter-feeding species. In the case of some fishing species the bill is long and strongly serrated. The scaled legs are strong and well developed, and generally set far back on the body, more so in the highly aquatic species. The wings are very strong and are generally short and pointed, and the flight of ducks requires fast continuous strokes, requiring in turn strong wing muscles.

Playing a Duck
Quacking is often encouraged in duck culture. In fact, a duck that does not quack is often banished from the duck tribe. Ducks typically are not expected to do much but when a duck finds itself in a situation where it needs to defend itself or its people it will strike with the swiftness of a...well, the swiftness of a duck.

Duck Characteristics: Agile, lighthearted, fun-loving, quack-tastic

Male Names: Howard, Daffy, Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie

Female Names: Daisy, Felicia, Mallory, Tanya, Jenna, Tina

Duck Adventurers
Three sample Duck adventurers are described below.


 * Gary is a duck fighter. He was waddling a bit farther than usually from the pond one day and stumbled upon an abandoned battleaxe. He picked it and from that day forth Gary could not get enough of the warrior life-style. Random duels in the middle of the streets. Brawls in the darkest of taverns. And slaying dragons by the dozens in ancient dungeons.
 * Lucile is a duck rogue. She was raised on a duck farm to steal from unsuspecting old people feeding ducks at ponds. Her skills became so good that she eventually snuck away from her owner and started a life of a thief. She can steal anything for the right price, and all that she leaves behind is a single unassuming feather.
 * Tim is duck ranger. He is a beastmaster with a wolf companion......he WAS a beastmaster with a wolf companion....R.I.P. Tim. He was later resurrected and now obeys a necromancer occasionally.