Chair of the Hollow Hill Miners’ and Gem Traders’ Cartel
Gnome male exp 2/rog 6: CR 7; Small humanoid (gnome); Hit Dice 8d6+8 ; 36 hp; Init +8; Spd 20 ft. (4 squares); AC 16 (15 touch, 16 flat-footed); BAB/Grapple +4/+1; Atk +10 melee (1d3+2/x3, +1 adamantine punching dagger); Full atk +10 melee melee (1d3+1/x3, +1 adamantine punching dagger); SA sneak attack +3d6, spell-like abilities; SQ +1 racial bonus to attack rolls against kobolds and goblinoids, +2 racial bonus to saves vs. illusion spells and effects, +2 racial bonus to Craft (alchemy) and Listen checks, +4 dodge bonus to AC vs. giants, evasion, low-light vision, trapfinding, trap sense +2, uncanny dodge; AL LN; SV Fort +4, Ref +10, Will +6; Str 13, Dex 18, Con 13, Int 16, Wis 10, Cha 12; Weight 47 lbs., Height 3 ft., 7 in.
Skills and Feats: Appraise +12, Bluff +10, Craft (gemcutting) +10, Craft (goldsmithing) +10, Craft (silversmithing) +10, Forgery +14, Decipher Script +8, Diplomacy +16, Hide +17, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +6, Knowledge (nature) +5, Listen +11, Move Silently +13, Profession (Miner) +5, Sense Motive +11, Speak Language (Common, Dwarven, Elven, Gnome, Terran), Spot +9; Improved Initiative, Negotiator, Weapon Finesse.
Spell-like Abilities: 1/day-dancing lights, ghost sound, prestidigitation, speak with animals
(burrowing mammals only, duration 1 minute). Save DC 11. Caster level 1st.
Possessions: +1 adamantine punching dagger, hat of disguise, bracers of armor +1, cloak of resistance +1, potion of cure moderate wounds, 1 flask of acid, 2 flasks of alchemist’s fire, 1 smokestick, 2 sunrods, 1 tanglefoot bag, 1 thunderstone, merchant’s scale, magnifying glass, masterwork forger’s tools, masterwork gemcutting, goldsmithing, and silversmithing tools
Chairman Jorinel Glimstickel, called “Goldenthumbs” by his friends as a compliment to his unusually good business sense and his fine craftwork in gems and jewelry, is as close to being the person in charge of the village of Emerald Hollow as it is possible to get. He began his involvement in the Hollow Hill Miners’ and Gem Traders’ Cartel as a prospector, spelunking deep in the caverns beneath the village, where he quickly displayed an uncommon knack for surviving the many dangers of the uncharted tunnels.
Young Goldenthumbs soon tired of the exhausting, often dangerous work of a company prospector, and arranged to spend more time dealing with the less hazardous aspects of the cartel’s business, proving as apt in negotiations and sales as he was in his previous tasks. By virtue of his meticulous, detail-oriented approach to all of his activities, he also developed quite a reputation as a gemcutter and jeweler in his own right, and was soon on the fast track to the board of directors. He has only recently achieved the position of chairman, and is currently the youngest gnome ever to fill the position. Within the region, he is generally esteemed as a negotiator and politician of a skill level only slightly below that of Mastercrafter Soren Vast of Port Hope, with whom he plays chess by correspondence.