Fan Casting Hack Karroway in Dungeons & Dragons: The Hand of Chaos

Once a handsome human warrior, Karroway was cursed by a powerful wizard and transformed into a seven-foot-tall, red-scaled Dragonborn with a tail, a forked tongue, and the ability to breathe fire. He is the grumbling, long-suffering partner and best friend to Raven Hightower, the loyal straight man who endures his friend's schemes with a weary sigh and a deadpan retort. Deeply self-conscious about his monstrous appearance and disgusted by his own new lizard-brain instincts—including an accidental habit of eating rats—he nonetheless remains a ferocious and formidable combatant with a bastard sword. Beneath the gruff, scaly exterior beats the heart of a gentle giant, a man grieving the face and life he lost, whose unshakable loyalty to Hightower is the emotional bedrock of the story. He is the soul of the party.