Chetney Pock O'Pea

 is a gnomish blood hunter. He is played by Travis Willingham.

Appearance
Chetney is an elderly gnome who appears to be "a hundred-and-something" years old. He stands about 3 foot 4 inches and has well-muscled arms. Tufts of silvery-grey hair sprout from and over his ears from under a knitted cap with ear straps pulled down tight on his head. He wears a leather chest harness, pointy-toed boots, and woodworking tools around his waist.

In his werewolf form, Chetney becomes slightly taller, and his silvery-grey hair takes over his entire body. The transformation takes place quickly and results in his bones breaking and realigning and claws ripping through his existing fingernails.

Personality
Chetney loves woodworking, especially furniture making and toymaking. He works almost exclusively in wood and scorns the use of metal in craftsmanship; it may have been over this or a similar issue that he left his job in Uthodurn working for Oltgar. His skills as a woodcarver lend him skill in breaking and entering.

Chetney has shown himself willing to volunteer for risky situations within his skillset but hesitant to rush into danger that seems beyond his capability. He is quick to retort, stubborn-willed, and foul-mouthed, but perceptive and capable under pressure.

Background
Chetney is a wood craftsman from Uthodurn, regarding himself as a master craftsman. He formerly made furniture but has mostly found success as a toymaker, specializing in rocking horses. He left his old job working for Oltgar due to creative differences that resulted in the employer being "messed up something fierce". In 843 PD, he was sent to Jrusar by the Craftsmen's Guild of the Savalirwood to meet with a man named Gurge Kisgregg, but lost him.

Campaign Three
Chetney witnessed the Campaign Three adventuring party fighting with a spitting mimic outside the Dreamscape Theater. When the party approached him, he asked them for help in finding Gurge. During the fight with Ira Wendagoth in, Chetney transformed into a werewolf and revealed his true intention for finding Gurge, due to them both being cursed with lycanthropy and eager to control their powers.

Relationships
Chetney immediately liked Fresh Cut Grass and Fearne, was consistently alarmed by Laudna (though he was hesitantly delighted by Pâté), and took a great dislike to Dorian. However, the two warmed up quickly, and Dorian directly called him a friend and a member of the party when patrolling the Moon Tower.

Notable items

 * Woodcarver's tools
 * Oderan Wilds map
 * Boots of Elvenkind
 * Parrying hammer (acts as a shield)
 * Breastplate

Gnome abilities

 * Darkvision
 * Gnome Cunning
 * Subrace: Rock Gnome
 * Artificers Lore
 * Tinker

Blood hunter abilities

 * Hunter's Bane
 * Blood Maledict (1/Rest)
 * Fighting Style
 * Crimson Rite
 * Rite of the Flame
 * Blood Hunter Order: Order of the Lycan
 * Heightened Senses
 * Hybrid Transformation

Other abilities

 * Can cast Invisibility once per day

Behind the scenes


Chetney was conceived as a "true, legit" take on the character Chutney Chocolatecane, a Christmas elf Travis played in and in Narrative Telephone ' s "Chutney's Christmas Vacation"; Campaign Three and the Critical Role special do not share continuity, and the gnome Chetney is distinct from the Christmas elf Chutney.

Chetney bears similar facial scars to his Christmas elf counterpart, and his knit cap alludes to Chutney's Christmas hat; similarly, both are armed with a weaponized wood chisel. Similar to how Chutney is a toymaking elf from the North Pole who rues the replacement of wooden toys with plastic ones, Chetney is a toymaker from a snowbound northern city who opposes the use of metal instead of wood in craftsmanship. Both Chutney and Chetney committed an act of violence against their former employer. Snowflakes are also depicted in the animation on Chetney's stat card, a further nod to his inspiration, and Chetney, a blood hunter, was initially stated to be a rogue like Chutney.

Travis wanted Chetney to join the party a little later in the story, so Chetney was not introduced until toward the end of. Instead, Travis played Bertrand Bell (a returning character) until and was absent from the table until Chetney's introduction.

Quotations
Laudna: Are you armed to the teeth? Chetney: Yes. Chetney: I do now.
 * Chetney: (on meeting the party) You're awfully nice. I mean, I could be fucking armed to the teeth. You don't know me.
 * Chetney: (explaining his woodworking past) I started with furniture and there wasn't much of a market for that where I was. I wanted to make something that people loved, so I switched to toys. I'm particularly good at making rocking horses.
 * Chetney: I love working with wood.
 * Chetney: Woodworking is something I've had a passion for for decades, maybe longer. I learned from some of the best. [...] The wood speaks to you. You just have to be ready to listen.
 * Dorian: to Chetney You have a friend, right? Like a group of friends?
 * Chetney: (after admitting his lycanthropy to the party) I won't lie. There are some things that I haven't told you yet, but I'm trusting you more, and I have selfish desires. There are people that need to die, and things that need to be righted, but that's down the road.

Trivia

 * The animation on both his gnome and his werewolf stat cards is of falling snow.
 * Chetney is one of two members of the Campaign Three adventuring party with darkvision. Because Laudna acquired it magically through her sorcerer subclass, he is the only one who has darkvision naturally.
 * Chetney was introduced in December 2021, apt given his roots in a Christmas-themed one-shot.