Roles and Races

by Donald Welsh <dwelsh@melbpc.org.au>

Additional HTML conversion by Kate Nepveu <knepveu@steelypips.org>

Contents

• Race, Role, and alignment
• Starting equipment
• Substitutions
• Intrinsics
• Ability limits by race
• Cannibalism

Race, Role, and alignment

Starting equipment

All dwarfs, elves, and orcs know items made by their people. Elf healers and wizards get a non-magical musical instrument, any one of: wooden flute, tooled horn, wooden harp, bell, bugle, leather drum. Orc non-wizards (barbarians, rangers, and rogues) get two extra food items. Optional items are chosen in sequence; for example, a monk has a 20% chance of getting a magic marker, and if no marker, a 10% chance for a lamp. A wizard's optional items have independent chances. Wizards (and only wizards) start with a spellbook of force bolt. Overly powerful or useless items and combinations are not put into starting inventories: wand of wishing; ring of levitation (if E-word is defined); high-level spellbooks; the combination of a ring of polymorph control and any of a wand, ring, or spellbook of polymorph; potion of hallucination or acid; scroll of amnesia, fire, or stinking cloud; ring of aggravate monster or hunger; wand of nothing. Non-chaotic characters start without poisoned items

Archeologist: +2 bullwhip, +0 leather jacket, +0 fedora, 3 food rations, pick axe, tinning kit, +0 sack; (tin opener 10% else lamp 25% else magic marker 10%)

Barbarian: (+0 two handed sword and +0 axe 50% chance else battle axe and short sword), +0 ring mail, food ration, (lamp 17%)

Cave(wo)man: +1 club, +2 sling, 10-20 flint stones 18-33 rocks, +0 leather armor

Healer: +0 scalpel, +1 leather gloves, stethoscope, 4 potions of healing, 4 potions of extra healing (known), wand of sleep, blessed spellbook of healing, spellbook of extra healing, spellbook of stone to flesh, 5 apples, 1001-2000 Au

Knight: +0 long sword, +2 spear, +1 ring mail, +0 helmet, +0 small shield, +0 leather gloves, 10 apples, 10 carrots

Monk: +2 leather gloves, +0 robe, blessed spellbook (equal chances of healing, protection, or sleep), random scroll, 3 potions of healing, 3 food rations, 5 apples, 5 oranges, 3 fortune cookies, (magic marker 20% else lamp 10%)

Priest: +1 mace, +0 robe, +0 small shield, 4 potions of holy water, clove of garlic, sprig of wolfsbane, 2 random spellbooks, (magic marker 10% else lamp 10%)

Ranger: +1 dagger, +1 bow, 50 +2 arrows, 30 +0 arrows, +2 cloak of displacement, 4 cram rations

Rogue: +0 short sword, 6-15 daggers, +1 leather armor, potion of sickness, +9 lock pick, sack, (blindfold 20%)

Samurai: +0 katana, +0 wakizashi, yumi, 26- 45 ya, +0 splint mail, (blindfold 20%)

Tourist: 21-40 +2 darts, 10 food rations, 2 potions of extra healing, 4 scrolls of magic mapping, +0 Hawaiian shirt, expensive camera, credit card, 1-1000 Au, (tin opener 4% else leash 4%, else towel 4% else magic marker 4%)

Valkyrie: +1 long sword, +0 dagger, +3 small shield, food ration, (lamp 17%)

Wizard: +1 quarterstaff, +0 cloak of magic resistance, random wand, random ring, random potion, random scroll, spellbook of force bolt, random spellbook, (magic marker 20%), (blindfold 20%)

Substitutions

Starting equipment is modified by race.

Intrinsics

Ability limits by race

(Thanks to Bruce Cox <mathetes@tig.com.au>)

Cannibalism

Cavemen and orcs may eat dogs, cats, and their own race without penalty.

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