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Old 10-20-2015, 12:15 PM   #425
Abe Sargent
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Alzar now has the Information Gathering proficiency which gives him the ability to find information from the underworld. Trailing is sort of like city tracking. Or other community -villages, towns, underground in places like cities, and such. He can also set snares too.




Alzar created his Skills and Powers Thief Class:

80 character points spent for:

10 backstab
20 Traps and Locks
10 Move and Silent
5 Climb walls
5 Read Languages

He doesn’t spend anything on pick pockets or detect noise. 50 points spent thus far. (There is little in here, unfortunately, but Dragon magazine article from D256 has an extensive list of expansions and options for rogues.)

Now, ideally, he wants to take things like Rogue’s Luck which gives him one free reroll a day on an attack or a saving throw, or Charm resistance - +2 saves v charms. But it’s hard to explain how ot do it. So here are the final 30 points for Alzar:

10 Evasion
10 Without a Trace
+5 No Armor
15 Defensive Bonus

Alzar is specializing in not dying, since he came close multiple times when he was reset in Hamedh and dualed in Thorasia. He is used to fighting without armor, so he’s adjusted his thief style to match. He gets a -3 AC bonus when he’s not in armor, and he now can’t wear armor, a restriction that will cross over when he slides to multiple classes again later on. Evasion is another special skill, and the first time in a round that Alzar would be hit, roll his Evasion, and he hits it, he dodges the damage. He can’t put more than 5% per level into it, and never more than 60% full. Without a trace basically gives Alzar a chance to scurry away, even when there are no other options or has has been found. He makes three checks against Climb Walls, Move Silently, and Hide. If he makes all three, then he finds some nook or crawlspace and squeeze in and is hidden. He disappears without a trace.
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