Race: Halfling (Male, age 38)
Homeland: Featherdale
Class: Thief/Ranger
Kit: Slave Warrior
Alignment: Non-Lawful, Good
Level: 6th / 5th
Experience: 27,411
Next Level: 40000 / 36000
Max Level: 16th / 10th

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Ability Scores:

Str	14	Stamina	17
		Muscle	11
Dex	14	Aim	13
		Balance	15
Con	20	Health	21	regenerate 1hp per 5 turns
		Fitness	19
Int	13	Reason	12
		Knowledge	13
Wis	15	Intuition	11
		Willpower	19	immune to Cause Fear, Charm Person, Command, Friends, Hypnosis
Cha	9	Leadership	7
		Appearance	10

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Combat Statistics:

Hit Points: 50
Armor Class: 17 (1 Dex, 5 armor, 1 shield)
Base Attack Bonus: +4
Saves:

• Paralyzation/Poison/Death: 11 (+8 vs. Poison)
• Rod/Staff/Wand: 6
• Petrification/Polymorph: 11
• Breath Weapon: 13
• Spells: 7 (+4 vs. Enchantment or Charm spells)

Weapons	# Att	Att Bonus	Dmg	Dmg (L)	Speed	Range	Special
Jo Stick	1	+4	1d6	1d3	4	melee	two-hands
Shortsword	3	+5	1d6+1	1d8+1	3	melee	lead or silver, dual-wielding
Aegir’s Club	1	+2	1d6	1d3	4	melee	save vs. death or KO 1d10 hours

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Thief Skills: (silent scale armor)

PP	10%	HS	19%
OL	10%	HN	50%
F/RT	10%	CW	55%
MS	70%	RL	5%

Non-Weapon Proficiencies: General, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard

Modern Languages (Common)	13	Detect grade or slope in passage	19
Modern Languages (Cormanthan)	13	Determine direction underground	15
Modern Languages (Luiric)	13	Bureaucracy	13
Survival (Forests)	13	Heraldry	13
Animal Handling	14	Endurance	20
Fire-Building	14	Hold Breath	20
Fishing	14	Running	14
Tracking	16	Swimming	14
Animal Grooming	15	Escape	14
Modern Language (Daraktan)	13

Weapon Proficiencies:
Shortword (specialized)
Shovel
Jo Stick

Allowed Weapons: Any weapons.
Allowed Armor: Any armor or shields.

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Special Powers:

• Halflings have a natural talent with slings and thrown weapons. Rock pitching is a favorite sport of many a halfling child. All halflings gain a +1 bonus to their attack rolls when using thrown weapons and slings.
• A halfling can gain a bonus to surprise opponents, but only if the halfling is not in metal armor. Even then, the halfling must either be alone, or with a party comprised only of characters with similar abilities (such as elves, bugbears, or other halflings), or 90 feet or more away from his party to gain this bonus. If he fulfills any of these conditions, he causes a -4 penalty to opponents’ surprise rolls. If a door or other screen must be opened, this penalty is reduced to -2.
• Halflings have infravision to a range of 30 feet.
• A freed or fugitive slave starts with a +4 bonus to all saving throws vs. wizard spells from the enchantment/charm school and priest spells from the Charm sphere. If placed under any form of charm spell, a slave warrior makes new saving throws against the spell as if his Intellgence was 3 points higher, shortening the time between checks. He gains his +4 bonus vs. enchantment/charm spells on new rolls.
• Once per day, a slave warrior may summon all his willpower and channel it into a sudden burst of energy that raises his Muscle score by 3 points for as many rounds as he has levels. This may occur during combat, when attempting to bend bars or lift gates, or under any other circumstance when strength is needed.
• A fugitive slave can survive on a minimum of food and water each day, half the amount anyone else of his race uses. He quickly develops better eating habits but in emergencies survives with little food.
• Backstab: When attacking someone by surprise and from behind, a thief can improve his chance to successfully hit (+4 modifier for rear attack and negate the target’s shield and Dexterity bonuses) and double the amount of damage his blow causes (3x damage).
  To use this ability, the thief must be behind his victim and the victim must be unaware that the thief intends to attack him. If an enemy sees the thief, hears him approach from a blind side, or is warned by another, he is not caught unaware, and the backstab is handled like a normal attack (although bonuses for a rear attack still apply).
  The multiplier given in the Table applies only to the base damage of the weapon before modifiers for Strength or magical bonuses are added. The weapon’s standard damage is multiplied. Then Strength and magical weapon bonuses are added.
  The damage multiplier applies only to the first attack made by the thief, even if multiple attacks are possible. Once a blow is struck, the initial surprise effect is lost. Second, the thief cannot use it on every creature. The victim must be generally humanoid. Part of the skill comes from knowing just where to strike. A thief could backstab an ogre, but he wouldn’t be able to do the same to a beholder. The victim must also have a definable back (which leaves out most slimes, jellies, oozes, and the like). Finally, the thief has to be able to reach a significant target area. To backstab a giant, the thief would have to be standing on a ledge or window balcony. Backstabbing him in the ankle just isn’t going to be as effective.
• When engaged with large numbers of weak enemies (less than 1 HD each), the warrior gains double his normal number of attacks per round (including doubling attacks with off-hand weapons). Starting at 11th level, this applies to any foe with 10 fewer HD than the warrior’s levels (so a 12th level warrior can do this against 2HD creatures).
• Although he has the basic skills of a warrior, the ranger also has several advantages. When wearing studded leather or lighter armor, a ranger can fight with two weapons with no penalty to his attack rolls. Obviously, the ranger cannot use a shield when fighting this way. A ranger can still fight with two weapons while wearing heavier armor than studded leather, but he suffers the standard attack roll penalties.
• Species Enemy (Pirates): In their roles as protector of good, rangers tend to focus their efforts against some particular creature, usually one that marauds their homeland. Whenever the ranger encounters that enemy, he gains a +4 bonus to his attack rolls. This enmity can be concealed only with great difficulty, so the ranger suffers a -4 penalty on all encounter reactions with creatures of the hated type. Furthermore, the ranger will actively seek out this enemy in combat in preference to all other foes unless someone else presents a much greater danger.
• When dealing with domestic or non-hostile animals, a ranger can approach the animal and befriend it automatically. He can easily discern the qualities of the creature (spotting the best horse in the corral or seeing that the runt of the litter actually has great promise). When dealing with a wild animal or an animal trained to attack, the animal must roll a saving throw vs. rods to resist the ranger’s overtures. (This table is used even though the ranger’s power is non-magical.) The ranger imposes a -1 penalty on the die roll for every three experience levels he has earned (round up). If the creature fails the saving throw, its reaction can be shifted one category as the ranger chooses. Of course, the ranger must be at the front of the party and must approach the creature fearlessly.

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Penalties:

• Halflings are small-sized. They cannot use Large-sized weapons and must wield Medium-sized weapons in two hands.
• As small-sized creatures, halflings have 2/3 the carrying capacity of a human of equal strength.
• Even freed slaves have lived as slaves all their lives and suffer a -3 reaction penalty in dealing with non-slave civilized characters. Escaped characters are suspicious and paranoid, and legitimately free characters still carry the social stigma of a slave’s birth.
• A runaway slave may be hunted by his former owner with the aid of bounty hunters and assassins.
  This hunting can go on for years, until his former owner and anyone else with an interest in him dies. The punishment for escaping slavery is nearly always death.
• A ranger must always retain his good alignment. If the ranger intentionally commits an evil act, he automatically loses his ranger status. Thereafter he is considered a fighter of the same level (if he has more experience points than a fighter of his level, he loses all the excess experience points). His ranger status can never be regained. If the ranger involuntarily commits an evil act (perhaps in a situation of no choice), he cannot earn any more experience points until he has cleansed himself of that evil. This can be accomplished by correcting the wrongs he committed, revenging himself on the person who forced him to commit the act, or releasing those oppressed by evil. The ranger instinctively knows what things he must do to regain his status (i.e., the DM creates a special adventure for the character).
• Rangers tend to be loners, men constantly on the move. They cannot have henchmen, hirelings, mercenaries, or even servants until they reach 8th level. While they can have any monetary amount of treasure, they cannot have more treasure than they can carry. Excess treasure must either be converted to a portable form or donated to a worthy institution (an NPC group, not a player character).

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Advancement Notes

• Gain 30 points for Thief skills per level.
• Increased Backstab multiplier at 5th, 9th, and 13th level.
• All warriors gain the ability to make more than one melee attack per round as they rise in level. At 7th level, they can make 3 attacks every 2 rounds. At 13th level and up, they can make 2 attacks per round.
• +1 to Track per 3 Ranger levels.
• 8th Ranger level: Learn Priest spells.
• 10th Ranger level: Attract 2d6 Ranger followers.
• 10th Thief level: Use magical scrolls.
• 10th Thief level: Attract 4d6 thief followers.

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Equipment:

• Jo Stick (broken oar handle)
• Silver Shortsword
• Lead Shortsword (4 lbs, -1 damage)
• Scale Armor of Silence
• Aegir’s Club
• Shield Harness w/ Medium Shield
• Worn leather shoes (Moccasins)
• Torn leather pants (Laceleather Pantaloons)
• Gnomish Cloak
• Thieving Helmet
• Self-Dousing Lantern
• 1 flask Lamp Oil
• Lock PIcks
• Steel Chisel
• 2 hacksaw blades
• 3-gallon Wineskin (filled with Firewine)
• Cube of Tor-Mak