Race Info

Please see the in-game help files on races, and the excellent data on [Rodpedia] for full information on Races.

This page just provides some basic info and quick-reference tables I like to have.

If you're new to the game, I'd point you towards my Newb Guide for help picking your first character race/class.

Race Class Restrictions

Not all races can be all class's. Here's a chart of which races can be each class:

Possible race/class combinations:

	Dragonborn	Drow	Dwarf	Elf	Gith	Gnome	Half-Elf	Half-Ogre	Half-Orc	Half-Troll	Halfling	Human	Pixie	Sea-elf	Tiefling
Cleric		X	X	X	X	X	X					X	X	X
Druid			X	X		X	X					X	X	X	X
Mage	X	X		X	X	X	X					X	X	X	X
Thief		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Warrior	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X		X
Vampire		X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X		X

Lizardman is currently out-of-game. The help file hints that it might be a thing again in the future, but currently, nope.

Race Characteristics

Experience Modifiers Each race earns experience at a slightly different rate. Humans are the standard at a 1:1 whereas other races may earn slightly less or more experience per hit. The equation would be <experience> x <XP Rate> = XP.

• Bear in mind that these rates are really just adjusted to equalize xp earns. For example:
  • The strength of your hit is a factor in xp earned. A hit that 'grazes' earns less than a hit that 'smites'.
  • Each race has a "size", and "big" races seem to do more more damage per hit. So, those races then have a < 1.00 xp modifier to compensate.
  • Small races that can't be big fighting types tend to have greater xp modifiers to compensate.

So, a giant half-troll may only earn xp at .90 compared to a human, but he's also hitting harder, so it probably equals out. A tiny pixie gets xp at 1.08, but they're 10 inches tall so, they probably need that. It all evens out.

Conversely, a sea-elf is a wimpy pale slime ball who probably can't hit for crap, so he gets a slight bonus at 1.20.

Native Abilities

Each race comes with a unique set of characteristic abilities, resistances, susceptibilities. The abilities do not need practices/adepted like regular skills.

Racial Skills

Each race also has a special "race skill" that requires you to go out into the realms to find and learn.

Race	XP Rate	Ability	Resistance	Susceptibility	Racial Skill
Dragonborn	.90	Detect Hidden	Fire 20%	Cold 10%	Dragonscale Armor
Half-Troll	.90	-	Poison 10%	-	Treat Battle Wounds
Lizardman	.91	Aqua Breath	Slash	-	-
Half-Ogre	.92	Infravision	Pierce 10%	-	Bloodlust
Half-Orc	.94	Infravision	-	-	Brawl
Tiefling	.95	Infravision, Scry	Fire 10%	Holy 7%	Infernal Wrath
Dwarf	.97	Infravision	Fire 10%	-	Patch
Human	1.00 (no gain, no bonus)	-	-	-	Blindfighting
Halfling	1.02	Detect Evil, Sneak	-	-	Distract
Half-Elf	1.04	Infravision	Cold 10%	-	Chance
Gith	1.06	Detect Invis	-	-	Psionic Shield
Pixie	1.08	Fly, Dodge	-	-	Aerial Mobility
Drow	1.08	Infravision, Scry	Poison 10%	-	Web of the Ilythiiri
Elf	1.10	Detect Magic	Cold 10%	-	Guardianship of Irrybis
Sea-Elf	1.12	Aqua Breath, Detect Magic	Cold 10%	-	Siphon
Gnome	1.20	Infravision, Detect Magic	-	-	Tinker

You can find more information on each race, including the actual effects of the racial skills, on [Rodpedia]

Base Stats

Each race has different base stats, and a different number of stat points available to add to that base by the 'train' command.

Race	Training Points	Str	Int	Wis	Dex	Con	Cha	Lck
Human	15	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Dwarf	14	12	10	13	10	13	10	10
Elf	13	9	12	11	13	10	12	12
Halfling	15	9	11	11	12	12	11	11
Pixie	15	8	11	11	14	9	13	11
Half-Elf	15	10	12	11	12	10	11	11
Half-Ogre	16	13	9	11	8	15	9	11
Half-Orc	16	12	10	10	9	14	10	11
Half-Troll	15	14	12	9	12	13	9	11
Gith	16	11	12	10	13	9	9	12
Sea-Elf	14	10	12	11	12	10	11	12
Drow	14	10	12	11	13	10	10	12
Gnome	15	9	13	12	11	10	10	12
Dragonborn	14	12	12	10	10	12	11	11
Tiefling	14	10	12	11	11	10	13	11

Hometowns

Each race its own home town, which is a little area only that race can enter. Very much like a guild house, they offer some typical items, donations chests, note boards, and sometimes fun puzzles, quests, or special crap.

You can again find directions to these on [Rodpedia]

Race	Hometown
Human	Keep of Lomar
Dwarf	Qetag's Reach
Elf	The Island of Irrybis
Halfling	The Burrows
Pixie	Reomyr Village
Half-Elf	City of Eldestra
Half-Orc	Mount Krozloy
Half-Ogre	Opallinoc
Half-Troll	The Ruins of T'man
Sea-Elf	Mathlaan Lagoon
Gith	The Sands of Teracchei
Drow	The City of Iniquity
Lizardman	Tribal Swamplands
Gnome	Vale of Nidaros
Dragonborn	None
Tiefling	None

That's about it. If you're reading this page, you might also be interesting the Class Info page