Character Points Each race detailed below receives a number of character points that can be spent on racial skills and other abilities. This lets players personalize their characters. No longer must all dwarves have exactly the same abilities, skills, and bonuses. Players can purchase packages of abilities, or they can customize their characters.

Demihumans can save 5 character points from this process and apply them at any other point in the character creation process. Humans can save 10 points. Nonstandard races such as lizard men and thri-kreen cannot save any racial character points—any points not spent on racial abilities are lost.

Racial Variants

Numerous off-shoot races can be player characters. For example, a player fond of dwarven characters could choose from the hill, mountain, gray, or deep varieties. Players who select such a character purchase the standard package of abilities for the subrace. Optionally, a player can customize a character by choosing individual abilities from the list for that race. Generally, buying a package of abilities is the most efficient way to spend character points.

Racial Languages: A character from a demihuman subrace receives an initial package of languages for no additional cost in character points. However, no character can know more languages than his or her Intelligence/Knowledge score allows (see Table 9). If a racial package offers more languages than a character can know, the player can choose which languages the character knows.

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