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Demihumans

of the Realms

Roger E. Moore

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Contents

Introduction ............................................................. 3

Demihuman Races of Faerûn.. ................. .5

Using This Book ................................... 10

Acrobat, Festival ...................................... 15

Advisor, Imperial Fleet ............................. 17

Artificer, Gnome ...................................... 19

Barbarian, Arctic Dwarf ............................ 22

Barbarian, Jungle Dwarf ............................ 25

Barbarian, Lythari .................................... 27

Barbarian, Wild Elf ................................... 29

Beggar, Professional .................................. 31

Cat Burglar .............................................. 33

Explorer, Winged Elf................................. 35

Exile, Gray Dwarf ..................................... 37

Forester ................................................... 40

Giant Killer ............................................. 42

Gladiator, Fugitive Hillsfar ...................... .45

Hound Master .......................................... 47

Ironsmith, Wandering ............................... 50

Lorefinder ................................................ 52

Manhunter ............................................... 54

Mariner of Evermeet ................................. 57

Marshal, Halfling ..................................... 59

Merchant, Sea Elf..................................... 61

Merchant, Underdark ................................ 64

Mountebank ............................................ 67

Orcslayer ................................................. 69

Peasant Hero ........................................... 72

Pestkiller ................................................. 74

Prospector ............................................... 77

Runaway, Dambraii ................................... 79

Scholar ................................................... 81

Scout ...................................................... 83

Slave, Fugitive ......................................... 85

Smuggler ................................................. 87

Thug, Waterdeep ...................................... 90

Tunnelrat ................................................ 92

Zurchin ................................................... 95

Credits

Design: Roger E. Moore

Research Assistance: Jim Butler, Dale Donovan, Ed

Greenwood, Julia Martin, Thomas Reid, Steven E.

Schend, and those on America Online who gave me

their opinions. Also, thanks to Kim Eastland for that

scout article!

Editing: Michelle Vuckovich

Interior Art: Carol Lyon

Brand Management: David Wise

Art Direction: Paul Hanchette

Graphic Design and Production: Dee Barnett

Typesetting: Eric Haddock

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Introduction

A hero must move.

Cormyrean proverb

It seem to me that there is a direct relation between the amount of time a person spends travel-

ing and just how much that person truly understands about the world, not to mention the degree

of that persons fame and power. With sincerest apologies to my parents, I cannot think of a

single worthwhile individual of any sort who never left home.

Binbollar Clambake ,halfling merchant of Luiren

emihumans of the Realms is similar to two previous F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ®

game accessories that described character kits of Faerûn. In these two

earlier works, Wizards and Rogues of the Realms and Warriors and Priests of

the Realms, the Warrior, Rogue, and Wizard kits were primarily for

human characters and were categorized by geography (Waterdeep,

Cormyr, the Dales, Moonsea, etc.). The Priest kits were based upon the deities wor-

shiped, one kit per Faerûnian god but again were primarily for human characters.

This work offers new Warrior (fighter and ranger), Rogue (thief), and Wizard (mage

and specialist wizard) kits for Faerûnian demihumans: elves, half-elves, dwarves, gnomes,

and halflings. Kits for demihumans from Maztica, Zakhara, or Kara-Tur are not covered.

Demihuman Deities (9585) covers the gods of the demihumans, along with the appro-

priate Priest kits, so no Priest kits appear here for demihuman clerics or druids. (In the

Realms, wild elves as well as any sort of half-elf can become druids.) Religious training,

beliefs, and behaviors supersede regional, cultural, and racial characteristics in most cases.

Many character kits allowed for use by demihumans of the Realms are detailed in

other works and are not covered here. The reader is encouraged to look for Wizards and

Rogues of the Realms, Warriors and Priests of the Realms, The Complete Book of Elves, Elves

of Evermeet, The Complete Book of Gnomes & Halflings, and The Complete Book of

Dwarves for important examples. In addition, many of the kits appearing in other vol-

umes in the Complete Handbook series and the P LAYER S O PTION ® Skills & Powers book

are useful for Faerûnian demihumansfor example, elves and half-elves could use many

of the kits from The Complete Rangers Handbook, and half-elves could use The Complete

Bards Handbook.

The kits presented in this book simultaneously incorporate cultural, racial, and occu-

pational elements. Some are very specialized and can be used by only one race, and by

only those individuals likely to be found outside their homelands. Still, these kits fill

major functions in the workings of the Realms.

Demihumans of the Realms often do not have greatly differing powers or abilities

within each specific occupation. A wayfaring halfling merchant from Luiren is much like

a wayfaring halfling merchant from Tethyr, except for particulars of their dress, personal-

ities, beliefs, and cultural habits. The player should look up details to make each charac-

ter more authentic and add a true personality to a hero with a kitsomething game me-

chanics and guidelines cannot dofor example, what were the heros family and child-

hood like? What are his beliefs, goals, and motivations? What does he love, fear, and

hate? What does he think of the world?

Some kits here are altered versions of published generic kits. Changes were made to

merge very similar kits, tone down overpowered kits, and most importantly to make

them specific to the Realms and give characters reasons

to adventure widely. For example, the halfling sheriff

from The Complete Book of Gnomes & Halflings is good

for a halfling homeland campaign, but the halfling mar-

shal herein wanders the whole of Faerûn as part of his

job. The pestkiller kit here merges the vermin slayer and

pest controller kits from The Complete Book of Dwarves

and adds new material to boot. And a wide assortment of

barbarians and merchants tailored to fit unusual races

and their cultures appear to bring more unusual demihu-

mans into regular campaigning.

Proficiencies from many sources were used, their ori-

gins noted in parentheses. The option is offered to use ei-

ther the nonweapon proficiencies system or the sec-

ondary skills system, as per the Players Handbook (PHB).

If proficiencies are used, the number of languages nor-

mally granted to a character for Intelligence (PHB, Table

4) should be taken as bonus nonweapon slots instead.

Minor modifications of previous guidelines regarding

kits are used here. The following two points are very im-

portant regarding the kits described in this book.

Demihuman

Races of Faerûn

A multiclassed character may have only one kit,

which can be applied to only one of the characters

classes. Thus, a fighter/thief may use either a fighter

kit or a thief kit but not both. Certain kits may be ap-

plied to several different classes; for example, the ban-

dit kit can be used with either the fighter or thief class

but not both classes in the same character, as with a

halfling fighter/thief.

The following sections set out basic facts on the demi-

human types, common and rare, known in the Realms.

This material should be used during the process of char-

acter generation (PHB, chapter 2). Each player can

choose a homeland and deity for his character and is not

restricted solely to those mentioned here; these are

merely the major demihuman homelands and deities of

Faerûn. Initial languages does not mean that a 1st-

level character starts off knowing all of the tongues

given; this is the list from which a player can choose spo-

ken languages for his character, given the characters In-

telligence (PHB, Table 4) or nonweapon proficiencies

allotted to language knowledge. The Dungeon Master

may add or remove languages from this list, depending

on campaign circumstances and the other languages spo-

ken near the characters homeland.

The DM may grant 1-2 bonus nonweapon proficien-

cies in reading/writing to a character, applied to Common

and the characters racial language (Dethek for dwarves

and Espruar for elves), but further knowledge of a written

language should be paid for in regular proficiency slots.

An exception here is for gnome illusionists, who

automatically gain knowledge of Ruathlek, the secret

magical script of Faerûnian illusionists. Only researchers

and very long-lived races know Thorass (Auld Common).

Details on these and other Faerûnian languages are found

on pages 24-26 in A Grand Tour of the Realms, the booklet

from the 1993 F ORGOTTEN R EALMS boxed set.

A specialist wizard cannot be multiclassed, except in

the case of a gnome illusionist. A gnome illusionist

can mix his magic use with either the fighter, thief, or

cleric class.

Gold (High, Sunrise) Elf

(ArTelQuessir)

Major Homelands: Evermeet, with a minority in

Cormanthor (Elven Court only) and Evereska.

Allowed Classes: cleric, fighter, ranger, mage, di-

viner, enchanter, thief (very rare).

Multiclass Combinations: fighter/mage, fighter/thief,

mage/thief, fighter/mage/thief.

Initial Languages: Elvish, Common, Thorass, Sea

Elvish (Evermeet), sylvan creature languages (for ex-

ample, Centaur, Dryad, Giant Eagle, Pegasus, Satyr,

Sprite, Treant, Unicorn), allied demihuman languages

(for example, Dwarvish, Gnome, Halfling), Auld Wyr-

mish, certain dragon tongues (gold, silver, bronze). The

languages of evil beings (giants, humanoids, etc.) are

very unlikely to be known without good reason.

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