Dwarf race

Race dwarf

• Alignment: any
• Stats: +3 to str, -1 to int, +3 to wis, -2 to dex, +4 to con
• Size: medium
• Classes: any, except vampire
• Vulnerable: to cold, drowning
• Effects: infrared

Dwarves are stocky, short-statured, and usually bearded humanoid creatures. Some mistakenly call them gnomes, driving the actual gnome race to fury. Dwarves are dwarves! BARUK KHAZAD!!!

Dwarves are strong and incredibly hardy. Want to know how much -- offer a dwarf as much gold as he can carry. They have a cantankerous but greedy disposition and easily fall into rage. Not as agile as humans, dwarves nevertheless accumulate wisdom over their long lives. They make decent priests and excel at warrior classes.

Long years at underground forges have developed in them infravision, but they are completely unaccustomed to bad weather on the surface: cold and thunderstorms with rain. Because of this dwarves fear the cold and have the buoyancy of an axe. Axes, however, are greatly respected by the dwarf race -- and other weapons too, which dwarves are remarkably skilled at forging.

A dwarf at the anvil is a natural blacksmith: their forged pieces turn out masterworks more often.

• Bonus skills: axe, berserk, infravision
• Ancient languages: khuzdul up to 100%

For details on each parameter, see help race bonuses.