At character creation, the player chooses both a race and a class. Available races are Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Halflings. Available classes are the Fighter, the Cleric, and the Magic-User.
EDIT: I've added the Fool class and the Specialist class as well. I've also slightly altered the Fighter class.
Human
- Hit Dice: d8 (+3 HP per level after Level 9)
- Minimum First-Level HP: 6
- Saving Throw Table: As chosen class
- Experience Table: As chosen class
- A Human receives a +1 bonus to their Charisma modifier.
- A Human gains and distributes skill points as the original Specialist class (i.e. 4 skill points at first level and 2 skill points per level after that).
- Hit Dice: d10 (+4 HP per level after Level 9)
- Minimum First-Level HP: 8
- Saving Throw Table: As original Dwarf class
- Experience Table: As original Dwarf class or chosen class, whichever is higher/worse
- A Dwarf receives a +1 bonus to their Constitution modifier.
- A Dwarf gains points in the Architecture skill as the original Dwarf class.
- It takes 5 additional items for a Dwarf to gain the first encumbrance point.
- At character creation, a Dwarf must roll on the Dwarven Curses table. Each time the Dwarf gains a level, they may choose to either keep their current curse or risk rolling on the table again for a replacement curse.
- Hit Dice: d6 (+2 HP per level after Level 9)
- Minimum First-Level HP: 4
- Saving Throw Table: As original Elf class
- Experience Table: As original Elf class or chosen class, whichever is higher/worse
- An Elf receives a +1 bonus to their Intelligence modifier.
- An Elf gains points in the Search skill as the original Elf class.
- An Elf is surprised in combat only on a roll on 1 on a d6.
- An Elf reacts differently to certain spells and holy water as per the original Elf class. Magical aging does not affect an Elf, but natural aging does.
- An Elf who is not a Magic-User can cast a Magic-User-type spell from a wand, staff, or scroll as if they were a Magic-User of half their level (round down), but only if they first make a successful Saving Throw vs. Device; if the saving throw is failed, the spell is not cast, but the appropriate charge (if it is a wand or staff) or spell (if it is a scroll) is lost as if it were cast. A non-Magic-User Elf can cast spells in this way when up to Heavily encumbered.*
- An Elf Magic-User can cast spells one-handed as per the original Elf class.
- An Elf Magic-User has the same number of starting spells and the same spell progression table as the original Magic-User class (as do Magic-Users of other races).
- Hit Dice: d6 (+2 HP per level after Level 9)
- Minimum First-Level HP: 4
- Saving Throw Table: As original Halfling class
- Experience Table: As original Halfling class or chosen class, whichever is higher/worse
- A Halfling receives a +1 bonus to their Dexterity modifier.
- A Halfling gains points in the Bushcraft skill as the original Halfling class.
- A Halfling starts with 5 points in the Stealth skill, and this increases to 6 points at Level 10.
- A Halfling is physically small; they can generally fit into smaller places than Humans, Dwarves, or Elves, and they add less encumbrance to riding animals (see Rules & Magic p. 39). However, they cannot use large weapons, and must use medium weapons two-handed.
- Generally, a Halfling must eat twice as much food per day as a Human, Dwarf, or Elf in order to avoid suffering the effects of starvation (e.g. 2 "days' worth" of rations per day). However, if a Halfling sleeps for at least 8 hours in a 24-hour period (instead of the minimum 4 hours needed to merely avoid sleep deprivation), the Halfling only needs to eat the normal amount of food the next day (i.e. the remainder of that 24-hour period) in order to avoid the effects of starvation.
- The spell Read Magic is removed from the game, and is no longer needed in order to use spellbooks or scrolls. If you want to keep Read Magic, then all Elves should probably start with the spell and be able to cast it so that they can still use wands, staves, and scrolls.
- Alignment is not officially restricted by race, only class, although based on the different ways that certain spells and holy water affect them, Elves are arguably still treated as Chaotic for the purposes of spell effects regardless of class. If you want to use racial alignment restrictions, then it might make sense to limit Dwarves to Lawful alignment and Elves to Chaotic alignment while allowing Humans and Halflings to choose any alignment. But honestly, you could probably ditch alignment entirely, as is my preference.
- All races age at the same rate, namely that of Humans. If you don't like this, you can use the original aging chart (see Rules & Magic p. 35) or make up your own rules.
- Magic-Users of all races can cast from a wand, staff, or scroll when up to Heavily encumbered, but otherwise can only cast spells when up to Lightly encumbered.
- Elf Magic-Users can no longer cast while up to Heavily encumbered, but only up to Lightly encumbered, unless they are casting from a wand, staff, or scroll.
- Dwarf characters no longer continue to add their Constitution modifier to their hit points after Level 9. Their 10-sided HD, Consitution modifier bonus, and excellent saving throws already make them really hard to kill, so this additional trait seems like overkill to me, especially since I'm now giving them +4 HP per level after ninth and I've bumped their minimum starting HP to 8. I also dropped this trait because I don't like how it's a race-based (or originally, class-based) feature that doesn't actually benefit all members of that race - just ones who already have a positive Constitution bonus. I don't care for Intelligence-based spell limits or ability score-based XP bonuses and penalties in certain editions of D&D for a similar reason. I admit this is probably at least as much a matter of personal preference for me than a matter of gameplay balance or anything else.
- Human characters are greatly simplified compared to what I originally wrote, and are now basically in line with the optional version I added to the last post on January 2.
- I don't see the need to note that "Halflings receive a 1-point bonus to AC when not surprised," since as far as I can tell that would be the natural result of having a +1 bonus to their Dexterity modifier anyway. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
- In order to make Halflings feel a little less under-powered in terms of skills, I decided to make their Stealth skill work as well indoors as outdoors (which I also did in the last version), and I decided to let them eventually reach a total of 6 points in Stealth.
- Since I don't like the Search skill, I'm inclined to give Elves a different skill specialty instead. I'm not sure what the replacement should be, though.
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