Wizards & Warriors Classes

Basic class data is missing or not well presented in the manual, so here are some charts regarding class characteristics.

Spell Books and Thieving Skills

Class Requirements

Guild Memberships

Changing Classes

You can't change to one of the four basic classes, and must complete a quest before changing to an elite class.

• Bard:
  Get the Scroll of Trickery from the Serpent Temple Library. The item only appears after initiating the quest.

• Barbarian:
  Kill twenty monsters (and yes, roaches and rats count, just keep an eye on your kills statistics).

• Monk:
  Survive wearing no items in the wilderness for two game days. Standing right outside the town gate - where monsters apparently can't reach you - works nicely.

• Paladin:
  Say "Sanctus Holy" to the statue near the Nymph lake house, or to the matching statue in an alcove south of the pyramid.

• Ranger:
  Retrieve an egg after killing a raptor in a little nook on the west bank of the center of the body of water west of Valeia. The lizard only appears after initiating the quest. Raptors also appear later around the pyramid.

• Warlock:
  Retrieve a skull from killing a skeleton (crypt and cemetery), and a spider egg (Mill House and Serpent Temple).

• Samurai:
  Retrieve the Samurai Baton from the lead skeleton immediately southeast of Shurugeon Castle. The Samurai only appears after initiating the quest.

• Ninja:
  Open the drawbridge of Shurugeon Castle from the switch in the adjacent sentry tower.

• Assassin:
  Take the Assassin's Dagger to any Pawn Shop and the character will be offered the role. The dagger is your reward from the rat at the Burned Out Hut for killing the renegade in the Stout Mines. You may be able to invoke it first for the Backstab trait if you are the proper class, but anyone converting to an assassin will also gain the trait.

• Valkyrie:
  Burn the Heart of the Lich in the black fire, then enter the Temple with any female character. The Heart of the Lich is in the pyramid. You need to jump onto the rising and falling column in the area where the champion keys are found to get to it.

• Zen Master:
  Enter the Brimlock Roon dojo with one character carrying the four elemental tomes. The Tome of Fire is in the Serpent Temple, in a room after killing the big snake but before entering the maze of lifting platforms. The Tome of Wind is in the Boogre caves, in the room with the Boogre witch. The Tome of Water, oddly enough, is in a chest in the underwater city. The Tome of Earth is in a pyramid chest.

Party Development

I dropped the Bard role from my plans - they can play magical musical instruments (instead for which enchanted items can be made), but that's about it. The whole lock picking thing is met by the Barbarian and others, plus the Vine Pry and Disarm Trap spells I'm using more often anyway (not as good as BT's Trap Zap, but they work better than fumbling with lock picks).

In addition to classes, plan ahead who is going to specialize in what traits, especially to avoid needless redundancies; it does no good for someone to spend points developing an Artifact skill up to Level 6 if another party member is already at Level 9. Skills max out at level 12. In addition to their spell books and weapons, I specialized Johne in locks, Birgitte in smithing, Subotai in stealth fighting, Shamino in enchanting, Polgara in blessing, and Raistlin in artifacts. Here are their complimentary role developments:

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