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=====Normals and the Lackey Class==== | =====Normals and the Lackey Class==== | ||
- | A great portion of the citizens encountered in farms and towns do not have classes or levels. | + | A great portion of the citizens encountered in farms and towns do not have classes or levels. |
Sometimes Normals might join an adventuring party as henchmen or hirelings (typically as porters to carry things so the player characters don't have to). Specialist hirelings like alchemists and blacksmiths are also counted as Normals. | Sometimes Normals might join an adventuring party as henchmen or hirelings (typically as porters to carry things so the player characters don't have to). Specialist hirelings like alchemists and blacksmiths are also counted as Normals. | ||
- | Many Normals are trained as militia, both in the town and countryside. | + | Many Normals are trained as militia, both in the town and countryside. |
Many Normals have skills and abilities that PCs can't match, like copying a potion, illuminating a manuscript, making a sword or growing a field of sorghum, but their professions aren't adventuring professions, | Many Normals have skills and abilities that PCs can't match, like copying a potion, illuminating a manuscript, making a sword or growing a field of sorghum, but their professions aren't adventuring professions, | ||
Normals who go on adventures can gain an adventurer class. | Normals who go on adventures can gain an adventurer class. | ||
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+ | =====The Lackey===== | ||
+ | A lackey is a professional adventurer support expert. | ||
+ | * Lackeys use the same advancement tables, hit die, and attacks as thieves. | ||
+ | * Lackeys get +2 saves vs. poison and disease. | ||
+ | * They may wear leather armor and shields, and at 4th level they can also wear chainmail. | ||
+ | * They may use knives, daggers, batons, clubs, staffs, hatchets, lumber axes, hand axes, battle axes, great axes, light crossbows, and hammers, and sledge hammers as weapons. | ||
+ | * Beginning at 2nd level, a lackey can carry 5 extra items, beyond their strength score, before becoming loaded. | ||
+ | * If he is in melee contact with a friendly character, a lackey can use his Attack for the turn to swap an item with that character at no action cost to the character. | ||
+ | * Lackeys gain adventuring skills at a completely different schedule than other characters. | ||
+ | * Unlike every other class, Lackeys can choose from the thief skills when making their Skill selections. |
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