Editing Sword World RPG (section)

==== Adventurer skills ====

* '''Fighter:''' You fight. Duh. Buffs all your attack and defense rolls but doesn't do anything else. Of note is the example in the rulebook: ''[[Conan the Barbarian|"A wandering swordsman who makes a name for himself solely on the strength of his sword, and eventually establishes a kingdom."]]'' This is what [[Old School Roleplaying]] looks like, folks.
* '''Thief:''' Like the D&D thief but without the crippling fear of effectiveness. Also buffs combat rolls like the fighter and can crit on 9s unlike any other class, but only if your weapon/armor weight is half the maximum you can equip. If you have levels in both fighter and thief, they don't stack and you have to choose which one to use at the start of each combat round.
* '''Ranger:''' Still the same vaguely schizophrenic Legolas knockoff, but before they gave him his animal buddy. Buffs ranged combat rolls but mostly used for stealth and survival in the wilderness, plus some oddball things like stabilize checks, predicting the weather and map-making. You also get a bonus to SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER people if you have a chance to get the drop on them.
* '''Sage:''' [[Bear Lore]] experts. You can take this with the sorcerer skill and get an XP discount for it. Also if you fail a knowledge or appraise check you have to go to your local library and take a look (it's in a book) for a week before making ''another'' skill check to see if your character did, in fact, learn something.
* '''Bard:''' It's a bard. You know what a bard does. Since multiclassing is free, the bard skill doesn't cover fighting and ''just'' gives you Play Instrument, "spellsongs" and bardic knowledge.
* '''Rune Master''': The caster skill. Comes in sorcerer ([[Wizard]] using ancient magic, spell list is like a greatest-hits version of the [[AD&D]] list without campaign-enders like Wish), shaman ([[Elementalist]] type, mostly a buffmancer with spells that only work when the elemental spirits are around; note that "mind" and "life" are elements) and priest ([[Cleric]], does cleric things) flavors. The GM also gets the snowflake NPC-only dark priest (does what it says on the tin) and dragon priest (draconic [[sorcerer]] types who LARP as dragons and get spells to help with that) skills.