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CHARACTER CREATION GUIDE

FORGOTTEN    REALMS     SERIES

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1)        -INTRODUCTION-
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This guide will tell you the details to help you choose how to create your character at the beginning of the game.  This is my first guide so it could have some flaws.  Email me at lupus_jack64@hotmail.com to give me suggestions on what to put in this faq.  Also email me there to give me any information that needs to be added etc.  Label the subject BG CC so I know what it is about.  Other than that there is really nothing except just email me about the game or faq.


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2)          -CONTENTS-
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1)Introduction
2)Contents
3)Versions
4)Basics
5)Race
6)Class
A-Experience Points
B-Profiency Points
C-Prime Requisite
D-Specialist Mage
E-Multi-Class
F-Dual-Class
7)Alignment
8)Abilities
9)Skills
10)Appearance & Name
11)Credits
12)Legal Disclaimer

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3)           -VERSIONS-
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Version 1.1-  Filled out the Experience Chart.  Fixed things here and there.
Date- January 12, 2002

Version 1.0-  First release.  Has all main information.
Date- December 26, 2001

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4)            -BASICS-
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Once your into the character screen, the following choices will be available.
You can only do them the order they are in.

Gender-  This is of no importance so choose whatever gender you want and then pick from the options of pictures.  This doesn't matter about gameplay.

Race-  Races are a pretty imporatant part of your character.  Some races have bonuses, but come with cons to.  Such as: Elves gain a max of dexterity of 19 and a constitution of 17.  All statistics have a max of 18.  The races are:
Human, Elves, Halfling, Half-elves, Gnome, and Dwarves.

Class-  Here is an important part of your character.  This is like if you are are a magic user, healer, or a warrior to be general.

Alignment-  This is how good your character is.  If they are good, then they will want the realms at peace.  Neutrals believe in both good and evil.  To see a full list of selections see the Alignment section.

Abilities-  These are the stats of your character.  The Strength and
Intelligence are examples.  You can reroll over and over until you get what you want.

Skills-  Here you select your profiency points.  They are how skilled your character is with that group of weapons.  Every class gets a different number of profiency points.  The max for starting is 4.
If you are a mage you also pick your starting spells.  Then after you pick them them spells then you get to choose which ones you want to memorize for the beginning of the game.  This also goes for specialist mages too.

Appearance-  This doesn't matter to gameplay either.  Here you get to choose the look of your character when they are just walking around.  You also choose what they sound like.

Name-  Just name your character and your done with it.  After this you are ready to start playing the game.

Here are other definitions that you will want to know.  They will be more thouroughly explained later on in the walkthrough.

Experience-  This is what levels you up throughout the game.  The more levels you gain the higher your thaco is.  Your HP also increases.  You gain experience from several ways.  The most common ways are killing monsters and helping out civilians.

Profiency Points-  Each Class gets a different number of profiency points.
They gain more skill with their weapons.  Depending on your class you can be more skilled with weapons,  for example a fighter would have more skill than a mage would. You can place a max of 5 in one weapon category.

Prime Requisite-    This is your characters most important stat.  This is mostly just logic.  A full list of Prime Requisites is in the class section.

Dual Class-  Only humans have this skill.  Once you reach level 2 you can become skilled in another class.  This is almost equivalent to multi-classing.

Reputation-  This is how people react to you.  I also effects how the prices will be for you in the shops.

THACO-  This is your defense rate.  Your dexterity helps determine this.  The base score is 20 and the lower it gets the better.

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5)               -RACE-
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The six types of characters will be covered here.  It will tell you what classes they qualify for, ability bonuses, and Racial bonuses.

Here is a graph of their ability bonuses.
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|----------| Strength | Dexterity | Constitution | Intelligence | Wisdom |
Charisma |
|Humans    |    0     |    0      |      0       |      0       |   0    |
0     |
|Elves     |    0     |   +1      |     -1       |      0       |   0    |
0     |
|Half-Elves|    0     |    0      |      0       |      0       |   0    |
0     |
|Gnomes    |    0     |    0      |      0       |     +1       |  -1    |
0     |
|Halflings |    0     |   +1      |      0       |      0       |  -1    |
0     |
|Dwarves   |    0     |   -1      |     +1       |      0       |   0    |   -
2     |
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Some Races have resistances to certain magic.
Humans     -None
Elves      -Charm and Sleep Magic
Half-Elves -Limited Resistance to Charm and Sleep Magic
Gnome      -Resistance to all Magic
Halflings  -They are very resistant to Poison and magic
Dwarves    -They have a moderate resistance to poison and magic.

Some Races have infravision which allows them to see in the dark.
Humans     -No
Elves      -Yes
Half-Elves -Yes
Gnomes     -Yes
Halflings  -No
Dwarves    -Yes

As you notice humans have no special abilities and are probably wondering why.
This is because at level 2 or more they can "dual class" into a different class and stop gaining experience in their old class.  See the sub-section
Dual classing in the class section for more information.

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|---------| Fighter | Ranger | Paladin | Cleric | Druid | Mage | Thief | Bard
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|Human    |   Yes   |  Yes   |  Yes    |   Yes  |  Yes  |  Yes |  Yes  |  Yes
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|Elf      |   Yes   |  Yes   |  No     |   Yes  |  No   |  Yes |  Yes  |  No
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|Half-Elf |   Yes   |  Yes   |  No     |   Yes  |  Yes  |  Yes |  Yes  |  Yes
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|Gnome    |   Yes   |  No    |  No     |   Yes  |  No   |  No  |  Yes  |  No
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|Halfling |   Yes   |  No    |  No     |   Yes  |  No   |  No  |  Yes  |  No
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|Dwarf    |   Yes   |  No    |  No     |   Yes  |  No   |  No  |  Yes  |  No
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Everyone except Humans can be in multi-class except humans because of their dual classing ability.
The multi-class combinations are not valid to all races.  This is because say that a dwarf wants to be a Fighter-Mage.  This is not valid because a
Dwarf can be a fighter but he can not be a mage.  So in other words you have to be able to be both of them so this combination is valid.  To see a full list of what combinations and who can be them see the CLASS Section.
The Specialist Mage will also be shown in the CLASS section.

Thief/Race Bonuses

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6)             -CLASS-
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Classes are important to your character.  This is if you are a
Rogue,Warrior, Mage etc.  Here is a list of all the possible classes.

1)Fighter
2)Ranger
3)Paladin
4)Cleric
5)Druid
6)Mage
7)Thief
8)Bard

A-    Experience
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These are the eight regular classes.  Each of these level up at a different rate.  Here is a list of what experience it takes to level them up.
This can also be an important part of your decision.

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---------| Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 | Level 6 |
|Fighter |  2000   |  4000   |  8000   | 16000   |  32000  |
|Ranger  |  2250   |  4500   |  9000   | 18000   |  36000  |
|Paladin |  2250   |  4500   |  9000   | 18000   |  36000  |
|Cleric  |  1500   |  3000   |  6000   | 13000   |  27500  |
|Druid   |  2000   |  4000   |  7500   | 12500   |  20000  |
|Mage    |  2500   |  5000   | 10000   | 20000   |  40000  |
|Thief   |  1250   |  2500   |  5000   | 10000   |  20000  |
|Bard    |  1250   |  2500   |  5000   | 10000   |  20000  |
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