Hill Dwarves
Native Literacy: Dwarven
Category: Dwarf • Dwarves
Craftsman Dwarves of the lower hills, skilled at smithing and alchemy.
Advantages
- Half cost for the Armor Smith skill (1.5 Build Points)
- Half cost for the Weapon Smith skill
- Can purchase the Dwarven Resist skill
- +5% Bonus to Alchemical Success Rolls
Disadvantages
- Cannot learn Power Points until Level 5. Can have a maximum of 7 Power Points per Level starting at Level 5 (i.e. 42 PP at Level 10).
- Cannot use bows, may use crossbows
- Can only learn one Warlock skill every other level starting at Level 15
- Cannot learn Sorcery until Level 15 and receives a -15% Ritual Casting Bonus
- Cannot learn Spell Singing skills until Level 15 and can only earn a rank of Spell Singing every 5 Levels starting at Level 15. Then can have only a maximum of 6 Spell Singing Points per level starting at Level 15
Costume & Roleplaying Requirements
- The player must wear a brown or red beard if they are playing a male character – even if they have a real beard – or two long brown or red braids of hair if they are playing a female character.
Additional Rulebook Notes
Any union between any Dwarves always results in one of the parent's racial characteristics being dominant — a child of a Mountain Dwarf and a Hill Dwarf will be either a Mountain Dwarf or a Hill Dwarf, not a mix of the two.
Other Dwarves
Canonical Source Citations
Rulebook — Page 31 (Character Races and Tribes - Dwarves - Hill Dwarves)
[Rulebook, p. 31]