User Guide

• Humans excel at nothing, but have no particular weaknesses, except for a
decided lack of piety.
• Elves are intelligent and pious, but not very robust. They excel at intellectual
pursuits, and are excellent spell-casters.
• Dwarfs are strong and hardy. They love fine weapons and armor and delight in
a good fight.
• Gnomes are pious and agile, probably from praying under-ground during
earthquakes. Due to their ascetic traditions, they make excellent Priests.
• Hobbits are agile and very, very lucky. They are a happy-go-lucky people, and,
with the right training, become superb thieves.
Now it's time to select your character's alignment. Alignment describes your
character's general ethical outlook, and has an impact on the classes the character may
enter. Again, just press the letter associated with your choice.
• Good characters are really good. They go out of their way to help old ladies
cross the street.
• Neutral characters take life as it comes. They would help an old lady cross the
street if they were travelling in the same direction.
• Evil characters are not really evil when compared to some of the things they
fight in the Maze. They are self-centered, and always want to know "what's in it
for them." Evil characters help old ladies cross the street for a fee.
The next selection concerns the character's statistics. Statistics are basic measures of a
character's ability to do things. The higher the statistic, the better the character's
performance.
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