Character and attributes

Character creation is class first, then roll. That order matters: class modifiers land on top of the dice, and the rebalance happens after that.

The six attributes

All range 3–18.

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Abbr	Name	What it affects
STR	Strength	Melee damage and to-hit, equipment limits, max carry weight (STR × 15)
DEX	Dexterity	Sets your Guard (how hard you are to hit), evasion, ranged attacks
CON	Constitution	Health bonus, health regeneration rate
INT	Intelligence	Magic effects, skills
WIS	Wisdom	Recovery, resistance
CHA	Charisma	NPC reactions, and the width of your haggling price band

In practice the live effects concentrate in STR / DEX / CON — they decide whether you land hits, whether you get hit, and how long you last. The magic and skill systems behind INT and WIS aren’t fully built out yet; CHA genuinely affects how much room you have to haggle with NPCs.

Ability modifiers

Most formulas take the modifier, not the raw score:

modifier = (score - 10) / 2      ← integer division, truncated toward zero

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Score	Modifier
3	-3
4	-3
5	-2
6	-2
7	-1
8	-1
9	+0
10	+0
11	+0
12	+1
13	+1
14	+2
15	+2
16	+3
17	+3
18	+4

Truncated toward zero, not floored

Negatives don’t behave like floor. A score of 7 gives (7-10)/2 = -1.5 → -1, not -2. That’s Rust integer division.

How attributes are decided

1. Pick a class.
2. For each attribute, roll 4d6, drop the lowest, sum the other three. e.g. 3, 5, 2, 4 → drop the 2 → 3+5+4 = 12
3. Apply the class modifiers (table below).
4. Rebalance the six attributes to a total of 72. Short of it, low attributes come up; over it, high ones come down. Everything stays in 3–18.

Because the rebalance happens after the class modifiers, the total is always 72 — no class gets extra points out of its modifiers. What class decides is the shape, not the size.

Class modifiers

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Class	Gender	STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA	Hit die
Barbarian	M	+3	0	+2	-2	-2	-1	d10
Barbarian	F	+2	+1	+1	-2	-1	-1	d10
Caveman	M	+2	0	+2	-2	0	-2	d10
Caveman	F	+1	+1	+1	-2	+1	-2	d10
Knight	M	+1	-1	+1	-1	0	0	d10
Knight	F	0	0	0	-1	+1	0	d10
Valkyrie	Either	+2	+1	+1	-1	-2	-1	d10
Ranger	Either	+1	+2	0	-1	0	-2	d8
Samurai	Either	+1	0	+2	-1	0	-2	d8
Monk	Either	-1	+2	0	-1	+2	-2	d8
Priest	Either	-1	-1	+1	-1	+3	-1	d8
Archaeologist	Either	-1	+1	0	+2	+1	-3	d6
Healer	Either	-2	-1	+1	+1	+2	-1	d6
Rogue	Either	-1	+3	0	+1	-1	-2	d6
Wizard	Either	-2	0	-1	+3	+2	-2	d6
Tourist	Either	-1	0	-1	+1	-1	+2	d4

Barbarian, Caveman and Knight modify differently by gender. Every other class is the same either way.

How to choose

• To survive hits → a d10 hit die: Knight, Barbarian, Caveman, Valkyrie.
• To avoid being hit → high DEX modifier. The Rogue’s +3 is the highest in the game.
• To haggle → high CHA. The Tourist’s +2 is the best a player can pick, and CHA widens the price band you can negotiate inside.
• Watch out for the Tourist — a d4 hit die is the squishiest in the game.

NPC-only classes

Players can’t pick these; they’re listed so you know how the game’s NPCs are built:

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Class	Seen on	STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
Merchant	Rica	-2	0	-1	+1	-1	+3
Guard	Karl	+2	0	+2	-2	-1	-1

The Merchant’s CHA +3 is the highest in the game — which is why Rica is one.

Guard — how hard you are to hit

Computed at creation from your final DEX (after class modifiers and the rebalance) and stored:

Guard = clamp(10 + DEX modifier, 1, 20)

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DEX	Modifier	Base Guard
3	-3	7
4	-3	7
5	-2	8
6	-2	8
7	-1	9
8	-1	9
9	+0	10
10	+0	10
11	+0	10
12	+1	11
13	+1	11
14	+2	12
15	+2	12
16	+3	13
17	+3	13
18	+4	14

Real characters land around 7–14, plus whatever equipment adds. 10 is the reference point; see Combat for what the numbers mean.

Health

Max health at level 1:

max health = hit die maximum + CON modifier + race bonus

Race bonuses

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Race	Health bonus
Dwarf	+4
Human	+2
Elf	+1
Gnome	+1
Orc	+1

Level 1 health

Columns are CON, rows are class (assuming Human, +2).

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Class	Hit die	CON 8	CON 10	CON 14	CON 18
Barbarian	d10	11	12	14	16
Caveman	d10	11	12	14	16
Knight	d10	11	12	14	16
Valkyrie	d10	11	12	14	16
Ranger	d8	9	10	12	14
Samurai	d8	9	10	12	14
Monk	d8	9	10	12	14
Priest	d8	9	10	12	14
Archaeologist	d6	7	8	10	12
Healer	d6	7	8	10	12
Rogue	d6	7	8	10	12
Wizard	d6	7	8	10	12
Tourist	d4	5	6	8	10

Dwarves add another +2; Elves, Gnomes and Orcs are 1 lower.

Health per level

From level 2 onward, each level:

roll the hit die
guarantee at least half (round up to half if the roll is lower)
add your CON modifier

So a Knight (d10) rolling a 3 still counts it as 5. Expected gain per level:

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Hit die	Classes	Min	Expected	Max
d10	Barbarian, Caveman, Knight, Valkyrie	5	6.50	10
d8	Ranger, Samurai, Monk, Priest	4	5.25	8
d6	Archaeologist, Healer, Rogue, Wizard	3	4.00	6
d4	Tourist	2	2.75	4

The CON modifier isn’t in that table — a Knight with CON 14 expects 6.5 + 2 = 8.5 per level.

Health regeneration

Every 16 seconds (the server’s base tick is 8 seconds; regeneration runs every second one):

regen = max(1, 1 + floor(level / 5) + CON modifier)

All of these must hold:

• You’re alive (health > 0)
• Health isn’t full
• At least 10 seconds out of combat — measured from your last attack or the last hit you took
• Not Weak and not food-poisoned — both stop regeneration completely (Food and satiation)

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Level	CON 8	CON 10	CON 14	CON 18
1	1 HP	1 HP	3 HP	5 HP
5	1 HP	2 HP	4 HP	6 HP
10	2 HP	3 HP	5 HP	7 HP
15	3 HP	4 HP	6 HP	8 HP
20	4 HP	5 HP	7 HP	9 HP
25	5 HP	6 HP	8 HP	10 HP
30	6 HP	7 HP	9 HP	11 HP

Those are per 16 seconds. A level 30 character with CON 18 regains 11 every 16 seconds — about 41 a minute.