Dwarf

From left to right: Gray dwarf, shield dwarf, gold dwarf

Obsidian has confirmed that the dwarf race will be included in NWN2.

Dwarves are known for their skill in warfare, their ability to withstand physical and magical punishment, their hard work, and their capacity for drinking ale. Dwarves are slow to jest and suspicious of strangers, but they are generous to those who earn their trust. They stand just 4 to 4 1/2 feet tall, but are broad and compactly built, almost as wide as they are tall. Dwarven skin varies from deep tan to light brown, and their hair is black, gray, or brown. Dwarven men value their beards highly.

Ability adjustment

+2 Constitution, -2 Charisma

DnD 3.5 race features

Size: Medium

Favored class: Fighter. A multiclass dwarf's fighter class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty for multiclassing.

Land speed: 20 feet. However, dwarves can move at this speed even when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load (unlike other creatures, whose speed is reduced in such situations).

Racial bonuses

• Darkvision: Dwarves can see in the dark up to 60 feet. Darkvision is black and white only, but it is otherwise like normal sight, and dwarves can function just fine with no light at all.
• Stonecunning: This ability grants a dwarf a +2 racial bonus on Search checks to notice unusual stonework, such as sliding walls, stonework traps, new construction (even when built to match the old), unsafe stone surfaces, shaky stone ceilings, and the like. Something that isn't stone but that is disguised as stone also counts as unusual stonework. A dwarf who merely comes within 10 feet of unusual stonework can make a Search check as if he were actively searching, and a dwarf can use the Search skill to find stonework traps as a rogue can. A dwarf can also intuit depth, sensing his approximate depth underground as naturally as a human can sense which way is up.
• Weapon familiarity: Dwarves may treat dwarven waraxes and dwarven urgroshes as martial weapons, rather than exotic weapons.
• Stability: A dwarf gains a +4 bonus on ability checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when standing on the ground (but not when climbing, flying, riding, or otherwise not standing firmly on the ground).
• +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison.
• +2 racial bonus on saving throws against spells and spell-like effects.
• +1 racial bonus on attack rolls against orcs and goblinoids.
• +4 dodge bonus to armor class against monsters of the giant type. Any time a creature loses its dexterity bonus (if any) to armor class, such as when it's caught flat-footed, it loses its dodge bonus, too.
• +2 racial bonus on appraise checks that are related to stone or metal items.
• +2 racial bonus on craft checks that are related to stone or metal.

Languages

Automatic languages: Common and Dwarven.

Bonus languages: Giant, Gnome, Goblin, Orc, Terran, and Undercommon.

Subraces

• Gold dwarf
• Gray dwarf
• Shield dwarf. Shield dwarf features do not differ from the basic dwarf race.

Pre-release notes

Male dwarf head render

• NWN did not include languages, so it's possible that NWN2 might exclude languages for the same reasons.

External links

• NWNWiki:Dwarf