Characters

You are two choices: a race, which is the animal you are, and a class, which is the job you turned up to do. Neither locks anything -- a Dwarf Rogue and a Gnome Warrior are both perfectly legal, and the game will simply multiply the two together and let you find out.

Everything else about you -- name, gender, and three color palettes for fur, hair and cloth -- is appearance, and appearance is chosen once at character creation and never re-rolled mid-adventure.

Female, Male, Nonbinary.

The baseline

Every character starts from the same four numbers. Your race and class are multipliers on them: the two multiply rather than add, so a tough race and a tough class together are worth more than the sum of the pair.

Races

Ten animals. Read the table across: a Gnome is the fastest thing in the game that also jumps well and dies to one good hit, and a Dwarf is the opposite trade.

Kobold

A dog. Loyal, eager, and always underfoot -- quick on their feet, but they fold fast. The cheapest speed in the game, paid for out of health.

Munchkin

A cat. Small and sly, and always lands on their feet. A good jump and thin skin: fine for a Rogue or a Ranger who never intended to be hit anyway.

Orc

A pig. Big, tough, and proud of it. Shrugs off blows and trundles after you. The most health of any race, and the second-slowest walk to go with it.

Elf

A deer. Graceful and fast, with a light step and a lighter frame. The fastest walk in the game, and the second-lowest health.

Drow

A moose. Broad and brooding -- hard to knock over, slow to get going. Heavy and steady, with the extra grip that lets you carry things other characters have to drag.

Halfling

A sheep. Woolly and unbothered. Every multiplier is 1.00 or nearly, which means a Halfling is exactly whatever their class is and nothing more. There is nothing wrong with that.

Alien

A bunny. Not from around here: enormous leaps, hollow bones. The highest jump in the game by a distance, and the lowest health but one. Climbing and the chasm both get much easier; a skeleton's swing gets much worse.

Dwarf

A mole. Stout, stubborn, and mostly beard -- built like a boulder and moves like one. The slowest walk and the worst jump, in exchange for the second-highest health and the best natural grip.

Gnome

A mouse. Tiny and twitchy, darting and hopping -- but one good hit is one too many. The lowest health of any race. A Gnome that is being hit at all has already made a mistake.

Vampire

A bat. Pale, pointy, and nocturnal; light in the air, and the sunlight thing is exaggerated. A mild all-rounder tilted toward the jump.

Classes

Seven jobs. A class decides what is in your two mittens when you spawn, and that -- more than the multipliers -- is what the class actually is.

Warrior

Plate, pauldrons, and a cape. The tank: the most health of any class and the grip to hurl what others can only drag. Starts with a sword in the right mitten and a shield in the left -- the only class that begins able to guard. See Combat for what a raised shield does and what it costs.

Wizard

Robe, hat, stars. Frail, but the levitation is strong: heavy loads float like feathers. Starts with a plain staff and the Fireball spellbook. The staff swings for a little and grabs on a hold; the book is the reason you are here.

Rogue

Hood, daggers, soft boots. Fast in, fast out, and not built to stand and trade. Starts with a dagger in each fist -- the only class with two weapons and no offhand utility at all. Both mouse buttons swipe.

Cleric

Tabard, circlet, and a rope belt. Steady on their feet and hard to put down: the second-highest health. Starts with a cudgel and the Heal Circle book, which lays a circle on the ground that pulses healing into whoever stands in it -- friend or foe, so mind where you put it.

Ranger

Feathered cap and a full quiver. Quick and spry, at home on the move. Starts with a bow and a Normal quiver on the belt, and nothing in the offhand -- a bare mitten punches and grabs. The bow never runs dry: out of arrows it still looses a basic one. See Weapons.

Artificer

Goggles, apron, and a tank of something on the back. The machines do the lifting: the best grip in the game by a wide margin. Starts with a wrench and the grappling hook, which is the fastest way across a chasm that anybody has.

Cultist

Hooded robe and a book best left shut. Starts with a sickle and the Summoning Circle, which lays a circle that consumes everything resting inside it -- drops, props, corpses, standing teammates -- and manifests something in proportion to what it ate. Sometimes gear. Sometimes a follower. Sometimes something mighty and angry.

Every combination

Health and walk speed for all seventy pairings, as they actually come out.