![]() You get to select a Spiritkind when you start the game. These are skills whose improvement comes at a much lower point cost. You can also tag three skills at game's start. As you earn experience and make levels, you gain points to distribute among skills, improving them. Each of the magical disciplines possesses several subdivisions with their own set of five spells, each. In Lionheart, these fit into five general categories: Combat, Thieving, and three magical disciplines: Divine, Thought, and Tribal. But the core of the Special system lies in its skills. A Demonkin with a scaly hide, for example, is likely to be shunned by many people in Barcelona, stronghold of the anti-magical Inquisition. In Lionheart, as in Arcanum, you'll find that the reactions of some natives are governed by your racial appearance. Choosing a race, in turn, allows you a selection of special racial traits (except for the boring Purebloods, who are human without any interesting alloy of magic in their ancestry). Thus, Nasty Disposition decreases your Speech and Barter, while raising your abilities with one- and two-handed weapons. They're similar to perks, being characteristics that help define an individual, but are double-edged. You can also select traits, which are only available at the beginning of the game. This perk gives you a +1 bonus to Perception and +15 skill points in Find Traps/Secret Doors. Most are carefully tied to a logical background through suitable descriptions, giving them a substantial rather than dry, statistical feel for example, Superior Senses: You have been given a gift of superior senses owing to the ancient tribal worship of your ancestors. These are positive tweaks to your character that you begin choosing at the second level, and continue every third level after that. The first is attributes: Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. It's an excellent means of generating far more complex RPG characters than usual, through a series of several simultaneous, numerical tracks. ![]() Lionheart uses the "Special" system, first developed for Fallout. Character Creation This is where you start: building your PC. ![]()
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