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| − | You are a hulking, skulking thug waiting
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| − | wall-climber cozening treasures from
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| − | cutpurse outrunning shouting pursuers through
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| − | a crowded market, or a brooding killer stalking
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| − | a difficult target.
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| − | Thieves can be big or small, fast or slow, tall or
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| − | thin, but they all have one thing in common: they
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| − | survive not by sword or spell, but by stealth and
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| − | Hit points: A thief gains 1d6 hit points at each
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| − | Weapon training: A thief is trained in these
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| − | weapons: blackjack, blowgun, crossbow, dagger,
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| − | dart, garrote, longsword, short sword, sling, and
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| − | staff. Thieves are careful in their choice of armor,
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| − | as it affects the use of their skills.
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| − | Alignment: Although thieves have little regard
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| − | for the laws of civilization, they are not necessarily
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| − | chaotic.
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| − | Lawful thieves are ubiquitous, and they belong
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| − | to institutions of organized crime: guilds of beggars
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| − | who feign illness to fleece the generous, pirate
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| − | gangs that hijack innocent travelers, or organized
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| − | brigands who charge “protection fees” for
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| − | certain routes. They are fences who dispose of
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| − | stolen goods, enforcers who maintain the pecking
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| − | order of the underworld, and petty burglars
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| − | who work their way up to become mob bosses.
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| − | Chaotic thieves operate as independent agents.
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| − | They are assassins and con artists, swindlers
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| − | and sociopaths, or outright murderers and killers.
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| − | They acknowledge no master aside from the
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| − | glint of gold.
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| − | Neutral thieves are double agents: the kindly
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| − | housekeeper who filches valuable baubles while
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| − | the master sleeps, the “inside man” who leaves
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| − | the vault unlocked one night, or the urban spy
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| − | who sells secrets to his court’s enemies.
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| − | Thieves’ Cant: Thieves speak a secret language
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| − | called the cant known only to members of their
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| − | class. This is a spoken language with no written
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| − | alphabet. Teaching the cant to a non-thief is
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| − | punishable by death. Certain double-entendre
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| − | phrases in Common have an alternate meaning
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| − | in the cant and are used by thieves to identify
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| − | their brethren covertly.
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| − | Thieving skills: A thief learns certain skills that
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| − | aid his illicit pursuits. A thief can pick locks, find
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| − | and disable traps, sneak silently, hide in shadows,
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| − | climb sheer surfaces, forge documents, pick
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| − | The thief’s alignment determines his interests,
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| − | and those interests determine his rate of advancement
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| − | in the various thieving skills. The
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| − | thief receives a bonus to his skills based on level
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| − | and alignment, as shown on table 1-9.
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| − | To use a thief skill, the player rolls d20 and adds
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| − | his modifier. He must beat a DC assigned to
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| − | the task at hand. An easy task is DC 5, while an
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| − | extremely difficult task is DC 20 – for example,
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| − | picking an extraordinarily well crafted lock, or
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| − | picking the pocket of an alert guard. In some
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| − | cases, the judge may make the roll for the character,
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| − | and the result will not be known until
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| − | some trigger event occurs (e.g., a forged document
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| − | may not be truly tested until presented to
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| − | the king’s commissary).
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| − | A thief needs tools to pick locks, find and disable
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| − | traps, climb sheer surfaces, forge documents,
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| − | and handle poisons. A 1st-level thief must purchase
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| − | a set of thieves’ tools that allows him to
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| − | use these skills.
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| − | Lawful thieves (path of the Boss): good with hiding, climbing, disabling traps / bad with forgery, disguise, read languages, poisons
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| − | Neutral thieves (path of the Swindler): good with sneaking, pickpocket, climbing, forgery / bad with backstab, disguise, read languages, poison
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| − | Chaotic thieves (path of the Assassin): good with backstab, disguise, poison / bad with pickpocket, disable trap, forgery, read languages
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