Wednesday 7 March 2018

Dwarves in 'Lamentations of the Flame Princess'



  Just a quick observation that I made a while back regarding Dwarves in Lamentations of the Flame Princess.

  Normally in most versions of D&D, Dwarves have a slower movement speed , as do Halflings. The latter are described as 'swift' in LotFP, so they're given a bonus to their Dexterity modifier and a bonus to their AC. No comment regarding their movement speed, which actually means they move the same speed as a Human. Same goes for Dwarves. (And it's interesting to also mention as a quick side-note that the traditionally agile Elves are given no Dexterity modifiers in this game, they can be as clumsy on average as Humans can.)

  So anyway, one of the cool things Dwarves have (in this version and in others) is that it takes more encumbrance to slow them down. And all the Races/Classes (same thing in LotFP) move at the same speed here. So if everyone moves at the same speed by default, and if it takes more encumbrance than the others to slow Dwarves down...

  That makes Dwarves, by default as soon as encumbrance comes up, the fastest Race in LotFP.

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