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WoTC AD&D 2nd Edition -- Drakein API Reference
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Class.dat — Character classes

Holds the character classes — Fighter, Mage, Cleric, Thief, and the rest — describing what each class requires of a character and how it advances.

Data in this file includes

  • Name — The name of the class.
  • Group — The broad category the class belongs to: Warrior, Rogue, Priest, Wizard, or Psionicist.
  • Ability Scores — The minimum and prime-requisite scores a character needs to qualify for the class, per attribute (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma). Values range 1–25.
  • Character Points — The point cost and related build values for taking the class under the Skills & Powers rules.
  • Level Progression — Per-level tables describing how the class advances: experience required for each level, attack rolls (THAC0), attacks per round, and armor class by level.
  • Hit Dice — The die type, maximum, and bonuses used to roll the class's hit points as it gains levels.
  • Spellcasting — How many spells of each level the class can cast at each of its levels (both the standard and the alternative progressions), and which spell types it may access.
  • Proficiencies — Starting weapon and non-weapon proficiency slots, the cost of additional ones, and how often new slots are earned.
  • Allowances — What the class permits: usable weapons and armor, allowed alignments and magic items, and — for priests — the spell spheres and schools it can draw on.
  • Restrictions — What the class forbids: banned wizard schools, banned kits, and priest spells it cannot cast.
  • Saving Throws — The class's saving-throw values as it advances in level.
  • Class Abilities — The special abilities the class grants and the levels at which they are gained.
  • Screen Text — The descriptive and help text shown for the class (its inventory, proficiency, weapon, and language prompts).
  • Description — The prose description of the class.