Who goes down

The party

A party is one to four members. You name each one and pick a class and a color. Four colors to choose from , and five classes, one of which nobody chooses.

Fighter

Chosen in a party or alone

Starts with more health than a wizard or a rogue, and wears the heavy mail that is closed to them both.

Health: 23 to start
Purse: 100 gold to start
Equipment: Uses any melee weapon, ranged weapon, armor and shield, but never the parrying fang, the wizard blade, the hunter's bow and the shadow weave

Wizard

Chosen in a party or alone

Brings an identified protection scroll. Says what an untried find is for, or that it will harm, while the wizard lives.

Health: 18 to start
Purse: 50 gold to start
Mana: 8 at level 1, +2 a level, 40 at level 20
Starts with: Protection
Equipment: Uses only the simplest melee weapon, ranged weapon, armor and shield, and the wizard blade

Reads scrolls, wands, words and the king's book
Senses what an untried find is for

Rogue

Chosen in a party or alone

Opens a chest with twenty in a hundred better odds against the trap, and a vault hands the rogue its first digit free.

Health: 21 to start
Purse: 80 gold to start
Equipment: Uses any melee weapon and ranged weapon, and only the simplest armor and shield, and the shadow weave, but never the wizard blade

Better odds against chest traps, by 20 points
Is handed the first digit of every number lock
Starts every lock plate a hint ahead

King

Chosen alone

Can use every weapon and every armor, opens a chest like a rogue, and starts with a lightning rod.

Health: 27 to start
Purse: 120 gold to start
Mana: 4 at level 1, +1 a level, 23 at level 20
Starts with: Lightning Rod
Equipment: Uses any melee weapon, ranged weapon, armor and shield

Reads scrolls, wands, words and the king's book
Better odds against chest traps, by 20 points

Hero

Never chosen: a fighter becomes one

Opens a chest like a rogue. Brings a lightning rod and descends alone.

Health: 27 to start
Purse: 120 gold to start
Mana: 4 at level 1, +1 a level, 23 at level 20
Starts with: Lightning Rod
Equipment: Uses any melee weapon, ranged weapon, armor and shield

Reads scrolls, wands, words and the king's book
Better odds against chest traps, by 20 points

Changing class

From fighter to hero

The hero is offered to nobody at the start. A fighter who reaches level 20 can pay a Living Statue 2,000 gold to become one; every other change of class costs 1,000. The king, who leads a lone adventurer's run, never changes.

From	May become
Fighter	Wizard (1,000 gold), Rogue (1,000 gold), Hero (2,000 gold, from level 20)
Wizard	Fighter (1,000 gold), Rogue (1,000 gold)
Rogue	Fighter (1,000 gold), Wizard (1,000 gold)
Hero	Fighter (1,000 gold), Wizard (1,000 gold), Rogue (1,000 gold)

Growing stronger

Experience and levels

Gold is shared by the whole party. Experience is not, a kill pays only the member who struck the killing blow. A Bath of Fates, the training ground and some magic pay it too. Each level adds one to six maximum health points and raises a caster's maximum mana, but refills neither. Every third level from 4 adds one to attack bonus. A level is a reading of the experience earned, so losing enough drops it. Level means experience, floor means depth.

Experience needed to reach a level, by difficulty. The cap is level 100.

Level	Newcomer	Medium	Hardest
2	400	400	400
3	900	1,000	1,100
5	2,200	2,800	3,400
10	7,200	10,800	14,400
15	14,700	23,800	32,900
20	24,700	41,800	58,900
30	52,200	92,800	133,400
50	137,200	254,800	372,400
75	299,700	569,800	839,900
100	524,700	1,009,800	1,494,900