Sorcerer starting AC

[Cold_Heart]

Wow, that seems pretty harsh. Thanks for the information, I might want to start off with a friendlier class.

It is a friendly class, it is just picky about who to be friends with

[Number Thirteen]

Wow, that seems pretty harsh. Thanks for the information, I might want to start off with a friendlier class.

[Cold_Heart]

You should not dump all books, books are your friends

In fact, first order of business would be getting more money to buy even MORE books.

[wobbly]

Sorcerers have big melee penalties to make up for being the best casters in the game. Never played one but I'd suggest staying out of melee range. It seems charisma is also there casting stat, so fearless might be better then shrewd (which comes with a -1 chr). You could play it as golem or android if you want say -40 AC instead?

Probably should clarify that I'm joking. I imagine an android has serious trouble leveling on the sorcerer

[debo]

Hello all,

I'm playing PosChengBand and I just created a human sorcerer with the shrewd personality. I started off with a wizard staff and all books.

My first course of action was dropping all books but one in my house in order to maintain a reasonable weight. I then noticed that I had a problem. My AC was -50.

After putting on a robe it went to -49.

Can someone explain this to me? Why did I start with such a massive penalty to AC?

Sorcerers have a bunch of huge disadvantages to offset their extreme magi-ness. The AC hit (-50) you've already noticed -- you also only get 4.0lb of worn equipment until you start suffering encumbrance penalties, and your life rating is 0.65 of base (you're roughly losing 35% of what your maxhp "should" be.)

Shrewd is (counterintuitively) a pretty bad idea for most mages -- your casting will be OK regardless, so you probably want something to give you more HP. Ordinary or patient could be better choices.

[Number Thirteen]

Hello all,

I'm playing PosChengBand and I just created a human sorcerer with the shrewd personality. I started off with a wizard staff and all books.

My first course of action was dropping all books but one in my house in order to maintain a reasonable weight. I then noticed that I had a problem. My AC was -50.

After putting on a robe it went to -49.

Can someone explain this to me? Why did I start with such a massive penalty to AC?