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Do peasants earn stats when they make levels?

Like if I amonly one point away from making a stud ranger, should I level up as a peasant until I get the missing state and then join the ranger guild?

This is how the c64 and do games worked, I cannot find any info in the help for this version though.

Yes, peasants are very useful in that regard. If you can roll a character that has stats close to what you need, you can choose a peasant, and each time they make level (which they make VERY fast) there is a chance that one or more of their stats will go up. Once you have sufficient stats, you can enter the guild of your choice. While you CAN actually roll a Ranger, there are Race/Class combinations that are impossible to roll. For example, you cannot roll a Kobold Samurai, and yet, I have two of them.

Note that the higher the character's level, the more likely he is to die in training. If you use portal gems, however...

I'm not certain if this is a separate question, but regardless, most of my elves tended to die early on. The antidote seemed to be great caution in types of monsters confronted, (using the standard tactic of using the premade party to level new peasants), and creating only characters with a reasonable number of hit points.

The slight trouble now is that I created an elf with a reasonable number of hit points, and patiently levelled him, as peasant, to level 9 or so. In fact, he's one or two points in constitution from qualifying for a ranger, (trying the beta), but now he's stopped levelling, even though I let him fight all monsters singlehandedly in virtually every battle with creatures who can't finish him in a single turn. He still has only 26 hit points or so, and I'd like to reach 50 hit points or so before he changes class. Is this possible? His AC is horrible, and anything much tougher than a sprite is still dangerous. It's necessary to heal him after every battle, then reorder the party again to put fletcher and kregor first once more.

How many hit points are needed before class change? Previously I tried levelling Paladins and Samurai, rather than Peasants, but even with better armour, they didn't seem to live long.

Also, after class change, does a character keep his old level, or does he start from level 1 again? Namely, will a level 9 peasant have to reach level 9 as a ranger or samurai to start gaining hit points again?

Is it necessary to have the party fight tougher monsters for him to continue to level? The hirebrands have now levelled to around 17 or 18, for comparison, and still seem to gain levels, if very slowly.

On still another tangent, oddly, among two mages and a sage, one mage has levelled to 4 or 5, while the other two are still stuck on level 1, at 1 and 2 hit points, respectively, (acolytes, or whatever they're called (they cast minat) are still dangerous: the mage with 1 max hp only survived thanks to a lucky resurrection).

Do characters have to be among the first six in the party to level effectively? How else is it possible to improve the chances of mages and sages to level? This is unbearable.

Not so much needed as recommended, effectively .. I didn't want the peasant to be stuck as a level 1 ranger with 25 hps, and be unable to level rapidly due to decreased chance to level for ranger, with respect to peasant. 50 hps seemed a reasonable number, (for very low levels of the dungeon), to set speed at 4x and still be able to react in time in the case of an emergency.

Anyway, the strategy guide from Snaferu indicated use of peasants to gain early hps for otherwise unviable class-race combinations, so I was curious as to how many hps were standard. Thanks.

My problem is simply my own low standards for what characters to keep, I suppose. Other people mention rolling for hours to get samurais or rangers. I kept more or less any character with 25+ for a single stat, if int, wis, dex, or con, or 10+ for five or six stats, so I have 50 characters, and none of them are rangers. A couple of peasants who can become paladins immediately, and a single peasant-to-be-samurai. I was afraid I would overlook good mages, priests, thieves, paladins, samurai, and all-around good characters in the quest for a starting ranger.

Anyway, on the plus side, elven rangers are actually possible: they exist! .. in this version of Oubliette, so possibly I can tolerate one slightly less powerful.