Glacier Dwarf Racial Traits

• Glacier dwarves are from above the northern polar cap. +2 Constitution, -2 Charisma.

• Medium-sized: As medium-sized creature, glacier dwarves have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.

• Glacier dwarf base speed is 20, and they can move at this speed even if they are wearing medium or heavy armor, or if they are carrying a medium or heavy load.

• Darkvision: Glacier dwarves can see in the dark up to 60 ft. Darkvision is only black and white, but it is otherwise like normal sight, and glacier dwarf can function just fine with no light at all.

• Icecunning: Icecunning grants Glacier dwarves a +2 racial bonus on Search checks to notice unusual icework, such as sliding walls, icework traps, new construction, unsafe ice or snow surfaces, shaky ice or snow ceilings, or hazards in ice and snow or the like. Something that is not ice or snow but that is disguised as ice or snow also counts as unusual icework. A glacier dwarf who merely comes within 10 feet of unusual icework can make a Search check as if he were actively searching and a ice dwarf can use the Search skill to find icework traps as a rogue can. A glacier dwarf can also intuit depth, sensing his approximate depth underground as normally as a human can sense which way is up. Glacier dwarves have a sixth sense about icework, an innate ability that they get plenty of opportunity to practice and hone in their frozen lands.

• Weapon Familiarity: Dwarves may treat dwarven waraxes and dwarven urgroshes as martial weapons, rather than exotic weapons.

• Stability: Dwarves are exceptionally stable on their feet. A dwarf gains a +4 bonus on ability checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when standing firmly on the ground.

• Glacier dwarves have an innate resistance to magic spells. +2 racial bonus on saving throws against spells and spell-like effects.

• Glacier dwarves are trained in special combat techniques that allow them to fight their traditional enemies more effectively. +1 racial bonus on attacking rolls when fighting frost giants and white dragons.

• This bonus represents a special training that Glacier Dwarves undergo, during which they learn tricks that previous generations developed in their battles with giants. Note that any time a character loses his positive Dexterity bonus to Armor Class, such as when he's caught flat-footed, he loses his loses his dodge bonus, too. +4 dodge bonus against gaints.

+2 racial bonus on Survial checks when in the frozenlands, Furthermore, Survial (frostfell regions) is always a class skill for the Glacier Dwarves.

• Cold Tolerant: Glacier Dwarves gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against cold-ice base effects. Glacier Dwarves can also exist comfortably in conditions between -20 and 90 degrees F without having to make a fortitude save. This counts as it the dwarf had the Cold Endurance feat for the purposes of fulfilling prerequisites for other feats or prestige classes.

• +2 racial bonus on Appraise checks that are related to ice, snow, & other frostfell materials, Glacier dwarves are familiar with valuable items of all kinds.

• +2 racial bonus on Craft checks that are related to ice, snow, & other frostfell materials, Glacier dwarves are especially capable with ice, snow, & other frostfell materials.

• Automatic Languages: Dwarven and Merchant's Tongue. Bonus Languages: Giant, Gnome, Terran, Undercommon and Fhokki. Glacier Dwarves are familiar with the languages of their enemies and of their subterranean allies.

• Favored Class Fighter. A multiclass dwarf's Fighter class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty for multiclassing.