Mountain Dwarf Racial Traits

Highland dwarves are sturdy and untiring, but they have a hard time detecting deceit. +2 Constitution, -2 Wisdom.

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

Mountain 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: Mountain dwarves can see in the dark up to 60 ft. Darkvision is only black and white, but it is otherwise like normal sight.

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

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.

Mountain dwarves are hardy and resistant to toxins. +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison.

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

Mountain 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 orcs, and goblinoid.

This bonus represents a special training that mountain dwarves undergo, during which they learn tricks that previous generations developed in their battles with gaints. 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 giants.

+2 racial bonus on Appraise or Craft checks that are related to metalwork. Mountain dwarves are excellent smiths, and have a greater knowledge of metalworking than of stone items. Mouintain dwarves receive no bonus to Appaise or Craft stone items.

+2 racial bonus on Survial checks when in the mountains, Furthermore, Survial (mountainous regions) is always a class skill for the mountain dwarves.

Automatic Languages: Dwarven and Merchant's Tongue. Bonus Languages: Giant, Gnome, Hobgoblin, and Orc. Highland dwarves are familiar with the languages of their enemies and allies.

Favored Class Fighter. A multiclass dwarf's fighter class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty for multiclassing. dwarven culture extols the virtues of battle, and the vucation comes easily to dwarves.