Racial bonuses to thieving skills?

BelgarathMTH

Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug, and I don't want to muck up the official bug reporting thread if it's not a bug, or if it's already a known issue. (I didn't see it in the stickied list.)

My elf thief doesn't seem to be getting her racial bonuses to her thieving skills. They are not showing up in her character sheet. Shouldn't they be shown there? Is she getting her bonuses without it appearing on her character sheet?

I thought I saw the bonuses when she was level one, but as soon as she leveled up they were gone.

elminster

She'll start out with higher stats in certain areas. But its not something that is going to appear on her character sheet.

TheCoffeeGod

In all IE games (including the EE games), Thieving Skill Racial Bonuses are added in automatically when you select your race before you even add more points to your thieving skills and have never appeared on the Character Record.
There is no visible sign that they are added in (unless you know the base skill percents already) and the same goes for your DEX bonuses.

It's one of the little quirks of the IE games.

BelgarathMTH

Thanks. I didn't think about the bonuses being in her starting totals on character creation before any points were assigned.

Wowo

BelgarathMTH said:

Thanks. I didn't think about the bonuses being in her starting totals on character creation before any points were assigned.

Try making a thief of different races and you'll see the points go up and down accordingly. Very noticeable on a gnome as no other race starts with points in Detect Illusion.

Belanos

Wowo said:

Very noticeable on a gnome as no other race starts with points in Detect Illusion.

A Dwarf does as well, though not as many as a Gnome. IIRC, they get 5 points to start out with.

smeagolheart

iirc dwarves are the only race to start out with bonus points to set traps