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[Lowtierhero]

How do you often start your adventurer?

My staple build is usually

Proficient Wrestler
Skilled Ambusher
Thrower
Novice Swimmer
whatever else in armor usage

[Tradanbattlan]

Prof Lasher
Prof Wrestler
Prof Swimmer
The rest is in thrower

[jplur]

half warhammer
half shield

seems to be the only way I can survive my first wolves.

[WorkerDrone]

Heh.

Prof. Sword
Skilled Shield
Skilled Armour
...
and then the rest into wrestler.

Really, its not that hard to survive wolves. Bring on some peons, and then traval. They'll distract two or three of them, and then you can just jump in and cut up some wolves while the doggies are busy trying to bite your 'buddies'.

[bamorrow]

Skilled Weapon of Choice
Skilled Shield
Competent Armor User
Wrestler
Swimmer

[Cheshire Cat]

Skilled Weapon of Choice
Skilled Shield
Competent Armor User
Wrestler
Swimmer

this, only novice swimmer. its all you need to be able to jump into water without drowning, and i train it the rest of the way. wrestling and armor use seem really importan to surviving your first few encounters. that and some redshirts. get legendary throwing or swimming and most people will come with you.

[bamorrow]

Skilled Weapon of Choice
Skilled Shield
Competent Armor User
Wrestler
Swimmer

this, only novice swimmer. its all you need to be able to jump into water without drowning, and i train it the rest of the way. wrestling and armor use seem really importan to surviving your first few encounters. that and some redshirts. get legendary throwing or swimming and most people will come with you.

I'm a little paranoid with swimming.  When chasing fish in rivers, having only novice swimmer has caused me to hit the "drowning" state merely by being tired. Also, occasionally dodging into the open space above water has left me in the water with the drowning state in spite of having novice swimmer.  So I go for a little more to put my mind at ease, as I believe the swimming level affects your ability to recover from drowning before death sets in.

[Cheshire Cat]

that is an idea, but since swimming is a very easily trainable skill, i tend to take novice and jump into the first empty pool i come across and press left and right for 20 mins or so while watching tv. i tend to create a backup save of an adventurer right after ive trained them so i can go and reload a fresh well trained character if i manage to die in a really stupid way.

novice lets you get into and out of a pool without ramps on the sides without drowning. though falling or being thrown into water, or having to fight fish while a novice swimmer is not a good idea.

[Greiger]

Yea I think anything that stuns you automatically forces you to drowning state.  And once even with a (companionized) legendary swimmer I never stopped drowning afterwards. 

That was in magma though, and while the character himself was immune to the heat it might act diffrently in relation to drowning then water does.

[Jim Groovester]

All into weapon of choice. The rest can be easily trained.

[Cheshire Cat]

ooh, imagine trying to give a magma drowning victim cpr. they would probably still be glowing after you fished them out. good luck with mouth to mouth.

also weapon of choice sounds interesting. i still like my novice swimmer though, that way you don't need a beach or specially set up player fortress to start your swimming training.

[Dragooble]

most of the time i can solo my first wolves with this build

Skilled weapon
skilled shield
skilled armor
wrestler
novice swimmer

[Hamster Man]

that is an idea, but since swimming is a very easily trainable skill, i tend to take novice and jump into the first empty pool i come across and press left and right for 20 mins or so while watching tv. i tend to create a backup save of an adventurer right after ive trained them so i can go and reload a fresh well trained character if i manage to die in a really stupid way.

I did that once.
I forgot the area was cold.
Mmm, ice dwarf.

[Greiger]

I usually use:
Proficient Swordsman
Proficent armor user
Competent Wrestler
Novice Swimmer

Speaking of stupid deaths, I have a modded amphibious adventurer race.  Argonians from elder scrolls.  I often use them to retrive stuff from flooded forts.

At any rate I had one swimming around in a flooded fort looking for the good weapons and armor inside.(the water pressure was a bit more powerful than expected for the dining room fountain)  It was in an area that freezes, but it was no big deal, most of the water was underground.

So I'm swimming around, picking up odd peices of gear, fought an olmman that somehow found it's way inside the fortress, when I see one of the items I was after.  A masterwork mithril gauntlet.  It's in the farming zone.   It didn't strike me at the time, but the farm plots had part of the ceiling dug out for outdoor plants.  It was't frozen though.

The moment I picked up the gauntlet the sun started setting.  And I'm suddenly frozen in a block of ice surrounded by liquid water only 2x2 big.  Now that was a stupid death.

[hiS_oWn]

Any chance I can see your setup for the amphibious race? I might need it for a... particular fort of mine.