The Tavern

I was wondering if a Deep Elf Skald would be a passable combination. I know Deep Elves aren't too good at melee, but they don't get huge penalties on Long Blades, Staves and Short Blades skills, and Evasion is good... also you can train them a bit in armor without a huge issue. Also Charms are (ironically) there best skill, and Charms could make up for low strength. Also Necromancy can be used if you find a weapon with the Pain Brand too(if one is lucky that is), and plenty of useful Necromancy spells use Charms too. Also lighter Armor can still work well for them even if their aptitude for Armor sucks. Thoughts?

Deep Elves get 20% less HP per level than Humans and -2 Fighting aptitude. Those are pretty bad for any kind of character, but especially bad for a melee one.

It's viable in the sense that you can win it but there's about 20 other species I'd rather pick.

On the other hand, you get to experience the vicarious thrill of running away from home and taking up a gladiatorial career to spite your traditionalist folks as you stumble through the dungeon on your blade-swinging misadventures of self discovery

plus side, you get to live out any fantasies you have of being a DESk, which coincidentally enough will be what your head is hitting after playing enough of these

its basically as good as HESk

(not good at all)

nvm, OP was talking about something mostly different.

Well, DESk is actually selectable in trunk, so it has that advantage over HESk.

Still approximately as likely to win.

Why try to be a DESk, when you can try being a HOMo?

I'm pretty sure most of us at least once tried playing with a HOMo, just to see if we liked it.

And, you know, meeting that amateur HOMo in a later game.