The Northman
by Pickle

Class: Warrior
Tag: NOR

Introduction

I started off trying to change the existing Viking variant, but I realize that it isn't my place to do so. At the encouragement of a few (thanks), though, I decided to keep going with whatever class I wanted to come up with (More for personal use, I don't mean to start the next craze, and I doubt the (NOR) could do that :)) and just use a different tag. I like aspects of both the Barbarian and Viking class, so I mixed’em together till I had something I knew I'd stick with for awhile. Some of it is “historically accurate,” the rest of it is just to satisfy my neurotic tendencies ;) Thanks for putting up with me, I'll stop babbling and get on with it.

Rules

Potions/elixirs are fine.

Items

Armor
Anything up to, and including, mail (i.e. no plates of any kind) with legal prefixes/suffixes.

Helms
Caps and your garden variety Helms (i.e. no full helms, great helms), only with legal prefixes/suffixes.

Jewelry
Only rings/amulets with legal prefixes/suffixes (i.e. the to-hit adders: Gold, Silver, Steel, Iron, and Bronze.)

Weapons
Any Axes, Mauls, or Bows with the legal prefixes/suffixes.

If you gotta use a sword-hammer/shield combo, extra restrictions are on ’em.

ONLY Broad Swords, Hammers, and Small Shields can be used; NO swords/hammers of Haste/Speed are permissible.

The ONLY times when sword/hammer/shields can be used are: Nightmare/Hell and Hell/Hell & Caves. Axes all the way through Normal, and the remainder of NM and Hell.

Enchantments
The Northman will use the following enchantments and only the following enchantments.

Prefixes
Awesome, Blessed, Bronze, Brutal, Champions, Deadly, Fine, Glorious, Godly, Gold, Heavy, Holy, Iron, Jagged, Kings, Knights, Lords, Massive, Masters, Grand, Mithril, Merciless, Ruthless, Saintly, Savage, Sharp, Silver, Soldiers, Steel, Strong, Sturdy, Valiant, Warriors.

Suffixes
Absorption, Bashing, Carnage, Craftsmanship, Deflection, Gore, Haste, Health, Maiming, Many, Quality, Piercing, Plenty, Protection, Puncturing, Readiness, Slaughter, Slaying, Speed, Sturdiness, Swiftness

Uniques
Any unique armors are permissible except Demonspike Coat and Naj’s Light Plate. Any unique helms are permissible in this case.
No unique jewelry is allowed at all.
Any unique Axes, Bows, or Mauls are allowed.
No unique swords, hammers, or shields are allowed.

Shrines

No shrines at all.

Spells

Not a chance in hell. No reading at all of spellbooks/scrolls.
Exception: Town Portal scrolls can be used for convenience. (i.e. Not to wuss out.)