Class- and race-dependent abilities and gained intrinsics in NetHack 3.3

This spoiler doesn't attempt to list the various class and racial modifiers to game activities; just the abilities peculiar to each.

Archeologist

• XL 1 : Stealth
• XL 1 : Speed
• XL 10: Searching
• Start with all valuable gems and worthless glass pre-recognised.

Barbarian

• XL 1 : Poison resistance
• XL 7 : Speed
• XL 15: Stealth

Cave(wo)man

• XL 7 : Speed
• XL 15: Warning
• Exempt from penalties for cannibalism and eating domestic animals.

Healer

• XL 1 : Poison resistance
• XL 15: Warning

Knight

• XL 7 : Speed
• Can jump as chess knight.
• Can #turn undead.

Monk

• XL 1 : Speed
• XL 1 : Sleep resistance
• XL 1 : See invisible
• XL 3 : Poison resistance
• XL 5 : Stealth
• XL 7 : Warning
• XL 9 : Searching
• XL 11: Fire resistance
• XL 13: Cold resistance
• XL 15: Shock resistance
• XL 17: Teleport control

Priest(ess)

• XL 15: Warning
• XL 20: Fire resistance
• Can see objects' blessed/uncursed/cursed status.
• Can #turn undead.

Ranger

• XL 1 : Searching
• XL 7 : Stealth
• XL 15: See invisible

Rogue

• XL 1 : Stealth
• XL 10: Searching

Samurai

• XL 1 : Speed
• XL 15: Stealth

Tourist

• XL 10: Searching
• XL 20: Poison resistance

Valkyrie

• XL 1 : Cold resistance
• XL 1 : Stealth
• XL 7 : Speed
• Can throw Mjollnir and have it return if strength 25.

Wizard

• XL 15: Warning
• XL 17: Teleport control
• Get bonuses rather than penalties for wearing cornuthaums.

dwarf

• XL 1 : Infravision

elf

• XL 1 : Infravision
• XL 4 : Sleep resistance

gnome

• XL 1 : Infravision

orc

• XL 1 : Infravision
• XL 1 : Poison resistance
• Exempt from penalties for cannibalism and eating domestic animals.

Last changed: March 9, 2000