Professions

professions.toml lists the professions a player can pick at character creation. The client sends the chosen id (packet 0xF8) and leaves skills and stats empty; the character gets the stats and skills listed here. Id 0 is the “Advanced” choice, where the player picks everything, so it is not listed; an id not listed is treated as 0.

[[profession]]
id = 1
name = "Warrior"
name_cliloc = 1061180
description_cliloc = 1061230
gump = 5577
str = 45
dex = 35
int = 10
skills = [
    { skill = "Tactics", value = 30 },
    { skill = "Healing", value = 30 },
    { skill = "Swordsmanship", value = 30 },
    { skill = "Anatomy", value = 30 },
]

Field	Meaning
id	The profession id the client sends.
name	The profession name.
name_cliloc, description_cliloc	The ids of the localized name and description the client shows.
gump	The id of the gump image the client shows.
str, dex, int	The starting stats.
skills	The starting skills: the SkillType name without spaces ("SpiritSpeak") and the value in whole points.

The shipped professions give 90 stat points and 120 skill points, the totals of CharacterCreationRules (StatTotal = 90, skill totals of 100 or 120). The loader does not check these totals. Character creation uses a matching profession’s stats and skills; custom choices are validated separately by CharacterCreationRules.

Validation at startup

The server stops when:

• professions.toml does not exist or has no [[profession]] entries;
• an id is below 1 or is used twice;
• a starting skill is not in skills.toml.

See also

• Data files overview: file locations, loading order and shared value formats.
• Check your changes: validate edited data before restarting.