Bestiary/Savage Rider

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Savage Rider

General
Type	Human (tribal)
Category	Humanoids & tribes
Alignment	Evil
Karma	−1,000
Fame	1,000
Behavior	Attacks on sight
Speed	Fast
Stats
Strength	151–170
Dexterity	92–130
Intelligence	51–65
Hit points	151–170
Stamina	92–130
Mana	51–65
Damage	29–34
Armor	0
Resources
Carving	1 raw ribs

The Savage Rider is a mounted savage on a ridgeback. It's fast, hits for 29–34 and can heal itself with bandages (60–90 Healing).

Overview

• In-game name: a random savage rider name
• Corpse: a savage corpse
• Looks: a tribal warrior in bone armor riding a savage ridgeback and carrying a tribal spear.
• Behavior: it attacks the nearest target it sees and fights in melee.
• Movement: it is one of the faster creatures in the game (fast speed).
• Notoriety: it always shows as a murderer (red), so anyone can attack it freely.
• Enemies: savages and orcs are enemies and attack each other on sight.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	151–170
Dexterity	92–130
Intelligence	51–65
Hit points	151–170 (same as its Strength)
Stamina	92–130 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	51–65 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	29–34
Armor rating	0
Fame / Karma	1,000 / −1,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Fencing	72.5–95.0
Mace Fighting	72.5–95.0
Magic Resistance	72.5–95.0
Swordsmanship	72.5–95.0
Tactics	72.5–95.0
Healing	60.3–90.0
Poisoning	60.0–82.5

It has 60–82.5 Poisoning, but it has no poison attack.

Special behaviors

• Mount dies with it. Its ridgeback is deleted when the rider dies, so you can't claim it.
• Savage kin paint. It won't treat anyone wearing savage kin paint (the savage body look it gives) as an enemy. If a painted player attacks it, the paint burns away ("Your skin is scorched as the tribal paint burns away!"), they take 50 fire damage and the paint's timer is cleared.
• Dragon-slayer. Its melee hits do triple damage to dragons, white wyrms, swamp dragons, drakes, nightmares, hiryu, lesser hiryu and daemons, so keep those pets away from it.

Loot

Every savage rider carries:

• Gold: about 60–150 in total (from its "Average" loot)
• 1–15 bandages
• its tribal spear, bone arms and bone legs (worn)

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor piece or shield (up to 3 chances, from about 5% down to 0.5% each)
• A musical instrument (about 0.4% or less)
• a bola ball (10%)

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 1 raw ribs

Tips

• It's fast (it uses the quickest movement setting), so you can't outrun it on foot.
• Its 29–34 damage hurts; keep your health up.
• Triple damage against dragons, drakes, nightmares and similar pets.
• It always shows as a murderer.