Skeleton Warrior

Skeleton Warrior
Record
Type	Undead b
Gender	Neither
Race	Skeleton b
Class	Skeleton warrior
Alignment	LG NG CG LN TN CN LE NE CE
Involvement
Allegiance	Enemy
Ability scores
Level	9
Hit points	80/80
XP value	4000
Str	18/40
Str	18/40
Dex	9
Dex	9
Con	9
Con	9
Int	16
Int	16
Wis	9
Wis	9
Cha	9
Cha	9
Total scores	70
Morale	20
Break	1
Recovery	60
Combat basics
AC	2
Base THAC0	9
Base APR	2
Saving throws
Dth	5
Wand	7
Poly	6
Brth	5
Spell	8
Magic	90
Damage resistances [%]
Cold	100
Cold	100
Elec.	100 (SKELWA01)
Elec.	100 (SKELWA01)
Miss.	60
Pierce	50
Slash	40-50
AI scripts
Name	skelwa01
Default	WTASIGHT.BCS (SKELWA01.cre, SKELWA.cre, SKELWA02.cre) WTARSGT.BCS (SKELWA03.cre)
Inventory
Items	Helm Two-handed Sword +1 Random treasure
Exclusive equipment	RING95.ITM Undead Immunity
Technical information
Creature codes	Baldur's Gate (1998) This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate campaign. SKELWA01.cre Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition (2012) This icon indicates content from the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition campaign. SKELWA.cre SKELWA02.cre SKELWA03.cre

“

Die!

”

Skeleton Warriors are serious combat versions of Skeletons. They come with a greater amount of hit points and inflict greater damage with the +1 two-handed sword they wield. A second version carries a Composite Longbow and a two-handed sword. Plus they drop some high-value treasure unlike normal skeletons which drop no treasure. They also have up to 90% Magic resistance and all the normal undead immunities. To prevent critical hits they wear a helmet as well.

Locations

Baldur's Gate

• Durlag's Tower (Labyrinth Level One)
• Thieves' Maze
• Undercity

Siege of Dragonspear

• Kanaglym

Shadows of Amn

• Lower Reaches
• Watcher's Keep Final Seal (Globe machine summon)

Throne of Bhaal

• The Graveyard Lich quest in Cave of the Dead. Skeleton Warrior (SKELWA01) and Skeleton Archer (SKELAR01)

Trivia

• The offical website for the original game, now archived, had – in addition to some combat-related statistics – the following information about skeleton warriors:

  Formerly powerful fighters, skeleton warriors are undead lords forced into their nightmarish states by powerful wizards or evil demigods who trapped their soul in golden circlets. The sole reason that skeleton warriors remain is to search for and recover the circlets that contain their souls.
  
  A skeletal warrior appears as a cracked an^[sic] yellowing skeleton covered with shards of decaying flesh. Its eyes are black holes containing pinpoints of reddish light. It is clad in the blackened armor and rotted trappings it wore in its former life.

  The size was given as six to seven feet tall.

Bugs

• Baldur's Gate (1998)
  This icon indicates content from the original Baldur's Gate campaign. In the original Baldur's Gate and its expansion Tales of the Sword Coast, skeleton warriors count as human monsters, rather than being undead skeletons – and as such cannot be turned nor are they affected by undead-slaying weapons. This was fixed with the original Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

Mod Content

Installation of the Sword Coast Stratagems Mod changes SKELWA01 so that it gets a new default SCS AI script. It is protected from Turn Undead effects. The creature is also assigned 3 pips in Two-handed sword proficiency and 2 pips in Two-handed weapon fighting style. Its adjusted THAC0 is now 4 instead of 7.

Skeleton Archer SKELAR01 has a new default SCS AI script. They also have 2 pips Longbow proficiency and 2 points in single weapon fighting style (for their melee attack). Their base THAC0 is improved to 1.

Gallery

Skeleton Warrior in BG2EE

Promotional screenshot

External links

• Skeleton warrior on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.