Just one observation from looking at the equipment lists from Wizardry 6 and 7: Faeries can actually use most of the Samurai specific weapons. My question is: Is a faerie samurai a viable character? Has anyone tried this combination?

(I wasn't able to find a list of Wizardry 8 weapons with race restrictions listed, but I seem to remember faeries not being able to use katana-type weapons there. Is this correct?)

(One reason I thought to look at this is that, in Wizardry Gaiden 3 and 4, but not Wizardry DIMGUIL (which could have been called Wizardry Gaiden 5), katanas tend to be usable by faeries; I am thinking of maybe doing an abbreviated playthrough of Wizardry Gaiden 4 (using cheats to skip the first three dungeons), and might try a Faerie Samurai there.)

Fairies can use a big number of the swords that samurais of other species can use,
imo enough to make samurai fairie a viable choice in Wiz8, that is if you play fairies at all;)

List of Wiz8 sword skill based weapons Fairies can not equip, in opposition to Samurais of other species:
Tarnished/Long/Enchanted Long/Broad/Enchanted Broad/Bastard/Short/Gleaming Sword
Saint Bastard/Vorpal Blade/Blade Cuisinart/Sword of Fire/Demonsbane/Bloodlust
(No Giants Sword because its limited to mooks, and players who like stamina vampirism respectively are just {insert term of choice];)


Info directly visible with madgod's Cosmic forge Editor for wizardry 6, 7 and 8, which is available at mad-god.webs.com
Main menu -> Lists -> Item List, restricted to Class "Samurai" and weapon skill "Sword",
check column "Races".

Optionally go to zimlab.com/wizardry/recovered/flamestryke/wizardry8/flamestrykes_w8.html
and check the Individual Item pages under "Item Index"

no they are not
Yes I've tried it but the issue is they have to enter melee and then they die... you need to invest in str to make a faerie melee work

A Mage | Samurai with good senses and dex should work ok if you let her use the Boomerang Shuriken as ammo * and of course changing once you get the doll armour but you would need to plan her out and I have not tried it yet

*keeps the weight down