Idea for starting items

[theCoder]

I like that idea! That way characters can start out with a little food, clothing, etc.

I think it would also be nice to have a wildcard value (like 0?) for the race and class, so that if an item is in the starting_items table with a race of 0, all new characters of the given class would get the item. The SQL would look something like

select item_id from starting_items where (class = <actual class> or class=0) and (race = <actual race> or race=0);

That might help keep the table a little easier to manage.