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  1. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    No, I haven't. Why should I? It is far from optimal for any of these games. They advance too slowly in the first game, the clerics are too low a level in the second game for effective turning and for the last game they might be very convenient in some ways because everybody can do almost...
  2. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    You did realize that I was not writing about DQK, did you? Such a party would be the most boring ever for me. What's the whole point of having a bunch of different races, classes, cleric types if one picks such a lame party? Could have saved the makers of the game a lot of trouble putting in...
  3. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    I was basically hotseating with my brother and occasionally another friend but I think that for convenience we did not strictly stick to it (I play knight, kender, white mage, you the rest) but rather changed every half hour or so.
  4. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    My WIS 16 kender cleric definitely got Heal in Death Knights, despite what it says in the journal that he should not be able to get it. I don't hink that I have a modified/hacked version as it still has the double copy protection with both journal and manual questions (and I have had this lying...
  5. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    I just played Death Knights and my Kender Cleric did get the Heal spell which is 6th lvl, isn't it? I used the same party for Champions and DKK and it was very good for the former, but not ideal for the latter (not exactly sure about Silv/Qual, from memory) Human Knight Human White Mage (the...
  6. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    PoR is mostly forgiving in the early game and even has the scaling of mass battles according to party strength. It is somewhat tedious because one has true lvl 1 characters at the beginning and very little magic. One need to get all the best loot from the first two slum sections to get decent...
  7. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    Yes, the PC versions that are the most common nowadays with DOS box and don't need working old Amigas or C64s are usually worst as far as the interface goes. But the masses of weak opponents are mostly a feature of PoR and to some extent Champions. Although huge numbers of opponents and some...
  8. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    The trash combat is a feature to some extent and actually worse in some later games of the series. The interface also has only two improvements (except for somewhat nicer graphics), namely the fix command for healing (all but PoR have this) and the "LOAD" in the encamp? menu which is only...
  9. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    Considering the computational restrictions of the time, all of this is somewhat excusable. I am not bothered much by using the picture of my Avatar (which is inspired by Sir Dargaard's tomb in Champions, the second game of the series I played ca. 30 years ago) both for good and evil spectral...
  10. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    In the Krynn games one cannot pick evil player characters, I am not even sure about true neutral. I also think one cannot pick evil characters in the later FR games. But in the FR games any (incl. good aligned) PC cleric has access to harming spells like cause wounds, slay living, poison etc...
  11. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    It sure is. I did this the very first time I played this game, despite being a newbie not knowing anything. Of course, after trying it on a PC I re-loaded and did it later only with the hired Hero. We even re-designed his icon as some black zombie warrior. However, I did NOT know that one could...
  12. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    FWIW the walkthrough on game banshee agrees roughly with my numbers of opponents for the triple Gothmenes fight. (They admit that they switched to novice level (like I did 24 years ago when I was a novice). On novice level I can also confirm that the 2nd and 3rd wave are independent of whether...
  13. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    This was probably also non-ideal but the multiclass elf has the ring of blinking (I did not stoop to mugging vala but I got the other one). The crappy thing is that "Blink" cannot be cast as a pre-combat buff spell. And it cannot be cast in combat because a high level mage will usually be within...
  14. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    Embarrassingly, I am not completely sure I counted right with the jumping frame, but the numbers on normal difficulty (but I do not think they change with level, only the hitpoints do) are roughly Because the dracolichs are, if they decide to breathe or cast slow, the most dangerous foes as...
  15. Jo498

    Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

    Brief comment after playing PoD with abovementioned party that is somewhat weaker as the pre-made one because it completely lacks dual class characters. It is perfectly playable. If one wanted to do Kalistes first or so, good luck and some battles (like the finale) are probably easier with two...

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