Darklands Character creation

[Jasede]

The younger the better.

 

[Zomg]

Eh, now that this has been necro'd I think thirty- or thirty-five-year-olds are probably the most powergamey. You can usually squeeze a few more points into their important stats and skip some of the annoying shit twenty-year-olds have to deal with. Five more years won't pass before your team become the invincible four horsemen of the Lord, and even if it did I don't think the game generates age penalties outside of character generation.

 

[Saxon1974]

'Codex approved' is an understatement; it is one of the best cRPG's ever made. Definitely the best sandbox RPG. I'm not aware of any VD review though.

Yes I recall getting the game and playing it back in 1992. Unfortunately what I remember is I really liked the atmosphere but the game was almost unplayable due to so many bugs. I think this is why it wasn't more popular in its own time.

Im having trouble gaining alchemy and virtue. The only place I seem to find that adds virtue it donating lots of money to a church, however that still doesn't seem to raise my virtue.

Once I encountered a monk on the road and gave him money and my virtue improved but only for my leader and I needed my cleric type player to get the virtue.

Any advice on improving virtue or Alchemy skills? The dam alchemists mostly slam the door in my face.

This game has one of the coolest manuals too, loads of background info.

 

[Zomg]

This is a great way to ruin DL for you, but...

Spoiler

If you raise a character's Religion over 30, every time you tithe ~3-4 florins to a church, he gets +1 virtue. If every character has a religion over 30, they all get it. If Religion is over 60, they get two virtue. So, obviously you can raise everyone's virtue arbitrarily high and let them fire off high powered saints constantly once you've secured the means to get a couple of months of religious instruction.

 

[Andhaira]

I played it when it first came out. The graphics weren't considered great but the stills were quite nice. And th game was awesome. I finished the main 'quest' in only a few days then spent time wandering about.