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- Starting with Crusaders Here are some tips for beginners to prevent
- frustrations during their first game (I started again three times!)
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- Character generation Wait till you get a distribution bonus of 15 or higher.
- You will need the points. Distribute them among the important abilities for
- your class. For exmaple vitality is important for mages, so they will get
- more hit points. Take your time. To generate 6 ch Take some of the special
- classes (Ninja, Samurai), because their special abilities (critical hits)
- will help you in the game. One characters must have a high skullduggery
- skill for the first doors and chest you will find. Otherwise you are
- hindered to pro Specialise one character in scouting and one in mapping.Try
- to distribute some points on swimming. You will need 10 in swimming pretty
- soon in order to swim without dying. After 10 you will receive one point per
- square of swimming.
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- In the beginning Always try to use fountains instead of resting. Rest takes
- too much time and there are others competing with you. But don't rush
- through the game, you will miss important and good things. Always save
- immediately after a successfull encounter, because another encounter might
- surprise you during your rest! If one of your characters die, terminate the
- game and restart your game. If you do exactly the same, the encounter will
- be the same as be Poison is dangerous. You will find two flasks of cure
- poison in the first dungeon (the magenta ones).The mapping kit is very
- helpful. Try to travel by day, if you must rest do so at night.
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- Making levels The first five levels are the easiest to make, so spend your
- newly achieved skill points wisely. Never try to make all your characters
- jack of all trades. Always specialise. Later levels will come very slowly
- and if you lack a certain skill it will harm y
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- Saving your game Always save after important achievents. If you are not sure
- if you did the right thing, rename your save game and continue with the new
- name. In DOS copy the save*.dbs files into a backup directory to prevent
- corrupt save games. When saving your game make sure that no one is dead or
- poisoned. If one is dead terminate the game and restart, it takes only a few
- seconds to do so. Save your game everytime you achieved something. Picking a
- lock is such a thing! The game remembers this,
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- *** Spoiler *** You will have difficulties finding a shop to buy new arrows
- or other stuff. In New City there is a inofficial market. Ask in the shops
- or inn after the "Black Market". You will find the mapping kit in the maze
- of the woods near your start. The first fountains are in the beginner
- dungeon, one in the abbey of New City center (where the pool is) There are
- two chests hidden behind secret doors in the beginner dungeon. The guard in
- front of the city will allow you to enter if you tell him "Palukes", remeber
- the note of the shop?