dabtr relf you aralert youappear atmessage bugs you, you may turn it offPCs when it's their turn to move. WARNING!only attempt to allocate three. This will help keepNotes about the included scenario: The City of Bywater
The City of Bywater is an honest cityaverage man has little to fear except for the occasional cutpurse. The city is ruled by a kind king. Recently, a tower has been built by a cult of spider worshippers juseast of the city. Though they have broken no laws, it is widely known that they practice evil ceremonies, and rumored that they planeventual overthrow of the king. Many believeider tower actually contains NO spiders, but other forms of arachnids instead. Open ranges frequented by goblins lie south of the city. Eastward, tribes of orcs rovend. Southeast of the city, the land is largely unexplored. Rumors saythe lands are occupied by small groups of hill giants.
Some Tips:
1) Don't be paranoid. Bywater is an honest town. Don't walk around in feartown guard unless you have done something wrong. Realmz is unlike many adventure gamesplunge you into trouble for no apparent reason.
2) A good defense is often your best offense. Before engaging in a known battle, it is helpful to camp and cast a few defensive spells.significantly improve your chances for success in battle.
For example: Just priorbattle, you should camp, then cast any defensive spells such as Bless, Bark Skin,From Cold, etc...
3) Save your game often! This can't be stressed enough! After the successful completion of an encounter or major battle, it's wise to save the game. If your party dieswill be able to pick up where you left off.
4) A well-balanced party is essential for success. To survive, almost any partyneed at least one Cleric and either a Mage or Enchanter. Clerics are very defensive in nature and have a wide variety of defensive and healing spells. Mages and Enchanters have a few defensive spells, but as a whole,many more offensive spells. Magic is sometimes the only way into certain situations, or out of trouble.
Preferences: After you've played a bit, you may want to customizgame to fit your needs. The preferences menu will allow you to do this.
Volume can be set from within Realmz. When you quit Realmz, the volume will be resetvolume you had before starting Realmz.
Delay Speed refers to the general length of time between messages oncreen, as well as the speed at which you and enemies move around on the game screens. The higher the number, the slower the gameplay.
Default To Last Spell will automatically pre- the last spell cast by a character, wheneverharacter casts another spell. (Real handy!) You will still be required to selecpower level of the spell because it will default to power level 1.
Faster Spell Casting will speed uplight time of spells for those that hate to wait.
Max Sound Channels: If you select Max Sound Channels, Realmzallocate four sound channels for game play. Otherwise itsounds from lagging behind.
Horse Party Iconchange the default icon used to depict the party's location to a horse, which you may prefer.
Drop Item Protectionprevent you from accidentally droppingand losing them forever. With Drop Item Protection turned on, you must hold down the command key () while clicking the drop button or hitting the 'D' key.
Forget Treasure Protectiont to leave money behind during the collection of treasure.
Fast Trade/Buy/Sell This option eliminates the need to drag items left or right across the screen in order to trade/buy/sell items. With this option on, you only have to click oitem and itautomatically be traded, bought or sold.
The big downfall to this method is that younot see the weight/cost/offer of the item prior to the action.
NOTE: Even withoption off you can still perform this method by holding the shift key when clicking on an item. Thisgive you the added flexibility of being abe items quickly while sting able to see more information prior to the aat selected times.
If you have a 660AV, 840AV or a IIcx that crashes in the shop/trade screen, you may want to turnoption on. It may prevent the game from crashing on these systems.
Auto Identify With this option on, the first member in the party who is capable of casting IDENTIFYattempt to identify items as they are taken durcollection of treasureyouhaving to cast identify on items in the items screen.
Auto Join When you take items during the collection of treasure, or buy or trade items, theyutomatically be joined with similar items. i.e. I has 12 torches in a bundle and buy 6 more henow have a single bundle of 18 instead of a bundle of 12 and a bundle of 6.
Not all items can be bundled. Items such as torches, parchment, flasks of oil, darts, throwing stars etc... are examples of somecan.
Auto Cash In If your PC does not have enough gold to purchase an item, gems and jewelrybe cashed in to make enough gold to buy the item. Gems and jewelry from the pool are cashed in first. If there is still not enough gold, then's gems and jewelry will be cashed in.
Only gems and jewelry from the pool and the PC attempting to buy the item will be cashed in. Gems and jewelry from other PC'sbe cashed in.
Default Application Font If this item is checked, the Theldrow fonnot be used for text. Instead, the default application fontbe used which is less artistic but easier for some people to read.
Show Spell Description If this item is checked, a brief description of a spells use, range, damage and effectbe displayed on the game screen during the spell selection process.
Never Attack Friends If checked and you attempt to attack a friendly PC or monster, the gameignore your attack.
Hide Desktop Ifitemthe desktop will be hidden.
Manual BandageIn Combat If checked, youhave to bandage bleeding PC's by clicking the 'Bandage' button or by typing 'B' on the keyboard during combat. This will prevent a characteris under 'AUTO' control from bandaging a bleeding PC by default.
Ignore Bleeding PC's Message A reminder messageend of round if one of's is bleeding. This option willhat reminder off if it really bugs you.
Ignore Next Round Message At the end of each round, a message boxappear in the center of the screen to inform you that the next combat round has begun. Ifselecting this option.
Append PC Class to Portraitwill append the PCs class to the bottom of their portrait whenever it is displayed. When you turnon and off, it may not take effect immediately.
Switch to 256 Colors on Startup With this option on, Realmz will not ask for permission to switch to 256 Colors if your main monitor is in other than 256 Color mode. It willitcontinue to load without bothering you.
Auto Switch to Melee in Combat Your PC will switch to a melee weapon automatically in combat if you attempt to attack with a missile weaponare too close to an enemy.
Disable Music Realmz will not initializmusic driver. This will prevent any backgmusic from playing on startup. You will not be able to activate any musicthis option is checked before you launch.
Allow Only Game Related NPCs This option will allow you to only used NPCs. If you don't want to look at the monster selection list after eachthen select this option. Special NPCs that are related to the scenariotill be allowed to join the party.
Smooth Combat This option will eliminate the jerky screen as it centers on each enemy during combat. The screen will only center onThis option may cause problems on some systems. If you find thelocking up a lot in combat, try turning this option OFF.
Disable Weapon Fumblingwill eliminate all types of weapon fumbling for bothand all enemies. All fumbling spellsworthless as well. Using this option will reduce experience awarded by 5%.
Disable Unique Items Thiseliminate all unique item restrictions. Turning this option ON isavailable to registered users. Using this option will reduce experience awarded by 10%.
Auto Journal This will assume you want every message enteredthe journal. Otherwise you must hit the "J" key to copy the text into the journal.
