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- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Fantasy Games
- Message-ID: <74048@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 23:45:06 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1993Jan14.113942.24922@cs.ruu.nl>
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- Jon Thackray writes:
- >>Well, Dungeon Master has worn a bit thin now... but Chaos Strikes back is
- >Well you can get some more fun out of both by changing the ground
- >rules a bit. Try playing with a party of one only. Try it with a
- >reincarnated character (DM only, I think Chaos Strikes Back would be
- >impossible like this, though I could be wrong!). Try completing in
- >minimal real time (DM takes about four hours, maybe less for all I
- >know. No idea what Chaos Strikes Back takes).
-
-
- All *very* good ideas..!
-
- Other things to try.. take a party through the game using
- Magic only.. or try using Fighters and no magic..
-
- (And if you're a REAL Dungeon Master "Champion", you'll know why
- those ideals can't be reached... though it's fun to try.. :)
-
- Just for fun, I recently started a new party, and went through
- the first six levels without using any weapons... it's VERY
- interesting trying to kick Purple Worms to death..!
- My characters were all pretty high level Ninjas by the time they
- got to Level Six... (Had to use magic though.. kicking a Wasp
- to death is no fun, and the "Green Ghost" banshee on Level Four
- can't be touched without magic...)
-
- And yes, Chaos Strikes Back can be won with just one reincarnated
- Champion... "Raalf, Bad Dude of Romulus" (a Detroit area "inside
- joke") had some bad moments all alone there now and then, but
- in the end, Balance and Good were restored to the world...
-
- Dunno about speed... knowing where you *have* to go, and where
- you can avoid going would help a lot... although that also
- results in much weaker Champions from having less combat
- experience (though if you know enough about the Dungeon to
- avoid places that aren't necessary, you'll probably know enough
- to keep your people alive, even if they're weaker..)
-
- I played through the Amiga version of DM one Saturday and Sunday,
- but I had to go down *every* corridor, and fight *every* monster
- to be sure that there hadn't been any changes (FTL wouldn't
- tell me, and I had to know if my hintbook had to be changed for
- the Amiga release..), so I didn't set any speed records..
-
- Probably the *most* fun though, is to play through a Dungeon
- that's been modified... it all *feels* familiar, but the
- corridors don't all connect in the familar way.. just when
- you think you're safe, a Purple Worm comes wandering up a
- tunnel that didn't used to be there...!
-
- (Yup.. if I had to choose only one program that would continue
- to run on my ST, I'll bet you could guess which one it would be)
-
- :)
- BobR
-