rainer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Kamala) (07/27/90)
I have just started playing Drakkhen... GREAT GAME!! I met the Prince of Earth who told me He wanted to meet his sister So I went over to her castle and died... How do you enter the second castle ...(The guards keep refusing me entry and kill me easily when I attempt to fight..) My characters are levels 1 and 2. Wandering around at night usually ends up with the loss of a character or the whole group. (note- I got some basic weapons and two spellbooks (which I cant use) in the first castle-- Is there anything else?) Also am I able to cast spells outside combat.. (heal minor/cure)? The manual just talks about have spells ready for encounters. Any beginning hints/stratagies would be helpful.... Thanks.. Eric email adress rainer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
chymes@zug.csmil.umich.edu (Charles Hymes) (07/27/90)
First of all, BE PATIENT. When that dosent work, (like for me) cheat. You are going to get killed alot. All the time. Bye everybody. Its a real drag. You have to spend days killing slime things, neaked green draks, bats and other creatures as pathetic as your first level characters until you can hope to deal with the other dudes. Not until you are around level five can you walk around at night, and cruise the castles with any confidence. What I did was to cut doun this lag time by editing the character disk with DISKX, and boosting my dudes up to level 5. Then the game go fun. I still get killed, ALOT, but I dont wory about bats, gaurds etc. Alst, and more importantly, there are a lot of spells you need just to get around that are not avalible to first and second level characters. Too bad. I think that the game is logicly flawed in this matter. I mean, the emperor wouldn't send first level people to save the world, now would he. Oh well, it's easy to fix. The problem now is to resist temptation to go in and make my self 90th level, or some such nonsence. To operate spells, select the spell as in combat, and cast it by RIGHT clicking on the target. (I know, the documentation is wrong here.) There is a lot of good stuff in the first castle, you have to look at a lot of stuff, and try to operate them. Also, important stuff can be covered up by persons and things. Hey! is anyone interested in making a Drakken Map Reader-Saver? I am, but I would like some help, specificly for the disk reading part, and more importantly the datafile decodeing! Contact me if interested. Charlweed Hymerfan (A Major Dude)