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[kmonster]

My party consists of

Human knight
Silvanesti Majere cleric/ranger
Kender Mishakal cleric/thief
2 Qualinesti fighter/Kiri-Jolith cleric/white mage
Qualinesti fighter/cleric/red mage

I'm planning to play the trilogy with them.
Sometimes I wish I had created more males for higher strength, I have to leave too much loot behind.

I wouldn't create a kender fighter/thief, a kender Kiri-Jolith cleric/thief gets more HP,better thac0, many cleric spells and can wear the same armor.

I doubt that the hoopak+2 is as useful as the 18/99 strength male dwarves get.
But I fear I'll miss something if I play a game without Kender, are there other advantages in taking one besides hoopaks and the seemingly useless yell ?
If not, even the roleplaying factor is enough for me to take one.

[blastradius14]

Somethings cannot be hit by non-magical weapons. Some, more powerful creatures can only be hit with +2 or better weapons. Some, even more powerful creatures (such as Iron Golems) can only be hit by +3 or better weapons!

Yell works best against spell casters, as it directly affects more intelligent creatures. It will do almost nothing to undead.

2/3 of your party is elves? Well, I hope you get lucky and don't find the end of throtl with all the hold person spells :P

A target affected by any form of paralysis will die if it gets struck by a melee attack. Lots of creatures can paralyze your party members, with spells, poisons and other such things. Don't lose the dwarf, as they are nicely resistant to poisons. However, ditching one of them elves for a kender might not be a bad idea...

Also, a kiri-jolith cleric thief may Start with better thaco, due to the +1 bonus, but cleric/thief thaco over levels is much slower than a fighter thief. Also, the hps of a cleric will always be less than a fighter, because they roll a lower sided die for hps.
If you already have 3 other clerics, you are more than well equipped to lose 1. Also, you have plenty of spell caster power in your party (White mages, red mages, and yes, even rangers) But you want Half-elves, not Qualanesti or Silvanesti. Those two just are impossible to bring back from the dead. Thats really annoying when even on easiest difficulty your level 7 elf just keeps dieing no matter what you do, right before the final pair boss. Besides, I think dwarves make great rangers

Hey guys!!! Just got all of the Krynn games. I now have all of SSI's D&D games (bought some of the compilation packages like 5 years ago). Man the nostalgia value of these games is great. Growing up, I owned Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds and Heroes of the Lance.

Anyway, do you guys know how to enable true sound on these games and not just PC speaker? I know there is a config option for using Adlib, etc, but those options don't seem to work. Anyone know of a workaround?

Its crazy playing these games now and wondering how in the world you though the graphics and gameplay were great back in the day. I actually did like the plotlines though. Its great how far gaming has come in the last 15 years.

I started my computer gaming days way back with an IBM PCJr (and then on to a 286), Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, and Ultima III. How bout you guys? The Ultima series was my favorite series of all time. I really liked Wizardry, The Bard's Tale, and all the SSI series as well. Anyone remember the Phantasie games?

[blastradius14]

You can play it in dos-box if you like windows more, delete the .cfg file and it will give you the sound selection options again. DQK is the only one with real soundblaster sounds.

[kmonster]

Also, a kiri-jolith cleric thief may Start with better thaco, due to the +1 bonus, but cleric/thief thaco over levels is much slower than a fighter thief. Also, the hps of a cleric will always be less than a fighter, because they roll a lower sided die for hps.

A kiri-jolith kender cleric8 can have 9*10=90 HP and a base thac0 of 16 + cleric bonus.
A kender fighter can only reach 5*14=70 HP and a base thac0 of 16 since 5 is the maximal fighter level for kender according to the manual. So my decision is clear.

* 2/3 of your party is elves? Well, I hope you get lucky and don't find the end of throtl with all the hold person spells*
A target affected by any form of paralysis will die if it gets struck by a melee attack. Lots of creatures can paralyze your party members, with spells, poisons and other such things. Don't lose the dwarf, as they are nicely resistant to poisons. However, ditching one of them elves for a kender might not be a bad idea...

If you already have 3 other clerics, you are more than well equipped to lose 1. Also, you have plenty of spell caster power in your party (White mages, red mages, and yes, even rangers) But you want Half-elves, not Qualanesti or Silvanesti. Those two just are impossible to bring back from the dead. Thats really annoying when even on easiest difficulty your level 7 elf just keeps dieing no matter what you do, right before the final pair boss. Besides, I think dwarves make great rangers cheers.gif

Better saves against poison would be really useful, some characters died immediately after being struck by 2 HP centipedes who aren't even worth 10 XP. :crazy:
My held party members didn't die immediately when struck, I had several rounds of time to bandage them. So that's not a problem.
I don't know if kender get saving throw bonusses like dwarves, my kender got charmed twice in Throtl while the other party members never got charmed.


Since I want to keep my party during all three games I can't afford to take a dwarf ranger or half-elf multiclass since their levels are capped far too early in the later games. The only class dwarves can reach high levels in is fighter and a knight seems far superior to a pure class fighter.
My party is pretty much like the DQoK default party, I only replaced the 2-class multiclass mages with 3-class ones.
I've just finished everything in Throtl and didn't face any bigger fighting problems yet.

My solution for not being able to raise the elves: They just won't die.

I'll use powerword reload like I will also do when my human or kender dies, since the -1 con penalty is too bad.
I hope resurrection will be available in the other two games, if one of my characters dies near the end of CoK I'll resurrect him in DKoK or create a new one. It's impossible to get as many HP for your FMC at level up as you can have when you start your C/F/M in DKoK. With 18 con they get only 1 for mage,2 for cleric and 4 for fighter (9 if you level up all three classes together) in CoK.

so, i made a new gruop, i run now through gargath and they were ighting very well

human knight
human ranger
kender fighter thief (hoopak+2 and backstab are owning very hard)
dwarf righter reorx cleirc
qualinesti elf fighter / mage
silvanesti elf majere cleric mage

one question when my characters get a new levle, does he throw a dice for my new hp or are there always the same hp to be added?

greetz
tm

For those wanting to transfer their characters from Champions of Krynn through Death Knights of Krynn and into Dark Queen of Krynn, you'd be very well advised to get a hold of the rule book for DQK and look at the level limits in that. Some character builds that look really nice might be limited to level 14 or something, when the game level limit in DQK is level 40.

[kmonster]

one question when my characters get a new levle, does he throw a dice for my new hp or are there always the same hp to be added?

The HP you gain at level up are randomly rolled. You can force getting the maximum HP by reloading.
I've still to finish my game yet but I read somewhere in a test about the game being too easy. So you should have been able to finish it without dismissing your old party.

arrrrrrrrrr i used to love this game but now i dont get it LOL

i barely killed the initial caravan attacking enemies and if i go for a fight near there with random monsters i just get wiped out, the characters are crap and always miss :@

is this what happens to all you until you gain a few levels or what?

and i slowed the game down to the slowest possible speed but when its the opponents moves they just are instantly around me and im dying?? anyway to change that?
thanks

[kmonster]

Your computer is too fast. So you can't see your enemies approaching and attacking.
I use an additional slowdown program, called moslo to slow down my computer when playing this game. It works well on my K6-500.

Your party is probably too weak for random outdoor encounters, after the first fight you should try to follow the storyline and gain XP by random encounters in Throtl instead.

I didn't have problems with the first fight, a strong party should be able to win it without weapons, armor or using spells.
What is your party composition ?

Some hints to make your battles easier:

Don't roll your character stats, set the important stats like strength, dex,con and hitpoints to the maximum.

Sleep works very well against draconians, hobgoblins and other low level monsters. Hold person is great against humanoids. Stinking cloud can even paralyze high level monsters.

You can use the delay and guard commands in battles instead of running into your enemies and getting surrounded.

Attacks from behind get a big bonus.

Each character should be able to wear heavy armor and do so.