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Thank you for those links, Adamo. It looks like there are even more complicating issues that I had thought. The press here in the United States has made a big deal over the recent earthquake in Haiti, stressing how they are the "poorest country in the western hemisphere". I would have expe...

There's also a level 0 difficulty spell, for what it's worth. It's the ZoKathRa spell. Here's the table for it:

Here's the table of experience values for different difficulty levels of spells. I think there are only 4 difficulty levels. There are 6 power levels, Lo-Mon. The Ful torch spell is level 1. The Ya Stamina potion spell is level 2. The Ful Ir Fireball spell is level 3, along with the Oh Ven poison cl...

There are other issues as well. The entire issue of overpopulation is massively un-politically correct. Climate change will never have much of an impact. Fact is, global warming is already on the decline and has been for a few years. Not that it would have much impact anyway. Population trends are s...

Here's the table from neophyte to arch master. I haven't figured out how to put the stamina increases in a table that is not huge. Fighter 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Max Health 6-9 9-13 12-18 15-22 18-27 21-31 24-36 Strength 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 Dexterity 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 Vitality 0-1 0-1 0-1 A...

So I downloaded the source code and looked through it a little bit. Simply amazing! My understanding of the source is very spotty... So far I haven't tracked down everything I'm interested in knowing. But this was one I did find. Here's what I gleaned: By the way, you start out at level 1 in everyth...

I vote for the Dain Wisdom potions as well. Ever since I ran the numbers last year, I keep all my characters' wisdom up in the 112 area as soon as they get over 39 max mana. I have to brew a lot of ya stamina potions because of the effects of the extra mana regen. But since I'm still building Priest...

Hello all, I have some Dungeon Master tips and tricks to share... <snip> Get a rope. Climb down where there is no pit. The climb down action will fail and there will be no recovery time. But you did get the experience points for climbing down. In combination with the autofire joystick trick and the...

I never really understood how this works. At some point I could swear the game saves the first stats increase somewhere, refusing to give me more even if I restart and reload hundred times. Btw. At least anti magic can raise by 3 points. I've seen this in other games as well. I think it happens whe...

Yeah. Posion Bolt and Poison Cloud are both on the Wizard Water hidden skill. At lower levels, I know it makes a difference how often you fail the cast. Poison Bolt is a level 1 spell. With 100% of your Wizard experience in the Water skill, you would have to be Neophyte Wizard for the Lo Des Ven to ...

I really use both, but that's only because I play all four characters. If this were a multiplayer game and I had to choose a class, it would be Magic all the way. The only reason I would do melee would be to work up those skills. Not that I'd really actually use them, but it is nice to have enough c...

I absolutely need to raise the skill associated with chop why? Does it make that much of a difference to have a high chop skill? The way I understand it is that when you attempt to use a hidden skill, your skill in that area is averaged with your corresponding class skill in determining the outcome...

Hm, well, I'd like to see someone check the code to be absolutely sure. I wanted to increase the melee skill associated with chop, but the supply of screamers is limited, so I thought about putting the party in the room (do I need to mention which? :)) with front chars chopping at the doors while b...

I've found at least one example where the rear rank gets less exp . That is with Warcry. If you're not toe-to-toe, you don't get the Priest Influence component of the exp. are you postive about this one? I really am sure that you get the priest experience regardless of rear rank or front rank when ...

Is the claim about chars standing in the rear getting less xp (when ther party is being attacked) true or not? I don't know which claims you're referring to, but I've found at least one example where the rear rank gets less exp. That is with Warcry. If you're not toe-to-toe, you don't get the Pries...

Catch 22 though, isn't it - how are you going to get a dain poton that powerful and keep it coming to keep pace with the wisdom degredation under normal gameplay conditions without the mana and wisdom of high levels to get you the potions in the first place! :) Try it though, it might be an interes...

Note that you can still succeed at casting a spell even if your skill is below the required value, because you get a "second chance," when your wisdom is compared to a random number between 0 and 127. If you pass this check, you're able to cast the spell, no matter how difficult it is. Hm...

The actual numbers were off, but I think that was my mistake, not a version issue. The short answer is that the "key number" is 112, not 144. That would change my test to 6/8 or 75% instead of 60%. 27 / 35 is 77%. That falls right in line. However, I'm pretty sure my test character skippe...

Wisdom has absolutely NO effect on mana regeneration. Not true, at least for the Atari ST version that CSBwin is based on. However, the actual formula is so bizarre I doubt if you could ever figure it out by just observation. Digging through the CSBwin source code, the answer is found in TenSecondU...

Well I discovered last night that I had made a major error in my findings. Popped in this morning to find that this forum is more active than I had thought, and I had not only people pointing out my error, but explaining it in detail. I'm going to edit my original post, so I'll explain it here. My o...

I have found there is an awful lot of misinformation out there. Probably in part due to so many different versions of the games that do in fact function differently. So much is unreliable I decided to write my own experience monitoring program and check things for myself. I got some interesting resu...

I play DM using DOSBOX on SuSE Linux. I like it a lot. Biggest bonus over actual DOS is the ability to exit the game without rebooting.