Newbie
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:04 am
I recently downloaded the DMJ game and was proud of actually getting it to work
However, when it tried to play the 'Dungeon' dungeon I ran into problems. I've played this dungeon two times now. It's the one dungeon that is not one of the two original dungeons. Why doesn't it have a proper name?
The first time I was stopped by the fireball throwing nasties in the 'zooom' room down on lvl 4. I just couldn't defeat them. I had to start over.
The next time I tried I edited the module and allowed myself to create a startup character with wastly improved stats, including 8 wizard and 7 priest levels with 400 mana. In addition I practiced up all my characters Ninja level to Adept and all characters Fighter levels up to Expert or Artisan.
When I came down to the same area, there were twice as many monsters so I was still outgunned(!) and couldn't get past it even if I make 8 mar shield potions which gave me 80ish magic resistance rating(btw the readme txt is wrong on what spell combinations produce the various spells). I even had problems with the lizards outside of this 'zooom' area. 400 spellpoints at str 4 may have been able to kill one of these(I tried the various spells given in the readme list, lightning, fireball, poison, poison cloud, plasma).
This was extremely tedious. A waste of several evenings. It also means that no matter how much I beef up my characters I'll be no further along than before. What is people doing to succeed? Why isn't there a small player tip section in the Sticky section. Someone donating 15 minutes worth of typing game tips would probably be enough to allow people to enjoy this game!! 15 minutes!!
Help is very appreciated!
However, when it tried to play the 'Dungeon' dungeon I ran into problems. I've played this dungeon two times now. It's the one dungeon that is not one of the two original dungeons. Why doesn't it have a proper name?
The first time I was stopped by the fireball throwing nasties in the 'zooom' room down on lvl 4. I just couldn't defeat them. I had to start over.
The next time I tried I edited the module and allowed myself to create a startup character with wastly improved stats, including 8 wizard and 7 priest levels with 400 mana. In addition I practiced up all my characters Ninja level to Adept and all characters Fighter levels up to Expert or Artisan.
When I came down to the same area, there were twice as many monsters so I was still outgunned(!) and couldn't get past it even if I make 8 mar shield potions which gave me 80ish magic resistance rating(btw the readme txt is wrong on what spell combinations produce the various spells). I even had problems with the lizards outside of this 'zooom' area. 400 spellpoints at str 4 may have been able to kill one of these(I tried the various spells given in the readme list, lightning, fireball, poison, poison cloud, plasma).
This was extremely tedious. A waste of several evenings. It also means that no matter how much I beef up my characters I'll be no further along than before. What is people doing to succeed? Why isn't there a small player tip section in the Sticky section. Someone donating 15 minutes worth of typing game tips would probably be enough to allow people to enjoy this game!! 15 minutes!!
Help is very appreciated!