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I still do the same. I've killed more mummies on level 2 with scrolls than anything else. Possibly as many as with everything else combined, but there is that one spot with screamers and mummies and just as often I kill the screamers and the mummies come to me while fighting them so I wind up killin...

Call me juvenile, but I tend to take "throw it away" a little too literally in this game.
It helps train ninja levels.

Can I be excused for being juvenile by thinking and possibly saying out loud "Food Fight!" when I killed a mummy with screamer slices shortly after getting the game (which I had previously tried at a friend's house) at age ten 30 years ago? At that age/time, I had NOT yet seen Animal House...

Honestly, I often wind up discarding rocks and the sling once I start filling up my quiver with other items because they weigh too much. Remember I listed two different groups of enemies that missile weapons can help with? Well they are considerably less effective against the second group, and I oft...

Back on topic, the ranged weapon debate in another thread made me want to give this tidbit on leveling. Wizard Eyes seem immune to ranged weapons, as do wasps and animated armor. Rockpiles and worms seem virtually immune as well, with pain rats being resistant. I do recall that with wasps and wizard...

I can only think of three "important fights" that are significantly more difficult than everything else on the level. The end of the worm level when you kill the mummy at "This is my prisoner, let him suffer". IMHO the hardest fight in the game. The Red Dragon. An anti-climax bos...

I don't usually bother with heavy armor for anybody except for Halk, Stamm, Sonja, Hisssa, or Daroou. Those are the only five I would consider putting Darc armor on. I might consider putting Lyte armor on Azizi, Leif, Hawk, Linfas, or Alex, maybe even Iaido, but mostly I'd stick with medium armor. F...

They come in handy when you encounter mummies and trollins again and help against scorpions (although not as much as fireballs). Oh, upon rereading I meant to say that couatls are too tough to take on with daggers, but I phrased it badly and I can no longer edit the post. I usually just cast 3 poiso...

That's when and where I noticed it too. Screamers have high HP on level 4, but pathetic attacks. Which means they are the best place to work on your ninja levels.

You'll want everybody to have ranged weapons available. They are especially useful against Mummies, Trollins, skeletons, vexiriks, and gigglers (though I mostly poison bolt or fireball the last one). They can help against scorpions, rusters, swamp slimes, and oitus. Shooting an arrow is more effecti...

If it is a choice between foot plate or the elven boots, I'd base that decision on the champion's strength. Since you have strong ones, go for the foot plate. If it a choice between leather or suede boots or elven boots for somebody like Tiggy or Wuuf, go for the elven boots. The armor benefit is in...

The Compass is something you will want if you want to return to level 2 for water (which you probably will need as there is no water on levels 3 or 4), and it is very helpful for mapping or following a map. You will want a single gold key to open the "shortcut", but I don't recall any more...

The monsters get higher health the deeper you go. That is known. It's talked about here http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/1198 http://dmweb.free.fr/?q=node/1363 The screamers on level 4 will take a surprising beating, about as much as a worm, but their attacks are still pathetic. Good time to work on nin...

Thanks for the advice - I'm using a pretty strong group (Halk, Hissa, Sonja, and Stamm), but I always seem to want even more carrying capacity. I'm the same way, I rarely take any but the champions with the most carrying capacity (Halk, Stamm, Hissa, Sonja, Daroou), Although I occasionally will try...

Honestly, I don't really notice that much improvement using the "plate" type armor vs the "mail" type armor and hosen. Which is not that dramatic over leather armor and boots. Heck, regardless of what we know now from looking at raw game data, nobody I knew who played the game be...

https://www.gog.com/game/forgotten_realms_the_archives_collection_one?pp=632667547e7cd3e0466547863e1207a8c0c0c549 Since GoG is offering Eye of the Beholder for Free While decent, for some reason even though they are newer and more technologically advanced (especially Eob3), the Eye of the Beholder g...

All your champions should get a turn in the front row to work on fighter levels. It is the only way to make them tougher AND permanently increase carrying capacity. On the first two levels you should have your weaker champions be in front except when fighting the rockpiles. Use daggers or punches an...

I know that I tried leaving my ready hands all empty, only for the gigglers to either steal a weapon or from inventory.
I distinctly recall being frustrated at my solution to the problem back when I was a kid.

Gigglers only grab stuff you hold in your hands. Depends on the version, in the IIGS version they can grab from the upper-left slot in your backpack if you have nothing in hand, and they move on to the first occupied slot if you leave that blank too. They will steal from the left hand first however...

The poison ball spell (OH VEN) does damage over time, the only foes it can instantly kill are wasps. The poison Bolt spell (DES VEN) can kill some enemies instantly. Generally, the wasps on level 6 (The riddle room) can be killed by LO OH VEN, although there is one group of two that needs na UM OH V...

Thanks for the additional information, slickrcbd! I've also noticed that different enemies tend to be susceptible to different forms of attacks (e.g., thrown items work great on mummies and trolins but don't seem to work well on rockpiles, and fireball doesn't seem to be as effective on some enemie...

Honestly, I never bothered to grind once I could cast any spell at PAL level. I should note that it is usually easier to cast MON VI than PAL FUL BRO NETA in terms of success. Then again I rarely cast fireshield, pretty much only on level 8 (stray fireballs shooting around) and level 13 (with the bl...

Yeah, I had more trouble with some of the larger groups of random mooks just getting to Mangar, the final battle wasn't that tough. DMST was OP in that game, probably why they got rid of it in later games along with REDE. They made the strongest demons and undead a joke respectively. SPBI also almos...

The use of a magic box you refer to, is the only place in DM where you do no need a magic box. But, it is not necessary, what you get is not a must. I know, I beat the game without ever figuring out that puzzle. It was not until I got the hint book that I learned of that secret. Heck, I think that ...

I'm also a bit torn between mapping or not. I like mapping. but the levels are a bit too big and unlike Wizardry, the game runs on real-time so it's uncomfortable. I have discovered a spell that does damage, though I'm not sure how it works yet! Guess I'll need to explore more :) You can pause the ...

I conquered the worm level 30 years ago. I'm just saying I still recall that it seemed to jump an order of magnitude in difficulty. Heck, I'd say that fight at the end I mentioned is the hardest one in the game. Then again, I found the fight against the Red Dragon to be an anticlimax boss, but I'm n...

Note that DM is basically "tutorial mode" compared to CSB so it generally takes things pretty easy on you for the first couple of levels or so, after which it starts to ramp up. But still nowhere near to the point of most of CSB :D. I agree that levels 2 and 3 are kinda tutorial levels, I...

Hello! I'm playing Dungeon Master for the first time and, while I'm enjoying the game tremendously, I'm not sure if the problems I have with the interface are due to my lack of experience, not knowing better or simply flaws of the original game. And I wondered if you could help me out. For example:...

I looked at the source code again Am I understanding that, to carry on your example, if your wizard only cast fireballs until he was an "Adept wizard", he'd be an adept at "fire" skills, but only an apprentice at any other wizard skill? I know some people say they only use fireb...

Well, I know the 2nd edition hint book had errors navigating the pit maze on level 5 Treasure Stores, and at least one other error, so the part about it being beneficial to level evenly as you level up faster could be wrong also. I haven't really looked at it in years save for the well-worn divide o...