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I actually started on P99 a few days ago. I hit level ten yesterday .

I know Pantheon never really got anywhere (that was the one Brad McQuaid was working on when he died, right?). I've not heard of Monsters and Memories. EQ-wise I am somewhat losing hope over EQClassic ever getting done and have been considering just trying out P99 instead, as my dad has been playing ...

Yeah, also Elven Boots (boost Strength). Might be a few other such items, can't remember. And of course various amulets and stuff like the Pendant Feral, not that that would matter in relation to wearing a full actual armour set or not.

Ah yes of course, clearly these rules are very well-thought-out and definitely legit on this fine and very specific day - I'm sure DSB will be all the better for the changes .

I don't know if I ever got any full armour sets - they tend to be very heavy and don't exactly make you super-tanky or anything. I'd rather wear lighter stuff so I can nip around more quickly and just avoid being hit in the first place. Also individual items like the Dex Helm or Flaimbain are ...

Yeah I think you have to reopen it every time, but fortunately it's not super difficult to get a skelly in there. I think some spells go through portcullises, don't they? Poison Cloud does, I think. Fireball definitely doesn't :D.
In theory you should only need to go through there once, though, to ...

The entrance to Part Two of Neta is the bit where you have to get a Skelly stuck behind a portcullis by teleporting it - they spawn quite quickly in the area but are super weak so even if you end up with loads of them they generally go down in one hit so there's no real danger of being overrun.

Ohhh okay yeah the bit with the Dragons behind the doors is Dragon Den, which is in Part Two of Ku (through the DDD), yeah. From the DDD you need to go through the "Ku" door, down the long "Dead End" corridor, and it's next thing you come to after that.

The Death Knights are in Ku, if you're talking about the ones guarding Executioner (it's near the "No Fireballs" area if that helps)> The Dragon Maze is in Ros, however.

I don't know. It's only through watching the recent play through from Gears of Games on YouTube (and seeing the comments there) that I even knew that having certain things in your inventory could have any effect on monster spawns and stuff .

I think all those keys are "optional" ones - in my previous post I listed the ones you need for the four Ways, behind spoiler tags which the forum for some reason now forces onto a huge ugly white stripe that takes up an entire line rather than a nice little black block that just covers the text ...

...okay wtf is happening with spoiler tags now? What happened to stuff just being in a greyed-out box that kept the flor of the sentence? :O

So, "Part One" of each of the Ways starts at the Junction of the Ways and meets up at the DDD. From the DDD, which is like a larger, more convoluted puzzle of a junction, there are four doors, each one leading into "Part Two" of its respective Way and needing a key to unlock it, obtained in "Part ...

Dragon's Den is in "Part Two" of Ku*, yes. You can't miss it as you need to go through it to progress.



*Through the door unlocked with the Solid Key in the DDD area.

Sounds like things are going pretty well. Neither the Sapphire nor the Topaz Keys are essential for progression, but the Ruby is. Plenty of random stuff all over the place for you to poke around in and get some possibly-helpful loot .

Oh sorry, I was reading too fast and must've misread that message the other day (I was trying to be quick checking all my daily stuff as I was gonna be going out not long after to go away for Christmas, but I'm back now ). Yeah the forum is fine, then, no weird messages for me .

Yeah same, I was definitely nowhere near being a teenager when I first played (born in '84), and of course no Internet at all at that point. We had the Atari up till around late '94/early'95 I think, when we got our first PC (went on the Internet for the first time in late '96, having started ...

I don't go on there much, but I don't recall seeing that issue. Just had a look on there now and it was fine, though admittedly I did only go to the homepage (going away for Christmas shortly so don't have much time to poke around extensively).

Oh yeah, that's how I play now , but back then (if keyboard was possible on Atari) I don't think I ever thought of it. I would've been five when CSB first came out (and three for DM, which I think came out actually on my birthday?), so rather more inexperienced with this sort of thing at the time ...

I've only done it since using CSBWin - back in the day we used the mouse for everything so would've been a bit slower to do stuff. Since playing on CSBWin (and RTC before that) I use the keyboard to move, so it's much faster. Which means lobbing a Fireball at something and immediately charging ...

Haha yeah I've run into the back of one of my own Fireballs on more than one occasion :D.
Also I dunno if that was a typo, but the little spellcasting robed dudes are "Vexirks", not "Vexeriks" :D. I've always assumed their name is just the words "vex" and "irk" put together (two words that mean "to ...

As far as I can tell, spells just explode over the whole square and therefore hit everyone in it (as evidenced when you get hit in the face with a Fireball or something).

Presumably when you say "Hardcleave", you mean "Executioner" - no Hardcleave in CSB ;).
CSB came out in '89 (DM in '87). And yeah, no Internet back then :D. When me and my dad played the games back in the day (when I was like, six or so), we had a guide for DM but nothing for CSB. Well, presumably ...

There have already been plenty of more "modern" games like DM - Legend of Grimrock was explicitly a homage to it, for example, even if it wasn't exactly identical in terms of mechanics and stuff. You can think of later first-person party-based Fantasy games (like Stonekeep or the Might and Magic ...

I don't think I ever thought anything was immune to anything (except non-materials being untouchable except by certain attacks, of course), but based on how slowly some stuff died to certain effects I figured they were at least highly resistant. Makes sense, though - if you're entirely made out of ...

Yeah I would consider it more fiddly to click, more expensive to cast, and not really worth it compared to good old lazy Fireball :D. If Fireball doesn't really work on something (not counting non-material creatures, of course) then I'll just hack it to death physically with some help from any ...

I just step-dance the Dragon to death. It's fun, and there's no risk of being unexpectedly attacked by something else because there's nothing else down there to attack you :D. I never use any of the freeze items at all, that's just junk to me that I don't bother picking up.
I think the whole ...

Haha yeah I use Fireball all the time as well. It's the only offensive spell I use except Harm Non-Material Being. Vorpal Blades also give Wizzy exp so those count as well.

I've only been on the new version of the Encyclopaedia a couple of times but it did seem more difficult to find anything, as the categories/sections didn't seem quite so obviously-labelled any more, from what I can remember.

Oh, I didn't know Fireballs would heal them - I know they're non-material so I know not to bother using Fireballs on them at all, though, so maybe that's never come up (and I'm not sure it would be obvious they'd been healed anyway - it's not like they have any hitpoint indicators ).