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According to ChristopheF's Dungeon Master Encyclopaedia, Stone Golems and Animated Armor enemies should both indeed be immune to Fireballs. Here is a link to the relevant page:

http://dmweb.free.fr/community/documentation/dungeon-master-and-chaos-strikes-back/creature-details/


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I thought Stone Golems and Animated Armor enemies were immune to Fireballs, too...


--Jay

To the best of my recollection, I just let him live during my last playthrough. I killed him once since I had never done so before, but I reloaded and just ran past him on subsequent attempts. In the SNES version of the game, you are basically at a point of no return once you have reached the Dragon ...

I honestly haven't ever used the Lightning Bolt spell except to experiment when I was newer to the game. It is very expensive to cast, and as far as I know it doesn't do enough damage against tougher enemies which resist fire to be an efficient way of killing them.


--Jay

Yeah - freezing the Dragon and then spamming it with Poison Clouds is just cruel.....


--Jay

It depends on whether your primary goal is to gain experience or to safely kill the enemy. I generally just used Magic Torch for Wizard experience during my last playthrough, but I generally did try to use it with a weaker enemy attacking me when possible. Once I was done training, I generally just ...

Yes - I was surprised when I learned they count as two separate things, myself.


--Jay

The main thing I recall from Automaton's analysis of this is that having both a Shield Spell and Shield Potion up is at least as important a factor in reducing damage as the actual armor a character is wearing.


--Jay

As far as I can recall, you get *much* less experience if you are performing a combat action when you haven't recently been attacked by an enemy, so you are generally better off punching an enemy on an earlier floor than punching the air on a later floor.

Also, you don't actually have to punch the ...

Yes - Automaton posted some good information about training with the Black Flames a few years ago. It can apparently work quite well as long as you are diligent about keeping your Fireshield up. The problem is that by the time you are down there, you have already essentially completed the game ...

Yeah - if you watch any of the speedrun playthroughs in the Race to Fusion thread of this forum, you gain a quick appreciation for just how much of the game can be skipped if you are only trying to stick to the basics. I've always been of the mentality that I want to explore the entire dungeon ...

Which floor of the dungeon is the one which has the floor plate you are describing?


--Jay

Fair enough. Those were good books, by the way - the sections of the Dragonlance Legends series where Caramon descends into a drunken depression and Tika begs her friends to bring him out of it are definitely funny.


--Jay

That comment about the strip joint is pretty hilarious...


--Jay

Well, good luck - a run with just Sonja and Azizi could actually be fun now that I'm thinking about it....


--Jay

You basically just save before gaining a Healer or Wizard level and make sure you gain 1 Wisdom point for each Healer level and 2 Wisdom points for each Wizard level. If you do this and train 10 levels of each, each of your characters will end up with 30 more Wisdom points than he/she started out ...

I didn't have Leyla in the group. Halk, Sonja, and Stamm all have higher starting Stamina than Hissa.

If you are willing to use buffs, I would err on the side of sacrificing Wisdom for better Strength, Stamina, and Dexterity - even the characters with the lowest starting Wisdom can maximize their ...

Yeah - I have previously observed that Azizi has really solid stats, but I never actually used her during a playthrough before. Sonja is also really good (to the extent that I don't think I have ever attempted a playthrough without her in my group).

During my last playthrough, I used Hissa, Halk ...

The problem is that the Champions with high Strength tend not to have high Wisdom. You can basically max out a character's Wisdom using Dane Potion buffs, though [especially if you optimize your stat gains when your characters gain levels]. A lot of characters have both high Strength and Stamina ...

Differences in the characters' starting Mana and (especially) Health tend not to matter a very great deal at higher levels. All of the characters will gain a ton of Maximum Health and Mana as they gain levels, and these gains are not based upon the character's current Maximum Health or Mana ...

Hi there, Jam. Always good to see another fan of Dungeon Master! I've only played the original game myself, but most of the people who frequent this site have played Chaos Strikes Back and/or other spinoff games.


--Jay

Great job getting the site back up, Christophe!


--Jay

Hey - everyone could use a bit of healing now and then!


--Jay

I'm very sorry to hear that. One of the many drawbacks about getting older is that you have to witness people you either know personally or admire the work of pass away.


--Jay

I remember the introductory story involving Syra, Alex, Halk, and Nabi from the game manual - I thought it was pretty cool at the time I read it [who knows how long ago that was].


--Jay

I guess the "sticker shock" of seeing a character with 1 Maximum HP and 1 in almost all of his other stats just made me think "Wow, that's crazy!" Regardless, it still seems like a decent enough achievement to me.


--Jay

Wow. Starting with 1 in every stat except Stamina - congratulations on managing that somehow!


--Jay

The damage calculations in Dungeon Master are actually pretty complex. Automaton delved into them a bit in the following thread:

viewtopic.php?t=31345


--Jay

I remember that I primarily used Magic Torch to train my characters' Wizard skill during my last playthrough even though it yielded slightly less experience than another alternative [Poison Cloud, I believe] because I preferred for my characters to learn the hidden Fire spell instead of the hidden ...

Hi Quartermass,

Based on my recollection of the game's mechanics, the experience that factors into fireballs is your basic Wizard skill plus the hidden Fire skill, like you indicated. However, having twice as much experience going into your fireballs won't have as huge an impact as you may be ...