Favourite DM character

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:16 pm

*bites suit* curse those merchants, they just gave me a tinfoil jacket! That's not very futuristic...

Without Remorse · Post by **Without Remorse** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:05 pm

Do you have a shirt that says "I went to Saturn and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"?

Valderra · Post by **Valderra** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:38 am

Now, do I look like a tourist to you?

Saturn is my home, I don't need a T-shirt stating that I was there.

But if you are really really non-human like, I might invite you one day to come and visit me. I can send you my shuttle...

Without Remorse · Post by **Without Remorse** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:23 am

I'm fairly human last time I checked, so I guess that's out of the question. Although I hear Alpha Centauri IV's alright. And I'm not going to Mars, I read bad things about what goes on there. I don't really know much more than that in Sol or nearby systems. Although I have an idea for a solar-wide terraforming project for Venus, Mars, Ganymede, Callisto, and Titan concurrently...

Anyway, Sonja is a good character, her only weakness is anti-fire but I suppose that could be fixed in CSB importing her with flaimbain on. Overall, better fighting stats than Stamm. Stamina is very good too, so she doesn't get tired like Gothmog and Wu Tse do. I got her to where she can use the heaviest equipment and carry stuff without going into the yellow for weight management. Her attacks still suck right now but some fighter training should take care of that... Inquisitor... berserk... door... water elemental from behind...

Other than that, Stamm and Gothmog are cool too. Stamm's nearly 80 in vitality and anti-fire now with more stamina than health, only weakness is wisdom, Gothmog's only weakness is vitality and stamina. I'm also somewhat displeased with my Wu Tse; she never gets much stamina, she's weak in vitality and anti-fire, and I could have probably substituted Chani for better magic stats and stamina.

I usually don't use other characters too much; these four in particular are used to relive the nostalgia. It's also tough rolling for the best stats each level, especially the priest on odd levels getting 1 wisdon, 1 vitality, 2 anti-magic, 1 anti-fire.

I usually play 4-char parties, but I'm considering a solo now that the damage resistance is fixed in CSB. I like my fighters strong enough to use the heaviest equipment and carry some more and the back guys have some advantage in spellcasting/magic resistance.

Post by **Gambit37** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:40 am

Just a small note -- please don't quote other users if you are replying directly to the last posting -- it adds unnecessary text in the database. I regularly delete redundant quotes and have done here. Thanks.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:38 am

I always take aroc solo in CSB...his only weakness seems to be wisodm for mana regeneration, but if you have the food, which in CSB you do, then really he's a good fighter with lotsa mana!

i must admit for solo i much prefer fighters with high health and strength over mages - at the end of the day you can pretty much whack most things into submission given the right tools, whereas magic is an expensive mistress and if you've traded off halth to get it you are always runnign scared

Valderra · Post by **Valderra** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:01 pm

You are absolutely right, Gambit. And I apologise for those times I copied the person's text I am responding to.

And since I now got that hot tip regarding the mana problem, I think I will start again with Sonja and Leyla - just love those two girls.

And I will let them use war cries so often that in the end they get a sore throat. LOL

Simon · Post by **Simon** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:48 pm

Wuuf is the man. Because he has a potion bottle, and when I first played it I was too scared to get far into the game (I was only ickle), so I often didn't find the first bunch of potion bottles.

I like Stamm because of his axe.

I always used to choose Tiggy first (who I still think is a guy ;p) because he had super mana and I like wizards.

Zed was always a popular choice for me too. I never liked gothmog.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:18 pm

wow, you just named my first party in amiga : )

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:33 pm

Wow, Tiggy as a guy? I'm not sure how you figured that one. I suppose that unlike the rest of the girls, she doesn't have a large, visible chest, but I always thought she looked very female...

Valderra · Post by **Valderra** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:16 pm

LOL Same here. Tiggy a guy indeed. Just because she looks more like a wee girl than a busty woman.

LOL

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:28 pm

I never understood how anyone could see Tiggy as a boy -- we had a whole thread about that some time ago. It's bizarre!

Valderra · Post by **Valderra** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:39 pm

I always thought of Tiggy as a fairychild rather than a champion. She looks just like a cute little girl.

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:46 pm

I always thought of her as a small female version of the Fair Folk ... some kind of dwarf/gnome/what-have-you. I thought she was full-grown, just small. Now I think she's either a gnome or a halfling or something ... but she's really adorable, yes.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:50 pm

Adorable but also with a tough side - until i got bored i found it surprisingly easy to push her through the first level of DM!

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:52 pm

Push? What, like solo?

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:28 pm

indeed - she did me prud right up until a screamer killed her....i suspected some weirdness in csbwin but couldn't reproduce it, as she had about 30+ health...maybe jsut bad luck....

Selie · Post by **Selie** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:51 pm

Hasn't some loony person on the forum soloed with Tiggy before, all the way through the dungeon? It's almost unthinkable but given that people can beat CSB in 15 minutes or whatever the crazy record is now, I wouldn't be too surprised...

BloodFromStone · Post by **BloodFromStone** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:53 am

Soloing Tiggy would be interesting... I'd almost want to take that up, but I haven't beaten CSB yet... I keep forgetting about it.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:45 am

eh, it's not particularly challenging actually...i used to take her, but dropped her as i liked boris for his stamina and health better than toggy...but solo, you start gaining ninja and fighter levels right away, and once you have a certain level of stats, that's about it
low strength just requires you to grin and bear hackign away longer...another reason why i dind't carry on : )

Post by **PaulH** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:07 pm

Remember the Tiggy challenge that myself and Paul Stevens did? Where you could only carry one object? That was hard

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:27 pm

its odd, i went back and played with tiggy a little on pc dm (got bored again on level three, sooooooo slow at using a weapon, too tempting to punch) and i noticed that spellcasting was more successful than in CSBwin...odd...i thought the atari -> PC code had been copied straight

ArchType · Post by **ArchType** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:27 am

I would say Zed! He was the hero
I do remember Stamm being the hero sometimes too!
Mophus was awesome too, he really levels up nice in the back row of the party.

beowuuf · Post by **beowuuf** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:38 am

quick note - my tiggy csbwin adventure was harder because for some reason dm rules didn't apply to reincarnation automatically! oops! i mustn't have upgraded my dungeon.dat! no wonder two a screamers killed me with one double blow!

never really given mophus a fair shake, but i agree ith the other two : )

Sera · Post by **Sera** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:06 am

ive always used hissssa, and ive always gone with a solo character in all dm games, that means hissssa again for CSB and torham for DM2 (would have preferred going solo with equus, but cant), i seem to find it easier going solo than going with all 4 chars

Valderra · Post by **Valderra** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:51 am

I would use different characters if it wasn't for the fact that some of them are really ugly. LOL I go by looks when I choose my champions.

I don't want to keep looking at an ugly creature each time I open their status box.

Post by **linflas** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:00 pm

same for me : i never played mophus, he's just too ugly

Post by **PaulH** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:44 pm

Well we all have our reasons. I never play Alex because I think he is crap.

Florent · Post by **Florent** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:48 pm

Same here about Alex

For the record I think Mophus is a pretty good character despite his looks.

Valderra · Post by **Valderra** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:02 pm

Oooh... I used to take Alex as one of my champions... I thought he was rather dishy. hahahahaha

But nowadays I go more by stamina and strength.