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tipo mastr Registered user Last page view: 5639 days, 23 hours, 5 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
What's your personal method of remembering your first kill? I personally just change my name to the monster's name. in fact, sometimes spelling the name backwards makes for a cool name...like outlaw would be waltou so how do you remember it? |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4245 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes and 56 seconds ago. |
There is an extremely simple and effective method: '&' Pressing '&' brings up the monster memory request, generally a useless function. It will always display in brackets the last monster you queried with that character, even remembering this inbetween save games. So after your first kill press '&' and enter the monster name. When you want to remember it press '&' again and it'll show the first kill name in brackets. If you type in something different though it'll change to that, so be sure to type in your first kill again if you look up anything else. This method has the advantage of not having your high score list filled with Bandits and Muggers. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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tipo mastr Registered user Last page view: 5639 days, 23 hours, 5 minutes and 48 seconds ago. |
that's a great way to do it, i hadnt thought of that. =) |
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jsr Registered user Last page view: 4528 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes and 19 seconds ago. |
And I just create a text document on my desktop and then rename it to something like "ki-rin"... I kid, I kid... "hobgoblin". Oh my, I'm so lonely and need some company |
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vogonpoet Registered user Last page view: 4963 days, 5 hours, 45 minutes and 40 seconds ago. |
Notepad for me. Using the '&' command is a bit flashy for my simple tastes, and I also find notepad useful for storing other titbits of info, like where carrot rooms, bookshelf rooms, altars and previously-ran-from hardcore monsters are located. |
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BlkDucky Unregistered user |
I just kill a bandit each game. Simple. |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4074 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes and 6 seconds ago. |
Being the dumbnut I am I sometimes end up using the Courage quest as a tool to find out my first kill if I don't remember it. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4245 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes and 56 seconds ago. |
Killing a bandit each isn't simple unless you always play drakelings or trolls. Assassins, muggers and outlaw leaders can all kill level 1 chars very easily. Hell, even bandits can kill many classes. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4074 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes and 6 seconds ago. |
To be fair, very few characters are unable to kill a bandit as first kill if they set their mind to it. If you hover along the edge of Lawenilothehl, you can keep bad things from happening to you, and the one bandit can be eviscerated using true berserk mode. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4904 days, 31 minutes and 52 seconds ago. |
Darren plays thieves too much. It reminds me of how I was after playing so many elves. It took me a while to remember that not every race has to fear stone block traps until hitting exp. level 15 : ) Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4245 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes and 56 seconds ago. |
Any character with missiles or PV is fine, but merchants, thieves, farmers, bards, and even some monks and beastfighters have to beware. If an assassin is spawned that's faster than you and you don't see him till you turn a corner then you may be royally screwed. Of course for many characters this isn't such an issue, but it's important not to be overconfident at any stage of this game :) Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4904 days, 31 minutes and 52 seconds ago. |
Take merchants off that list, they have the MIGHTY coin throw : ) Also, bards should be safe enough with their pet. Actually, almost any PC should be safe enough in Lawenilothehl if proper tactics are used. I often started 'blingers' in Lawenilothehl, and if I got in trouble I just made a run for the water. No humanoid (other than Guth) will ever follow you through water. If an assasin is generated right next to you, you only have to evade one hit (in coward mode) to pass him by. You can usually use some stray bandit to rub him off on the way to the water. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |
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Chambza Registered user Last page view: 5719 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes and 50 seconds ago. |
Personally I don't understand why everybody doesn't choose giant frogs. They're easy to find, and even easier to avoid. Easy to kill a score of, easy to avoid killing more than that. I suppose a char or two starves and some fall to the swamp zombies but hey, that's life in the Drakalor Chain. Most characters aren't THAT extraordinary to begin with that I would mind starting over after two minutes of play. |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4245 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes and 56 seconds ago. |
I personally try to make every character survive. Even the ones with shitty stats. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Silfir Registered user Writer of Overly Long Guides Last page view: 4074 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes and 6 seconds ago. |
Bah. I just know that if I look for a giant frog specifically, I'll have to fuck about for eight days of game time before I get ambushed by swamp zombies and brutally killed. They're a fine choice in theory, but bandits have the advantage that you know where they are. You drop the golden ball. You kick the golden ball. It slides to the west. Suddenly Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, appears! "That's not how you play Quidditch! are you even listening?" Which direction? (123456789) 4 Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is hit by a bolt of acid! Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard, is annihilated. You hear the ecstatic cries of a large crowd! |
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jeremiah Registered user Last page view: 5713 days, 13 hours, 1 minute and 16 seconds ago. |
I do the same. Kill a bandit every time. There have been cases where assassins and outlaw leaders made that suicide but it's rare and then you can just go kill something else and record it however you want. "THE TH TALENT SUCKS!!!!!!" - Gut |