• Update 01 - Fort Emergence
  
• Update 02 - Character Creation
  
• Update 02A- Potential PCs
  
• Update 03 - The Party and the Portal Town
  
• Update 04 - The Goblin Tunnels (1)
  

• Update 05 - The Slimes of Krizsan
  
• Update 06 - The Goblin Tunnels (2), the Wolf Pit and the Bandit Hideout
  
• Update 07 - Jordan's Tower
  
• Update 08 - Delan and Silvar
  
• Update 09 - Colchis and the Slime Pit
  

• Update 10 - Reports and the Tower of the Magi
  
• Update 11 - Gihkra and Erika's Tower (1)
  
• Update 12 - Guhkbar's Pit, Delis and Pergies
  
• Update 13 - The Isolated Hut and Farport
  

• Update 14 - Port Townsend, Point of Contemplation and Southpoint Lighthouse
  
• Update 15 - Shayder
  
• Update 15A- The Church of Anama and Shayder Sewers
  
• Update 16 - Hectar, Northpoint Lighthouse, Fenris Port
  
• Update 17 - Kuper and Kneece
  
• Update 18 - Bavner and the Friendly, Happy Spiders
  
• Update 19 - Something Awful vs The Anama
  
• Update 20A- The Happy, Friendly Roaches and the Filth Factory (1)
  
• Update 20B- The Filth Factory (2)
  

• Update 21 - Joining the Anama, The Inn of Blades, and Reports
  
• Update 22A- The Great Map Update (1)
  
• Update 22B- Things Missed in Upper Exile and Krizsan Province
  
• Update 22C- Things Missed on the Isle of Bigail
  
• Update 23 - New Cotra
  
• Update 24 - New Formello and the Murder Cave
  

• Update 25 - Bolton and the Wolfrider Warren
  
• Update 26 - Libras and the Lost Isle
  
• Update 27 - Golddale, the Golddale Mines and the Ursagi Lair
  
• Update 28 - Dryad Grove, Storm Port and the Fiery Lair
  
• Update 29 - The Tomb of Vahkohs and Gebra
  
• Update 30 - Porter's Rest, Gorst and Gidrik
  
• Update 31 - Shari(a)mik
  
• Update 32 - Angel's Rest, Aminro, Softport, the House on the Hill and Adobe Hut
  
• Update 33 - Troglodyte Temple
  
• Update 34 - Castle Troglo (1) and Under Troglo (1)
  

• Update 35 - The Karnold Great Map Update
  

• Update 36 - Lorelei (1)
  
• Update 36A- Lorelei (2)
  
• Update 37 - Dellston and the Caves of the Giants (1)
  
• Update 38 - The Caves of the Giants (2) and the Shaman's Caves
  
• Update 39 - The Giant's Forge and the Isolated Inn
  
• Update 40 - The Concealed Tunnel and the Barrier Cavern
  

• Update 41 - The Cult of the Sacred Object
  
• Update 42 - Upper Exile, Erika's Tower and the Islands of South West Valorim
  

• Update 43 - The Woodsy Tower
  
• Update 44 - Under Troglo and Castle Troglo (2)
  
• Update 45 - Lennus and Squiggus
  
• Update 46 - Marish and the Chasm of Screams
  
• Update 47 - Calloc and the Dragon Lairs
  
• Update 48 - Hawke's Manse and Malloc
  
• Update 49 - Moon, Bremerton, Bengaro, Poulsbo
  

• Update 50 - Appleton, Spineride and Mernia
  
• Update 51 - Gale
  
• Update 52 - Greendale and Tevrono
  
• Update 53 - Approach to the Golem Spire
  
• Update 54 - The Tower of Shifting Floors (1)
  
• Update 55 - The Tower of Shifting Floors (2)
  
• Update 56 - Fallout (1)
  
• Update 57 - Fallout (2)
  

• Update 58 - Stealing from Earnest and A Fine Suit of Armor
  
• Update 59 - A Circle and a Nice (Cross)Bow
  
• Update 60 - A Cool Drink
  
• Update 61 - Dorngas and Wainscotting
  
• Update 62 - Vahnatai Ruins and Erox
  
• Update 63 - A Sharp Stick, and a Long Walk
  
• Update 64 - A Nice Ring
  

• Update 65 - Wandering North
  
• Update 66 - Blackcrag Fortress
  
• Update 67 - Empress Prazac, First of her Name
  
• Update 68 - The Towns of Footracer Province
  
• Update 69 - The Keep of Tinraya, Under Tinraya and the Great Circle
  

• Update 70 - Thefts, Training and The Tower of Magi (Final)
  

• Update 71 - The New Factory, the Walls, and Bon-Ihrno
  
• Update 72 - The Keep of Rentar-Ihrno
  
• Update 73 - Epilogue
  

berryjon fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jun 15, 2017

Welcome to the user interface for the game. It's been refined from Exile 1 and 2, but everything should still be recognizable. On the left is the active screen, showing your party and their immediate surroundings. There are walls, a sign, a door, various things in the room like beds, things on the beds...
The white dot is a special event, in this case stepping on it asks if you want to rest your party up.
The upper-right contains party information. Right now, Art is our only party member, though that will get filled up once the thread has voted on who gets in and who doesn't. Art has 10 HP and 15 SP. and is in otherwise good condition with no buffs or debuffs.
In the middle-right is the inventory window. This used to be combined with the party status screen, but was given its own section to make inventory work less of a hassle. It's a neat quality of life improvement over the previous games and I like it. Unlike something else which will be coming up shortly.
Below that is the log, where recent messages can be seen and checked up on.
Under the main window is a description of where we are, and it can be a specific room, the name of a dungeon, or a whole area of the overworld.
And under that is our command buttons. We are currently not in combat, so for now the buttons are, from left to right:

• Cast Mage Spell
  
• Cast Priest Spell
  
• Look at target Tile
  
• Talk to target NPC
  
• Pick Up items
  
• Use something you are adjacent to
  
• Call up the Map in a separate window
  
• Enter Combat
  

And here is the 'quality of life' improvement I despise. Talking to people now covers up the active window, and brings up this... hideous thing. While mechanically it is the same as previous games, there is the addition of being able to click on a keyword using the mouse to ask about it, rather than typing it in.
Much like the previous games, you can click on the 'Record' button to have the game save the currently active dialogue. It's a neat way to transcribe what people tell you. Well, let me just Record this conversation tree, then transcribe it for you....
Where is "talksave.txt"? Where is the conversation dump file that I've been using in the previous LPs?

Apparently Vogel decided to incorporate the text dump into the game itself, so you can access it from within the game. While I can applaud the thought behind it, this means I can't transcribe conversations like I used to!
Well, that would be true, except for the efforts of my fellow goon, "Gullwhacker", who was able to locate a raw text file that was a full dump of every written word in the game. I was able to start extracting conversations from that file, though it does slow down my work flow. However, this is the raw file, and a complete mess. If anyone can find a proper dialogue dump, that would be most appreciated.
Also, conversations now have little faces in the upper left. I won't use them as there are fewer of those than there are NPC models in the game. As in, there is only one Slithzerikai portrait and one Nephilim portrait. So screw that, I'm sticking with what work for me.

Art shook her head. "Dammit, I'm retired! What sort of end-of-the-world emergency could you possibly have that would require dragging me up here from my hut?"

Anaximander took a deep breath to steady himself. "It's bad, Art. Really bad. We sent out a scouting party already, quite unofficially. They were supplied by X, and told to survey the region, check out the cities. That sort of stuff."

Art nodded. "Go on."

"They went missing a couple weeks ago. The last report was that they had split up to cover more ground faster." He looks sweaty as Art's gaze bores holes in him. "There's something wrong on up there, something that has the Empire in knots."

"I find that hard to believe."

"We're under Valorim," Anaximander passes a map to Art, showing her the local region. "You know about that?"

Art looked at the map. "Yes. Latest official colonization effort. Starting with Blackcrag Fortress, going south into Footracer and Midori Provinces. Any expansion after that was after I was Exiled."

"Well, they've gotten all the way to the southern end of the sub-continent," Anaximander wiped his brow. "The first party was basically there to make maps. We were supposed to put together an official delegation in a couple months, but after the last reports, we had to scramble."

"How?"

"We need to know what's going on up there!" He yelled out, causing Art to lean back. "Reports of monsters, diseases, criminals and bandits all suggest that the Empire can't keep control!"

"Which is wrong."

"Very, very wrong."

"What do you want me to do?" She already dreaded the response.

"Under Section 4B.3 of the Exile Security Act, I am hereby officially reactivating your commission in Unspecified Services to for the duration of the emergency," Anaximander said. "I'm sorry."

"SORRY?" Art screeched. "I'm 50 years old! I can't go running around a continent larger that Exile doing things!"

"You're the ONLY ONE I HAVE!"

"Bullshit!" Art snapped back. "There's... Theodore del'Astra, Brickman Longfellow, Mad Jeff, Rashiid, Adel Behdin, Ashley Boul, Cameron Carson, Caradoc, Conrad Ayers, Geoffry Archer, Rekban, Irving, Mercy, Mrrawn, Orssa, Richard Fox, Sss-Graa...!"

"They all have other assignments. I have you, and a bunch of new recruits."

Art shook her head. "You have got to be joking."

"I wish I was."

"Who was on the first recon group?"

"Erin, Elsner, Glost and Tucker."

"... and?"

"And what?"

"That's four. Teams of six. I wrote those rule myself."

"It was decided that a smaller group would be better able to evade detection and capture," Anaximander huffed, obviously not comfortable with the facts. "I know why you wrote those rules." He shuffles some papers. "Um, look, head over to the sitting room across the hall. These are the candidates you can pick from. Choose five, and we'll bring them up for your team."

Art looked down at the papers. "Fine. But there will be a reckoning for this."

"I would expect nothing less from you. Oh! before you go, there's something I got for you."

"What?"

"We contacted the Olgai-Vahnatai through their colony here in Upper Exile, and explained the situation." He produced two long wrapped objects from beside his desk. "They sent these."




Art held the two ancient blades up to the light, the dark metal glistening with oils that emerged from within. "They sent these?"

"They knew you would hold the gates," Anaximander gestured in the direction of the access point to the overworld. "They know you, and put their faith in you, as do we all."

This is my current map of Fort Emergence. To be updated once I get Magic Map.


Now is the time for Character Creation! The next post will detail how it is done, as well as how the voting for PCs will take place. Remember, you in the thread get to choose Art's helpless internstrue companions!

berryjon fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 7, 2016

In this post, I will introduce the mechanics of Character Creation for Exile 3. Those of you familiar with the previous games can skip down to the new traits.



When you start a new game, this is what you are faced with. I'm going to be scrapping all these in favour of custom characters as submitted by you, the thread!



Like so. Now, let's move on with Art's character for Exile 3. She's going to start with bog standard Level 1 stats to represent spending the past few years fishing and in general not saving the world.



When you first start a character, you are brought to this screen. Here you choose the species of your PC, their Advantages and Disadvantages. All these options have some effect on the amount of XP the character needs to level up. You see, by default, the bog-standard human requires 100XP to go up a level. Improving your character increases the XP required to level up, and giving your character disadvantages reduces it. Note that all percentages are multilplicative, so stacking Advantages on someone will hurt their long-term prospects, a lot. So, from the top:

• Human - (+0%) – The standard 'species' in Exile, Humans gain no advantages due to their nature. Default Weapon: Stone Knife.
  
• Nephilim - (+12%) – Felinoids of the Surface world, they too have been Exiled for being 'undesirable' by the Empire. In Exile 1, they were a nuisance, but never really a threat on the strategic level. +2 DEX, Innate bonuses to Missile and Throwing Weapons. Default Weapon: Darts.
  
• Slithzerikai - (+20%) - A species native to the Caves, the Sliths were allied against the Empire. Some Sliths are citizens of Exile now, and they have no presence on the Surface. +2 STR, +1 INT, Innate bonus to Polearm Weapons. Default Weapon: Stone Spear.
  

• Toughness - (+10%) - Simply put, the character with this trait takes less damage. Somewhere around 10%, but a variety of factors can affect the exact number.
  
• Magically Apt - (+20%) - A PC with this trait deals approximately 25% more damage with spells than a character without this trait, and all other factors being equal.
  
• Ambidextrous - (+8%) - The character with this suffers no penalty from having two weapons in hand in combat. I'll discuss the details later when I go through combat.
  
• Nimble Fingers - (+10%) - Better at handling Traps, Locks and poison. Very utilitarian.
  
• Cave Lore - (+4%) - The description says “Can Hunt”, which means that you'll occasionally get some food from nowhere while a character with this skill is in the party. It's also required for certain special encounters.
  
• Woodsman - (+6%) - Like Cave Lore, except for the Surface.
  
• Good Constitution - (+10%) - Resisting Poison and Disease, allowing the PC to recover from these ailments faster.
  
• Highly Alert - (+7%) - A person with this trait can avoid magical sleep, allowing them to keep acting when others fall. They can also act as a warning for the party, allowing them to avoid being surprised by ambushes and the like.
  
• Exceptional Strength - (+12%) - With weight now a factor, a character with this trait can carry 20% more weight that someone with the same Strength. They will also deal a little bit more damage with melee strikes.
  
• Recuperation - (+15%) - This trait allows the person with it to heal much faster than normal.
  

• Sluggish - (-10%) - This causes a 25% reduction in the ability of a character to move in combat by reducing their default AP from 4 to 3.
  
• Magically Inept - (-8%) - Cannot use Magical Items. No Potions, Wands, Scrolls, or other activated items, they are all unusable by this PC.
  
• Frail - (-8%) - Poison and Disease are worse for this character. Yes, this stacks with Good Constitution, meaning +2%XP for no benefit.
  
• Chronic Disease - (-20%) - This character will occasionally catch the Disease status, negatively affecting their performance.
  
• Bad Back - (-8%) - Unable to carry great weights, this trait reduces carrying capacity by 20%, as well as reducing physical damage by a minor amount.
  

Not all Traits are made equal, and this shows in their unpolished nature. One thing that Avernum did better was improving this system, but we're here with version 2 of the system.



Art is Ambidextrous due to her combat style, and due to her advancing age, now also has a bad back. She only needs 100XP per level, which means that she will likely be advancing the fastest over the course of the game.



This looks like a lot, so I'm going to start going down on the left side from the top. The first field is the name of NPC we're training. All training through skill points earned via level up also occur on a screen like this. However, seeing as how this is a new NPC, we haven't had a chance to name him/her/it yet.

The purchasing of skills is done with two resources. The first is the amount of skill points we have on the character (earned at level-up), and the amount of gold we have in our party. The image is good enough, I won't recite the numbers later. However at character creation, we have 60 SP to work with, and infinite gold to spend. But what to spend it on?

Health is a flat measure of HP. It goes up based on a character's Strength at each level-up, but can be increased directly. Every character starts with 6 Health that cannot be reduced. The max is 251.

Spell Points power magic spells, and do not go up with level, they can only be purchased with the skill points earned by levelling up. The max is 100.

Strength represents a character's soundness of body. The higher, the more HP a character will have in addition to dealing more damage with physical attacks. All characters start off with 1, but if they feel like taking any damage at all, should start with at least 3. The max is 20.

Dexterity affects how ofter you hit or get hit in combat, as veterans of RPGs may assume, but also affect the Actions Points of a character, which will be explained when combat comes around. A high Dexterity will allow a person to do more per turn of combat than others. All characters start with 1, but if they want to do well in combat, should have at least three. The max is 20.

Intelligence affects Spell Points and Magic damage as Strength affects HP and physical damage. It's a nice dichotomy. All characters start with 1, but if they want to do anything with magic, should have at least 3. The max is 20.

Edged/Bashing/Pole/Thrown/Archery are all classes of weapons. Swords, Clubs, Spears, Throwing Stars and Bows respectively. They represent specialization in weapons, and the more you have, the better your ability to deal damage goes up. Focusing on a weapon can give more benefits than just the general benefits from a high Strength and Dex, so don't forget them. They all go to 20.

Defence is a general skill to defend yourself with; making shields better and in general not getting hit, or even reducing damage. However, the most important aspect of it is that this skill reduces the Encumbrance you get from your equipment. I'll explain that in Combat. A good long-term investment. Goes to 20.

Mage and Priest Spells represent the levels of spells available to the character. Having levels in these also improve your SP upon levelling up! Spells will be covered in more detail later, but at character creation, only spells up to level 3 are available. By the time we get to places with Level 4 spells available, we'll have enough skill points to buy more ranks in this. They both go up to 7.

Mage Lore is a passive skill that is pooled across the party to determine if they know about stuff for plot points or resolving quests. It goes to 20, and by the mid game, we should have at least that many points in it across all our PC's.

Alchemy is important for brewing potions from ingredients gathered from across the world, and they range from the 'why bother?' of thinks like Weak Poison Potions to 'absolutely vital' like Skill Potions. There is a core quest that requires this, but that won't be until very far into the game. Goes to 20.

Item Lore allows us to identify items in our possession without spending money or spell points on Identify spells. It's fairly passive, and useful at low amounts to detect if an item is cursed or not. This goes to 10.

Disarm Traps and Lockpicking are exactly what they say they are. Used for Traps and Locks, the skills go up to 20, and can be used on things magic won't work on. Dexterity provides a passive hidden bonus to these skills.

Assassination is an unusual skill. Characters with it have a chance of doing bonus damage against any foe lower levelled than they are. This can help with cleaning trash mobs, or even against boss fights if you're over levelled. I like to think of this skill as the 'Win Harder' skill. Goes to 20, at which point you're dealing massive damage to anything less powerful than you. It does not stack with ranged weapons, just melee.

Poison is a skill that allows you to safely add poison to your weapons to try and hit foes with. Can be useful with Thrown or Archery based weapons, but I find it's just not worth the skill points in the long run. Goes to 20.

Luck costs no money to train, and it does the most dangerous and powerful thing of all – it affects the RNG. Can go all the way to 20, if you dare.

Here is what I'm putting into my initial character. 4 extra points of Health, 5 baseline Spell points, 5 in each of the base statistics, 3 levels of Priest spells, and the last 8 points into edged weapons, as knives and swords are common weapons. In practice, this a build that buff themselves using Priest spells for a round or two, then charges into melee. Casters and other ranged attacks can pick it apart, so support will be needed in the long run.



This is the Character model selection. All PC's can have their own icons, and here is where the fun really begins! All PC images are bitmap images, 28x36, mirrored for when facing the other direction. For this LP, I will accept custom images for submitted PC's!

I'll say it right now, I find the non-humans to be far less interesting than the human ones, so if anyone really wants to try their hand at a new PC graphic, please be my guest.

But for now, I'm just going with the bottom of column two for no apparent reason. Wait, no, I have a splendid reason. And it's not just because it's the same graphic for Art back in Exile 1.



Finally, we get to name our PC, and I've chosen Art. Because that's her name.



Submissions!

I'll be taking calls for FIVE additional Player Characters. What I want are names, backgrounds and stats (or just guidelines). You can choose a PC picture yourself, or make on for additional brownie points. Just keep in mind that over the course of the game, we're going to be getting a lot of skill points to spend (upwards of 200 more during the course of the game), so you can have some flexibility in what you want to do. If there are more than five characters submitted, I'll put it up to the goons to weigh in on which ones they think are better. I will, of course, reserve the final say for myself.

Once I am satisfied with the number of submissions, I will move on to voting. Before anything else, I will pick one PC to automatically get into party, either because I like the character, or due to possible synergy. After that, Each person may assign a value of 1 through 4 to four of the remaining PCs indicating how much they like that PC, with 4 being more than 1. Each person can also add a -1 to one other PC, indicating that they believe that character should not be in the party.

After sufficient time has passed, I will close voting, generate the PCs fully, and move on with the story!

Now, on to the show!

berryjon fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Mar 8, 2016

And these are your 14 potential PCs! As stated earlier, everyone gets four votes from +4 to +1 indicating how much you love that PC. And, because there is so much competition for the 5 slots, I will give everyone two -1 Votes to work with as well. You can use them on different PCs, the same one, or none at all!

Voting will last until Midnight, Sunday 13 March 2016, at which time I will tally the votes, and announce the winners, with the next update to follow soon after.

berryjon fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Mar 11, 2016

berryjon fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Mar 11, 2016

Drej		|        1   4           1 - | 5
Nista		|              -           4 | 3
John		|4 1 3     1     2   1   4   |16*
Delilah		|    1 3 3 3   1 1 2 -     3 |16*
Loc'ess		|                      1     | 1
Tum'rrah	|  3           3         2   | 8
Arcturus	|1                           | 1
Matthias	|      2 4 2 3 2   4 2       |19*
Ni'aurrl	|2 4   1         3   - 4     |13+
Dalmek		|                4           | 4
Sk'rrrrrl	|    4         -   1 4     - | 7
Bendan		|        - 4           3   1 | 7
Sass		|  2     2   2 4   3         |13+
Bronwyn		|3   2 4 -   1       3 2 3 2 |19*

berryjon fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Mar 12, 2016

Uh... what? Let me check the previous LPs for this characterization....

Well, what do you know. He was a racist rear end in a top hat back in Exile 1, yet seemed to have mellowed out a bit during Exile 2.

Welcome to combat! The big change is that everyone moves individually, and the changes to the command bar at the bottom.

Just like previous games, everyone starts out with 4 AP, or “Action Points”. Moving a tile costs a point, attacking costs 4. Casting a Priest Spell costs 5, a Mage Spell 6. If you don't have enough AP to complete the action, you use all your AP, and the action happens. The character's turn ends when they run out of AP, and combat goes in a “You then Enemy then you” type deal.



After the first turn of combat, Sass has taken some damage, knocking him down to 0 HP. Having 0 HP is a safety catch for PCs, as even if you have 1 HP, and take 30 damage, you are reduced to 0 HP instead. Only one you are at 0HP can further damage kill you.

Natrually, there are creatures that can attack the same target multiple times in a turn.

berryjon fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Mar 17, 2016

There's been a bit of talk about Chronic Illness in the thread, so I want to make some official comments here. Chronic Illness effectively gives the character in question a hidden Bar of Uranium in their inventory. This causes them to become diseased on a semi-regular basis, either one or two-stepped as the case may be.

Disease is a status that does nothing by itself. However, it can generate a new negative effect fairly quickly while the PC is under its effects. Here's the total list:

• Poison (Damage over time)
  
• Curse (Reduced combat effectiveness)
  
• Slow (Less actions in combat)
  
• Dumbfounding (reduces maximum Spell level)
  
• No Effect (YAY!)
  
• Drain (Loss of Experience Points)

Needless to say, curing Disease is a top priority for me, but at the moment, only Art can cast the necessary spell, and we don't have access to Cleansing Powders – the item that removes Disease. Thankfully, Spell Point regeneration on the over world has been accelerated, and you can't catch Disease while resting.

This particular party, as chosen by the people in the thread is massively in favor of magical skill over the previous two teams. That means that Art and Sass have to pull double-duty as meat shields and front-line combatants.

As I go along, I develop a certain pattern – Art advances, then Blesses herself. Sass and Bronwyn form a line with her, then Ni'aurrl and Delilah Bless them while Matthias either casts haste on someone, or holds off a turn and waits for Fireball opportunities. Except with the improved equipment, this happens:

A spell I never used in the previous games, I decide to finally start using. Don't expect me to show it off all the time. Anyway, here we have Monster Stats! And this will let me explain combat in a bit more detail.

Level affects XP gains for killing the enemy. If you kill an enemy of the same level as you, you get 4 XP, and everyone else in the party gets 1 XP spillover. However, because the Wolf is Level 3 to our Level 1, the XP is increased. I'll have to double-check the exact numbers. Once we go over that level, the XP gains start to go down.

Health is how much HP they have, while Magic Points is their MP/SP pool.

Armor affects their damage reduction and avoiding being hit in the first place. Skill affects their ability to hit you. Morale is a measure of how much they can take before they run away, and can be affected by being awesome, or casting Fear. Speed determines how much AP they have by default.

Enemies can also have up to three attacks, and in this case the Wolf deals a basic 2d6 damage per successful hit. The Wolf also knows no spells in either the Mage or Priest line, and can't poison us when they attack. They also have no special abilities, and no resistances or immunities.

So, combat is actually pretty simple in this game, enough so that you could probably adapt the d20 system to it. When the Wolf attacks, it rolls 1d20 behind the scenes and adds 5 for the Skill stat. If this number exceeds the Defence stat of the target, then it rolls 2d6+Skill for damage, once again reduced by enemy defence.

When a PC attempts to attack the Wolf, they roll 1d20+ their own modifier (shown on their stat page), and if that exceeds the Wolf's Armor+Skill, they are hit. The PC then rolls their damage, and reduces that by the Wolf's Armor to determine how much damage they take.

It's simple and elegant. I like it! Except for how Luck factors into it. I think it adds 1d(Luck) to all your relevant rolls, and affects the enemy negatively the same amount. Who knows?

Being able to control how enemies get to you can be vital for survival. Art may have hit another level, but Worgs are still dangerous to everyone.

I should Scry more monsters. Maybe put together a post full of stat pages.

And that's exactly what I do. While having more levels gives you more HP to take hits with, you really need to train to improve your skills. Now, because I'm running tight on funds (as there's no place to sell loot in either Fort so far), I skip training Art. She already has an advantage with her swords.


Gets 1 point in each of Strength and Pole Weapons. I'm going to be speccing him that way for the first few levels, then I will probably invest in bringing him up to Priest 3/Mage 3 for the buff and debuff spells. And Fireball.


1 point of Strength, Dex, and two into Edged Weapons. She's a straight beater, so I'll have to keep her Assassination skill up, and also invest a couple points into Luck.


One level up, put everything into Spell Points, as I noted she was running short on those a lot. Expect her to pick up Priest 3 sooner, rather than later, as well as trying to balance that with improving her archery skills.


Priest 3! Huzzah! And one more point of Intelligence and 2 more into Spell Points. She'll turn into our next Peregrine with no difficulties at all!


He only got one level, so I poured all of his Skill points into Spell points. More SP means another Fireball, which means more XP gained for killing!

berryjon fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Apr 26, 2016

berryjon fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Mar 24, 2016