*The Adventurers' Guild

Some comments to Maven's tips from above: 1. Animating Bard - I didn't know that dead bards can sing, I'll experiment with that. Might be nice to have a bard song active for some early farming gains. 2. Dying with infinite gold - the time spent killing your hero, getting a live helper hero, resurrec...

So, I just completed a 43 minute speedrun. See this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncfe8AuUzTs And some written commentary: https://bardstalespeedrun.com/2022/03/03/43-minutes-42-seconds/ Having done less than 45, I think that going under 40 is possible with some hard work. But gains into th...

The video for the 54 minute speedrun is now up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxStw6GKAtg Also, I found this guy's valiant efforts, which were better than mine for some time it appears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-DDz_CV1ds&t=2082s He uses a gold-doubling bug to get _a_lot_ of...

So. New speedrun. There and back again in 54:59. My first complete run under one hour. I used a hobbit bard, a half-orc magician, and several of the original team that always loads when the game is first started (e.g., Merlin, El Cid, et al.). The first and the last fights in the game were a team ef...

Finally, posted some youtube videos. Find my little channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq1xLoE3ipzcGlAhyONK9jg/ Find my 1 hour 26 min speedrun at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtPwZVq7XhA&t=63s Find my 2 hour 10 min speedrun at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh0EEJ5iwIk I'm now tr...

So, my first completed attempt at a single-hero (Conj->Magi->Sorc->Wiz) party clocked in a 2 hours 15 minutes with no deaths. see http://bardstalespeedrun.com/2020/03/04/2h15m-solo-yolo/ Since there is no way around the Crystal Golem (that I'm aware of), for a single party member, I just used a Leve...

Thanks, this has been quite helpful. FYI, I clocked in a 1 hour 51 minute speedrun, inclusive of time spent rolling. See: http://bardstalespeedrun.com/2020/03/03/1h51m-pure-rules/ Since I'm well under two hours for a party speedrun, my next task is to try a single hero speedrun. Unfortunately, the g...

This is good stuff, thank you again. A few more questions based on some testing: Character to Hit Monster - In doing my own testing in the MSDOS version, I found that sometimes a character can miss or hit a monster, especially when the character's AC is high/positive. But the next round the characte...

That's really helpful, thanks! A few followup questions: AC - Once the hit chance is calculated, how is that compared against a monster with a given AC to determine if a hit happens? For example, if a Lvl 18 Paladin with -7 AC maxes out his hit chance at -9 (-7 AC - 2 class - 0 bard + 0 penalty), ho...

For what it's worth, I'm at 3 hours 4 minutes for a speed run. Targeting 2.5 hours now, but doing in-game rolling as part of the speedrun. Some outstanding questions I have which are only partially answered on this forum include: Are the saving throws for DEST and STTO calculated differently in the ...

I grew up with the MSDOS version of this game in the early 1990s. I recently rediscovered it and have been making attempts to speed run through it. I made a small website to document my attempts (largely for my own benefit). Anyway, find it at BardsTaleSpeedRun.com My current best speedrun is 3 hour...