*The Adventurers' Guild

I have known for a long time that there are issues with the game when you reach level 256. It's easy to guess why, but I recently did some tests to see how it actually acts in different situations. 1) Somehow the level advancement code is broken. If you attempt to advance additional level at the Rev...

I encountered a doppleganger in the catacombs. My party consisted of a Bard and a Conjuror. I had no special and failed the flee. I killed the doppleganger before he had a chance to jump into my party, but somehow the game decided my Bard WAS the doppleganger. My Conjuror and the doppleganger Bard f...

The Spectre Snare can actually be quite useful, but you should give it to one of the front line melee characters. If they happen to survive the first onslaught, they will critically hit whomever they attack. Even a level 1 Bard can be a formidable ally with such a weapon. I should note that if you ...

Excellent. You continue to just get better and better. I have a couple of suggestions. If you lug around 5 dead party members, you don't have to worry about dopplegangers or mimics. You don't have to animate the Bard in order to get him to sing at the red dragons. Just hit the F2 key, and the dead b...

Well, theoretically.
Except it looks like on the 6502 there is no mode that lets you do EOR with the accumulator.

Well I can tell you what I use it for most. First, if you EOR something with itself, it becomes 0. It's a quick efficient way to zero out a register. If you load 0 into a register it takes an extra immediate byte, whereas if you use a register, even if it's the same register, it's shorter in actual ...

I don't think this is quite correct. Today, using the DOS version, I encountered hostile Master Wizards on both levels 4 and 5 in Mangar's tower, multiple times.

I also encountered hostile Conjurers on levels 2 and 3. They hit me with shock spheres and poison strikes.

That's a good one. A party slot is only empty if a flag is set. The function key code doesn't check for the flag and neither does the sing function. It looks like the function keys will also work if the bard is dead, stoned, or paralyzed too. Confirmed. Dead bards can still play long lasting songs ...

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drifting wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:21 pm Which version is this?

MSDOS

What do the 6 - 34 numbers mean? That's the minimum level your lead character needs to be in order to always succeed running from the fight. Here's another interesting exploit for those that like to play with less than 6 members in their party: If you take a Bard, equip him with an instrument, and ...

Sweet! Glad to see someone else is using the Magician trick. I tried a couple of speed runs back in the day, but I barely made it in less than 2 hours. You have done a lot better than I did. To always resist Demon Lords, a Wizard with a luckshield only needs to be level 34. You probably don't need t...

The easiest way to never die is to make sure you can run from any encounter that is too tough for you. This is determined mostly by the level of your lead-off character, and their luck score. Here is the short chart for where you can safely go based on the level of your party leader. This is for War...

This is an interesting and actually useful question. If lowering your armor class beyond LO helps, you should use more inventory slots for AC lowering equipment. If it doesn't actually help, you shouldn't waste inventory carrying around useless stuff. So I found a pretty easy way to check. Some mons...

Well, sometimes when I start a new game, I like to put a battle mage on the front line, because they have better save stats and can run from barbarians a little bit better. I noticed that a naked mage can't normally hit spiders and skeletons. But after I had played a while, sometimes they could. At ...