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Ah yeah rakenan makes an excellent point. You need to use relative co-ordinates.

Hmm that's weird. I have the iPad version and it works fine...

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Not sure about the last two, but the answer to 1) is no, you can't be attacked. (And I'm sure you know this, but it's only BT3 you can attack from the shadows and critical hit - the first two games you just skip out of combat, which makes rogues pretty much useless.)

One of the things I like about the series is that each game had its own distinct character. With that said, I find myself coming back to BT1 most often - I find it's the most coherent game of the three, perhaps because it's also the smallest in scale. I get what you mean about late-game imbalance, b...

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It took me a while to work it out, too. You need to hit "T" for teleport, not space bar.

I always got the feeling he was meant to have beaten a hasty retreat once you slaughter his 396-berzerker army. So I guess I'm going with "fled".

Sounds like a fine idea to me.

Not strictly Bard's Tale related, but since there's been a lot of discussion of assembly code on this board, I thought you guys might find this interesting - Jordan Mechner has released the original Apple II source code for Prince of Persia:

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II

Hey all, Somewhat obscure question, but I just remembered something about BTII that has been bugging me for years. On the back of the box of the PC version, there was a screenshot with a hut and the "Where am I?" co-ordinates you get by pressing ? in the wilderness. The thing is, the co-or...

You can skip a Bard in BT1, but the Fire Horn will pretty much keep you alive at the start of the game. And the Bard's songs are super-useful, as documented elsewhere on this forum, because they stack.

I'd prob go Warrior or Paladin - or even Hunter - over the Monk, because the Monk's melee ability tends to plateau circa the middle of BT2, and in BT3 the enemies have so many HP that it doesn't really matter how much damage you deal. In the meantime, the Warrior and Paladin will get access to weapo...

Wow. When and if I get an iPad, this'll quite possibly be the first thing I buy.

The bit you're referring to in BT2 only requires leaving the characters behind for a brief period to accommodate Paper, Scissors and Rock. As far as I recall, it's the only bit in the whole trilogy where you need to have more than one plot-critical NPC in the party. So apart from that one occasion, ...