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From: moynihan_r@apollo.HP.COM (Robert Moynihan)
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Subject: Re: Champions Of Krynn
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Date: 2 Jul 90 18:02:00 GMT
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In article <MOFO.90Jun30132427@bucsf.bu.edu> mofo@bucsf.bu.edu (jason greene) writes:
>
>Well I picked this up the day it came out and finally started playing it
>(non-stop since I started except to visit the net) two days ago...
>
>and am wondering, what are the best spells to be memorizing (my spell
>casters know up to second level spells...)
>
>besides cure light wounds and magic missile, what would you all that solved
>it so damn quick suggest?
>
>jaosn


Early on, your MU's should be carrying sleep rather than magic missle.
sleep can leave several monsters helpless per casting, so your fighters
will be able to cut 'em down with a single blow...although I'd keep the
fighters working on the awake monsters, and have the MU use darts to
finish off the sleepers...Only start carrying MM when you hit fifth
level. 

I had my clerics memorize close to as many cures as possible.  A big
surprise, though, is the stinking cloud...It works on undead!  (Exactly
what *are* they breathing *with* anyway?)

Make sure you have a red mage in the party.  When you eventually get
the dragonlance, it's in a wizard locked room.  Only red MU's can cast
the knock spell, so without one, you can't get the lance.  (I only had
one MU, and she was a white mage.  I had to remove my kender from the
party, create a new red mage, and protect him until he accumulated 
enough experience to cast a knock.  *Then* I was able to recover the
lance...Took me the better part of an afternoon to get on with things.)
                                                       
I eventually wound up with two Knights.  It's amazing what you can do 
when 1/3 of your party has an armor class of -5.

Won the game yesterday.  (So damn quick?  I've been at this for six 
weeks.  I'm married and in the "real world"...that takes a bit out of
the available time.) The party:

    Personah Fied     Human   Knight   Level: 7
    Garth Darkblade   Human   Knight   Level: 7
    Valin             1/2 Elf F/C      Level: 7/7
    Claryssa          Human   C        Level: 8
    Nelvanna Grey     Human   White MU Level: 8
    Kellen            Kender  F/T      Level: 5/8 

With help from...
 
    Neutrolian        Human   Red MU   Level: 4  

Next game up:  SSI's Star Command...anyone out there played it?

Bob


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