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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Oleary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Pool of Radiance help
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Date: 31 Oct 90 00:05:24 GMT
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In article <15460@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>
>A friend of mine has just gotten a Mac IIci, and boutght Pool of
>Radiance.  He tells me that he has problems rolling up any character
>that has Thief as part of its class.  Any other combination is fine,
>but if there's a thief in it, it crashes when he tries to roll it up.
>
>Is this a known bug in PoR?  If so, is there a fix/workaround?

Yes, this is a bug.  However, as discussed on rec.games.misc some time
ago, the bug with the thief character is that it received only 1/2 the
experience it should get.  The discussion said that this was only a
problem with the creation of the thief, not the playing of the thief.
It also said that it was only a problem with the IIci and that a thief
created on any other Mac should run fine.  Unfortunately, I found that
it still screwed up the creation of a thief on my SE . . .

Why your friends IIci crashed is beyond me, but there *is* a bug.

On this same thread, does anybody know how to use ResEdit to fix the
problem?  I took the suggestion offered in rec.games.misc and used
it to change the experience (which I kept track of manually), but
I'm sure someone out ther knows which bits I have to change in the
character to let the computer know a "thief" is not a multiclass 
character (which is what I think the problem is).

Good luck!  (You'll need it :-)!!!!


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