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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Help needed for Curse of AB
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Date: 26 Mar 91 18:33:34 GMT
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In article <91085.091433ASB110@psuvm.psu.edu> ASB110@psuvm.psu.edu (Andre Sean Brown) writes:
>Thanx for all the help on how to defeat the Beholder.  Now I have another
>question.  I have a Cleric/Magic User character and a Fighter/Thief character
>on my party.  The cleric/magic level is 5/8 and the fighter/thief has a level
>of 5/9.  How could that be?  Why can't I advance a level in the first class.
>For example, the cleric/magic user character only advance levels on his second
>class and not the first.  I desperately need a high level cleric to be on my
>party because I'm on route to defeat my last master.  Help!

Your half-elf cleric/magic-user is limited to 5th level.  Read the manual.
You DO have the manual, don't you?  Try page 23.

Similarly, your fighter is either:
1) a halfling
2) a gnome with strength < 18, or
3) an elf with strength < 17

The solution?  Buy a human.  Dual class him.  That's what I did...I ended up
(with characters transfered from pool) with:
2 MU/Rangers
1 Cleric/MU
1 Fighter/Cleric
1 Thief/MU
1 Fighter/Thief

I would much rather have started off with rangers instead of fighters, but
pool only had fighters, and I wanted to use the same guys.