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From: quasar@bellcore.com (Laurence R. Brothers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge - Help
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Date: 2 Apr 91 15:04:57 GMT
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Fortunately wizardry is not stupid enough to trap you into situations
in which you can't go back, or have to wait to go up levels. As far
as I can tell, besides the actual monster defenses, and some dangerous
damage-inflicting traps, all the puzzles in the game can be solved
by any level character. 

You shouldn't have to search more than once per square, except of course
for buttons in the walls, which you must look at to press. Of course
they're visible.... I've found Mythology and Scribe to be pretty
useless, (you don't need scribe for those books), but Scout is convenient.

Now if I can just survive the Isle of Death..... 

At this level I'm getting fed up with the lack of effect of my spells.
The average monster has more than a 50% chance of ignoring just about
every spell I have. Magic Screen at 6 dice does nothing whatsoever, as
far as I can tell, and spells like Death, Deep Freeze, Whirlwind,
Fireball, etc. seem rarely to have any effect on interesting monsters.

Worst thing I've seen so far was a rack of four ranks of Island Giants.
I think they have around 250 hit points or so.... 

Wizardry on the whole is a pretty nice game except for some user-interface
stupidity. You shouldn't have to use the keyboard to bring up the base
menu. Also spells and missiles take too long to fly, and you can go to
sleep waiting for three rows of large monsters to advance, which they
do for no reason whatsoever.

-- 
	         Laurence R. Brothers (quasar@bellcore.com)
      Bellcore -- Computer Technology Transfer -- Knowledge-Based Systems
       "There is no memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory
            of some temptation we resisted." -- James Branch Cabell