Building up your Character

[Dr. G]

I have seen some topics that complain about how hard it is to build up a characte that has some specialization (i.e. mague/rogue , etc) So I have a few sugestions, that I am trying myself, but if someone could try from a diferent angle, could save up a lot of time.

I am right now building a pure figther (no magical atributes at all) and I have decided to do the following.

Start up with the least Wisdom posible and focus on strenght and dexterity (sorry for miss spellings) I will not use any expirience on skills I can learn, until I have learned them the most, you can learn Alchemy on Bordertown, So I will only use one skill point on alchemy at the beggining and wait until I get to border town, same for cartography, Bow, Sword, (I dont like bludgeoning, nor cleaving weapons and I think throwing weapons are lame so...i'd rather deliver a swift death... . Once I have reached the top of the learnong skills (they can only teach you until you get to level 5. I will dedicat all my remaining level up points to improving those skills.

So I hope that by the end of the game I can have a pretty Strogn character with one specialization on a certain field, and I would like to suggest some of you to try this for example with a mage character or a rogue character... and let us know how it went....

[Kreador Freeaxe]

Actually, between books and trainers, you can get any of the skills that have books and trainers for them up to level 7 without using your experience from leveling up. I've never bothered with cartography until I complete the appropriate quest, for instance.

Of course, by my name you may understand that I like cleaving weapons, and you find a fairly decent one early on if you know where to look in the crypt.

It seems to me the game favors a generalist character, though. You need to be able to do a lot of different tasks, which usually have two or three paths that can get you through them (logic paths, not necessarily walking paths).

[Dr. G]

Thanks for the reply, I supose I am more the swift sword kind of player, but sometimes ther is nothing better than an axe and getting frenzy.,,, jeje

[poorfish]

Major spoiler and cheat:
Start new game. Take any Character, any skill, any name. Save. This slot - call it Slot A - you will not save to this slot again.

Duplicate the save slot folder you saved in. Make new folder - backup - place duplicated folder in backup folder. You now have ability to make many copies of starting character.

Place the files from a copy in one of the save slots (slot B). Play this character for a while. Save to slot B, then open that folder and replace the "char" file in Slot A with the one you played and saved to Slot B.

Restore game to from Slot A and you character will have all that char from Slot A had - money, weapons, items and so on. Repeat process. Any skill granting book you find - keep with your other items. Restoring with skill books in items will allow you (on opening) to advance in skill points. Repeat until satisfied.

As you advance, you can become invisible to other NPCs and enemies (allowing you to take whatever you wish without them knowing and kill them without any damage to you), and fabulously wealthy.