The Drunken Lizard Pub

This guy speedrun Book I in just over an hour. Who's gonna beat it?

https://www.speedrun.com/eschalon_book_i

Wow! I will not be beating that.

I didn't watch the whole thing, but it looks like this person makes heavy use of hide in shadows to avoid combat. They still have to kill two Goblin Warlords, though, which I didn't bother trying to find in the video to see how they did it.

I guess the minimal process would be:

• Steal the crypt key
• Get the amulet from the crypt
• Read the "Foozgrumph" note in Blackwater
• Get the Crux from the vault
• Kill the Goblin warlord in Vela and get his key
• Go to Shadowmirk and get Erubor's key
• Kill the Goblin warlord in Grimhold and get his key
• Get into Crakamir - not sure if stealing the gate key or activating the portal is faster
• Steal the giants' key

Sneaking through the dungeons and killing the warlords is probably the hardest part. You'd probably need to level up at least a little bit but maybe you'd pick up the XP without having to do anything extra.

For a turn-based game I think it makes more sense to score a run in turns rather than in time. I don't suppose the game tracks how many turns have elapsed?

SpottedShroom wrote: ↑November 18th, 2020, 12:21 pm For a turn-based game I think it makes more sense to score a run in turns rather than in time. I don't suppose the game tracks how many turns have elapsed?

Sorry to resurrect a kind of dead post. But I haven't been on in a while apparently.

Anyway, I feel like the game does keep track of that, doesn't it? Or at least I feel like games II and III did? I'm not positive, but I think that's a good metric for measuring a 'speed' run. More of an efficiency test at that point.