The Drunken Lizard Pub

Book 2 runs beautifully on my now somewhat old GMA 950 card. Book 1 had problems with it, but book 2 doesn't.

The magic formula relates, I believe, to the "item level" -- which is what determines which items a particular merchant will stock, what will appear in chests of a certain level, etc. This means that how "mundane" or "obvious" an item seems has nothing to do with how ea...

The problem is that due to the way damage and to-hit are calculated, the differences between different weapon types, and between different individual weapons, are mostly negligible. Basically we have: Meaningful differences: 1) Ranged (bow, thrown) vs. melee 2) Easy to keep in stock vs. takes a litt...

You probably missed the "non-" part. Magic Users as stated all over the manual, etc and as in Book I and the last 30 years of D&D-based games, benefit from Intelligence; Healers benefit from Wisdom. The game has those benefits reversed in this one particular.

Just FYI -- my stat effects topic is not guaranteed to list every effect of the stats. At the moment, it lists every effect that I can see in-game or that somebody has pointed out. Since a lot of skills benefit from a stat (eg, Meditation and Spot Hidden from Perception, Lore from Intelligence, Pick...

When I first played book I on my then-new MacBook, it was pretty slow. Specifically, walking was very, very slow. When Book 2 came out, with the PC version coming first, I thought I'd try running it on my MacBook (under Windows XP via Boot Camp). The speed was actually a bit better than book I was. ...

Book 24 ; learn_skill SKILL_ALCHEMY Book 17 ; learn_skill SKILL_ARCANE_ELEMENTAL Book 18 ; learn_skill SKILL_ARCANE_DIVINATION Book 22 ; learn_skill SKILL_ARMOR_HEAVY Book 21 ; learn_skill SKILL_ARMOR_LIGHT Book 42 ; learn_skill SKILL_ARMOR_SHIELDS Book 19 ; learn_skill SKILL_CARTOGRAPHY Book 38 ; l...

Hmm... interesting.

The accuracy percentiles look pretty realistic to me in terms of how many hits actually connect. Two things that sometimes happen to me that could easily make things feel this way: - My buff suddenly wears off and I don't notice - I'm fighting a handful of weak enemies and some stronger ones that lo...

In this particular case, yeah, I guess the Warmoth is still useful -- just because the feat for Bows is so fantastic. However, even if you enchant for damage, you are still getting a total of +4 bonus damage, +1 to +2 regular damage (half as damaging, remember) and +1 to +2 to hit. With a regular bo...

Right, but the point is that a nonmagical melee weapon, you can always enchant +3 to hit, +3 to damage, +3 bonus damage. If a named weapon already has, say, +2 to damage and +1 poison damage, you can enchant +3 to hit but that's it. Right?

Yeah, it does not seem well planned that the named weapons -- something that is typically reserved for special, powerful items -- are almost all weaker than standard variants due to their inability to be imbued properly.

Ewwww. That sucks.

Well, there goes all possible motivation to buff DR with high armor skills + Stoneskin. Bleh.

This is very useful information though -- thanks for sharing it, as well!

Bump: updated with new info from other users (thanks everybody).

Agreed, thanks for sharing it. I take it there is no DR for other armor slots? (feet, cloak, belt, etc... and shield with shield skill?)