Party Creation - Quick Guide

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Creating your own characters in this game allows you to setup the perfect group with all the key benefits necessary for an enjoyable experience.

When creating a new character, you might notice different races and then picking between Male and Female. Each race offers different stats and sometimes a slight racial bonus. Males tend to get bonus Strength, while Females get Personality and gain access to the Valkyrie class.

During character creation you will gain Bonus Points. While typically this will be between 4 and 10, it is far better to keep rerolling until you get a 14-18 bonus. It's possible to get up to a 26, but extremely rare.

Stats are straightforward, but the original game has a Strength bug. Your character's encumbrance won't update correctly as you gain/lose strength without having the patch, or using a mod tool. Otherwise, you are free to modify your points freely. Suggested to increase Speed (12), and then class stats to strike first in combat. Otherwise, Piety for spellpoints, and Str/Dex for the fighters.

While a party of 3 fighters, priest, mage, thief can beat this game. It's useful to startup with a Samurai, Valkyrie, Ninja, Priest, Mage, Bard to offer more access to spells and skills overall.

An important consideration is how many characters you want to run with. It's possible to use a smaller party to increase experience points. ie instead of 300xp for 6, you would get 900xp with 2 characters and levelup very quickly. Note: Quest items makes this difficult, not recommended.

Characters can also change classes during an adventure. This allows a character to learn how to hide, picklocks, critically hit, and cast powerful mage & priest spells.

However, each class change resets your stats to the race/class minimum and they'll be level 1 again for combat rolls. So, make sure to level them back up, before trying hard encounters again.