Motekye

You have to remember, when you keep getting more skill points, eventually they become worht less and less, plus they become harder to get.

With four characters, it will take almost four times as long for them to reach that point. With a single person, it could happen before Goag Nar.

Plus, four characters divides up the enemies, and they can cast slow spells too.

Well, the thing about playing a singleton is that, no matter how far you advance one character, theres a point where you simply cannot progress any further.

This happens because as the character advances, (s)he advances at a slower and slower rate, until the player becomes too weak in comparasson to the enemies posed. This has happened in all Avernum games I try to beat with a singleton as well.

Paralasys spells don't make the situation any better either.

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Oh yeah, as for the Drake, I usually kill it by lureing it out of it's cave, then around the lower caves. All the while, I cast ice lances and slow spells on it. I make sure to clean out the lower caves of monsters before I do this too.

Slow spells were insturmantal in beating the Drake. I also found them useful when beating the big purple plant thing in Avernum 3. ( Slime caves. ) I stayed completely out of range of the thing. It couldn't move, so it never landed a hit.

I Only play Nethergate with a singleton.

When I play as Celts, I make a completely magically oriented character with absolutely no combat skills.

This way, I have powerful attack magic early in the game. I then develop the combat skills.

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With Romans, I've tried the all magic approach, as well as no magic approach. By the time I finished the mines, I was able to kill the Drake no problem. I also took on the Goblinoid encounter outside the city, no worries.

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I've never beaten the game with a singleton though.

A have a different problem with my account.

Whenever I log in ( Even if I hit remember me button ) I'm always loged out when I return.

note that cookies are enabled on my browser.

I think you might want to check that out.