Elizara

I think the pyrric gauntlets give you disease even if you get them uncursed. They have uranium in the fingers.

Is that for both situations?

How much party strength do you need to get the Alien Blade out of the stone?

Outside the castle you get a chance to wrestle some guards. How strong do you need to be to beat them?

Well I've just cleared out the coffin caves and my warriors are leveling up nicely and are surviving very well. Thanks for telling me to stick with them. I am almost out of ammo now - am having to resort to razordisks despite having minimal thrown weapons skill. Al well, there will be loads of arrows etc when I reach ch 4.

It's irritating not having a good offensive spell for priests. My priestess is still using bolt of fire as smite is useless.

You can buy farsight scrolls. And of course you can use and reload once you've seen where the secret door is.

I tried that once but I got a bit bored - too much going back and forth to collect loot to sell. I think that with fewer characters they are great in the endgame but much weaker at the start, I just didn't get past the start.

After a year or so of it lying dormant, I have retrived A2 and decided to attempt it with a new party. I normally play with a human fighter with elite warrior, slith fighter, humand mage and priest.

So for a bit of variety I have decided to make the fighters nephil this time, with the plan of using bows and ranged attacks a lot more. However the game is seeming rather hard work at the moment. I have cleared out the nephil fort and verdant valley and my characters are all level 5. I have invested quite a lot in dex and bows for the fighters but they still have a really low chance to hit. They have dex 7 and bows 6, which I would have thought was sufficient for the difficulty of the starting area. As it is I'm wasting lots of arrows and might even have to buys some soon, something I've never had to do before.

Is this a good party structure? Will my character be stronger laer on? Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have also used the lord of the rings theme in the past.

However my first party which beat A2 was: Alessan (Slith Warrior), Beriel (human thief/archer), Elske (human mage) and Jaryn (human priest).

Ah the days when I had time to play throught the whole of A2....it is so much better than doing dissertations.