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magic users
Interesting thing about magic users.....
A newly created magic user will have both magic missle + sleep spells.
A newly created fighter/magic user will have the sleep spell but will not have magic missle. Will have to train once before being able to learn magic missle.
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9/30/07, 23:31
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Re: magic users
I found that unlike PoR, Sleep isn't as handy in Gateway. Many of the baddies are humans and their levels exceed Sleep's ability.
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9/26/12, 21:04
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Re: magic users
PoR seemed to have allot of big battles which contained lots of low-level characters, thus sleep would be highly helpful. I don't seem to remember so many battles with hoardes occuring in Gateway.
That also brings to mind....
Sweeping!!
I have vivid memories of my fighter class characters sweeping out multiple draconians in one fell swoop in Champions of Krynn. Sad to say it has been too long since I have played some of these gold box games. Does sweeping happen in the Savage Frontier? or the Forgoten Realms, Por? for the matter? I don't remember it happening in Secret of the Silver Blades, so perhaps it was just in the Krynn series? or perhaps sweeps only occured with really low level monsters?
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9/27/12, 0:44
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PoR does have sweeping....nothing like being surrounded by a bunch of goblins and taking them all out in one "attack"! While the book does mention sweeping, I've never seen a character do it in Gateway, even when facing the goblins in the arena at the end.
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9/27/12, 10:17
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I remember the c64 version of PoR had sweeping. I found it odd that my team in the Amiga version at the video below couldn't seem to sweep anyone in the vid below.
PoR Amiga
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9/27/12, 16:29
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