Questions about Secret of the silver blades

[runequester]

In the WHDload version, what files do I need to copy over, so I can transfer my characters from Curse of the Azure bonds to Secret of the silver blades?

Thanks in advance!

[runequester]

okay, so in case anyone else is a hardcore SSI AD&D fan, I figured it out:

Unlike the previous game where you had to do it in a certain way, the method in the manual works for Secret of the silver blades. Basically, in Curse of the azure bonds, "remove" each character from the party. This creates a file with the characters name and a .guy file name.

Copy this to the save folder and you can use the characters. It even carried over their icons (which I had trouble with going from Pool of radiance to Curse)

[Bamiga2002]

Thanks for telling this . I'm currently playing COTAB with my gang from Pool of Radiance, and I like to continue with my posse 'til the end!

[runequester]

Thats my plan. Went through the first two, and going to continue til the end.

Piece of advice.. non human characters will run into problems after Curse, because their level advancement is capped.

[countzero]

Good luck ! I did the curse-secret-p.o.d. run in the past on the amiga good memories, never finished pools of darkness but my save is still in my miggy By the mids of the pools though my party was overwhelmingly strong so it actually killed the fun (I had a ranger/mage dual class which could hurl d.b.fireballs inside plate armor !)

About characters, of course you'ld be going for humans. What puzzled me though was if you start of pool of radiance, you don't have access to paladin and ranger which sucks big time. Therefore I started my run from the curse. If you're gonna start from the pool probably you should have some fighters and dual class later on in the secret (the later you switch, the better). Anyway, good luck, secret was the most boring one AFAIR with the most linear play. Pools of Darkness is the most awesome one though. (btw, stay away from the pools of darkness novel. it's such a joke. just check this review lol curse novel and the trilogy is awesome though, definitely recommended !)

[runequester]

I tried dual-classing into ranger and paladin with my two fighters at the start of Curse, but that made the beginning exceedingly difficult, as my boys couldn't hit the broad side of an ogre

So for now, I've just stuck with the fighters. Party is 2 fighters, 2 clerics, 1 thief and 1 magic user.

Thought of dual classing the thief into a magic user, but then... at the moment, he's handing out 60-80 point backstabs


I must say, as far as tactics goes, these are by far the best you'll get RPG wise on the amiga. There were other great RPG's (Heimdall, Eye of the beholder etc) but they always focused on things other than party tactics.

[Bamiga2002]

Good games these are! There's something about these gems even with the blocky graphics (with older AD&D's anyway) and some irritating things (poison kills instantly sometimes!). Hey, who needs Icewind Dale/Baldur's Gate?

[runequester]

yeah, they stuck pretty unflinchingly to the original AD&D rules as much as possible

Life gets easier once you get "neutralize poison" at least

[Xanxi]

Are these games good to play? I have always found them ugly.

[runequester]

If you like old school D&D, or like hardcore tactical RPG's. They have a somewhat steep learning curve though.

[Methuselas]

Hey, who needs Icewind Dale/Baldur's Gate?

That's *BLASPHEMY*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I never got past Pool of Radiance, was Curse and Pools better? What's the level cap on those, anyways? I always seemed to run into issues with capping experience way too early.

[runequester]

That's *BLASPHEMY*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I never got past Pool of Radiance, was Curse and Pools better? What's the level cap on those, anyways? I always seemed to run into issues with capping experience way too early.

That depends on why you didn't get past Pool

Curse caps somewhere around 11 or 12. I believe Secret goes up to 15.

[djrikki]

I use to be a huge fan of the SSI games like Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn and the others you mention here.  Couldn't play them again though; the graphics look so poor now I couldn't imagine trying to play them all over again!  The New World series of Might and Magic games truly took me into another world, they were massive and highly addictive.  The New World and SSI games were some of my best child memories from playing games along with Bards Tale, Dungeon Master, Chaos Strikes Back and the almost-legendary Captive!  Must admit I have played Captive since... the graphics although aged are still very comfortably and great to look even now in 2012... the gameplay and level designs are also very 'captivating'.  Captive a true classic in every sense of the word.

[countzero]

That's *BLASPHEMY*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baldur's gate was cool but icewind dale was such a boring piece of crap ...

I never got past Pool of Radiance, was Curse and Pools better? What's the level cap on those, anyways? I always seemed to run into issues with capping experience way too early.

Pools was definitely the best in the series (for me) the engine is at its best, doesnt get in your way, and the plot is quite good for a game late in the series (usually later games in a series suffer from unimaginative plot syndrome ...)