From: Mark E Nielsen <mnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: AD&D Cheatlist --- small one about Treasure
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:50:51 GMT
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Here are a few things to remember when playing Treasures of the
Savage Frontier.


A:Always kill the npcs with spells so that you can get their armor
     before they leave the party. If you kill them with spells,
they
     will stay with the party. If you attack them with a weapon,
they
     will fight you.
B:Load your characters from Gateway to the Savage Frontier.
     You will have enough spells and scrolls and wands to smush
     your enemies.
C:Party Set-up
     1.Fighter/mage/thief     elf
     2.Fighter/mage/thief     elf
     3.Fighter/mage/thief     elf
     4.Cleric/mage       human
     5.Cleric/mage       human
     6.Pick a character, I picked paladin    human
    The reason why I half elves even though they cannot be raised
from 
     the dead is becuase if they die, you can copy their data from
a
     previous savegame to restore their life (with fewer exp
points).
     To do this, copy the chardata1.sav file to chardatb1.sav file.
     This assumes your first character in savegame A is the living
one,
     and that the first character in savegame B is the dead one.
This 
     will copy only the stats and none of the weapons. That means
you won't
     accidentally delete weapons that you might have acquired in
savegame B.
     You will loose the exp and levels. But if you do it after one
battle,
     you shouldn't loose that much exp.
    Even though you change the 2 mages to clerics and you have 2
1st level
     clerics, you only use their healing powers anyhow, and in the
     beginning, you do not need other spells, and the advance
quickly,
     so it is not a problem.
D:Always try to charm the clerics and mages. they get some pretty
     powerful spells before you do!!!!!! try to charm persons in
the
     middle of the enemies group. That way they stay their until
that
     person is dead, and archers cannot shoot arrows while they
have
     an enemy next to them.
E:Backstabbing is an essential part to surviving. That is the
reason why
     I picked 3 thieves for the group. A good backstab can save the
day.

F:Here are some cheats for you.

     1.Magic stuff can be bought in either Minitarn or Orumbular
          and also in Neverwinter.
     2.You might as well do what you are no suppose to do and that
          is go to the other cities way up north and fight
          since you will get a ton of exp and if you can survive
          it will be easier for you to fight the stuff you are
          suppose to fight in the south. You will understand what
          I mean later.
     3.In any city, go to a place that you know you can sleep,
          and when you have that place, stand right outside
          and do "search". After battle, if one comes,
          return and sleep. This should reduce the number
          of encounters.

     4.I got upto -15 armor class with the following stuff
          bracers ac 2    ac = 2
          dex 18         ac = -2
          shield +2 ac = -5
          ring of prot.+2 ac = -7
          cloak + 2 ac = -9
          boots of speed  ac = -11
          belt +2        ac = -13
          helm +2        ac = -15

     5.Chanaging characters stats:See other article about general
cheating.
     
     6.Placement of party members in the game in the files
          savgam*.*

          On sector 2 00, the first 4 digits represent where the
          characters are on the map. example:
          01 03 means 1 space east and 3 spaces south.
          If you change this, you can change where your players
          are.
          What I am going to do is to see what is in those
          rooms the stores would never let us into or
          rooms which people would kick us out of. 
     
     7.For which dungeon you are in, I don't know if that is
solvable.
          I bet there is a code for levels or dungeons also.