From: mnfriedr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Friedrich)
Subject: Re: Bard's Tale III help wanted
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:59:07 GMT

pcs$1610@altair.selu.edu writes:

>Hello all,

Hi

>*NO SPOILERS, PLEASE* -- I'd like to do this one myself, but a hint
>or two would be nice :)

That's no matter of spoiling your fun, it's just the way of the game...so here
is what I found out about BT3 (I solved it in no time, overall it is very easy).

>In most of these games, there's something I see as an experience point
>plateau, which is the point where you need so many experience points
>to get to the next level, it would take forever to get them in the
>current dungeon. So far (BTI and II), I've taken this as a hint that it's 
>time to move on to the next dungeon.

Hmmm...interesting point :) But in all dungeons you needed a special item or
something like that, and that's how you know when to leave a dungeon...

>The problem is, I've reached what I think is the plateau for the first
>dungeon (i.e. I need ~300,000 for the next level), but I'm nowhere
>_near_ being able to kill Brilhasti (sp?)--he wipes the floor with me
[...]

You said, you did play BT1+2. Did you took your experienced characters from
BT1+2 into 3? I would recommend that, because for beginning characters
BT3 is VERY difficult, and in *my* opinion near the end nearly *impossible*
Brilhasti is just too hard to be killed by USUAL low-level characters,
but they need his death, because afterwards they are pushed up to level 50
or so...
On the other hand, Brilhasti is just the Starter-Dungeon and is not neccessary
for the game. Otherwise I even found out, that waiting too long and not
completing the Brilhasti-mission will make the guild leader only forget the
mission and then you have no chance of recieving the bonus again.
And in the end of the game, your characters will have about 400-600 HP.
There are monsters who will hack away about 400-500 HP with ONE blow.
Well, you can imagine how nice this will be with such poor characters.

I transferred my characters from BT1 to BT2 to BT3 and had no problems with
the game, my characters having about 1500-2500 HP (mages: 1000).

Though I have no other help than suggesting, you should collect more HP in
BT2 (getting drained by vampires and recollecting EXP was fun and easy :)
and transfer the characters to BT3, otherwise it could get a BIT difficult
(though I already got mails from some people who said, it is possible)

>Oh yeah, and what on earth is the significance of 'An explosion!' ?
>I've figured out in what areas this message occurs, but have no idea yet
>why. Since I've managed to figure out the other clues (which weren't really
>_that_ difficult :-\ ) and get to Bril, I don't see it as really important, 
>but then again, I can't seem to kill Bril, so maybe I'm missing something...

Explosion? What's the problem? Areas where you simply lose some HP.

>Thanks,
No problem

-Efchen
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