> > > I am trying a single character too, except I want to win the game with a level 1 character. So I'll switch classes just before finally killing Murkon. Should be fun.
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> > One catch: Killing Murkon (and anything else in his way) will add levels. I don't see how it's possible to wind up in the Hall of Fame with a Level 1 character. Of course, you can still go for the lowest level and see how you fare.
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> It will add the experience for those levels, but as long as you succeed on the first try, you won't need to go back and heal up at the inn and actually gain those levels right?

You gain levels just prior to being entered in the Hall of Fame. When you gain levels this way instead of by resting at the inn, you don't get the hit/stat/SP increases -- it hardly matters, after all, since you're about to go into retirement -- but I wanted the character level, as it appears in the Hall of Fame, to reflect the character's experience accurately. So when you win the game, the levels of your characters shoot up to whatever they would have been had you rested in the inn.

Good call, Ellie. I was thinking it would be neat to see a level 0-1 character in the Hall of Fame, but you correctly point out that that is impossible.

But the challenge is still an interesting one. I'm curious, now, how it would be to try to kill Murkon as a level 0 character with freshly reset stats. That, in turn, makes me wonder what the best character race to use would be (because race would be key in this particular challenge) and what stats you would choose to raise with the free points you get. For example, would you beef up agility to the max, or would you not waste any points on it at all?

Would you use a troll, which has more free points than any other race, or would you figure IQ and Wisdom are the most important stats, so you'd want to use an elf or gwuil?

Neat challenge.