I'm re-reading David Eddings 'The Belgariad' at the moment. And thought the people in the book might make a good party.
Has anyone got any suggestions on what classes I should choose?
The people in the book to choose from are:
Garion, a small boy (later to become Belgarion).
Belgarath the Sorcerer,
Polgara the Sorceress,
Durnik a blacksmith,
Silk a spy and thief,
Barak a Cherek warrior,
Hettar a Horse Lord,
Lelldorin an archer,
Mandorallen a Knight.
Princess Ce'Nedra - a Dryads princess.
Relg a 'religios' zealot,
Taiba a slave.
I think that's all the 'main' 'heros' I know I can't pick all of them.

Any ideas plase?

[ 07-31-2006, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: Target ]

For me :

1 Durnik - Gadgeteer (Sword/Shield)
2 Silk - Rogue (Dual Dagger)
3 Mandorallen - Lord (Mace/Dagger)
4 Polgara - Mage
5 Lelldorin - Ranger (Polearm or Axe)
6 Belgarath - Bishop

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Durnik as a Gadgeteer, good one Loudhy that thought had not crossed my mind before!!

Any more suggestions out there?

[ 08-01-2006, 07:16 AM: Message edited by: Target ]

Slap me silly and call me spanky, I just re-read those books about 6 months ago and started (but did not complete) a Baldur's Gate group based off those books. It was fun for a while, until I stopped playing... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Anyway, I have a few questions/suggestions about this group:

-Didn't Durnik use an axe in those books?
-Mandorallen was a sword and shield user
-Polgara probably should be a priest or bishop since she did the majority of the healing (if i am not mistaken), whereas Belgarath would be more of a mage or possibly even a psionic in my mind.
-Lelldorin as a ranger is good, but i thought he used a sword as backup.

Those first 5 books in the series were quite good, however, I found the sequel 5 books to be a rehash of the first series. Have fun with your Wiz 8 party!

Slap me silly and call me spanky, I just re-read those books about 6 months ago and started (but did not complete) a Baldur's Gate group based off those books. It was fun for a while, until I stopped playing... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Anyway, I have a few questions/suggestions about this group:

-Didn't Durnik use an axe in those books?
-Mandorallen was a sword and shield user
-Polgara probably should be a priest or bishop since she did the majority of the healing (if i am not mistaken), whereas Belgarath would be more of a mage or possibly even a psionic in my mind.
-Lelldorin as a ranger is good, but i thought he used a sword as backup.

Those first 5 books in the series were quite good, however, I found the sequel 5 books to be a rehash of the first series. Have fun with your Wiz 8 party! [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]Well Hello Spanky :D I’m glad someone else has read these as well!! I’m enjoying them. About your questions.
- I think Durnik starts with a sword but changes to a club / cudgel to knock people out, he didn’t like to kill. In the second set he uses a Sledge hammer to kill the daemon lord.
- Mandorallen I think used the sword and board, and lance when on his charger, before it breaks.
- Pol, yes I think she did all the healing.
- I’d though about psionic for Belgarath as well.
- I can’t remember about Lelldorin, he’s only used his bow so far.
- I’d also thought about using Relg as a monk?

I think most of Eddings books are along the same lines, it has been said if you’ve read one you’ve read them all. But I really enjoy them, a good read, and well written.

The Belgariad was the best of the two. Eddings did another series about a magic using knight that was really good also and well worth reading I just can't remember what it was called.

I’ve read the ones you mean, the knight was called Sparhawk IIRC. The first series of 3 was the Elenium (I think) and the sequel 3 books were The Tamuli.

I also enjoyed The Redemption of Althalus, which was a good read.

Rats!! I was having fun with my party, was enjoying trying to role-play the party as in the books, and then boom, a virus attacked my computer :(
That will teach me not to have anti viruse or firewall on my machine. Does anyone know if there is a really good 'free' firewall and anti virus software anywhere?
Cheers

What happened? The 'trash your computer' viruses seem to have gone out of fashion these days, so your game is probably recoverable.

Look into Kerio/Zone Alarm for firewalls and AVG/Avast for anti-virus. Links can be found by following my sig or just google for them.

[ 08-21-2006, 08:54 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

Cheers Shamrock,

Not sure what is happening, the Hard Disk seems to be active all the time and it's running really slowly, so I don't want the computer on until I can install something to help. So I've put off playing for a bit.
Hopefully it will be there once I sort the problems out.