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Old 02-20-2003, 05:39 AM   #16
Jim
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Join Date: May 1, 2001
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Age: 45
Posts: 1,088
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Originally posted by Rataxes:
....Cumulative Fatigues will give you enormous penalties to your THAC0, so even though my party is rarely badly injured, I have to rest pretty often since my fighters can't hit a house from the inside after running out of Haste 4-5 times.
Yeah fatigue is pretty annoying. It works in more subtle ways too, which many people don't notice. As you become fatigued, your chance of scoring a critical miss increases, so even if you have a bitchin' THAC0 that can overcome the THAC0 penalties associated with fatigue, your swings are forced to miss. There is also an "anti-KAI" ability that starts to kick in, where each successful attack deals minimum damage!

As for game days for me, I tend to do all the quests too, including completing the stronghold quests. This can be mighty annoying if you're a fighter-type, since I usually end up spending weeks on end in the keep waiting for the next quest!!

I think 60-80 game days is a fair average to get to the end of hell, although my personal best was 30-something days, where I stormed through only doing the quests that were absolutely necessary.
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