[Midget Gems]

Ok guys and gals, I’m back online and can report on the progress of my loveable, yet still suicidal, Gnomes. In my last post I was bemoaning my lack of pickpocket skills, well I never did get a Ring of Free Action there just don’t appear to be any potions available that can help me. I got round my immediate problem by charming some of the Priests with the Hold Person spells and turning them against each other. And just for the record I have one Fighter, with four Multi-Class companions combinng the Fighter, Cleric, Mage and Thief classes.

My progress has slowed to a crawl and I have effectively reached the point of no return. I made a saved game and then continued by spending all my money on scrolls and potions, which I used to blast through the opposition. Effectively this means I can never learn most of the spells because I’ve already used the scroll. My plan is to proceed until I can go no further, then return to the saved game to level up and try to finish the game with the levels that I get at that point.

The other factor that I can control is the difficulty setting, though I got a nasty surprise when I did reduce the setting from ‘insane’ to ‘normal’. While the XP I gained reduced with the new setting the quantity of monsters did not, so I had to struggle on to the end of the current level while fighting huge armies of powerful enemies. Still I now have about 185K of XP per person and just about enough resources to attempt one more level of Dragon’s Eye.

I have been a little vague about where I am – can you guess? I, for one, am surprised to get this far.