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Wolfie · 02-01-2002, 11:23 PM

After playing Wizardry 8 for awhile, I was continually finding spell books and being offered them from merchants in the game, but when my spellcasters would try to use them, would get this message "Bloggs is not powerful enough to understand the writing". Then I found an old message that had been posted here by one of the Wizardry 8 programming team (Alex Meduna, Wiz8 Lead Gameplay Programmer / Designer), I got the idea to make a spreadsheet to do the calcuations for me.

The file was built and stored in Microsoft's Excel-97 file format. It has not been tested on any other spreadsheet package at this time, however if your spreadsheet package is able to read MS-Excel-97 files, it should work, but some of the Visual Basic code (for the drop-down boxes and spinners may not work). Microsoft also have a viewer which can be downloaded, but only allows read-only use (ie, it's a viewer, you can't edit the fields, if anyone has suggestions for non-Excel users, let me know).

Basically, all you do is enter in your characters current stats, and the spreadsheet will tell you what spells you can learn, or for spells you're not yet able to learn, it will tell you how many points you need, or why your character can't learn the spell.

I've set up a web site where you can download it and see if this file is of help to you. Visit http://wiz8.web1000.com for all the details.

Feel free to give this message a bump

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[ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: Wolfie ]

02-01-2002, 11:23 PM	#1
Wolfie Zhentarim Guard Join Date: February 1, 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 307	After playing Wizardry 8 for awhile, I was continually finding spell books and being offered them from merchants in the game, but when my spellcasters would try to use them, would get this message "Bloggs is not powerful enough to understand the writing". Then I found an old message that had been posted here by one of the Wizardry 8 programming team (Alex Meduna, Wiz8 Lead Gameplay Programmer / Designer), I got the idea to make a spreadsheet to do the calcuations for me. The file was built and stored in Microsoft's Excel-97 file format. It has not been tested on any other spreadsheet package at this time, however if your spreadsheet package is able to read MS-Excel-97 files, it should work, but some of the Visual Basic code (for the drop-down boxes and spinners may not work). Microsoft also have a viewer which can be downloaded, but only allows read-only use (ie, it's a viewer, you can't edit the fields, if anyone has suggestions for non-Excel users, let me know). Basically, all you do is enter in your characters current stats, and the spreadsheet will tell you what spells you can learn, or for spells you're not yet able to learn, it will tell you how many points you need, or why your character can't learn the spell. I've set up a web site where you can download it and see if this file is of help to you. Visit http://wiz8.web1000.com for all the details. Feel free to give this message a bump [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: Wolfie ] __________________ Visit [url]\"http://www.foerster.cc/wolfie\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.foerster.cc/wolfie</a> or [url]\"http://wiz8.web1000.com\" target=\"_blank\">http://wiz8.web1000.com</a> (US) for a spreadsheet that allows you to enter in your spellcaster\'s stats, and it will tell you what spells the character can learn, or for spells that they are not yet able to learn, it will tell you how many points they need, or why your character can\'t learn the spell.