[allstargoaly]

I gave up last night on my recent party of four...

Basically it ended with fighting serval groups of monsters. I had just left the Monestary when I ran into trouble. First I fought 7 Hidgardi Highwaymen (HP: 77+), 7 Hidgardi Roubousts (HP: 87+). Three out the four people died. After the fight was over, I used my last three resurection powders and went on. I reached the "abandoned house" right before the Arnika Road, and BANG. I encountered another 10 Highwaymen. I lost only one life but had no more resurect poweders. Of course the dead one was my only magic caster (Bishop). If that didn't piss me off... it was the next fight. Not only did I get done fighting a tough fight but not ten feet down the road was 10 Acidvines. So I reloaded, and tried to sleep behind the house. As soon as I woke up I spotted an even bigger group of Highwaymen waiting for me again.

All I wanted to do was get to Arnika so I could get more powder but after every single fight; there was another one (harder than the previous one) waiting for me around the corner. I am serious about this!!! I couldn't go 30 seconds without a fight (literally). And there weren't any remotely easy ones (battles) either. To top that off I had no more healing potions, no healing magic (dead caster), and the only three standing were at 20 hit points or less (and the all had a max of 50+ HP!!!). I couldn't camp because everytime I did, an even HARDER group of monsters showed up and "surprised me".

So I just deleted all of my saved games, from that party, and removed those four characters from the game as well. Tell me that I did everything right. Tell me that this is typical for a party of four. I mean I comnplained about the whole "fighting/random encounters" thing in another topic but this was way over the top when it came to having TOO MANY BATTLES. Because I give up on small parties for a long time...

Edit: By the way... In order to overcome this great injustice, I have restarted my LOTR party (thought you might have an interest in this Rezdude03). I have recreated each character (made them more awesome than the first group I made) and I have chosen to stick with this party to the end. And yes it is a party of 6 and it is going to probably stay that way. I'm thinking of picking up RPCs but not to sure... Give me some suggestions or ideas if anyone can...

[ 10-28-2003, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: allstargoaly ]