First, set up your internet connection.
If you're reading this, then it's up already.
Select the Multiplayer option, select Serial connection, create game, import or create your 6 characters, start the game, save, copy the MSave game folder to your single-player Save folder.
You can now play it as if it was a single-player game.
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If not a Sorcerer, then a Paladin.