The Belgariad

[Target]

I'm re-reading David Eddings 'The Belgariad' at the moment. And thought the people in the book might make a good party.
Has anyone got any suggestions on what classes I should choose?
The people in the book to choose from are:
Garion, a small boy (later to become Belgarion).
Belgarath the Sorcerer,
Polgara the Sorceress,
Durnik a blacksmith,
Silk a spy and thief,
Barak a Cherek warrior,
Hettar a Horse Lord,
Lelldorin an archer,
Mandorallen a Knight.
Princess Ce'Nedra - a Dryads princess.
Relg a 'religios' zealot,
Taiba a slave.
I think that's all the 'main' 'heros' I know I can't pick all of them.

Any ideas plase?

[ 07-31-2006, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: Target ]

[Loudhy]

For me :

1 Durnik - Gadgeteer (Sword/Shield)
2 Silk - Rogue (Dual Dagger)
3 Mandorallen - Lord (Mace/Dagger)
4 Polgara - Mage
5 Lelldorin - Ranger (Polearm or Axe)
6 Belgarath - Bishop

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[Target]

Durnik as a Gadgeteer, good one Loudhy that thought had not crossed my mind before!!

Any more suggestions out there?

[ 08-01-2006, 07:16 AM: Message edited by: Target ]

[Griefmaker]

Originally posted by Loudhy: For me : 1 Durnik - Gadgeteer (Sword/Shield) 2 Silk - Rogue (Dual Dagger) 3 Mandorallen - Lord (Mace/Dagger) 4 Polgara - Mage 5 Lelldorin - Ranger (Polearm or Axe) 6 Belgarath - Bishop [img]graemlins/monster5.gif[/img]

Slap me silly and call me spanky, I just re-read those books about 6 months ago and started (but did not complete) a Baldur's Gate group based off those books. It was fun for a while, until I stopped playing... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Anyway, I have a few questions/suggestions about this group:

-Didn't Durnik use an axe in those books?
-Mandorallen was a sword and shield user
-Polgara probably should be a priest or bishop since she did the majority of the healing (if i am not mistaken), whereas Belgarath would be more of a mage or possibly even a psionic in my mind.
-Lelldorin as a ranger is good, but i thought he used a sword as backup.

Those first 5 books in the series were quite good, however, I found the sequel 5 books to be a rehash of the first series. Have fun with your Wiz 8 party!

[Target]

Originally posted by Griefmaker: quote:

Slap me silly and call me spanky, I just re-read those books about 6 months ago and started (but did not complete) a Baldur's Gate group based off those books. It was fun for a while, until I stopped playing... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Anyway, I have a few questions/suggestions about this group:

-Didn't Durnik use an axe in those books?
-Mandorallen was a sword and shield user
-Polgara probably should be a priest or bishop since she did the majority of the healing (if i am not mistaken), whereas Belgarath would be more of a mage or possibly even a psionic in my mind.
-Lelldorin as a ranger is good, but i thought he used a sword as backup.

Those first 5 books in the series were quite good, however, I found the sequel 5 books to be a rehash of the first series. Have fun with your Wiz 8 party! [/QB][/QUOTE]Well Hello Spanky I’m glad someone else has read these as well!! I’m enjoying them. About your questions.
- I think Durnik starts with a sword but changes to a club / cudgel to knock people out, he didn’t like to kill. In the second set he uses a Sledge hammer to kill the daemon lord.
- Mandorallen I think used the sword and board, and lance when on his charger, before it breaks.
- Pol, yes I think she did all the healing.
- I’d though about psionic for Belgarath as well.
- I can’t remember about Lelldorin, he’s only used his bow so far.
- I’d also thought about using Relg as a monk?

I think most of Eddings books are along the same lines, it has been said if you’ve read one you’ve read them all. But I really enjoy them, a good read, and well written.

[Nightwing]

The Belgariad was the best of the two. Eddings did another series about a magic using knight that was really good also and well worth reading I just can't remember what it was called.

[Target]

Originally posted by Nightwing: The Belgariad was the best of the two. Eddings did another series about a magic using knight that was really good also and well worth reading I just can't remember what it was called.

I’ve read the ones you mean, the knight was called Sparhawk IIRC. The first series of 3 was the Elenium (I think) and the sequel 3 books were The Tamuli.

I also enjoyed The Redemption of Althalus, which was a good read.

[Target]

Rats!! I was having fun with my party, was enjoying trying to role-play the party as in the books, and then boom, a virus attacked my computer
That will teach me not to have anti viruse or firewall on my machine. Does anyone know if there is a really good 'free' firewall and anti virus software anywhere?
Cheers

[shamrock_uk]

Originally posted by Target: Rats!! I was having fun with my party, was enjoying trying to role-play the party as in the books, and then boom, a virus attacked my computer

What happened? The 'trash your computer' viruses seem to have gone out of fashion these days, so your game is probably recoverable.

Look into Kerio/Zone Alarm for firewalls and AVG/Avast for anti-virus. Links can be found by following my sig or just google for them.

[ 08-21-2006, 08:54 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

[Target]

Cheers Shamrock,

Not sure what is happening, the Hard Disk seems to be active all the time and it's running really slowly, so I don't want the computer on until I can install something to help. So I've put off playing for a bit.
Hopefully it will be there once I sort the problems out.