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by Wild Child
After dying too many times and waiting way too long for the
endless disk access when loading games I decided to take a peek at my
saved games.
Initially I had a hard time finding my attributes because they
aren't defined in numbers within the game, but I began to look around in the
directories that the install program created. In a the sub-dir TEXT, there
is another directory called CHARGEN, it contains the initial information used
when creating the characters at the start of the game in an ASCII text file
called CHARDATA. It seems to be of this general configuration:
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START
Mr. Charles Weiss
It was announced yesterday that an heir to the Winthrop estate has been
found. Mr. Charles Weiss of Bangor, Maine, who... (blah, blah, blah)
STATS
2 3 2 2 5
1 1 1 1
0 0 3 0
1 1 0 0
2 5
8 2
-1 -1
START
Lucy Weston
(etc....)
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All I'm concerned with at the moment are the lines below STATS. The
first line is your major characteristics, in the order of DEXTERITY,
KNOWLEDGE, STAMINA, STRENGTH, and WILLPOWER. So in this example, DEX = 2;
KNOW = 3;STA = 2;STR = 2;WILL = 5. It's good to set those to at least 200,
that will give you a large amount of magic as well as health.
The next three lines are the individual attributes that are under
the DEXTERITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND STRENGTH headings. (such as ELECTRONICS,
FIREARMS, MEDICINE, etc.) Generally if you set these to something above 10
(15 works quite nice) you won't ever fail at the things that you try.
The next two lines represent the spells that you start with. They
are represented in the form of:
I think those are pretty much self explanitory. One thing though, you can
only have two spells at the start, so make it good ones (Wind of Destruction
or Shards of Annihilation are good attack spells), and make sure to use
Elixir of Health) I've included the list of spells in the game along with
this file.
If you don't want any spells... use -1 -1, -1 -1, -1 -1 through
the three lines You don't really need a powerful attack spell in the game
after you hike your stats up, I was pretty much able to kill about anything
with one hit from my briefcase, although Sword of the Shadow kills alot
quicker for the nastier monsters.
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If you're already in the middle of a game and don't want to start
over then get out your hex editor (Norton's DE, PCTOOLS, or the like) for
this next part. A list of the hex offsets for the character's attributes
follows:
DEXTERITY - 5,282
KNOWLEDGE - 5,284
STAMINA - 5,286
STRENGTH - 5,288
WILLPOWER - 5,290
all breakdowns of those attributes are in even numbered hex locations 5,294 -
5,316
When your character gets low on health or magic(and he/she will!) the
hex addresses for your health are here
MAXIMUM PRESENT
Health 5,262 - 5,263 5,264 - 5,265
Magic 5,266 - 5,267 5,268 - 5,269
Well that's all I've really found out so far... I know the locations of the
spells in HEX... but so far I haven't been able to figure out how they are
added to your spellbook.
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, flames... etc.
Mail them to me at:
woof@judy.indstate.edu
