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[nenjin]

I'm of the opinion you're screwing yourself if you choose to use many of those fan rules. DWing, liberal interpretation of CS and EP stacking, and healing, and you almost cannot die in combat. The game is much more fun when you're always missing health and don't have more than a +5 Combat Ratio. It's those moments of possibly dying to combat that force you to take alternate paths, that makes for a dynamic replay. Otherwise you're just backtracking to see what you missed and dry humping the known, beaten path. Not so much fun.

If you milk the books 100%, you'll be a combat monster, but there are some fights that push the limits of what you can do with all the combat goodies. They say your CS/EP score shouldn't matter....but by Book 12, if you've been slacking on your CS score, you will feel it. And if you haven't been slacking, you will be evenly matched. My memory of the Grandmaster series isn't quite as crisp, but I recall being evenly matched for most of 13 - 20, even cheating.

Also....Spoilers. This series is all about not knowing, so I don't want the slightest identifiable hints to give anything away (even if it's to spare someone one of those painful, last minute "haha, you're fucked" events.)

It's those agonizing decisions, actually having to second guess Joe Dever, that gives the reading some actual tension.

[Hugehead]

This is hard, but very fun. Still on first book and

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there are alot of instadeath places, died once from the Vordark, once to the Gourgaz, and I think I'm going to die in the canoe as well.

[nenjin]

All I can say is....Book 8, Jungle of Horrors. You haven't experienced real suffering yet mmmmmaaaaaaaannnnnn. And you will hate life as a Kai Grandmaster in Book 13, Plaguelords of Ruel. Plague druids, living in a plague fortress, in a plague forest? Wheeeeeeeee!

[Hugehead]

Also....Spoilers. This series is all about not knowing, so I don't want the slightest identifiable hints to give anything away (even if it's to spare someone one of those painful, last minute "haha, you're fucked" events.)

[nenjin]

Eh, it's in the book description and title But I'll stop.

[dbfuru]

This sounds interesting, I'm downloading Seventh Sense right now, unfortunately I have to go to work soon!

[Mindmaker]

I'm stuck.

So after I have given away my

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magic spear

, I can choose either left or ight in that tunnel system.

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In both cases I get killed.

Do I need to take the go back option?

Edit:
No, I still die.
What should I do?

Edit2:
What?
Your survival is tied to that one skill?
Really?

[nenjin]

Edit2:
What?
Your survival is tied to that one skill?
Really?

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When you reach the tunnels, you can go left or right. Going left, you will find an abandoned wagon. Going right, you will find a second passage and a platform.

Regardless of either path you take, you will meet a Helghast. You cannot run past it. If you have the magic spear, stab the Helghast, then drive the spear deeper so you kill it, and can reclaim your spear.

Short of Animal Kinsmanship, there is no other way to get through the tunnels that I know of. This is my reference above that I spoilered. Giving away your Magic Spear is a death sentence, and it's one of the few places in the series where your success depends on an item that isn't found on the main path.

[Mindmaker]

Edit2:
What?
Your survival is tied to that one skill?
Really?

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When you reach the tunnels, you can go left or right. Going left, you will find an abandoned wagon. Going right, you will find a second passage and a platform.

Regardless of either path you take, you will meet a Helghast. You cannot run past it. If you have the magic spear, stab the Helghast, then drive the spear deeper so you kill it, and can reclaim your spear.

Short of Animal Kinsmanship, there is no other way to get through the tunnels that I know of. This is my reference above that I spoilered. Giving away your Magic Spear is a death sentence, and it's one of the few places in the series where your success depends on an item that isn't found on the main path.

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I was forced to give it to that general guy, when I entered these tunnels.
I don't even remember picking that spear up.
Where the hell did I got it?

[nenjin]

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I was forced to give it to that general guy, when I entered these tunnels.
I don't even remember picking that spear up.
Where the hell did I got it?

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Immediately after you escape the village where you were forced to kill one of your traveling companions, you'll have a choice to go left or right. Go left. You'll find a bunch of Szak children messing with the dude who has the spear in his chest.

Also, I'm 100% sure you don't have to give your Spear to Rhygar, it is a choice that's up to you...and Rhygar dies anyways no matter what you do.

[Mindmaker]

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I was forced to give it to that general guy, when I entered these tunnels.
I don't even remember picking that spear up.
Where the hell did I got it?

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Immediately after you escape the village where you were forced to kill one of your traveling companions, you'll have a choice to go left or right. Go left. You'll find a bunch of Szak children messing with the dude who has the spear in his chest.

Also, I'm 100% sure you don't have to give your Spear to Rhygar, it is a choice that's up to you...and Rhygar dies anyways no matter what you do.

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Yeah, I remember that un-dead guy with the spear.
But I seemed to have it even without the event.
Because I had the option to give him the spear.

The other option was "don't give him the spear/you don't have the spear", but it was grayed out.

Probably a bug.

[nenjin]

Spoilers, good sir. That sounds like a bug, most likely. Also I believe the option reads...

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Turn to page blah blah if you wish to give Rhygar the Magic Spear OR you do not possess it.

Turn to page blah blah if you decide not give to the Magic Spear to Rhygar.

[niltrias]

Loved this series when I was a kid (played the paper version) but I could never make it past the desert book...number 6, maybe?

I guess I should give it another go!

[nenjin]

Shadows on the Sand is #5, and yeah, it can be hard in part 1. It's also one of my favorite adventures though. I love those "white guy in Arabia" fantasy stories.

PS- SeventhSense may! be releasing the Magnakai all in one shot. Here's to hoping. I just pitched in and tracked all the combat for Book 12 for the author. I don't think he'd be asking for that now if he was only planning to release a book or two at a time.

[GaelicVigil]

Yeah... chewed through the first five books today as I was going about preparing to pack up.

Wow, were you just extremely lucky, or were you save scumming?