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Same party through all 4 games.
OK, people have batted this about on various sites but haven't seen anyone saying they actually did it. (Not worth playing through the Ice Caves in Secret?) It's not that hard, at least until the last fight of Pools of Darkness. I'm not claiming some sort of hardcore-gamer achievement, this is more of a proof-of-concept thing for anyone who wants to do a 'D&D the Way Your Daddy Played It'-style thread where they do the whole series with characterizations of the PCs and so on.
Party as it was initially designed was:
3 Human Fighters, 1 Half-Elf Fighter/Mage/Thief, 1 Human Cleric,1 Human Mage.
1 of the fighters was dual-classed to a mage after reaching level 13 in Secret. He finally got up to 14 as a mage near the end of the game.
In Pools, I changed another fighter to a cleric after reaching level 17 (min THAC0).
The first couple of games weren't that bad, because you have 8th level clerics and mages and 9th level fighters (10th pretty quickly as I did everything in Pool) in Curse, and 12th level characters pretty quick in Secret due to all the XP you gained in the prior game.
Pools of Darkness was, of course, harder. (Duh!) The extra fireballs helped, but the low HPs (I saved before going up a level in Pool but was rather lax about it) got to be a pain in the final battle when all the Blue Bane Minions and Dracoliches breathe on you. I mugged Vala to get an extra Ring of Blinking, and did the thing where I ran around the corner and slowly drew out the enemies a few at a time to win the last fight. (No, I didn't pull the wait-behind-a-wall trick; every enemy went down.)
Still have to see about Dave's Challenge.
OK, people have batted this about on various sites but haven't seen anyone saying they actually did it. (Not worth playing through the Ice Caves in Secret?) It's not that hard, at least until the last fight of Pools of Darkness. I'm not claiming some sort of hardcore-gamer achievement, this is more of a proof-of-concept thing for anyone who wants to do a 'D&D the Way Your Daddy Played It'-style thread where they do the whole series with characterizations of the PCs and so on.
Party as it was initially designed was:
3 Human Fighters, 1 Half-Elf Fighter/Mage/Thief, 1 Human Cleric,1 Human Mage.
1 of the fighters was dual-classed to a mage after reaching level 13 in Secret. He finally got up to 14 as a mage near the end of the game.
In Pools, I changed another fighter to a cleric after reaching level 17 (min THAC0).
The first couple of games weren't that bad, because you have 8th level clerics and mages and 9th level fighters (10th pretty quickly as I did everything in Pool) in Curse, and 12th level characters pretty quick in Secret due to all the XP you gained in the prior game.
Pools of Darkness was, of course, harder. (Duh!) The extra fireballs helped, but the low HPs (I saved before going up a level in Pool but was rather lax about it) got to be a pain in the final battle when all the Blue Bane Minions and Dracoliches breathe on you. I mugged Vala to get an extra Ring of Blinking, and did the thing where I ran around the corner and slowly drew out the enemies a few at a time to win the last fight. (No, I didn't pull the wait-behind-a-wall trick; every enemy went down.)
Still have to see about Dave's Challenge.