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[smaug]

THROTL? That a FRUA module or something?

It’s the first town in champions of Krynn, I maybe spelled it wrong?

 

[ProphetSword]

You didn’t. I knew exactly what you were referencing.

Throtl, ruined city to the north of the first outpost, and the first place you go in Champions of Krynn, guarded by a huge group of hobgoblins.

This is all required knowledge to be a true Gold Box fan.

 

[Metro]

The chase for Myrtani begins! Or is it Mrytana... whoever that tricky gold draconian is...

 

[Sinatar]

THROTL? That a FRUA module or something?

It’s the first town in champions of Krynn, I maybe spelled it wrong?

Ah the capitalization made me think it was an acronym for something.

 

[Cael]

Just finished THROTL.

damn clerics

And I still haven’t even found a longbow for my ranger just shortbows and I’m surprised how long THROTL was.

weapon break is brutal

What weapon break? I don't recall weapons breaking in COK. You mean weapons getting trapped in baaz draconians?

 

[Cael]

You do realise that you get the weapon back after you win the fight, right? Also, keeping 2 weapons on hand is advised, but everyone can punch a baaz to death if necessary. There is really no great penalty for fighting barehanded other than doing 1d2+str bonus instead of 1d8 or whatever + str bonus.

 

[smaug]

yea I know but sometimes I’ll forgot to re-equip characters and just have them
punch stuff

 

[Cael]

yea I know but sometimes I’ll forgot to re-equip characters and just have them
punch stuff

A high Dex helps in not losing weapons, but yeah, they are best dealt with using arrows or spells.

 

[smaug]

I have a Knight, a Fighter, a Cleric/Fighter and a Magic-User/Fighter.

My Ranger and Magic-User (Fireball Spam) are my most useful.

 

[Cael]

I have a Knight, a Fighter, a Cleric/Fighter and a Magic-User/Fighter.

My Ranger and Magic-User (Fireball Spam) are my most useful.

It depends on what type of game I am in the mood to play. My roleplay party was 2 Knights, 2 Qualinesti Fighter/Mage, 1 Qualinesti Thief/Red Mage, 1 Human Cleric.

For a power gaming party, 1 Human Knight, 5 Qualinesti F/C/M. Just get them to level cap for each game before exporting to the next one.

 

[Dorateen]

I mapped Throtyl by hand on graph paper. Very memorable dungeon, especially for a low level party.

The fun part was, in Death Knights of Krynn, you get to visit Throtyl again as a location for a side quest, and I was able to reference that same hand-drawn map.

 

[octavius]

Yeah, it's a great beginner dungeon.
Especially fun to do it with minimal resting. I think I rested once last (third, I think) time I played it. The Wand you find (of Ice IIRC) becomes extremely useful when you can't rest spam.

 

[smaug]

I rested a decent amount because every battle I needed all my sleep and fireball spells because clerics would always hold me and kill me instantly with the draconians.

I did a bit of grinding on hill giants for easy Exp in the beginning.

 

[Cael]

I rested a decent amount because every battle I needed all my sleep and fireball spells because clerics would always hold me and kill me instantly with the draconians.

I did a bit of grinding on hill giants for easy Exp in the beginning.

Stinking Cloud is your best friend.

 

[ProphetSword]

Stinking Cloud is your best friend.

This. Multiplied by 1,000.

 

[smaug]

I tried Stinking cloud on Hill Giants and they walked right through it. Twice.

It works well on everything else though

 

[smaug]

I didn’t map out THROTL because I’m bad at mapping and didn’t need it. But this next town is enormous, guess I will have to map

 

[Grauken]

Why not use the Goldbox Companion?

 

[smaug]

I may have ran out of money and I downloaded the games from some site. But GBC only works with GOG versions.

Have the GOG for the forgotten realms, but not Dragonlance.

 

[Grauken]

I may have ran out of money and I downloaded the games from some site. But GBC only works with GOG versions.

Have the GOG for the forgotten realms, but not Dragonlance.

the 2.01 version is supposed to work with other versions of the GoldBox games too

 

[smaug]

It’s not working for me. I’ll mess around with it later I guess. It would be great for auto mapping.

 

[Shane]

Hey team bedlam, is this the correct forum to seek advice about the gold box companion. I have a saved game in death knights of keynote, I can load it from a fresh start but the GBC says there are no saved games.
Transferring characters from CoK became too damn hard so I just thought I’d modify my DKK characters.

 

[Erebus]

The beginning of Champions is peculiar because the PCs and most enemies have very poor saving throws, making them very vulnerable to spells and special abilities. Even the giant centipedes (that have only one HP) can't be taken lightly because their poisonous bite can instakill one of your PCs.

Of course, it can work both ways (though Hold Person and Charm Person are useless against non-human opponents). Stinking Cloud is a lifesaver, and can make a battle considerably easier.


In Dark Queen of Krynn, where everyone is high-level, it's pretty much the opposite : everyone has very good saving throws, and casting spells that can be made useless by a successful saving throw isn't usually worth it.

 

[octavius]

Dragons have pretty poor saving throws, so Stinking Cloud and Hold Monster is always a good choice against them.
But using for example Charm Person or Hold Person vs high level humans is mostly a waste.

 

[Cael]

Dragons have pretty poor saving throws, so Stinking Cloud and Hold Monster is always a good choice against them.
But using for example Charm Person or Hold Person vs high level humans is mostly a waste.

Stinking Cloud is the lifesaver in Treasures of the Savage Frontier, where you don't have dragonlances, and with a level cap of 11, you run into bloody ancient dragons.