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edit: the last 2 hours I was building up a new human, let him wrestle his way up to legendary, tried a few things to raise weaponskill, bought some nice stuff... then thought that swimming would build up agility nicley... then the fucking pool froze. At least I found a couple ways to improve..

Question: What am I doing wrong?
I recently started playing Adventure Mode. The latest release of the Lazy noob pack.
At first I started as hero, spent my points in str/agi/endu/toughness/a little in spatial/misc (I tuned down all the irrelevant skills such as musician, linguistics, etc)
For skills I chose swordsman/armor/shield/dodger/fighter/swimmer

Pretty straight forward.

The adventure started out fine, I did a couple quests, hired a couple mercs and set off into the distance.
I then got brutally murdered by a goblin crossbow man I didn't even see on screen. His bolt ripped through me, stunning me and then finishing me off.

I tried the same skills with exactly the same outcome. 4 - 6 quests, then sudden death after beeing unable to hit some Sahdowmonster for a couple turns.

I then tried demigod, invested the points in a similar matter and was, once again, this time a little later in game, slaughtered by a shadowmonster with a copper dirk. One turn I'm fine, next turn I'm in pain, bleeding, next turn I'm dead.


I know dying is a part of this game and I have no objections to this. Bus this seems kinda weird. Even in easymode (dmigod) with a sword (even more easy).

I noticed that I had big problems with hitting an enemy, most of them dodged, even on ground. I also noticed at some point that I hada shitload of crap in my hands. Does this have a negative effect on fighting (I promptly "p"ut them in my backpack)? I wasn't overloaded though and wore pretty decent gear in mostly all of my games until now. (at least I wore everything I found and didn't drop any vital armor piece)

So... am I missing something? Should I consider doing only certain quests from certain sources (fort/town/... if it even matters?), should I hunt wildlife or raise my skills in any other way?

As far as the basics go, I read the wiki articles, I am allways doing aimed attacks wich are easy/square or are marked as opportunistic (I think those are the, at least in LNP, attacks marked with a light blue exclamation mark).

cheers x

My Girlfriend just started playing... she's now at 130 Dwarfs... and allready had 7 posessed dwarfs... it's allways posessions... what a let down.

anyway, enjoy this comic I just made because I am bored.

No. I haven't reached any caverns yet. I'm kinda reluctant and am training military now. The fort is shut off with a raised draw bridge.
I had a visit from a 7 headed Dragon but it said nothing about poison or anything else, only beware its seven headed blabla...
The Merchants killed it with ease, I didn't even interfere.

My girlfriend was mildly amused herself when I started splutring out how amazing and rich this game is.. caring for my dwarfs, let them make booze and have them be adopted by kittens...

But she plays a lot of sim city 4 and likes the whole "Sims" frenchise over all, so it was pretty easy to explain it.

Let me guess: you've not hit your 3rd spring yet? It's only in the first year that you get guaranteed immigrants in summer and autumn. After that, you only get immigrants in spring. It's possible to get immigrants in other seasons still but it's very rare after the first year.

By the way, be prepared to step up from the stonecrafting industry. The trade caravans will bring more and more in response to you exporting more and more.

Hm. That's possible. I kinda lose track of time passing since I usually do a lot of research during the game and a lot of micromanagement. So it seems longer than it probably is.

"outside refuse gathering" THIS will solve my Problem. I didn't touch that option so it's still on default. Thank you.

As for export and population. There are Dwarfs, Humans and Elves. (Caravans)
I do a lot of trade and buy pretty much everything. I started stonecrafting very early and allways have a shitton of stuff to trade. I usually pass on the fancy stuff like rare wood barrels for 2-5k .. but apart from that I usually go nuts.
I even keep the elves friendly, suckers prohibited chopping down trees to 120 a year.

Next thing will be military... hooray.