I have rerolled my characters for a third time. I think I understand the rules a bit better and my original builds on reflection weren't very good.
This time I've kept all of the characters to basic classes. I have three fighters, a cleric, a bard and a mage. My bard is going to learn skullduggery and carry out thief skills.
I think where I went wrong last time was that I dumped all of my stats into what I thought were the most important skills for each character - so the fighters got loads of strength and vitality for example, but little else. This meant that they were good at what they did but would be unlikely to be able to change classes later in the game to something better. You do get random stat increases (and decreases, I think) every level but that's not reliable.
So this time I've spread my points more widely with a view to later class changing. For example, one of my fighters is set up to change to a valkyerie later in the game, and another to a ninja (and possibly into a lord from there or maybe back to a fighter).
On the downside, no-one is has particularly high strength - which affects carrying capacity from the outset and apparently can't be improved later in the game.
Anyway, I'm now ready to go again! I'll be entering the castle tonight.
This time I've kept all of the characters to basic classes. I have three fighters, a cleric, a bard and a mage. My bard is going to learn skullduggery and carry out thief skills.
I think where I went wrong last time was that I dumped all of my stats into what I thought were the most important skills for each character - so the fighters got loads of strength and vitality for example, but little else. This meant that they were good at what they did but would be unlikely to be able to change classes later in the game to something better. You do get random stat increases (and decreases, I think) every level but that's not reliable.
So this time I've spread my points more widely with a view to later class changing. For example, one of my fighters is set up to change to a valkyerie later in the game, and another to a ninja (and possibly into a lord from there or maybe back to a fighter).
On the downside, no-one is has particularly high strength - which affects carrying capacity from the outset and apparently can't be improved later in the game.
Anyway, I'm now ready to go again! I'll be entering the castle tonight.