The main purpose of this run (six caster MDP including Bard, Gadgeteer and one each of the four Specialist Casters) is to give one example of how to generate an extended game, lasting until the mid-twenties of levels, to give the party a much tougher wringing out (and potentially deeper self-evaluation) and to have time to bring out the full capacity of magic within this game. I have been asked to document all of the areas visited and the sequence of doing so that results in the extended game I claim. I a...

I discovered that if you are combining say (1st) Flash and (2nd) Sneeze powders and there is nothing below the sneeze powder in the party inventory, the pandemonium powder created will disappear. If there is an ale or so on below it doesn't happen. So I guess it would work that way for anything that is combined or mixed, have not tested others but did re-create it with the powders. This could create a problem though for something like gooda vine, just a heads up if any didn't know this was an issue....

Fighter class's Berserk is one of the most overpowered abilities in the game, doubling all your melee damage for a flat to-hit penalty that's mostly insignificant by the end of the game. It's also fully online from the first level in Fighter, unlike the Rogue's backstab that requires 20 Rogue levels to reach full power (instead Fighter's scaling ability is its knockout chance, which goes from 3% at level 1 to 5% at level 20, nothing to write home about). Fighters also get the most HP per level, best attack...

After many many years I wanted to try a ranged party again. While melee parties always work, and magic parties as well, as the current extended MDP game run shows, ranged parties are far less common. So for this run, the idea was the next: Try to kill as much as possible on ranged distance, if enemy approaches, chars should be capable to "defend" themselves. Since ranged damage by itself is not good enough for early sustainability, add one bishop for support and also add magic damage. The preference for ...

Regarding class switching... and RPC's, with Cosmic Forge, we can modify the RPC's. Now I have to wonder, why modders didn't take advantage of this... at least, not in the mods I've played. While I'm working on this, I'm thinking to change up the RPC's a little by fine tuning their stats to be more in line with how we'd develop our party characters. The goal is to make them a better character that players would 'want' to keep in their parties more. As it is, many of them seem like they were built a bit won...