Ieldra

A few more things: (1) If you're not content with your starting position, you can use "CTRL+N" to quick-start a new game if (and only if) you never left the game and loaded a saved game after starting. So start a new game, play a few turns until you have a good impression of your surroundings and if things look too bad, start over. (2) This also applies to "finding loot that sucks" in the first few camps you explore. In my first game, I had the incredible luck of finding t

[quote who="Fallenchar" reply="3" id="3388737"] I always pick the weapon with the highest initiative bonus, +3 or +4. Much more useful than 10% spell damage. You have to be prepared to start in the front row, but since you act first, that shouldn't be a problem.[/quote] Exactly this. Acting first and often is very important. I tend to use a sword or dagger with high initiative bonus and advance up the mage tree until I get to "-1 to casting times" in parallel with one spell

I'm in my second game. In my first, I found a number of quests to raise my fame early in the game. In the current one, in spite of expanding faster I didn't find more than one until turn 75, except for two Deadly/Epic ones I'm not up to at this point, and a fake "weak" one that didn't offer any fame. I wonder if this is just bad luck, or if it has something to do with having started fairly close to two other factions and their sovereigns wandering around and getting to all of

What I'd like to know is if anyone ever plays a sovereign - or any champion - with a ranged weapon. I found Initiative to be a much too important attribute to accept the heavy penalties that usually come with ranged weapons, since with high Initiative not only do you go first, but you get to act more often altogether. As for mages vs. other types, I find it hard to imagine playing a sovereign without any spellbook. The backstory says the rulers are all channelers, and if you resea