So little information on this game. Anyone able to answer some questions?

[Wendersnaven]

I've been looking for things online, and it took me forever to figure out stuff like a 'snuff box' is there to be sold. I have a ton of pelts but am guessing that they are useless items. Anyone know?

I don't know how to craft anything. I trained a character in bowyer, for instance. Invested points to skill up, bought a recipie, read it, have ingredients, use the work table and it says 'no recipies available.' How do you get a crafter to learn recipies for even simple things like making arrows?

There are a few guides out there like this one http://www.gamebanshee.com/drakensangthedarkeye/walkthrough/gameplaytips.php but there is so much left out. What do peices of armor even do, as in what's the benefit of wearing a hat? Is there a codex or something I am missing?

[Oneeyed]

http://en.drakensang.wikia.com/wiki/Drakensang_English_Wiki

Crafting:

1. You buy a recipe
2. You read the recipe (it vanishes from your inventory after it)
3. You go to a workbench (bowyer) or anvil (smith) or (alchemist's workbench) and click on it
4. you select a recipe in your recipe screen you want to craft
4a. things you can craft are colored green and things you can't craft are colored red on the left side of the crafting screen
4b. the requirements are a minimum skill for each item and of course you need the ingredients in the necessary amount of making at least 1 item
5. the crafted items are put into your inventory

You have to find recipes in the game world or buy them from merchants

Armor pieces:

Pieces of armor give you protection against damage of course and it tells you exactly how much. Just read the description. You get to a description by right click on an armor piece and then select the description icon. It also has a weight and it may hinder you in combat by decreasing your parry and/or dodge.

[Wendersnaven]

Thanks for the input. I must have something wrong with my game, as I can't get recipies to become memorized or combat talents learned, even when I have enough points. Point and click interface, but I feel like things aren't working probably because I used a character editor to rebalance the NPCs.

Also, the game manual doesn't appear through the Steam Library option. Thanks for that link, at first I thought is was the online game only.

[Oneeyed]

This has nothing to do with the online game.

And you learn combat talents at a trainer and not by clickíng on to them.

Do you select the right crafting tab in the crafting screen. There are 3 and maybe you have to select one of the 3 first. And just post a screenshot of your crafting screen

[NavFamG]

You also need to make sure that the character learning the recipe is the one trained in that skill. Using the recipe on your blacksmith, won't teach your bowyer. Recipe's are character specfic, no shared knowledge. Also it needs to be that character that clicks on the workbench.

Most of the stuff you loot or pickpocket is vendor trash; so the snuff boxes, pelts, dice and fluff is just junk to earn you some coin.

The various steel bars, leather, guts, plants and wood etc.... can be used for crafting.

Unless you really want to, you really don't need to do any crafting. Everything you'll need you can buy or earn in game. the only one I'd say is really useful if you want it is alchemist to make healing potions especially if you find you're going through them fast in fights.

[NavFamG]

The more armor you wear the better protected you are, but you need to watch how much wieght you're carrying or it'll slow you down.

Another source that's good for info is: https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=32

Not sure why you decided to use a character editor on the game, but you're right it might have screwed up the game.

If that's the case, delete, reload and start over.

Can I ask what you were trying to edit?

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Wendersnaven:

Also, the game manual doesn't appear through the Steam Library option. Thanks for that link, at first I thought is was the online game only.

Here's the game manual, just called it up and it worked for me, looks just like the hard copy I got with my boxed edition:

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/12640/manuals/manual_english.pdf?t=1447351678

Drakensang: The Dark Eye, Drakensang: The River of Time and Drakensang: Phil's Secret (DLC for RoT) are all 3rd person SPG games.

Drakensang Online has nothing to do with the Drakensang universe or game play beyond the word 'Drakensang'.

[Wendersnaven]

Cheers for the manual link! I'm a lit major ... can't learn unless I read a book, lol. #Iknowkungfu

I used the character editor to increase movement speed to make the game much more bearable. Also, if I rolled a character, I wouldn't waste so many points in things such as brawling.

The Amazon NPC was a little less than ideal to me, and was constantly on the verge of being competent at her skills but not performing. Subtracted here, added there, and made her an archer with some spear training and general nature specialty instead of the machete queen that is thrust upon you. You know, an actual Amazon instead of Danny Trejo's hot sister.

[NavFamG]

Been awhile since I've been in the character generation for Drakensang, but with RoT there's an advacnced button that 0's alot of the stuff out and refunds the points so you can have some control over the build.

I'd always put things like brawling or the weapons, skills I knew I wasn't going to use as low as possible and then spend or save as I wanted. If I saved the points then I'd spend them in game to get the skill I wanted (like spears) when I got to a trainer.

[Wendersnaven]

That's good to know about RoT. I've got it installed and run once to setup. Currently installing Phil's addon so I can run it through that for the full game content. Thanks for all the help you two.

I'm thinking of not messing around so much in the first one- such as picking pockets of every person in town or obsessively crafting everything I can, or reloading quick saves before I attempt to pick plants because I always fail. It's probably better to just enjoy the game and move on to the sequal.

I still don't know if I should just sell my wolf paws and pelts though.

[NavFamG]

For RoT w/Phil's Secret. After you finish loading Phil's Secret you'll end up with 2 game icons on your screen labeled /Drakensang2 or River of Time and Drakensang2- Phil's Secret

For it to properly work, launch RoT and let it go to the main selection screen (new game, load, save etc...), then close the game.

Now open up Phil's Secret and play the game from that icon. Delete the RoT icon as you won't use it.

Don't ask me why, but if you don't do it that way; ie you try to play the game only using the RoT icon Phil's Secret won't engage and all you'll have is RoT.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Wendersnaven:

I'm thinking of not messing around so much in the first one- such as picking pockets of every person in town or obsessively crafting everything I can, or reloading quick saves before I attempt to pick plants because I always fail. It's probably better to just enjoy the game and move on to the sequal.

I still don't know if I should just sell my wolf paws and pelts though.

Yes sell the paws and pelts, just vendor trash. Picking pockets and breaking barrels are a good easy way of gaining items to sell, every little bit helps.

Raise the plant skill for better chances to harvest plants, same for animal lore for getting stuff from wildlife kills.

Also if you try to pick plants with someone without any plant skills it'll always fail.

[Rizilliant]

For the game manual (as with many digital games) you can right click the game in your Steam Library>Properties>Local Files>Browse Local Files> and theres usually a Manual.pdf file. Sometimes it takes a little looking for the file, but its often there.. As well as some artbooks, etc.