Beginner tips?

[Sodie Popping]

I'm gonna start the game, never played before nor any CRPGs or isometric games, i want to go in as blind as possible however are there any must know tips so i dont horribly fail at this game? Any advice or tips for a beginner like me

[figmentPez]

Copy and paste from previous posts of mine:

The absolute best combat tip: Litany of Curses (Morte's ability), use it early, and keep using it until it starts to feel like cheating. It's not a spoiler that he has this ability, he has it right from the start, but many people miss it because there's a lot to take in at the start of the game.

Choose which of the three classes you want The Nameless One to be (fighter, thief, mage) and look to get trained into that class as soon as it's offered to you. All three classes are good.

When it comes to stats, Wisdom is the most useful since it gives an XP bonus, and it unlocks a lot of dialogue choices. Intelligence and Charisma also open a lot of dialogue options, but they're also fairly easy to temporarily buff. Strength, Constitution and Dexterity and kinda the default dump stats, but they do have their uses. (A high strength fighter can absolutely wreck.) But there's no need to worry if you've chosen other stats. Honestly, I'd be surprised if it were possible to accidentally make a character that just can't progress. This is not a combat heavy game, and what combat there is can be cheesed, if you absolutely have to.

Talk to everyone, and talk to everyTHING. There are items you can talk to or interact with when they're in your inventory. Talk to your party members when they're in your party; talk to them again after major story events. Heck, talk to yourself when you get to that point in the game!

Save before talking to characters, same way you might save before combat in other RPGs.

Don't feel you have to rush to complete quests. There's no time limit forcing you to run across the map as soon as someone tells you to do it. Explore along the way. Get to know the starting area of the Hive.

Take time to learn how the interface works and what you can do with it. I especially recommend taking a look at the auto-pause options, and how to use each new party member's abilities (e.g. learn how to Find Traps if/when you get a thief.)

Rings don't depreciate in value when you sell them repeatedly to a vendor, but everything else does. A bronze ring will sell for 40 copper to most vendors, and will continue to sell for that much. A bronze bracelet, however, will start at 60 but drop to 45 after you've sold one to that vendor, then to 30, and finally bottom out at 15. If you want to maximize your cash flow, save up common drops like copper earrings and bronze bracelets until you can sell a whole inventory full at once. Selling 20 bronze bracelets all at once for 1200 copper is a lot more than selling them one at a time for a total of 390 copper. (Find a favored container somewhere to store stuff you aren't using. Don't carry around vendor trash if you don't have to.) This leads to some difficulty in deciding when to sell less common drops, like certain types of weapons, but I think if you just stick to hoarding the most common stuff in the game it'll be enough of a bonus. (Copper, bronze and silver jewelry are the most common drops. Along with a couple items that are spoilers, but drop in a farming location and are worth a TON for the first sale.)

[Groove]

I like to turn on the option for auto-pause at the start of combat. Since you're getting used to things, it can give you a moment to prepare. Also, don't forget you can pause combat at any time (with the spacebar I believe it was). I just started the game tonight myself - it's been literally decades since I played it. I basically forget everything, it's like a whole new experience. ;)