"After dying too many times and waiting way too long for the endless disk access when loading games I decided to take a peek at my saved games. Initially I had a hard time finding my attributes because they aren't defined in numbers within the game, but I began to look around in the directories that the install program created. In a the sub-dir TEXT, there is another directory called CHARGEN, it contains the initial information used when creating the characters at the start of the game in an ASCII text file called CHARDATA. It seems to be of this general configuration:
START
Mr. Charles Weiss
It was announced yesterday that an heir to the Winthrop estate has been
found. Mr. Charles Weiss of Bangor, Maine, who... (blah, blah, blah)
STATS
2 3 2 2 5
1 1 1 1
0 0 3 0
1 1 0 0
2 5
8 2
-1 -1
START
Lucy Weston (etc....)
All I'm concerned with at the moment are the lines below STATS. The first line is your major characteristics, in the order of DEXTERITY, KNOWLEDGE, STAMINA, STRENGTH, and WILLPOWER. So in this example, DEX = 2; KNOW = 3;STA = 2;STR = 2;WILL = 5.
It's good to set those to at least 200, that will give you a large
amount of magic as well as health. The next three lines are the
individual attributes that are under the DEXTERITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND
STRENGTH headings. (such as ELECTRONICS, FIREARMS, MEDICINE, etc.)
Generally if you set these to something above 10 (15 works quite nice)
you won't ever fail at the things that you try.
The next two lines represent the spells that you start with. They are
represented in the form of:
[SPELL][AMT. MAGIC USED] I think those are pretty much
self-explanitory.
One thing though, you can only have two spells at the start, so make it
good ones (Wind of Destruction or Shards of Annihilation are good attack
spells), and make sure to use Elixir of Health)
I've included the list of spells in the game along with this file. If
you don't want any spells... use -1 -1, -1 -1, -1 -1 through the three
lines. You don't really need a powerful attack spell in the game after
you hike your stats up, I was pretty much able to kill about anything
with one hit from my briefcase, although Sword of the Shadow kills alot
quicker for the nastier monsters.
If you're already in the middle of a game and don't want to start over
then get out your hex editor
(Norton's DE, PCTOOLS, or the like) for this next part. A list of the hex offsets for the character's attributes follows:
DEXTERITY - 5,282
KNOWLEDGE - 5,284
STAMINA - 5,286
STRENGTH - 5,288
WILLPOWER - 5,290
all breakdowns of those attributes are in even numbered hex locations
5,294 - 5,316
When your character gets low on health or magic(and he/she will!) the
hex addresses for your health are here
MAXIMUM PRESENT
Health 5,262 - 5,263 5,264 - 5,265
Magic 5,266 - 5,267 5,268 - 5,269
Well that's all I've really found out so far... I know the locations of
the spells in HEX... but so far I haven't been able to figure out how
they are added to your spellbook.
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