Lands of Lore - hints
                           By Sue

I thoroughly enjoyed Lands of Lore and though the game is
relatively easy due to the on-screen mapping and heavy hints from
other characters, there were a few moments when it suddenly got
hard. Here are a few hints for those sections that I hope you'll
find useful.

Classes

Everyone I know picks Conrad as their character as he is a good all
rounder. He will become a good fighter by the end. Don't do like I
did and try to build up all your party equally. You need a strong
rogue (level 4 to 5) by the end. Make sure you build one up.

The Slug in the Urbish Mines

This is the first really tough monster you meet. Not only does it
have a lot of HP but it causes you to drop your weapons and
shields. I dashed to the exit to the forest, saved, gave it a bash
and went out into the forest. There I healed, went back in, gave
it another belt and back out. If you do it like this, you'll find
it no problem.

Undead

You'll first meet these ghosts and wraiths in the White Tower but
there are more later in Scotia's Castle. I used emerald blades
which can do much more damage than ordinary weapons. Hand of Fate
spells are also good. You can also use Vaelan's Cubes if you have
a spare, which I didn't in the White Tower but did by the end.

You can evidently duplicate Cubes using the following method which
I haven't tried. Put a dark cube in a character's weapon hand.
Exit the inventory screen looking at one of Scotia's Barriers and
click on the weapon hand icon with the dark cube equipped. This
creates a white cube in the hand cursor. Put the dark cube in your
inventory and equip the white one. Exit inventory and click on the
weapon hand equipped with the white cube, creating a dark cube in
the hand cursor. Put this in your inventory, exit the inventory
and click on the weapon hand with the white cube again, creating
another black cube and breaking up the barrier.

Yvel City

When the Orcs attack, the battle will seem to take a long time. Be
patient. The monsters regenerate in the fog at the end of alleys.
Fight in a short dead end where they don't regenerate, then you
can duck down and heal when there's a break in the fighting.

Lightning Bugs

These are a pain! They drain spell points very quickly. You can
use the Dark Gauntlet to swat them but I used fireball spells.
Make use of the doors, lure the bugs to them, duck through and
shut the door and rest to restore mana, open the door, let off a
spell and rest again if necessary.


Knowles and Xeobs

It seems very hard that you have to annihilate one race but that's
the way it goes ... I dispatched the Knowles as they seemed to
have fewer HP though they cast some powerful spells. Again, I used
doors to hide behind whenever possible, healed, went back in and
used fireball spells. As my characters were pretty strong by then,
I dumped my armour for a few fights to save it being dissolved,
which would have forced a restore.

Room with no Map

This is in Scotia's Castle and it is quite a shock to lose your
map after you've been used to having it. I used the traditional
text adventurer's mapping method of dropping objects. You have to
drop items on the plates, but I dumped more stuff too at other
locations. I could then tell which way I had been teleported or
spun.


Scotia

Before entering her room, save and put the Whole Truth in your
cursor hand. As soon as she stops speaking, click it on her to
disable the Nether Mask. She is much easier to kill in her human
form. Use Guardians and Mist of Doom spells to kill her.













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