Daggerfall Hints - Part 1

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THE ORDERS
If you chose a character that has certain attributes, and juggle
it just right, you can theoretically join up to 6 orders. They
include the Mages Guild, Fighters Guild, Thieves Guild, the Dark
Brotherhood, a Knightly Order, and a Temple. Of course joining all
of these orders will subject you to a great amount of expectation
from each faction, so it is quite a juggling act. You ask how can
you join the Dark Brotherhood and a Knightly Order at once? Just
don't let the Knightly Order find out. After all, the Dark
Brotherhood is a secret organization, and your membership should
be secret as well.

TEMPLES
Chose a Temple wisely. You can only join one, and your membership
is permanent. Pick the Temple that has access to certain exclusive
benefits that will suite your needs. What if you find out you
don't like the Temple that you have joined and want to join
another one? There is a way to do it: get kicked out. Do things
which will rile the feathers of the Temple you joined, and they
will eventually disassociate you. Once you are kicked out, you
will not have access to all the benefits that they offered before.
Note that getting kicked out is not an easy task to do. You have
to really work at it.

INGREDIENTS FOR POTIONS
Need more ingredients to conjure up your next batch of magical
potions? Certain enemies tend to carry more ingredients. If you
kill them, you can search their body. Harpies and Imps tend to
carry a number of ingredients.

MAKING MAGICAL ITEMS - SOUL GEMS
It is possible to use a soul gem to increase the magical potential
of an item. First, make sure you have a soul gem in your
inventory. Cast Soul Trap on a monster. Kill the monster while the
spell is still active.  Now carry the soul back to a guildhall
that has an Item Maker. When making the item, select the special
advantage Soulbound. You will be shown a list of available souls
to use.

COMBAT - IMPACT
Some enemies are considered light in weight, such as skeletons and
rats. When attacking these creatures, try to fight them when they
are against a wall. Your attack can strike an enemy and send it
flying back from the force of your attack. If it hits the wall
from the force, it can take on extra damage. It's quite amusing to
see a particularly extra light enemy take a hard hit, fly back a
few feet, hit a wall and die from the impact!

COMBAT - AVOIDING IT
The higher your skill in communicating with particular creatures,
the more likely you can avoid deadly combat and can go about your
way in peace. This skill is listed under Miscellaneous Skills in
your Character Sheet screen. In order to communicate, you must
have your weapon put away (who would want to talk to someone who
looks ready for combat?) If you successfully convince a monster
not you attack you, they will go about their own business.
However, if you are truly the devious type, you can attack with
its back turned! Your success in communicating is the % rate
listed by the specific skill.  Thus if your skill % rate is 80%,
you have an 80% success rate in attempting to communicate. Every
time you attempt to communicate with other creatures, even if you
fail to successfully do so, your skill in communicating with that
particular creature will improve. Language skills increase at a
greater rate if your intelligence is higher.

CLIMBING DOWN PITS
You see a big pit before you, and you want to enter the abyss.
Unless you know that you can survive a long fall, it is best not
to jump straight down. For those that can cast a Slow fall or
Levitate spell, your descent will be easy. For everyone else, you
are going to need a magical item or potion that will grant you the
ability to get down there safely. Often times, there is more than
one way to get to a certain area. Try looking for another way down
before jumping into a pit. Also make sure you can get back out!


DUNGEON SECRETS - TRAPDOORS
All trapdoors that you find cannot be opened directly. You have to
find a lever, or solve a puzzle to open them. Most of the time,
the lever is evident and can be easily found. Other times, the
lever could be a chain hanging from a ceiling or a floating skull.
There are one or two dungeons where the lever is one of the
torches hanging on the wall!  Trying to find the right torch can
be downright mindnumbing!

DUNGEON SECRETS - SECRET DOORS
Secret doors and chambers are often hard to find in dungeons.
Unless you check your automap. Secret doors to hidden areas are
shown as empty spaces in the automap. Rotate the dungeon around to
look for these anomalies. This is also a good way to locate the
exit to the dungeon if you get lost. The exit is indicated by a
green marker. It's hard to see, so you have to look carefully.

DUNGEON AUTOMAP
You can left click on a piece of the dungeon to make it flash.
Clicking on the gray bar at the bottom of the screen produces a
cursor.  Whatever you type in there is attached to that piece. To
see the description again, click on the dungeon piece, and its
description appears in the bar at the bottom of the screen. You
can right click on a piece of the dungeon to hide it temporarily.
If you are having trouble seeing parts of the dungeon, this is a
good way to reveal the solution to the maze.

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