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Bards Tale 1 transfer characters

A topic by Terranbear99 created Mar 14, 2022 Views: 218 Replies: 6
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Is it possible to transfer bard's tale 1 characters. I went through the utilities menu and inserted with what was the character menu. Then the prompt was 'press return' to read the character rooster. Then it crashed to desktop

Developer

I’ve never tested this, because all I read about it is that it’s gimmicky and not worth it. But I’d like it to work! Have you tried running the game on AppleWin and going through the same process?

Once they’re imported, quit AppleWin and play DLRL.

I’ll grab a BT player disk from the Net and try to replicate the crash. Thanks for the report.

That worked as you suggested. It transfers game equilivent class,name and equilivent race. The transfered characters begin at level one and the stats are transfered, strength,, int, luck> power, con, dex. Im going to play around with ultima 3 characters and see how they turn out. No equipement is transfered.

Developer

i assume the stats are reduced to fit the max per class in Deathlord. If that’s the case, then you’re probably better off with the autoroller but I understand the interest in moving one’s own characters over.

Developer

I have identified the bug and it will be fixed in the next release. However, I really don't recommend transferring characters as their attributes will be changed to fit the starting range of Deathlord's races, so you are generally better off just recreating a character with the autoroller.

18 is the max from a bt1 character. That and if one imports a restricted race/character class there isnt a graphic to go with the character profile, its a black box

Developer

Okay so importing chars doesn’t force a race/class combo that Deathlord has. I haven’t created portraits for infeasible combos of race and class, but I didn’t account for imports.

BT1 chars having 18 max means that you can’t have trolls with STR 21 and that is no good. Frankly, imports are useless.