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Mike S.  <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>I am pretty sure the game was Might and Magic III: The Isles of Terra,
>but don't hold me to that.  I remember some of my party members were
>dying a lot. I didn't notice at first, but when I did, I took a closer
>look at their stats and noticed that they had very few hit points! I
>realized soon that it was due to having very little vitality. What
>happened to their vitality?!? Oh.... ok..... that's what happened.....
>
>**Casting Resurrection will permanently remove one point of vitality
>with each use of this spell.**. Well, it would have been nice to know
>that 40 resurrections ago!
>
>So what was happening was I cast resurrection on my dead character.
>They come back to life with fewer hit points as loss in vitality will
>do that.  So they will die even faster now of course. When they do, I
>resurrect them again. They come back to life with even fewer hit
>points so now they die even faster. When they do die, I resurrect
>again........
>
>I have never ever once in my gaming career cast a resurrection spell
>on a party member in an old school RPG ever again. Death of a single
>party member is treated the same way level drain is to me... which is
>to immediately reload the game.

Yah, that penalty for resurrection spells led me to do same thing, never
use it and just reload the game.  Fortunately, when I played Might and
Magic III I didn't have learn that the hard way, I read it in the spell
description in manual.  It helped that D&D had the same disadvantage,
so I knew to look for it.

What burned me in M&M3 were these crystal things (I think) in one of
the dungeons that permantly decrease your stats without telling you.
I got screwed over by them during two separate playthroughs, both times
only discovering what happend long after I had overwriten my save.

					Ross Ridge

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