User manual GAMES PC MIGHT AND MAGIC VII-FOR BLOOD AND HONOR

[. . . ] Might and Magic VII For Blood and Honor TM ® Player's Manual Table of Contents Welcome to Might and Magic® VII --------------------------------------------------------3 The Startup Menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Party Creation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------11 Character Statistics and Their Effects --------------------------------------------------12 Class: Skills --------------------------------------------------------------------------------13 Game Screens ------------------------------------------------------------------------------18 Things to Do While Adventuring --------------------------------------------------------26 Dealing with Objects ----------------------------------------------------------------------27 Dealing with Others ----------------------------------------------------------------------29 Towns ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30 Combat --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------33 Character Advancement--------------------------------------------------------------------36 Skills ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------37 Magic System ------------------------------------------------------------------------------42 Spells ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------44 Appendices ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------59 © 1999 The 3DO Company. Might and Magic, Blood and Honor, New World Computing, 3DO, and their respective logos, are trademarks and/or service marks of The 3DO Company in the U. S. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. New World Computing is a division of The 3DO Company. [. . . ] At Normal level, this bonus is 9% + 1% per level of skill. Experts receive double this bonus; Masters, triple; and Grand Masters, quintuple. At Normal level of expertise, the Meditation skill adds one to the character's maximum spell points value for each level of skill. For Experts, Masters and Grand Masters, the bonus is doubled, tripled and quintupled, respectively. Meditation: 40 Merchant: A character with the Merchant skill gets selling and buying prices in shops adjusted in their favor. The higher the skill level, the better the prices. For Experts the effect is doubled, and for Masters it is tripled. Grand Masters can buy items and sell items at their actual value. Possessing the Perception skill gives a character a chance to notice traps, hidden treasures and secret doors. It reduces the amount of damage they take from triggered traps. The higher the skill level, the greater these effects. For experts and Masters, the effects are doubled and tripled. Grand Masters have a 100% chance of receiving these benefits. Perception: Repair Item: The Repair Item skill gives a character a chance, based on their skill level, to repair broken items. To make the attempt, right-click on a broken item in the character's inventory. Normal level of expertise allows a character to attempt fixing an item. Experts have double the chance or repairing the item. Masters have three times the chance, and Grand Masters have 100 % chance to repairing the item. Stealing: The Stealing skill allows a character to attempt stealing items from shops, and gold and items from people. To use the skill, Ctrl-click on the item you want to steal or the person you want to steal from. Getting caught can have any number of bad effects. The chance of success is based on the character's skill level. The chance is doubled, tripled and quintupled respectively for Experts, Masters and Grand Masters. 41 Magic System Spell Books Your characters can use magic in the form of spells which they cast from their spell books. Each spell belongs to one of the nine schools of magic-- Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Body, Mind, Spirit, Light, or Dark. [. . . ] You can find links to many of these manufacturers' sites by going to the Driver Updates section of our support web site, which is located at http://www. 3do. com/support. You may obtain a list of Microsoft-certified video and audio drivers for your hardware by going to http://www. microsoft. com/hwtest/hcl/. Drivers listed here are confirmed to be compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT4. 0. Microsoft updates DirectX and its components regularly and posts them for download off of their web site at http://www. microsoft. com/DirectX. 62 Customer Support Web Site Visit www. 3do. com/support for late-breaking news and information, answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), links to hardware manufacturers' web sites, and the latest product updates. [. . . ]