A long shot, but here goes... (Lore v2.50 played locally) reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- acherion · 2023-12-10 02:15 Hey everyone, First of all, I couldn't think of anywhere else to ask this question, so if the mods feel this doesn't belong here, please feel free to remove. I've been playing Lore v2.50 for a while on-and-off, and love the game to bits. I used to play it locally and on BBSes back in the day on my 386 PC when I was a kid, and now as a middle-aged man I run it on macOS in Dosbox. I've picked up the game again and am playing through the storyline, cheating *just a little bit* by having the language and conversation files open in a text editor to try and figure out what to say to a character when I'm stuck in a rut. All well and good, and have been progressing pretty far into the storyline, but I am now stuck at trying to find Turgras's house to ask him about the dwarven cache puzzle. I remember way back when what the clue Turgras gives you was, and opening the cache, but that was more than 20 years ago and I can't find his house again. Looking through the language files, I can see the dialog that Turgras would say to me once I find him, and I can see that there is a location in the data files called "House of Turgras" but I can't actually find it in the game map. I've looked all over, had the elves defeated the lizard men and hiked through the desert etc etc and I have all the races in agreeance with fighting Zaal, except for King Delg / dwarven king (due to finding Turgras) and I think the Bird Men as well as they want to know that the dwarves agree first. I've been using the gemstone to map out Crusonia and have gone through all these little rabbit holes and sailed all the oceans, but can't find Turgras's house. King Delg says it's in the mountains "to the west of here" but some other character with Turgras's book says it's in East Naugrim, and I've checked there and his house ain't there. Apologies once again for asking here, I don't know where else to ask, this is a very obscure BBS game (even though I am playing locally) and my search-fu has returned nothing. I bet this will be one of the top search results for "lore bbs" search terms once Google picks it up again! Thanks in advance! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2023-12-10 03:26 No idea, but I also always dug this game but never got all that far. What strategy recommendations do you have? Specific weapon/armor/character details? Combat recommendations? Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- acherion · 2023-12-10 03:34 Until you get access to the Elves’ city in the forest to the south of ThistleDale (you’ll need to speak to Elrond to teach you the elven passage of text) and get the Celendriel weapons and armor, you’ll have to stick with the more conventional weaponry. I use missile weapons as they are ranged and you can get a few hits on the enemy (if you skill up enough – I play as Warrior Monk) before they get a chance to get up close to you and attack. I used Crossbow of Flame and some rigid leather armor but I was getting killed often by Black Stalkers when I got to level 40+. Now that I have Celendriel armor, nothing really stops me now. I currently have Celendriel shield, helmet, mithril plate and crossbow, my attacks are usually between 180-300 points and no enemy can attack back without missing. The Crossbow of Flame is still good, it’ll hit maybe 50-80 HP of the enemy, and there’s a small chance it burns the eyes on your enemy, which means that they will be stunned for over 1000 rounds, plenty of time to kill them off. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2023-12-10 04:01 Thanks! I feel like this game is such an under-the-radar sleeper. This is great. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- acherion · 2023-12-10 04:08 Yeah absolutely, the fact that it captivated me back when I was younger, and I have still sunk so many hours into it now playing it a second time, tells you that it's a great game to play. I have found however that there are bugs – I've come across a story plot where I have to go to a character to retrieve something late- game, and when you go to the character there's no way to retrieve that item (I won't put out any further spoilers!) and getting out of the elven city will cause a memory error and boot you out of the game – the only way around that is to use the Lore Config tool and send your character home. Note that this will cancel all your turns for the day and reset your character to be near Castle Crusonia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- acherion · 2023-12-10 04:12 Another tip I'll share is that when you are tasked to kill a dragon (there's a few in the game), whatever your skill of attack is with your weapons won't matter much ie. if you're hitting 50-80 HP or even 100 with conventional enemies, when trying to attack the dragon your hits will take only 15-20 HP off the dragon. Meanwhile the dragon is hurting you at around 100HP at a time. So stock up on health restoration potions! When you get really low (under 100HP), chug that potion and keep attacking. If you run away from the dragon, the dragon's HP is restored so you'll have to start all over again. Timing is important, as most dragons will take more than one turn to hit you versus you hitting them only once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zelionthunder · 2023-12-10 04:23 I still have it hosted on my BBS, Love hopping on there. Game feels so big, easy to get lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2023-12-10 04:52 Huh, interesting. Did you ever flag this to the devs? I do have contact info for them, not sure if they'd maintain this though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2023-12-10 04:52 This is great advice, thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- zelionthunder · 2023-12-10 04:59 I think the most they do these days is provide reg keys if you ask. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2023-12-10 06:11 I just reset the game to get a fresh start, and then took it upon myself to create a character and then hex edit the users file to give myself halfway decent starting stats :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2023-12-10 21:01 I have LORE over at the Diamond Mine Online. :)