Quest Player Manual

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Character Classes

Each class has a number of professions. These are characters that started out life training under their more general heading but found they had a natu ..
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Character Names

You will have already named your character when you recruit them but if you wish to change their names, this can done using the following order. RE ..
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Character Professions

Each class also has a number of professions. These are characters that started out life training under their more general heading but found they had a ..
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Character Races

There are many races living on Kharne but only four are suitable for adventuring, these being, human, elf, dwarf and halfblood (the result of a human ..
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Character Sex

All characters when they arrive at your party are classed as male unless you use the XF order. You can if you wish change them to female. The sex of t ..
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Chat List

Some of the 'monsters' controlled by the computer are characters or people that travel from town to town or can be found in shops. You can attack them ..
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Combat

As you would expect in a fantasy environment, combat can be frequent and deadly. You can order your party to attack other players' parties as well as ..
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Combat - Arena

Arenas are an exciting place to learn much about combat. It gives you the chance to pit your party against another player's party in a duel. The diffe ..
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Combat - Attitude

A (target/0/180) (attitude) Attitude will affect how your party reacts when it encounters other parties, NPC's or monsters. You may have an overall ..
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Combat - Breakdown

As you would expect in a fantasy environment, combat can be frequent and deadly. You can order your party to attack other players' parties as well as ..
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Combat - Critical Hits

A critical hit is a successful attack that has hit a vital location, or at the most effective angle and thus can cause more damage than a standard hit ..
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Combat - Dynamic Combat Clarification

The combat system in Quest does not work on a statistical basis only. This means that an encounter with a monster group or another player party is not ..
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Combat - Initiating Combat

There are two common ways to start a fight. You can issue an ENGAGE order that will cause your party to attack the monsters or other player's party as ..
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Combat - Party Versus Party Fights

When fighting other parties there is a possibility that one side might overwhelm the other. Due to this, if more than a third of your party would have ..
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Combat - Tactics

By now you will have encountered a number of monsters, some of which were easy to kill, and others that may well have been more difficult. As your par ..
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Combat - Withdrawing From Combat

Once a fight has started, it will continue until one side has either been eliminated or retreats from the battle. In the case of player owned parties, ..
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Combat Descriptions

The combat description describes how the combat went. It is possible to misinterpret the damage reports from damaging an opponent when a light wound i ..
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Combat Example

This is a full battle taken from the party Goldbrickers. At the time of this combat they were ten turns old. They comprise of only six characters. Onc ..
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Combat Experience

All characters taking part in combat will gain experience points. These, along with some gold, can be exchanged for skill increases at training shops ..
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Combat Options

As the computer deals with combat, all the actions that your characters will attempt during combat must be specified beforehand. At this time though, ..
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