I have, like many others (based on browsing again through this excellent forum) have returned to the earlier Wizardry versions. I've played CoDS at least a dozen times, and Wizardry VIII three times, the last time solo (a fairie ninja of course, and I remember well how long it took to train her very early on with those puny crabs before I could get past the rats and out of the monastery! At the end though, the little lass could kick ass better than anything on the planet).This has all been great fun of course and I've learnt a lot about character / party selection and development.
What I now want to do is to bring the same party starting in Bane through CoDS and to finish up in Wizardry VIII. I haven't played Bane before, and part of the attraction is that there seem to be some particularly nice items (e.g. diamond ring) that you can transfer with an imported party to W7, and part obviously is to travel with this group through these 3 great adventures.
Anyway, I digress and to the point - I'm a purist so I'm not into editing or character class changes (everyone to their own and perhaps I’m a bit old-fashioned) as they develop, but the one area I’m happy to compromise is in the area of character generation. I’ll do this for as long as it takes to roll the right character, and hence a little help is not inappropriate.
Having found the excellent Cosmic Forge Editor (thanks Mad God), it works well on Crusaders - characters with 25 or more bonus points are created often. However, when I run the program with Bane (change attribute bonus generation algorithm), I get the error “failed to open the file wpcmk.ovr”. Note that I specify the correct path and the program itself runs OK in terms of all the other functionality. My old Bane disk died (so I’m running on a downloaded version which itself also runs fine) and via DOSBOX 0.65.
Any help would be appreciated as I’m dying to start down that long road again …..
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