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I got stuck in Upper Orcam dungeon. Can anyone help me? It made me download a walkthrough and it says that there should be a secret passage in a cross-shaped room with teleporter in the center. I cast Penetrate and I can see a room on the other side of the wall but I still can't pass through it! There is a statue of Dwarven god above the wall where secret passage should be but manipulating it doesn't seem to help.

For those that can't save the game.

It is not the directory that is read only, but games.nam file in blade directory. In Windows Explorer click on the properties of the file and unmark read only.

:angel: you're welcome

I almost forgot,
you should do the same in the Blade/temp directory

Wow! What a great game for an old school roleplayer like me! k:
It really got me interested about the original pencil&paper game...

Is there anybody out there who possesses information about the exact function of all the various spells? The names can be quite confusing at times, and you have so many available since the very beginning that... I don't really know what my party members can do! :help:
The PDF manual does not explain much about the spells (it only provides statistics). Did the designers of the game originally mean players to find that out by trial-and-error?

Also, is there a built-in method to view the stats of items (weapons, armor, etc.), in-game? Such as knowing how much damage does a certain weapon inflict. Or, are players supposed to guess, based on name, appearance and price - only?

The original P&P game ("Das Schwarze Auge" DSA or "The Dark Eye" TDE in english) is now in its 4th edition. The support for the english version is rather weak though, as it was never a hit outside of german speaking countries. Maybe to low powered, maybe not enough hack 'n slay.

But if you are interessted in this P&P game, just go to the homepage of the producer www.fanpro.de OR to one of the two most important fanpages: www.dsa4.de or www.alveran.org.

The producers page should be avaible in english as well, and the shop does hold the currently avaible english books. On the fanpages (they are in german though) just look for the forum, and post away in english. Most people will be glad to answer your questions, and try to help you.

Hello everybody,
the original game came with a map, which was rather helpful 'cause you get all those hints for the map parts and then you have to figure out how to get there. It'd be nice if somebody could post the map that showed the roads and the name of all the places. As it is it is annoying to guess where each place could be since travelpoints only show the next place you can reach. Hope somebody can help me with this.

[Mad-E-Fact]

Try the edonkey network. I found a huge 20mb map of the whole continent there, where you can zoom way in and see every single town and road just as on the original map.

thanx for the help,
I'll try there but I'm on a dial up connection and 20 MB is huge. I was hoping for a jpg of the map several KB large.

[Mad-E-Fact]

That was just an example, of course you can get a different one. Just make sure it's a map of the Thorwal region.

Couldn't find a map on edonkey but I found the original map atmap128k

Thanx again, I appreciate the effort