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- You can run multiple parties at the same time if you want. Have them back each other up in the same dungeon or let them explore separate paths or dungeons. But remember that recovering bodies requires empty spaces in the rescue party!

- In the same vein, it can be useful to have an ID monkey and his devout helper hang out at the recycle bin in novice road. Any time you discard an item in a dungeon, it ends up in the bin. From anywhere! Inventory full? Toss some stuff, station your party, switch to your 2 man ID party and pull all the stuff out of the recycle bin! If your inventory is full when you try to loot something, the loot is gone forever.

- You can get incredible mileage out of the worthless clothes you start with if you upgrade them in the laboratory. Every upgrade adds 1 defense. That's... what? 45 defense on a fully upgraded set? I forget. It's not a reasonable cost at first due to the Hard Rock required, but keep this in mind.

- I don't know what the student ID is for and I can't find a definitive answer. Toss it.

- Try to use your tension meter often. Spending tension increases the affinity of your party members. This raises your max tension and the rate at which it's generated.

- Bosses will eventually one-shot your entire party so hard that they skip death entirely and just turn to dust. The answer to this is usually the Burst Fire gambit. It always goes first and has perfect accuracy. The sheer number of hits is belts out is likely to stun anything. Spend the round after that unloading every non-gambit you have. Repeat this as often as you're able. And maybe pray a little.

- Races. Erdgeists are not immune to instant death traps. That race in general can be damn hard to use, but they're really fun when you crosstrain them into psychiceers with white and black magic on the side. Dwarves make fantastic monks. Also valkyries, if you're so inclined. Sprites can't use most equipment and fall over dead if you look at them wrong, but they get some fairly awesome unique stuff. Drakes, you want in front. DO IT. Warrior, paladin, samurai, whatever. Celestians I have a bad record with. The others I haven't played nearly as much.

- Paladins. You want one. They learn Cover, which causes them to take most attacks in place of others. Shields usually go in the off-hand, but there are some main hand shields for dual wielding tank action. They also have one of the highest experience curves. You may want to raise it as a warrior at first for lots of quick levels and big HP bonuses. Then you can change majors to paladin. This will reduce his level to 1 and cut his max HP in half, but he'll still start out well ahead of the curve.

- The level of an evoker's summoned monster depends on the evoker's level at the time the contract is made. If you want a particular summon at a higher level, you have to raise the evoker's level before going back to reform the contract. Evokers are neat, but I can't recommend one alongside a paladin. Some summons will try to use Cover and it conflicts in nasty ways with a paladin trying to use Cover.

- Each major can only learn a certain number of spells of each level and of each type. Look at rangers. They can have up to 2 out of 4 psychic spells of every level at any given time. The ones they learn are random. If you don't like what they get, you can choose to forget any number of them. Next time the ranger levels up, the empty slots are filled with more random spells! So uh, cheese that part by saving first. On a related note, be sure to prune your list of magic before changing majors if you're switching to something that won't remember as many spells. Otherwise they're deleted at random.

- Infirmary donations! Donating gold rewards the character with experience at a 1:1 rate. This is fantastic later on for new recruits or old favorites that just changed majors. ALWAYS save before donating for a level up. Stats will go up and down, yes. That's normal. They all tend to end up at about normal levels in the end. It's the HP and spell gains you want control over. This game will not hesitate to give you 1-3 HP per level regardless of vitality. I was settling for something around 12 for my squishiest casters most of the time. I've seen a 24 vitality drake warrior get 40 many times.