> I am fairly certain that you can win with
ANYTHING, as long as you're willing to keep at
it long enough. I'm currently playing my fourth
game of MR, and I have only one character in
my party. A wizard, and I've not retrained him
once, so all he has is the full complement of
wizard spells. I'm probably one day's play from
winning now. My single character is at
something like level 98 and has almost 2000
hit points and about 1500 spell points.

Well, that'll teach me to speak out of turn. A
week and a half later and I'm still churning
away at the same game. I've got my wizard up
to level 204 now. I still haven't finished, and it's
not for lack of trying...

> My point is, you don't have to retrain anybody
to win the game. It'll just take more time, to
build up your characters to a point where
they're strong enough to handle the most
advanced monsters.

I may have been incorrect in saying this. The
reason I haven't finished my game is that I
can't get past the first batch of Murkon's Royal
Escorts or whatever they're called. Even at a
speed of 13, I'm not fast enough to get in a
BODYARMOR spell before they hit me, and as
wizard, the maximum armor level I've been
able to acheive is 23-24, depending on what
I'm equipping. That includes the use of
MEDLEY. Every time I take 'em on, I get
paralyzed and dragged back to town.

I still haven't found any unique wizards-only
items that might give me the edge I need, so
I'm not giving up yet, but... I have a sinking
feeling that it may be impossible to *get to*
Murkon with a wizard who hasn't been
crossed-trained as something else, no matter
how high a level you take him to.

Gri"will keep playing until I win or run out of
money"shny