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Hi John,
I just started playing Oubliette (Version 2.1 on Android), and it's just the kind of game I love. But some things are not clear to me - would you please clarify?

1. Do I have access to all the gold owned by the characters in the tavern, even those who are not currently in my party?

2. If I delete a character, do I lose any gold?

3. How does the community pack work? In addition to my characters' equipped items and the "community pack" of 16 items each for the whole party, is there another community pack at the Tavern for the characters not currently in the party?

4. If I delete a character, are that character's equipped items deleted or do they move into the "community pack"?

5. Please remind me: If I enter the dungeon with the maximum number of carryable items, and then find 10 more items in the dungeon, can I carry those too, or do I have to drop stuff before I pick up anything new?

6. I'm not clear what gets restored by a portal. Suppose I create a portal, and then some time later I spend 10 minutes rearranging the party, redistributing items, selling unused items, and buying items; should I make another portal afterwards? I'd hate to die and have to redo all that work. Unless the portal retains the current party configuration and equippage even after you die?

7. How can I find out how much gold my party has while I'm in the dungeon? I want to know if I can afford item XYZ at the shop yet, but none of the menus in the dungeon display our gold.

8. Do you have to walk through walls in this game? In the oldies like Might & Magic, and maybe Wizardry (but I forget), some walls were actually secret doors so you had to test every single wall just in case. But please tell me before I waste hundreds of extra hours banging my head on every wall of the dungeon for no reason.

9. Is it easier to beat the game with 10 characters or with a smaller party like 4 or 6? Does the game give you proportionally fewer monsters if you have a smaller party?

10. When buying items in Grundig's store, is there a way to find information about the item before I buy it? For example, if I click on Short Sword, there doesn't seem to be any info about what damage it does, what classes can use it, etc. I certainly don't want to spend 500000 gold on a "Holy Ring" and it'll turn out it's just "AC -2" or something.

Thanks very much!

Thanks so much John for your quick reply! This is extremely helpful. Can't wait to play this more :)

I think the Grundig's store problem may have been a bug, and it's working correctly now after I quit the app and reopened it. (I thought I remembered it showing the info for each item I clicked on when I was originally experimenting with the pre-made characters) . I deleted all the premade characters to "make the tavern less crowded", then created 6 of my own chars, then went into the dungeon (amazingly, no one died!) and then came back to the city and went to Grundig's store. Normally, when in the store, there are two "panes" on the screen: The left-hand pane shows the scrollable list of items for sale; the right-hand pane is supposed to show EITHER what a character is currently equipped (if you click one of your characters) OR the properties of the store item (if you click a store item). The problem was, it wasn't switching out of "character equipment display mode" even when I clicked a store item.

I'll let you know if it happens again.
Thanks again!

Thanks!

I think the portals should be explained more clearly in the instructions. Restoring to a portal restores the ENTIRE APP to a previous state, as if you had made a backup onto a floppy disk and you're now reinstalling from that backup. ***It isn't just for the characters in the current party***. If you "restore to a portal", any characters that were created subsequent to that portal are GONE.

Because of this, if you create an amazing character (like a Ranger that took 6 hours to roll), I recommend creating a portal right afterwards to "save" him -- in fact, it's probably best to spend a day creating 10 or 20 excellent characters; then save a portal so that you'll always have access to this group of characters.

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