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* BeefGate: Each dungeon and world map sector has different encounter levels. So, if you stumble into a den of incredibly powerful demons, probably not where you're supposed to be going until lategame.
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''Aethra's Chronicles'' is a shareware fantasy RPG for MS-DOS, with rules influenced heavily by TabletopGame/RoleMaster.
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''Aethra's Chronicles'' is a shareware fantasy RPG for MS-DOS, with rules influenced heavily by TabletopGame/RoleMaster.
TabletopGame/RoleMaster. It is available for free on websites that carry lots of shareware MS-DOS games.
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* ActionGirl: Chrissta and Traigarth, who are powerful front-liners.
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* ActionGirl: Chrissta and Traigarth, who are powerful front-liners. Also, of course, any characters and hirelings you have who also fit.
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* ActionGirl: Chrissta and Traigarth, who are powerful front-liners.
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* NintendoHard: If you play the game the way it was meant to be (i.e. without the Deadly Strike skill) then the game will be ''very'' difficult.
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* NintendoHard: If you play the game the way it was meant to be (i.e. without the Deadly Strike skill) then the game lategame will be ''very'' difficult.
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* NintendoHard: If you play the game the way it was meant to be (i.e. without the Deadly Strike skill) then the game will be ''very'' difficult.
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* BonusBoss: The vampire lord near Naedarn, and Khazreen Vader.
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* WeaponOfXSlaying: Some weapons do extra damage against certain types of enemies. For example, the Sword of Right is an anti-demon weapon.
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* WeaponOfXSlaying: Some weapons do extra damage against certain types of enemies. For example, the Sword of Right is an anti-demon anti-undead weapon.
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* KryptoniteFactor: Demons are weak against marsh flowers. [[spoiler:This is especially-important in the battle against TONEATH.]]
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* [[spoiler:MacGuffinDeliveryService: The Vizier wanted you to get the book "Prophecies of Doom" so he could copy it and learn how to summon TONEATH. He actually knew how to read it, but sent you on a wild chase for a translator so he could go plan the summoning meanwhile.]]
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* BoldInflation: The demon TONEATH always has his name capitalized. There's also the [=GEMs=] of power.
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* {{Cult}}: The Toneath Cultists.
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* {{Cult}}: The Toneath TONEATH Cultists.
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* BigBad: Toneath, the center of the cult.
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* BigBad: Toneath, TONEATH, the demon at the center of the cult.
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* GlassCannon & FragileSpeedster: Chrissta has a movement of 25 and good Critical Strike skill, but does not hold up well if any enemies should somehow survive her deadly dash of critical striking in the first round.
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Presumably the demons come from it, because many of them are on fire and many demon-possessed enemies are dressed in red and have eyes on fire.
* GlassCannon & FragileSpeedster: Chrissta has a movement of 25 and goodCritical Deadly Strike skill, but does not hold up well if any enemies should somehow survive her deadly dash of critical deadly striking in the first round.round.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: EliteMook humans tend to have these.
* [[spoiler:GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The queen is one of the leaders of the TONEATH cult. She is using her own son, the missing prince, as the sacrifice for TONEATH.]]
* GlassCannon & FragileSpeedster: Chrissta has a movement of 25 and good
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: EliteMook humans tend to have these.
* [[spoiler:GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The queen is one of the leaders of the TONEATH cult. She is using her own son, the missing prince, as the sacrifice for TONEATH.]]
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** [[spoiler:EvilChancellor: Turns out he's actually one of the leaders of the TONEATH cult. That's how he knows your father is innocent, and why he wanted the book "Prophecies of Doom."]]
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* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Crafts Guild of Stormhaven states, "Welcome to the Crafts Hall guild. We will be glad to instruct you in the fine art of basket weaving or perhaps quilting is more to your liking. If assistance is needed we can help..." Of course when you look at who can be hired from there, they are all thieves.
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* TheGoodChanceller: The Vizier.
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* TheGoodChanceller: TheGoodChancellor: The Vizier.
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* DungeonCrawling: Lots and lots of it. With enough loot to make you run out of inventory slots.
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* ProjectileSpell: Many of them, such as Magebow.
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* {{Hobbits}}: They're not even "halflings" or anything.
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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The only thing they don't do in this game is drink a lot.
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* LightningBruiser: Accomplished by making a tank with 100 Agility and equipping movement-boosting gear. Also possible by leveling-up Chrissta.
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* FighterMageThief: As well as many hybrid classes.
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* PurelyAestheticGender: Gender has no effect on anything, and is determined by character portrait rather than being a separate piece of data.
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* MultipleEndings: [[spoiler:Using at least one mature marsh flower against the final boss will get you the ''live'' prince baby rather than the dead one.]]
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* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round. Best of all, you get a ''free'' thief with upper-tier gear who tears through common enemies once you have at least one party member of a high-enough level.
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* GlassCannon & FragileSpeedster: Chrissta has a movement of 25 and good Critical Strike skill, but does not hold up well if any enemies should somehow survive her deadly dash of critical striking in the first round.
* MagicKnight: Paladins and Ashikari, with the Ashikari being even further magic-oriented.
* MagicKnight: Paladins and Ashikari, with the Ashikari being even further magic-oriented.
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* DiscOneNuke: You can get Khaled the Dwarf Fighter and Timmar the Elven Ranger for ''free'', and they are high-tier characters. Simply by having one of them in your party, you will then be able to get Chrissta the Elven Thief and Traigarth the Paladin much more quickly.
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* DiscOneNuke: You can get Khaled the Dwarf Fighter and Timmar the Elven Ranger for ''free'', and they are high-tier characters. Simply by having one of them in your party, you will then be able to get Chrissta the Elven Thief and Traigarth the Paladin much more quickly. With these characters, you can easily secure a Scroll of Shadow Guardian to have an extra copy of one of these characters who will never leave.
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* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round.
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* DiscOneNuke: You can get Khaled the Dwarf Fighter and Timmar the Elven Ranger for ''free'', and they are high-tier characters. Simply by having one of them in your party, you will then be able to get Chrissta the Elven Thief and Traigarth the Paladin much more quickly.
* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round. Best of all, you get a ''free'' thief with upper-tier gear who tears through common enemies once you have at least one party member of a high-enough level.
* MightyGlacier: Traigarth, who has a movement of 5 but is a high-tier tank who will stick with you permanently.
* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round. Best of all, you get a ''free'' thief with upper-tier gear who tears through common enemies once you have at least one party member of a high-enough level.
* MightyGlacier: Traigarth, who has a movement of 5 but is a high-tier tank who will stick with you permanently.
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The Aethra Chronicles is an atypical Fantasy Role-Playing game. You will create several characters choosing from twelve different classes and five different races. The object of the game is to stay alive and advance your characters in levels while completing various quest which will be made known to you. The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
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The Aethra Chronicles is an atypical Fantasy Role-Playing game. You will create several characters choosing from twelve different classes and five different races. The object of the game is to stay alive and advance your characters in levels while completing various quest which will be made known to you. The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.[Actually, you won't, and that's if it is even possible to register the game anymore.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
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The Aethra Chronicles is an atypical Fantasy Role-Playing game. You will create several characters choosing from twelve different classes and five different races. The object of the game is to stay alive and advance your characters in levels while completing various quest which will be made known to you.
The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
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The Aethra Chronicles is an atypical Fantasy Role-Playing game. You will create several characters choosing from twelve different classes and five different races. The object of the game is to stay alive and advance your characters in levels while completing various quest which will be made known to you.
you. The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]]
The story begins with your father accused of kidnapping the king's son and imprisoned. The king's vizier, however, knows that your father is innocent and sends you on a quest to hunt down the real culprits. More detailed gameplay info can be found [[http://www.blimix.com/aethra/ here]] while a walkthrough is [[http://rafkin.voila.net/games/aethra.html here.]]
The story begins with your father accused of kidnapping the king's son and imprisoned. The king's vizier, however, knows that your father is innocent and sends you on a quest to hunt down the real culprits. More detailed gameplay info can be found [[http://www.blimix.com/aethra/ here]] while a walkthrough is [[http://rafkin.voila.net/games/aethra.html here.]]
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* BigBad: Toneath, the center of the cult.
* ChurchMilitant: As usual for a fantasy game, there are Paladins and Clerics. This game also adds in the Ashikari, who are militants of a mystical eastern temple.
* {{Cult}}: The Toneath Cultists.
* ChurchMilitant: As usual for a fantasy game, there are Paladins and Clerics. This game also adds in the Ashikari, who are militants of a mystical eastern temple.
* {{Cult}}: The Toneath Cultists.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: Sometimes you just shouldn't antagonize certain [=NPCs=]. [[spoiler:Such as the Red Dragon - you cannot beat the game without helping him. You also cannot get the best ending unless you let the marsh flowers grow.]]
* UnwinnableByMistake: You'd better hold on to those quest items. [[spoiler:Especially the Gems of Power - whose purpose you might not realize at first.]]
* UnwinnableByMistake: You'd better hold on to those quest items. [[spoiler:Especially the Gems of Power - whose purpose you might not realize at first.]]
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* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round.
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* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round.round.
* OneGenderRace: Dwarves and Hobbits can only be male.
* TurnUndead: One of the Cleric spells.
* WeaponOfXSlaying: Some weapons do extra damage against certain types of enemies. For example, the Sword of Right is an anti-demon weapon.
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* OneGenderRace: Dwarves and Hobbits can only be male.
* TurnUndead: One of the Cleric spells.
* WeaponOfXSlaying: Some weapons do extra damage against certain types of enemies. For example, the Sword of Right is an anti-demon weapon.
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The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
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The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]]
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* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* GameBreaker: The Critical Strike skill, which can instantly kill any enemy. It also allows continued movement and refreshes the number of melee attacks left, so you can just walk through hordes of enemies and Critical Strike them all in one round.
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''Aethra's Chronicles'' is a shareware fantasy RPG for MS-DOS, with rules influenced heavily by TabletopGame/RoleMaster.
The Aethra Chronicles is an atypical Fantasy Role-Playing game. You will create several characters choosing from twelve different classes and five different races. The object of the game is to stay alive and advance your characters in levels while completing various quest which will be made known to you.
The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
The Aethra Chronicles is an atypical Fantasy Role-Playing game. You will create several characters choosing from twelve different classes and five different races. The object of the game is to stay alive and advance your characters in levels while completing various quest which will be made known to you.
The Aethra Chronicles is shareware and is free to try out. Please fell free to play the shareware version as long as you like. The shareware version however is not the complete game. [Relative to the grander plans, anyhow.] The shareware version is what we call chapter one "Book of Prophecy". Those who register the game will receive chapters two and three. [They were never released.] I hope you will agree with us that this game is one of the finest shareware games in its class. [Mostly by virtue of being one of the ''only'' shareware games in its class.] However unless we get support from the users [we] will not be able to continue with this type of work. [Indeed, sequels were never made.]
