Thanks to you both, I had no clue you could romance Schmidt! Im so late…
It’s been a while since I last playtested, but I’ve found something overlooked.
“Oh, this is Caroline Slaughter. She’s a An Indian fighter.”
Shouldn’t this read: “Oh, this is Caroline Slaughter. She’s an Indian fighter.” ?
Found another glitch
"“I would like to talk a little more, if there is time.”
Should read: “I would like to talk a little more, if there is time.”
So what’s the trick to surviving the bear? I want the legend, but it seems to kill me randomly, very annoying.
Three options: (As far as I know)
1: Get one of the combat stats really high, and fight it, simple. Having a companion makes it possible to kill the bear, and if you get sharpshooting as your combat stat, you can shoot it from the first choice, kill it with one shot. If you don’t sell the hide, you get a good legend bonus for that.
2: Get your intimidation really high, and shout at it to get it run away. Highest bonus to legend score.
3: Be really cautious, and don’t get off your horse at all, run away. If you have a high stamina, you can run away even if you got off your horse.
- If you have Schmidt as a companion, he’ll have you distract the bear while he wrestles with it. Because Schmidt is awesome.
talon5505- I forgot the eye-patch resolution? Well, I’ll have to put that in somewhere… any suggestions?
Xt1000305- I went back and took a look. When you pan for gold, your current influence (as well as survival and engineering scores) concerning Schmidt is taken into account to help determine the results when panning for gold. I am now going to add a bit of code further altering the results if you should happen to be romancing him.
Bloodwyche- More typos. Tasty, tasty typos. The double “” in particular had about a dozen occurrences throughout the six chapters. And soon, there will be none. Thank you. 
stsword- Wyrmspawn and timaeus covered the bear encounter pretty well. Including the ‘yell at it real loud’ option with a high intimidate score or having Schmidt as your companion. A good riding score is also useful when firing from horseback; horses react negatively to bears. Probably a cultural thing.
Having Carson as your companion can make things a bit easier for that scene. Caraway, alas, is at a disadvantage because bears aren’t people.
hahaha01357- The Doctor Lawyer combination is now possible because, well, because. As it turns out, it didn’t actually take much to become either a doctor or a lawyer out on the frontier. Basically you hung out your shingle and if you screwed up too many times, well, you had to move on.
I’ll probably also put in a few more incredulous moments where people ask about you holding those two professions at the same time.
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@AllenGies when meeting Tumbleweed Jack, I sneaked out the back and shot him without even talking to him. Preston then later said that I had sent him off, the man running the general store mentioned he had bought a lot of stuff for his trip to Elko and when confronting the impostor Marshal Steele (whom I still don’t quite understand; why is he in your county anyway?) I could go up to Jack, and talk to him perfectly normally- as if I hadn’t shot him.
Also, I can’t seem to load chapter 6- I don’t know why, but it may be a problem with me. If it helps, I’m using safari on an iPad.
i thought that said ‘call me maybe’ LOL :-))
thanks guys, I’ll try that stuff out.
Well I managed to scare the bear away, and then I somehow made my character too useless to successfully protect the stage coach, oops. lol
Basically my strategy is this:
You need at least one fighting stat and one social stat for a balanced character. Fighting: brawling, sharpshooting, gunfighting. Social means intimidation or persuasion. Persuasion isn’t useful for wild beast encounters, but is more useful for communicating with others. Puts more gold into your pockets if you’re likeable. Choose a stat for knowledge, like engineering, explosives, or legal understanding, and you’re set. Some traits make the game more interesting.
I would love to see the Legal skill used more. As it is, pretty much any case where legal would be useful, you can use the Lawyer trait instead for the same effect, which is essentially free.
I never got into a situation in which brawl would have been useful, except for maybe the confrontation with the indian gang member?
My natural inclination is to have the MC put on the charm with a high persuasion and let others do the fighting for me, which has gotten me eaten by a bear and killed on the stagecoach, oh well.
@Allengies. Are there any benefits to killing everyone you meet, or is the lack of benefits a form of punishment intentionally added?
@stsword really? Brawling is much more useful than sharpshooting and at least as useful as gunfighting. It’s the best skill for law abiding characters, you bring down the enemy without killing them. Also useful I bringing down the dam more quickly with hacksaws.