Usually.Īt least, that's how it's supposed to be. You create mighty beasts, and they totally obey you. Want a tool, a trap, an army? You summon it into existence. You are one of the Shapers, wizards with the awesome power to create life. To see what a skill does, hold the mouse cursor over it.Geneforge 1 – Mutagen is a unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. It is possible to beat Geneforge without ever attacking an enemy if you are cunning and invest heavily in these skills. The General skills give you ways to travel through the game without combat. Your character class will make one of these categories cheaper and one more expensive. The next three categories are Combat, Magic, and Shaping. The first group is your main statistics, which are more expensive and strongly affect how your character functions. These abilities are divided into five base categories. If you have enough skill points, increase a statistic by pressing the ‘+’ button to its right as you buy more of a skill, the cost increases. Your Skills – The rest of the statistics window displays all of your character’s base statistics. Spell energy increases with your level and your Intellect. Spell energy comes back to you with time. If you don’t have enough spell energy, you can’t cast spells. Spell Energy – Casting a spell weakens you, and it takes time to regain your strength. Some pools restore your essence and health when you stand near them. To restore essence and health, return to a friendly town. Thus, if you make a lot of creations, you will be able to use fewer spells. If you have 100 essences and make a creation that costs 40, you can have at most 60 essences until the creation dies.Įssence is also used to cast spells. When you make a creation, you spend some essence, and your maximum amount of essence goes down by the cost of the creature. The amount of essence you have is determined by your Level and Essence Mastery skill. It is stored within you and comes out when you cast a powerful spell or make a creation. For example, some abilities can heal you, or you can use a Healing Pod.Įssence – Essence is the raw material Shapers use to create life. To increase this number, gain levels or train your Endurance.ĭuring a battle, there are a number of ways to restore lost health. When you take damage, this number goes down. Health – A number that determines how far you are from death. To do this, press the plus button to the right of a skill’s name. Skill points are like currency you have to spend them to raise your skills. Skill Points – When you gain a level, you earn ten skill points. Mouse over the experience bar to see how much more experience you need to reach the next level. If it is a lot tougher, you gain more experience. The amount of experience you gain for completing a quest or beating a foe depends on how tough it is in relation to you. You get most of your experience from killing enemies and completing quests. When you accumulate enough experience, your level goes up. You start at Level 1.Įxperience – How much experience you have earned. Level – An important overall number that defines how strong you are and how many adventures you have successfully concluded. In your Shaper’s training window, you will see a list of your character’s most important attributes: To change your character’s name, select its portrait on the training window. When you gain a level and your Shaper is selected, the button at the top left turns to “Train.” Press it (or type ‘?’, or right-click the Shaper) to see the Character Info Window and start training. Your creations gain levels in a different way, described in Chapter 5.
If a foe or quest is too far below you, you won’t get experience. If you complete a more difficult task, you get bonus experience. When you have enough experience, your level goes up. To increase your Shaper’s level, kill enemies and complete quests.
This number, usually from 1 to 20, determines how strong your character is. You can also right-click a character in the roster to train it.Įach of your characters has a level. Then select the character or creation to see and train. To see or improve your statistics during the game, press the Roster/Train button at the top left.
You can make some of them, have them fight for a while, absorb them, and then make different creations as desired. If it dies, the game is over.Ĭreations are monsters you make to fight for you. You will have two sorts of characters: Your Shaper and your creations. These numbers define how tough you are, how strong your magic is, etc. And, like all such games, your character has a set of statistics that describe how well he or she interacts with the world. Like all fantasy role-playing games, you play a character wandering through a hostile world.
