The Bard’s Tale Walkthrough Guide and Tips

Introduction

Welcome to a Bard’s Tale: Tales of The Unknown

This game is very interest, highly amusing and considerably difficult to say the least.

In order to properly save your game files, first open the local file location for The Bard’s Tale via the Steam game management interface:

Second enter the following into windows search function enter:

%AppData%

This should take you to the AppData Folder, enter the AppData folder labeled Local, you may need to go up one folder level to find the local folder:

AppData\Local

Then find the folder labeled inXile Entertainment and enter the next folder labeled The Bards Tale:

AppData\Local\inXileEntertainment\TheBardsTale

Find the folder labeled:

iib1

Cut this file, return to the local file location opened via Steam, paste the file iib1 into this file location.

Now open The Bard’s Tale: Tales of the Unknown, select the available character management disk, create a custom character, return the party to the adventure guild and select Leave then press Enter to close the game out.

Re-Open The Bard’s Tale, select Start Game and then check to make sure that the custom character has been saved.

If the custom character saved, pat yourself on the back and tell yourself congratulations, you can now successfully save a game state. Now you can officially begin your Bard’s Tale adventure.

Creating Characters

Select Create a Character and just roll for stats until you’ve found a range of stats that suits your needs.

Generally 15-18 should be looked between strength and dexterity for combat classes with a constitution of 12+ with the highest starting HP possible

For mages the player is simply looking for a high intelligence score of 16-18 with the largest mana pool possible

For a Rogue, the player is looking for a high Dexterity score and a high Luck score of 12-15 if possible. Rogues may make for better combat classes than a Bard but they can also be kept in reserve since their health will decrease overtime due to triggering traps while attempting to disarm treasure chests.

The player can choose to Create A Character and select from these races:

Human: Generally good stats

Elf: Magic oriented warrior class

Dwarf: stout warriors less inclined to magic

Hobbit: Lucky rogue types

Half-Elf: Still magic oriented but slightly stronger physically than an elf

Half-Orc: Stronger than a human, could probably compete with a dwarf

Gnome: The most magically inclined of all

The starting classes to choose from are:

Paladin: Magically resistant warriors that gain access to special Paladin only equipment

Warrior: The combat class, can equip the heaviest of armor and weapons

Bard: Has the ability to cast ambient buffs on party via Bard Songs, but has nerfed combat abilities

Hunter: Close range critical attacks, tends to generate the lowest starting armor class

Rogue: Has the ability to “Hide in the Shadows” for increased critical hit chance

Monk: Monks benefit from a weapon until level 4 after which they should be unarmed and while have a naturally lowering AC score as they level up, they are said to be the best combat class, but for the purpose of this guide, we will be focusing on cloning the “A-Team for the moment”

Conjurer: A white and black mage all in one, this magic casting class starts with the ability to deal heal after purchasing the next tier of spells

Magician: This is a utility mage class that can initially buff the attack of a single character and eventually begins to deal damage and heal but not until after purchasing the third tier of spells

Stats to Consider

Strength, the higher the strength the higher the attack damage and the lower the damage spread

Constitution, the higher the constitution the more health points the character will gain over time

Dexterity, the higher the dexterity, the lower the AC score and the greater the evade chance

Intelligence, is only important for mages and dictates the gain of mana points over time

Luck, is a general random number modifier, the higher the luck the better the loot

Equipping CharactersCustom characters start out with roughly 250 gold to spend on new equipment. When first starting the game, it’s helpful to create a string of temporary characters to pool their starting gold into one character for between 800-1000+ gold per cycle and then deleting the drained characters and repeating the cycle to pool up 5000+ gold to start with.

It looks something like this:

Step 1

Create Character, select option 1, select option 3, name GTemp

Create Character, select option 1, select option 3, name Temp1

Create Character, select option 1, select option 3, name Temp2

Create Character, select option 1, select option 3, name Temp3

Create Character, select option 1, select option 3, name Temp4

Create Character, select option 1, select option 3, name Temp5

Step 2

Add Characters, GTemp

Add Characters, Temp1

Add Characters, Temp2

Add Characters, Temp3

Add Characters, Temp4

Add Characters, Temp5

Step 3

Save Team, name Gold Mining

Step 4

Hit the 1 Key to open the player menu for GTemp, hit P to Pool the gold

Step 5

Remove All

Step 6

Delete Character, Temp 1, Y

Delete Character, Temp 2, Y

Delete Character, Temp 3, Y

Delete Character, Temp 4, Y

Delete Character, Temp 5, Y

Repeat Step 1-6 just renaming the new GTemp Character and Mining Team 1-5

Step 7

Add Characters, GTemp

Add Characters, GTemp1

Add Characters, GTemp2

Add Characters, GTemp3

Add Characters, GTemp4

Add Characters, GTemp5

Step 8

Save Team, name Gold Harvest (Feel Free to repeat the process on on the GTemp Characters)

Step 9

Hit the 1 Key to open the player menu for GTemp, hit P to Pool the gold

Step 10

Add Brian The Fist

Add Characters, GTemp

Step 11

Hit the 1 Key to open the player menu for Brian The Fist, hit P to Pool the gold

This is tedious and a lot, but doing it at least once in the beginning of the game will create an incredibly deep gold pool for the player to pull from which will enable them to revive, cure, restore and heal characters at will instead of having to continuously scrounge for money because of how costly temple runs start to become.

A Side Note on Healing

A lvl 10 character costs something like 8100 gold to revive and if they have a status impairment, that will need to be cured for something like 4000 gold before they can be healed and on a character with 100+ health that is a minimum of 1000 gold for a total restoration cost of 13,100+