Thanks for this. Very, very helpful. Even after looking at other guides that assume you know what you are doing, I found this one to be more what I needed early in the game.
I've played up to around the 3rd level of the catacombs and it is just getting too hard for me to progress further. So, after reading this, I've decided to start the game over again and rather than selling the bow I picked up early on, I'll keep it and use it in the catacombs instead. There's a couple of other mistakes I made early on that have crippled my progress as well.. so starting again seems like a better idea than trying to face insurmountable odds..
I also wasted a skill point on Alchemy thinking I'd be able to use the skill to make potions with plants straight away.. but then found later that I needed level 2 in Alchemy to do this. That skill point would likely have been better spent elsewhere...
Anyway.. I will start again.
Incidentally.. how do you leave town? I walked around the whole town and there is a fence there and I couldn't see a gate at all.
