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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Adventurers'</strong> <strong>Guild</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bard's</strong> <strong>Tale</strong>: <strong>Tale</strong>s of the Unknown<br />

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Extra Gold Trick<br />

<strong>Cheats</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bard's</strong> <strong>Tale</strong><br />

On the Commodore 64, you can get LOTS more gold in the following fashion:<br />

1. Load up a party of characters (i.e., *ATEAM), with whatever gold they have.<br />

2. Pool it to one character<br />

3. Remove that character from the party<br />

4. Add that character back into the party<br />

5. Pool the gold to a different character and repeat steps 3 & 4 <strong>for</strong> all the characters in your<br />

party.<br />

6. When all the characters have been removed (and thus, saved individually with whatever gold<br />

or items they had), turn off the computer and reboot.<br />

7. Load up the same party. Every character will now have as much gold as the whole party<br />

started with. This works <strong>for</strong> items, too.<br />

Summon Stone Elemental<br />

Ed Walters<br />

For the MS-DOS version of <strong>Bard's</strong> <strong>Tale</strong>, when your party is anywhere in the city, you can hit the "z"<br />

key on the keyboard. Instantly, a Stone Elemental will appear and join the party.<br />

Now here is a way to raise low level characters up a few levels relatively quickly. Enter the city with<br />

only one member of your party. Hit "z" to get a Stone Elemental. <strong>The</strong>n go down the street to the<br />

Samurai Statue blocking passage to the Scarlet Bard. <strong>The</strong> elemental will kill the Samurai with one hit,<br />

and your character will gain over 1000 experience points instantly. Go back to the guild, enter it, leave<br />

again, and repeat. After gaining a few levels, your character can seek out the Stone Giant Statue and<br />

the Golem Statues near Harkyn's Castle. Be careful though, the Stone Elemental seems to have a bit<br />

of a problem killing the Golems <strong>for</strong> you, but the Stone Giant is not much of a problem.<br />

Extra Gold<br />

Vincent Diaz<br />

Here's a way to cheat at <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bard's</strong> <strong>Tale</strong> on the Apple II. Note that this may work on other systems,<br />

with some changes... First, the most obvious way to get lots of gold to start with is:<br />

1. Make a character. It doesn't matter what kind, he's just going to be a money holder. Add him<br />

to the party.<br />

2. Load *ATEAM (from the back of the Boot Disk).<br />

3. Exit the guild and go up to Garth's. Sell all of the characters' equipment.<br />

4. Exit Garth's. Go to each character's equipment screen and Trade their Gold to your money<br />

holder character.<br />

5. Go back to the guild. Remove all of the *ATEAM characters (i.e., everyone but the character<br />

you created.)<br />

6. Reload *ATEAM and repeat. <strong>The</strong> *ATEAM party will be back to their original configuration<br />

each time you load them.<br />

Tom Greene

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Rare Item Trick<br />

This trick allows you to duplicate a rare item. This only works on the Apple II, as far as I know.<br />

1. Sell the item in question to Garth.<br />

2. Go to the Purchase screen.<br />

3. Open the door to the disk drive containing your Character disk.<br />

4. Purchase the item.<br />

5. Exit the purchase screen.<br />

6. Close the drive door and repeat steps 2-5 as nescessary.<br />

This works because when the drive door is open, the fact that you've bought the last one of those<br />

items at Garth's is not written to disk. <strong>The</strong> next time you go back, it'll be there again. Note that this is<br />

only useful <strong>for</strong> items that you don't find very often, or that you need more of quickly. This does cost<br />

money, but it can be worthwhile. :)<br />

Tom Greene