Yeah, there's a kind of jungle beat type music, but I think I always had that right from the outset. So this means I already have the patch? Should I install the TELP 1.3 patch then?

"Re: promotions. If you are getting the line "Thomas needs to be promoted to Expert," then click on that line (as if it were a link), and if you have the required gold to pay for the promotion, he'll get promoted. It isn't an automatic thing that happens whenever you accost the teacher"

"Thomas needs skill level 4 to become expert"
"Viveka needs to be promoted to become expert"
"Erlina needs to be promoted to become expert"
"Miriam needs skill level 4 to become expert"

Clicking on any of these gets no response.

Okay, that makes sense, but I saw nothing about it in the manual, and they could have made it a little clearer in the game.

I guess this means that certain skills (like bow) can be used by fighters but other skills, like armourer, you have to be a better class of character altogether?

A fighter can become a crusader or a mercenary
A crusader can become a paladin or a ranger
A mercenary can become an assassin or a gladiator

An initiate can become a healer or a scholar
A healer can become a priest or a druid
A scholar can become a lich or a mage

You cannot legitimately cross from one of these lines of promotion to any other; for example, your scholar cannot ever be promoted to a priest. The only way to do that is to use a hex editor to edit your savegame file.

Hints and Tips
The priest is the only character apart from the ranger who can use the best bow in the game, Everstrike. That compensates to some extent for his poor ranged weapons skill. The lich, on the other hand, has a fair ability (master) with thrown weapons, so give him the throwing axe Tillhygge when you find it, and don't waste skill points increasing his bow ability. Give the other artifact thrown weapon, the dagger Trolleri, to the assassin, of course.

Arm the assassin with two daggers as soon as he has the skill to use two.

My only problem now is trying to work out why the Jarl of Drangheim has sent me back to Angstram Keep with a new key when I've already cleaned that dungeon out for the Jarl of Stromford! Hopefully this is not a bug and there really is a door somewhere in the keep I can use the key on to access another level.

Then again you could also use the other entrance to omit the whole moral discussion.

But the guards seem to have gotten a bit confused. Most of them after that attacked me, but only once, landing a blow and then leaving me alone. But the three guys at the entrance, who I originally got a pass from, wanted to fight to the death when I went back there. So I had to kill them, and I guess I'm not in the guards' good books after doing that

So I hung around town for a while, then found a play at the inn and watched that to pass the time, but at the end it was (amazingly) past 6, which I think is shop closing time, so I slept at the inn and went back to the apothecary the next day.

But when I went to see him, he doesn't even mention the potion he promised to make for me, just comes out with the standard "do you want to see my wares" spiel. I looked at his wares as well and, no potion.

In every case you just need to "rest" in a green area near the NPC for 5 or 10 minutes.

However, if it is after Midnight, you will need to wait until morning (or go adventuring until morning and then return to rest). Regardless, of any other activity or amount of time passed in the game, "resting" in front of an NPC during daylight will always trigger them into the proper action.

I've been spending the last couple of days running around the place trying to get my characters upgraded, this game really makes you work hard for your promos! Finally managed to get two mercs and a healer, but I'm still stuck with one initiate.

One of the annoying things about the game is that it doesn't tell you enough stuff about the quests in the journal, so I forget which quests are for what. I must have 30 quests lined up to do ATM.

I did. They are underpowered. OK, a Ranger can GM bow. Big deal. The assassin can GM thrown weapons, which is every bit as good as the bow, and in melée, the assassin's GM blade with two daggers does awesome damage. In contrast, the ranger can get only get to expert in any melée weapon. In fact, the Druid with GM in unarmed is a better fighter close in than the Ranger, and his magic skills are incomparably better. The only other things the Ranger can GM are Dodge, ID Monster (which is broken) and Perception. Like I say, big deal.

Not that it necessarily matters I guess, but in some games some backup magic skills on your melee fighters can be quite useful.

Personally, I think the Ranger's 3x bow shot is pretty good, and I would have thought having 100% perception ability is very useful, but it's true that rangers are often a bit weak in other areas.

Normally I always have a paladin in my party though, in some games they are essential and I sort of like having one chivalrous guy in my party Being able to use any kind of armour is nice too - it sucks to get some really cool armour and not be able to use it - but I suppose weapon skills are generally more important. After all, armour can save you hit points, but despatching monsters quicker is probably a better method of saving them!

This his the keep where you cleared out the little imps who were climbing up burning ladder right? If so then no its not a bug.

*possible spoiler* (not sure if it is but wanted to warn in case it was)