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SwordThrust
SwordThrust is a commercialized and enhanced version of the Eamon role-playing game. Your hero starts in the land of Diurla in the Main Hall, where he must register, raise his stats, equip himself and buy spells before setting out on one of many adventures.
As in its predecessor, your main stats are Stamina (the number of hits you can take before dying and your carrying capacity), Agility (affects your chance to hit monsters) and Charisma (affects prices in the Main Hall and the friendliness of monsters). SwordThrust also adds another skill called Left Hand, which affects your chance to hit with the weapons in your left hand. All standard weapon categories (Axe, Bow, Club, Spear, Sword) are inherited from Eamon and function similarly. Your weapon score is a percentage chance to hit with that weapon type, and has a small chance to go up each time you hit.
SwordThrust adds many new spells to Eamon's standard spellbook of Blast, Power, Heal, and Speed. Some examples of the new spells are Charm (makes monsters friendlier to you), Fear (makes monsters run away), Thickskin (increases your armor), This greatly expands your options in the game as well as giving you something to spend your extra gold on since the most powerful spells can cost 30000 or more gold pieces.
The quests are very similar to Eamon's. The dungeons are text based, similar to an adventure game. You move and fight through the dungeons with commands like NORTH, INVENTORY, ATTACK RATS, etc. Some improvements over Eamon's interface are that the room description and character status are displayed in a window at the top of the screen so you don't have to be constantly looking to see where you are. Another gameplay change is that your character can become fatigued. When your fatigue gets too high, you pass out, which can end up killing you if monsters find you. Stopping and resting is necessary, but it's easy to get too fatigued in a difficult battle and faint when you have to run away to rest.
Equipping items is also very different than in Eamon. You can now equip weapons in your left hand if you don't use a shield, which can double your number of attacks. Armor is also now equippable, so it is possible to find better armor during your adventures instead of being stuck with what you bought in the Main Hall.
SwordThrust had several quests written for it, including The King's Proving Ground, a beginner's quest that came with the game. Other adventures were: The Vampire CavesThe Kidnappers' CoveThe Case of the Sultan's PearlThe Green PlagueThe Eternal Curse and The Alchemy Room.
