For each of the suggested character types, there is an entertaining interview with an established member of the profession. The early sections of the guide deal with general advice on what sort of character you might want to play and how to go about it. I presume these events were linked in with the actual game and this maze appeared at some point. The mage ends up hiding in the middle of a maze that springs up out of nowhere. Through further editions scattered through the book I learn this goes horribly wrong during a demonstration to Lord British resulting in angry demons slaughtering their way through his castle. This starts with a mock newspaper dealing with events in Britannia such as a mage called Relvenian who has the idea of enslaving demons as house maids. There is masses of storyline to the book, done with snippets of information from various sources. Usually half of each book would be taken up with a walkthrough section, which is entirely missing here but we still get the usual 300+ pages.ĭespite this, there is hardly any filler in this guide and I had a good time reading through it. With this being a guide to an online game, it has to take a different format to all the others I’ve been working my way through. I’ve scanned it in but not done the pullout as it would mean ripping it out of the book. This guide was published in 1997 by Prima. That doesn’t make me the ideal person to read through this, although it’s a significant game and an Ultima so I’m still interested to learn more about it even if I don’t want to actually play it. When I run out of other things to write about on here I might give it a go, but while I’ve got other options I’ll take them.

MMORPG’s don’t hold a lot of appeal for me and everything I hear about them always puts me off more. I should start out by saying that I’ve never actually played UO beyond starting it up and running around a bit to have a look around.

I figured I’d better get started on them so I don’t end up overdosing on UO at the end. When I was looking through the list of books I still have to do after the last post, I realised that half of the ones left are on Ultima Online.

Ultima online secret location