I just got the UWA, and am playing Wizardry for the first time since about 1984 (when the Apple II went into the garage!) I'd appreciate some comments about how I've structured my party for my forage through Proving Grounds.I have a fighter, a samari and a priest with high strength in the first 3 positions. Following them is a bishop, and 2 mages. The last mage is a hobbit with neutral alignment. My plan is to turn her into a theif once she learns all her spells. I'll then take the party to Murphys ghost to level her up again before we attack the lower levels. I found that traveling with a character who can't do anything in battle (theif) was too annoying. I also figured that once she becomes a theif the bishop will be able to take over the high level mage spells once the theif runs out.
I tend to also play conservatively, so my characters don't stay in the maze for long periods. When I encounter chests, I use either the priest or bishop to calfo them, and then only open them if they're trapless, or a poison needle and I'm heading out soon. I have my highest hit point character open the poison needle chests and then leave. So far, I've had no trouble getting back to the castle in time, although sometimes I have to camp to revive the poisoned character.
Finally, since the only character who can cast Dialko is my priest, who is usually the one paralysed, I created a 2nd priest, sent him into the first level with just the two fighting characters and the other priest, and had the smaller group fight Murphy's ghosts a lot to get the #2 priest dialko. While he doesn't travel with the party, if someone gets paralyzed I head back to the castle, take the paralysed person and the backup priest to the bottem of the stairs, and cure them.
If anyone has any thoughts or warnings on this, please let me know. Also, at the moment the party is roughly level 8, and has just finished mapping the second level of the maze. How deep do you recommend I go with the current makeup? I'm very patient, and can bop around the higher levels for quite a while if need be.
Thanks much!
abby
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) a backup strategy if one character got killed or worse: with every startup of the game, I copied the savegame file into a backup directory, so I had a defined state. If something went terribly wrong, I quit the game and called a backup.bat that would copy the savegame in the backup directory back in the game directory. Well, it's probably just me, but I don't like the idea that my characters are killed 
