These save games for Gothic covers my first (and only) completion of the game.
I played through the US version 1.08j with no additional patches applied.

I solved most of the subquests in chapter one, including most of the tests for
applying all three camps. In the end, however, I accepted to become a shadow
and later a guard of the "Old Camp". Very early in the game I learned hunting
skills, so money is not the biggest problem in these save games. I honed the
one-handed fighting to begin with and merely concentrated on being a fighter.
In fact, I practically didn't bother to learn any magic abilities at all. A
little later I became a master of two-handed fighting as well.

The following subquests were never completed in these save games:

  * "The Stranger" - I collected the first book and that's that.

  * "New Souls for the Brotherhood" - I tried running amok in the "Old Camp"
    and I did manage to find Dusty, but alas he just kept attacking me. =(

  * "Ulbert's Storeshed" - I did get the key and opened the chest outside
    the hut, but managed to give the key back before I thought about looting
    the two chests in the hut itself. Oh well, can't win them all.

  * "The Swampweed Harvest" - I actually managed to get all 100 weeds from
    the workers in the swamp, but unfortunately Cor Kalom had left at that
    point only to meet him again in the very end of the game (where he didn't
    want to talk about such petty matters).

  * "Rescue Stone" - Although I did raid the "Old Camp" in the last chapters,
    I didn't think of rescuing Stone (didn't know you could), thus did not
    earn the improved ore armor.

I managed to push my strength to 100 before using enhancing potions, giving me
more than 180 in strength in the end. Take a look at the statistics screenshot
to see how my character fared towards the end of the game. It will also give
you an idea of what attributes I concentrated on during most of the game.

As soon as I heard the first time that the "Old Mine" had collapsed and I was
expelled from the "Old Camp", I immediately went and fetched a 96 damage axe
from one of the corpses in the "Free Mine" area - a weapon I then used until I
found the 100 damage axe in the "Sleeper's Temple" in chapter 5.

JCH, 16 June 2003
