purchased the game months ago but just started to play it today. After an hour of designing characters and ready to play I'm surprised at the demand that I must enter a word from page 25 of the manual, 5th word 4th paragraph Line 3! When I bought the game I was not informed I would need the manual in order to play the game! Can anyone help me with this?...

No matter what I try in negotiations, whether bribing him a bunch or having my diplomat character try a truce (which even results in him being "pleased") or whatever, he usually attacks me, or occasionally leaves, and then of course attacks me the next time I try coming back into the store to talk to him. I have looked through like a half-dozen walkthroughs and other guides and the closest I can find to someone having this issue is that it says if you attack Belcanzor that other Danes might be hostile to ...

What would be a good number to have in my thief's skullduggery points before I switch to another class and not come back to being a thief again? Thanks

I try to open the Gold Edition, but it just says "Failed to Open Movie" and shows me a black box. Is there anything even different in the Gold Edition?

I have started playing this game multiple times in the past, but never gotten terribly far, and I want to give it another try, because I really like it. In the past I used class switching to get characters access to the skills and spells I wanted each character to have. That took a very long time and was extremely tedious. That was then, and this is now, and I have no intention of spending that time and tedium to get my characters to the point I want them to continue with the game. What I need is some wa...