Here are settings I recommend you change. This is personal preference, but this is what I find most enjoyable. Under "Old-School Options" I recommend you change:

• "Starting attribute points": Random Roll. This allows you to reroll your starting number of points you can give to characters up to 29, which is good.
  
• "Character Recruiting": Disabled (you can recruit characters for money up to the highest level character that you have achieved, but I find it more enjoyable to make the characters.)

A typical, good party is made up of 2 fighters front row, a priest front row, two mages back row, and a thief back row. You can be crazy if you want tho, go wild.

Thiefs are really only good for opening chests and being turned into ninjas. They have an ability where you can "hide" and the sequential turn "ambush," but it does minimal damage. Once turned into a ninja, however, they can one-shot.

Mages do minimal damage in the beginning. When in combat they have a sleep spell, allowing your other party members to attack easier and for more damage. This is their best early-game spell. Once they get higher level, however, they have multiple board-clearing spells. Very powerful.

Whenever you rest your characters at the inn, they will lose "VIm" which you don't really have to worry about. When VIm gets too low your characters become less useful, but it takes a LONG time.

When you need to revive a character, you can either revive them using a priest spell (if the priest is high enough level), or spending money at the temple to revive them.

When you make your characters you will choose an alignment, this will define what your classes can turn into in the future. Evil thiefs can become ninjas, good fighters can become lords, ect. Opposing alignments cannot be in the same party.

Agility makes you take your turn earlier so it's good to level that up


There is a map in the bottom left. This map is what you PERCEIVE. There are teleporters and spinner tiles which will not tell you when they activate, meaning your bottom left map can be incorrect at any point in time. The mage spell "DUMAPIC" corrects your bottom left map, and whenever you step on a new tile it adds it to a saved map. That way you don't have to remake the map every time you enter the dungeon, just use DUMAPIC.

When your party gets wiped in the dungeon, they're dead. They will remain at that specific spot in the dungeon and you can pick them up by going to that spot, pressing shift to "rest" and pressing shift again to see what characters are in that spot. They do take up a party spot to reclaim though, so you can't bring them out with a full party.