Is there any kind of "getting started" guide for this?
Like the original, the UI leaves a great deal to be desired, and even basic things are not at all obvious...
Making money is just frustrating at best (only way to do it seems to be a trickle from prostitution, or the handful of quests that pop up. Am I missing something? The original had a nice range of jobs, here there is almost nothing...
How do you increase things like Charm? it says to use social skills, but how is that done?
Also, not a gameplay thing but something I was curious about. In the original there was a setting to automatically pick a portrait and body from those available. Is that no longer a thing here? Not a big deal but it was a nice feature.
Clearing dungeons is actually a lot more effective for making money. You can pretty easily make several thousand dollars per day from day 1 or 2 that way. Early on, magic works best for that, especially races that can get the druid class. Later on all races get access to AOEs eventually, but it takes longer for the physical races to ramp up (they tend to be better at gathering resources though).
I send my first 2 people to clear out any quest related dungeons and monsters on day 1, making sure to clear the goblin den before I do the bandit den. The goal on day 1 is to get the Druid class for both of your first 2 characters before you hit the bandit den. I would also recommend giving one of them Thief for opening locks. That gives them both overgrowth so they can kill everything in the den without ever getting hit. Pick up Daisy on day 2 and keep clearing Bandit Dens until you have 5 people. Then I head back to base and upgrade the mansion rooms so I can have 10 people instead of 5.
Once your first 2 characters have Druid, Archer, Rogue, and Fighter your speed will be high enough that you can act before everything in the Bandit Fort so now you can switch to clearing that out. Initially you will want to bring a few extra slaves in case you can't kill the assassins in 2 shots. They have to die without getting a turn or they will 1 shot someone. Once you can reliably kill the assasins with 2 overgrowths your first 2 characters can duo the fort for money and items while the rest of your slaves work on gathering resources from bandit dens.
You will get a huge quantity of cloth from the bandit forts which you can sell for thousands of dollars per day in addition to whatever other items and resources you get.
I like to sell off my worst slave once I get to the maximum number and then only take new slaves that have a growth stat of good or great since those level up the fastest. If you start with a melee focused race that does not get Druid then you probably won't be able to do the forts for awhile, but you can follow the same plan with the bandit dens. It just takes longer because you won't get as much xp or resources from them.
