34. Bandit Camp (Northeast of the Friendly Arm Inn)

• If you arrive at the camp through meeting Teven in Larswood, or Raiken in Peldvale, you'll immediately be confronted by Tazok (98 hp, level nine) and most conversation options lead to a fight with Tazok, but as long as you hold your own for a while, he'll break off his attack before you have to fight to the death. Killing him, which you can do either before or after he breaks off his attack, will net you a nice 4,000 xp and a potion of strength and oil of speed, as well as magic gauntlets (weapon expertise), but try to time your attack so that you only kill him when he is hostile, as indicated by a red base. If you kill him before he's hostile you'll only get 400 xp If you want to avoid an assault altogether, tell Tazok that you're strong and know an opportunity when you see it, and that Tazok should recognize that it's better to have too many allies than too few. Even if you kill Tazok you'll meet him again later in the game.
  

  Map of the Bandit Camp sector. The main tent which you'll have to enter to complete chapter three is the big one to the east.

• You can also find the location of the bandit camp by pressuring Tranzig in the Feldepost Inn at the beginning of chapter three. If you just wander into the camp you'll face a lot of opposition, but Tazok won't be in the camp. Advance slowly and minimize the number of opponents that you can get onscreen at once. Use missile weapons and spells capable of immobilizing your opponents, like web, stinking cloud, hold person, and sleep. Fireball and skull trap work well too.
  

• In a sack near in the northwest corner of the sector, in the hobgoblin portion of the camp, there's a potion of fortitude (and another one in Knott's tent to the east). Tersus is in a tent nearby (with a cursed oil of speed), and he can tell you more about the bandit groups, while Ardenor Crush (48 hp, level seven) is outside that tent. There's also oil of fiery burning outside one of the tents, and in the chests and other containers near Tazok's tent there's a medium shield +1, a wand of fear, potion of firebreath, short sword +1, acid arrows, and arrows of biting.
  

• The gnolls in the camp are isolated in a cave near the middle of the camp.
  

• Taugosz Khosann (56 hp, level eight fighter), leader of the black talons has a potion of fortitude, medium shield +1, war hammer +1, potion of firebreath, full platemail.
  

• Even if you otherwise avoid attacks, you'll eventually have to enter Tazok's tent to end the chapter, where you'll be forced to fight Britik (38 hp, level four fighter), Hakt (30 hp, level five fighter/thief), Raemon (35 hp, level five fighter) and Venkt (31 hp, level six fighter/mage). Venkt is a dangerous spell-caster, while Hakt fires arrows of biting. Collectively, they are equipped with a mage robe of fire resistance, potions of healing, magic blocking, scrolls of friends, color spray, blindness, protection from undead, stinking cloud, Agannazar's scorcher, horror, and a long bow of marksmanship.