Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

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Completionist Achievement
By Hamasaki and 1 collaborators
Challenges are cumulative across both games. Tower of Doom only has one unique challenge. All of the Shadow Over Mystara challenges are either character, abilty, or area specific.
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General Tips
  • For Magic User/Elf/Cleric in Shadow Over Mystara: Press W to access inventory, you can tap D for another layer of inventory. There are three layers. Two are spells, The last is wands (for magic users) and other items.

  • Once you get enough VP, go into the Vault at the main menu and purchase Vampirism and Make it Rain. Turn on these house rules before you start a chapter. Vampirism will get you health every time you land an attack. Make it Rain will earn you a lot more money, so that way in the shops you can buy the max amount of hammers, daggers, and oil for those challenges.

  • Curiosity: on the character select screen if you press Space instead of S on a character you get a different costume in game, and some slight abilities change in certain characters.

Note: This is a guide created by DigitalDemigod, that you can read at TrueAchievements. I just changed it to the default keyboard keys and included a save game file.
Overall
  • Level Up - Reach Overall Player Level 20
    You earn XP towards this level while completing challenges, you will hit 20 by the time you're done with challenges.

  • Killing Spree - Kill 1000 Enemies of any type
    You will get this naturally while beating both games and finishing up challenges.

  • Moneybags - Pick up 10,000 SP
    Once you've earned 200VP from challenges, go back to the main menu, go to Vault, purchase the Make It Rain modifier. Go back to the game, press W to change House Rules. Turn on Make it Rain. Enemies will drop a lot more silver.

  • Petting Zoo (Elf) - Use Polymorph to change 25 enemies into harmless animals
    You can obtain this naturally by playing both games or if you want to grind, simply use up all your casts, let yourself be killed, and when you continue, the spell is restocked.

  • Slick Hammers - Hit 75 enemies with Ranged Hammer, Oil, or Large Oil
    Try to throw oil into groups of enemies. In the shops buy the max amount of hammers and oil to help speed up the process.

  • Full Metal Jacket - Equip 15 Pieces of Armor
    Equipping armor in these games is simply picking up items that you can't use from your inventory like rods, boots, certain rings, off the ground. Nothing you have to do to equip them.

  • Spellcaster (Magic User/Elf/Cleric) - Pick up 30 scrolls
    Scrolls are random drops from chests and monsters. You will get this while playing the games.

  • Till Death Do Us Part - Use 50 Rings
    When you pick up rings, just use them in combat and you will get this naturally. The rings drop randomly, so if you don't get it after playing through both games, you should get it while cleaning up challenges.

  • Zombie Killer (Cleric) - Damage 20 undead enemies with Turn Undead
    The Cleric can cast this spell repeatedly, works on Skeletons and Ghouls.
    Press S + D to cast it.

  • Loot Master - Open, Unlock, or Break Open 50 Chests
    You'll get this easily while playing through both games.

  • Fry 'em Up (Magic User) - Electrocute 50 enemies
    You can obtain this naturally by playing both games or if you want to grind, simply use up all your casts, let yourself be killed, and when you continue, the spell is restocked. There are also rings that cast lightning, which any character can use.

  • Monster Torch - Light 50 Enemies on Fire
    Simple enough, just use magic user to cast fireball on groups of enemies, or use any character to throw burning oil. You will get this while working toward Slick Hammers.

  • Curb Stomp-a-Thon - Hit 50 Opponents on the Ground
    Just go to enemies you've knocked down and attack them.

  • Pointy Things and Slings - Hit 100 enemies with Ranged Arrow, Dagger, Sling
    Easiest with the Thief or Elf due to their infinite Sling and Arrows, but doable with any character.
Tower of Doom
  • Just the Beginning - Complete Tower of Doom
    Yeah!
Shadow Over Mystara
  • Help Wanted (Magic User, others with an item) - Summon 25 Monsters to Aid You
    You can obtain this naturally by playing both games or if you want to grind, simply use up all your casts, let yourself be killed, and when you continue, the spell is restocked. Sometimes you will loot an egg which is a one time use summon.

  • Backstab (Thief)- Use Sneak Attack on 20 Enemies
    Get behind enemies and press S to attack. Works on humanoid enemies like Dark Elves, Skeletons, and Gnolls, etc. This can be pretty tricky, just walk past enemies and once you're in his back, press the direction key to face the enemie and S to attack.

  • Equip Weapons - Equip 50 weapons by selecting from inventory
    Some weapons you will loot can be equipped, this does not count limited use items like daggers, oils, or hammers. Press W to go into inventory, select the weapon and press S, then press A to use it. You can also go to the Gnome Village with a Fighter or Magic User, trash your items, and buy up a bunch of swords or wands. After you leave the village you can just equip each one.

    My preferred method of grinding this was to start at the Grove of Destruction chapter with a Magic User but press Space instead of S on the character select screen. He will be wearing green robes and will have 3 or 4 wands in his inventory. Equip each wand and then let the enemies kill you and DO NOT continue. Go back to the main menu and repeat. Make sure you do not choose Exit Game or you will lose the challenge progress from that session.

  • Gold Digger (Dwarf) - Use the Treasure Hunter skill to open a chest twice 15 times with the Dwarf
    Stand in front of chest, press S to open the chest lid, quickly tap S to loot what pops out so that the chest doesn't despawn, Press S again to hit chest with your axe.

  • Gnomes R Us - Buy 1 item in the magic shop in the Gnome Village
    Choose the chapter The Grove Of Destruction. After fighting the Displacer Beast, agree to help the Gnomes. After fighting some more monsters the Gnome will say you're too big or something and offer to sell you a potion, say Yes to buy the potion and you are sent to the village. In the village there are two doors to go in. The item shop is the blue door, it is locked. Go into the other building, press S to talk to the person near the door, they tell you the shop should be open now, go back out and go into the item shop. Buy any item. If you have a Magic User or Cleric, buy a Wand of Paralyzation to help with Paralyzation Nation challenge.

  • Paralyzation Nation (Magic User) - Paralyze 25 Enemies
    You need a Wand of Paralyzation to bash enemies with to unlock this.

    See Gnomes R Us challenge for how to obtain the wand. Simply equip the wand and press A to use it by physically hitting enemies until you've completed the challenge.

    Alternate method of getting the wand: Choose Grove of Destruction chapter. On the character select screen, select magic user and press Space instead of S. The Magic User will be wearing a green costume and already have the wand in inventory. Every time I have started this chapter, he has the wand of paralyzation.

    If you're having trouble with the Magic User throwing the wand, play on the following level 'The Cave of Rafael'. On this particular level, both the green Magic User and my regular Magic User possessed the wand of paralyzation and was able to continually use it without chucking it.

  • Petrify Enemies (Magic User) - Petrify 25 enemies
    You can obtain this naturally by playing both games or if you want to grind, simply use up all your casts, let yourself be killed, and when you continue, the spell is restocked. Try to get a group of enemies in front of you. Sometimes it will petrify 2 or 3 of them at once.

  • Stickwaver (Magic User) - Use a Wand 50 Times
    Simply equip a wand and press S 50 times.

  • Engage! (Magic User) - Use the Teleport ability 30 Times
    Simply hold Down and double tap D to use Teleport.

  • Cannonball! (Dwarf) - Perform 25 Cannonball Attacks
    Press D to Jump and then ↓ + D. You can do this repeatedly until you finish it.

  • Sting Like a Bee (Dwarf) - Use rapid attack 50 times
    While fighting enemies with the Dwarf, keep tapping S until the axe starts swinging super fast.

  • Hands Full - Kill 30 monsters while Fighter is dual wielding
    You need to find and equip a Short Sword to do this. Select chapter Skies Over Aengmore. After fighting the Harpy and Tel'Arin on the flying ship, when you can choose path, pick The Forest of Despair. Walk forward until you see a sign and a large greenish rock. Get on the left side of the rock and push it to the right. Go inside to find the short sword inside one of the chests. Open your inventory, select it, press S. Then press A and he will put the shield away and you'll be dual wielding. Now just kill things.

  • So Desperate! - Perform 50 Desperate Attacks
    I found this easiest with the Fighter, but you can use others. Just press S + D.

  • Use Rapid Fire (Thief/Elf) - Use Rapid Fire 20 times
    Equip the Sling and then press A repeatedly and you will see the rapid attack happen.
    You can also use the Elf with the Bow to do this.

  • Use your Down Up Technique - Use your down up technique 25 times
    I found this easiest with the Fighter. Just press Down, Up and S for a special attack.

  • The Final Chapter - Complete Shadow Over Mystara
Save Game File
For those who don't want to bother with the grind and just want the achievement =P
Just download this file[www.dropbox.com] and replace it in save game location, that you can find at:
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Capcom\Dungeons & Dragons\Saved Games

Warning: You should make a backup of your own Save file.

Now you just need to complete two challenges, the Petting Zoo (Elf) and Till Death Do Us Part which already has 49/50 in save file. While you do that, you should get:

BUT YOU WON'T GET THE OTHER CHALLENGE RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS
5 Comments
Shadow King 5 Sep, 2022 @ 7:35am 
For Nax & gafrancisco (and anyone still confused by this); There are 3 Tiers to each challenge. The 0/3 on the challenges mentioned is just Tier 1. You have to complete all 3 tiers in order to get finish the challenge. The achievement descriptions literally tell you what you need.
Gabriel Jesus 3 Mar, 2022 @ 6:01pm 
How do I get the achievement (Skilled, Hardened, Completionist) ?????
Nax_o 30 Jun, 2021 @ 9:56am 
Yeah i expected as much. But still had some faint hope if you remember the challenges being bugged. I can collect numbers from other 0/3 challenges but these two don't move at all.
Hamasaki  [author] 30 Jun, 2021 @ 9:44am 
@Nax_o Has you can see, I posted this 3 years ago, I don't recall exactly the problem you're refering to, but I can garantee that the achievements are not bugged. ^^
Nax_o 30 Jun, 2021 @ 8:43am 
Just did the 'dual wield' the and saw that i didnt unlock anything. Turns out i need to dual wield and kill 30, not 3 like suggested by the challenge 0/3 score. Can you confirm that your numbers for 'dual wield' or 'cannonball' is truly those bigger xx numbers and not singular ones? Just so i know if i should grind on or just give up and say the achievements are bugged.