Give me some starting advice for Ultima Underworld. Got it

Roll a druid with highest strenght you possibly can (close to 30) so you can carry a lot more items later.

Pick swords as your main weapon skill since even daggers work with it and you start with a dagger.

>>3651710
You can get decent swords, axes and maces at pretty much any point in the game. Missile weapons aren't that great since ammunition is troublesome and you need a minimum distance. Not to mention accounting for ballistics on longer ranges. Unarmed isn't useful at all.
Concentrate on one weapon skill. It combines with your attack and defense skills to determine your overall combat capabilities.

Most of the non-combat, non-magic skills aren't needed. Acrobatics can help lessen falling damage but you don't need more than a few points in it.
You only get a limited amount of skillpoints so think twice where to invest them, in particular the initial general purpose runewords are fairly random in their results and shouldn't be used excessively.

That being said you don't really need to min-max. The game is completable even with minimal strength and without save scumming for every skillup.
As always: read the manual and don't carelessly attack creatures unless they are hostile. Don't move stuff that belongs to others.

>>3651710
This does make the game a bit of easy mode, but for a first play thru when you're still figuring shit out like puzzles and what not, its not a bad idea.

I'd say go this route, and if you like the game enough try other buids.

>>3651641
You really want Strength.

Encumbrance is a complete bitch in the game. You don't always know what you'll need when, and shuttling your stash around as you move from level to level gets old fast.

My other advice is to not just kill shit. There are allies as well as enemies in the Underworld, and if you make an enemy of everyone you might not be able to finish the game.

>>3651641
Find a bowl and keep hold of it for a puzzle later in the game, you will be thankful you did.

>>3651919
>>3651915
That reminds me: Don't throw away stuff carelessly. Critical items won't get destroyed but they can be a bitch to find again.
Mark things on your map and build supply caches.

Mark EVERYTHING on your map. Unlike other LGS games like SS1 and Thief, the notes system in UU is a critical part of the game. If you dropped an item somewhere because you need the space for something else mark it down. I can't count how many times I dropped stuff around the floors and had to go back to them later.