The Bard's Tale III

Malefia, the final (and my favorite) dimension of the game. Doesn't have the coolest puzzles or story, but awesome monsters (and items)! So here is some info about those.
All graphics are from the C64-version, which is widely acknowledged to be the best one. Screenshots made with the excellent emulator VICE.
The very nice Bard's Tale Compendium has lots of stuff, including the important spell-list (from the manual).
Maps are included in this walkthrough by Richard J. Hutchison. I pimped the malefia-maps to include recommended (by me at least) ways to the statues. Boring areas where you don't need to go are greyed out. Get it here.
And here is a layered codewheel, which I found to be more reliable than all the textual explanations or tables. It is easiest to first activate/rotate the middle and then the top layer. I do it with the gimp.
The only thing about the table that might need explaining is the distance where A means that the monsters will advance and the number after that says how fast.
The level column says on what level of the dungeon the monster can be encountered.
I didn't bother to record the damage done by monsters with the stoning or critical-hit ability - dead is dead ;-)
Some monsters have special magic-resistance, for example the Gremlin, Vortex and, of course, Tarjan himself. They proved to be immune to SPBI too, so I had to walk around until one offered to join voluntary.
Hitpoints are not always precisely fixed - I suspect that even 9999 doesn't actually mean 9999 but that only the display is capped.
The most rare monster, apart from the end-battle-uniques, seems to be the Hell Fiend, which is not very spectacular otherwise.
And here's the wikipedia-page for this fantastic game, which has eaten up more of my childhood-time than any other computer game.

	Name	Hit Points	AC	Distance	Damage	Spells	Level
	Rock Man	9999	-50	10'A0	stoning	SUEL	1/2
	Storm Demon	2144	-30	80'	-	FRFO, MAMA, HERB	1/2
	Cursed Nuisance	126	-20	10'A10	14-19	-	1/2
	Malefic Champ	581	-25	10'A30+	60-99/breath 12-56	-	1/2
	Titan	1919	-29	10'A10	29-109	-	1/2
	Gremlin	9999	-29	50'	breath 9-217	-	1/2
	Shadow Dragon	6352	-26	20'A20	160-380 crazying	-	1/2
	Unholy Terror	2846	-28	60'A90	critical-hit	FAFO	1/2
	Tarjan's Bull	8041	-29	10'A10	119-240	FRFO, summon help	1/2/3
	Vampire Lord	9999	-27	40'A20	48-290 draining	REST	1/2/3
	Vortex	9999	-30	10-20'A10	145-203 phazing	-	1/2/3
	Black Slayer	4002	-29	20'A10	critical-hit	-	1/2/3
	Black Dragon	8205	-28	50'/80'	breath 54-205	FRFO	1/2/3
	Death Warden	9999	-29	10'A10	154-400	DEST, ROCK	1/2/3
	Tarjan Warrior	9401	-30	10'A10	278-484	-	1/2/3
	Ghoul	2766	-28	10'A10	180-393	INSL, REST	3
	Pit Demon	8426	-28	40'	-	HAFO, NILA	3
	Malefia Mage	2041	-30	80'	-	MAMA, FRFO, HERB	3
	Black Wizard	9999	-50	80'	-	FADE	3
	Rage Wraith	1983	-28	10'A10	53-65	-	3
	Rock Demon	2352	-40	30'A30	stoning	?	3
	Hell Fiend	590	-25	10'	50-81/breath 40-128	-	3
	Black Paladin	5996	-30	20'A20	130-332 crazying	-	3
	High Priestess	9999	-30	10'	-	MAMA, DEST, HAFO	end
	Redbeard	9999	-26	90'	-	HAFO, GLST	end
	Lorini	9999	-26	60'	-	GLST, BRKR, NILA	end
	Tarjan	?	?	90'	-	summon 10 Black Slayers	end

The four final battles of the game

A very nice item to have here is the Deathhorn, because it can eliminate the magic-resistant Vortexs in one go. Since you don't need any more XP at this point feel free to cast EAMA to get rid of whole groups. A DIVA each round is also suggested, to be on the safe side. But be wary that 3.2 follows directly after 3.1, with no chance for any actions between them. No healing, harmonic-gem-use, party-reordering, etc. If you're a wimp you can cast PREC in the last battle to prevent Tarjan from summoning 10 fresh Black Slayers each round - but with AC -50 and maybe a little LUCK they should pose no real threat. It's a little weak that he doesn't do anything else... except getting backstabbed, of course ;-)