yoshino: Anyways, I started Ultima 6 and Space Empires 4 Deluxe.
My avatar explored the Britannia castle and near city and now going down south to Paws village.
I've fought wolfs and giant rats but these animals did not have any golds so I'm eager to get golds to buy foods, otherwise my party would be facing with starvation... I had experienced that problem in early games in Ultima 4 and 5 too.lol.
I also find that the warp stone, which got in the start scene is very useful item. It fleetly warp my party in any towns, shrines and the Britannia castle,so if my party suffered any damages, I just warp them to Lord British and ask heal.
In Ultima 6, food is only consumed when you rest. Since your MP recovers (by your level) every hour, you can actually avoid worrying about food entirely if you use magic to heal. (There is still the problem of having enough reagents, but you can get around it by using Help for healing.)
To get money, try fighting enemies that have weapons or other equipment and then finding a place to sell them. I find that this is the simplest way of getting money. (There are fancier methods such as item duplication (the method left as an exercise to the reader, at least for now) and a one-time event that gives you plenty of money, but those are not as easily accessible.)
I don't remember if gargoyles drop anything that can be sold for money; I know they drop boomerangs, but I don't think any store will buy them.
You mention using the warp stone to warp to Lord British to heal. It is actually faster to use the Help spell, which requires no reagents and will teleport you back to Lord British, heal the party (even reviving the dead, though with the usual XP penalty for doing so), and, if cast during the night, will advance time until morning. It's actually a really powerful spell. (I think the spell was included because people were deathwarping a lot in Ultima 4 and 5, so Richard Gariott decided to introduce a spell that made deathwarping obsolete.)
