Baldurs gate - how should I start.

[Drogue]

Oh yes, I remember Been a long time since I played BGI

[Jamski]

Heretic! Go and use your Xmas holiday for a good purpose!

-Jam

[Drogue]

I have, playing SMAC and BGII exclusively Oh, and seeing a certain female too

[Jamski]

She told me she'd left you for good

Anyway, if you get bored, we could play BG2 multiplayer??? *hopes*

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
The problem with BG1 is that it is altogether too slow and you can't camp outdoors without getting ambushed- therefore you can never rest and recover your spells... except on EASIEST difficulty and with all the easy things turned on... and even then I have to replay every **** quest about 10 times

you camp a few times, and eventually it lets you rest for 8 hours, its random i think. Usually the monsters that attack you while resting arent too hard. You can always rest near a map edge, so that if something really nasty attacks you can run away.

[Jamski]

Camping is a great way to get those last few XPs you needed for a level.

-Jam

[NeOmega]

Firewine Bridge... and the Kobolds. I hated BG the first time I played it. But six months later I had flashbacks to Firewine Bridge and played it BG all over again.

Then I played the rest, and started on Icewind Dale a couple of days ago.... but Icewind dale has no party character storylines.... which kind of suck. In fact, you just make your own party.... I dunno...

But I also like to play as a thief.... for the backstab multiplier.

[Jamski]

Icewind Dale has the advantage of being able to make your own party, and give them the history and stats and classes YOU want. It's just a slightly different way of playing. After a while you really wonder about trying a 6 wizard/ranger multiclass party for example...

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski
Camping is a great way to get those last few XPs you needed for a level.

-Jam

I camped near Gullykin, kept getting kobolds and kobold elite, collected enough XP's to get Jaheira upto level 5 priest, also some gems and gold, and some fire arrows.


Whats the best way to use the skull trap spell (which Dynaheir now has)

[lord of the mark]

btw POTM pointed out to me that the origin of kissing under the mistletoe goes back to some Norse god named Baldar.

I also seem to have noted a minor character named Baldur in LOTR.

[DarkCloud]

NeOmega, I don't know about Icewind Dale I---> but in Icewind Dale II the difficulty is slider-driven AND you can rest until your entire party is healed- without worrying about each day- the resting is continuous until "x" points are healed.

Icewind Dale II is amazingly fun... and it doesn't have the "disc-swap" tediousness of Baldurs Gate I and II

I recommend it over BGI and II just because of those two reasons... and as for your party complaints- build a story in your head- that's what I do for my characters

It's quite fun.

I'm in the games Chapter II right now... it's a very long game

[Traianvs]

lol kobolds yield ridiculously low amounts of XP compared to their ability to hurt you badly with their arrows...

I mean 7 XP a piece!! I would camp in places with harder monsters

[Jamski]

Whats the best way to use the skull trap spell (which Dynaheir now has)

This is THE best spell in the game, much better than fireball even.

Ok, use a thief in stealth-mode to findthe enemy, or an invisible char. Cast the spell in an empty place and use missile waepons to get the enemy to charge into the skull.
Or place it where you know enemies will spawn later.
Or use to cover a retreat.
Or just lob it at groups or individuals. It does good damage, and its not elemental damage (fire, cold etc) so its unlikely to be resitsed.

Lovely spell.

-Jam

[Traianvs]

can your own party members trigger the spell and kill themselves?

that's basically why I hate fireball and area of effect spells; I always end up killing my own party rather than the enemy, lol

just not my kinda stuff I reckon

[NeOmega]

Originally posted by Trajanus
can your own party members trigger the spell and kill themselves?

that's basically why I hate fireball and area of effect spells; I always end up killing my own party rather than the enemy, lol

just not my kinda stuff I reckon

Confusion seems to be doing a good job right now. I prefer focused spells.... ala melfs acid arrow... they let you focus your attack on the mean guys..... allthough fireball can be great too.

RE: Slider driven

All the infinity engine games have a difficulty slider which you can use, I prefer to keep it on normal for maximum XP efficiency. Icewind Dale to me is very difficult.... which I like. I play almost every battle at least 3 times over right now.

In BG II I believe you could set your party to rest until healed. However, there were no ambushes in the night, IIRC. Interestingly, I tried to rest aas little as possible.... kind of to have a "score". Icewind Dale.... man, I am already at like day 400. IN the BG's and excpansions, I got maybe to 115. A lot of that may have to do with not having a cleric class in my party this time.... but it seems it takes a lot longer to heal now.