Baldurs gate - how should I start.

[Drogue]

Without Virconia though She's definatly my favourite romance (though don't tell Louise that )

Looks like a good party. I'm either going to do a female sorceror with Chloe, or a have a party of Chloe, Kelsey, Keldorn, Edwin and either Virconia and female assassin or Yoshi and female cleric.

What weapons does Chloe specialise in? Please tell me she can dual wield longswords or katanas?

[Jamski]

She specialises in Scimitars(***) and Shortswords.(**) WARNING! She only starts with 1 star in two-weapon-fighting, so I'd wait till she picks up a second star before doing that.

She also starts with a +3 Scimitar and a +2 Shortsword, has a DEX of twentyfive, 100% electricty resitance and is not able to dual class.

And an American accent

-Jam

[Drogue]

25 Dex? Damn, if she could dual to a thief...

But hey, that's not too bad. Scimitar's means she can use belm and her +3, which isn't bad. She only needs get 2 stars in dual-wield and 2 in scimitar and she'd be great 4 attacks with belm too

[Jamski]

She now has the second dual weild star, and the belt of Hill Giant Strength, which combined with her Kensai bonuses make her hit a LOT and hit very HARD. Nice. Everyone else has a better AC though, even Kelsey.

-Jam

[Drogue]

Jamski: How do you intstall her? I've DLed it, but there's no setup program What do i do?

[Jamski]

Its a WinRar self-extracting archive. If you have WinRar it will install with a double click. If you only have Winzip, nothing will happen.

Google for WinRar and download for free. Its just like WinZip, but with more file types supported.

.rar is much smaller than .zip, and can run a script onOpen.

-Jam

[Traianvs]

Does anybody (Jamski? ) know where I can get the BGI/II/IWDI/II music (downloading or other means...?)

I often like music in games and play them whilst browsing this forum etc.. anybody know how I can get that specific music?

PS: I have the official games! (except IWD II, eheh that copy is cough ***** cough)

[NeOmega]

thiefs/assassins kick ass. It is all I ever play as my major character. In BG II you could easily, using a thief with boots of the cheetah, edefeat entire powerful enemy parties all alone. It was also very satisfying to poison my crossbow, fire a bolt, hit a priest a mage, or a fighter, hide back in the shadows, and listen to them die a slow, agonizing poisoned death....

Plus, being a thief really takes the hack 'n' slash out and replaces it with tactic.

Not to mention a good thief makes the best scout.

[Drogue]

Thank's Jamski. DLed WinRar. Was using WinAce, but it doesn't like .exe files in rar.

Started a new party. So far just out of the dungeon, with Yoshi, Chloe and main character is a neutral good human Priest of Lathander, with Virconia's pic

Should be fun

[Jamski]

Does anybody (Jamski? ) know where I can get the BGI/II/IWDI/II music (downloading or other means...?)

I know everything about IE games

http://www.interplay.com/interact/downloadlist.asp?Dltype=1

Get all the music from BG, BG2, IWD, PS:T etc in mp3 format.

My favorite - the Dragon fighting music from BG2

thiefs/assassins kick ass. It is all I ever play as my major character. In BG II you could easily, using a thief with boots of the cheetah, edefeat entire powerful enemy parties all alone. It was also very satisfying to poison my crossbow, fire a bolt, hit a priest a mage, or a fighter, hide back in the shadows, and listen to them die a slow, agonizing poisoned death....

Plus, being a thief really takes the hack 'n' slash out and replaces it with tactic.

Not to mention a good thief makes the best scout.

Guess what I've been doing since 10am (its now 2am) - new game with me as an Assassin. Poison weapon + Short Sword of Mask + Sneak attack Poor poor poor Torgal Poison from Assassins kills trolls BTW...

-Jam

[centrifuge]

Okay, so it would appear that this thread has departed from the original intent of discusing BG1. okay by me, since I dig all of these games None-the-less LOTM, please keep informing us of your progression

FYI, I just finished Soulbringer I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I thought the story was quite cool, the npc interaction was really cool (it's one of the few games where the npc's not only have different personalities, but you can also hear, as opposed to read all of their dialog), the combat was also pretty cool, but missile weapons aren't worth using and sometimes the battles against the main opponents seemed too easy, while lesser opponents seemed more difficult. All in all it was good, but I don't think that replayability is really a factor, since you can't choose different classes etc. If you can find it, however, I do recommend it, somehow it seemd like a breath of fresh air. I think that some of the IE games could have benefited greatly from using some of its ideas.

...So now I've started on NWN, I've decided to put PS:T on the backburner for a while. So now comes my question about NWN...is it possible for a monk to go solo through the original campaign and the 1st expansion?
(sorry Jamski, I haven't given "the dungeon ago yet it's 2nd on my list ) I've heard, many bad things about the original campaign, but figured that I should give it a try and decide for myself at least it should give me good feel for the game.

[Marid Audran]

Originally posted by Jamski
Oh, what I actually wanted to post...

I now have the first 4 members of my party :

Me, Jamskianna, a female elven Assassin (longsword +1)
Jaheira, female (forced to be lesbian) half-elven Fighter/druid (romance started)
Anomen, male human Fighter/cleric (romance started)
Chloe, female (freely lesbian) Kenasi (romance started)

I'm intending to add Kelsey too, and romance him.

Sweet mother of Mystra. Everyone in this party is going to require major therapy when they're ready to hang up their swords and spellbooks.

You should have pressed Aerie into your gang as another forced lesbian romance to really top things off.

Originally posted by Jamski
She now has the second dual weild star, and the belt of Hill Giant Strength, which combined with her Kensai bonuses make her hit a LOT and hit very HARD. Nice. Everyone else has a better AC though, even Kelsey.

-Jam

Am I the only soul who regularly employs the 4th-level Necromancy spell Spirit Armor? Shwing! She's practically invincible with that buff.

I'm familiar with the woman who voiced Chloe, who has made other soundsets, and done some voice-work for Thief: The Metal Age Fan Missions too.

Thieves that frighten me: Forget your kensai/thieves and assassins; 'tis Alora from BG1, armed with her lucky rabbit's foot and overpowering good cheer. Her rare selected soundset .wavs were the stuff of nightmares. Her "rep-building" comment is rather terrifying too...

[Jamski]

So now comes my question about NWN...is it possible for a monk to go solo through the original campaign and the 1st expansion?

Easily. Probably the easiest solo class. Try to keep your AC high. and you'll be ok. An AC of ((1.5 x your level) + 20) is acceptable but I'd aim for ((1.5 x your level) + 25) to make sure everything you fight needs to roll a natural 20 to hit you. [/powergamer]

I've heard, many bad things about the original campaign, but figured that I should give it a try and decide for myself at least it should give me good feel for the game.

The main problem with the OC, as you will soon see, is the "zen level design" which makes each chapter radial. There's a certain meditative, repetitive quality that some find very relaxing. You'll see this clearly in Chapter 1. There's a central "hub", with 4 "town quarters" each of which has 2 ways to get to a "dungeon" which has a boss and an ingredient. Its neat, but somehow contrived.

Chapter 2 is the same.

So is Chapter 3.

There are times when you just have to grit your teeth because you know that you'll have to fight x Zombies to get to the stairs...

A general comment : You are very often fighting large crowds of weaker creatures. Cleave and Great Cleave and anything that increases number of attacks. This is your mantra.

Am I the only soul who regularly employs the 4th-level Necromancy spell Spirit Armor? Shwing! She's practically invincible with that buff.

My only spell caster is Kelsey... and he doesn't have the 4th level slots to spare, but this is my usual tactic with a Kensai Mage.

Sweet mother of Mystra. Everyone in this party is going to require major therapy when they're ready to hang up their swords and spellbooks.

Don't forget Keldorn too Its INSANE with these talkative people, combined with the flirt pack and the banter pack my party spend more time chatting than any other activity. Chloe and Anomen rile each other rotten. Jaheira and Anomen ditto. Jaheira and Chloe aren't sooo friendly. The only way to get more chat would be to add Imoen (and the Imoen romance) then I won't actually be able to play any more. Of course there's also 8 romance talks per hour (4 active romances, and the speed mod to double rate they come at)

AAAAAAAAAGH!

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

ok, ive done most of the sidequests that have come up.
Did the merchant company thing.
Dealt with the poison/assasination thingy.
Found the undercellar. The physical connections in both directions are quite clever.
Wasnt able to do get the cure at low lantern tavern. Apparenlty having messed up the first dialogue, theres no other way to get it than stealing it, and doing so causes Flaming fist to show up immediately. even charming the guy who owns the cure doesnt work. I suppose if i were prepared, and has fists available, and used strength potions, i could manage to beat the FF and commoners without killing anyone - but this doesnt seem to be an essential sidequest, so i've decided to just skip it (on the reload)

Ive got plenty of money despite having just resurrected Imoen, after the Merchants company adventure. Next I'll head back to the big sorcery shop, since Dynheir just got to level 7 (as has Khalid) and I can now use 4th level wizard spells (7th level wizard gets 4th level spells - those D&D folks didnt get the word "intuitive" did they? )


Then I'll proceed to Silvershield estate. After that its on to Seven Suns and Iron Throne, in that order, I presume.

[Jamski]

Prepare to be disappointed with the fourth level spells. The best levels are 1st, 3rd and 6th - 9th. 4th and 5th seem a bit lacking apart from Stoneskin and Breach.

-Jam