New all purpose Baldurs Gate thread

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Marid Audran



Part of the charm, my friend. The ambience of Sigil is other-wordly...quite literally. No Tolkein-esque blandness here. The game picks up as soon as you spring yourself from the Mortuary and you're on Senior Collector Pharod's trail...

You might have gathered that I rather like Tolkien

I'll play through with this game, for its interactive novel aspects, and its promised ending. I'll try to let folks know how im doing, as i did for BG1.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski

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You swine. $5. I paid a lot more than that, last week

It was practically worth the five bucks just for that reaction.

[Jamski]

I found that it was nessessary to talk to every named character to proceed, if that helps.

Looking forward to the report, I played it for the first time last week, as did Dissident, so it would be good to compare notes

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I'll try to let you know how my elfy (christened Mildred because the name has always amused my girlfriend) and Imoen get on on the road to the Friendly Arms and beyond, but bear in mind that my progress will be much slower than lotm managed.

(I'll just post more per actual game time though)

[Jamski]

That's what we like to hear.

BTW, if you find BG goes to slowly, you can adjust the speed in the bgconfig.exe in the same folder as the main install.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I didn't mean that the game runs too slowly! I just menat that the duchess o' york (not that dreadful ginger woman ) is not as gracious with playing computer games all evening as Mrs Jamski seems to be.
Still, I can't play at all on either Tuesday or Thursday nights during night-school term anyway so it doesn't matter too much.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski
I found that it was nessessary to talk to every named character to proceed, if that helps.

Looking forward to the report, I played it for the first time last week, as did Dissident, so it would be good to compare notes

-Jam

Im gonna be on vacation in California for a week, so I'll be behind you when i get back.

[Jamski]

...not as gracious with playing computer games all evening as Mrs Jamski seems to be.

Mrs Jamski is at work all day, and can't stop me

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Mmmm..... lucky Jamski.

I haven't had a day off work yet this year though...

[Jamski]

Perhaps you could take a day off and play BG?

-Jam

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Jamski
Drogue, -1 is a crappy AC. You want about -7 or better to make it worthwhile. Then most monsters need a natural 20 to hit you.

Well, most still do at this stage How do you get many to -7 though, without shields? Full plate, a ring of protection, a decent helm and a dex of 18 gets to about -5. Sure, I'll usually have one or two below that, but fighers with shields usually end on about -8, and without about -5 or 6. I can cope with a -1 until his dex goes up, since he's rarely the one in the firing line anyway, with my main character having blur, mirror image and stoneskin, Jaheira having a great AC and ironskins, and Korgan being -5 AC at the moment.

Originally posted by Jamski
Korgan should put points in dual-wield and use it sometimes. What else should he put the points in? MORE axes?

Sword and shield? Either I make him 5 in axe, 2 in warhammer and 3 in dual; or 5 in axe, 2 in warhammer and 2 in sword and shielf style. Which is better? 4 AC (-9 extra vs missile IIRC) for him, or 1 AC for Jaheira and an extra attack.

Originally posted by Jamski
Jaheria I like to make a dual-weilder, as she can buff herself into a force of awesome destruction. I put Belm +2 in the offhand, and one of the evil clubs in the main hand. Biter, or Blackblood.

I never liked the clubs, so I usually just give her belm. Also she never get's up enough in dual wield, since she starts with 0. I want her to be 2 in schimitar and so to get her to 3 in dual would be 4 more points. How many does a multi-classed fighter end with? Will she get another 4?

Since she already has 1 in sword and shield style, the next one goes to schimitar, and then the one after to sword and sheild, then she get's belm and a decent shield. I can't see trying to get her up in dual wield is really worth it, personally.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Drogue

Buit then, so were those items. Valygar's armour and katana are family heirlooms, as is Nalia's signet ring, IIRC.

Well how could family heirlooms get there?
And I won`t even mention how would items get to FR from Sigil and Fortress of Regrets? BTW it seems tha PT is a bit parallel to BG2 story - at least two references were made at TNO during my gameplay of BG2.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by duke o' york
I'll try to let you know how my elfy (christened Mildred because the name has always amused my girlfriend) and Imoen get on on the road to the Friendly Arms and beyond, but bear in mind that my progress will be much slower than lotm managed.

(I'll just post more per actual game time though)

In fact it took me over two months real time (durational, not actual playing time) to get through BG - about 280 days of game time (i know, I rest alot) I seldom played more than an hour an evening, and sometimes didnt play at all on a given evening. (though there were occasions i played 2 or more hours at a shot) I daresay i played rather less intensively than say, Jamski

[Dis]

Originally posted by obstructor


Well how could family heirlooms get there?
And I won`t even mention how would items get to FR from Sigil and Fortress of Regrets? BTW it seems tha PT is a bit parallel to BG2 story - at least two references were made at TNO during my gameplay of BG2.

what references were those? Okay now I have to play BG2 again to find out

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Dissident


what references were those? Okay now I have to play BG2 again to find out

In one part of spellhold a woman gifted with extraplanar seing sees a walking corpse in front of pillar of skulls.
And it seems I have forgotten about the second one.
Will post as soon as I remember.