New all purpose Baldurs Gate thread

[Jamski]

I think Xvarts are naturally evil. You did a great thing.

Did you check out the cave in the hill behind thier little smurf village?

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Not yet, but I suddenly have an urge to pop in and kill whatever may be in there. Probably another stoopid bear. I'll need more arrows.

[Jamski]

You need a hacked bow that never runs out of arrows

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Jamski
You need a hacked bow that never runs out of arrows

-Jam

ISTR that arrows are easy to comeby in BG1. You buy them at first, but theyre cheap. Then you start picking up arrows from dead enemies, and you have more non-magic arrows than you have room for. after a certain point i never bought an arrow unless it was magical.

[Jamski]

Yeah, Kobolds have arrows, Bandits, Hobgoblins, Goblins, all kinds of common enemies. Soliders too.

-Jam

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Jamski
You need a hacked bow that never runs out of arrows

-Jam

Hey, I just got a legitimate one of those from a merchant in Trademeet. So Mazzy is using that, with the Tuirgan as back-up if I need acid/flame arrows.

Nice.

So I finished Umar Hills, Trademeet, etc. and I'm back in the city now. I'm running out of quests, so it may be time to go get Imoen. Plus Yashimo is getting on my nerves - only non-good aligned person left in my party.

[Jamski]

You realise that the bow in question can fire other arrows at the same time, adding the damage together. Its VERY VERY TASTY.

-Jam

[Drogue]

Jamski: Seriously? I have that bow, but use Tuigan's, since 3 shots with Tuigan's does more damage than 2 with Tansheron's. But if Tansheron's fire's twice every time, then

[Jamski]

Its a matter of if you want to be a cheese master or not.

Really you shouldn't exploit Tasherons like that.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I'm a master of both Camembert and Brie, with two stars in Rocquefort and one in both Port Salut and Feta.

I didn't get the chance to play last night, but am getting annoyed with the 20-arrow quivers. I'll have to go and visit the armoury somewhere and just give all of my bow-wielding characters 60. It's a bit dumb having to buy shot for Jaheira's sling though. Have they never read the story of David and Goliath?

[Jamski]

There's a mod for BG 2 that gives all slings endless ammo for that reason. Sorry, but this is just one of the engine things you have to live with.

-Jam

[Traianvs]

sling shots are usually made of lead
So it would be amazig if you had an endless supply of them carrying around! Of course, if you have the bag of holding..

This reminds me of Roman sling shots found with inscriptions such as 'Take this' (in Latin of course)...
The Romans had a sense of humor I have to say

[duke o' york]

Someone else has never read David and Goliath then.

I played a little more last night. Killed the bear in the cave to the north of the fart village and stole the goodies from his treasure chest. I like the bracers, but sold the +1 flail to the armourer when I went to get more arrows. I splashed out to get Jaheira's Helmet of Infravision identified, and now have loads of spells awaiting a wizard to use them. Can wizards only use certain kinds of spells? It would make sense, but maybe because I didn't read the manual properly then I don't know what kind of wizard can use which spells. Still, once I've rescued Dynaheir and dual-classed Imoen, then I'll just sell all of the rest to the bloke at High Hedge. I've now arrowed up, and have just entered the area above the fortress (save called The Road to Gnollwhere - sorry ), but then decided to rest in the hope that my girlfriend would learn some spells, and I'd recover some HP.

[Jamski]

(BTW, Jaheria has infravision anyway, she's a half-elf )

Yeah, different spells for different mages. Only an general "wizard" can use them all. Imoen WILL be able to use them all, no wait forget that, you CAN dual to a specialist mage in BG1...

Best to read the manual properly, and compare the overlap between Dynahier and Imoen (if you make her a specialist)

BG2, players, the new version of "Tactics" is INSANE. You can't reclose the doors anymore... Demons and Devas in the first dungeon... and now nowhere to hide.

I'm running a report on Eventis, if people need to be scared.

-Jam

[Traianvs]

You can't close doors! Demons in Irenicus' dungeon?
It's mathematically not possible to beat them, right

where is eventis?