New all purpose Baldurs Gate thread

[Jamski]

Its a magic trap... so it wouldn't work.

I suggest you see what kind of attacks/traps you are facing, then go back out the maze and buy potions that protect against that. It took me a day to give in and do that though on my first play-through.

Unless you can turn the whole party invisible...

-Jam

[Drogue]

If only Glitterdust was available in BGI

[Jamski]

Spoiler:

Or use the cheapest cheap trick in all the IE games and just flood the area with summoned creatures - BG1 has no summoning limit so you can fill the screen...

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

ok, beat the two skeletons and it only took about a dozen reloads.

I had Imoen drink an invisibility potion and deal with the traps. I still took a couple of reloads to get the hang of dealing with all the traps. when id gotten that down i made the mistake of having her cast monster summoning while right near the skeletons - they shoot at her and keep her from getting the spell off. Finally tried having her go back to the party while still invisible, then send 3 fighters with bashing weapons and as many protective spells and potions as possible - keeping Jaheira nearby to heal - shooting bullets when not healing - and of course THEN have imoen cast monster summoning, twice. one batch (of what turned out to be gnoll elites) on the far side of the skeletons, one in between/around the skeletons. so skeleton 2 is completely busy fighting the first batch of gnolls, while skeleton 1 is fighting my fighters, with gnolls at his back.

Doing this, i managed to win and keep entire party alive.
But we are rather short on potions now, and somewhat short on bullets and arrows. Im thinking of heading back to the surface, but id rather not if it can be avoided.

[Jamski]

Ah, a dozen isn't bad. Well, not too bad.

See why having Imoen as a Mage/Thief was smart now? A desision noone regrets.

I'd go back now and make sure you have healing and fire protection stuff. Just a hint

Spoiler:

You're well advised to spend every last gold coin at this point. You won't get another chance.

-Jam

[Jamski]

BTW, I finished PS:T this afternoon. Wow... my brain is spinning. What a strange odd mad perculiar ending. I replayed the last scene a few times and found 4 different odd endings... I suppose there's even more.

And what's with the xxxxx that gives you 2,000,000 EXP points! That put me up from level 16 to level 23!!!!! That has to be a "hidden extra"

Spoiler:

I let my Lim Lim die by taking it to the Negative Material Plane. When I tried to talk to it, it said "The poor Lim Lim's blackened corpse shows that it could not resist the Negative Material Plane" or something. I felt so guilty. That Lim Lim had been everywhere with me.

-Jam

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Jamski
See why having Imoen as a Mage/Thief was smart now? A desision noone regrets.

Nah, she makes a great thief keeping her single

[duke o' york]

I have no idea what the spoiler has to do with the rest of the post. Maybe the xxxxx is supposed to stand for something meaningful. I assume that the game doesn't tell you: "You've found 345g and an xxxxx!"

Anyway, back to the real matter in hand.
I ought to get BG tomorrow (can't play it tomorrow night, but that's typical of my luck generally ).
Should I just dive in and work things out for myself, with the possibility of occasional expert advice from the new mayor of Baldur's Gate, Lord Jamski? Alternatively I could visit the site that his Lordship posted in the other thread and download some of the fancy patches. Given that the game is new then it won't be patched to working condition, so recommend which ordinary patch to get before I start to fiddle about with the more outlandish ones.

[Jamski]

Get the latest BG patch - unless you get the newest release, which I think comes prepatched. Load it up and see what version you have, and compare.

BUT MAKE SURE YOU ARE PATCHED!!!!!!

http://www.bioware.com/games/baldurs_gate/support/patches/

is the official patch for the old version.

http://www.bioware.com/games/tales_sword_coast/support/original_saga/

And here's the patch information if you have "The Original Saga" boxed set.

Otherwise I wouldn't install any other patches.

As for mods.... well, play it through once first.

-Jam

[Jamski]

Oh, and the xxxx is to totally not give any clue as to what the item or character or location is

-Jam

[duke o' york]

This is the version I've bought, so which patch do you think I'd need?

I'm very grateful for all your help your Lordship, and may well be returning before the Throne of Jam to pick up some hints once I get the thing going.

[Jamski]

That's the Skull Throne of Lord Jam on the 666th level of the Abyss BTW

It doesn't say which version it is... but I see you are getting TotSC too, so... *thinks*

Ah yes, if you have the 6CD version AND TotSC, then you need THIS patch... (of course, the one I didn't mention)

http://www.bioware.com/games/tales_sword_coast/support/patches/

If you get the version that has "Original Saga" on the front (3 CDs) - this isn't the original saga, its the rerelease, and see the info above.

Hope that helps.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Yes..... he says for the time being, unaware of what will actually be in the box, but hoping that Jamski will let him off using the slang name of his throne.

There we are then. I shall download both patches when I get the game and take both home to use if required.

[Jamski]

Well, since I am a chaotic neutral god, I'll just maze you for 50 years.

Why?

I felt like it

-Jam

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by Jamski
Oh, and the xxxx is to totally not give any clue as to what the item or character or location is

-Jam

The xxxx, (you found out [applause]) gave me once 5000000 xp points.

And you must admit that the end is just to easy.

My advice - start a new game and play it again
It is very different from fighter and mage perspective.