New all purpose Baldurs Gate thread

[Drogue]

Yes cleric's can use warhammers. Indeed, it's probably a waste for fighters to, since they can use better weapons, IMHO.

[duke o' york]

Jaheira can't use it though?

[Jamski]

No, she's a Fighter/Druid.

She can only use druid weapons, but luckily she CAN use fighter armour.

Best for her is the +2 poison dagger from the smith in Beregost and a BIG MAGIC SHEILD. (As a fighter she hits pretty often with the dagger and the poison is lethal at BG1 levels)

-Jam

[duke o' york]

Damn!
I forgot to go and look in the chests in the smithy in the middle of the night.

Never mind, I'll have to go back anyway to see Thalantyr and buy some of his stuff, so I'll have plenty of opportunity to go thievin'. I'll have to remember to do it before Imoen loses her thief skills. I definitely do not want to be caught by the watch in the smithy, as the smith and his helpers could probably beat the hell out of me with magic weapons before the watch even got through the door. Also, I might need him in future. Can he make magic items if you take him things? Got any suggestions? Oddly enough, I don't have any dragon scales just lying around for the moment, but should I come across something like that then I quite fancy some decent armour.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Can he make magic items if you take him things? Got any suggestions?

Let's just say that any time you kill a large creature and it leaves something behind that has no obvious use, it probably has a use. Or if you want it spelled out for you...

Spoiler:

You're going to run into Ankhegs sooner or later - big green any like things that pop out of the ground a spit stuff at you. When you kill them, their shell is left behind. Only problem is they weigh something like 100lbs. Anyway, you can take them to the smith and he'll buy them for 500 gold, or you can get a conversation path in which he'll offer to make you a suit of armour for 4000 gold. Note that once he makes the armor for you, he won't buy any more shells. I've also heard that there's a bug that causes you to lose all the shells your party is carrying and you still only get 500 gold (if you're selling them). So drop them all and sell them one at a time to be safe.

Meanwhile, in that other game, I decided some time away from the city would be nice, so I finally headed out on Nalia's quest. Pretty easy going so far. Most interesting part is a servant that alluded to some nasty big creatures in the dungeon and how he had to feed them cooked dog meat. Then low and behold I found some dogs that left steaks behind when I killed them and then I found a working oven. Hmmm......

This has been a really fun quest so far. Looking forward to getting into the dungeon and seeing what's kicking about.

[Jamski]

I like the dogs Rover, Sparky, Fido and Rex IIRC. They make a very tasty stew

-Jam

[duke o' york]

This thread is going somewhat Korean.....

I remember something from the last thread (subliminal cheating ), about having to free the woman from the rock at the circus. Will I need a wizard to do this, or is it a cleric/druid spell? I was just thinking that things are going to be a bit tough if I have to get Imoen to level 5 before making her a wizard and allowing her to open the rock.

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by duke o' york
This thread is going somewhat Korean.....

I remember something from the last thread (subliminal cheating ), about having to free the woman from the rock at the circus. Will I need a wizard to do this, or is it a cleric/druid spell? I was just thinking that things are going to be a bit tough if I have to get Imoen to level 5 before making her a wizard and allowing her to open the rock.

ahem...

Spoiler:

stone to flesh scroll, get it from the temple not from the dufus at the carnival, unless you pickpocket him

[duke o' york]

You meanie!
I've been trying to avoid all of the spoilers posted here (well, the BG1 spoilers), so that's no use to me. I only wanted to know if the free from rock spell is wizard- or cleric-based.

[centrifuge]

Spoiler:

I think wizard, but I'm not sure

[duke o' york]

Spoiler:

STOP IT!!!!!!

[centrifuge]

sorry, I couldn't resist

the spoiler above says " I think that it's wizard but I'm not sure" that's the case with BG2 IIRC

[duke o' york]

Rats!

I'd better get finding me a wizard then.

[Stuie]

Definitely wizard. I ran into that problem when I played through BG1. I ended up doing the Minsc quest first. Have you met Minsc yet? Definitely my favorite NPCs (yes, plural - squeak! ).

[duke o' york]

No, I've only just got to Nashkel.
I've heard of Minsc, and he sounds rather good, although I already have Kivan in my party. I don't know what boo is though - something to do with Dr Spike's sig?