New all purpose Baldurs Gate thread

[Jamski]

I think even if you just visit the map, the game loads all the inventories of the people and shops into the cache.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I now have a quandary.
I've done Nashkel, and am off to visit the Gnolls at home. I've taken Branwen along with me, but want Dynaheir (I refused to take Edwin because I'm trying to play good ), and don't know which character to drop when I reach Dynaheir. Having 3 rangers at the moment, I'll probably drop Kivan, because I can't drop Minsk without Dynaheir, and can't drop myself. I don't really need 3 rangers, but I've come to like Kivan. It'll be a shame to see him go.
What level do rangers start to get spells?
Was there any way that I could have saved the wizard in that tent where the two of them are fighting? The bad guy just cast one spell and toasted her. I got to keep all her stuff though. Are the 2 wizard robes worth keeping, or only the one I took from the good wizard? My party got pretty badly wounded in that scrap (at the carnival, in case you don't know what I'm on about), but no-one died.

[Jamski]

Ah, this thread lives still

You should drop a character BEFORE you get to the fortress, because anyone you drop on that map is gone for ever. I would get Minsc killed by sending him into battle unarmed and then you can take Dynaheir on her own. Sure its a bit "unpleasant" but there you go. Otherwise its goodbye Kivan, which is a shame.

Rangers don't get spells in BG1 - they can't get to a high enough level (8 IIRC)

As for the wizard robes - all wizard robes in BG1 are magical and worth (semi)decent cash. The robes of fire/cold/electricity rotection are probably best to be sold, as you don't have time to put one on just before you get fireballed etc... and enemy mages are very infrequent. Get robes with hard physical protection.

-Jam

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Jamski
I would get Minsc killed by sending him into battle unarmed ...

I can't imagine playing without Minsc. Charging into battle wouldn't be the same if I didn't hear "Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes! Yarrrrrgghhh!"

I'm facing the same quandry in my game; I just ran into Mazzy and want to keep her with me for the current quest... but I need to ditch someone. My group consists of:

PC Cavalier
Minsc
Aerie
Anomen
Yoshimo
Valygar

The first three I consider untouchable (obvious in the case of the PC, Aerie is my only magic user and Minsc is a must for flavor).

Anomen - has second best AC in the group and is wielding a weapone with a big plus vs. undead.

Yoshimo - pretty much have to keep him as he's my only thief right now.

Valygar - I just picked up recently. Really good with a bow (which is good since I had a +3 elven bow that no one was using).

I think I'm leaning toward kicking Anomen out, but I don't feel particularly attached to Valygar. I know Mazzy is a fighter, but can she really handle being in the front row like Anomen? If not, then ditching Valygar becomes a whole lot easier.

[Jamski]

Mazzy is the best bow user in the game. And she's MUCH nicer than that loser Valygar. I always kill Valygar, get the reward for doing so and then keep his body

Don't kick out Anomen! He's probably the best fighter in the game, and he's a cleric too!

-Jam

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Jamski
Mazzy is the best bow user in the game.

Thanks once again.

That alone convinces me that Valygar is getting ditched. I like three front line fighters (PC, Minsc, Anomen) and three ranged NPCs (Aerie, Yoshimo, and soon to be Mazzy). Helps if one of the ranged NPCs has some fighting ability so they can be a rear guard as well, so Mazzy sounds perfect.

Good-bye, Valygar.

[duke o' york]

Poor old Valygar.... (duke has no idea who or what Valygar is ).

On balance, is Kivan or Minsc better?

[Jamski]

They both have a good STR, Minsc more so. Kivan suffers from his CON and Minsc suffers on his DEX. Its 6 or half-a-dozen really. Minsc at low levels starts without any bow proficencies though.

Stuie - Mazzy normally comes with FIVE stars in short bow. Give her the Tugian bow (+1 attack per round) and some acid/fire/ice arrows and watch her do about 8d6 damage per round.

-Jam

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Jamski


Stuie - Mazzy normally comes with FIVE stars in short bow. Give her the Tugian bow (+1 attack per round) and some acid/fire/ice arrows and watch her do about 8d6 damage per round.

She STARTS with five!? Time to go find where I sold that bow.... oops. That will certainly eat up the arrows though.

[Jamski]

There are TONS of magic arrows in BG2. I always end up with 1,000s of them in my pack (ease-of-use of course. so I can stack them up to 9999 in one slot)

-Jam

[Jamski]

There are TONS of magic arrows in BG2. I always end up with 1,000s of them in my pack (ease-of-use of course. so I can stack them up to 9999 in one slot)

-Jam

[Jamski]

There are TONS of magic arrows in BG2. I always end up with 1,000s of them in my pack (ease-of-use of course. so I can stack them up to 9999 in one slot)

-Jam

[Traianvs]

we get the point

[Jamski]

I'd edit them away, but that takes sooooo long today...

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I had a quick go last night, and slaughtered a whole town of little farts. I wasn't sure how well this went with my supposedly good alignment, but they started it, and wouldn't stop until I made them. The bear they had to help them was next to useless too, but I used tonnes of arrers against them. I need to buy some more before I go to visit the Knolls. (Hopefully where I can get millions in my quivers - I'm still not sure that this pack works correctly )