Yet another bleeding BG thread *sigh*

[Jamski]

Khalid is sooooo not a beserker. That's insane.

-Jam

[Jamski]

OMG!

Nice thing I found for the regular readers of this thread

-Jam

[Dis]

Originally posted by Jamski
Khalid is sooooo not a beserker. That's insane.

-Jam

I didn't know what to make him. Many of them I just kind of randomly chose. Some of them I just took no kit at all.

[Dis]

Re: OMG!

Originally posted by Jamski
Nice thing I found for the regular readers of this thread

-Jam

uhhhh... okay...

[Jamski]

It made me laugh anyway *giggle*

I'd have left Khalid as a plain fighter.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

WTF Jamski?

Well we're into the city. I've done quite a few of the baby quests, but nothing too hard yet. I haven't been to see Scar, because I imagine that'll be quite tough. I've got loads of cool spells, but unfortunately aren't at a high enough level to use them all.
I also haven't been into the sewers yet. I ****ed up the first thief guild quest, which wasn't bright, but only because I picked the wrong option to say as a result of my being distracted (*cough* pissed).

Also, rather curiously, even before I went into BG (as in, my last save beforehand), my reputation had plummeted to 12. I have no idea what high jinks caused me to lose all of this, because I haven't been going round stabbing people in public or anything, but I still went down to average and ended up spending too much cash getting back up to a more respectable level. I've done a couple of easy quests with bonus rep points, but need more. Any recommendations?
And before anyone asks, no I didn't accept Viconia into the party four times.

Other than that, I spent ages yesterday playing the IWD demo that I got free with BGII. It's a nigh identical game to be honest, but is good fun. However, I thought that you could get some of the NPCs in the first town to join you, which you can't. Then I had to open up the character menu and create some more. And it would appear that if you die, then you can just create a new character to replace each one that you've lost. Not that I've needed to so far, but I'm off to Shadow Vale of whatever it's called, and the more difficult monsters may make a difference.

[Illuminatus]

Re: OMG!

Originally posted by Jamski
Nice thing I found for the regular readers of this thread

-Jam

WTF???
What the....? Where the....?
On what page did you find that?

[Jamski]

Its insane isn't it - and no I didn't make this one myself

Duck, you probably accidentally wasted some innocents - or perhaps you flooded the mines without releasing the slaves first

If you really need to boost your rep, give a few thousand to a temple. That won't boost you above 18 though, and it ain't cheap.

IWD is FUN! Its even more fun if you have HoW installed, because then you can play it in 800x600 res and it looks sweet. The plot is completely linear, and revolves around killing stuff. What more do you want?

-Jam

[duke o' york]

I paid that bloke to get rid of all the slaves, but I have to admit that I didn't check whether they were all out before flooding the mines.
Why am I only allowed one set of ankheg armour? No fair.

My IWD party is 4 fighters, a cleric and a F/M/T. Lots of fighting.

[Jamski]

The "ideal" IWD 1 party is

Paladin
Ranger
Fighter/Thief
Fighter/Cleric
Cleric/Mage
Fighter(3)-->Mage

Trust me on that one, the combat gets pretty hairy, and you need all of your party to be able to fight + you need the protective and buffing spells.

Yours will do ok, if its only the demo, but you'll be short of *ZAP* when its needed. (Oh - and all Rangers really should take Skeletal Undead as their enemies - you'll see why )

-Jam

[duke o' york]

That's all right. I can always change the entire party if anyone dies.

[Jamski]

Yeah, but they come in at a lower level

What you CAN do is export expericenced adventurers and then import them into a "newbie" party at the beginning of the game. Helps them stay alive.

-Jam

[Dis]

I finished my BG1 game with a reputation of 6 .

High reputation is for wussies

In any case, by that point you should have decent amount of money.

Although I spent my time doing almost every single quest I could find.

When I entered Baldur's GAte I could cast level 4 spells, but I had none to cast. Because you can't find any level 4 spells until you get into Baldur's Gate.

The thief guild quest is kind of hard (not combat hard, just finding the correct places and not screwing it up and killing the wrong people ). If you do it, you should also do the quest for the other guy inside the thieves guild. (I had a post on this a page or two back). Just don't attack the guard.

Also getting that telescope from the hall of wonders is good experience.

And Scar's quests aren't real hard. Although once you do go into the "compound" there is one really tough boss battle. It took me a couple of tries to get through that one. My stupid mages always end up in front when I go up the stairs . But luckily there are 2 sets of stairs. So you can go back down, and then go up the other set

[Dis]

Originally posted by Jamski
Yeah, but they come in at a lower level

What you CAN do is export expericenced adventurers and then import them into a "newbie" party at the beginning of the game. Helps them stay alive.

-Jam

or just reload

that's what I did. Didn't lose a single character that way

[Jamski]

Although once you do go into the "compound" there is one really tough boss battle. It took me a couple of tries to get through that one.

4 fighters/archers launch Arrows of Detonation, both mages cast Fireball.

Remember to cast Protection from Fire *giggle*

-Jam