Yet another bleeding BG thread *sigh*

[duke o' york]

It was either in the last BG thread, or maybe the one before that.

[Jamski]

It was either in the last BG thread, or maybe the one before that.

Nope, it was actually in the "choose Doc a RPG thread"

Well, Sigils IS like an interesting place. That's why PS:T is such a good book.

The structures of the planes are pretty odd to describe...

Imagine a soup - the Etheral Plane
Now there's meat floating in the soup - the Prime Material Planes, like Earth, or the FR, or Greyhawk.
Now imagine that the meat juices in the soup, while being the same form as the bowl, also indicate the location and form of the meat chunks. - The Astral Plane.
Then imagine that each type of protein in the meat chunks has its own home, on a crouton - the Elemental Planes and the Planes belonging to certain alignments.
Now also imagine the bacteria that live in this soup have gods and demons, and they are in control of air bubbles - The Celestial and Abyssal Planes.
Now Sigil is like a "magic spoon" that contacts everything in the soupbowl at once.

Thus

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

for everyones benefit.

Well, Sigils IS like an interesting place. That's why PS:T is such a good book.

The structures of the planes are pretty odd to describe...

Imagine a soup - the Etheral Plane
Now there's meat floating in the soup - the Prime Material Planes, like Earth, or the FR, or Greyhawk.
Now imagine that the meat juices in the soup, while being the same form as the bowl, also indicate the location and form of the meat chunks. - The Astral Plane.
Then imagine that each type of protein in the meat chunks has its own home, on a crouton - the Elemental Planes and the Planes belonging to certain alignments.
Now also imagine the bacteria that live in this soup have gods and demons, and they are in control of air bubbles - The Celestial and Abyssal Planes.
Now Sigil is like a "magic spoon" that contacts everything in the soupbowl at once.

Get it?

-Jam

[Jamski]

Beat you by less than a minute, and I put a link in

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

notes the time on the two posts above.

Both of us posted in hours after DOY, yet posted within a minute of each other.

[Jamski]

Its rather odd, yes. The question goes unanswered for 2 hours and 9 minutes, and then we both jump at once. Its like when you try and phione someone, but the line is engaged because they're trying to phone you.

-Jam

[DarkCloud]

Thanks Jamski. This site was useful: http://www.skullport.com/games/iwd2/...hapter6a.shtml

[Dis]

Is there any way to break into chests and drawers in houses and such without getting caught by the guards?

Killing guards isn't my idea of fun. I want to steal and not get caught. But you can't remain in stealth mode and open a container.

[Jamski]

Luck. Pure luck is needed.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

And reloading. Lots of reloading. I did that in Beregost. Save, enter house, nick something. If guards appear then you can go back to the save, and if they don't, save again and move onto the next thing you want.

[Jamski]

Just configure two keys to quicksave and quickload to save time, eh?

-Jam

[Dis]

I'm not that desperate for gold anyways.

Like I said before. My last game I had a reputation of 6, and at the end I had over 300,000 gold. There really isn't that many cool items to buy in this game.

unless I missed some really cool merchant.

at first I used to think you can steal if no one is in the house. That does appear to be the case. Sometimes you can steal, but if someone walks into the room- the guards are summoned. Some of the houses that have quest specific characters you can steal from and they never call the guards it seems.

[DarkCloud]

Why don't you run BGconfig and turn the game speed up from 30 to 45 or even 60, if time is an issue? I always play BG1 on 60 (i.e. double speed) and the other IE games on 45. Otherwise you spend a lot of time watching your guys walking slowly

You know Jamski... that tip might just actually make BG1 worth playing again

[Dis]

or just play the tutu mod.

I like it, though it disregarded the ease of use mod. Now I don't get max Hitpoints on level up (saves a lot of reloading ). I did install the tutu tweak mod, but that doesn't seem to have the option for max hp on level up. but it does give me large arrow stacks

[Jamski]

You have to play TuTu on one of the easiest 2 difficulty levels then you get max HP, IIRC.

-Jam