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[Dis]

I can't see playing through more than twice. But if you enjoy roleplaying, there are multiple ways to get through certain situations.

But I would like to replay it again as an evil character. Eventually I may get around to it.

I want to use that badass evil weapon.

[ajbera]

I never finished playing my first time 'round, but I've recently loaded it onto my work laptop so I can play when things get slow (besides, it looks much better on my 15" laptop screen than my 21" monitor). I remember one of my favorite moments being when I invited a hungry NPC to gnaw on me and my alignment shifted incrementally to good. I remember thinking "Now that's something you don't experience every day." I really have to get back into it again.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Do you enjoy playing PST again after having been through the plot once?

The first time I played through I went in blind, and wound up missing a lot of quests (

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f'rinstance, I never got the "fiend-in-the-box" quest, and so I never did the "alley of dangerous angles" quest, plus I never got Nordrom or Vhailor, nor did I go back for the bronze sphere after Pharod was killed by the shadows, etc.

), so the second time I found a good walkthrough so that I wouldn't miss anything. The second time was probably as good as the first, since there was so much gameplay that I'd missed out on the first time (

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not to mention that I'd missed out on two possible endings the first time through, since I wasn't intelligent/wise enough to defeat the Transcendent One through dialogue options and wound up having to duke it out with him

). I'm finding that the third time through isn't as fun -- unlike in BG, there's not much difference between playing a lawful-good or a chaotic-evil character, except that chaotic-evil characters get a bit less XP and a bit more gold than lawful good characters, plus I seem to be attacked by thugs far more often as an evil character than as a good character.

[lord of the mark]

yeah, im playing through the first time without walkthroughs, occasionally asking for help here (and the help here isnt nearly as massive as for BG - PST is apparently not one of Jamskis main obsessions )

While i have managed some of things you missed, i would consider doing the game a second time with benefit of a walkthrough - and maybe try for a different character - but its hard to see doing it much beyond that.

[lord of the mark]

so does anyone know

Spoiler:

where the anvil is? Im trying to use the foundry, and have the stuff from the clerk, and the iron, and theres supposed to be an anvil lying around, but no one will tell me where. Im tired of pixel hunting - any hints?

Also im in clerks ward and went into the curiosity shop

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tried selling annah, but that didnt work out well. Is selling a party member a bad idea, despite what the book i found earlier says?

I do hope Im getting close to the end.

[loinburger]

Spoiler:

You just need to find the vat that's empty and click on it. You'll need tongs, fire protection, a hammer, and ore.

And don't sell Annah -- the benefits you get from the Book of Pestilential Thought just aren't worth the evil alignment it gives you if you listen to it.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
so does anyone know

Spoiler:

where the anvil is? Im trying to use the foundry, and have the stuff from the clerk, and the iron, and theres supposed to be an anvil lying around, but no one will tell me where. Im tired of pixel hunting - any hints?

Already answered , you can find all the items in the foundry.

Also im in clerks ward and went into the curiosity shop

Spoiler:

tried selling annah, but that didnt work out well. Is selling a party member a bad idea, despite what the book i found earlier says?

Spoiler:

You can sell a useless party member, like Fall-from-Grace, to get the Adder's kiss spell. Completing all the tasks will give you Power Word Kill spell.

I do hope Im getting close to the end.

Althrough I do not know what you have done, or have not, I suppose you completed around 55 percent of the game. Do not worry, once you leave Sigil, things are more straightforward and faster. Be sure to visit

Spoiler:

Modrons's Maze and Siege Tower

[Dis]

He might be around 60 or 2/3 of the way through.

[loinburger]

After Sigil it seemed to go pretty quickly. Probably because it was so straightforward.

[Dis]

yeah, you spend less time going back and forth between areas. I guess you can say it's more linear . But not too much. You can do those mazes at any time iirc. I did all of them. But I think one isn't required.

[Illuminatus]

Wow, so many posts repeating the same information.

[lord of the mark]

ive done, i think all of the lower ward except the siege towar, and, i think, all of the clerks ward.

Now Im stymied. How do I get to the upper ward? (that is the next step?) ive seen the weapon in the great foundary, head the lectures in the festhall, etc. Still a bunch of unresolved quests including some from the hive. Still only 3 party members (never got morte back).

[Illuminatus]

You haven't got Morte back? No Ignus in the party? No Nordom? You we got a lot of things to do quickly. Your objective would be to get Morte back and go to Clerks Ward - which is easy to get in - just go SE.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Illuminatus
You haven't got Morte back? No Ignus in the party? No Nordom? You we got a lot of things to do quickly. Your objective would be to get Morte back and go to Clerks Ward - which is easy to get in - just go SE.

I think i mislaid the skull i needed - the usual inventory management trouble, including lots of skulls down in the dungeons below the Hive, and i stowed some, or dropped some somewhere. Im not too keen on pixel hunting back through the entire Hive, for every skull i might have dropped anywhere - IF - as ive been told - I dont need Morte to finish the game.

I need some secret word to get Ignus - havent found it. Nordom - who he?

[Dis]

Nordom I think is the guy you get in one of the mazes. He's that mechanical thingy. I'm not sure what to call him.