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Lack of magic items?

SplodSplod Member Posts: 114
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So it has been some time since I've played the original, so my memories may have been tainted by BGII and TOB.
But I'm finding it difficult to spend my gold. I'm a little bit of a miser, and am reluctant to drop so much gold on the more expensive items when I can't even find a second sling +1? That and I'm starting to exhaust the various supplies of magical arrows and bullets.
Is there a merchant somewhere pre-BG with a wider array of magical equipment? I was a bit disappointed when I made it to Ulgoth's Beard to find little in the way of equipment available.

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  • ElendarElendar Member Posts: 831
    edited December 2012
    Nope... but there's a big dungeon called Durlag's Tower that you might find some useful items in...

    edit: The smithy in Beregost does have some +1 stuff.. and some more useful items like Shadow Armor and Dagger of Venom
  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    edited December 2012
    This is low level D&D working as intended.

    Enjoy it while you can. By the time you finish ToB everybody and thier wife has a powerful magic item.
  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    BG1 is pretty parsimonious when it comes to magic items, especially compared to BG2. The new NPCs personal quests do have some decent new items though, so give those a try.

    Also - speak to Thalantyr in High Hedge west of Beregost, he sells a few nifty items.
  • WanderonWanderon Member Posts: 1,418
    It does seem to me that the numbers of magic ranged ammo has been significantly diminished from the original - I seem to recall the Beregost smithy in particular had perhaps unlimited supplies - but then again my memory chips have been known to be faulty on occasion...
  • agrisagris Member Posts: 581
    Ahh.. I love it. Low level ad&d as it should be.
  • RiolathelRiolathel Member Posts: 330
    100 stacks of ten per arrow is pretty close to unlimited... I've never needed anywhere close to that much.

    Durlag's is great for magical ammunition once you get level 5-6
  • NukeninNukenin Member Posts: 327
    For a good laugh install BG+TotSC and load up the "expansion save game" they provide.

    Your party is Abdel the hapless fighter, Minsc, Jaheira, Imoen, Viconia, and Edwin. You all have tons of magic items, a good chunk of it unidentified, and since this was with the old stacking limits for ammunition, almost every bag slot for most of the characters is filled with 20-stacks of a variety of ammo. I think one character had one free bag slot and that was it.
  • SplodSplod Member Posts: 114
    When your average party level is 5, I wouldn't call that low level ad&d. In fact it's generally about the sweet spot for my games I find...
    I play Pathfinder these days though, so my memory of character wealth by level is probably a bit skewed as well.
    I just find it strange that I've got the funds and nothing to spend them on. I understand not wanting to spam the game with powerful equipment, but it's getting to the point that I'm planning on dropping 20k gp on scrolls of fireball and the like...
  • LordRumfishLordRumfish Member Posts: 937
    I beat my most recent game with almost 200k gp stored up. I finally dropped several grand to buy everyone stacks of magic ammunition, but generally the magic items I *find* are better than anything I could buy. That's D&D as it should be. Go adventure, get some loot. That being said... I am really curious about making a two-handed sword specialist that uses the gold-devouring sword you can buy in Baldur's Gate. I would be more excited about the concept if I knew you could find it again in BG2.
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