The party cleared the wolves from the temple map then feeling confident went to Larswood and joined the bandits - Tazok was not pleased and Walry fell during the initiation fight right after Rasaad and Khalid -
Levels were Viccy & Imoen 4, Khalid & Rasaad 3, and Walrry F2/M1/T2 (19 hps including familiar)
Looking back it occurs to me that I had swapped out Walrrys real armor for the armor spell on the Temple map and it would have expired going to Larswood leaving him with an AC of 5 - oops...
I may have started over a dozen games of BGEE but never got to the bandit camp. I'm willing to give this a go to see if I can force me to finish an EE playthrough... or restart another dozen games after I die because of wolves.
Let's se...
8513 Female half-elf Berserker
223 Neutral good, 2 rerolls, female2 voiceset
WotC random name: Lorarath Catslove (aka Lorarath the Slayer, Catslove the Slayer... I'm definetly rolling out with the third one).
Catslove died to a single bonk in the head while struggling to get out of Jaheira's vines. Lessons learned: throwing axes have shorter ranges and entagle affects a wider radius than expected.
Last night Horaver became a victim of my clumsiness and got stuck between a wall of kobolds and skeletons while trying to escape from Mulahey's hold spells. Granted, I had lost a bit of interest when Xan refused to join because of low reputation (2, some nasty business in Nashkell).
Maybe with the weekend finally arriving I can get a game rolling straight enough to last more than one post. Here we go...
3031 Male human (because of) Paladin
778 Automatically LG, 7 rolls, male5
Name: Panros the Zealot
Party: 19=Neera 19=Neera... reroll 5=Coran 25=Tiax 21=Rasaad 24=Skie; reroll because of no Eldoth and I play RPishly, 15=Khalid
Tiax stands out the most. Keeping rep below 20 is going to be hard. Perhaps playing the zealot card I can justify some "righteous" slaying.
Looks like I'll be doing most of the healing for a while and... Rasaad for detecting traps until Cloakwood? Really? Seven rolls with a Paladin's minimum stats will be a bit of a munchkin, but I plan on using Neera a lot so who knows, maybe all ends the moment I meet her.
UPDATE: Killed by Tarnesh! I don't think this deserves another post so I'll roll again on this one:
3918: Male half-orc Kensai (just as I was going to comment on how much I suck with warriors...) 142: LG, 2 rerolls, male1 Name: Thogeon Winterclaw Party: 17 (Minsc!), 24 (Skie...., rerolling 4, Branwen!), 11 (Garrick....), 19 (Neera........), 14 (Kagain!). Sooo, I've read Branwen can be dualled to thief with the DEX tome. Let's see if I can make it that far...
Alright I'm in. Haven't posted here for ages but I've been playing BG all the same and this sounds like fun.
Just did my rolls, here's what I got:
Gender: I rolled 10 , picked male.
Race: Rolled 10 again, picked human since I have trouble seeing the child of Bhaal as anything but human.
Class: Rolled 1, fighter. I was glad for that , more health points so hopefully I'll survive for a while longer.
Subclass: Rolled an 8, Kensai. Ouch. Maybe I won't survive for longer afterall.
Alignment: rolled a 10. I picked Lawful good. I'm a goody 2 shoes, always.
Abilities: Got myself 7 rerolls, not too bad.
Voice, male 5... Hurray.
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Time for NPC rolls:
First roll: 20, Quayle. OUCH. Terrible start.
18: Montaron. DAMNIT, two midgets. At least I have a Thief unlike some of you.
Hopefully I get Xzar as well, I feel sad about splitting up pairs.
27: Xan. Worst combination possible so far.
5: Coran. Finally a decent character. A great character actually but it looks like me and Monty will be pretty lonely early on in the game.
16: Kivan. Maybe not that lonely afterall. Best fighter in the game in my opinion. Those last two rolls made things a bit better for me.
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Stats: My best roll was 80, not too good but I guess it could be worse. Here's what I got:
17 strength 18 Dex 18 Con 9 Int 9 Wis 9 Cha
I usually give my fighters higher Charisma and slightly higher intelligence and wisdom for roleplay's sake but since I won't be able to wear any armour thanks to being a darn Kensai I'll have to go with that. Otherwise I don't stand a chance.
I don't know what possessed me to specialize in scimitars and dual weapons but hey, let's give it a shot.
Alright, here starts the adventure of Panril the Kensai. Pretty sure I won't make it past chapter 1. Hopefully my next roll will be a bit luckier.
Oh by the way this will be a no reload and I'll try to do it as quickly as possible. No secret item either. IE: Arcane ring, ring of protection +1, wand of frost, diamond in the rock, ankheg armour etc.
Just as I'd predicted. I couldn't get pass chapter 2. Killed by Mulahey just before Kivan avenged me. Monty died right before on the fire bridge, shot down by the commando kobold. Oh well, time for a reroll. This team was definitely not meant to be.
Darstina, female halfling Barbarian lawful good. LOL... this should be ugly.
NPCS: Branwen Tiax Edwin Khalid Montaron
Not that bad except for Tiax. At least I'm getting a cleric, a mage and a thief along with two fighters. None of those characters are powerful though except for Edwin. Hopefully I last a bit longer this time. (This is hard, kudos to those who've made it.)
Anyway, update time for Thogeon (I keep thinking his name is Theon...): He's alive! And on his way to the bandit camp... or maybe to do Neera's quest before, since I'm curious about the new content.
Character sheet:
I'm also having trouble figuring out when would be the best level to dual Branwen, if there's any.
Wild magic might end this run...
one day... (it was a black opal)
Since I did Minsc quest before the mines everyone was around level 3 when we reached Mulahey. Between Minsc, Kagain and Thogeon, most of the kobolds became chunks before the rest of the team could load their bolts and bullets.
You are allowed to reroll your team if 3 or more members are not available until Chap 4 or later - seriously this is enough of a challenge without trying to get to chap 4 with only one or two companions LOL!
After I handle ogrillions and feldpost guy I get ambushed by bandits... I am starting to learn that I don't have autopause (never played before in my life without it). http://i.imgur.com/fjz6DWs.jpg Montaron takes one 8 dmg hit. We survive so all is well. Out of luck in Nashkel since Boo doesn't like us so I deside to take Shar-Teel before deciding what's next. I didn't exactly remember where she was but something about on the right of the map maybe. I enter the wrong zone (which is I think the mines exit area) and decide to just go do the mines for now. Montaron complaining that we have to rest and ofc we get ambushed by a winter wolf. http://i.imgur.com/8zMsTJ1.jpg That is no problem for I picked up the new belt which makes winter wolves trivial.
EDIT: Just a note here: I picked up Imoens and that Montarons wizard partners stuff after they "tripped" (if that's cheating)
1 shot by a kobold arrow. Time played 2 days 22hours.
Second run: 9548 = Male Half-Elf Priest of Lothander 574 = TrueNeutral (changed to Neutral Good because y), 7 rolls, Male2 After just two rerolls I get these mighty stats. This is him!! http://i.imgur.com/soljcSa.jpg
Party will be: Rasaad, Kivan, Khalid, Safana, Xan.
Aaand Kivan doesn't want to join me... off to Friendly Arm Inn
EDIT: I picked up Khalid and did some side quests on the go. Got 1 point in reputation and recruited Kivan. Here is Khalid being near death http://i.imgur.com/t975p5q.jpg
Update: Survived to Nashekl, picked up Rasaad and did prism gem quest. Cleared mines and got Xan. Xan died to ogrillions after resting at mines exit. I killed two people of Lamalhas group and quickly ran away to Nashkel (I plan to go back and finish rest off once I resurrect Xan.
I am experiencing weird bug here now. After I cleared some of the areas arround west to Nashkel upon returning the area of Nashkel was reset. I get new reputation point for not being Greywolf and Mayor tells me to go clear the Mines again.
EDIT: I went to the mines area and told prism I will protect him ( again ). Greywolf appeared and I taunted him. The fight began but he just ran away and disappeared... I think my game is broken.
I guess that probably means this game is too bugged and disqualified from the contest? But I will keep playing it and update how far I get anyways. Planning to get Safana next before continuing to the forest.
I was at work when I discovered this thread, and couldn't wait to get home to try it out. I do not think I will have the willpower to keep from meta-gaming a little bit. But I will RP my race/class/alignment, with no reloads.
Here's what I got.
Sylaria Human Female Shadow Dancer True Neutral 6 allowed rerolls, which ended up being STR 18, DEX 18, CON 16, INT 10, WIS 9, CHA 13
Party, in order of rolls: Khalid Shar Teel Jaheira (Nice, since I also rolled Khalid) Dynaheir Tiax
Not bad, and I can pick up 4 of my party members fairly early. I just hope Khalid can defeat Shar Teel. Does anybody know if you can make multiple attempts to defeat her in order to recruit her? Or does she bail after defeating somebody in your party?
Sylaria is dead, long live Sylaria. Wanted to pick up Shar Teel first, but since my PC is a female, figured I couldn't. So I made my way to the Friendly Arm Inn. I was able to sneak past Tarnesh going in, but he managed to defeat us upon our exit.
2nd Attempt
Morgianna Elven Female Wild Mage Chaotic Good 5 rerolls, ending with STR 12, DEX 19, CON 14, INT 18, WIS 9, CHA 11
I'm going to have to convert Kivan to a more tankish NPC than I usually play him, though he will still use a bow often. I like the ranged firepower potential of this unit. Hopefully I can kill everything before it ever gets to my PC.
So far: This party has actually done pretty well. I picked up Montaron, Kivan, Neera, and Rassad without but one or two minor skirmishes. Running out of things to do before Nashkell mines. Approaching level 3. Two near deaths, no chunked NPCs, 3 Rassad resurrections. Lots of spells, slings (4 characters), and arrows (Kivan). And I think Rassad is flirting with me.
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The party cleared the wolves from the temple map then feeling confident went to Larswood and joined the bandits - Tazok was not pleased and Walry fell during the initiation fight right after Rasaad and Khalid -
Levels were Viccy & Imoen 4, Khalid & Rasaad 3, and Walrry F2/M1/T2 (19 hps including familiar)
Looking back it occurs to me that I had swapped out Walrrys real armor for the armor spell on the Temple map and it would have expired going to Larswood leaving him with an AC of 5 - oops...
Last save was Chap 3 14 days 15 hours
This time around luck has atleast given me characters that are able to melee
Human Male Ranger, 18/16, 18, 18, 10, 14, 7 (85 total)
Elf Female Fighter, 18/95, 19, 17, 10, 8, 8 (80 total)
Half-Elf Male Blade, 18, 18, 8, 13, 8, 15 (80 total)
Halfling Male Cleric, 13, 19, 14, 9, 16, 8 (79 total)
Elf Male Swashbuckler, 18, 19, 16, 9, 9, 10 (81 total)
Elf Female Dragon Disciple, 12, 19, 16, 18, 10, 15 (90 total)
Other than the halfling being a cleric and race limiting Wisdom to 16, it's not that bad of a party.
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Femail Dwarven Devender 'Therdove (the Rich)'
Party:
22: Safana
11: Garick
27: Xan
10: Faldorn
17: Minsc
Not bad of a pary. I'm going to play with the Sword Coast Stratagems (only AI changes). Wish me luck
I encounterd a ogre with a strange belt. When i approched approach he smacked me straight dead....
Well so for my first run... Try a new
I may have started over a dozen games of BGEE but never got to the bandit camp. I'm willing to give this a go to see if I can force me to finish an EE playthrough... or restart another dozen games after I die because of wolves.
Let's se...
8513
Female half-elf Berserker
223
Neutral good, 2 rerolls, female2 voiceset
WotC random name: Lorarath Catslove (aka Lorarath the Slayer, Catslove the Slayer... I'm definetly rolling out with the third one).
29d party:
6 = Dorn
25 = Tiax
15 = Khalid
2 = Alora
13 = Jaheira
4man and no thief until Baldur's Gate. At least there's Jaheira for detecting traps and enough meat to absorb damage (I hope).
Lessons learned: throwing axes have shorter ranges and entagle affects a wider radius than expected.
Rolling again...
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Male half-elf Fighter
984
Chaotic evil, 8 rolls, male2 voiceset
Name: Horaver Stalkingwolf
Party:
27 = Xan
22 = Safana
14 = Kagain
27 = Xan again; reroll 7 = Dynaheir
10 = Faldorn
I'm not sure if I'll be able to get Safana before the mines. I hope I can postpone her quest for a bit.
Maybe with the weekend finally arriving I can get a game rolling straight enough to last more than one post. Here we go...
3031
Male human (because of) Paladin
778
Automatically LG, 7 rolls, male5
Name: Panros the Zealot
Party:
19=Neera
19=Neera... reroll 5=Coran
25=Tiax
21=Rasaad
24=Skie; reroll because of no Eldoth and I play RPishly, 15=Khalid
Tiax stands out the most. Keeping rep below 20 is going to be hard. Perhaps playing the zealot card I can justify some "righteous" slaying.
Looks like I'll be doing most of the healing for a while and... Rasaad for detecting traps until Cloakwood? Really?
Seven rolls with a Paladin's minimum stats will be a bit of a munchkin, but I plan on using Neera a lot so who knows, maybe all ends the moment I meet her.
UPDATE: Killed by Tarnesh! I don't think this deserves another post so I'll roll again on this one:
3918: Male half-orc Kensai (just as I was going to comment on how much I suck with warriors...)
142: LG, 2 rerolls, male1
Name: Thogeon Winterclaw
Party: 17 (Minsc!), 24 (Skie...., rerolling 4, Branwen!), 11 (Garrick....), 19 (Neera........), 14 (Kagain!). Sooo, I've read Branwen can be dualled to thief with the DEX tome. Let's see if I can make it that far...
Just did my rolls, here's what I got:
Gender: I rolled 10 , picked male.
Race: Rolled 10 again, picked human since I have trouble seeing the child of Bhaal as anything but human.
Class: Rolled 1, fighter. I was glad for that , more health points so hopefully I'll survive for a while longer.
Subclass: Rolled an 8, Kensai. Ouch. Maybe I won't survive for longer afterall.
Alignment: rolled a 10. I picked Lawful good. I'm a goody 2 shoes, always.
Abilities: Got myself 7 rerolls, not too bad.
Voice, male 5... Hurray.
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Time for NPC rolls:
First roll: 20, Quayle. OUCH. Terrible start.
18: Montaron. DAMNIT, two midgets. At least I have a Thief unlike some of you.
Hopefully I get Xzar as well, I feel sad about splitting up pairs.
27: Xan. Worst combination possible so far.
5: Coran. Finally a decent character. A great character actually but it looks like me and Monty will be pretty lonely early on in the game.
16: Kivan. Maybe not that lonely afterall. Best fighter in the game in my opinion. Those last two rolls made things a bit better for me.
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Stats: My best roll was 80, not too good but I guess it could be worse. Here's what I got:
17 strength
18 Dex
18 Con
9 Int
9 Wis
9 Cha
I usually give my fighters higher Charisma and slightly higher intelligence and wisdom for roleplay's sake but since I won't be able to wear any armour thanks to being a darn Kensai I'll have to go with that. Otherwise I don't stand a chance.
I don't know what possessed me to specialize in scimitars and dual weapons but hey, let's give it a shot.
Alright, here starts the adventure of Panril the Kensai. Pretty sure I won't make it past chapter 1. Hopefully my next roll will be a bit luckier.
Darstina, female halfling Barbarian lawful good. LOL... this should be ugly.
NPCS:
Branwen
Tiax
Edwin
Khalid
Montaron
Not that bad except for Tiax. At least I'm getting a cleric, a mage and a thief along with two fighters. None of those characters are powerful though except for Edwin. Hopefully I last a bit longer this time. (This is hard, kudos to those who've made it.)
Anyway, update time for Thogeon (I keep thinking his name is Theon...): He's alive! And on his way to the bandit camp... or maybe to do Neera's quest before, since I'm curious about the new content.
Character sheet:
I'm also having trouble figuring out when would be the best level to dual Branwen, if there's any.
Wild magic might end this run...
one day...
(it was a black opal)
Since I did Minsc quest before the mines everyone was around level 3 when we reached Mulahey. Between Minsc, Kagain and Thogeon, most of the kobolds became chunks before the rest of the team could load their bolts and bullets.
I'm starting to like warriors...
And some banter I found amusing:
I certainly did not expect this, maybe because it was a new area for me and until this fight there was only goblins to fight.
Oh well, I was growing fond of Thogeon and this party but... maybe I'll try game #4 tomorrow.
LOL. You've certainly made it farther than I have. With Neera along it seems like quite a feat to even make it out of the mines alive.
As for me party #2 made it even less far than the first one. Third time's a charm though... I can feel it, the next one will be right.
Rerolling ;p
Nevertheless, Thogeon has been already buried and mourned and it's time for attempt #4!
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Female dwarf Abjurer? I'm actually tempted to try that with EEKeeper, but I would like to finish a normal game first, so I'll be rerolling:
4696
Male gnome Barbarian!! And to think I was jealous of your halfling barbarian @AzL0n!
956
CE, 5 rerolls, male3 voice set
Name: Belaver the Foreigner
Party:
20 = Quayle
20, reroll 5= Coran
28 = Xzar
9 = Eldoth
10 = Faldorn
Stuck with Xzar until Cloakwood... this is going to be different to say the least.
UPDATE: Nope, he's dead. Well, sort of, I closed the game before the first autosave so he disappeared into the void. I'll try #5 later.
You are allowed to reroll your team if 3 or more members are not available until Chap 4 or later - seriously this is enough of a challenge without trying to get to chap 4 with only one or two companions LOL!
Good luck with your next run.
Let's see how fares #5:
9188 = Male human Skald
418 = LN, 1 reroll, Male5
Name: Viclamin the Seaworthy
Party:
6 = Dorn
8 = Edwin
11 = Garrick
26 = Viconia
13 = Jaheira
No thief, huh? I guess this rules out Durlag's IF I make it that far.
211 = Neutral Good, 1 reroll, Male1
Name: Vicdak Shortankard
Party:
20 = Quale
6 = Dorn
23 = Shar-Teel
18 = Montaron
17 = Minsc
Core rules, no autopause, normal sleep and I don't even know what scripts are.
http://i.imgur.com/FMzCvBc.jpg
After I handle ogrillions and feldpost guy I get ambushed by bandits... I am starting to learn that I don't have autopause (never played before in my life without it).
http://i.imgur.com/fjz6DWs.jpg
Montaron takes one 8 dmg hit. We survive so all is well.
Out of luck in Nashkel since Boo doesn't like us so I deside to take Shar-Teel before deciding what's next. I didn't exactly remember where she was but something about on the right of the map maybe. I enter the wrong zone (which is I think the mines exit area) and decide to just go do the mines for now.
Montaron complaining that we have to rest and ofc we get ambushed by a winter wolf.
http://i.imgur.com/8zMsTJ1.jpg
That is no problem for I picked up the new belt which makes winter wolves trivial.
EDIT: Just a note here: I picked up Imoens and that Montarons wizard partners stuff after they "tripped" (if that's cheating)
1 shot by a kobold arrow. Time played 2 days 22hours.
9548 = Male Half-Elf Priest of Lothander
574 = TrueNeutral (changed to Neutral Good because y), 7 rolls, Male2
After just two rerolls I get these mighty stats.
This is him!! http://i.imgur.com/soljcSa.jpg
Party will be: Rasaad, Kivan, Khalid, Safana, Xan.
EDIT: I picked up Khalid and did some side quests on the go. Got 1 point in reputation and recruited Kivan.
Here is Khalid being near death http://i.imgur.com/t975p5q.jpg
EDIT: I went to the mines area and told prism I will protect him ( again ). Greywolf appeared and I taunted him. The fight began but he just ran away and disappeared... I think my game is broken.
EDIT2: Heres pictures of Journal and me doing Mines again with Xan in party
http://i.imgur.com/m5woUxv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BSbZs6T.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0P0316K.jpg
The journal entries I have at the sametime note I have already done the quest and I have to do it again.
EDIT: Heres a picture of Xan dualwield his wepons http://i.imgur.com/Q25ssaa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZtIgedV.jpg
I am going to take a brake from the challenge stuff, reload and just play through the game because it's been so long since I've finished it last time.
Male Elf Shadow Dancer
836
Neutral Evil / 3 rerolls / voice 6
Stats:
Strength 11
Dexterity 19
Constitution 15
Intelligence 10
Wisdom 10
Charisma 13
Party:
9 - Eldoth
12 - Imoen
16 - Kivan
17 - Minsc
18 - Montaron
PC Abdel Adrian: male, elf, mage, CN, 1 roll, male 6 voice
STR 10 DEX 19 CON 15 INT 18 WIS 12 CHA 8
Party: Edwin, Kivan, Kagain, Eldoth, Neera.
YAY. No thief... Guess certain electrical trap within a tent will kill party again (no meta-gaming ^^).
Here's what I got.
Sylaria
Human Female
Shadow Dancer
True Neutral
6 allowed rerolls, which ended up being STR 18, DEX 18, CON 16, INT 10, WIS 9, CHA 13
Party, in order of rolls:
Khalid
Shar Teel
Jaheira (Nice, since I also rolled Khalid)
Dynaheir
Tiax
Not bad, and I can pick up 4 of my party members fairly early. I just hope Khalid can defeat Shar Teel. Does anybody know if you can make multiple attempts to defeat her in order to recruit her? Or does she bail after defeating somebody in your party?
2nd Attempt
Morgianna
Elven Female
Wild Mage
Chaotic Good
5 rerolls, ending with STR 12, DEX 19, CON 14, INT 18, WIS 9, CHA 11
Party:
Neera (Wild Mage females R Us)
Kivan
Montaron
Rassad
Coran
I'm going to have to convert Kivan to a more tankish NPC than I usually play him, though he will still use a bow often. I like the ranged firepower potential of this unit. Hopefully I can kill everything before it ever gets to my PC.
So far: This party has actually done pretty well. I picked up Montaron, Kivan, Neera, and Rassad without but one or two minor skirmishes. Running out of things to do before Nashkell mines. Approaching level 3. Two near deaths, no chunked NPCs, 3 Rassad resurrections. Lots of spells, slings (4 characters), and arrows (Kivan). And I think Rassad is flirting with me.