Hello my name is Reading Rambo and I'm a chronic rest-... No wait, that name doesn't sound Bhaalspawnish...
Hello my name Gorthrakazul and I'm a chronic restarter. I'm a human ... No wait half elf for ranger cleric... But I really like the elf sword bonus... But wait with human I could pick a kit with a + thaco... Err dwarf saves though... Argghhhhhh
Do I count if I finish the game with most of my characters? I mean, I've beaten BGEE five times since it came out, I'm working on the sixth, and I've got a seventh floating around in my head just waiting for the current run to be done. Is that the same thing as what you guy've got, or something else?
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No, I won't resort to drugs. I'm just going to stay with my Elvish ranger...wait I put two points into bows. But bows are nowhere near as good in BG2. I could always change that to shortbows and get the Gensen bow, but if I went stalker I could sneak attack. What if I started as a cleric then duelled to stalker. That would give me healing magic and stealth attacks. Or I co-
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@Corvino: What @Southpaw said. I just sell this stuff, I'm not making it. No idea if it works, that's why I sell 3 for the price of 2. Just in case you have to reroll to use it. I'm this thoughtful. Not every travelling potion salesman can say that.
Hi, I'm TNR, and I have a serious syndromatic diagnosis. I suffer from Combined Polynfinity Restarting Disorder. It's a severe condition that is characterized not only by the usual intragame restarting, but also comprises intergame cycling and restarting over the whole range of the IE games.
My doctor said there is no cure and I should get myself a HDD formattosectomy, but I can't bring myself to such a brutal intervention. I read about this group in a self-help pamphlet, and I beg you to ease some of my pain.
hello i'm Sarevok57 and im a chronic restarter champion, I love restarting games, I think in bgee I have around 30+ files going ( but at least 10 of them are at the last battle, perhaps maybe a little more) and in my SoA game, well poop, over 30+ files again, although again half of those are in ToB, infact when I reach ToB I usually go all the way ( I only have about a dozen ToB files, and I would say about 8 or 9 of those are ready for mellisan) I think one strategy for fix chronic restarting is to keep every file you start, when you want to start a new one, just go back to another file that you have already started, I've done this before, where I've played one of my beserkers just to go back to my monk and then go back to a different beserker file, save games, save games, SAVE GAMES, MUST HAVE HUNDREDS OF SAVES GAMES.................
We should quarantine this whole thread (and everyone in it) to prevent this infectious addiction of spreading to general public. Think of all the lives at stake here. All the children.
*Southpaw, the Mindflayer shuffles his feet, as he waddles behind the speech stand. Draws out a sigh and silently coughs. Then coughs a bit more loudly to gain attention and silence the room full of murmurs and sounds of @Anduin being dragged away by a whole coven of Vampires.*
I'm Southpaw...and...well...I'm still playing...
*Southpaw, the re-starter, Southpaw the Mindflayer. His eyes wet and his tentacles absent-mindedly sucking on the microphone.*
I have started a new game...recently...a monk...another one. I tried...you know...to make it work in the first game. I thought of it a challenge. Abandoning my powergaming tendencies. Not planning and grooming the group as I always did...just picking others up and replacing them later with the ones I liked more. I even haven't saved Viconia yet. Well...I still play...it's been several days...I got to the city...I try... But it's worse during the nights...when I think to myself...maybe if I re-rolled the Swashbuckler again, I could...I could...
Hello, my name is BaldursCat and I'm a recovering chronic restarter. I'd like to thank Berelinde for the KeldornRomance treatment program.
I will admit to wavering when I got my poor bard's familiar killed, twice - her CON stat is almost as bad as Aerie's now - and also when I thought I'd broken Anomen but so far we're all good, also I have the Throne of Bhaal beta for said romance so the chances of getting to the end are pretty high. EDIT Even though I've cheated and read all the lovetalks).
I don't really have this problem with BG anymore. I do however have a serious case of chronic restartitis with Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
Heya it's Wanderon! I'd really like to spend some time replying to this thread but I just had a great idea for generating a character that would be unlike any I have played before and I have to go try it out - maybe I can come back later...
I don't really have this problem with BG anymore. I do however have a serious case of chronic restartitis with Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
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Erm.... II have chronic restart syndrome. Should I play a Blade, or a Gnome Cleric/Illusionist? Or maybe a Dwarven Defender? Or should I just stick with the standard sorcerer/mage type of powerhouse character? Should I go all evil so I can get Dorn? Neutral so I can get all of the new NPCs? No, I should go do a good run with my Cavalier so I can feel like the hero of the saga.
Hi, my name is Lord Rumfish, and I am a chronic restarter.
I try to justify my chronic restarting by saying that I have completed the game 5 times, although really, one of those "completions" was my first character Reggie dying to poison in Baldur's Gate. For every time I have beaten the game though, well... let's just say I have 68 files in my save game directory for *this install* of BG1 on *this computer* and the majority of those are for individual characters (I never have more than 3 save games for a single character, and that's only for the ones I really like). That's only counting the characters who made it into the game world, who weren't swept off the drawing board mid-creation as I started the process over again with a new, better, more engaging character idea. All-neutral parties, all-bow-using parties, all-shield parties, all-arcane-caster parties, all-female parties, all funny-dialogue parties... and of course trying every kit and class under the sun. Not necessarily as every race (but give me time...).
I recognize the problem, yet I can't stop justifying it to myself. "Oh, there's a good chance you'll finish this game with the dwarven defender, you're already out of the Cloakwood! Every finished game justifies the unfinished ones by at least a 1 to 20 ratio if not more. Besides, we can ignore those characters you never made a saved game for, right?"
Help me.
(EDIT: The Black Pits has actually helped me to find a home for these displaced victims of my overactive imagination, and some of them have managed to at least beat THAT game even if they never catch a glimpse of Sarevok. It's a good outlet for my chronic restarting but it hasn't solved the problem by itself.)
Hi, my name is Lord Rumfish, and I am a chronic restarter.
I try to justify my chronic restarting by saying that I have completed the game 5 times, although really, one of those "completions" was my first character Reggie dying to poison in Baldur's Gate. For every time I have beaten the game though, well... let's just say I have 68 files in my save game directory for *this install* of BG1 on *this computer* and the majority of those are for individual characters (I never have more than 3 save games for a single character, and that's only for the ones I really like). That's only counting the characters who made it into the game world, who weren't swept off the drawing board mid-creation as I started the process over again with a new, better, more engaging character idea. All-neutral parties, all-bow-using parties, all-shield parties, all-arcane-caster parties, all-female parties, all funny-dialogue parties... and of course trying every kit and class under the sun. Not necessarily as every race (but give me time...).
I recognize the problem, yet I can't stop justifying it to myself. "Oh, there's a good chance you'll finish this game with the dwarven defender, you're already out of the Cloakwood! Every finished game justifies the unfinished ones by at least a 1 to 20 ratio if not more. Besides, we can ignore those characters you never made a saved game for, right?"
Help me.
(EDIT: The Black Pits has actually helped me to find a home for these displaced victims of my overactive imagination, and some of them have managed to at least beat THAT game even if they never catch a glimpse of Sarevok. It's a good outlet for my chronic restarting but it hasn't solved the problem by itself.)
We have a winner.
I think the only cure for you would be if Baldur's Gate 3 came out, pandered to everything wrong with gaming today and it soured your experience with the series so badly, so much as a glance at a BG title makes you weep.
That's unlikely so your only other option is a cyanide tablet.
My name is Kneller and I'm a chronic restarter. I've only ever beat BG1 once, with a paladin I turned into an Undead Hunter in BG2. I own ToB, I've installed ToB, but I've never actually explored any of its content. In fact, I've only ever made it to Spellhold once.
But, it's not my fault. Honest! It's all James Ohlen's fault. I virtually always play with the canon party, and they kinda suck. Has James Ohlen ever even played D&D? Fighter. Cleric. Mage. Thief. One of each, single classed is all you need. Instead, I get a Fighter/Druid. On top of that, my combined mage and thief gets kidnapped in the prologue and I have to spend most of the damn game trying to get her back. The best cleric is evil, the good clerics are annoying. The best thief is going to stab me in the back. And with all of this I have to pick a class that's going to tie this dysfunctional high fantasy family together? You've got to be kidding me...
I pre-ordered BG:EE and have hardly made it past character creation. I spend too much time thinking about what NPCs I'm going to take with me and then how I'm going to continue in BG2. I want to play a good/neutral character because it fits the story better and isn't a complete pain to play like evil but all the best NPCs are evil and the majority of good/neutral NPCs annoy me (possibly because I've played with them so often). Also the new NPCs classes annoy me. Monks aren't great in BG1 and seem to me to be a luxury class that is best covered by PC if anyone. Wild Mages will just randomly kill you at some point. Dorn is, as with all evil NPCs, excellent but if you're going evil then Blackguard seems like a good choice for PC class and having 2, especially with Kagain/Korgan around too means you're going to be melee heavy and struggling to share around the gear.
I usually make it past character creation, and start doing the quests around Beregost and FAI to level up a bit before going down into the mines. Then I decide I'd rather play an evil character so that I can have Dorn, or decide that a Fighter/Mage PC would be a better character than a Cleric/Illusionist to bring into BG2:EE.. Then I just get bored because of how many times I've played through BG1 and drop the game for a day or two.. before another interesting character idea hits me. :P From the looks of it, I'll just have to use my Cavalier in BG2EE (only character I've actually managed to finish BGEE with).
@Kneller - runner-up for "best written chronic restarter confession". As your prize, you will be entitled to BG2EE. Be wary, it's a double-edged sword!
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You see Kangaxx is a demi-lich. If his body is destroyed he basically comes back as a floating skull.
As you did not mention the demise of said skull, I believe he is hiding in a shoe box somewhere until those nasty adventurers have gone away...
It would be a mean spirited adventurer indeed to slay a member of the public twice...
It is a little known fact that he also has two rings... Although I am thankful for the Athkatla city guard to look into the matter.
Phew... I thought you were going to deliver some truly dreadful news then...
*Vampires arrive and hover expectantly behind Anduin's shoulder*
@Blackchimes You can have two kits actually. Choose a Gnome multiclass and change the fighter side of the kit. You can now have a Kensia/Illusionist
Oh no! I'm dragging others into the blackpit of cheating despair!
*Vampires pile in and drag Anduin away*
Hello my name Gorthrakazul and I'm a chronic restarter. I'm a human ... No wait half elf for ranger cleric... But I really like the elf sword bonus... But wait with human I could pick a kit with a + thaco... Err dwarf saves though... Argghhhhhh
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Please, for the love of Tyr give me the serum.
And why am I being taken away by vampires?
*Anduin looks nervously left and right... no sign of vampires...*
My doctor said there is no cure and I should get myself a HDD formattosectomy, but I can't bring myself to such a brutal intervention. I read about this group in a self-help pamphlet, and I beg you to ease some of my pain.
I'm Southpaw...and...well...I'm still playing...
*Southpaw, the re-starter, Southpaw the Mindflayer. His eyes wet and his tentacles absent-mindedly sucking on the microphone.*
I have started a new game...recently...a monk...another one. I tried...you know...to make it work in the first game. I thought of it a challenge. Abandoning my powergaming tendencies. Not planning and grooming the group as I always did...just picking others up and replacing them later with the ones I liked more. I even haven't saved Viconia yet.
Well...I still play...it's been several days...I got to the city...I try...
But it's worse during the nights...when I think to myself...maybe if I re-rolled the Swashbuckler again, I could...I could...
I will admit to wavering when I got my poor bard's familiar killed, twice - her CON stat is almost as bad as Aerie's now - and also when I thought I'd broken Anomen but so far we're all good, also I have the Throne of Bhaal beta for said romance so the chances of getting to the end are pretty high. EDIT Even though I've cheated and read all the lovetalks).
Erm.... II have chronic restart syndrome. Should I play a Blade, or a Gnome Cleric/Illusionist? Or maybe a Dwarven Defender? Or should I just stick with the standard sorcerer/mage type of powerhouse character? Should I go all evil so I can get Dorn? Neutral so I can get all of the new NPCs? No, I should go do a good run with my Cavalier so I can feel like the hero of the saga.
Also, I like Necromancy.
I try to justify my chronic restarting by saying that I have completed the game 5 times, although really, one of those "completions" was my first character Reggie dying to poison in Baldur's Gate. For every time I have beaten the game though, well... let's just say I have 68 files in my save game directory for *this install* of BG1 on *this computer* and the majority of those are for individual characters (I never have more than 3 save games for a single character, and that's only for the ones I really like). That's only counting the characters who made it into the game world, who weren't swept off the drawing board mid-creation as I started the process over again with a new, better, more engaging character idea. All-neutral parties, all-bow-using parties, all-shield parties, all-arcane-caster parties, all-female parties, all funny-dialogue parties... and of course trying every kit and class under the sun. Not necessarily as every race (but give me time...).
I recognize the problem, yet I can't stop justifying it to myself. "Oh, there's a good chance you'll finish this game with the dwarven defender, you're already out of the Cloakwood! Every finished game justifies the unfinished ones by at least a 1 to 20 ratio if not more. Besides, we can ignore those characters you never made a saved game for, right?"
Help me.
(EDIT: The Black Pits has actually helped me to find a home for these displaced victims of my overactive imagination, and some of them have managed to at least beat THAT game even if they never catch a glimpse of Sarevok. It's a good outlet for my chronic restarting but it hasn't solved the problem by itself.)
I think the only cure for you would be if Baldur's Gate 3 came out, pandered to everything wrong with gaming today and it soured your experience with the series so badly, so much as a glance at a BG title makes you weep.
That's unlikely so your only other option is a cyanide tablet.
But, it's not my fault. Honest! It's all James Ohlen's fault. I virtually always play with the canon party, and they kinda suck. Has James Ohlen ever even played D&D? Fighter. Cleric. Mage. Thief. One of each, single classed is all you need. Instead, I get a Fighter/Druid. On top of that, my combined mage and thief gets kidnapped in the prologue and I have to spend most of the damn game trying to get her back. The best cleric is evil, the good clerics are annoying. The best thief is going to stab me in the back. And with all of this I have to pick a class that's going to tie this dysfunctional high fantasy family together? You've got to be kidding me...
As your prize, you will be entitled to BG2EE. Be wary, it's a double-edged sword!
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Seriously though, all of you make me feel a little better about my gaming habits.