NOW I know what scares me the most. Beholders in diapers. Beholders' diapers.
XD This is awesome! It's helped me get over my fear of Beholders. I want a baby Beholder pet! I mean this adorable thing could be a Pokemon! Or a familiar I guess...
Aren't green slimes the low level creatures (worth 65 XP or so) that have a special attack that chunks a character if he fails a saving throw? I remember Khalid in Ye Olde Inn being chunked from full health by a green slime attack.
I don't have a phobia of spiders, but in role-playing games, especially Baldur's Gate, spiders aren't to be taken lightly. Imagining myself in the shoes of my adventurer (at a respectable level with a formidable party) I can honestly say that when faced with a Sword Spider, a Huge Spider, a Giant Spider, etc, I would be more than a little perturbed. Their appearance is unsettling with a large body, gangly legs, a dripping maw, six or eight eyes, and with the speed and sudden nature of which they move, they're something straight out of a nightmare.
Mind Flayers. Because stun-spam plus two/three-shotting stunned characters ruins my day quite often. Their insane magic resistance does not help matters.
Dragons are more threatening, of course, but fighting them is too much fun to be frightening.
Beholders are something I wouldn't want to run into in a dark cave or allyeway, but I am deathly afraid of creatures that kill you by draining your intelligence... Ooh...
NOW I know what scares me the most. Beholders in diapers. Beholders' diapers.
XD This is awesome! It's helped me get over my fear of Beholders. I want a baby Beholder pet! I mean this adorable thing could be a Pokemon! Or a familiar I guess...
It reminds me of my familiar in NWN. I loved that you could pick a familiar from a list of creatures and give it a name. Insightful Izzy was a valued friend of my necromancer.
Mind Flayers, Vamps, including mists, and Mummies, in that order, but especially mind Flayers as I really haven't been successful at killing them properly. - By properly, I mean without cheating - Oh & cowled wizards, and spiders against low level parties.
Ettercaps. Ugly, pretty strong for BG1,and if you see one you can bet a web and 1d4 poisonous spiders are about to appear. They're bad enough in cloak wood, but in Peldvale they're worse. Those 4 red wizards will cast fear on your party so they run around springing web traps and leading hordes of etercaps back to your party.
In terms of annoyingness and endless groaning at the sheer frustration of it all is the level-drain vampires accurse you with. A few hits and you're dead. I always felt at the very LEAST they could offer a saving throw against this. Or that the game would remember what spells you had memorized prior to being level drained.
I only managed to beat some of them, with some of my characters. The Liches in the Underdark were doable, but I haven't beaten any of the Liches hidden in Athkatla yet except the one in the Inn with a lucky hit from Azuredge, but I've never managed to beat him since.
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WHAT IN ALL THATS HOLY IS THAT?
i wont like i kinda want one
I don't have a phobia of spiders, but in role-playing games, especially Baldur's Gate, spiders aren't to be taken lightly. Imagining myself in the shoes of my adventurer (at a respectable level with a formidable party) I can honestly say that when faced with a Sword Spider, a Huge Spider, a Giant Spider, etc, I would be more than a little perturbed. Their appearance is unsettling with a large body, gangly legs, a dripping maw, six or eight eyes, and with the speed and sudden nature of which they move, they're something straight out of a nightmare.
Other than dragons, the run-enders for me are
Dragons are more threatening, of course, but fighting them is too much fun to be frightening.
They're bad enough in cloak wood, but in Peldvale they're worse. Those 4 red wizards will cast fear on your party so they run around springing web traps and leading hordes of etercaps back to your party.
Not the hardest enemy by far, but to answer your question what.. you know, scares me the most..
Mindflayers in general just scare me.
In terms of annoyingness and endless groaning at the sheer frustration of it all is the level-drain vampires accurse you with. A few hits and you're dead. I always felt at the very LEAST they could offer a saving throw against this. Or that the game would remember what spells you had memorized prior to being level drained.
I only managed to beat some of them, with some of my characters. The Liches in the Underdark were doable, but I haven't beaten any of the Liches hidden in Athkatla yet except the one in the Inn with a lucky hit from Azuredge, but I've never managed to beat him since.