New hard core Solo Challenge (No Death)
Jack_Ketch
Member Posts: 10
After doing some research the most recent solo challenge discussion I was able to find was over a year ago. I am new to the sight so I could be mistaken and no one may ever join this but I wanted to start a solo no death challenge taking one character from BG:EE through the entire saga. It is quite the challenge and I don't know if I have it in me but I'm going to give it a shot. Let me start by giving the rules:
1. We Play on core rules difficulty. That means when you level up you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.
2. No reloading for failure to memorize scrolls and such.
3. Obviously its a solo challenge but you can still relieve NPC's of their items if you want. Especially if there are any Rogue classes that want to use their stuff in Tob.
4. Upon death, if you want to start over, you can use the same character but he/she needs to start back at level one, no items etc. However if you beat BG:EE and move on to BG:EE 2 SoA then die in SoA you don't need to go all the way back to BG:EE. You can start back at the beginning of SoA.
5. When it comes to character creation feel free to get your character as good of stats as possible. With a no death/no-reload challenge your going to need a good roll to start.
Thats all I can think of to start. I'm going to get started later today most likely as I have family coming over soon. But I will be posting and sharing my play through with screen shots and what not. It will be fun if a few of you join me and do the same. I have been playing a bunch since they came out but am ready for a new challenge. Thanks and enjoy!
1. We Play on core rules difficulty. That means when you level up you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.
2. No reloading for failure to memorize scrolls and such.
3. Obviously its a solo challenge but you can still relieve NPC's of their items if you want. Especially if there are any Rogue classes that want to use their stuff in Tob.
4. Upon death, if you want to start over, you can use the same character but he/she needs to start back at level one, no items etc. However if you beat BG:EE and move on to BG:EE 2 SoA then die in SoA you don't need to go all the way back to BG:EE. You can start back at the beginning of SoA.
5. When it comes to character creation feel free to get your character as good of stats as possible. With a no death/no-reload challenge your going to need a good roll to start.
Thats all I can think of to start. I'm going to get started later today most likely as I have family coming over soon. But I will be posting and sharing my play through with screen shots and what not. It will be fun if a few of you join me and do the same. I have been playing a bunch since they came out but am ready for a new challenge. Thanks and enjoy!
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RIP Peehska. The gnomes will never forget you!
Meet Loki:
Loki is a rash young elf, talented, but borderline incapable of accepting anyone else's help (hence the absurdly low Wisdom score, doesn't he realise that D&D is a party-based game?).
During this run, I'll not be killing anyone "abnormal", no Shandalar, no Elminsters, nada.
Here's hoping Mister "I use ranged weapons and run away a lot" survives past the first random encounter.
Too bad I didn't clear out the sirines outside to properly kite them. Flesh golems have such high priority attacks and hit so hard, the two brushes past it were fatal, and it's all the way back to Step 1, my modified beginning save (which gives Loki his unique colour scheme and Elf Rogue appearance).
This time I'll probably head straight for the Basilisks for an early boost (skipped them this time around to level off lockpicking and quests), see if I can risk handling the garden gnome with my familiar (at least once I find a Protection from Petrification scroll or give up and just go with the old ghoul slave).
Well, looks like I'll just try to roll a good fighter/thief and take my go at the challenge. Or maybe I can recover my Blackguard somehow with the use of safemode or something from the broken PC (looks like the graphics card broke).
Loki the 2nd: Lasted two days before random encounter'd.
Loki the 3rd: Killed by an ankheg killing his familiar.
Loki the 4th: Killed by an ogre critting his familiar.
Loki the 5th: Killed by a greater basilisk poisoning his familiar to death.
I've good feelings about lucky number six though.
Six to death of the prologue.
I wouldn't use familairs in the current patch(1.2). If they die, you die. Or sometimes they mess up your saved game and cause you to be dead on load...