this......and then scrap the char, and then this again......
Then this...and this...and this
IRT Topic Give a potion to a cow, book to old lady, sword to lazy guard, scroll to elf, beat up a dwarf, beat up some rats, beat up two assassins, beat up some monsters with some friends, talk to a pink chick, buy some stuff, talk to my dad, leave my castle, get him killed, run away, meet up with pink chick, kill some wolves, convince a guy to jump, kill some gibberlings, meet up with two loons and then set out to save and/or kill a whole bunch of people.
Probably starting 2-3 different characters, get proper rolls on them and then maybe after an hour or two of thinking I'll manage to decide what to play as.
As a rule, the first thing I do is loot all of the chests that I can break open with my 18/?? strength, sell them to Winthrop, and buy myself the equipment I'll need to survive the journey to the Friendly Arm Inn and beyond. I tend to avoid the chests that are in view of the inn's residents, since getting caught by a guard is counterproductive to my goals of profit.
Then I buy a crossbow quarrel, and make my way around the keep counterclockwise, which cuts down on backtracking significantly. I don't bother with the training room, since you don't get experience from it, but I do go into the infirmary and pick up the two potions that are in there.
Sometimes I bring Firebead's scroll back to him; other times I keep the Identify scroll for myself, since I probably need it more than he does.
Then I make a bee-line for Gorion, hoping I can make it to him before Imoen catches me (she always does, the guttersnipe!). After some quick dialogue, we make our way out of the keep, and from then on it's pretty straight-forward.
If I'm in a hurry, I'll skip all the nonessential maps until after Nashkel; if I end up grabbing Minsc, I'll end up doing them anyway as a matter of course in my search for Dynaheir. But because this is the enhanced edition, I will probably recruit Neera and Resaad instead, and follow their respective quest-lines.
Then to Nashkel, pick up Varscona from a deranged bounty hunter, and then finally carry on with the main quest.
After Nashkel, I usually make my way to the places I haven't visited yet, collecting treasure and experience along the way that will help me when I finally head up to Baldur's Gate. I might do Durlag's tower now, or I might wait until after I've been to Ulgoth's Beard and heard about it in the story.
But the first thing I'll do with BG:EE? Probably install it.
1 .Check every single class and kit type including the new one for any changes. 2. Conclude that the runthrough I have been planning in meticulous detail for the last 48 hours would be much better if I changed the class, race, alignment and gender of my main character, and every single character of my intended party. 3. Click reroll ~100 times. 4. Feel guilty about doing this and click - a few times without assigning all the points even though I would have been assigning them to completely useless stats. 5. Start the game. 6. Go into candlekeep inn, buy equipment, steal all the good stuff. 7. Leave inn. 8. Realise I have to go through all the boring tutorial missions again because I have the gaming equivilent of ocd. 9. Become lethargic at the though of this. 10. Quit. 11. Visit the forums. 12. Complain
The thing is you can't really be pure evil even if you want to. After all, at the end of the story, you ended up by helping everyone and saving the sword coast.
I'm just wondering how the blackguard gonna fit in here.
There's nothing inherently good about stopping a civil war that will likely get you killed. Especially since your brother and the assassins he's hired won't rest until you're dead.
An Evil playthrough of BG1 is about self-preservation.
Just be warned if you're RPing with Good alignment: having her in your party comes with a permanent -2 to your reputation on account of her being a Drow...
There's enough quests to raise that reputation from 0 to 20 twice, and you can always donate to a church.
I do think, however, that the real deal with Viconia is neither her dex nor her single-class cleric status, but that a friggin lot of fantasy nerds find her hawt. There aren't any threads about how Khalid should get a cooler portrait, but just look around for Viconia
Just be warned if you're RPing with Good alignment: having her in your party comes with a permanent -2 to your reputation on account of her being a Drow...
Refresh my mind on how that works, exactly. Are you able to pick her up, and then quest/donate more to get Reputation up to 19 or 20, or is it stuck on a max of 18 while she's in the group?
And would the latter then indicate she would never bail out due to the reputation being too high?
There's enough quests to raise that reputation from 0 to 20 twice, and you can always donate to a church.
I do think, however, that the real deal with Viconia is neither her dex nor her single-class cleric status, but that a friggin lot of fantasy nerds find her hawt. There aren't any threads about how Khalid should get a cooler portrait, but just look around for Viconia
Going by these forums, I must be the only person who liked Khalid and was saddened that he was killed off.
Apply a weidu patch to give a speed walk of 7 for all CRE (speed walk in BG1 is 5 and 10 for BG2), then edit a lot of files for change this and that... Playing ? One day.. But not the first day.
As a rule, the first thing I do is loot all of the chests that I can break open with my 18/?? strength, sell them to Winthrop, and buy myself the equipment I'll need to survive the journey to the Friendly Arm Inn and beyond. I tend to avoid the chests that are in view of the inn's residents, since getting caught by a guard is counterproductive to my goals of profit.
But the first thing I'll do with BG:EE? Probably install it.
is that before or after you download it? hehe, sorry, epic post, had to mess with you
I can't decide which class to be =( It used to take me hours to decide, with only the BG classes available. Now I have to decide between ToB classes too
I have always had two or three games going on simultaneously because I can never decide which class I like better. Maybe this time I can stick with just one!
1. decide class, alignment and stats, despair a bit about the portrait 2. thoroughly check new gui and elements as seen in first few screens 3. finish candlekeep area 4. quit and swing moods between fury and depression, as i will be starting a new job that requires a lot of dedication and preparation, thus vampiring on my bg:ee time. 5. visiting forums, despising other people that progress through the game 6. comfort myself (in vain) that it is better that way, since i will be able to play the game with post release content
I have succesfully convinced my girlfriend to plan our holiday one day before the release date. Now I need to find some way to distract her while I spend two weeks bull-rushing through BG three or four times. Perhaps some other good games are coming out in that time period, I shall have to see. Regardless, add "play it like a ninja" to the earlier mentioned list.
I have succesfully convinced my girlfriend to plan our holiday one day before the release date. Now I need to find some way to distract her while I spend two weeks bull-rushing through BG three or four times. Perhaps some other good games are coming out in that time period, I shall have to see. Regardless, add "play it like a ninja" to the earlier mentioned list.
lol that might not have been smart, now when the game is released, you're going to be spending quality time with your loved one and looking at the bg:ee icon on your desktop thinking man.....just 5 mins......
this is the voice of experience speaking, but hope you'll have better luck then me
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OT: Get to minsc ASAP >.>
Then I buy a crossbow quarrel, and make my way around the keep counterclockwise, which cuts down on backtracking significantly. I don't bother with the training room, since you don't get experience from it, but I do go into the infirmary and pick up the two potions that are in there.
Sometimes I bring Firebead's scroll back to him; other times I keep the Identify scroll for myself, since I probably need it more than he does.
Then I make a bee-line for Gorion, hoping I can make it to him before Imoen catches me (she always does, the guttersnipe!). After some quick dialogue, we make our way out of the keep, and from then on it's pretty straight-forward.
If I'm in a hurry, I'll skip all the nonessential maps until after Nashkel; if I end up grabbing Minsc, I'll end up doing them anyway as a matter of course in my search for Dynaheir. But because this is the enhanced edition, I will probably recruit Neera and Resaad instead, and follow their respective quest-lines.
Then to Nashkel, pick up Varscona from a deranged bounty hunter, and then finally carry on with the main quest.
After Nashkel, I usually make my way to the places I haven't visited yet, collecting treasure and experience along the way that will help me when I finally head up to Baldur's Gate. I might do Durlag's tower now, or I might wait until after I've been to Ulgoth's Beard and heard about it in the story.
But the first thing I'll do with BG:EE? Probably install it.
2. Conclude that the runthrough I have been planning in meticulous detail for the last 48 hours would be much better if I changed the class, race, alignment and gender of my main character, and every single character of my intended party.
3. Click reroll ~100 times.
4. Feel guilty about doing this and click - a few times without assigning all the points even though I would have been assigning them to completely useless stats.
5. Start the game.
6. Go into candlekeep inn, buy equipment, steal all the good stuff.
7. Leave inn.
8. Realise I have to go through all the boring tutorial missions again because I have the gaming equivilent of ocd.
9. Become lethargic at the though of this.
10. Quit.
11. Visit the forums.
12. Complain
I call it my twelve step plan. My body is ready
An Evil playthrough of BG1 is about self-preservation.
What? I swear I'm not evil.
I do think, however, that the real deal with Viconia is neither her dex nor her single-class cleric status, but that a friggin lot of fantasy nerds find her hawt. There aren't any threads about how Khalid should get a cooler portrait, but just look around for Viconia
And would the latter then indicate she would never bail out due to the reputation being too high?
I have always had two or three games going on simultaneously because I can never decide which class I like better. Maybe this time I can stick with just one!
2. thoroughly check new gui and elements as seen in first few screens
3. finish candlekeep area
4. quit and swing moods between fury and depression, as i will be starting a new job that requires a lot of dedication and preparation, thus vampiring on my bg:ee time.
5. visiting forums, despising other people that progress through the game
6. comfort myself (in vain) that it is better that way, since i will be able to play the game with post release content
i am a bit pissed about it even now
this is the voice of experience speaking, but hope you'll have better luck then me