First time I played this game was shortly after my husband got it for Christmas, 2005. I never played any sort of D&D game, so I read everything I could find--took maybe an hour--and decided to be . . . a bard. (Of course I died regularly, but damned if I didn't muddle through anyway!)
Anyway, I couldn't figure out at first why all my spells were gray and I couldn't cast them (I was wearing armor) and I was too scared to go online and ask somebody because I thought they'd be all, "Stoopid noob!"
Nothing too bad. At first I always only used the highest enchantment I could find for weapons, which was fine for BG1, but later it meant ignoring belm and some other really good ones. Also, it took me a while to figure out how to take out mages' defensive spells. There were just too many spells to choose from, so at first fighting wizards was basically just buff and pray for me.
on my first playthrough i recruited branwen and thought she could change into a skeleton.
yes, that's what i thought "turn undead" meant.
The old German 2nd edition PnP players handbook actually had this "bug" and turn undead was literally translated as "untot werden" (turn/become undead). Yes, in the official handbook!
Needless to say, the only player in our group who had the german handbook was the butt of many jokes and we never used it as a reference for anything critical
Forgetting to pick up Mulahey's holy symbol and going all the way back to Nashkel to discover the quest has not resolved. Then going back to the mines and the stuff is gone, resulting in an inability to advance the plot past chapter 2
That happened recently on my last BGEE playthrough. Although I was told by my friend that he had looted everything that was not tired down. Although upon returning to the Mines the symbol was still there thankfully.
deciding to make a CHARNAME wild mage going duo with Neera an interesting experience, but my gold was constantly annihilated and we swapped genders more times than I care to recall
I had heard a rumor in the beginning that Xzar and Monty actually left the group just prior to the final battle if you had them with you. So I always made sure that I dumped them (if I took them at all) far enough back that I could bring some new party members up to speed for the final battle. turns out it was only ever an urban myth.
I totally believed this as well.... I thought they were spies for Sarevok for like 6-7 years
Attacking Xzar and Montaron with CHARNAME and Imoen to get their loot.
Montaron one shots Imoen, after that they gang upon my Stalker and wreck him. This actually ended one of my no-reload games, now i'm always extra careful when it comes to those two.
The second time i did the third paladin quest, I killed the evil assassin who dared disguise himself as a faithful godfather thinking something like "Ha ! I don't need detect evil, I already know he's a jerk !".
...I was very surprised to be dismissed from the Order after this heroic deed.
"Okay, almost done with Noober. Hes lucky I'm so addicted to getting XP. I should fidget around with spells while I wait. Hey, I should see how skulltrap works"
Slow Poison? That doesn't sound very useful. Who wants to poison their enemies slowly anyway? Oh well, I guess it never hurts to try...
Oh, that reminds me; when I was little, I kept wondering what level I needed to be to get stop poison. And I thought the poison must come back after a while.
I just did the entire first level of watchers keep, got killed by the statues at the end, a realized I hadn't quicksaves through the entire thing, and had to do the whole level over again.
I just did the entire first level of watchers keep, got killed by the statues at the end, a realized I hadn't quicksaves through the entire thing, and had to do the whole level over again.
Dude. I did that exact thing a couple weeks ago. Except I didn't get killed, I just did a bad job and wanted to reload because I thought I'd saved a couple minutes before, but hadn't. *shame*
I *had* to find this topic, because... Created a fighter/thief, my three people party goes through the game much less easily than I expected (Charname, Kivan and Aerie, lacks a tank a bit but in theory should be okay). Give her katana proficiency, get Belm as soon as possible. They get to Underdark and something clicks very wrong, Charname has thac0 only two smaller than Aerie, what. Quick look at her weapon skills, everything seems okay, points in katanas... And then it hit me.
I *had* to find this topic, because... Created a fighter/thief, my three people party goes through the game much less easily than I expected (Charname, Kivan and Aerie, lacks a tank a bit but in theory should be okay). Give her katana proficiency, get Belm as soon as possible. They get to Underdark and something clicks very wrong, Charname has thac0 only two smaller than Aerie, what. Quick look at her weapon skills, everything seems okay, points in katanas... And then it hit me.
Apparently the new stupidest thing I've done is not understanding what the obvious issue is here.
I *had* to find this topic, because... Created a fighter/thief, my three people party goes through the game much less easily than I expected (Charname, Kivan and Aerie, lacks a tank a bit but in theory should be okay). Give her katana proficiency, get Belm as soon as possible. They get to Underdark and something clicks very wrong, Charname has thac0 only two smaller than Aerie, what. Quick look at her weapon skills, everything seems okay, points in katanas... And then it hit me.
Apparently the new stupidest thing I've done is not understanding what the obvious issue is here.
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Anyway, I couldn't figure out at first why all my spells were gray and I couldn't cast them (I was wearing armor) and I was too scared to go online and ask somebody because I thought they'd be all, "Stoopid noob!"
Needless to say, the only player in our group who had the german handbook was the butt of many jokes and we never used it as a reference for anything critical
And attacking Narcilius Neen without magical weapons to hurt the jellies.
an interesting experience, but my gold was constantly annihilated and we swapped genders more times than I care to recall
Montaron one shots Imoen, after that they gang upon my Stalker and wreck him. This actually ended one of my no-reload games, now i'm always extra careful when it comes to those two.
...I was very surprised to be dismissed from the Order after this heroic deed.
Neera:Skulltrap! Go! *Skulltrap explodes* Oh cra-*Neera explodes*
Noober:Done talking now.
"...*Sighs**Reloads* Time to go find that "whats the stupidest thing you did in BG" thread."
Created a fighter/thief, my three people party goes through the game much less easily than I expected (Charname, Kivan and Aerie, lacks a tank a bit but in theory should be okay). Give her katana proficiency, get Belm as soon as possible.
They get to Underdark and something clicks very wrong, Charname has thac0 only two smaller than Aerie, what. Quick look at her weapon skills, everything seems okay, points in katanas...
And then it hit me.
So I replaced all my party's gear with it and sold them in the Underdark.
Yeaaaahhhhh... I should've learned to read.
Oh cool a gambling tent, I've got money to spare, lets give this a go...
some friends they were lol