No Reloads, No Mercy!
hendosnap
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Having sunk many hours into this game both before and after the release of BG:EE, one thing that I haven't actually tried yet, and I'm surprised that I haven't done this before, is a no-reload challenge. My aim is to complete the trilogy with no CHARNAME deaths; should I die, I may turn this into a minimal reload challenge, or I may just start again, time will tell.
Rules:
- Reloads only permitted if a crash/gamebreaking glitch occurs.
- Core rules, I will temporarily lower difficulty to obtain max HP rolls on level up though.
- No cheesing.
I know this challenge isn't as hardcore as some others that I've seen posted here, but we all have to start somewhere :P Wish me luck!
Rules:
- Reloads only permitted if a crash/gamebreaking glitch occurs.
- Core rules, I will temporarily lower difficulty to obtain max HP rolls on level up though.
- No cheesing.
I know this challenge isn't as hardcore as some others that I've seen posted here, but we all have to start somewhere :P Wish me luck!
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I agree with @SionIV, No-Reload is addictive, so I hope you know what you're doing
Maybe if I'm successful in this challenge, I might suck it up and let the dice decide my fate next time
- Force-talking in order to make initiating a fight easier/avoiding a shopkeeper turning hostile upon a failed thieving attempt.
- Killing non-hostile NPCs that clearly aren't intended to be killed, where the rewards (xp or items) greatly outweigh the consequences i.e. Eleminster, Drizzt.
- Repeatedly stealing from Thieves' Guild fences with maxed pickpocketing and then selling the items back to them for effectively infinite gold.
Those kinds of things
Apparently those couple of minutes were enough for grievances between the two couples to form, and then boil over, and they proceeded to fight to the death in one of the inn's bedrooms, as someone slept a few feet away no less. Amusingly, they fought one-on-one; Jaheira vs Xzar, Khalid vs Montaron, and after Xzar was literally one-shot, Jaheira proceeded to just stand there doing nothing as her husband duked it out, although he was ultimately victorious.
So yeah, that was strangely fun. Next stop, Beregost!
BTW: Is almost a day that I wanted to ask you, @hendosnap: Will Goroan dance on the head of a pin as well?
I've now reached Nashkel, a few changes happened in Beregost however. I did the usual quests, and at that point I decided what I wanted my eventual party to look like:
- Imoen
- Jaheira
- Minsc
- Dorn
- Edwin/Dynaheir (depending on if I can get it to work with Edwin or not :P)
To that end, I picked up Neera, but Khalid died in the battle (sorry Metalloman!), so now, as I enter Nashket, my party looks something like this:
I'll pick up Minsc here, then go to the Gnoll Stronghold for Dynaheir, then back to Nashkel for Edwin. After that, I'll just have to see how things play out :P More in-fighting? Quite likely.
(Yes, she's a wolf :P)
By the way: do you think you'll avoid party npcs resurrections in your run, @hendosnap?
@Metalloman as fun as it'd be to up the difficulty, I'm going to allowing NPC resurrections, I actually already rezzed Minsc after he died in that fight so it's a little late for me to change things around now XD Definitely an idea I'd entertain in a future run if this one goes well though
Edwin died in the mines, which was a pain, but we're out now and I'm going to go and rez him asap. I've been pretty fortunate so far in that my PC hasn't really been in that much danger, most of the damage is being soaked up by the other party members :P Long may that continue! Planning on returning to Nashkel to continue the story, then, since my party is all together now, I'll probably do some side quests/exploration for some decent items and XP.
EDIT: I've also thought of an idea for my next challenge, which hasn't been done before as far as I can see. Should be hilarious and I'm really looking forward to doing it :P
Here I am, after accidentally running into the group of assassins just north of the mine's exit, having not realised how close they were. Imoen and I are both sitting pretty on 2 HP each, and this shows the party fleeing to try to get out of the zone. Fortunately we managed to get away... only for this to happen:
Yeah, naturally they'd put Goroan at the very front of the party, right next to those two wolves
After running headlong into another assassination attempt, my only option was to immediately take cover in the nearby shop, which the mage naturally followed us into, and then proceeded to fire off a horror spell and empty the clip on Minsc. Somehow, we made it, but barely. Here we can see the aftermath of the battle: half my party running around like headless chickens, Imoen and myself still on 2 HP each, with Minsc and the recently-resurrected Edwin becoming honorary members of the 1 HP Club. It's difficult to overstate how easily this could have been my last battle!
Since our near-death experiences however, things have been relatively smooth sailing, I've completed several side quests and obtained decent loot from areas I hadn't cleared out earlier, and I'm now sitting in the Bandit Camp as I seek to advance the story. I hadn't tried 'joining' the bandits before, in the past I've always hacked and slashed my way in. I'm starting to think I had the wrong idea all this time
Next stop, Chapter Four!