Oh, and one of my first playthroughs had Imoen being killed by a Winter wolf. She got turned into a Popsicle Imoen, and exploded.
Gwen DeMarco: Oh, no. Everything's fine. Teb: But the animal is inside out. Jason Nesmith: I heard that! It turned inside out? [the pig-lizard explodes] Teb: And it exploded. Jason Nesmith: Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then is EXPLODED?
"The role is a hit". at that point, the axe already hit. Doesn't matter how slow it 'Was' getting to you.
But it doesn't damage you until the animation actually hits. Try it. You can actually run into another area to avoid the damage if you are fast enough.
edit: in fact you can outrun any missile damage if you are fast enough including magical spells like magic missile.
"The role is a hit". at that point, the axe already hit. Doesn't matter how slow it 'Was' getting to you.
But it doesn't damage you until the animation actually hits. Try it. You can actually run into another area to avoid the damage if you are fast enough.
edit: in fact you can outrun any missile damage if you are fast enough including magical spells like magic missile.
Dying by lightening is really irritating, especially when your game has a bug. How else can lightning nuke Minsc five times in five rounds.
That's probably the 'Call Lightning' Druidic Spell (No joke, it works that way).
Sadly this happens when I am just tootling about, minding my own business and not casting any spells at all. It never happened in a vanilla version o it's pretty much my own fault
Thanks @deltago. That's exactly what I'm referring to; heck, I'm pretty sure that with boots of speed, you can actually run faster than throwing axes home in on you like a heat-seeking missile travel towards you.
Minsc was charmed in BG2, in my attempts to flee from the rampaging berserker giant of a man and stop him from breaking my pretty elven skull, I charged headlong into my own skull traps I'd tossed through the door earlier and since forgotten about.
One of my more memorable deaths early on was when my Berserker PC got hit with dire charm or something and started attacking the party. He was surrounded, and got killed by the party before i could figure out how to undo the spell..... All because I wasn't using my own character's special ability which normally makes him immune to that stuff....
Also there was the time that I was going to visit the tanner in the bridge district. got the wrong house and hit a trap. I'm not sure what the spell was but it was nasty.
Hmmm... The year was 2001... I was young, foolish, eager and hot headed. I had not played what was called an "RPG" before this time. And so it was that Baldurs Gate ensnared me, trapped me in its tightened grasp so that it would never let go.
I became so entranced by the games main story that I chose to ignore all side quests (Yes.... even the gnoll stronghold.... In fact Minsc became so annoyed at my unwillingness to save Dynaheir that he attacked me, only to be hit by a charm spell that he for some reason never awoke from). Because of this the game got progressively harder. My party would need rest every hour, they had no healing potions, little gold to raise fallen party members and gear that was stolen from the candlekeep inn.
By the time my battered party reached the bandit camp things became much harder. First off there was a hammer wielding menace outside the tent who single handedly trounced my entire party. Eventually I prevailed though, by bringing all melee characters and surrounding him and battering him into the ground. It was tough, but nothing could prepare for the test that was to come as I approached Tazoks tent.
I entered and... A slaughter ensued. My low level meagerly equipped party was surrounded my mages, Hobgoblins and Gnolls, and I could do nothing but watch them be cut down one by one before my eyes. Yet, this did not deter me, as I fought on. For days and nights I poured over old maps (of tazoks tent, lel) and strategies of how my band of merry men could come through. I got knocked down, but came back harder again, and again and again. Weeks.... Nay, months perhaps even centuries went by with no progress made but my spirit still in tact.
I do not know what happened. I must have thought up the most cunning and amazingly planned out strategy in history to get through this battle but alas I cannot remember the details... *sigh* (cheeeeeeeeeeeeese). It was a joyous moment as I felled my final opponent in that tent, for I danced about the room with my hands held aloft, the peasants about me joined in also. We planned a feast on our return to Beregost! Yes, a feast which would be funded for with the loot we take from this Chest after our noble victory! *opens chest in Tazoks tent* CHTCH! LIGHTNING BOLT LIGHTNING BOLT, AHHH! MINSC: DEAD, IMOEN: DEAD. I told my character to run for the tent exit, but all I could do was watch in slow motion as the lightning bolt caught up with him. I sat in horror staring at my screen for hours, knowing that I would not be able to replicate the awesomness that got me though this battle the first time. Rage took over me, and the remains of my PC were scattered over my front driveway for all to witness.
And thus, the entrancement that Baldurs Gate held over me was broken, and ever after when I would hear the words "Baldurs gate" whispered upon the wind, a singular tear would fall down my cheek, containing the memories and hardships that I had endured in my younger years. Just to have it all thrown away... All gone.
(K the moral of the story is to save your game after a f**king difficult fight)
Speaking of saving after battle. Quick saves are very handy meantime, but there are situations. Aec'letec first time. First i arrived in Ulgoth's Beard. What cultist? Ok, after some backstabs from the cultist, and reload from me i went on. Some more cultist, now a cakewalk. Then i arrived at Shandalar's basement. Yes, this was the empty room with the huge summoning circle. Ah, what a surprise: a demon! Why become my party member a ghoul? Now, this is a nasty spell... Yes it's the demon's gaze attack. After some power word: reload: now this was a little bit dificult ... What? Oh, so the cultists turn into demon, how smart. Now let's use some stealth. Yes, the cultists are helpless this way. After some more reload: yes, the demon truly falled at last. Some party losses, but nothing, what raise dead can't fix. Quick save. What is this white icon on my portrait? Oh, no... Try to reload. Crap. Now where is the last auto-save? ... Facepalm.
@lolien I feel ya. Aec'letec was bloody awful the first time I went down there. Had no trouble slaughtering the little monk'y dudes, demon ate my charname. . . Reloaded had another crack at it, forgot to buff with protection from fear. ( Idiot ) Reloaded, got them all this time, sleep, Minsc explodes, Imoen explodes, Edwin explodes and I'm like HELL NAWH!
Pick-pocking Gorion. You spare the insta-death lightning, you spoil the child.
Probably my favorite deaths are the ones I cause. I'll use the console to create the most powerful creatures in all Baldur's Gate and watch as they battle to the death. Drizzt fighting Elminster; Saverok facing off against a legion of noober. All for my amusement.
After painfully fighting through doppelgangers and their mind tricks and defeating Saverok's mercs, my team is on their last legs. I carefully navigate my way through the last bit of the catacombs killing some random spiders on the way, I soon get a feeling that I am just about to hit the end when suddenly...
Charname is turned into stone by 2 basilisks game over thank you for playing see you tomorrow.
Outside, sunshine, Hexxat bites the dust. Revive her and she immediately dies again because she wasn't wearing her cloak.
Also, having Aerie and Jaheira in my party. Jaheira and another team-member die, have Aerie bring back Jaheira first, because, you know, Harper's Call. Forgot that that spell takes a bit of her health away when cast, so Jaheira died again -.-
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Teb: But the animal is inside out.
Jason Nesmith: I heard that! It turned inside out?
[the pig-lizard explodes]
Teb: And it exploded.
Jason Nesmith: Did I just hear that the animal turned inside out, and then is EXPLODED?
*Pause*
*Check feed*
The roll is a hit. Shit.
edit: in fact you can outrun any missile damage if you are fast enough including magical spells like magic missile.
Also there was the time that I was going to visit the tanner in the bridge district. got the wrong house and hit a trap. I'm not sure what the spell was but it was nasty.
I became so entranced by the games main story that I chose to ignore all side quests (Yes.... even the gnoll stronghold.... In fact Minsc became so annoyed at my unwillingness to save Dynaheir that he attacked me, only to be hit by a charm spell that he for some reason never awoke from). Because of this the game got progressively harder. My party would need rest every hour, they had no healing potions, little gold to raise fallen party members and gear that was stolen from the candlekeep inn.
By the time my battered party reached the bandit camp things became much harder. First off there was a hammer wielding menace outside the tent who single handedly trounced my entire party. Eventually I prevailed though, by bringing all melee characters and surrounding him and battering him into the ground. It was tough, but nothing could prepare for the test that was to come as I approached Tazoks tent.
I entered and... A slaughter ensued. My low level meagerly equipped party was surrounded my mages, Hobgoblins and Gnolls, and I could do nothing but watch them be cut down one by one before my eyes. Yet, this did not deter me, as I fought on. For days and nights I poured over old maps (of tazoks tent, lel) and strategies of how my band of merry men could come through. I got knocked down, but came back harder again, and again and again. Weeks.... Nay, months perhaps even centuries went by with no progress made but my spirit still in tact.
I do not know what happened. I must have thought up the most cunning and amazingly planned out strategy in history to get through this battle but alas I cannot remember the details... *sigh* (cheeeeeeeeeeeeese). It was a joyous moment as I felled my final opponent in that tent, for I danced about the room with my hands held aloft, the peasants about me joined in also. We planned a feast on our return to Beregost! Yes, a feast which would be funded for with the loot we take from this Chest after our noble victory! *opens chest in Tazoks tent* CHTCH! LIGHTNING BOLT LIGHTNING BOLT, AHHH! MINSC: DEAD, IMOEN: DEAD. I told my character to run for the tent exit, but all I could do was watch in slow motion as the lightning bolt caught up with him. I sat in horror staring at my screen for hours, knowing that I would not be able to replicate the awesomness that got me though this battle the first time. Rage took over me, and the remains of my PC were scattered over my front driveway for all to witness.
And thus, the entrancement that Baldurs Gate held over me was broken, and ever after when I would hear the words "Baldurs gate" whispered upon the wind, a singular tear would fall down my cheek, containing the memories and hardships that I had endured in my younger years. Just to have it all thrown away... All gone.
(K the moral of the story is to save your game after a f**king difficult fight)
Aec'letec first time. First i arrived in Ulgoth's Beard. What cultist? Ok, after some backstabs from the cultist, and reload from me i went on. Some more cultist, now a cakewalk. Then i arrived at Shandalar's basement. Yes, this was the empty room with the huge summoning circle. Ah, what a surprise: a demon!
Why become my party member a ghoul? Now, this is a nasty spell... Yes it's the demon's gaze attack. After some power word: reload: now this was a little bit dificult ... What? Oh, so the cultists turn into demon, how smart. Now let's use some stealth. Yes, the cultists are helpless this way. After some more reload: yes, the demon truly falled at last. Some party losses, but nothing, what raise dead can't fix. Quick save. What is this white icon on my portrait? Oh, no... Try to reload. Crap. Now where is the last auto-save? ... Facepalm.
Probably my favorite deaths are the ones I cause. I'll use the console to create the most powerful creatures in all Baldur's Gate and watch as they battle to the death. Drizzt fighting Elminster; Saverok facing off against a legion of noober. All for my amusement.
After painfully fighting through doppelgangers and their mind tricks and defeating Saverok's mercs, my team is on their last legs. I carefully navigate my way through the last bit of the catacombs killing some random spiders on the way, I soon get a feeling that I am just about to hit the end when suddenly...
Charname is turned into stone by 2 basilisks game over thank you for playing see you tomorrow.
Revive her and she immediately dies again because she wasn't wearing her cloak.
Also, having Aerie and Jaheira in my party. Jaheira and another team-member die, have Aerie bring back Jaheira first, because, you know, Harper's Call. Forgot that that spell takes a bit of her health away when cast, so Jaheira died again -.-