No resurrection and minimal reload run - Perudo Murd

Londonade

I played BG a lot first time around but nearly always gravitated towards the same NPCs. In order to make things a little more interesting with my latest run I've decided to do a 'no resurrection' run - when an NPC dies then they can't be brought back to life and instead I will have to recruit a different one. Quite intrigued to see who I end up with! I will only reload on main character death. Due to the fact that I don't know who I will be working with, my character will need to be versatile - they will have to be multiclassed - and the character will be neutral alignment because they will need to work with NPCs of varying alignments. Neutral alignment gives me more choices in game somehow. Let me introduce you therefore to Perudo Murd, the Illusionist/Thief - gnome and Bhaalspawn. I'll take his first roll for stats with no adjustments and will outline how that turns out on my next post.

Londonade

Here's his stats. Str 18, Dex 17, Con 15, Int 13, Wis 9 and Cha 8. A straight roll without any adjustments and I'm pleased with it. Perhaps it would have been better for him to have had 13 Str and 18 Int, but that is how the dice rolled. I noticed that the weapon specialisation daggers applied to both daggers and throwing knives so he took that one, plus single weapon style. His strength bonus applies to both thrown and held weapons, so he is starting off with a +3 to hit with his throwing knives. Pretty good at the start, although supplies of these knives may dry up from time to time. Well there's Perudo for you - all ready to start his quest. I wonder who fate will bring his way?

Londonade

'Old Puffguts' told Perudo to prepare for a journey and Perudo did his best to comply. 'Preparing' in this case mainly comprised of cannily 'borrowing' a few things, unasked, from the upper rooms of Winthrop's inn. Frankly he couldn't wait to be leaving boring old Candlekeep and had no plans to return any time soon - perhaps a more exciting life was beckoning and indeed things got very exciting very soon when Gorion was cut down by a frankly terrifying figure wearing a lot of armour. Perudo was shocked to find Gorion was actually dead whereas previously he had been merely deadly dull. Imoen turned up and she persuaded him to head for the Friendly Arm Inn where two of Gorion's friends were apparently waiting. Before long they fell in with an entertainingly mismatched couple, halfling and human, who looked like they would be interesting company on the road.

Metagaming alert - from a roleplaying perspective Perudo being Chaotic Neutral might well have chosen NOT to head to the Friendly Arm. He is going to do it though because I want to be able to use all of the NPCs in the game and if Perudo, Imoen, Xzar and Montaron had cleared Nashkell Mines without Khalid and Jaheira then the latter two might not have appeared in the game.

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Peruda Murd had nothing against females at all. How could she indeed because she was one, although to be fair had only been so for the last 2 hours. Even for an open minded girl, this was a rather startling development. Last night in the Friendly Arm, after meeting Khalid and Jaheira, the charming and personable Imoen had ended up talking to a lot of the other guests there, one of whom had told her about a valuable belt which had been stolen by an ogre a few miles south of the inn. In the morning...well I don't need to go into details because I am sure you can guess what happened. Suffice to say that over breakfast our hero answered to the name Perudo, but by lunch felt obliged to adopt a more ladylike name. Long term this wasn't going to work because, frankly, Peruda didn't have a decent thing to wear. A return to the Friendly Arm was required, either to reverse the curse or to try and buy a new dress. Perhaps the latter - this new belt of hers was very pretty and would look good with a blue frock.

Comment - Chaotic Neutral writ large here. Of course he is going to 'see what these magical belts do' and not even think about returning them to the rightful owner. Party is Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira, Montaron and Xzar. Heading to Nashkell tomorrow - hope everyone gets on alright.