Finish the game with every character in your save folder before starting a new character

kcwise

Evil, I know! I recently decided to finish off all my BGEE saves before trying something new.

So far I've managed to complete runs with Assassin, Archer, Cavalier, Fighter/Illusionist, A Dwarven Defender led all Lawful Good party, Level 2 Conjurer dualled to Fighter with staff specialization (fighter with scrolls and wands, woohoo!), and a two character run with just Ranger/Cleric and Wild Mage.

Still to complete: An evil party led by a Dark Moon Monk, a party consisting of every Druid kit, an all mage party (Good & Neutral), an all mage party (Evil & Neutral), A Swashbuckler, and a Mage/Thief.

After that I have to debate whether or not unfinished Roleplay characters should be included. I've started Paladin, Bard, Cleric, and Fighter RP games, but I've yet to devote the time to any of them that the endeavor requires (much less consider whether to post the results here as other brave souls do).

If I added in all my old saves from pre EE games it would take me much much longer. So, for those with many many unfinished runs, perhaps the challenge should be to complete ten of them before starting a new character.

How many "limbo characters" do you have?

SionIV

I don't have any at all.

I only ever play No-reload when it comes to my Infinity games and when people normally 'drop' a character it's because they get bored of them or want to try something new. When that happens to me i tend to get sloppy and my character dies because of silly mistakes. I can't even count on both of my hands the amount of times I've had a character die because i got somewhat bored, put on auto pilot and made a dumb mistake like getting held by a cleric.

Then you look at my brother, the complete opposite, i didn't even think you could have as many different saves as he got with different parties!

JuliusBorisov

You know, if I try to finish the game with every character in my save folder, it would take me years.

I can't let a new character wait till 2115.

Ravenslight

My hat is off to you @kcwise and anyone else who is brave enough to take on such a task. An easier solution, that I have found helpful, is to “store” old saves in a separate folder. It keeps my current game folder so much neater… Of course, by now, that folder has become rather like a Pandora’s box that I dare not open.

GreenWarlock

I guess I should probably delete a few of the saves I have no plans to pick up again either

I have around a dozen PCs standing over the recently slain Gorion, after graduating Candleekeep but not yet set out on their grand adventure. Rerollitis will do that to you Around another half dozen or so who are mid-quest. It seems I tinker around a fair bit getting into Cloakwood, often via Durlag's, so many characters get left in Limbo at this point. Generally, once they make it into Baldur's Gate proper, they see the game through to the end.

This would certainly maximize my flexibility when BG2 finally becomes playable from the Mac store - although do I really need 20+ characters raring to go at Irenicus? Surely I am just moving my rerollitis up one level, and will never get to see ToB!

kcwise

It's kind of fun to check off another character from the list. Of course, I have taken a few shortcuts. As long as the main character hits the experience cap I don't necessarily complete every mission. I've avoided the Tales of the Sword Coast content in a couple of cases, and only had to dabble a bit in Durlag for the others.

I've discovered a few things I've never noticed before. For one, the townsfolk in Baldur's Gate know after you defeat Sarevok at the palace and comment on it. It's a fun collection of dialogs I've never noticed before because usually at that point I go right for the end game. This time I wandered around a bit just for fun, and also looted the palace for the first time. Completely unnecessary at that point, but amusing.

It's also fun, I've found, to go straight for the main plot and then right before Sarevok go back out and finish clearing all the maps. I thought it would be boring, but it's surprisingly fun to see how powerful the team is at that point. Nothing stands in their way!

CrevsDaak

Only one. My first BG2:EE PC... Still stuck in ToB. I don't wanna play that crap without Ascension (and WoP).

SmilingSword

CrevsDaak said:

Only one. My first BG2:EE PC... Still stuck in ToB. I don't wanna play that crap without Ascension (and WoP).

But Ascension works now, im in TOB playing a SCS big picture hybrid with all the ascension bits installed and working.

kcwise

I just finished up the Dark Moon Monk run. Lots of evil behavior like killing Drizzt! And, I even managed to kill off Shandalar for the first time, at least for the first time in the EE game. I can't remember if I ever killed him in the original. He would be a lot easier to kill if he didn't run teleport away so quickly. Dorn's poison helped a lot.

Now I'm on to team Druid. I'm sure Jaheira and Cernd would approve.

booinyoureyes

kcwise

Success! Now all I have left are three "storied playthrough" characters right at the beginning of the adventure. The save folder looks so empty I think I'll start a bunch of new characters.