Personally, I completed BG:EE without reloading with a solo F/M/T three times, a solo Sorcerer, a Blackguard with his evil party, solo Assassin/Mage, Kensai with good aligned party, and solo Blackguard.
As for BG2:EE, I tried with the Assassin/Mage who failed early in Chapter 2 and with my Blackguard and his evil party, who succesfully completed both BG:EE and BG2:EE without reloading. (Yes this is a spoiler guys, but I made it in Hell ! )
You might also check out the no-reload threads on the Bioware forums. Over 500 pages of no-reload runs so far, many successful, with some solo no-reload trilogy SCS+Ascension runs as well.
I think Tymaker is a troll, though. His other posts the past few hours have been very short and dismissive.
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@Tymaker: I think I spoke too early. I retract the suggestion.
But to clarify why I brought it up: based on your question in the no-reload thread, you seemed not to believe people like @Gotural, for instance, had completed the game without dying.
What's this? I ended this pathetic discussion in a single second, sorry, concluded it.
It was rude to call the discussion pathetic and act skeptical that anyone has done this.
To answer your question in better detail, lots of people have finished the BG games, including entire saga runs, even on insane, even when solo, and even with difficulty mods installed, from Ascension to SCS to Tactics and even Improved Anvil, without ever letting the main character die. The "no-reload run" is a well-known challenge run.
I myself have done this once before, through Shadows of Amn to the Throne of Bhaal, with a Cleric of Lathander(11)->Mage in vanilla with SCS and Ascension, trying to play spellcasters as if they were fighters (I like to do experimental no-reload runs). https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/38312/the-party-of-spiders-no-reload-scs2-run#latest I did some test runs in this, and I think I granted myself one reload due to faulty information. Other people have completed the challenge without caveats.
Saros Shadowfollower is the only person who has completed Improved Anvil (I forget which version) without reloading, which is also extremely impressive, given Improved Anvil's heavy reliance on reloading.
No-reload runs are so popular because they're so fun. Even more so with difficulty-enhancing mods. There's nothing quite like the satisfaction of completing a no-reload run and having the epilogues start rolling. Of course, there's nothing worse than dying during the final battle, but hey, that's part of the no-reload run's charm
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Personally, I completed BG:EE without reloading with a solo F/M/T three times, a solo Sorcerer, a Blackguard with his evil party, solo Assassin/Mage, Kensai with good aligned party, and solo Blackguard.
As for BG2:EE, I tried with the Assassin/Mage who failed early in Chapter 2 and with my Blackguard and his evil party, who succesfully completed both BG:EE and BG2:EE without reloading. (Yes this is a spoiler guys, but I made it in Hell !
I think Tymaker is a troll, though. His other posts the past few hours have been very short and dismissive.
If I am a troll, you fool, it's because I have only one eye, and I'm green, tall, with lots of random hair
I started a new thread in the here and now, I simply asked a question for everyone to answer freely
I had two deaths with Standolf in SOA, now I'm on a new game, playing from the beginning, and enjoying ever minute of it, as Dragon Disiple.
Merry Christmas
PS: very dismissive!? Why I ought A.
@Gotural
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And can you plz send that as a document I can sign???
My comment 'You fool' was speaking figuratively and not personalty - sorry if, in question, took it the wrong way.
Who has played through the hole trilogy without dying once to their Bhaal Character?
For I deem this to be a very good question, especially, relevant here.
And when I chose to play a game, that's why I'm here...
In forsight of a good reboast, or sword parry, or parlay, in pirate terms.
But to clarify why I brought it up: based on your question in the no-reload thread, you seemed not to believe people like @Gotural, for instance, had completed the game without dying. It was rude to call the discussion pathetic and act skeptical that anyone has done this.
To answer your question in better detail, lots of people have finished the BG games, including entire saga runs, even on insane, even when solo, and even with difficulty mods installed, from Ascension to SCS to Tactics and even Improved Anvil, without ever letting the main character die. The "no-reload run" is a well-known challenge run.
I myself have done this once before, through Shadows of Amn to the Throne of Bhaal, with a Cleric of Lathander(11)->Mage in vanilla with SCS and Ascension, trying to play spellcasters as if they were fighters (I like to do experimental no-reload runs).
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/38312/the-party-of-spiders-no-reload-scs2-run#latest
I did some test runs in this, and I think I granted myself one reload due to faulty information. Other people have completed the challenge without caveats.
Alesia_BH is well-known for doing multiple solo no-reload SCS+Ascension runs throughout the entire trilogy without dying once. Various other people have also completed the challenge. You can read about many such runs on the Bioware forums, for both BG1 and BG2:
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/124374-baldurs-gate-1-no-reload-challenge/
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/124277-baldurs-gate-2-no-reload-challenge/
Not all are successful, but many completed no-reload runs exist.
Saros Shadowfollower is the only person who has completed Improved Anvil (I forget which version) without reloading, which is also extremely impressive, given Improved Anvil's heavy reliance on reloading.
I'm sorry, I made a rude, and, perhaps, even offence comment in my own echo of time - my bad.
Who else has!?!?
That's the problem with a RP run. It makes you do dumb things.
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