When I killed Greywolf with the newfound Wand of Cold and destroyed Varascona.
Oh, and when I was going to press "O" to go to the Options menu and save the game, and discovered that the EE's have a new nice feature, coincidentally called "Quick Load" mapped on "L", which was the key I pressed by accident. OMFG I nearly cried.
@bengoshi Thanks! Never found one and I'm just about done the game; I'm actually at the point where you need to sneak around or run away from all the guards.
yes found it randomly , started as cleric 7 then dualed to mage , until then i hoarded all scrolls i would find in my scrolls box and then just stock up in high hedge and baldurs gate on what i didn't have
Nice.
It looks like I'm going to have to go old school and beat them all unconscious with my fists then run away like a dirty coward.
Wands of Paralyzation are your new best friend once those Flaming Fist pansies turn on you. I actually had to sell a few back to the Sorcerer's Sundries to have them recharged. Charm & Dire Charm work as well.
My facepalm moment just happened the other day. I was multiquesting (if that is a word) in Baldur's Gate and I was working on the Lothander's Geas quest & the Ghorak the diseased man in the Harbor district. I spoke with the Bitch Queen who asked me to bring her the book of Wisdom from the Lady's Hall and I also took skull from the Three Kegs Inn. I got the book, then I turned in skull and ventured back to the Harbor district to ensure that Ghorak was cured. After leaving his house I noticed that I had a book that could increase my Wisdom of my charname by one point, so I put it in the quickslot and bang, +1 wisdom.
Oops! That was the book I needed to give to the Bitch Queen in order to get the geas scroll to get the antidote for the poison that is going to kill me in a few days. Well, since I'm playing a chaotic evil Blackguard, I decided to start acting like it so I returned to the Temple of Umberlee and killed everything that moved, picked up the geas scroll, and walked out the front door.
My greatest facepalm moment was when I rolled a Human Female Fighter with some amazing stats with the intention of becoming a dual classed Fighter/Druid and just before the end of BG1, I realised I had 1 less point in CHA than I needed to dual class her.
In a no-reload run I did fine until I came accross the amazon party just out of Nashkel Mines.
The fight against them started out quite well. I webbed the group and held three of four. Thinking that the fight was nearly won, I closed in with Charname to throw axes. I accidentally stepped into the web, failed my saving throw, and promptly found myself on the receiving end of arrows of biting launched by the remaining amazon.
The Amazon archer was easily killed by Melf' acid arrows and Montaron's sling in the next few seconds, but...
Fine I thought, let's just slow poison with Viconia. But Viconia was just done casting Hold Person (extra security on top of Web) so that round to go until her next spell was Charname's last six seconds of her life. Charname died within a few milliseconds of Vicky casting slow poison.
It was so close that Slow Poison: Charname showed in the dialogue box before the game signalled Charname's death.
My PC got killed by one of the SCS Skeleton Warriors in the final battle mere seconds after he slew Sarevok, before the ending cutscene could appear. Apparently that counts as a failure because I didn't get a Final Save.
When first meeting an Ogre Mage (I think it was the area west of Firewine bridge) he started casting Ghost Armour and while my party advanced on him he cast a Stinking Cloud which immediately disabled 3 of my group - I was horrified and certain that the group would be slaughtered by that mighty monster.
Then I noticed that the Ogre Mage had placed the Stinking Cloud so that he himself was caught in the effect, failed it´s save and was uncouncious and helpless...
Whenever I cast a spell and catch my own PCs in it...this happens all the time. I am horrible at judging distances. I've wiped out my entire party with badly-aimed fireballs.
Started a monk character. I usually knock the guy out that's standing by the chest upstairs at the candlekeep inn to get the goods without losing rep. I knocked him out all right. Knocked him right into 10 tiny giblet pieces.
Another monk downside. You can't use the unconscious-loot trick if you're a monks.
When first meeting an Ogre Mage (I think it was the area west of Firewine bridge) he started casting Ghost Armour and while my party advanced on him he cast a Stinking Cloud which immediately disabled 3 of my group - I was horrified and certain that the group would be slaughtered by that mighty monster.
Then I noticed that the Ogre Mage had placed the Stinking Cloud so that he himself was caught in the effect, failed it´s save and was uncouncious and helpless...
This happens quite often when fighting Ogre Mages. You'll see it again - probably along the sword coast.
Those squirrels are top agents trained by various druidic circles to spy for them, so they can report to the Harpers. You didn't think all those mid-field reputation changes with no witnesses really had no witnesses, do you?
After 15 years of playing I discover a new place in game. I just want my assasin to hide behind the building and I enter the new area by accident. Inside there was a bandit with little dialog. Did anyone of you find that place? Or other "hidden" entrance like that. ScrnShot below.
Was rolling stats for my Gnome Fighter/Illusionist. I wanted to get a 93 (or higher) so that I could have 18/18/18/19/10/10.
While rerolling, I came across a 101. I was so excited that I went to sit up in my chair for a better look. While trying to sit up, my finger clicked my mouse button again causing me to reroll stats...
I ended up settling for a 91 after about an hour of rerolling after that.
Made a character for dual wielding. Left candlekeep and realized that he had ** in single weapon style.
I made a paladin and planned to give him a 2-handed sword. I checked his character screen just before buying weapons and saw that the pip was in two-weapon style.
I did the opposite: Created a character in BG2, gave him two pips in Long Swords and two in 2-Handed Weapon Style, meaning to let him dual-wield long swords.
Other memorable blunders:
Casting Fireball, Death Fog and other AoE spells in crowded city streets, doing serious damage to my party's reputation.
Casting Incendiary Cloud on Aran Linvail & Co (I was working for Bodhi) without first protecting my party from fear. Aran's mage responded with Fear, causing Charname to panic and run into his own poison cloud. Reload time...
Sending a Planetar in to fight Diyatha & Co in Sendai's enclave. Then for good measure I fireballed them as well, harming my own Planetar and turning it hostile. (I managed to survive that particular mistake.)
I guess speaking to Thaxll'ssillyia with a level 10 party on one of my first runs also counts as a major Facepalm. I gained considerable respect for dragons that day.
I had a faceplam moment last night. I was soloing as a Cavalier and had taken ages to roll a really good character because I was going to play a no reload game. I had got to second level by talking to Marl and breaking the news to Mirianne about her husband but I was still only wearing Studded Leather armour because that was all I had been able to afford in Candlekeep. Instead of doing the sensible thing and going and buying a set of Splint Mail I thought I know, I'll go and rescue Viconia and get a set of Plate for free. I headed up to Pelvdale, found Viconia and agreed to save her from the nasty Flaming Fist soldier. She cast Command on him, he fell to the ground and she started beating on him. I was about to join in when I thought, wait a minute, I'm a Cavalier, it's one thing agreeing to save her but we could run away now, I shouldn't be murdering the guy. While I was mulling this over the Flaming Fist guy woke up. Fine I thought, now I can join the fight.
At this point Viconia cast Hold Person. The Flaming Fist guy saved; I didn't.
So my Cavalier got hacked to pieces in the first real fight she had been in and all because I wanted a free set of armour.
I had a faceplam moment last night. I was soloing as a Cavalier and had taken ages to roll a really good character because I was going to play a no reload game. I had got to second level by talking to Marl and breaking the news to Mirianne about her husband but I was still only wearing Studded Leather armour because that was all I had been able to afford in Candlekeep. Instead of doing the sensible thing and going and buying a set of Splint Mail I thought I know, I'll go and rescue Viconia and get a set of Plate for free. I headed up to Pelvdale, found Viconia and agreed to save her from the nasty Flaming Fist soldier. She cast Command on him, he fell to the ground and she started beating on him. I was about to join in when I thought, wait a minute, I'm a Cavalier, it's one thing agreeing to save her but we could run away now, I shouldn't be murdering the guy. While I was mulling this over the Flaming Fist guy woke up. Fine I thought, now I can join the fight.
At this point Viconia cast Hold Person. The Flaming Fist guy saved; I didn't.
So my Cavalier got hacked to pieces in the first real fight she had been in and all because I wanted a free set of armour.
Wow! There IS justice in this world (that world - BG) after all! And being a Paladin does mean something (if only a punishment for a bad deeds )
I had another facepalm moment last night (I'm really not having much luck lately). I was playing as a Kensai specialising in throwing daggers so I had changed her AI to 'Ranged' (not that I really use it but it seemed like a good idea at the time). I was soloing and was attempting to do a no-reload run where I don't take any potions at all. I had reached 5th level and decided to go fight some Ankhegs. By the end of the second battle I had been knocked down to about 20 hit points so I decided to retreat back to the Friendly Arm Inn to rest up.
I didn't bother using my Bhaalspawn powers to cast Cure Light Wounds because I was convinced you never get ambushed traveling between the Ankheg map and the Friendly Arm Inn. Big mistake. I of course got waylaid by enemies - 10 Bandits surrounding me. I promptly panicked and ran for the map edge.
My next mistake was to forget that I have got two pips in Single Weapon Style so I should have switched to my melee weapon to improve my armour class by 2 while I was running away.
But my biggest mistake was to forget I had changed the AI.
My Kensai got hit twice before she reached the map edge. But that was okay she still had about four hits left and she had made it to safety. I clicked on the symbol for her to travel to the next map but unfortunately she had other ideas. She turned around and started throwing daggers at the bandits.
This probably serves me right for Min/Maxing during character creation. I had only given her 7 points of Wisdom so taking on 10 bandits when she only had 4 HP was probably in character for her.
Two that are really memorable. 1. Finishing the entire Cloakwood mine and making it back up to the river plug on the first level only to realize I'd forgotten to talk to Rill. 2. My one attempt at a no reload run. I rolled for ages and got a 95 on a blackguard. I decided to do the low risk Candlekeep quests in order to get as much easy experience as possible. What could go wrong? - other than breaking my two-hander on a rat in Reevor's Storehouse. So, stuck with my wooden staff and a crossbow I only had 1 pip in, I headed for Candlekeep. First stop, as always, the ambush site to get some gear and $. What could go wrong here? I've kited that wolf so many times I can do it in my sleep. Except on this day, I completely pooched it. Thanks to mistiming my zigs and zags, that wolf managed to bite my ass not once, but twice - the second chomp bringing an end to my no reload career.
I once started a throwing-dagger Kansai intending on dual classing to Thief later on, at level 13. I was playing with a party, and I reached 13 at some point in Underdark. Upon trying to dual class, the button was greyed out. After a long time, I realized it - Thieves can't be Lawful Good.
Leveling up a dual wielding character with 94 ability scores while hitting every side quest as early as possible elf then realizing after idly looking at the character sheet that I slotted two handed during character generation. About 20 hours of gameplay down the drain.
@Abby_Zero Download EEKeeper, you can fix these kinds of issues with it. Don't throw away your character for that !
I’m already level 7/8 fighter thief I’m using iOS on iPad, I assume that’s not an option So psyched to be back on BG after all the years I used to disdain the item dupe exploit back in the 1990s but I’m a big proponent of reload often and early! If I had a PC or Mac I’d DEFinitely play with all of the awesome mods n stuff
As it is I’m just praying for iOS Siege of Dragonspear (like, literally)
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Oh, and when I was going to press "O" to go to the Options menu and save the game, and discovered that the EE's have a new nice feature, coincidentally called "Quick Load" mapped on "L", which was the key I pressed by accident. OMFG I nearly cried.
Oops! That was the book I needed to give to the Bitch Queen in order to get the geas scroll to get the antidote for the poison that is going to kill me in a few days. Well, since I'm playing a chaotic evil Blackguard, I decided to start acting like it so I returned to the Temple of Umberlee and killed everything that moved, picked up the geas scroll, and walked out the front door.
The fight against them started out quite well. I webbed the group and held three of four. Thinking that the fight was nearly won, I closed in with Charname to throw axes. I accidentally stepped into the web, failed my saving throw, and promptly found myself on the receiving end of arrows of biting launched by the remaining amazon.
The Amazon archer was easily killed by Melf' acid arrows and Montaron's sling in the next few seconds, but...
Fine I thought, let's just slow poison with Viconia. But Viconia was just done casting Hold Person (extra security on top of Web) so that round to go until her next spell was Charname's last six seconds of her life. Charname died within a few milliseconds of Vicky casting slow poison.
It was so close that Slow Poison: Charname showed in the dialogue box before the game signalled Charname's death.
Then I noticed that the Ogre Mage had placed the Stinking Cloud so that he himself was caught in the effect, failed it´s save and was uncouncious and helpless...
Started a monk character.
I usually knock the guy out that's standing by the chest upstairs at the candlekeep inn to get the goods without losing rep.
I knocked him out all right. Knocked him right into 10 tiny giblet pieces.
Another monk downside. You can't use the unconscious-loot trick if you're a monks.
While rerolling, I came across a 101. I was so excited that I went to sit up in my chair for a better look. While trying to sit up, my finger clicked my mouse button again causing me to reroll stats...
I ended up settling for a 91 after about an hour of rerolling after that.
Other memorable blunders:
Casting Fireball, Death Fog and other AoE spells in crowded city streets, doing serious damage to my party's reputation.
Casting Incendiary Cloud on Aran Linvail & Co (I was working for Bodhi) without first protecting my party from fear. Aran's mage responded with Fear, causing Charname to panic and run into his own poison cloud. Reload time...
Sending a Planetar in to fight Diyatha & Co in Sendai's enclave. Then for good measure I fireballed them as well, harming my own Planetar and turning it hostile. (I managed to survive that particular mistake.)
I guess speaking to Thaxll'ssillyia with a level 10 party on one of my first runs also counts as a major Facepalm. I gained considerable respect for dragons that day.
At this point Viconia cast Hold Person. The Flaming Fist guy saved; I didn't.
So my Cavalier got hacked to pieces in the first real fight she had been in and all because I wanted a free set of armour.
I didn't bother using my Bhaalspawn powers to cast Cure Light Wounds because I was convinced you never get ambushed traveling between the Ankheg map and the Friendly Arm Inn. Big mistake. I of course got waylaid by enemies - 10 Bandits surrounding me. I promptly panicked and ran for the map edge.
My next mistake was to forget that I have got two pips in Single Weapon Style so I should have switched to my melee weapon to improve my armour class by 2 while I was running away.
But my biggest mistake was to forget I had changed the AI.
My Kensai got hit twice before she reached the map edge. But that was okay she still had about four hits left and she had made it to safety. I clicked on the symbol for her to travel to the next map but unfortunately she had other ideas. She turned around and started throwing daggers at the bandits.
This probably serves me right for Min/Maxing during character creation. I had only given her 7 points of Wisdom so taking on 10 bandits when she only had 4 HP was probably in character for her.
I’m using iOS on iPad, I assume that’s not an option
So psyched to be back on BG after all the years
I used to disdain the item dupe exploit back in the 1990s but I’m a big proponent of reload often and early!
If I had a PC or Mac I’d DEFinitely play with all of the awesome mods n stuff
As it is I’m just praying for iOS Siege of Dragonspear (like, literally)