What is something you've found after your n'th playthrough that was new to you?
lundgrnn
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I've been playing this game for ~15 years and it seems like every time I play it I find something in the game that I've never found before.
I'm only on Chapter 2 for this run and so far I've found 2 things that I've never seen before.
The first was during Korgan's quest to find the Book of Kaza. During the quest you visit a crypt to search for the book, and it's full of typical tomb-y things: urns, coffins, mummies, undead, sarcophagi, etc... Well, down on of the halls you can explore there is a rather inconspicuous looking sarcophagus leaning against a wall that just looks like any other random piece of set design to help set the atmosphere of a crypt. Howerver, I happened to mouse over this during combat and noticed that my cursor changed to the interact-with-circle-arrows icon. Clicked it, out popped a skeleton warrior, it was pissed off, i killed it, and it dropped a magical spear that I had never encountered before.
The second was during my liberation of De'arnise keep. On the 2nd floor you run into Glaicas who was a member of the house guard, however is now hostile. I assumed that he was a traitor and killed him ever time I had encountered previously. Yet, this time I noticed that he said that he was shown the "truth" by the enemy "sorcerers", and I thought "Hmmm sorcerers...could be charmed." So I threw a Dispel Magic before I bashed his face in just to check. Sure enough! His circle changed from red to blue and the dialogue window pops up! He explains a little bit about what's been going on, hands you the head to the Flail of Ages he normally dropped when killed, and even tells you about the hidden forge. For taking this path rather than slaughtering him on sight I was rewarded with over twice the experience I would have gotten from just killing him.
So! What sort of new things have you found in the game for the first time after your 2nd, 3rd, 4th....n'th time through the game?
I'm only on Chapter 2 for this run and so far I've found 2 things that I've never seen before.
The first was during Korgan's quest to find the Book of Kaza. During the quest you visit a crypt to search for the book, and it's full of typical tomb-y things: urns, coffins, mummies, undead, sarcophagi, etc... Well, down on of the halls you can explore there is a rather inconspicuous looking sarcophagus leaning against a wall that just looks like any other random piece of set design to help set the atmosphere of a crypt. Howerver, I happened to mouse over this during combat and noticed that my cursor changed to the interact-with-circle-arrows icon. Clicked it, out popped a skeleton warrior, it was pissed off, i killed it, and it dropped a magical spear that I had never encountered before.
The second was during my liberation of De'arnise keep. On the 2nd floor you run into Glaicas who was a member of the house guard, however is now hostile. I assumed that he was a traitor and killed him ever time I had encountered previously. Yet, this time I noticed that he said that he was shown the "truth" by the enemy "sorcerers", and I thought "Hmmm sorcerers...could be charmed." So I threw a Dispel Magic before I bashed his face in just to check. Sure enough! His circle changed from red to blue and the dialogue window pops up! He explains a little bit about what's been going on, hands you the head to the Flail of Ages he normally dropped when killed, and even tells you about the hidden forge. For taking this path rather than slaughtering him on sight I was rewarded with over twice the experience I would have gotten from just killing him.
So! What sort of new things have you found in the game for the first time after your 2nd, 3rd, 4th....n'th time through the game?
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That being said, I just discovered just how much info can be gotten through charming basically everyone in BG1.
Can't think of anything right now but I'm pretty sure that I found something new every playthrough.
I only found out about the sarcophagus one very recently.
And that was because playing SCS and the lich followed me up the corridor, accidently (knew I was going to die, thought I'd have a look to see what it contained when I noticed the highlight) triggered the mummy as well, party caught in the middle.
As I thought, it didn't end well.
@pvddr
The guard at the circus tent.
Now that's a new one, thankyou.
But my recent favourite is if you kill Chief DingDag before you kill the Troll Cook in Firkraag dungeon, you can tell the cook the chief is dead and he will run free.
When you meet Mekrath before freeing Haer'Dalis, if you tell him that you want Haer'Dalis but don't mention the Portal Gem, then Mekrath offers you a short quest instead of a fight. His quest is to recover his magic mirror from his escaped Imp, whom you can then find in the sewers. Returning the mirror to Mekrath causes him to teleport away without fighting, and when he leaves that automatically frees Haer'Dalis.
Because I have one in my BOH and I have no idea where it has come from (currently in TOB so this is just for future reference) and I didn't speak to Mekrath before killing him anyway.
Never had it before and I pick up everything (I'm a millionaire but those silver necklaces still look too tempting).
And is this from a Mod, I have UB and SCS installed and that's a first for me.
Edit: ah, no, wait ... isn't there something about SCS abusing mirrors as inventory-markers for some obscure purpose? (I don't have SCS, so I'm not clear about this.) So maybe it's an SCS-related item ... IIRC, if it's the mirror from Mekrath's quest, then its in-game item description makes that obvious.