Sod: where is my gold?

Arthas

After I get my gold stolen and I talk with the refugees, do I get that I lost all of it?

How am I supposed to use the Golden hero bust ?

TheArtisan

You get it back at a point where it doesn't matter anymore because there's nothing to spend it on.

Better hope you carried over enough junk from BG1 to sell.

Gallowglass

Arthas said:

After I get my gold stolen and I talk with the refugees, do I get that I lost all of it?

I'd better put the answer in a ...

Yes. It's best to spend most of your end-BG1ee gold on re-charging your wands etc. (which you can use in SoD), then spend the remainder on a couple of expensive items (which you can re-sell for starter-cash in SoD).

Arthas said:

How am I supposed to use the Golden hero bust?

So far as I'm aware, you can't do anything with it. IIRC, you can sell it later (although for only modest value).

Contemplative_Hamster

Come now, you're a resourceful chap with enterprising friends and you all apparently eat, drink, and sleep free of charge in any wilderness setting in complete defiance of basic Home Economics; which setting incidentally is full of strange caves and stranger beasts with significant pocket change and oddly glowing items. You don't need your gold back. That gold was the OLD you. It was keeping you back. Grab whatever's left in your travelling trunk, sell off some of the junk and that backup magical sword you stuck in your quick slot (ahem!) but never use, load up on spells, and go out and make some new money. Heroes don't KEEP money, they SPEND money. Terry Pratchett's barbarian heroes knew this; and you can, too.

ObsidianShade

Except for more healing potions and ammunition, there isn't even really much to spend it on. I ended SoD with most the gear I started it with. (Of course, I had a lot of mod items, too.)

Arunsun

ObsidianShade said:

Except for more healing potions and ammunition, there isn't even really much to spend it on. I ended SoD with most the gear I started it with. (Of course, I had a lot of mod items, too.)

Wands as well. They are much more useful that you may think at first. Especially Wands of Fire in SoD

Skatan

There are two vendors so far (I'm in dead man's pass) that offer items worth spending money on, both late enough that I've accumulated enough to clean them out of good items and still have loads of pocket change left afterwards.

The halfling woman in the siege camp and the genie you summon using the glasses. Especially the latter has a couple of extremely good items, almost too good. I will miss those in BG2, *sigh*. The wizard hat, the belt of luck, the ring of chant etc. Great items. Also the scimitar is amazing.

ObsidianShade

Yeah, I did buy a couple of items for my fighter-thief from her. I might have missed the scimitar, though I had a couple wonderfully OP ones from Dark Horizons. I probably should have made more use of wands, I have a bad habit of hoarding such items, though having lots of healing potions did help me at the end.

batoor

That overabundance of gold is why I usually miss lawful evil type decisions in these type of games. Having the ability to bribe and corrupt the flaming fist higher ups for example...Subtly influence and replace the honest officers with my own obedient pawns^^

rapsam2003

batoor said:

That overabundance of gold is why I usually miss lawful evil type decisions in these type of games. Having the ability to bribe and corrupt the flaming fist higher ups for example...Subtly influence and replace the honest officers with my own obedient pawns^^

THIS WOULD BE AMAZING!