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Recruiting Garrick Siege of Dragonspear

St. AndrewSt. Andrew Member Posts: 86
in Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
I'm going to be running a LoB difficulty playthrough, and given the need for a solid, undispellable protection from fear, I'm pretty sure I actually HAVE to have Garrick in the party for Beliphat.

Does anyone know what the requisites are to recruit him? I wasn't able to get him in my first playthrough of SoD.

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  • Contemplative_HamsterContemplative_Hamster Member Posts: 844
    Can't be done. He is not a recruitable character in SOD. You could try enabling the cheat console and force him (CTRL+J) into the party and see what happens. I haven't tried this myself.
  • DJKajuruDJKajuru Member Posts: 3,300
    rrchristensen said:

    Can't be done. He is not a recruitable character in SOD. You could try enabling the cheat console and force him (CTRL+J) into the party and see what happens. I haven't tried this myself.

    Just a correction , the force join command is ctrl+Q.
  • KenjiKenji Member Posts: 251
    Why'd you want to have a bard in your BG party at all? :P
  • KenjiKenji Member Posts: 251
    edited March 2017
    When you have a party full of backstabbing evil-doers, keeping a low profile is much prefered. B)
  • rapsam2003rapsam2003 Member Posts: 1,636
    Kenji said:

    When you have a party full of backstabbing evil-doers, keeping a low profile is much prefered. B)

    Where's your charismatic jackass to round things out and convince everyone you're an okay guy, guy?
  • ZaghoulZaghoul Member, Moderator Posts: 3,938
    edited March 2017
    The skald they have is right good, course the vanilla skald does not help with fear til 15th lvl I think but still, take it down faster and less chance of fear (I suppose).
    Post edited by Zaghoul on
  • St. AndrewSt. Andrew Member Posts: 86
    Not sure why you can't get Garrick. Does anyone have any good ideas for a protection from fear for Beliphat on insane? You get auto-dispelled at the start of combat and the fear abilities they use are crazy, not magical I guess? potions didn't seem to work.
  • KuronaKurona Member Posts: 881
    Play a bard yourself.

    Play a Cavalier, they're immune to Fear.

    Equip the Commander's Chainmail. It makes the user immune to fear as well as allies in a 30 feet radius. Clerics can equip it if they need to cast Remove Fear themselves in a hurry.

    There are options.
  • St. AndrewSt. Andrew Member Posts: 86
    I'm a true neutral druid. I've got something worked out so long as all my gear carries over from BG... Tiax has a protect from fear/morale loss helm on him which I can use to keep him sane, then use remove fear on party.
  • DhariusDharius Member Posts: 665
    edited April 2017
    Yeah, it'd be good if we were able to recruit Garrick, Coran and Tiax somehow when we approach them (as alternatives to Voghiln, Safana and Glint perhaps) but I don't think it's going to happen without modding :(
  • St. AndrewSt. Andrew Member Posts: 86
    Yeah it's unfortunate, I'm a bit at a loss for how to handle Beliphat without them. I know they've changed the difficulties a bit but my last playthrough on LoB difficulty (when it was bugged, so it was just "insane" or something) he was an absolute menace.
  • ZilberZilber Member Posts: 253
    Just eekeeper Safana into a bard.
  • jsavingjsaving Member Posts: 1,083
    The commander's chain mail (easy-to-get item from the Coalition Camp) was designed to help with the Beliphat encounter, so just use that and go with whatever party you like best.
  • St. AndrewSt. Andrew Member Posts: 86
    Yeah i just saw the stats on that, that should make the encounter a cinch.
  • semiticgoddesssemiticgoddess Member Posts: 14,903
    St. Andrew said:

    Beliphat

    Bellyfat? That's hilarious! That's what I'm going to call Belhifet from now on.
  • St. AndrewSt. Andrew Member Posts: 86
    Phonetics are the same tbh. Yeah I think they changed how that fight starts anyway, just blazed through it on my Assassin
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