Druid Grove: Can I do it without a Druid?

ZaramMaldovar

I'm currently doing my New Party Challenge (see board for details, I'm not going to bore with the long verison) and I got to the Druid Grove with a full party of
1. My Dwarven Barbarian/Mage
2. Auren
3. Anomen
4. Nalia
5. Mazzy
6. Cernd

Well Cernd got chunked so now I don't have a Druid. I can go and temporariy recruit Jaheria but I don't really want to have to waste my time if I can resolve this without challenging the Druid Grove.

P.S. I know I can poison the grove, but I don't want to go for the evil way out of this.

ThacoBell

You can't challenge Faldron without a Druid. So you can get to that point without a druid, but you can't resolve the quest without one.

ZaramMaldovar

@ThacoBell
Can I just kill her?

ThacoBell

ZaramMaldovar said:

@ThacoBell
Can I just kill her?

I don't know. Her dialogue implies that with the protection of the grove, only a sanctioned challenge from another druid can harm her. I've never tried just force attacking her.

ZaramMaldovar

@ThacoBell
Thanks for yoru help, I'll probably recruit Jaheria but not before finding out what happens if I kill Faldorn outright.

I hate that self-righteous evil witch.

And I know Faldorn's canon alignment is "True Neutral" but that's because of the limitations of BG alignments. I don't think anyone would disagree with me that the behavior displayed by the Shadow Druids is anything but Neutral Evil.

sarevok57

you cannot just straight up kill her, she has the good ol' plot armor haning on her and only a druid can kill her, any class/team combo can go to the druid grove and finish it, but if you don't have any druids in your team, then you can ask cernd to do it for you.....

but since he is chunked, you will have to use jaheira now to complete it, if she dies, then you will never be able to complete it since you are not a druid

ZaramMaldovar

@sarevok57
Thanks, already fixed the problem.

Shame you can't just kill her, but rules are rules.

Quickblade

ZaramMaldovar said:

@sarevok57
Thanks, already fixed the problem.

Shame you can't just kill her, but rules are rules.

Not really in character, but if you're playing multi-player, couldn't you just whip up another PC as a Druid (or F/D), to do it?

sarevok57

Quickblade said:

ZaramMaldovar said:

@sarevok57
Thanks, already fixed the problem.

Shame you can't just kill her, but rules are rules.

Not really in character, but if you're playing multi-player, couldn't you just whip up another PC as a Druid (or F/D), to do it?

you could if ya really really wanted to

Quickblade

ZaramMaldovar said:

@ThacoBell
Thanks for yoru help, I'll probably recruit Jaheria but not before finding out what happens if I kill Faldorn outright.

I hate that self-righteous evil witch.

And I know Faldorn's canon alignment is "True Neutral" but that's because of the limitations of BG alignments. I don't think anyone would disagree with me that the behavior displayed by the Shadow Druids is anything but Neutral Evil.

I, too, hate Faldorn and go out of my way to make sure she dies brutally. I cheer to myself every time she panics and runs, I stop attacking to savor it if it happens.

ZaramMaldovar

@Quickblade
I know.

I found it a shame I couldn't have Jaheria fight her with armor and equipment on, but I got sastifaction out of Black Bear Jaheria ripping Faldorn to shreds literally.

Then I promptly dumped Jaheria because of my New Party Challenge.

Again, rules are rules.