Pretty much anything I did in my first playthrough of BG. I think I was like 12 years old, had never heard of DnD, and wasn't aware that there was an instruction manual available in pdf form on the CD. I don't remember much of it, but one thing I sort of remember was when I first bought some armour for my fighter.
I started off buying splint, as it was the most expensive kind I could afford, and I figure more expensive meant better. But when I equipped it, my AC went down, which made me think it was bad armour. So I sold it and bought the next expensive armour. Same thing happened. I think I got all the way to buying studded leather or just leather before I realized that lower AC must be better. At least I think I realized this, it's possible I just spent the rest of the game rocking studded leather on my fighter. Apparently I was pretty dumb when I was 12.
@TJ_Hooker: In all fairness, I think that's a reasonable mistake to make at first if you have no background in D&D and don't have anyone to explain the rules 9and don't read the manual - who read game manuals at 12 anyway?)
Of course the fact you did it several times with different armours is rather funny.
Over the years ive made more than i care to admit one that comes to mind right now though was trying to kill Renal Bloodscalp for over 2 hours at which point i finally realized the assassins that came out of nowere were going to 1 shot me every time.
Used two wands of lightning in the first round of combat, same enemy targeted. Didn't realize the fog of war was hiding a wall some feet behind the enemy. The lightning bolts reappeared from the fog of war. By the time it they were done bouncing around, it had killed the whole party.
LOL. Done that myself a few times.
One of my biggies is a tendency to 'Accidentally' set off an AOE in a public area where non-coms can wander in and die a horrible and pointless death, thus destroying my reputation. Taverns are my specialty.
Oh, here is another of mine. I spent a whole hour summoning a familiar, and then reloading, trying to get the 'Special' familiar instead of the standard Cat for CN. The way it worked in PnP, there was a table that you rolled against. A roll of 1-14 gave you a 'Normal' familiar like a cat or a rabbit or something. A roll of 15 gave you a 'Special' familiar like quasit or Imp or Faerie Dragon. Anything above 15 gave you a 'Try again later' result. So, not realizing that the game mechanics were different, I kept on summoning and kept on getting 'Cat', over and over again. Finally, I exited the game and did some research. Boy did I feel the fool.
Played through BGII with Haer'Dalis as my only long-term arcane spellcaster and a kensai PC with 11/14/13/15/12/14 for stats. My friend came over one day and looked at my character sheet and said "Well, those are great stats ... for a mage," showed me how to level up my characters (halfway through the De'Arnise keep quest - those darn umberhulks kept trashing me) and then walked out laughing to go get himself a coke and some doritos.
Windspear hills. Got to the end with a very large empty room. I was cheesily pulling enemies out of the fog of war one at a time the entire map. Saw a mage who was still neutral. Perfect! Party with epic gear ahead. Throw out a web or two, followed by a fireball spam.
First time I ever used a Fireball wand, I didn't read any of the details and used it on an enemy at point blank, while everyone was clustered in a narrow hallway together
First time I ever used a Fireball wand, I didn't read any of the details and used it on an enemy at point blank, while everyone was clustered in a narrow hallway together
I actually saw something like this happen in a PnP game once. The mage decided to cast a fireball in a room 30' square. He nearly killed himself and the monster attacking him.
Played through BGII with Haer'Dalis as my only long-term arcane spellcaster and a kensai PC with 11/14/13/15/12/14 for stats. My friend came over one day and looked at my character sheet and said "Well, those are great stats ... for a mage," showed me how to level up my characters (halfway through the De'Arnise keep quest - those darn umberhulks kept trashing me) and then walked out laughing to go get himself a coke and some doritos.
That reminds me, the first time I played, I didn't know how to level up (I assumed it was automatic) and made it to the bandit camp with only level 1 people (All with a little + on their portrait that wouldn't go away, was really curious what it meant). And no, the Nashkel Mines were not fun with only level 1 characters.
I have done many foolish things: from funny, catastrophic things such as the aforementioned 'wands of lighting', to buffing my party for a fight, only to forget to BERSERK and watch slay his friends with reckless abandon.
The gameplay decision that caused me the most frustration, however, was my first BG playthrough with a mage (an invoker - why Lord, why?). That bastard Minsc kept chunking her on the Gnoll stronghold area because we took too long clearing the mine - I needed to rest for my spells damnit!
One of the first times playing Baldurs Gate and giving Minsc the Cursed Berserker Sword +3, him being primary tank and me playing a mage, not relising it sends its weilders loopy and he ended up killing off my entire party while i shouted at the screen "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? STOP KILLING YOUR TEAM!!"
One of the first times playing Baldurs Gate and giving Minsc the Cursed Berserker Sword +3, him being primary tank and me playing a mage, not relising it sends its weilders loopy and he ended up killing off my entire party while i shouted at the screen "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? STOP KILLING YOUR TEAM!!"
One of the first times playing Baldurs Gate and giving Minsc the Cursed Berserker Sword +3, him being primary tank and me playing a mage, not relising it sends its weilders loopy and he ended up killing off my entire party while i shouted at the screen "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? STOP KILLING YOUR TEAM!!"
I gave Khalid the Cursed Berserking Sword +3 on my first playthrough. He would Berserk-charge towards a group of enemies, then lose his nerve and flee. It was rather hilarious to see.
First time I used Gatekeeper, I gave my PC 25 in all stats, 12000 hp, and max AC and THAC0. Unfortunately I didn't know that a lower number is better, so my super-godlike charcter had AC and THAC0 of 20.
Wondered a while why enemies still was almost impossible to hit.
Also with all saves of 20, I ended up insta-killed by a basilisk in Mutamin's garden. Good times...
On one of my early play throughs, I thought dual class looked fun.. I mean who doesn't want another class right? No need to read any details. I was severely disappointed with the result.
@Drugar - took me forever too my first time to figure out that + meant level up. I don't think I made it as far as you though haha!
Side-topic: I always found it illogical that humans could dual-class but demi-humans couldn't. It would make more sense to me that after 300 years, an elf gets tired of levelling as a Fighter and takes up Wizardly studies, while a human (with his tiny lifespan) would want to do everything at once (hence, Multiclass). Instead, it's the other way around.
@SirK8 It wasn't easy! Every arrow in the Nashkel Mines basicly insta-killed my lvl1 Mage with 4hp, I barely understood trapfinding, so most traps were found face-first, as it were, being waylaid by enemies (especially bandits with bows) meant immediate reloading and everyone was out of spells after 2 casts. It was around the Bandit Camp (and the hours of constantly getting slaughtered there) that I figured out that there was something wrong with my levels. D'oh.
In my first bg run i was proud of my mage that could use Level 3 spells. Learned lightning in the School of ulcaster and casted lightning in the school of ulcaster....only did that once...
And in BG 2 i decided to kill the Dragon in the underdark after i've nearly finished it's quest. i don't remember exactly the circumstances but i know, that my party was stuck in the underdark for ever....
Played through BGII with Haer'Dalis as my only long-term arcane spellcaster and a kensai PC with 11/14/13/15/12/14 for stats. My friend came over one day and looked at my character sheet and said "Well, those are great stats ... for a mage," showed me how to level up my characters (halfway through the De'Arnise keep quest - those darn umberhulks kept trashing me) and then walked out laughing to go get himself a coke and some doritos.
That reminds me, the first time I played, I didn't know how to level up (I assumed it was automatic) and made it to the bandit camp with only level 1 people (All with a little + on their portrait that wouldn't go away, was really curious what it meant). And no, the Nashkel Mines were not fun with only level 1 characters.
Oh man, that little + ! I had no friggin' clue what it meant.
I thought, "Oh, my characters have leveled up! How exciting la-dee-da - isn't adventuring grand? Tra-la-la!"
Then I was like, "WHY AM I DEAD! I WASN'T DYING THIS MUCH BEFORE! WHY AREN'T I GETTING ANY BETTER, YOU &*%$#@?!?"
It's good to know that I'm not the only one who made that mistake.
I rolled and rolled for an embarrassing amount of time, finally got a massive roll that let me have over 7 charisma and 18x5 stats; hit reroll instead of continue
First time playing through I entered the planar sphere as soon as I was out of irenicus dungeon. I had to restart the game.
I also have a penchant for casting lightning bolt in hallways.
yeah, my first attempt at bg2 was cut short by the planar sphere. then with bgee announced, i waited for that and would do a full playthrough. finally beat the game early this month.
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I started off buying splint, as it was the most expensive kind I could afford, and I figure more expensive meant better. But when I equipped it, my AC went down, which made me think it was bad armour. So I sold it and bought the next expensive armour. Same thing happened. I think I got all the way to buying studded leather or just leather before I realized that lower AC must be better. At least I think I realized this, it's possible I just spent the rest of the game rocking studded leather on my fighter. Apparently I was pretty dumb when I was 12.
Of course the fact you did it several times with different armours is rather funny.
Did I mention I did this in the middle of Durlag's Tower?
One of my biggies is a tendency to 'Accidentally' set off an AOE in a public area where non-coms can wander in and die a horrible and pointless death, thus destroying my reputation. Taverns are my specialty.
Oh, here is another of mine. I spent a whole hour summoning a familiar, and then reloading, trying to get the 'Special' familiar instead of the standard Cat for CN. The way it worked in PnP, there was a table that you rolled against. A roll of 1-14 gave you a 'Normal' familiar like a cat or a rabbit or something. A roll of 15 gave you a 'Special' familiar like quasit or Imp or Faerie Dragon. Anything above 15 gave you a 'Try again later' result. So, not realizing that the game mechanics were different, I kept on summoning and kept on getting 'Cat', over and over again. Finally, I exited the game and did some research. Boy did I feel the fool.
Windspear hills. Got to the end with a very large empty room. I was cheesily pulling enemies out of the fog of war one at a time the entire map. Saw a mage who was still neutral. Perfect! Party with epic gear ahead. Throw out a web or two, followed by a fireball spam.
Huge red dragon walks out of fog... #$*@!
Every time he would beat the crap out of me.
And no, the Nashkel Mines were not fun with only level 1 characters.
I have done many foolish things: from funny, catastrophic things such as the aforementioned 'wands of lighting', to buffing my party for a fight, only to forget to BERSERK and watch slay his friends with reckless abandon.
The gameplay decision that caused me the most frustration, however, was my first BG playthrough with a mage (an invoker - why Lord, why?). That bastard Minsc kept chunking her on the Gnoll stronghold area because we took too long clearing the mine - I needed to rest for my spells damnit!
Wondered a while why enemies still was almost impossible to hit.
Also with all saves of 20, I ended up insta-killed by a basilisk in Mutamin's garden. Good times...
@Drugar - took me forever too my first time to figure out that + meant level up. I don't think I made it as far as you though haha!
I always found it illogical that humans could dual-class but demi-humans couldn't.
It would make more sense to me that after 300 years, an elf gets tired of levelling as a Fighter and takes up Wizardly studies, while a human (with his tiny lifespan) would want to do everything at once (hence, Multiclass). Instead, it's the other way around.
@SirK8
It wasn't easy! Every arrow in the Nashkel Mines basicly insta-killed my lvl1 Mage with 4hp, I barely understood trapfinding, so most traps were found face-first, as it were, being waylaid by enemies (especially bandits with bows) meant immediate reloading and everyone was out of spells after 2 casts.
It was around the Bandit Camp (and the hours of constantly getting slaughtered there) that I figured out that there was something wrong with my levels.
D'oh.
In my first bg run i was proud of my mage that could use Level 3 spells. Learned lightning in the School of ulcaster and casted lightning in the school of ulcaster....only did that once...
And in BG 2 i decided to kill the Dragon in the underdark after i've nearly finished it's quest. i don't remember exactly the circumstances but i know, that my party was stuck in the underdark for ever....
I thought, "Oh, my characters have leveled up! How exciting la-dee-da - isn't adventuring grand? Tra-la-la!"
Then I was like, "WHY AM I DEAD! I WASN'T DYING THIS MUCH BEFORE! WHY AREN'T I GETTING ANY BETTER, YOU &*%$#@?!?"
It's good to know that I'm not the only one who made that mistake.
-Blue