When you try to pause your browser after clicking on the wrong thread.
(what the hell, brain)
Yes, I did just that a couple of days ago!
Also, waking up in the middle of the night thinking "that's how I can beat this monster", and immediately getting up and going into BG to see if your hare-brained, dredged from the murky depths of you subconscious, cunning plan actually works.
517. You go to a cheese shop to buy spike traps. :-)
518. You are arrested for walking into random people's homes to ask if there are any errands you can run for them.
519. Whenever you visit the local library, you bring one of your own books as a gift to them for allowing you entrance.
520. You can't tell if people are friendly or hostile, due to the lack of colored rings around their feet.
521. When you leave a friend somewhere and return a month later, you are surprised to not find your friend waiting for you exactly where you left them. When you find the friend again, you are even more surprised they are no longer willing to follow you around.
523. You go to the beach, at summer, and initiate a dialogue with a girl dressed in bikini swimsuit. You ask her if any evil wizard enslaved her against her will, by chance, and if she wants you to free her, and if she is going to kiss a party member of yours. When she asks you "what the hell are you smoking, you psycho?", you choose this line: "But, i thought you were a siren"!
524. After getting that kind of reaction from the girl at 522, you sigh disappointedly: "So hard to find decent folk nowadays".
525. After you enter the cheese shop a salesman asks you what cheese do you prefer and you mumble: "Cloudkill stacking - Simalcrum for extra mage spells - False talking dragons - 1 millions snares - Shield of balduran vs beholders - Stacking 100+% magic resist on viconia - Undead protection scroll for immunity from liches - Set difficulty lower for max hp on level up - Summon skeletons and walk them into a room of mages 1 by 1 to use up thier spells - Cloudkill umberhulks - Dual class everyone from kensai - Skull trap stacking Cloudkill/Incendiary cloud + shut the door - Get golems stuck in doorways and hit them with a greatword - Evil cleric uses turn undead to take control of all undead you come across and use them to attack other enemies - Hide in shadows, enter room, backstab, leave room, hide in shadows before they come through the door - Use fire res scroll to stack over 100% fire to make genies and firekraag heal you - Keep re-equipping staff of the magi 6x potions of explosions on the area where you know the enemy is standing- Use call woodland being instead of memorise mass cure light wounds - Summon elementals/ creatures immune to mundane weapons to kill powerful enemies without magical weapons - Mace of disruption on vampires - 2x greater malison + finger of death contigency -Aerie uses doom + chromatic orb lesser contingency - Kick members out of my party to block potentially hostile npcs from moving - Death cloud on all summons - Unlearn spells from spellbook then relearn again for extra experience - Sell items then steal them back for infinite gold"
526. After that speech of yours, the salesman tells you they only have Drizzt's camembert.
527. You visit a brothel, and try to pickpocket the most shady looking girl, in hopes you get from her the Cloak of Balduran.
528. When camping at or near wood, you ask your friends to use infravision, in search of possible gnolls lurking around.
529. You go to your local priest to confess your sins, but before doing just that, you ask him confrontingly; "Do you worship Talos, Helm, or Lathander?"!
530. You avoid walking near tombstones. You do not have repel undead ability. I mean, you are a mere fighter, after all.
531. You start seeing red or green circles under people's feet, depending on their reaction, speech, and disposition towards you.
532. You notice (and get frustrated about) numbering disparities on this list. 515 - 435 - 436 - 516...
Ahhhm... where? *innocent look*
533. You always carry a pair of warm slippers when you go to the house of your old relative and as soon as you arrive you put them near his bed.
534. Each morning as soon as you get up from your bed you say a prayer to the Light, then you hold high the Holy Book that the Sun might bless it and in the end you reflect on the glory of the Light as it conquers the Dark.
535. At 12 p.m. each day you sing a hymn of praise to Amaunator, then you raise my hands to the Light and in the end you rejoice at the dominance of Light.
536. Each dusk you recite the Tenets of Faith, then hold high your children that they might see the Sun and in the end you watch the sun give way to the onslaught of night.
537. After the evening ritual ends, you, considering yourself a taskmaster. sleep lightly.
541. You get upset when Khalid is called a liability, when Aerie is looked at as whiny wings, when Nalia is treated like a poor guy's Imoen and when Cernd gets the most useless character award.
@Elrandir I don't think Cernd is more useless than Garrick in BG1. I like druids and think that Cernd is not worse than you can have from a druid who is not an Avenger. 18 WIS. Insect Plague, Fire Elementals. What's more to ask for? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=195278341# is the guide for BG2 NPCs from @elminster and it has some good advice on how to use Cernd.
@bengoshi He may not be any worse than Garrick, but at least Garrick was likable... Also, you're comparing a character who's level cap is 10 to a character who's level cap is 40. (druids get to 40, right? playithardcore isn't working so I can't check...) Not to mention his stats are pretty awful except for his WIS. Which is funny, considering he seems like a very unwise character.
But anyway, I don't want to derail this thread anymore than I already have.
You know you HAVEN'T been playing enough Baldur's Gate when... 1. You can't remember the druid level cap.
There is one bug at the moment with BG2EE (and possibly the original BG2) that affects Cernd rather significantly in particular. Basically if you have the Staff of Arundel equipped and then transform you lose the bonus spells you'd otherwise have. Kind of a big pain frankly.
I haven't checked in the case of fighter/mages and bards when it comes to Dakkon's Zerth Blade and shapeshifting but I assume it has the same issue. A fix has been made for the issue (#7598) so hopefully it gets applied in the next patch.
@bengoshi He may not be any worse than Garrick, but at least Garrick was likable... Also, you're comparing a character who's level cap is 10 to a character who's level cap is 40. (druids get to 40, right? playithardcore isn't working so I can't check...) 1. You can't remember the druid level cap.
542. You remember basically all the different classes level caps and even remember things like how there is a 1.62 million xp gap between level 39 as a thief and level 40 (even though getting to level 40 isn't all that special).
548 - You know you've been [messing around with the infinity engine] too long when you write a new function for something only to realize that that function was already written... word for word... 16 years ago....
549. You visit your nearest church, and kindly ask the reverend to identify a "magical" item... 550. You are trying to find a wood nymph in the forest, when you are feeling lonely.
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Also, waking up in the middle of the night thinking "that's how I can beat this monster", and immediately getting up and going into BG to see if your hare-brained, dredged from the murky depths of you subconscious, cunning plan actually works.
518. You are arrested for walking into random people's homes to ask if there are any errands you can run for them.
519. Whenever you visit the local library, you bring one of your own books as a gift to them for allowing you entrance.
520. You can't tell if people are friendly or hostile, due to the lack of colored rings around their feet.
521. When you leave a friend somewhere and return a month later, you are surprised to not find your friend waiting for you exactly where you left them. When you find the friend again, you are even more surprised they are no longer willing to follow you around.
LMAO those are awesome! I especially like the 520. >.<
525. After you enter the cheese shop a salesman asks you what cheese do you prefer and you mumble:
"Cloudkill stacking - Simalcrum for extra mage spells - False talking dragons - 1 millions snares - Shield of balduran vs beholders - Stacking 100+% magic resist on viconia - Undead protection scroll for immunity from liches - Set difficulty lower for max hp on level up - Summon skeletons and walk them into a room of mages 1 by 1 to use up thier spells - Cloudkill umberhulks - Dual class everyone from kensai - Skull trap stacking Cloudkill/Incendiary cloud + shut the door - Get golems stuck in doorways and hit them with a greatword - Evil cleric uses turn undead to take control of all undead you come across and use them to attack other enemies - Hide in shadows, enter room, backstab, leave room, hide in shadows before they come through the door - Use fire res scroll to stack over 100% fire to make genies and firekraag heal you - Keep re-equipping staff of the magi 6x potions of explosions on the area where you know the enemy is standing- Use call woodland being instead of memorise mass cure light wounds - Summon elementals/ creatures immune to mundane weapons to kill powerful enemies without magical weapons - Mace of disruption on vampires - 2x greater malison + finger of death contigency -Aerie uses doom + chromatic orb lesser contingency - Kick members out of my party to block potentially hostile npcs from moving - Death cloud on all summons - Unlearn spells from spellbook then relearn again for extra experience - Sell items then steal them back for infinite gold"
526. After that speech of yours, the salesman tells you they only have Drizzt's camembert.
528. When camping at or near wood, you ask your friends to use infravision, in search of possible gnolls lurking around.
529. You go to your local priest to confess your sins, but before doing just that, you ask him confrontingly; "Do you worship Talos, Helm, or Lathander?"!
530. You avoid walking near tombstones. You do not have repel undead ability. I mean, you are a mere fighter, after all.
531. You start seeing red or green circles under people's feet, depending on their reaction, speech, and disposition towards you.
*innocent look*
533. You always carry a pair of warm slippers when you go to the house of your old relative and as soon as you arrive you put them near his bed.
534. Each morning as soon as you get up from your bed you say a prayer to the Light, then you hold high the Holy Book that the Sun might bless it and in the end you reflect on the glory of the Light as it conquers the Dark.
535. At 12 p.m. each day you sing a hymn of praise to Amaunator, then you raise my hands to the Light and in the end you rejoice at the dominance of Light.
536. Each dusk you recite the Tenets of Faith, then hold high your children that they might see the Sun and in the end you watch the sun give way to the onslaught of night.
537. After the evening ritual ends, you, considering yourself a taskmaster. sleep lightly.
"Huh... I was wondering why there was a weapons discussion on the sports channel..."
539. You get upset when people say that crossbows fire arrows instead of bolts and feel the need to correct them.
It seems @Tresset has set this "upset" trend.
But anyway, I don't want to derail this thread anymore than I already have.
You know you HAVEN'T been playing enough Baldur's Gate when...
1. You can't remember the druid level cap.
I haven't checked in the case of fighter/mages and bards when it comes to Dakkon's Zerth Blade and shapeshifting but I assume it has the same issue. A fix has been made for the issue (#7598) so hopefully it gets applied in the next patch.
543. You write Jan Jansen like dialogues just for the heck of it. http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/504337#Comment_504337
544. You've written an NPC Guide to BGEE ( http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=183524786 ), an NPC Guide to BG2EE ( http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=195278341 ), a Spells and Abilities Guide to BGEE ( http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=205238783 ) and a Spells and Abilities Guide to BG2EE ( http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=237917858)
Edit: On second thought the last two in particular are more of an indication of writing about the game instead of playing it.
@Elrandir http://web.archive.org/web/20131106012942/http://playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index.php?title=Baldur's_Gate:_Progression_Charts does this help?
545. The forums replace Facebook as your preferred medium of social interaction.
550. You are trying to find a wood nymph in the forest, when you are feeling lonely.