For solo characters, I will in fact skip the plane of air if I don't have a safe way to deal with the mephits - note there are two stunners, one short duration and one longer. If I can go invisible p… (View Post)

In vanilla, Melissan throws darts that dispel - reflection shield is an excellent choice for a player character that can use it to protect your buffs. (View Post)

@Arthas not sure about mods (I don't use them), but of the many accounts I have read of the chess fight, it seems opening with mass fireballs seems to work well to whittle the enemies down quickly. (View Post)

The BioWare people kept adding/removing the Ring of Wizardry. I hope I am remembering this right, but I think it worked like this: BG 1 unpatched, no TotSC - no ring BG 1 patched, no TotSC - ring pre… (View Post)

If your party has a high charisma character (or a mage who can use friends and you actually use the friends spell to get 20 CHA) and high reputation, it's not hard in BG 1 to get high gold by the end… (View Post)