Maybe for you. When I was playing this, I encountered this game as an RPG, and came from QFG1, back when it was called "Hero's Quest", where there wasn't any particular timetable you had to be on. So, you know, imagine that you have all those skills to be maxing, and a ticking clock to do it under. Stuff to kil, places you have to be at specific timesl, etc. Yeah, back then I thought the game was pretty hectic.
The Full Experience is a Wizard-Paladin with Thief skills. A second playthrough will cover pure-thiefliness, probably as a mage-thief, since while it is possible to be a wizard-paladin with thief skills, you will not really get to experience much of the thief content as a paladin. So basically, there's two routes: The "pure" route played with high honor, and the dirty route, played as a thief.
OH FFS My Mage is now a Paladin.
Fuck. In reading the intarwebz, I think If I re-load and kill the griffon I can possibly avoid this unwanted fate.
Not really. I mean it might be fun to try some dickish things like killing the EOF fighter and Kaveen and so on, but the fighter doesn't have anything extra that the Paladin doesn't get. Also, the fighter has a bug when importing into 5 that irreversibly converts him into a mage.
As you found it he can. Though I thought you get asked at the end of QFG2... might've been something they added in the remake. Anyway a good way to avoid turning is to do some of the slightly dickish things like returning Omar's purse after taking his money. Speaking of mage, I hope you bought a LOT of mana and health pills, because they are expensive in 3.
They can actually, but it involves not doing thievish things in QFG2, so there's little point really. It's clear from the next games that it's the Fighter that's meant to convert. Though be advised that due to having a magic score >0 the Paladin will start getting things that only the mage should get, like a bugged QFG3 intro and some spells in QFG4. One of these you will need to use. Do NOT use the others. Do NOT use any magic unless you absolutely have to, as a Paladin. If you keep your magic score low enough QFG5 will fix this and remove it back to zero, otherwise you Paladin will import into 5 with his magic score and suddenly gain like half of the mage spells. Not fun if you're trying to keep it pure.
No, that's the munchkin experience. You'll also miss out on mage-specific MQ events due to being a paladin as far as the game is concerned, and some of these are very very worth it (like the shaman duel).
He can break the cabinet in the monastery cellar, because he doesn't care about
Where the Paladin finds an uber Paladin longsword, the Fighter finds an axe instead.
