Attempting to finish Baldur's Gate for the 7TH TIME!

[J_C]

Why would you kill Drizzt? I couldn't bring myself to do that.

Sorry, I'm a sucker for that character, I like him too much in the in the books.

 

[Cynic]

Because he is just so contrite. Oh yeah a "good" Drow. FFS.

 

[Aeschylus]

Because he is just so contrite. Oh yeah a "good" Drow. FFS.

Er, how is he contrite exactly? Admittedly I'm not terribly familiar with the character but I don't recall him ever expressing much guilt about anything.

 

[Johannes]

You like Salvatore books?

 

[octavius]

Drizzt is just a dual wielding Elric.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Elric eats Drizzt's soul on breakfast.

Drizzt is just a good guy that got born in a civilization of evil which naturally provides him with a lot of problems.

 

[GreyViper]

Overall its worth to take him out, since he had the boots of speed and the +3/+5LG swords. Another thing that should be worth mentioning is the Claw of Kazgaroth, I used to soooo adore this item. Its like you could play your own ring wright, mind you I later found out its just permanent blur effect, but what ever I had my fun. Btw Cyric try out the Undead Hunter kit and let me know how well it preforms in BG1.

 

[Johannes]

You can get 1 of the swords just by pickpocketing, too. But I have a hunch it's the worse one of them you get that way.

 

[deus101]

You like Salvatore books?

Trash Fantasy novels don't have much standards to begin with.
But Salvatore is a'right.

 

[Cynic]

Because he is just so contrite. Oh yeah a "good" Drow. FFS.

Er, how is he contrite exactly? Admittedly I'm not terribly familiar with the character but I don't recall him ever expressing much guilt about anything.

I accidentally a word. I meant contrived.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Trash Fantasy novels don't have much standards to begin with.
But Salvatore is a'right.

I liked the first three Drizzit novels the best. Then it was a downhill ride with retcons, character rape [Drizzit mutating from a stoic old wise martial arts master (like from Kickboxer or Karate Kid) into a tortured lost type], way too much situations where the reader/party is led to believe that some character is dead only to turn out that he isn't, etc.

 

[Cynic]

Bros, I turned down Edwin at Nashkel because I my Neutral character thought murder without reasons was a bit much. Does that mean I can never get him again? I don't want Minsc, his stats fucking suck and he is annoying as hell. Right now the party is Khalid, Jaheira, Imoen and Kivan. I'm a fighter/cleric, need some offensive spellcasting.

 

[visions]

Get that female wizard Minsc wants to rescue. They can't be separated while alive but let Minsc get killed and never revive him and keep the wizard.

 

[waywardOne]

Unless you've got a tweak mod that changes it, if an NPC walks off the screen and doesn't say otherwise, they're gone forever. I think you can CLUA him back in, though.

There's also Xan at the end of the Nashkel mines.

 

[visions]

IIRC Xan was an enchanter, so he couldn't cast fireball and such (which were from the evocation school).

 

[Johannes]

Either get the black chick or dual Imoen to wizard.

Xan has a nice sword, but that doesn't really matter so much. He sucks.

 

[waywardOne]

Forgot. A mod I have reworks the schools. Levels 1-3 aren't restricted.

 

[Cynic]

Hmm I didn't know about the letting Minsc just die thing...damn I just kicked both him and Dynaheir out at the Gnoll Fortress. Now I have Branwen, Jaheira and myself all casting cleric/druid spells and no mage. Xan can't cast evocation spells huh? Shit. Any other mages? I also pissed off Xzar and his little partner as well. Prefer not to cheat at all...I am KIND of trying to role play it somewhat so in that sense it is right that I don't have Edwin. Maybe it will be an interesting challenge to play without Fireball for once. I can still use wands I guess.

Edit: Dual classing Imoen to wizard is an option. What is the recommended level for that? Level 6? Or just wait till I have 100 open locks and 100 detect traps?

 

[Admiral jimbob]

Six user-created characters and kicking the whining Bioware limpets to the curb is the way to go. My character has high charisma, therefore he made five very good friends at Candlekeep. It is but a happy coincidence that they make up the most cheesily powerful characters in the world.

 

[Johannes]

Hmm I didn't know about the letting Minsc just die thing...damn I just kicked both him and Dynaheir out at the Gnoll Fortress. Now I have Branwen, Jaheira and myself all casting cleric/druid spells and no mage. Xan can't cast evocation spells huh? Shit. Any other mages? I also pissed off Xzar and his little partner as well. Prefer not to cheat at all...I am KIND of trying to role play it somewhat so in that sense it is right that I don't have Edwin. Maybe it will be an interesting challenge to play without Fireball for once. I can still use wands I guess.

Edit: Dual classing Imoen to wizard is an option. What is the recommended level for that? Level 6? Or just wait till I have 100 open locks and 100 detect traps?

Hmm, can classes beyond wizards and bards use arcane wands? I'm pretty sure not. The potions that have a similar effect are usable by everyone though.

Lvl 6 is a long wait, if you just only finished the gnoll fort. For every level you wait, you get ~1hp more, and the thieving skill points. Proficiency point at 4th lvl and 3x backstab multiplier at 5. Thac0 and saving throw advantages from thief last only a level or 2.
The thieving skillpoints seem like the only truly meaningful of those, and you don't need 100 in those skills to clear everything in bg1 I think... I wouldn't wait for too long to get a proper spellcaster, 5th lvl switch at the latest. Would be a pain in the ass to tackle every area until 6th lvl, before getting even a lvl 1 wizard.

 

[Revenant]

There is a frequent bug in BG1 where characters that left the area reappear after reload, either near the edge of the map or in their original place. You could go back to Nashkel and check out Edwin, maybe he's standing on the bridge once more. I don't know if any unofficial patches fix this, though.

 

[Shadenuat]

Xan can't cast evocation spells huh? Shit.

You can finish game without them. Fill your first level spells with Sleep, second with Web, third with Hold Person and Skull Trap, forth with Confusion and monster summoning, fith with Chaos/Hold Monster or something.

 

[octavius]

Hmm I didn't know about the letting Minsc just die thing...damn I just kicked both him and Dynaheir out at the Gnoll Fortress. Now I have Branwen, Jaheira and myself all casting cleric/druid spells and no mage. Xan can't cast evocation spells huh? Shit. Any other mages? I also pissed off Xzar and his little partner as well. Prefer not to cheat at all...I am KIND of trying to role play it somewhat so in that sense it is right that I don't have Edwin. Maybe it will be an interesting challenge to play without Fireball for once. I can still use wands I guess.

Edit: Dual classing Imoen to wizard is an option. What is the recommended level for that? Level 6? Or just wait till I have 100 open locks and 100 detect traps?

Don't remember what the optimal level is (where is kmonster when we need him?).
But I'd wait until getting a new thief. A good thief is needed for scouting, and detecting and disarming traps, while Fireballs is not that important if you don't use the Sword Coast Strategems mod. You can make do with wands.
Coran is your best bet for a new thief. You can also use Safana as a temporary thief untill meeting Coran, but she's rather useless at anything besides being sensual.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Six user-created characters and kicking the whining Bioware limpets to the curb is the way to go. My character has high charisma, therefore he made five very good friends at Candlekeep. It is but a happy coincidence that they make up the most cheesily powerful characters in the world.

I second this.

But one needs to choose "maximum hp for all creatures" when installing BG Tweaks and move the difficulty slider one or two notches to the right when doing so, otherwise the game becomes way too easy.

My other advice would also be to skip BG completely and go straight to BG2

 

[Cynic]

Bros, I am also noticing that I am gaining levels VERY fast. What is the meaning of this? Like it seems a bit crazy. I have had a 5 or 6 party team almost the whole time and my dude is already 3/3/ fighter/cleric and Imoen is lv5. Khalid is Lv4. I've done almost all the side quests but at this rate I'll be lv5 before going into Nashkel. Fights seem...not TOO easy, still potential to die, but for the most part I am smashing them. Could any of the mods have done this? I only installed what was recommended on the gog forum page for recommended mods.