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Joe Average wraps up BG1 because the big hand in the sky is getting sick of it. Shipwrecked on an island full of wolves.  And wolf-like creatures.  Yay a ship to get back to civilization.  Here's what I think of your dumbshit plot, Mendas/Selaad. Am I forgetting anything?  Oh right, the little ice dungeon. Don't blink or you'll miss it!  Hello dumb mage fight that is awkward as hell only because of the layout. Too bad invisibility completely breaks these ambushes and allows me to get the drop on them instead.  Broke out of invisibility by having everyone drink a potion of magic blocking (I bought them, might as well use them). They used confusion and horror and such but too bad the whole party was immune to their poo poo.. for 5 rounds. But 5 rounds are plenty enough. Anyway, time to visit Sarevok!  Aw, don't be scared Joe. Look how mighty you've become!  Semaj, the mage, jumps ahead of everybody and get immediately torn to shreds by a single volley. You can tell he's the brains behind Sarevok's schemes.  Angelo basically committed suicide by firing arrows of detonation point blank at a fire immune Jaheira and HOLY poo poo Tazok hits hard, wow. But without Semaj and Angelo, Sarevok and Tazok are too easily kited to be dangerous. Especially when everyone is hasted and they're slowed.  Bye bro. Honors earned: Ironling, Born Hero, Purist, Librarian, Trap Dodger, Honorable Trader, Battlemaster
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 Well, let's see if this turns out better than the last time I tried this. Meet Floog the Beast Master. He isn't the most charismatic thing, but he can swing a pair of clubs like a maniac and shoot a crossbow. Also he hates spiders, because gently caress spiders.  Also he has a pet Fairy Dragon, who hopefully will not die along the way.  Prologue stuff, blah blah. Gorion eats it, and...it's totally Elminster's fault for telling him to leave the Keep. Yeah, that went well, ya old Marty Stu fart.  Xzar and Monty actually do not react well at all to my insisting we wait to go to Nashkel and don't join. Well, crap.  I was hoping to goad Elminster into a fight, but he got off of the screen after one Imoen whiff. Boo.  Tarnesh, who beat me one time way back when. Never again! Now I make a habit of luring him over to the guards and letting them deal with him.  As so. So far so good.
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DeathChicken posted:Xzar and Monty actually do not react well at all to my insisting we wait to go to Nashkel and don't join. Well, crap. Make Imoen your party face whenever you shop or talk to people. 
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Welcome to the gauntlet, Chicken, best of luck! Beastmasters are my favorite of the underdog classes. Well, after the vanilla bard. Speaking of chickens:  I've rarely had this guy survive an Ironman run. This changes now. I'm not risking his death just getting him back his humanity. Melincamp is my paladin's familiar now. (nevermind that Minsc is holding him, Boo wanted the company)  So about those Sirens. I didn't have a skeleton for this map and didn't feel like resting to get back the spell slot. "Besides," I thought, "Inqusitors can see invisibility and are immune to charm and dire charm. I'll just have him draw their attention" So guess who forgot they also know Confusion? Luckily it was only Doug that was hit. After a little frantic fleeing, the confused Doug lost interest in murder and wandered off to watch the sun set over the ocean.  Weird. He just stood there until the duration ran out. Anyway, Doug the Inquisitor is sleeping off a horrible magic bender and will resume his conquest of the sword coast in the morning. I got the day off tomorrow finally and have a buncha dumb stuff lined up to watch on Netflix as I play BG. Hopefully I can make it through the first game by tomorrow night. OR DIE TRYING and then re-roll as a bard or something. Maybe a stalker ranger.
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Suspicious posted:
I was really hoping Joe would pull through, congratulations on winning with such a hilariously nothing class. I really hope he lives long enough for us to see Joe Average swinging The Equalizer.
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Suspicious posted:
Awesome, congrats! Keep on truckin' to Athkatla!
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I've been taking a break for the past few days Elayne is still in the city doing some side quests when I left off but I kinda over dosed on the game.
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Jan 8, 2016 21:17
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Chalk me up as another person greatly entertained by Joe Average. The portrait is just perfect. 
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Comstar the First has dumped Imoen for a dwarf who can fight and is wandering around Berghost trying to help a lady who's boyfriend got turned into a slime puddle after failing his CON role to use Viagra.
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Three Cheers for Joe, the Champion with the Heart of Beige! Doug the Inqusitor is doing ok. I took too many pictures, but here they are.  Saved more cows, this time from a zombie horde.  Went to Ulcaster, and when I came back up from the dungeon the dumb ghost had wandered off into one of those lovely nooks and crannies all over. Like he always does. ALWAYS.  Oh wait, here he is. Funfact, the book he asks for can be found in a couple other places and can be turned in multiple times for the experience prize. Didn't bother this time around but it can be a handy boost early on. Blah blah blah, cleared most of the wilderness areas and went to the Cloakwood Mines  Shar-Teel is still not the backstab savior we need just yet. Ouch. After this I remembered to give Doug the boots of grounding.  A monster wand monster killstealed Daevoran! Not that I mind much. Let this hobgoblin elite be honored among the skeleton minions who have served the party well.  At this point Imoen was close to level 7 so I had some fun abusing the flesh golem caves. I got like ten in a row without actually getting rest so I was forced to rest outside safely.  Off to Baldur's Gate. Skeletons are still great...  But the monster wand impressed me more this time around. Two uses got me two trios of ogres. I don't think the Maulers even got a hit in on Hind's Merry Fools. It always makes me feel good when I can get those guys through the encounter without one dying.  Nailed Degrodel with a lucky paralyze wand hit, but Yeslick was wearing the helm when Degrodel took it and without it he got critted twice by the monsters. So long, Iron Party honor! I can't afford to lose him too, so I had him raised.  Aaand the Iron Throne guys were taken down handily-ish. The summons weren't as primo this time around but they let Imoen sneak back downstairs and form up with the party to rush up the other stairs and hit them all from behind. Shar-Teel is still 20k exp away from unlocking her fighter levels, so I'm gonna go ahead and wrap up candlekeep and hopefully get her set to take on Durlag's before the end of the game. Ugh, I might have to do Baldur's Isle first, that sidequest is a chore. So yeah Doug the Inquisitor has returned home to scourge the doppelganger, uh, scourge from Candlekeep! And round out his book collection. Manuals for Charisma, Constitution, Dexterity, and Wisdom (1) have gone to him so far, but I went ahead and gave Imoen the Intelligence one. I forget whether mind flayers drain 3 or 4 intelligence at a time, but either way going from 11 to 12 won't help any with that.
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Comstar the First has done most of the odd jobs around Berghost, except the spiders, because...well...spiders are scary at level 2. Kargin died to a last second lighting bolt from Skile, Thespian extrordinar and had to be resurrected at the nearby temple. What's the easist way to keep your Reputation down without killing a random commoner? I like having Kargin, Viconia, Shar-Tell and Edwin around too much.
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Not much time to play this evening, but I did at least get my character created. I decided to rehash a character that I never got to finish playing in last year's thread. So Garvok, the half orc Cleric/Thief is setting out to  Did the Fedex tutorials in record time, and picked up Imoen outside Candlekeep....  ...and then it was time for dinner. Guess spending an hour rolling stats ate into my play time. More
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Right, I'm going to let Random.Org build my character. Gender, out of two: 2 Portrait, out of 18: 2 Race, out of 7: 6 Class, out of 6: 3 Kit, out of 5: 5 Alignment, out of 6: 3 Proficiency 1, out of 15: 8 Proficiency 2, out of 14: 1 Hair, out of 12: 11 Skin, out of 18: 9 Major clothing, out of 34: 17 Minor clothing, out of 34: 21 Voice, out of 13: 8 Behold, Randomella!  Edit: Randomella has soloed her way to the Friendly Arm Inn, where a lucky backstab was enough to dissuade Tarnesh from casting anything. 
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Jan 9, 2016 02:21
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Hey, this looks like fun! *five minutes later* welp 
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This thread is a blast, and I'm glad to know my 11-year-old rear end dying to Tarnesh the first time I played this game wasn't a freak incident. Also, how do you shuffle your party's formation without firing people and rehiring them? Because I never figured out how to do that when I played EE last month  .
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Jan 9, 2016 05:58
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Joe Average presents the Athkatla gambit. First make sure to pick up this potion of master thievery in chateau Irenicus.  Then the gloves of pickpocketing from this trapped container in the copper coronet (talk to the thief with Yoshimo for some funny dialogue).  Take this other potion of master thievery from the shadow thief building. They don't care.  Start the Mae'var quest line to get access to his guild hall. Drink the potions master thievery to get at least 100 open lock and pick the last door at the top for 3 more. That's plenty enough. Time to pay Ribald a visit.   Score!   Oh yeah, Joe also freed some slaves. More of his adventures later as he bumbles his way around Amn! Gold spent to raise dead party members: 5400
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Edit: Jeez, doing the Ribald Gambit right away while ironmanning always makes me nervous, but it's so drat handy!Kavak posted:This thread is a blast, and I'm glad to know my 11-year-old rear end dying to Tarnesh the first time I played this game wasn't a freak incident. Dunno if its different in EE or if you're playing a tablet version, but you just click and drag their portraits around on the right sidebar to move em about. There are also different formations you can pick where the party leader is sandwiched in the middle in case they're squishy but still need to be the party "face". Just right click one of the formations on the bottom for more to choose from.
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Kavak posted:This thread is a blast, and I'm glad to know my 11-year-old rear end dying to Tarnesh the first time I played this game wasn't a freak incident. You can drag the portraits on the right up and down to change your party formation.
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 I should've known. The issue was never my god-stat Cavalier, it was just keeping Minsc up front and everyone else in the middle or back.
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Comstar the First has ended his life and quest. Walking over to get Shar-Tel failed when she won the fight vs a male dwarf, and then he walked into a Basilisk. Turned to stone. Comstar the Second strides forth. Comstar fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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At least petrification leaves a good-looking corpse. RIP Comstock the First. Doug the Inqusitor is making headway  gently caress YOU ARKANIS! Shar-Teel needed that experience. She's making headway, though:  Bye, Prat. With the boots of speed she kinda single-handedly backstabbed his entire group to death. Anyway, after Candlekeep she was still a long way from level 8 thief so I went ahead and did the Balduran Isle first. Turns out there's a good reason to go there that I never realized until I lost half my party and needed tons of xp to catch up: those lycanthropes are experience piniatas. The fight at the ship was going really well, too! Didn't even need to rest once to regain spells so I had a huge corpse pile going outside the ship, but I forgot to screenshot it after the battle. Wah. The Loup-Garou were annoying this time around, even with doom and greater malaision none of my stun attempts landed so in the end it came down to tons of firestorm and cold wand charges. But it was worth it, Shar-Teel unlocked her fighter levels and she can manage some crazy backstabs now. With all that wrapped up the group headed on to Durlag's tower. My enthusiasm kinda petered out after the first basement floor. The second one with all the doors and the scripting and junk is kinda a slog to get through. So no victory tonight, but I still have tomorrow. Doug the Inqisitor is rear end-deep in Durlag's tower.
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Comstar the Second has reached Nashkel. Headed towards the mines, the party met some bandits, who were chopped to pieces by a Half Orc named Dorn. The only casualty was Viconia. To a lighting bolt...TWICE, from the thunder storm overhead! I had to sell most of the magic items I was saving for later to resurrect her! Blasted dark elf better be worth it! I spent an hour trying to decide who I wanted in my party. Paralysed by indecision, I ended up with Kagin (Front line fighter), Jaheria (Fighter/Cure Light Wounds battery), Viconia (Cleric, party booster), Kiran (Archer, doing 1/3 of party kills) and Kahlid (Archer/Mage). Comstar the second leads as a Swashbuckler (Archer).
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Randomella of the Shadows has Beaten Silke solo at first level, using a wand of missiles to interrupt spells and nipping through a doorway to dodge lightning bolts and magic missiles. 
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Comstar the Second has cleared the Nashkell mines. No causalities in the mines, but Jaheria was killed outside the Nashkell inn by yet another Assassin. I'd forgotten to get my trap detection skill up high enough, poor Kivan set off every single trap in the dungeon by acting as a walking land mine detector.
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Garvok the Cleric/Thief has continued his adventures. Most of this session was spent gathering my party (before venturing forth). First stop was the Friendly Arm, where my fight with Tarnesh went....uh...  Garvok took a melee swing even with the fear, and put Tarnesh down. Better lucky than good, I guess. After a bit of rest, we took a short jaunt over to pick up Viconia.  Then on to Beregost, where Kagain joined up...  ...followed by Neera.  Not pictured: Looting the poo poo out of every house in town. Also Kagain getting 2-shot by one of the ogrillons south of town. Finally got to Nashkell to pick up Edwin  So now Garvok the Cleric/Thief is taking a brief rest in Nashkel before setting out towards the Gnoll Stronghold to
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HEY DID I MENTION LEVEL 2 OF DURLAG's TOWER IS A SLOG? I HATE THIS TOWER. And I might buy EE edition if I do a second run, just for stability. Edit: Oh hey Kaiten, be sure to screencap any ridonkulous backstabs you manage. Three digit damage or bust. Tuxedo Ted fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Man is it that time of year already? I really wanted to join in this year but I simply don't have the time right now, good luck to all you Iron men and women.
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My only quibble with BG1:EE, once the last patch hit at least, was that they removed that fantastic golem-grinding spot. I realise that it made no sense to be there, but I don't care: it was so very handy and fast, moreso than Ankhegs. Quick question: I know that BG2:EE has a visual display for current/max HP for each character by default, which is a great feature that I love - is it possible to have that in BG1:EE and/or IWD:EE by any chance?
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^^^That's a bummer. I don't usually grind much, but it's always nice to know there is a place to go if one of your dual-class party members needs just a little boost to get their versatility back before a tricky dungeon. Alright, rebooted Doug and  OH SHIIIIIT This one got dicey. I tried to predict who'd be hit next and swap the boots of grounding around with split second pauses. It didn't work very well. Had to hurl down a summon wand charge and retreat.  After that I tried to be clever and snipe one of the dwarven battle horror doom guard things to draw them out one at a time, but its pathing screwed up and it went the opposite direction to that ghoul hall and tripped a ton of traps. Ended up triggering some infighting. Or maybe dwarven doon guards just hate ghouls?  The enemy queen is right here. If we can nail that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. So the fireball volley is fun and all, but I've had it fail for me before, so instead I just carefully drew all the pawns, then both rooks, then the knights and then the bishops all in that order. Finally, more applied skeletons drew the king in bow range who fell before the queen could make a mess of things.  I used my usual Doom Knight shenanigans here. Yeslick was not up to the tank-and-spank challenge so after the initial dispel and fireball I just had him run circles with a haste potion. Checkmate.  As for Aec-letec, I used the same usual shenanigans. I keep swearing I'm gonna take him legit one day, but I never do.  CHECKMATE. So I guess Doug the Inqisitor saved the entire world! Up next: some petty revenge for a murder I guess, doesn't really size up to past achievements.
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Welp, it's over for Joe Average. I stopped by Watcher's Keep to grab a few items on the first floor and got jumped by 2 vampiric wraiths. I managed to get away, retreat to a temple to raise/restore everyone, come back and kill them to grab my gear back... my gear.. where's my gear? Gone. 100k worth of stuff just went poof. Wait, the gem bag was still there. But that's it.
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Suspicious posted:Welp, it's over for Joe Average. I stopped by Watcher's Keep to grab a few items on the first floor and got jumped by 2 vampiric wraiths. I managed to get away, retreat to a temple to raise/restore everyone, come back and kill them to grab my gear back... my gear.. where's my gear? Gone. 100k worth of stuff just went poof. Wait, the gem bag was still there. But that's it. This is what ended my first play of Icewind Dale a few days ago. The cleric died one round before Myrkul's spirit or whatever, and I was so miffed I decided I would load up with loot and make her pick up her own gear when we got back. Gear was gone, already badly planned party was now FUBAR, and I realized I didn't actually like the game that much.
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Suspicious posted:Welp, it's over for Joe Average. I stopped by Watcher's Keep to grab a few items on the first floor and got jumped by 2 vampiric wraiths. I managed to get away, retreat to a temple to raise/restore everyone, come back and kill them to grab my gear back... my gear.. where's my gear? Gone. 100k worth of stuff just went poof. Wait, the gem bag was still there. But that's it. Uuuuugh, I hate it when runs end like that. Something just goes so horribly wrong that you can't muster the will to continue. You lose a favorite NPC to disintegration, a familiar dies and hits you with a con penalty, your favorite spell with only one copy in the first half of the game fails to scribe with a 5% chance. Crummy stuff like that. Good effort, Joe Average. I'd almost say that's worth a mulligan, but I guess other adventurers might scavenge dropped gear like that to explain it disappearing. Still, if you reload to after the massacre but before the items disappear to sneak in and stow them in a chest before ressurections, I won't say anything.
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Won't be a while until I try 6 wildmages again, so lets try something safer. Lets play something that almost succeeded last year if it wasn't for death prophecies. So welcome The Tyrant, the blackguard. Mines completed, not pictured is Mont dying twice and xzar two more times, and having to leave the mines to resurrect their asses.  Not the best performance, but still deserves a celebration. They went to High Hedge, heard they had good chicken there.  And a shame to hear about Joe's adventure ending due to loot stealing wraiths.
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Update on Cruach killed Drizzt for his loot.  Just about to start the Cloakwood mines. Only deaths so far are Edwin, Imoen, Dynaheir and Minsc (last two turned traitor after my reputation dropped to despised)
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Comstar the Second has cleared the Bandit Camp. No thanks to the damm elf I have brought along with me. Instead of SNEAKING IN and pretending to be bandits, HE gets recognized and fighting insures. Is Coron a better archer than Kivan, because goddamm his moping is getting more annoying than his kill rate is. In my travels, I saw some foreshadowing...over Aum:  This line should be said by every PC in every RPG ever. One of the best:  Bad news everyone, Melicamp did not survive the procedure: 
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Finlay posted:
How did you do that? I understand they got rid of some of the cheesy tactics that used to work. Does he attack you in BG2 if you kill him in BG1? I've never heard what happens, beyond "he makes a comment".
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Found my discs!  Unfortunately I suck too much at this game to ironman anything beyond the prologue of BG1. 
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Sorry to hear about Joe Average. I'm going to hold off a while on removing him from the list of adventurers in case you decide to continue anyway. It would be quite fitting for Joe to tackle Shadows of Amn with second-rate equipment.Seyser Koze posted:Unfortunately I suck too much at this game to ironman anything beyond the prologue of BG1. Please entertain us with tales of your repeated demise. There are all sorts of classes we haven't seen die yet!
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Are there any opinions on Baldur's Gate Trilogy? The first couple of hits I find relating to it are forum threads with grognards complaining about how it DESTROYS THE SPIRIT OF BG1, but they're kind of vague as to how.
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