Baldur's Gate I & II - Gather your party before venturing forth

My next BG II game I may actually use Viconia. SHe's evil, but should be interesting taking her into the Underdark.

I had him in my party the first time I played I think...but afterward, just too whinny so I either let him dry out after dealing with his "boss" or take him for a little stroll in the forest.

The game should really give you negative reputation for purposely killing party members. 

Exploit!!!!

Those heads are good money...

You don't want to do Durlag's Tower until near endgame. That was DLC content back in the day.

Edit: final boss is hella gimicky too.

I've been plowing through BG1 and BG2 with my custom party as intended: like a wrecking ball.

Which is great, cause that's kinda the point of making a custom party, isn't it?



I have done all major quests (I think) in chapter 2 and have just started chapter 3. Was a little 'worried' I would not be able to do Firkraag and Kangaxx, mostly because I didn't have access to level 6 mage spells yet (because everyone is a multiclass). But, as it turns out, Firkraag is just as vulnerable to cloudkill as the other dragons. I cast farsight with the cleric to get him in sight and emptied a wand of cloudkill. Started buffing when he was badly wounded (he'll fully heal himself at near death) than ran in with my 2 poison immune melee fighters and the others just pelted him from range. Was still a very close fight though as he immediatly dispelled everything, making my buffing kinda pointless.

Having Carsomyr and picking up the Staff of the Magi later, Kangaxx turned out be a breeze. All Hail the mighty Mustard Jelly and the Berserker's immunity to imprisonment.

So I hear, but I'm not using him for this playthrough (perhaps in the next one). At the moment I'm back in baldurs gate wondering how to progress the main story

I've finished Baldurs gate 1 along with the siege of dragonspear expansion. Was a little apprehensive about siege of dragonspear as a read a lot of negativity around it online so my expectation was low. Thankfully it turned out a lot better than I thought that while it was more linear than Baldurs gate 1 it was also more focused plot wise.

I had assumed that black pits was the next expansion to the game, but it seems like that isn't the case and uts merely its own standalone content. Dont think I will invest time in this doc as it adds nothing to the plot. Still I was going to import my character from siege of dragonspear but it looks like that isn't possible?

Yeah seems that way, I was hoping to use it just to level up my characters a bit more but for some reason wasn't able to import them. I wonder if you can import a character from the black pits in BG1 though? Might be a good way to quickly level up a character, get some decent items and magic and start a BG1 playthrough. Might actually try than after I complete my BG2 playthrough.

For now I'm trying to delay that though as I have now ordered the Icewind dale/planescape torment bundle. I'm thinking I'm going to play Icewind dale before I start BG2.

The first time I played the IWD games I wasn't impressed, it was just a bunch of hack and slash that barely allowed me to remember the story. They were much better with the NPC mods, though I had problems with the characters there as well. At least they had personality and goals of their own.

Hmm unfortunately there are no mods that I can use for Icewind dale (being on console and all that). Personally I have found BG1 to have a fairly thin story and there wasn't much party interaction save for some of the new characters (though that was much improved with siege of dragonspear).

Just started BG2 and man did they do Khalid dirty. I really liked him as a companion 😢