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could you make an item that regenerates for only a short amount of time, but triggers itself to restart right when it finishes, effectively being a permanent regenerating item?

If not, make a ring or amulet that sets your con to 20. It'll have some side effects (higher HP, better poison resistance ...

Imoen can wear a mage robe as soon as you dual-class her. In fact, that should be her armor for the rest of the game. Once she gets her thief abilities back, she can wear leather armor but can't cast any spells while she's wearing it, so you want to keep her with just a mage robe.

There are some ...

You can finish off Bodhi if you want -- just don't talk to Aran Linvail again until you're ready to leave town. After you talk to Aran Linvail, you'll leave Athkatla for a while... but eventually you will come back, and can finish up any remaining quests then.

I don't know the answers to any of ...

I killed Drizzt once just to see if I could. I refuse to do it any more, because I like Drizzt.

Basically, I just summoned about 30 skeletons and had them all go after him. I had my archers using +2 arrows, cast chant and bless for the bonuses, and threw a few magic missiles in for good measure. He ...

1) Tab highlights items.

2) Usually I finish off all of Athkatla before I go on the chapter 4 quests. Once you talk to Linvail after taking out Bodhi, I think you immediately jump to chapter 4, so make sure you've done everything you want to do before you leave.

It appears that switch, combined with 2 others in the room, opens the same door that Kiser's key opens. Apparently this means you can finish the room without ever facing Kiser.

I like Firkraag... he just seems right for a dragon. Everything he does is dragonesque.

(I actually hate the beginning of his quest -- too many cutscenes, teleports, etc. interrupting the action -- but once you finally get to him, he's the most fun.)

[QUOTE=Klorox]You can choose a fighter kit...[/QUOTE]

Not in BG1 you can't. No such thing as kits until BG2. Still, I like the Fighter/Druid in BG1 -- with ToSC, you can go to level 7 as a fighter and then dual and go to 8 as a druid before the end of the game. (You can then select a kit at the ...

[QUOTE=Locke Da'averan]the difference between core and normal is conveniency[/QUOTE]

As well as 3/4 damage in normal vs. 1 damage in core, unless the in-game descriptions are wrong.

There are lots of good 2weapon combos at different stages of the game. I usually have 3 characters 2weaponing, so I'll list my normal progression for each. Offhand is listed first (but sometimes doesn't matter which is offhand):

1) Axes / Hammers (usually with my wizard slayer)
- Stonefire ...

the thread might be several years old... but because of him, I now have Infinity Explorer.

Oh, and I've seen 6-year bumps before.

I play core rules, except for the following times:
1) when I import a character, I import in the lowest skill. This has, for the most part, given me good HP rolls. I can't stand having a BG1 character with 70 hp come into BG2 with only 30.
2) when I scribe spells, I use the lowest skill. Saves me ...

right, I expect the sword of chaos... I'm just confused about DeadAlready's statement that he gives you a "random item" from your BG1 game. If that was the case, I'd definitely bust out the save-reload cheese until I got my speed boots. But I haven't heard that from anyone else, so I assume that's ...

Wiz Slayers are also a good choice to dual with thieves.

- if you like to open combat using backstabs on spellcasters (even very tough ones), you can give them casting failures right away. Nothing better than seeing "Irenicus: timestop. Irenicus: casting failure."

- "use any item" HLA makes up for ...

I generally go with the Kensai-Mage, Berserker-Cleric, and WizSlayer-Thief duals. For the Kensai and WizSlayer, the second class makes up for the major deficiencies of the first (no armor for Kensai, no magic items for WizSlayers). The cleric buffs are nice to combine with the Berserker base. I ...

the Genie returns items from your BG1 game? I've never had him do that... are you sure?

I always try to give my characters INT of either 6, 11, 16, or 18.

If my character is a mage, I always take 18 INT -- it's just a pain to have to search for potions and chug them whenever I want to write a scroll.

If my character is not a mage, then I try to get just enough INT to take one more ...

Best stats for what purpose?

I tend to play multi parties and give my manuals (etc.) to various party members, rather than hogging them all for one person, so I don't usually have a single "super-stat" person, but rather, several pretty-darn-good-stat people.

For example, I currently have 2 kensai ...

I'd play Xan a lot more if I knew where his voice files were, so I could shut him up... I've maxed him before, and I think he had like 15 hp at the end.

so Renal has nice boots, but they're not speed boots?

What exactly are they? What do they give you?