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It's a cheesy stratagy but, lay spike traps at the top of the stairs and get the demi-lich to follow you out. Put down like three or four of them if you're worried. Trust me, it'll kill him. There is also a glitch on the demi-lich there; it respawns. You can get his experience and items over and ...

Have you read two's post (topic:no deaths/no reloads ). He's been soloing a bard through SoA and ToB. One of the replies under that topic was from RA who has been soloing a bard since BG1. I've never soloed the games before but, I can see how the bard would be the best character to solo as he levels ...

Originally posted by Mandeville:
<STRONG>Other cool adventures included "The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh" and "Chateau D'Ambervilles" (if anyone remembers that one). Nice storylines and good atmosphere (kind of Lovecraftian). Lost Tomb of Martek was really cool. "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ...

I liked the first edition Desert of Desolation series (Pharaoh, Oasis of the White Palm, & the Lost Tomb of Martek) by Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance books) & others. These were great campaigns filled with cool traps, cunning puzzles, interesting background stories, et al. Of course, I also liked the "S ...

I can give you the cheese strategy I used to take them out. Cast Web twice then cast as many cloudkills as you can or, if you don't have the spell, use the wand. If you have Yoshimo or are a thief you can also trap the door to the room and other places. Just lure them to your traps. Of course if you ...

I quote Tad Williams (author of the Dragonbone Chair and other dull fantasy books), he's not a great writer or anything but, I think he hit the nail on the head in regards to Swords & Sorcery gaming:

"You run the maze...you kill the monster...you get the jewel and earn bonus points...wibble, wobble ...

I have my main character (Alyeth D'Etheraim: Bounty Hunter level 29) dual wielding Short Sword of the Mask +4 and Dagger of the Star +4. Her THAC0 is 4 on her main hand & 8 on her off hand still, she does killer damage (equipped boots of speed, cloak of mirroring, white dragon scale, ring of Gaxx ...

The Demi-Lich on the 4th Level of Watcher's keep just down the stairs from the githyanki lair has a terrible scripting error. It respawns every time you kill it.

I personally am not going to take advantage of it because it is just too easy but, I figure there are some people out there who will ...

I'm just trying to get my wife hooked on decent computer games. I bought myself a new computer so she could have a machine good enough to run these games on, still, if she games at all she plays Tetris, popcap.com's Bejeweled, Free Cell...you know, mind wasters. I think that she's afraid of the ...

Originally posted by Weasel:
<STRONG>Something to think about....

The game makers tried to make the game where it would draw not only from the PnP group/crowd, but from all groups.</STRONG>

I totally agree. Not only are they trying to appeal to the above groups but, to people who have no ...

In response to Lauf, I agree that PnP Monty Haul campaigns are not the greatest thing in the world. If there isn't a challenge to the game why play it? I've found both SoA and ToB to be plenty of challenge to keep me amused. Well, the first time around wasn't much challenge because I edited my ...

In response to Nightfire,

I'm happy to know that at least you can't get two of the crossbows +5 because of the glitch. I suppose I'll use it in good health.

BTW do you have the ToB Beta patch installed? If you do, then we have two incidences of the glitch with the Beta Patch.

Thanks.

Yes, I haven't even been to the places where I could pick the items up yet.

It's kind of like that Brisk Ice Tea commercial (the Pat Morita, Ralph Maccio, & Bruce Lee one) "Ahh, editing error in my favor." ;)

It could be a bug in the beta patch I suppose. I had to download the beta because not ...

I believe that SoA and now ToB have to have many high powered magic items for the the sole reason that the monsters have extraordinarily extended abilities. In SoA there are normally 8HD monsters that have 150+ hp. Not to mention spells like Absolute Immunity, Spell Trap, Time Stops Galore. Come on ...

Originally posted by Vegeta:
<STRONG>Well, I played SOA several times, but some battles I had easily overcome, others that should be easy, were tougher than I imagened... but the fight I lost my entire party, was the first time I fought against Firekraag. I was the only one who survived, with 1 hp ...

I had the experience cap removed on my players from SoA, when I migrated to ToB only Anomen had reached the cap. No problems other than I had to wait until he leveled up once before he started to get his high-level abilities. Honestly, I wish I hadn't used the experience cap remover but, I find it ...

I just finished the Marching Mountain portion of ToB. I returned to the Pocket Plane to rest up for the next bunch of killing and asked Cespenar about my equipment. He went through his routine and found the Firetooth Crossbow in my inventory (it wasn't) and the Bowstring of Gond (that wasn't in my ...

Also, if you have the spell Bigby's Crushing Hand it works really well against giants, it does decent damage and it has the advantage of holding the giant for a few rounds. That way, you can get behind him and backstab him a couple of times before he gets loose.