Suggestion

Vehemence · Post by **Vehemence** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 10:36 pm

You know how when you go to buy a spell from a store, it shows the opposition scool spells as being redded out (meaning your currently selected character can't use them)... Well, it would be nice if they redded out... or marked somehow... the scrolls that your currently selected character has already learnt.

One of the things that bug me is that I can't remember if I've learnt that spell or not and have exit the storekeep, check my scroll book and then talk to the storekeep again.

It would just make things a lot easier if already memorised spells could be marked somehow.

My 4.7 cents.

Curdis · Post by **Curdis** » Sun Feb 11, 2001 11:46 pm

Vehemence,

Get your 'Quick Reference' card.
Open to Mage spells.
Apply to any suitable photocopier.
Make 'some' copies.
Cross out spells as you learn them.

Low tech but effective - Curdis

Radek · Post by **Radek** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 5:53 am

And what if you have more mages in your party? If one of them knows the spell and another one does not? It's perhaps simpler to leave the shop, check yourself, and return in the shop. The shopkeepers do not become angry with you when you leave without buying anything.

Curdis · Post by **Curdis** » Mon Feb 12, 2001 5:26 pm

Radek,

I even said 'some' copies. Got 6 mages make at least 6 copies and put their individual names on the individual spells known sheet.

It would be nice if this was implemented in game but it is not that hard to organize. - Curdis

Radek · Post by **Radek** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 6:05 am

Curdis, I didn't challenge your solution. I polemized with the Vehemence's proposal. Sorry for not being more explicit.

Vehemence · Post by **Vehemence** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 7:15 am

Actually Radek, when you go to a store you can still click on the individual portraits. It's like most weapons will be redded out if your a mage, but when you click on your fighter, they appear normally.

I'm just suggesting that they could do something similar with the spells that your mage has already learnt.

I like your suggestion though Curdis. I've got my little spell sheet sitting on my desk next to me now and cross off the spells as I get them.

And since I'm soloing an elven Fighter/Mage/Thief, well, I only need the one for now

Hazim ibn Gorion · Post by **Hazim ibn Gorion** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 9:46 am

In my first game, I knew I wanted Nalia and Imoen as my endgame mages. But since they both have 17 int., they're both limited to 14 spells/level. After idiotically memorizing a bunch of crap for Nalia (and therefore wasting spell slots), I got way more methodical. I picked through the spell descriptions and figured out exactly what spells I wanted each of them to have and made a grid. Each time Nalia ran into a scroll she should memorize, I did so and checked it off the grid. I also had her carrying around two scroll cases to keep scrolls for Imoen in. Worked very well, and I was able to give Imoen nearly a complete spell arsenal as soon as we got to the asylum (not to mention some nice XP for all that memorization).

Well, that's my low-tech solution. But, all told, I think you're right. It would definitely be better if there were some way you could check your scrollbook without exiting the shop screen. Similarly, I'd like it better if you could sell equiped items. I think the designers made that impossible so people wouldn't accidentally sell their good stuff, but that could be solved with a little, "This is an equipped item. Are you sure you want to sell it?" prompt.

Drakron Du´Dark · Post by **Drakron Du´Dark** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 1:41 pm

Hey Hazim ibn Gorion, if you use potions that icrease INT scores, they can menorize every spell in the game.
Like I do.

Hazim ibn Gorion · Post by **Hazim ibn Gorion** » Tue Feb 13, 2001 2:04 pm

You're @#$tin' me! I have played BG1, PST, IWD, and BG2 more times than I cared to count and never realized this.

I always just assumed they'd drop out once the potion wore off. That's what I get for not paying attention.