Yeah, you guys are definitely right in terms of game play. And I agree - according to my conception of the game I always feel a little weird going and doing the side quests. What I try to do is go do them really quick - 1 day each. It still does not make much sense as far as the main plot, but I figure umar hills, windspear, trademeet, watcher's keep, unseeing eye = 5 days, that isn't too bad.
(I remember one game where I did the mind flayer area, and the unseeing eye back to back without resting. Then when I got back out of the sewers I thought - Hey maybe I'll just do the guarded compound on the way back to collect the reward for the eye. That would have been quite a day to really live through!!!)
24hrs/day 10days/week
So it's official now:
Doing side-quests = Evil.
Or a very uncaring Neutral at the very least. No Good character can properly justify (RPG-wise) leaving Imoen in Spellhold for one more day than it would take them to scrounge 15K gold together.
Doing side-quests = Evil.
Or a very uncaring Neutral at the very least. No Good character can properly justify (RPG-wise) leaving Imoen in Spellhold for one more day than it would take them to scrounge 15K gold together.
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Zzhykkss (or however you spell it in Shadow Mages - I've been reading that story but I don't post in that thread because I don't want to spam it up LOL) I did actually try a game where I got my 15,000 together as quickly as I could. If you sell pretty much every magic item you get your hands on early in the game, you can get 15,000 together in about 1 day.
Unfortunately, your party socks so bad at this point that it's quite hard to do the Aran or Bodhi quests. You pretty much get spanked. I hesitate to think what would happen if you tried to go to Brynnlaw in this condition, and I think if you made it to the Underdark you would be "Purina Drow Chow". (I need a smiley here that's a scared face, which is how this party would look trying to fight mind flayers and improved beholders TM).
So anyway, as far as the side quests and rescuing Imoen, I guess I have to go with Jaheira and say "we must strive for balance" I just always feel bad knowing that Imoen is being tortured by that bastard - it's funny because I never use her in the party anyway, I just leave her there in the asylum after I rescue her...
Zzhykkss (or however you spell it in Shadow Mages - I've been reading that story but I don't post in that thread because I don't want to spam it up LOL) I did actually try a game where I got my 15,000 together as quickly as I could. If you sell pretty much every magic item you get your hands on early in the game, you can get 15,000 together in about 1 day.
Unfortunately, your party socks so bad at this point that it's quite hard to do the Aran or Bodhi quests. You pretty much get spanked. I hesitate to think what would happen if you tried to go to Brynnlaw in this condition, and I think if you made it to the Underdark you would be "Purina Drow Chow". (I need a smiley here that's a scared face, which is how this party would look trying to fight mind flayers and improved beholders TM).
So anyway, as far as the side quests and rescuing Imoen, I guess I have to go with Jaheira and say "we must strive for balance"
I just always feel bad knowing that Imoen is being tortured by that bastard - it's funny because I never use her in the party anyway, I just leave her there in the asylum after I rescue her...May you walk on warrrrm sannd....