Its been a long long time since i posted last, or even played baldurs gate. however, since coming home from college for the summer I have played through the entire saga and have noticed some things that I never did before. Also, I solved one of my biggest frustrations of baldurs gate 1, and that is getting algernons cloak as a mage without killing him or waiting till chapter 3. As I use tut, the answer was right under my nose all along, and could be accessed at level 1 with find familiar! as long as you are of neutral alignment (lawful, chaotic, or true) your familiar can pick pockets... simple.
I laughed for awhile after this discovery.
Its also pretty amazing how well i remember my winning formula for soloing
spoiler
conversation with marl - alg cloak - charm silke - lead karlat to silke - kill spiders with silke - kill marl with silke (-2rep) and good old korax for the bassilisks and aroun 20000
xp
do any of you have "formulas" that you tend to regularly use to level up, and or any recent realizations about the game? its just as good now as it was 6 years ago when i first played a demo haha.