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Well Jaheira and Haer'Dalis is on top for me bacause of two spells: Iron Skin and Stone Skin. Most important spell for me. It has to do with how I use my tanks. I don't use many and their function is to take damage not deal it.Stone/Iron Skin beats almost anythin else for that purpose. And the last ...

Don't be so sure about these things. Just because it says that 10 attacks per round is the maximum, doesn't mean it is. For example, Icewind Dale has it's attacks capped at 5 on the character screen, even if one has haste on, in which case the number of attacks is 10, because in IWD, Haste doubles ...

Curdis wrote:If you rat Jan out he gets put in prison and you can then bust him out. This gives you more XP options and if done right might mean no XPs at all. - Curdis !

Ooooooh... that's a really good tip. I'll have to play around with it.

Thanks!

Jaheira's another really nice pickup if you just want a damage sponge. She's not anywhere near the killer that a Haer'Dalis or a Mazzy could become, but I find that a little bit of Iron Skins goes a long way towards glossing over a lot of weaknesses, especially when you can pair it with all of the ...

I think the Pirate Lord will send your character to Spellhold if you tell him that you believe you're the offspring of Bhaal. So I don't think you need to have Minsc in your party (although his dialogue with the Pirare Lord is very funny),
That requires a certain attribute score. It's either a ...

I don't know if you can go straight to the Pirate Lord to get into Spellhold when you first get to Brynnlaw (I'm not used to finding ways to avoid experience), but that's what I would try to do. So I don't know if there's anything for Yoshimo to do once you get there.
I seem to recall something ...

You can not create spells in BG2, and even if you could... Monks are immune to spells such as Haste or Slow that affect their movement rates. Sorry.

The one thing I can suggest is getting Boots of Speed for the rest of your party. If you want, just edit them in via Shadowkeeper. Not only should it ...

I wouldn't take Yoshimo to Spellhold.

What was your user name at BGDungeon? Unfortunately, there were so many people there, I don't know if I could remember everyone's name.
I know what happens if I take Yoshi to Spellhold. I'm not too worried- if it turns out that having him there will get me ...

After finally beating the mind flayer area, I went and picked up Keldorn and later on, Edwin. I removed Korgan and Valygar from the party.
One question before, I saw that Valygar has the Priest scroll enabled, can he learn priest spells? What's the deal with him?.
I now have the "issue" with Minsc ...

I can't think of any way to get Renal's Boots of Speed. If you try to kill him before you choose a side in the guild war, I think Arkanis Gath comes along to insta-kill you. Once you join Bodhi, I think Renal is gone. Technically, he's still on the old map of the Shadow Thief Guildhall, but you can ...

I'm curious whose side you will join in the guild war. It seems like the quests Bodhi gives you are a little bit easier than the quests that Aran gives you. Finishing either quest with a lone low-level Thief sounds like a challenge. I know from experience that a lone 12th Level Fighter can easily ...

Snerk. Interesting idea. Off-hand I can think of a few things that you'd probably benefit from:
1) pick-pocket the ring of ram
2) Do get Jan. Actually, I think you could have done better as a mage/thief yourself. You don't have to memorize scrolls (and get stinky XP), just read them.
3) Get ...

Why I did not rescue Nalia, good question..! I got so many side quests since then that I never got to take care of it... yet. I really found it hard to track what I should do next and what should be done first.
I am in chapter 2 in the game. Thing is, that in the beginning of the game after I did ...

Thanks for all of the suggestions, everyone, but since the general consensus was that anyone could solo pretty easily, I decided to try something different, instead.

The XP-Free Adventures of Tyro, the Halfling Bounty Hunter.

The goal: to complete Baldur’s Gate: Shadows of Amn without getting a single point of experience that isn’t absolutely, positively 100% mandatory.

The character: In order to avoid unnecessary experience, I’m going to have to avoid ...

So you're definitely going with no mods what so ever?
Other than all of the Baldurdash bugfixes and Dungeon-Be-Gone, no mods. I do have ToB installed, although I know several classes are quite incapable of soloing it, so I'm not even going to try.

Fallen Beastmaster.
No fallens. Fallen classes ...

Hey all, I'm new here but very old-hat to the BG series. I recently got nostalgic and reinstalled, and found that the game really was as easy as I remembered it. Since I tend to be anti-mod, I like manufacturing my own challenges and then trying to deal with them.

So with that out of the way, the ...