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This may be spoilerish, but I really don't think so - read on with a bit of caution.


I am soloing BG1 with a thief and I'm looking to burgle the pants off the city of Baldur's Gate.


I thought I had read around here somewhere that there is a lower level to the estate of Entar Silvershield which contained a very hard to crack locked box with megabucks in it. I have used the search engine but have found no matches.


All I have found in the estate are a couple of chests to the left on the first level and a trio of locked containers upstairs in the room where Skie starts out. There are other containers around, but they hold either nothing or just books.


Am I missing something? Am I wrong to attribute this mysterious chest to the Silvershield estate? Does anyone know where this (admittedly poorly described) chest might be? Skippy the Halfling needs your help!!

I'm not sure, but I think the estate has a basment. Check there, if it exists...

I think the very-hard-to-break chest in the basement you have been told about is actually the one in the basement of the Duchal palace
Hope this helps

Holy Moly!

I can't get into several of those chests! The game has a bug that resets my lock pick abilities if I drink too many potions to increase it. The highest I've been abe to get is 245. Any further enhancement and it goes down to 29 or something similar and I have to start over. There are 2 or 3 chests on the third floor that I can't open after many tries - I tried the basement once but figured I'd have the same problem.

What the heck is goin' on!

You're trying to open them with a Thief, that's what's wrong.

Did you try to cast Knock on them?