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Let's Play Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition Solo as a Druid!

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition' started by Wayward Son, Apr 14, 2017.

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Should I Use EEKeeper to Switch Our Hero to Human?

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    Hey all. So in my interest thread, we determined that I should play as a Druid, because that would lead to the most hilarious deaths (Don't even lie, that was your main, if not sole inspiration).

    Some ground rules:
    1. No reloading except if I die, or (only once) mess up so bad that it can't be fixed.
    2. No companions, at all, full stop.
    3. Quest order will be determined by you, the reader, along with a roll made on Unseen Servant that is weighed by the amount of votes for each option.
    4. Number 3 can be voided if you take way too long.
    5. I will keep track of the amount of deaths that occur.
    6. Insane mode, at least to start. I will allow myself to void this if anything proves far too difficult and I am left without options and/or my tactic relies solely on luck (such as getting three rogue crits).
    I've already made the character, and will post chargen in here at some point tonight or tomorrow.

    Quest Selection:
    Melicamp the Chicken
    Durlag's Tower Entrance/First WIS tome
    Ogre Mage with Belts
    CON tome/Safana's Treasure
    Nashkel
    Charisma tome/Gnoll Stronghold
    Brage(I think that's his name)/Ruined Caravan
    (Please feel free to suggest any, I'm drawing a blank right now and don't know all of the quests)
     
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  2. henkie

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    Well, good luck. I've only soloed a totem druid in Tutu, so that was kind of overpowered with the spirit animal summonings.

    Which druid kit (if any) are you playing with?
     
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    You should go shapeshifter to make things even harder on yourself - i've always wondered if it was feasible to solo one of those throughout the saga. (Though that's something i might attempt myself somewhere down the line.)

    If i might make a suggestion, i'd recommend bee lining over to Nashkel and grabbing the ankheg armor - you might also want to grab the ring of protection +1 on the crossroads and the ring of wizardry at the FAI for some starting cash. (you won't need the ring of wizardry anyway, and it sells for 9k gold.)
     
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    I'm not.
    I was planning on it.
     
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    00-Chargen
    Welcome all. I will be showing you the extent of a druid solo playthrough.
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    It IS Enhanced Edition, so be forewarned.
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    Our hero is a male.
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    This was the best one I could find that works for a druid.
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    He is a Half-Elf.
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    And a nature loving druid.
    By the way, before I forget to mention it, I removed the level cap using BG2Tweaks.
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    He seeks balance between good and evil, order and chaos, modernity and grand old tradition.
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    Not bad for a first roll, but we can do better...
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    Quite a bit better. With this, we can reach 20 WIS by the endgame, a potenet increase for a priest. The charisma will be raised as well to get better shop prices.
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    I took Quarterstaves and Slings because I wanted ranged weaponry and Quarerstaves are some of the first enchanted weapons you find. Not to mention some of the best weapons I will be able to use are staves *cough*Staff of the Magi*cough*.
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    And his name is Sir Cerors Plasius, abbreviated as SP for short.
    This will be played on Insane as far as I can take that, so we will be dying... a lot.
     
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    Now taking suggestions for my first quest. List in OP
     
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    Since you're already heading there, you might as well help Nashkel with its iron troubles :D
     
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    Anyone know how to resize many images at once?
    Nevermind, I got it
     
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    First quest: Find a Xvart. Die. Repeat.
     
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    So uh funny thing. The next update's all written and everything (no I haven't picked a quest yet, it's just getting out of Candlekeep and a couple of gibberlings) but the forum has a 30 image limit... Which I go over by a bit. Enough that it would ruin the Update and in fact the style I had planned for the LP if I brought it down. So we gotta wait. Good news is that this gives you more voting time.
    I'm taking that as a vote for Charisma Tome.
     
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    I'm confused. How is a pure class druid going to use the Staff of the Magi?
     
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    Shit, didn't realize you had to be a mage to use he Staff
     
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    Well, to be fair, it's not like it's in the name or anything . . . :p
     
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    Semantics
     
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    Starts with save and ends with editing :D?
     
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    Where are you posting your play through?
     
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    Here. In this thread
     
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    Ahh... so when are you going to post?
     
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    When I can make a post with more than 30 images.
     
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