Is it possible to role play a good party and do all quests?

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Like the title say's can a good character realisticaly complete all quest's?
Well let's see, a good character, exclusively a LG, NG, CG, LN, and possibly TN and CN, would probably think after escaping *that* "dungion" (Irenicus in chapter 1) "My best friend and lifelong companion has been taken wrongfully by the wizards", and depending on how smart they are and what type of character they are, would notice how powerful Irenicus is and possibly come to the conclusion that there is probably no way that he could be imprisioned willfully, or, at least not for long.
Then the PC been a good character would go to spellhold as soon as possible, or at the latest when he raises enough money after doing say, the shadow theives quest the unseeing eye and the planar sphere, to go and have possibly 15-30,000GP to spare and some half decent equipment.

After the underdark, PC and Imoen's souls are still missing so even if the character is evil he is still worried about his own soul, and the only way he can get it back is to help the Elves, and get Imoens soul back. After returning with the Rynn Lanthorn your taken straight to Sundaneslar, and to go anywhere else from there would take over 2 full day's, so the rest of it from there is save the elfs and your soul.

[ November 24, 2003, 13:03: Message edited by: casey ]

 

No.

There are a couple of smaller sub-quests that need you to play evil.
1. Human flesh armor
2. Pantaloons - if you're going for this of course

Other than these, I think you can do the rest okay.

 

nope you cant do firkraag's(sp?) quests, as far as I remember, you have to be evil to even get them.

 

excluding the quest's that non-evil character's can't do, and from a role playing sense

 

You have to be able to do Firkraag otherwise how would a Paladin get the Holy Avenger? I do believe that some of these quests rely on the timing of the quests like waiting to be told by your order to kill Firkraag.

Apart from a couple of small ones all are achievable. You just have to say to yourself that you need to do whatever it takes to get Imoen back.

 

Actually - Firkraags' quests have good and evil options.

 

Given your qualifiers, then yes, you can do them all. In the intro movies and cut scenes, you realize that Irenicus is incredibly powerful, and therefore that the only way to overcome him is to become equally powerful. To do that, you have to level up, get equipment, etc.

You can also weigh the relative importance of the various quests presented to you and determine that as much as you want to save Immie, and as much as she deserves to be saved, there are other matters that are morally more pressing. Entire towns and their environs are in danger of being wiped out if you don't intervene on their behalf.

 

Technically you can't do every quest there is.
Roleplaying is as versatile as a Blade - there are many ways (or excuses, for that matter) for a roleplayed good character to do lots of quests before saving Imoen.
High scores in Intelligence or Wisdom, (or having NPC's with high scores in these too) will further increase your options.

 

What kind of roleplaying is doing all these quests and killing all these monsters thinking: "I must gain EXP to beat Jon Irenicus"

 

Yes. You're given quests often on the way to completeing quests (i.e. bridge district) or your party members demand you to do their quest and on the way to doing their quest you're given another quest.

As a good character when you've been given a quest you damn well do it because this person has put their faith in you that you'll do the quest for them.

 

I take it Mayfairy's question was directed to me...

The answer is "roleplaying a smart character." You don't fight tanks on horseback, and seventh-or-so level characters don't go after mages who can cast disintegrate and who, without any effort whatsoever, captured and tortured your whole party. If you know you are too weak to take out your enemy, you prepare by getting stronger. Didn't you ever watch the movie "Rocky"?

And I didn't mention focusing on EXP. I said you have to get more powerful -- that's what the character has in mind. Clearly if you are counting points, your aren't roll playing. But if you are simply trying to get faster, better and stronger, and to find more powerful weapons, then you are still roleplaying.

I also said you have to level up -- that's how you, the player, get power for your character. I did not suggest that a character runs around thinking, "I've got to level up!"

 

I think the whole exp system/chart would not really apply to real life, the length of time it would thake a fighter becoming more powerful, would probably have quite a lot to do with Int and how quickly the person learns, as much as it would fighting expiriance.

I'll give you an example.

There's a Halfling Fighter with a short sword going against a Half-Orc Barbarian with a two handed sword, now the halfling is a lot weaker than the half-orc and has had less battles but is smarter and is a much faster learner than the Half-Orc. The Half-Orc is about twice the height and three times the weight of the Halfling, has had more battles but learn's virtually nothing from any of them and therefore improves very little, and this Half Orc is almost to the point of been retarded.

Who do you think would win. the Halfling because it's a lot smarter or would the Half Orc win because of his brute strength.
Sometimes in a swordfight it's not the size that count's but the intelligance and wit of the combatants