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Bar none, the most twinky combo in the game, the combination that allows you to play the most merry hell with the game balance and destroy all in your path...a thief and three potions of master thievery.
Am romancing the lovely (if vicious and touchy) Viconia, at the moment. And Aerie. And Jaheria. We haven't yet gotten to the point where they demand you choose, although the catfight quotient is becoming amusingly high. I'm going to choose Viconia, though. Although Jaheria's side quests are the most elaborate in the game, I /like/ Viconia, as bitter and arrogant as she happens to be. Plus, I really want to see if there's any good Solufein/Viconia/Protagonist chitchat. Amazingly enough, I haven't picked up any of the extra NPCs I installed, yet. I'm really enjoying the core ones. But I'm going to have to start making some hard decisions, soon. *sniffle*
Am romancing the lovely (if vicious and touchy) Viconia, at the moment. And Aerie. And Jaheria. We haven't yet gotten to the point where they demand you choose, although the catfight quotient is becoming amusingly high. I'm going to choose Viconia, though. Although Jaheria's side quests are the most elaborate in the game, I /like/ Viconia, as bitter and arrogant as she happens to be. Plus, I really want to see if there's any good Solufein/Viconia/Protagonist chitchat. Amazingly enough, I haven't picked up any of the extra NPCs I installed, yet. I'm really enjoying the core ones. But I'm going to have to start making some hard decisions, soon. *sniffle*
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Also, still digging for my copy of the complete BG1. Ought to find it. But I have so many games to play lately. *sigh* Oh well.
Viconia's interesting; I presume you're avoiding the Paladins, then?
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You can play BG2 without it...you have to go through the Starting Dungeon of Ultimate Annoyance either way, and BG2 is huge all on its own. Unless you just wanted the complete experience. :D
I never pick up Keldorn. Anomen does his job better, and has more interesting sidequests, to boot. I'm actually playing a Paladin, though. Viconia will be happy with anyone who isn't an elf or low Charisma, and right now, I've got 22.
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Well, I want the Complete Experience. Besides, I tend to have Funky Dual-Class Character Designs and such; BG1 gives me time to develop him correctly...
As for Keldorn, if memory serves, there's a lot of banter and possibly even some sort of quest if you have both Keldorn AND Anomen in the party? Or am I remembering sorely incorrectly?
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Ah-ha! Makes sense. :) ... I just realized something. I bought Tales of the Sword Coast when it came out, and never, ever played it. I don't even think I /installed/ it. How odd.
I don't know. I never pick him up for long. I've done at least the first part of his side quest, but Keldorn just never resonated with me very much. Like Cernd and Valygar, he's just sort of there. :D I do know that he and Anomen will get into a knockdown drag-out fight if Anomen fails to get into the Order.
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TOSC has some good side-quests in it; some very pain-in-the-tuchus dungeons. And, because it has all that, if you install it, Sarevok gets boosted in power.
This causes me much Unhappiness, because therefore I HAVE to go on some of these quests or Sarevok will smite me but GOOD. And I am so not a fan of the side quests... must be my Goal Oriented nature. :p
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But from an in-game perspective... the major quest often overshadows the others. How could I have time for the other quests when there's lives on the line? (Mine in BG1, Imoen's in early BG2, I gather). It just ends up feeling slightly artificial.
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In BG2, you know right up front who the ultimate bad guy is, and at least the start of what you need to thwart them. So it's a little more focused, from an IC perspective. On the other hand, a fair amount of sidequests just throw themselves in your path.
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(Not, it occurs to me, that I didn't have OTHER gripes... the doppelganger thing is one, but I've been holding out hope that it'll be explained by the end of BG1.)
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Bah. The worst thing about having your hours turned all around is being up when everyone else is asleep, and vice versa.
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Clearly I must avoid Australia at all costs!
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