That's a good way of playing for a challenge and some RP value. You can even include your main guy and have a rule not to abuse save/load to make it pure hardcore. It gives the game a lot more replay value.

@@MycketTuff i can understand that but I'm the type of player who wants to use anything the game will allow me to have including glitches for my own fun

absolutely agree. So sad she wasnt one of the npcs that followed through to bg2

Alora is cute yeah, and she is a decent thief. Buf Montaron will eat her for breakfast :D muahahahaha

Did you manage to get her pregnant?

I picked up bg1 for the first time after the announcement of Bg3 in 2019. Yes it was overwhelming as i was completely new to dnd 2nd edition (or dnd in general) but this series won me over hardcore. Ive played 400 hours of bg1 and 800 hours of bg2 since then.

i am in awe of people getting into bg these days without any idea what awaits them with the 2nd edition shenanigans and not only they endure it, but thrive in it as well. When i played the EFF out of these games waaay back, we were playing essentially the "same" campaigns with the "same" rules, it was easy. Clearly goes to show how good these games still are. My brothers i salute you.

Playing in Story mode helps! Haha. What I’d really like to have, as another new player, a list of which companions to get and in what order. What I’ve learned from the BG subreddit so far, is you want 4 people in your party. Also, a beserker mage is OP but a Cavalier is also good as a first class

She would be better in SCS, since you have the option of using Icewind Dale druid spells, but I still prefer Jaheira

It's 90% the portrait that curdles my milk.

@@Pathulhu Dorn is found in the friendly arm inn just to the right upon entry of the main inn. Never seen him at the nashkel fair.

@@mj6258 iirc you can not recruit Dorn at the inn, he will just tell you to go away. But after meeting him for the first time he will appear in a unique "waylaid by enemies" event near nashkel

@@Pathulhu yeah but scs hardcore nerfs the op IP no?

Alora is the best thief at using thieves skills, but Coran is the best thief at shooting, and Montaron is the best at tanking and/or backstabbing. Also Montaron is better with slings than Alora

So much this! Also may put the best early game party and late game party members together

Does this still work in the Enhanced Edition? The last time I did this with Khalid, he followed me outside.

@@petermaasz it works in EE, if putting companions inside of a building isn't working then just send them to a corner of a map that you don't have a reason to revisit, far away from your main party.

I see a theme here lmao

Thanks for the tip! I’m going to be a cavalier for my first ever game, and need help picking who will be in my party of 4.

I may or may not be working on it already hehe

im also in the midst of doin a monk run(unkitted). I'll check out your darkmoon playthrough for sure

Funny enough , that’s the canonical story group

lol

The issue with monk is they start weak but grow to be strong, but the threshold where they go from weak to amazing is the same level threshold that BG1 and BG2 meet at meaning by time your hard work pays of you've already beaten the game.

@@An_Ian Eh I didn't find them great in BG2 either and they are pretty horrible in TOB. Like I said, they never have the AC, they can't be hasted, and really THACHO wise they don't outclass a fighter. You're trading all of that for stuff that's not that great. Like immunity from non-magic weapons at lv 20. I can't think of many guys that don't use magic weapons in BG2. Like a fighter using critical strike is just going to do more with improved haste up and has a better chance of not turning into red mist when a fire giant looks at him funny. Now I like their MR and stunning blow is fun (although it has a lot of the same problems), but really the only time I found them outclassing other classes in anything was this really niche moment for maybe 1/2 of BG2 depending on how you're playing, where your fighters don't have the right gear and mages, clerics, and druids don't have the right spells. After that point it nose dives. But I'm talking meta and the higher difficulty you're playing on the more the monk problems show up.

@@dagonofthedepths You are right, Monk sucks, its probably the worst class in the game, they do not hit hard enough since they cant get hasted and they are absurdly squishy. People should make a mod that buffs monk, I love the idea of one dude defeating hordes of heavily armored people with only their fists

@@yannis.p Honestly no, I'm not sure whether any level is too high, it's been a decade or so since I played. I am sure that I have played through several times with Edwin as my mage and my protagonist is an undead hunter 😀

From a power gamer's perspective, this is probably the best thing to do. But I think the best thing about Baldur's Gate is the NPC interaction and you miss out on a lot of that making your own party members.

Unless you play with mods and insane difficulty, you dont have to power game that hard to beat it as bg1 is pretty easy. I'd say go with the npcs that stand out with you for the best experience.

See, I'm a completionist when it comes to getting the best items in the game, so I try to get everyone's personal quest done.

Oh well, can’t win ‘em all I guess

Except she isn't meant to represent feminists in the first place. She is simply an amazon-style misandrist.

Yeslick and Monti are not not an F-Tier - as well as Neera, Baeloth and Dorn from EE. Khalid isnt that bad either. The problem of most companions is the late pick up time, as Pathulhu already said.

@@steffenk1371 And it is precisely why everyone else is F tier. They are "serviceable" but that does not make them worthwhile. Most of the better characters you can pick up in the first hour of game. Also EE new characters writing is pure shit.

Baeloth s+

@@Malisa1990 a lot of these characters are more than just "serviceable" but yes, Beamdog's writing is awful.

Kivan in trash compared to Shar-teel. In both meele AND ranged.

Except Kivan doesn't go all 'better part of valor' all the time. I take Jahera and Khalid and then take all of Khalid's stuff and walk him out to get killed by hobgoblins first thing.