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[Ail]

Hi

I'm doing a game with a large number of mods and some fixed NPCs from standard BG1: Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira and Branwen. I play a multi-player game with two other PCs.
I really wanted to see all, do all and get my PCs to be as strong as possible. This included making Imoen a Thief/Mage so I was considering what kind of proficiency I needed from her in the thief skills. As it were, I dual-classed her a level 7 of thief, which is rather late, and at a point where I needed her thief skills back to go underground and look for traps. So, I found this way of getting her back fast, or at least, faster than with a regular game.

I had saved all my extra scrolls (my main character is a mage) so I took her and my PC and dumped all the others in the Friendly Arm Inn. For each scroll I had, I erased the corresponding spell from the spellbook and relearned it, with only two PCs in the party sharing the experience. I had to do this a second time but this time I had to keep Branwen with me, or she would leave forever.

Even dividing by 3, this was a quick rise. Of course now my party is a bit unbalanced, with Jaheira, Khalid and the other PC (a paladin) lagging behind my 9th level mage, 8th level Imoen and 8th level Branwen (or is she 9th already? can't remember).

Just thought to share this. It might be useful for someone else.

Alex

[OldVeteran]

I'm doing that for every single game I play with a mage in party (either PC or NPC) and its really worth it.
Scrolls don't sell for much and you find them in vast amounts, especially the level 1 scrolls which add up.

Its kind of cheap, but it takes space and time to do it, so its fair.

[ronin]

I call that either cheating or powergaming. I have done it before but for me it ruined the game because I leveled to fast and everything was too easy.

Now I use DefJam in every game with difficulty on hard or insane and I really enjoy the game more.

[Anomaly]

I call that either cheating or powergaming.

I agree. It's like camping at a respawn point to get infinite XP.

[Klorox]

Powergaming? Yeah
Cheesy? Yep!
Cheating? No way. You're playing by the rules.

BTW, you must be playing with Tutu, in vanilla BG1 you don't get XP for memorizing scrolls, nor can you erase them.

[Riviera]

I don't see any problem at all with dualing her late.

The other bit, I've never done. I do dearly love my spell scroll XP, but I only learn em once. Once is enough.