

It has a real PnP feel to it which quickly dissipates as +1 gear becomes easily accessible in Ch1, the uber hench rewards are gathered and crafted gear becomes available for bargain prices. Unless you're gonna also console in the cash and items you should "by rights" have, you might spend several minutes in the City Core trying to make up the cash to buy the items, in which case you should have just run through the Prelude in the first place. Perhaps it isn't wise, even for veterans. Your points about skipping the Prelude are noted. I see your point that current gen players might appreciate this kinda tutorial, bless them. Until NWN, I had never played a RPG that spoon-fed you so much. I remember despising the Prelude/tutorial, the slowness of Aurora and especially the OC as a whole compared to the Infinity Engine and Baldur's Gate. Those were my also thoughts AS a new player, though. It's kind of nice to have a low stress environment to experiment in initially.and like you said, if you know what you're doing in takes <10 minutes." You might be trying out different weapons, ranged versus melee, different spells. I think you're so used to being good at RPGs for so long that it's hard to imagine what it's like as a brand new player. I'm not even sure you can buy a Breastplate, Large Shield, and weapon with 175 - let alone actual heavy armor and tower shield.and theoretically you're using her gold to hire a henchman too! Reply Delete If you're a mage, you'll get a robe of fire resist (which either helps versus the Fireball sorcerers later or can be sold for a lot of cash) and the Rod of Frost which gives you the equivalent of an auto attack at least.Ī fighter type will get Half Plate from the mysterious mage - that would normally cost 1000g or so from a vendor so simply starting in Chapter 1 proper would leave you far more vulnerable.Īre those awe-inspiring items overall? No, but it's a significant bonus compared to basically starting naked in Chapter 1 with 75.then Aribeth gives you another 100g. "I personally would have no qualms in doing that since no quest, choice or anything but trivial loot carries over from the Prelude into Chapter One" It's kind of nice to have a low stress environment to experiment in initially.and like you said, if you know what you're doing in takes <10 minutes. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely."new players may take a good 30 minutes if they explore, kill and loot everything"Įh. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
