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Well I managed to get everything done today I wanted, and maybe a slight bit more.

I've got my new Baldur's Gate discs, and have even transfered them into the old BG2 case (a four-disc case - just right for the two basegame discs and the two expansions), I splashed out a bit and got myself a new cap, since my old green one that I've had since I was 11 has mould on it and I doubt it would get through a bleach treatment without serious damage, and having remembered about it on Monday, I went and picked up a a poster (one on a hard backing board) I had on laybuy and a picture frame store...( Here Be Dragon )
I am summarily naming it "Firkraag", after the red dragon in BG2 who thinks it a great idea to take out his revenge against a dead man on the dead man's foster child.

That picture, I saw it a few weeks ago and it immediately struck me as the perfect D&D red dragon - big, mean and evil, and ready to burn you to a crisp.

Oh, and the new hat I mentioned? Blue with a red Autobot symbol on it. The old green hat has been remanded to the proverbial circular file.

I found this. It's the game map for BG1.

I have a copy of it taped to the wall behind my desk but an extra copy is welcome.

When playing a dungeon you know has killer booby traps, it is not a good idea to blithely send your tank mage off into suspicious nooks and crannies on her own.

I managed to get Dynaheir permanently killed, much to my disgust, and the last save is probably an old one - I wouldn't be surprised if I'm back at the start of Ulcaster School.

(Note to the ignorant: I was playing through a couple of the optional dungeons - Ulcaster School and Firewine Bridge. Ulcaster isn't too bad and doesn't have any completely killer traps, but Firewine has a couple of lightening traps that hit bloody hard.)

Still not looking forward to Durlag's Tower, which I think I should should try before I move on to Cloakwood, not that I'm looking forward to Cloakwood either, but I don't have the fear of spiders these days as I did while first playing the game. The real bitch to fight are Ithilid and Beholders and there's none of either in this game - they only start appearing in the second game, and not until the Underdark section - unless you're unlucky enough to uncover the Ithilid base in the Athkatla sewers *shudder!* (the problem being, Beholders hit really hard with spells, and Ithilid have a really bad spell called something like "Intellect Drain" that practically cripples characters and I still don't know how to cure it).

I am reminded of how boring BG1 can be. It's mostly a lot of random walking around, looking for trouble. Is it any wonder I took to BG2 quickly when I got it? BG2 had more plots and subplots and kept them connected better.

I am still also not particularly looking forward to Durlag's Tower, I have never been able to complete the damn thing! Compared to it, Watcher's Keep with all it's puzzles is a cakewalk!

Still, I want to try get through it all, I haven't completed BG1 since before I got BG2, and as I said, I've never finished Durlag's Tower.

Pointless fact: My Charname (player character in BG parlance) is Anvelice Hyperbole - I made icons from a couple of Sims 3 pictures and named her Anvelice. Other than that, she's pretty much stock standard for a BG PC for me - Half-elven Chaotic Good Fighter/Mage. The whole party is rather stock standard too - Imoen, Khalid, Jaheira, Dynaheir and Minsc. I won't be getting much into creative parties until I start playing BG2, then I'll really start chip-chopping and changing (the only guarantee is that I'll take Yoshimo to Spellhold and accept Imoen when I get to her, and Sarevok in ToB).

Nabbed off of bard_linn - ( Almost all of this is FF too... )