Haven't posted in a while. Thought this might be amusing idea for a quiz. One point per correct answer, -1 for each incorrect answer. - points do not spill over, but only count against your correct answers to the same question.

"There are very few ways of being alive, but very many ways of being dead."

1. List all the possible ways for the PC to die (anything which results in game-over means death, for the purposes of this question). (Also, health reaching 0 only counts as one way of dying - Don't list every possible weapon, trap or spell that can reduce the PCs health to 0.)

2. List all the characters who must be killed by the party in battle in order to win the game.

3. List all the characters who must die in order to reach the end of the game but don't have to be killed by the party.

Tiebreaker
Correctly attribute the (non-BG related) quote which precedes the questions.

PM me your answers - Don't post them below for obvious reasons.

Could you make that any harder? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I assume this is to the completion of Shadows of Amn, and Throne of Bhaal is not included (incl. Watcher's Keep).

Yup, just SoA.

Got any scores yet? [img]graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img]

Scores so far...

LennonCook 17
Cam_H 10
Western Paladin 10
Sir Goloum 7

*Cam_H, I think you misunderstood questions 2 and 3. When I said must be killed in battle by the party I meant killed by the party in battle rather than as a result of a dialogue option or being killed by a non-playable character. I didn't mean rather than by a summoned creature. Sorry if that was slightly ambiguous.

Hmm. I'm not sure what that does to my score. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

Lol, as predicted SirG is pullin' up the rear! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Yay, I'm not last!

I've sent a PM to Dirty Meg with my answers. I'm eagerly awaiting my score.

Ilyich 14

sent my answers. I didn't do too bad.

Lord 20 (not bad at all)

What's the highest possible score?

Cam_H (revised answers) 22

answers posted soon, so speak now or forever hold your peace.

Don't know. Even if I haven't made any mistakes, there could still be a correct answer to question 1 I am not aware of.

Final scores...

Cam_H 22
Lord 20
LennonCook 17
Ilyich 14
Cam_H 10
Western Paladin 10
Sir Goulum 7

Answers (spoilers)

1. List all the possible ways for the PC to die (anything which results in game-over means death, for the purposes of this question). (Also, health reaching 0 only counts as one way of dying - Don't list every possible weapon, trap or spell that can reduce the PCs health to 0.)

*Health reaches 0
*Petrification
*Imprisonment
*Str drain to 0 from undead
*Int drain to 0 from Mind Flayers
*Cha drain to 0 from ugly stick (Rod of Terror)
*Level drained to 0
*Vorpal hit from own party member
*Betraying the Shadow thieves, having allied with them
*Betraying Bodhi, having allied with her
*Taking the Rift device from the sewers
*Demi Lich Howl
*Dire Charmed type effect while solo
*Maze while solo
*Finger of death, Power word kill etc... Instant death spells
*Going to fight Irenicus in spellhold without help

2. List all the characters who must be killed by the party in battle in order to win the game.
*Irenicus
*Bodhi
*Kobold shaman with crystal piece
*Dace
*Spore colony in spellhold
*Tree of life parasites
*Tree of life parasite guardians
*Wraith Sarevok

3. List all the characters who must die in order to reach the end of the game but don't have to be killed by the party.

*Shadow thieves who get wasted by Irenicus in and around his dungeon
*Cowled wizards who get wasted by Irenicus in and around his dungeon
*Mook
*Cowled wizards killed in cutscene where Irenicus escapes
*Shadow thieves killed in Irenicus's Bhaalspawnness extraction.
*Dradeel
*Tiax
*Wanev
*Aphril
*Njal Skal (only one point if you just said 'the spellhold inmates' which isn't entirely correct)
*Elves Irenicus kills in cutscene in underdark
*Creatures in Rilifane cutscene
*Elf and Demon in cutscene
*Yoshimo (An issue of contention for two reasons.You can bug exploit to keep him, and if you never go to the coronet after leaving him in Athklata, you won't see him die. However, it is made clear that his death is a certain result of the geas spell he is under and his death is part of the storyline, therefore I am including him as an answer to this question).

Common wrong answers
2. Assassin in Brynlaw (who can be avoided altogether), Irenicus's Black Dragon (which can be persuaded)

3. Anyone who dies in a dream sequence on resting (you could get through the game without resting), Phaere and Ardeluce (you can get out of the underdark without doing the scrambled eggs quest), Dill (who doesn't actually die with the other spellhold inmates)

The black dragon can be persuaded? How? I've never been able to.

You need 18 charisma.

I've played with 18 charisma and have never been able to convince him. Do i need to be evil or something?

Doh! Missed my chance. Oh well, at least I can point out that you must also kill all 4 Mephit Portals, and that Bodhi can also fall in the "killed by someone other than the party," given the potential for assistance from Drizzt / Paladins / Shadow Thieves.

Dirty Meg,

Thanks for a great little quiz. I'm kicking myself about a couple of the answers I gave (and one that I didn't give).

I should go back and re-test the Assassin in Brynnlaw one ... I *thought* that I went straight to Perth on one occasion, and he wasn't there until I went to the Vulgar Monkey and had the dialogue, but I've not tried getting into the asylum via the other route in a direct manner.

Thanks again. No idea on the quotation tie-breaker.

Six,

I'm with you on the four Mephit Portals. It was my impression after Dirty Meg clarified the questions for me, that Bodhi being killed in corpal form by one of your NPC allies does not exempt her death from the answer.

nice quiz [img]smile.gif[/img]

wen i was doing it in my head i also had that you had to kill the 3 vampires in your first visit to bodhi's lair that trigger her arrival . . ?

I can't believe I missed so many people in the second question. Dang.

What's the answer to the tiebreaker?

[I remember hearing it somewhere before, but can't remember where. Google didn't help.]

Richard Dawkins

who's he? The name doesn't ring a bell. In what context did he say it?

He is a scientist and writer. The quote refers to evolutionary selection pressure.