lost one point of constitution?
 

I am playing Baldur's Gate. Yesterday I found my character's constitution is one point lower than the initial value. But I don't know how it happened. I am a newbie, could anyone give me a hint? Under what conditions will the character's constitution change permanently?
Thanks.

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Note to Self: It's probably not a good idea to offhandedly start drinking random unknown potions without first knowing their effects, especially when those potions come from questionable sources.

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Is that what those potions can do? Wow, I only ever resold them for a great profit.

The only other thing I can think of is those claw or horn items, but you have to have lot's of gold to get them, and I don't recall offhand what effects they have, I know it's some good some bad, kind of a trade off.

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Don't the effects of those 2 potions wear off and reset your stats to normal (I'm talking about the ones from the Carnival)?

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Are you perchance playing BGT/BGTuTu and your familiar died?

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Those two do, yes, but I'm talking about the ones from the Nashkel Mines. Just because they look like Antidotes . . .

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Ahh the all-important read the friggin description clause. I was thinking the potions from the carni myself. And the so-called antidotes are pretty well labeled as not such IIRC, but I'm headed that way myself right now so I'll know soon enough.

and as to the familiar reducing con by a point, I thought that it merely removed the point you gained from having the familiar?

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You don't gain point of CON for having a familiar. Just HP.

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Almost certain it added one, I mean not by the rules but just by the way the developers made the game work, but then I haven't played in a long time so I probably am wrong.

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No really it doesn't ;)

http://www.togrc.com/bg2/items_detail.php?ID=420

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Well it HAS been a long time since I played.

At anyrate if pittbin wants his con back so much he could just CLUA up a tome of whatever it is that boosts that stat.

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Gee, I think I didn't identify them and drank them all.

I don't have a familiar.

Thanks a lot, everyone.

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The potions from the mines take away a constitution point?

I thought they just acted like taking a hit from poison. And at probable Nashkel levels without an immediate antidote usually means death.

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Or s/he could actually play the game. How's that for an idea?

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That too is a good idea, but I'm just laying out an option in case he's not that kind of player.

I went through a phase where I CLUA'd all the right tomes just to make my player the ideal whatever class he was, and still have nothing below a 9. Got boring, game felt cheapened, but it was fun for a bit. One time just for the heck of it I went all stats 25. strangely, even with all 25's at level 1 you can die pretty easily without any back up.

But I've digressed, my point was really if the constitution loss really bothered them that much there is an option, not really a true roleplayers option, but an option all the same.

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I used manual of bodily health to get one constitution.

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Alternatively there are 2 manual's of B.H. in BG that do your Con, IIRC. But one of them you need for a quest, or you could use it for yourself instead. Using one of those would fall well within the confines of a strict roleplaying experience.

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Pssst, you got the tomes wrong...

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yeah, that happens, which ones were they supposed to be?

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Yeah, I was just playing clearing the carnival area of a few kobolds when that came to me. I still remember last time I played with a Paladin, got my con high enough to have regen. didn't matter how bad my PC looked 8 hours had him back in peak condition.

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Isn't 20 required for regeneration? Dwarf (19) + tome?

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Not sure, how I managed that I know I started him with an 18. I got at least one extra point from a tome found. Was there a second one in BG2 if so that may have been where the regen kicked in.

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The only legal ways for your PC to get regeneration in BG1 is to start with a Dwarf or a Half-Orc -- hence, not a Paladin.

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Hmmm... wonder how I got it then, must have been when I was tinkering with CLUA or something.


Add: come to think of it that may have been the guy that I gave 19 con, basically made the most ideal Paladin with marginally superhuman constitution (due to his less than mundane origins I think was the reason) I believe str and dex as well as all his other stats were within human limits though they didn't fit within your typical mortal adventurer patern, that is, the dice roll didn't set the limit.

I think I kept him marginally balanced though. Not sure it's been forever.

Well that answers my other question, tested the "antidotes" from the nashkel mines and it indeed does reduce your con by one as well as poison you.