[rily83]

Hi my second attempt at tactics.
This is my party:
PC- Male elf generic archer with grandmastery long bow
Korgan- Berserker dwarf who needs a bath
Valen- Evil vampire girl who needs a tan
Tashia- Lovely elven sorceror who left an abusive ex-boyfried (who wouldnt?)
Nalia- Mother Teresa wannabe
Jaheira- Harper druid treehugger

As you can see I dont have a cleric. The main plan was to have Jaheira substitute clerical duties, but after a time I really started missing valuable spells like prot from evil 15", flamestrike, bolt of glory etc. Ja can only do bless and chant but makes up with insect plague which is still very fun.

I did the easy stuff first: Circus, Inn in Waukeen's, Copper Coronet, Slavers, Temple sewers, getting valuable stuff along the way. Then I did Maevars', somehow making it through with the usual greater malison, confusion and emotion trick, plus plenty of fireballs at the back. At the end, everyone made it with only some potions of healing drunk. Then I killed Renal Bloodscalp for his boots of speed and joined Bodhi to get Valen.

With the party complete I did Nalias keep. There were less spirit trolls because I didnt install the most powerful spawns component (That would just mean more dungeon critters which isnt the most fun part of tactics anyway). Torgal was pretty strong, but Valen backstabbed, ran and hid and backstabbed again while a fully buffed party dispelled his invisibility and shot enough lvl3 fire arrow spells and melfs to take him out. The YuanTi mages and the rest of his buddies were slaughtered by the cheap web and fireballs and cloudkill combi. The Yuanti mages' final words were "Damn, where are they?"

Next was some of the unmodded quests like the playhouse, Jaheira's sidequests, killing a few cowled wizards, tanner's quest,etc etc making my party run around the whole of the city like randy bulls. It was fun clearing up the guys guarding Kangaxx's tomb. I took out the melee guys, then my entire party hid in Maevar's guild. Korgan lured the offensive spellcasting lich out into the docks, and everytime he cast Abi-Dalzims Korgan would run into the guildhouse interrupting it. This took out 4 Abi-Dalzims. The party ran out, and though the weird teleporting thing caused everyone to teleport around the lich, we dispelled his defenses and shot him into undead goo. I lured the other lich out into a painful deathtrap. He managed a hakeshar before expiring. Then the little gnome fighter inside took some good hits before joining his friends who were already dead for the second time. Cromwell forged another neat Ring of Preservation +2 for the party, wrapping up the day.