[SixOfSpades]

Sorry, brain fart on my part. Jaheira's AC right now is only -14, not -17.

Klorox, the rules against thread necromancy exist primarily because resurrecting dead threads wastes time and space:

Suppose there was a thread entitled "Can't clear WK Level 2." Now, I would read that thread and try to understand the person's problem: Was it because they don't understand the order in which the rooms must be cleared, or because they can't find the Slime Key, or because they're getting nailed by the Traps because they're temporarily without a Thief, or because they can't kill the Fire Giant and/or Fire Elementals, or because of some bug that makes the Chromatic Demon literally unkillable? And, after reading the guy's post, sorting through the 2 dozen people who give advice on how to beat the level (1/3rd of which is wrong), and finally figuring out what the heck is wrong with this guy's game so that I can tell him how to fix it, it's a genuine pain in the ass to see that I've already answered his questions, way back in 2002, his game is fine now, and the thread was only raised from the ashes because of some bozo who did a search on how to kill the Chromatic Demon and then posted because he wanted to boast of killing it on the first try. Yeah. Extremely irritating waste of time.

As for wasting space, suppose somebody is searching the forum for "NPC quests," and reads a topic where somebody complains about Minsc and Valygar not having any quests. This person happily supplies the answer that yes they do have quests, they're part of Unfinished Business--but they neglect to notice that the date of the post is May 2000, looooong before Unfinished Business was even begun, and of course the original poster hasn't been to Ironworks in years. This new post, which does nobody any good, is now dragged up to the #1 slot in the forum, thus bumping some other thread--which may vary well still be active--off the front page, thus making it less likely to be seen and therefore more likely to die.