No Need for a Thief

[Gangrell]

This has struck me as very odd in the last couple of games I've played in Bg2. I started out the game without a thief and didn't bother taking Yoshi, but all the areas where traps should trigger, don't. Is this part of a mod or something I've missed?

[Xen]

Well Ease of Use has an option to disable all traps in the game so that might be the reason.

[White Lancer]

I also never take Yoshi now... I've played CI so many times that I know the location of every trap in there, and its effects. Playing a solo character without spell protections or trap disabling is easy, you can either eat some traps or miss out on some loot. All the traps that are on the floor rather than on containers can be walked around if you know where they are. All ecxept the one on the bridge before the wand room. But even that can sometimes be missed if you are hasted.

Poison traps giving you trouble? Remember your remove poison Bhaal spawn ability? If you pause the game just after you've taken some damage from the trap you can get the spell off before you get interupted.

All in all those tips and the rest until healed/healing abilities make traps a minor annoyance at worst. At least the ones in CI that is.

[BlackPeter]

i think tactics removes traps, at least a lot of them anyhow

[Xen]

Originally posted by BlackPeter: i think tactics removes traps, at least a lot of them anyhow

Tactics certainly doesn't remove traps.
From the Ease-of-Use readme:

No Traps or Locks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All floor traps that can be disarmed are removed from the game. All door and container traps are removed from the game. All locked doors and containers have their lockpick difficulty set to 0 (they can be bashed open by anyone in one blow). All hidden doors have their detect difficulty set to 0 (anyone will detect them by standing around long enough). "Special" traps like the wand traps in Chateau Irenicus or the Monster Summoning Thing in the Guarded Compound remain. Note that since the traps are gone entirely you cannot get XP by disarming them. Note also that some doors that you "should not be able to open early" can now be bashed open early, like the entrance to Harper Hall or the house of Rayic Gethras. Don't do that if it will annoy you. The theory here is to make playing (or soloing) the game without a Thief less painful. Rather than going over a trap and then running back to the inn to heal, or drinking a strength potion and bashing on the lock for minutes until the random number generator decides to like you ... you can just skip it all. Aside from making the game convenient for rogue-less parties, it also makes a small number of battles a bit easier (e.g., the upstairs Guarded Compound traps are gone, so your part can advance toward Koshi and Sion without fear of dispelling). Note that this component should be installed after all other components that replace ARE files (like the Improved Torgal component of Tactics, say) if you want the traps and locks in those areas to be disabled. Finally, note that this component will have no effect on areas you have *already visited* at least once. If you load a saved game after installing it, only areas you have not seen will be changed. If you start a new game, all areas will be affected.

[Gangrell]

Hmm, odd, never remember reading that. I'll run back through my mod folder and adjust it. Thanks Xen.