What do you do if you loose Minsc ?

[Lord Brass]

I know I've ragged on Minsc before now, and I still keep him in the party (though one successful grouped didn't have him), the reason being that he is quite a fun NPC to have around. It just seems to me that he isn't as good as he should be - 18 CON/DEX aside Six', I often feel that he should be capable of more. Rather than being used as target practice. Which happens far too often for my tastes. I've had fighter characters comparable with the be-hamstered one, and I fair far better than he. I guess I get a little begrudging, seeming Minsc as a potion of healing repository. That guy sure likes to drink!

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Making running away an art form

[Lemernis]

Originally posted by SixOfSpades: ...I read somewhere that "If you have Minsc in your party for the final battle, Boo helps out." Ummm.....really? I never saw/heard anything from Boo. Does Minsc have to be close enough to melee?

Later tonight I'll open up my final battle save and import Minsc in to see. I'll trying berserking him, what the heck... (It's hard to imagine not seeing references to this all the time on the various BG boards if it were true.)

Addendum: I should have said 'CLUA' rather than 'import', as you can't export or import NPCs. I CLUAed Minsc into the final battle and he only managed to get himself killed by Sarevok when he was running around meleeing in berserk mode. He did survive for a good while before getting killed. Anyway, no help from Boo.

[This message has been edited by Lemernis (edited 10-28-2001).]

Be happy and get yourself a somewhat saner fighter!

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Ciao!

[Yohan Marischal]

Minsc is the man........he kicks ass & is quite funny

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He's with you at the start of the next game so surely he should be with ya throughout Baldur's gate? Along with Imoen and Jaheira?


[This message has been edited by Ertai_OHF (edited 10-29-2001).]

[Xanthul]

I had to edit that post because it was a BG2 spoiler. Be careful with that please, mark if its BG1, TotSC, BG2 or SoA spoiler.

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"Captive, captive... captive in heaven" -Ertai, Captive of the Blinding Angel

[Elif Godson]

speaking of people who need to be healed a lot, that rotten
Paladin gets more hit's on it then a porn site on a lonely night.
He is the proverbial broad side of the barn. I will have to find
Kiven and give him a try.

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The Ruby Rouge of the ALSB
Official Slayer of Pest's in Cloudy's Kitchen
Blessed is the Warlock
Advisor to the Lady Lioness for Kitchen raid's and such...

[Lord Brass]

Whether you drive like Britain, or somewhere else in the world, the dreaded passenger seat is still the same. It doesn't matter who you have in the party, if you run the 2-2-2 party order (anyone remember party orders) then the "guy" in the passenger seat gets killed. All the time. Without fail. Don't ask me why, but he just does.

Think back for a minute in your own respective games, and you'll probably see that this tallies up. I even go to the extent of overbalancing my passenger by giving them all of the MI that imporve AC. To no avail: they still die. I mean, you give them an AC of -1, they have a -9 missile modifier and little skeletons with darts roll 20. Every single time.

Bah, humbug!

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Making running away an art form

[pBluescript]

Elif, find Kevin, give him a two handed sword and a good bow and you won't be disappointed.

[SixOfSpades]

Ajantis (the Paladin you were speaking of) is actually a great (though annoying) character--he just needs the Gauntlets of Dexterity. Of course, so do Yeslick, Canderous, Edwin, etc, etc, etc.

I almost always use the pentagonal formation myself, with me on point and my Theives & Mages in the very back. Minsc hold the center slot, as his AC isn't as good as Kivan's or Canderous's.

Kivan actually starts out with 2 stars in Spear, so give him a Halberd instead of a 2-handed sword.

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Boots of Stealth: 1125 gp
Shadow Armor: 7875 gp
Slipping an Oil of Firey Burning down the back of Sarevok's armor: Priceless

I disagree slightly, Six. Give Kivan a composite longbow +1, some bad ass arrows, and sit back and watch the fun! He's an awesome bowsman and rarely *has* to melee because of his range.

Ajantis is an idiot--pure cannon fodder. There ain't enough gauntlets, cloaks or rings in the world to improve that do-goody.

I use the inverted "v" when more than four people--bowsmen (Immy and Kivan) at the rear, tanks up front, clerics, etc (like I usually have *them* in the middle. Works for me.

I must admit, there are times I miss ol' Hamster Boy, tho.....

Garnet