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I haven't been reading your run in detail, JustKneller, because I haven't played Icewind Dale and don't want to spoil myself. I love, love, love the concept and approach though. I do look forward to seeing a BG run from you :) I can't comment on Icewind Dale, but in BG I've always felt that...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: The Planar Prison, Part 2 In the opening Planar Prison battle Aurora took a backseat to Mr. Efreeti. He got the party started with a fortuitous and unintentional crit insta-kill of the bounty hunter mage. He then proceeded to tear apart Aurora's remaining foes...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: Planar Prison, Part 1 Congratulations to me! I won the crown! Yeah. I freely admit that I overreacted to the whole hostile Roger situation. I just really like potions. Let's continue, shall we? It took me awhile to choose Aurora's next destination. Ultimately I...

Thanks for the reminder, Serg :) I'm aware of Adratha and Cragmoon, of course. Roger's selection is different. He has three Potions of Magic Shielding and a full complement of high end exceptional strength potions, including storm and cloud. Neither Adratha nor Cragmoon carry those. Roger's...

Thank you for your support, @JustKneller and @OrlonKronsteen I think the thing to do is shrug it off. It's disappointing, since I had planned on using potions aggressively in this run. Aurora's story shouldn't end like this, though. We're going to press on :) Cheers, A.

Quick Note on Aurora's Game: Sad news, everyone. I haven't finalized my decision, but I'm leaning towards retiring Aurora. While fighting Draug Fea's crew, Aurora withdrew south, near Roger the Fence. I expected him to run in fear, like most merchants do. Instead he joined the fight, siding...

Aurora, Elven Beastmaster: Mencar and Co. I still haven't decided where Aurora is headed next but I do know it will require the Cloak of Non-Detection. And so I had a brief session last night just to fight Mencar and Co. This was my smoothest and most enjoyable Mencar fight since my return...

I'm glad you getting ready to share. I enjoy write ups of IE engine games, and I know others do too :) I'm not sure about character limits. There is a limit of 30 screenshots per post, and each screenshot must be less than 3mb.The norm is to place images in spoiler tags, to facilitate page...

Glad you're enjoying the tread, @JustKneller My take is that power comes from attention to detail, not the build of your character. The role playing elements of my runs are done for the pure joy of it, but also because they facilitate stronger play. The more alive my character feels, the...

Aurora, Elven Beastmaster: Mae'Var's Guild Hall I've been very inconsistent with my character record and inventory screenshots. Sometimes they come from the beginning of a quest, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the end. The only thing you can count on is that you can't count on anything...

Aurora, Elven Beastmaster: The de'Arnise Keep Following the Umar Hills quest I dithered about, indecisive. Dangers abound for a level 11 elf with a save v spell of 5. We've already done the easy stuff. I thought about each quest, and thought about why those quests were risky. In the Mae'Var...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: Umar Hills For those of you puzzling over the goodberries, they're for Hanna. She enjoys them. It's about time someone made use of those things. I approve. Assisting Jermien is a lot less fun when you can't use Ilbratha. Aurora has no use for metal, but she'd love...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: The Return to Athkatla For those who missed the correction to my last post, allow me to reiterate: I accidentally wrote that Aurora's personal item offers 20% magic resistance. That should have read 20% cold resistance. Apologies for the confusion. With that out of...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: Trademeet Before heading off to Trademeent, Aurora swung by the Graveyard District to pick up the Staff of Curing. I happened to tab highlight in the tomb and found a removable wall panel. Aurora slid the panel aside and found this: She was all: And I can't say I...

This chart was published in 2002. It's a little hard to read, but it should be of interest. Shadows of Amn is entry 22, with domestic revenues of $9.63 million and 225,763 units sold, one year after release. As for game prices versus inflation, I agree with Balrog99 that increased competition...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: Early Adventures in Athkatla In my recent runs I've spent a lot of time talking about my defensive potion kit in the early game, only to never mention it again. Some of you may have wondered what I was thinking. Now you know: I was thinking of Aurora. More...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: Chateau Irenicus I'm not an ambitious person. I have one and only one goal in this life: To finally, finally, finally get the fracking Chateau right. There's something about this place that turns me into a stumbling, bumbling newbie. Maybe it's the trauma of those...

Aurora, Elven Beast Master: BG2 Introduction Amn just got wilder. Aurora has arrived. She's rocking some big numbers now, thanks to her tome bonuses. I'm submitting a BG2 specific entry post because I've added a mod for BG2. I also want to document Aurora's character customizations: her ferret...

@Antimatter It seems like you end up reading the typo laden versions. Sorry about that! I tend to post and then proof read later, a habit that goes back to the olden, oldie days when posts didn't save during composition. I should get with the times and proof read before posting- for your...