BALDUR'S GATE HINTS

                     From Stefan Herber

Having completed the game but probably never getting on top of the
control system for combat I can only offer these hints to people
finding it hard going:

a) Make sure you always have a full party even if you don't plan
to keep all the characters or are intent on having an all good or
all evil membership. Combat is much easier with 5 rather than 2
players!

b) A thief is an absolute necessity. On the later levels traps are
very frequent and nobody else can disarm them.

c) The wand of animal summoning is a splendid item - it's possible
to kill all the baddies using it frequently enough. Even with the
add-on pack this was effectively all I needed to complete the
final section. Make sure you have as many as possible in your
inventory as you can afford - and reserve their use for the more
difficult enemies.

d) I'm not sure whether paladins are of any value at all. Their
magic is weak and they have a lot of problems learning new spells.
It may be easier here having a strong fighter with no magic
abilities although my primary character was a paladin.  Maybe I've
been playing M&M for too long.

e) The best party? Undoubtedly a
fighter/ranger/thief/wizard/cleric. But you knew I was going to
say that..

f) Cultivate and recultivate ranged weapon skill. If I learnt
nothing else from M&M I learnt that. It's absolutely vital and the
only way you will get through certain fights.

g) Good luck! I wish the game had been everything I was hoping for
but it wasn't. Now it's on to other challenges.
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