Baldurs Gate

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Baldurs Gate
Computer Game
[7-08-2001 11:20 AM]

I would strongly recommend making a human fighter with 18 strength, constitution, and dexterity. Strength affects how hard you hit and how much weight you can carry. Having a high dexterity helps your Armor Class, making you harder to hit. Dexterity also helps with thief skills. Constitution affects your Hit Points, which is very important since when the main character dies you have to reload. Skimp on Intelligence and Wisdom but keep a decent Charisma or your party members might panic in battle. If I recall correctly my character's stats were:

Strength 18/80
Dexterity 18
Constitution 18
Wisdom 3
Intelligence 3
Charisma 15

The key is after making the character the way I described you can dual class him later into a thief. I dual classed my character into a thief at level 4, but I would suggest waiting until level 5. Thieves not only detect and remove traps, which is highly useful in the long hallway before the final boss, but they get to backstab. Backstab is HUGE in this game. It was so big, that in the Baldurs Gate expansion and in Baldurs Gate II they had to tone it down for game balance.

To backstab you have to use stealth and then the next attack will be considered a backstab. Well, stealth in this game works in broad daylight. You can backstab whether you are infront or behind the person. Oh, and best of all you are allowed to backstab with any weapon in this game, as opposed to the formal rules of having to use a piercing weapon. Needless to say a strong Fighter/Thief backstabbing with Drizzt's Scimitar can hit for 30 to 40 damage, killing most magic users in one hit.

Drizzt is encountered in one of the forest areas in the southwest section of the map. You can either help him kill the gnolls or you can try and kill him for his weapons and armor. His scimitars happen to be the best weapons in the game and his armor is the best for a fighter/thief, since you can still use thief skills while wearing it. Killing Drizzt drops your reputation a few points since he is a good guy, but his items are worth the trouble. Of course Drizzt is not easy. Infact Drizzt is harder than Sarevok, the final boss.

Fortunately there is a trick/cheat to defeat Drizzt. Have your cleric summon as many skeletons as possible. Approach Drizzt as he is fighting the gnolls. Before he kills the last of the gnolls, stick your skeletons on him and have all of your party members run as far away as possible, leaving the skeletons with Drizzt. There is a bug in the game that as long as your characters are completely off the screen from Drizzt, he won't think to attack the skeletons. So, the skeletons take their time to slowly beat Drizzt to death. When you get the message of experience and reputation loss, return to loot Drizzt's body.