BG1 Chest in bandit camp
Clariana
trick or is there really something in there that I need to get out?
If so, how can I deal with the trap? I have detect trap but no disarming
power in my team. Much obliged for any help
Clariana
Mark Blunden
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Give your strongest (most HPs) character all the electrical resistance you
can find (boots of grounding, spells / scrolls of electrical resistance,
potions of insulation) and keep the others right out of the way, then have
him open the chest. And yes, you do have to.
Also, I'd recommend finding a thief somewhere with decent trap-finding (who
do you have in your party?) as there will be other traps you cannot go
around.
--
Mark.
mar...@bigfoot.com
* Omelette du fromage!
m...@tadyatam.invalid
Another alternative: Mirror Imaged mage deals with the chest
while the rest of the party waits outside.
BTW, the chest is "mandatory."
--J
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Luke Goaman-Dodson
You must have a thief at all times in your party. I can't stress this
enough.
Clariana
Mark Blunden wrote:
>
>>
> Give your strongest (most HPs) character all the electrical resistance you
> can find (boots of grounding, spells / scrolls of electrical resistance,
> potions of insulation) and keep the others right out of the way, then have
> him open the chest. And yes, you do have to.
>
> Also, I'd recommend finding a thief somewhere with decent trap-finding (who
> do you have in your party?) as there will be other traps you cannot go
> around.
>
> --
> Mark.
> mar...@bigfoot.com
>
> * Omelette du fromage!
Thanks, Mark, I got in! My thief is Safana, but what good is it
detecting traps if you can't disarm them? (And how do you disarm them?)
Cheers
Clariana
m...@tadyatam.invalid
Disarm is next (to the right of) Detect. A.k.a. "Thieving"
button. For a pure thief, F5 = Find (detect), F6 = Disarm.
Success depends on abilities (percentage) and on the trap. That
is, ome trap require high percentage, say 85%.
--J
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Graeme Dice
The skill is find and disarm traps, not just find traps. You disarm
traps by using the generic thief skill button on a known trap location.
Graeme Dice
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John Barron
<grd...@sk.sympatico.ca> writes
>Clariana wrote:
>>
>> Mark Blunden wrote:
>> >
>> Thanks, Mark, I got in! My thief is Safana, but what good is it
>> detecting traps if you can't disarm them? (And how do you disarm them?)
>
>The skill is find and disarm traps, not just find traps. You disarm
>traps by using the generic thief skill button on a known trap location.
>
I noticed something about that - when I selected thieving and hovered
over a trapped location, it went green and the trap disarm option become
live, *even* if I hadn't actually bothered to detect the trap first! A
buglet, methinks. I happened to be on Balduran's island at the time, in
the wrecked ship - haven't tried it elsewhere...
--
John Barron
Luke Goaman-Dodson
> Thanks, Mark, I got in! My thief is Safana, but what good is it
> detecting traps if you can't disarm them? (And how do you disarm
them?)
Select your thief, select "thieving", click the trap.
Thomas Dehn
"John Barron" <ne...@europa.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <3B362A74...@sk.sympatico.ca>, Graeme Dice
> <grd...@sk.sympatico.ca> writes
> >Clariana wrote:
> >>
> >> Mark Blunden wrote:
> >> >
> <snip>
> >> Thanks, Mark, I got in! My thief is Safana, but what good is it
> >> detecting traps if you can't disarm them?
> >> (And how do you disarm them?)
> >
> >The skill is find and disarm traps, not just find traps. You disarm
> >traps by using the generic thief skill button on a known trap location.
> >
>
> I noticed something about that - when I selected thieving and hovered
> over a trapped location, it went green and the trap disarm option become
> live, *even* if I hadn't actually bothered to detect the trap first! A
> buglet, methinks.
No. Your characters have a nonzero change of detecting
a trap even when they do not specifically
search for traps.
Thomas
Clariana
Ahhhhhhhh.... I didn't know that!
Clariana