I just finished my first game of BG playing evil! To be fair, my CHARNAME was chaotic neutral, but my party was evil. My party was CHARNAME (gnome illusionist / cleric), Dorn, Kaigan, Imoen & Tiax. My plan was only four party members to level up CHARNAME faster, but once I hit the city, I decided to add Tiax to the mix. It was actually pretty fun. I've played ton's of BG over the years, but I've always played good. Generally, I hate losing reputation, so I was pretty surprised that my problem was keeping my rep high enough that the guards weren't always attacking me. There were lots of people that just had to die.
A few observations:
- Being evil is Expensive! Really expensive. The escalated price of the basic items aren't a big deal, but when you're paying $15,000 extra for a robe of the arch-magi, that's a lot of dough! This was the first time I've ever struggled with affording things.
- Imoen's loyalty knows no bounds. Regardless of how low my rep was, Imoen hung on there with me. She wasn't always happy, sometimes she was downright cranky. She even resorted to nasty name calling. I'm not sure what "mongering" is, but I am NOT doing it to sheep. I may be Riff Raff though.
- There's a lot of Kaigan love in the forums. Everyone always says "that guy can take a hit!" And it's a good thing he can take a hit, because until you get him some dexterity, he stands there like a pylon and gets pounded on. I could always just imagine cursing at him "You know, you can try and dodge right?" At least you don't have to use as much healing on him. Oh, and he has priorities right. I need an ale!
- Some of the rep stuff is just weird. I go to High Hedge, and slaughter Thalantyr's golems. Thalantyr get's pissy about that, so I have to kill him too. No reputation penalties yet. Then I figure, I've got Melicamp standing there watching everything, so I better off the only witness to my slaughter, and bam! -2 reputation. So, leaving a witness = no reputation loss while killing the only witness = reputation loss.
- I didn't know that there were different Bhaalspawn abilities depending on alignment. That was kind of cool, although I did miss the healing abilities.
A few observations:
- Being evil is Expensive! Really expensive. The escalated price of the basic items aren't a big deal, but when you're paying $15,000 extra for a robe of the arch-magi, that's a lot of dough! This was the first time I've ever struggled with affording things.
- Imoen's loyalty knows no bounds. Regardless of how low my rep was, Imoen hung on there with me. She wasn't always happy, sometimes she was downright cranky. She even resorted to nasty name calling. I'm not sure what "mongering" is, but I am NOT doing it to sheep. I may be Riff Raff though.
- There's a lot of Kaigan love in the forums. Everyone always says "that guy can take a hit!" And it's a good thing he can take a hit, because until you get him some dexterity, he stands there like a pylon and gets pounded on. I could always just imagine cursing at him "You know, you can try and dodge right?" At least you don't have to use as much healing on him. Oh, and he has priorities right. I need an ale!
- Some of the rep stuff is just weird. I go to High Hedge, and slaughter Thalantyr's golems. Thalantyr get's pissy about that, so I have to kill him too. No reputation penalties yet. Then I figure, I've got Melicamp standing there watching everything, so I better off the only witness to my slaughter, and bam! -2 reputation. So, leaving a witness = no reputation loss while killing the only witness = reputation loss.
- I didn't know that there were different Bhaalspawn abilities depending on alignment. That was kind of cool, although I did miss the healing abilities.