I’ve been playing the Throne of Bhaal expansion pack for Baldur’s Gate 2 recently, and ran across something I found really funny. For those who aren’t familiar with this series of role-playing games, the back-story is that Bhaal, God of Murder, knew he was going to be murdered himself, so he went around impregnating mortals with the idea that when they grew up one of them would bring him back. In the game your main character is one of these Bhaal-spawn, and you run into your half-siblings every now and then, many of whom are trying to kill all the other Bhaal-spawn. Bhaal supposedly took many forms and his children have been of many races. I wasn’t too surprised when I encountered a Fire Giant Bhaal-spawn in the expansion pack, but not too long after that I came across a Bhaal-spawn chinchilla.
Yep, a half-deity little rodent. I couldn’t stop laughing when I realized what I was fighting and I got my ass kicked by it! The BG series always had some twisted humor (one of the characters in BG2 was a gnome named Chomsky, there was a character named Illyich who stole some magic nuts), but this - a CHINCHILLA???
Yea those games are great. I was very amused when Minsc told about how he hid Boo. I also faintly remember a guy in the first one that if you talked to him he would go off on D&D in general ending with something about a rusty halberd. My friend and I were in tears from laughing so hard at that(yeah, we’re soooo cool :p). I got’s me a level eighteen mage, and I’m saving up for the expansion too.
Well, to be technical, it’s a were-chinchilla. And if it kicked your ass, you may run into some problems later on…
I just finished ToB last week, and it totally kicked ass. The boss monster was a pushover, and I really would have enjoyed a Diablo II-esque 20 minute endgame cinematic. But I’ll deal. Besides, part of the epilogue brought a tear to my eye, which has never happened in a game before. The whole Baldur’s Gate series did such a fantastic job of recreating the joy of ole pen-and-paper D&D. I had become attached to my party members, just like I used to get attached to my characters when I played with my friends back in high school. It was a hell of a series.
MINOR SPOILER
Ok, one of the funniest parts happens in the enclave of Abagizail (sp). There’s a part where a mad wizard asks you to get an eyestalk from some monsters. You can either get it yourself (yawn, boring), or you can turn some stone statues back to flesh, and find out that they’re low level adventurers. Then, you can send these guys to go get the stalk for you. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send the adventurers to go get it for you! For the sake of the God of Really Funny Shit! I won’t ruin it for you, but trust me.
Oh, him and his friends weren’t THAT touch, the only reason I got whupped the first time was my guys were worn out from fighting fire giants and I was too busy laughing at the concept of fighting a demonic chinchilla to put up a good fight. Right now I’m in a very nearby structure and fighting adamantium golems and magic golems. Right now I need NON-magical weapons and I don’t have anything on my party that is less than +2…so it’s either time to retreat to a store or go hand-to-hand.
God, I’m never going to get to fight Baal (y’know, the D2 version of the guy)…
Anyway, Badtz, I’m wondering, would my monk’s fists that count as +1 magical weapons at the level he’s at now not be able to inflict any damage? I mean, geez, the guy’s fighting unarmed for goodness sake…