Luna

I don't remember the poison... and the thieves were no trouble at all... seriously, they did like, 14 damage from the backstab. i was liek, dude, my dude has 100+ hp, do you really think that'll do much? And they give you so much exp... |D the thieves are easier than the drow... to be honest. the annoying part was the petrification traps and spells that seemed to be all over the flippin place... T.T

I don't remember being able to leave during the ice place... :( Darn wish I'd known that earlier. I never backtracked but still... lol. But yeah, you gotta go real far back from like right before the end of game roadblock to the ice place apparently, which is still pretty damn far. Also, it's still technically backtracking from Dorn's Deep 'cause you go from upper Dorn's Deep, to Wyrms Tooth (the ice place) to Lower Dorn's Deep... sooo yeh... I found Lower Dorn's Deep to be the most exceptionally annoying, partly from the excess of flesh to stone spells that an enemy seems to be able to cast, along with traps of flesh to stone. and you don't get stone to flesh spell until right as you get the last of the stuff for the druid in the arboretum. T.T a.k.a right at the end of the game, and for me at least, AFTER I had already gotten past all the petrification crap. D:< But yeah, you get to do LOTSA runnin around. Have fun! On the bright side, in upper Dorn's Deep you get something REALLY REALLY COOL... in my opinion anyway... oh, and the number of 6th level spells you get in there for your mage... o_O eek. There were so many to choose from... and she only had 1 spell open... it made me sad...

I. Feel. Successful. Finally beat Icewind Dale I, by myself, and I managed the final battle on my second try without anyone dying! :D Better than my dad can say, like 3 of his dudes died, one of which was slaughtered beyond resurrection... but yup, I feel successful. My bard almost died... and my thief almost died... but I saved them and just had them shoot arrows from afar after a bit... to be honest, I can't help but wonder who dealt the final blow. Oh well. Off to Dorn's Deep for you eh? You probably won't get another opportunity to go where you want after you reach the end of Dorn's Deep... I didn't realize that I wouldn't be able to go back until it was too late to... so save often if you're gonna have business in the rest of the world, and trust me, if you want to completely help out that druid in the severed hand, you're gonna need to trek ALL THE WAY BACK OUT from just about the VERY END of Dorn's Deep. Have fun!

I love bards but my dad hates them. He says they're kinda good at everything but not great at anything. I agree, but still keep them around because their great lore means i almost never have to identify anything and i give them some identify spells just in case, and automatic excellent pick pocket skills later plus potential for knock means i can fully invest in finding traps and stealth for my thief. (to deal with stuff like those horrible flesh to stone traps later on... why the game has yet to present the opportunity to obtain a stone to flesh spell yet, i have no clue, but I certainly wish it would.) Plus my bard is my only character that uses long range weapons and can wield a composite bow, i.e seth's bow. Plus all the fun instruments you find for them and bard song. :D

Noooooo! Buy Icewind Dale II!!! It's not as good as Icewind Dale I or either Baldur's Gate game, but it's still pretty good!!! Especially the beginning. The beginning rocks. Oh, and I feel successful because I successfully picked up and started playing MY Icewind Dale I again... aaaand... the first battle I was in failed 2 times... (first my thief died with -10/67 hp... and he's an elf so i can't use raise dead on him... then my mage died and she's an elf too! I WAS JUST LIKE WHY IS THIS GAME KILLING OFF ALL MY ELVES?!?!?) but after that I did really well. And I found all this really cool stuff err... hrm... *cough* not gonna spoil that... :D What I would do for some elven healing wine though, that stuff is so great... |D

I thought there was some stuff in there... pretty sure I found something at least... weird. That tower's fun by the way. If you don't have Icewind Dale II... BUY IT. I'd follow that thread. :D

You get 4 pieces of machinery if I recall correctly, and yes, I am well aware you are doing better than I did... T.T My people had better hp and probably better armor classes than yours and they STILL get creamed. Lucky me. Well, I rarely actually lose, but it's still annoying having to baby my poor mage running around with her like 40-50 hp compared to everyone elses that reaches up to over 100. T_T Curse my horrible luck in absolutely everything. Or maybe it's just a bad idea relying on my mage so much... >.> seeing as my first solution to every battle is GOGOGOGOGOFIREBALLGOGOGOGOGO. :D Which... generally involves putting my mage and my thief on the front lines... my mage to cast, and my thief to show where the enemies are. Aaaand it goes wrong sometimes which quickly dissolves into plan B: gogogo my fighters! Who promptly get whacked... and that's how my battles go! And it works! Mostly. Also: Am I allowed to give my opinion even if I'm not really part of the game? If so, I vote for Furetchen getting the chainmail. Then another front line fighter, which is good. :) Well, for me anyway lol. Also: If you ever get the 4th level spell Otiluke's Resilient Sphere, it is absurdly useful. It basically makes whoever you cast it on freeze, and they are essentially immune to everything as long as the spell lasts. It works really well both to freeze an enemy you don't want to fight right away, OR if one of your dudes is dying you can cast it on them to save them. It has pretty quick casting time too, so you don't need to worry about that a lot.

My epic fails are all Eirika based. First off, she got hit with a 28% chance of hitting and lost like half her hp, then i saw someone else DODGE an attack that had a 27% chance of hitting. >.> 1% means a lot huh? Also, I had her attack Valter because I wanted to know what he'd say to her, and, OF COURSE, she misses, and he crits and kills with a 15% crit. How come MY units never crit with a 15% chance huh? Or at least, nowhere near as much as they SHOULD. T.T Another fail was Marisa, who outclassed Carlyle in every way by the time I got that far, got crit-killed by him as well, when he had like a 53% chance of HITTING. >.< Aaaand I can't remember any epic wins. T_T

I swear, that ENTIRE FLOOR hated me. It didn't help that my mage ran out of spells. :< She also got attacked. So she was running around being useless and trying not to die, while everyone else was dying and my poor poor healer couldn't heal everyone fast enough and I can't remember HOW I SURVIVED THOSE BATTLES. The bladed skeletons screwed me over every time... T.T Also, can you actually drink the wine? I don't think it's even an option...?