Maxing out your inventory/making weak characters pull their share of the weight

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Hey All. I'm at the point where I'm having to sacrifice my precious Winter Wolf and Yeti pelts so I can carry all the cool magic I'm accumulating in Wyrm's Tooth. One thing I've noticed, however, is that gems barely weigh anything. My cleric can only carry 50 pounds, so she carries all the gems that don't fit in my thief's gem bag. So keep that in mind, everyone. Anyways, do you guys think I should:

1, Go back to Kuldahar and sell all these pelts and potions and stuff? I don't like the idea of diverting from my goal so I can make more cash. Too bad I can't drag a caravan behind me filled with furs and gems. lol.

2, Or ditch the pelts and continue on with my quest?

Let me know how you all handled it. And if you see a giant taco wielding a broadsword and screaming profanities, it's just me entering your game.

 

Other things you can do to maximise your carrying capacity is to exploit the 'non weight' of arrows, bullets, scrolls, letters and gems (as you pointed out). I guess you are already stacking the weaker characters with scrolls (whether they can use them or not) along with the gems. You can also make use of the quiver slots for arrows and bullets even if that character is not going to use them. On a similar note make sure your people are filling all of there weapon slots, again whether they wil be using a particular weapon or not.

Another one that I have often forgotten to exploit is that ability to stack potions and spells of the same type. So make sure you are not wasting a slot by having 2 charcaters carrying the same potion type.

Finally, if you really don't want to loose stuff or return to a shop try looking for a handy trunk to store stuff in (make a note of where it is though). I'm pretty sure that IWD is the same as the other games in that stuff in trunks is safe. In that way you can store those spare suits of armour, important letters, etc that you are reluctant to let go of.

The stupid thing is, the problem doesn't go away even when you get the bag of holding, jewel bags and scroll cases in BG2. There just always seems to be something else you'd like to carry.....

 

It is vital to have as much money as possible, therefor you don't throw away anything that will give you more than 10 gp. I have never managed to fill up my inventory anyway. Always seems to go empty of arrows, and will have to visit town because of that.

 

I have to agree. By the time I'm out of arrows and bolts I would just go back to town and get more and sell off all the extra stuff I was lugging around. Again anything under 10gp is not worth your time. I think by chapter 5 I had around 35k gold so I wasn't really worried about money much.

 

Capitan, i think you should not worry for the money, i mean, whatever you can buy, you always get better stuff later in the game... and some of the great stuff has no use so ya can sell it...


when i ended for the first time IWD i had like 300000 gold coins and i didnt make any effort to get that amount

[This topic is 6 months old. Your reply sounds like he asked the question yesterday. What is it with you people lately? Is it really so hard to check the date posted on the original question or any of the answers?!] -Tal

[This message has been edited by Taluntain (edited September 10, 2001).]

 

could he have left him in a chest and come back to them later? would that work? It worth a try if not dont save it and reload your game no harm done besides little lost of time.