Being a pacifist is hard work!

[superlloyd]

In Baldur Gate, on some forgotten beach, I found 2 group of people fighting (some rogue guild and the "stone lord guild") and they wanted me to take side!

I kindly suggested there was no need for a fight, and boom they are all against me!
I swear being a pacifist is hard work! but lots of XP! :P

[Favonius]

Armed pacifism is a concept

[superlloyd]

Originally posted by Favonius:

Armed pacifism is a concept

It's hard work, but someone gotta do it!

You gotta ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love each other, even if I had to pummel that into every single one of your corpses! :P

[Annie Other]

Can't we just all be friends? Come on, let's forgive each other. Who wants a hug?
You... didn't like this? But I don't want to kill anymore! Why can't they see that NOT killing people can make you happy and that the people you don't kill can become real friends?
Sigh...

[Olga 1987]

My Devotion oath Paladin believes in Good with fists: she obliterated this criminal scum on that beach and went away, simple as that. However, after dealing with the Stone lord group and recruiting Minsc she didnt't fight Keene's gang too because it felt unnecessary: Minsc has already been dealt with (and remained alive), and the other group (Zhents) have become my enemies since Act 1.
BTW, she also frequently uses Frighten and Deceive options in my Good playthrough lol.

[belgix]

Originally posted by superlloyd:

Being a pacifist is hard work!

But it's possible to do a complete run w/o killing directly anyone. Yes. it is really a hard work!

[superlloyd]

Originally posted by belgix:

Originally posted by superlloyd:

Being a pacifist is hard work!

But it's possible to do a complete run w/o killing directly anyone. Yes. it is really a hard work!

Without even using barrel of gunpowder!
That is really hard work! Well done :)

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by belgix:

Originally posted by superlloyd:

Being a pacifist is hard work!

But it's possible to do a complete run w/o killing directly anyone. Yes. it is really a hard work!

For sure. Just let the other 3 in your group do the killing. All you have to do is heal and buff them. Or do nothing.

But in reality, I would not call that being a pacifist. If you are doing a evil play run, you are just as guilty as the ones doing the murders.

[superlloyd]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

Originally posted by belgix:

But it's possible to do a complete run w/o killing directly anyone. Yes. it is really a hard work!

For sure. Just let the other 3 in your group do the killing. All you have to do is heal and buff them. Or do nothing.

But in reality, I would not call that being a pacifist. If you are doing a evil play run, you are just as guilty as the ones doing the murders.

And.. that is your first reaction?
Interesting....

Mine was simply to assume they didn't kill anyone. Running away is always a possibility when all else fail, most of the time. The other time a good barrel of smoke powder can help. But there ain't that many around...

[harken23]

Non-lethal damage, but it would be tough to play the whole game with only that. Go in with a bunch of monks, might work.

[belgix]

Originally posted by superlloyd:

Mine was simply to assume they didn't kill anyone. Running away is always a possibility when all else fail, most of the time. The other time a good barrel of smoke powder can help. But there ain't that many around...

On the run I saw he effectively killed nobody but that doesn't mean there is no death in the run. Goblins vs druids, the guy simply jumped in the village watching the battle ... not my concern as he said. He did something cleaver with Balthazar in the Gauntlet of Shar. After asking Gale to unlock Balthazar door (Knock) he opened the door using invisibility (kind of trivial thing if you play a duergar and are level 5). All is run is all like that. He used barrelmancy only once (on the final battle) but he did not detonate the payload. The brain initiated the massive explosion leading to self-destruction. Definitively not a normal run, but possible.

His biggest challenge, find exp w/o doing any battle. By grinding every possible way, he was only level 9 at the end.

Originally posted by harken23:

Non-lethal damage, but it would be tough to play the whole game with only that. Go in with a bunch of monks, might work.

He used non-lethal damage to get Orin's netherstone.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by superlloyd:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

For sure. Just let the other 3 in your group do the killing. All you have to do is heal and buff them. Or do nothing.

But in reality, I would not call that being a pacifist. If you are doing a evil play run, you are just as guilty as the ones doing the murders.

And.. that is your first reaction?
Interesting....

Mine was simply to assume they didn't kill anyone. Running away is always a possibility when all else fail, most of the time. The other time a good barrel of smoke powder can help. But there ain't that many around...

If you use smoke powdered barrels, that is not being a pacifist. You are purposely setting up a trap to kill someone.

And there a lot of them available. just need to know where to look.

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by belgix:

Originally posted by harken23:

Non-lethal damage, but it would be tough to play the whole game with only that. Go in with a bunch of monks, might work.

He used non-lethal damage to get Orin's netherstone.

If his char attacks and does damage, yet does not kill the subject, say by knocking her out? That is not playing as a pacifist. Or did he have one of his group members do it?

[belgix]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

If you use smoke powdered barrels, that is not being a pacifist. You are purposely setting up a trap to kill someone.

You miss the point. As long you don't pull the trigger to ignite the first barrel it's not your fault if the opponent set alight the first powder keg. Due to the instant death, the game never went to combat mode.

Originally posted by wtiger27:

If his char attacks and does damage, yet does not kill the subject, say by knocking her out? That is not playing as a pacifist. Or did he have one of his group members do it?

He used a glitch in the game to get Orin. When Orin kidnapped the kid, he spammed the game engine with the artifact preventing her to return to her true form. In the battle, instead of getting Orin with full hit points, he got Orin as a kid with only 5 hit points. He knocked Orin out in one shot (and of coarse, he was invisible to get near her w/o triggering a fight). Again, the game engine never went to combat mode because of a single hit knocking her out. None of the cultists saw something and they were still friendly after taking Orin's netherstone.

When you are doing this kind of run, you need to thing out of the box.

[Sentient_Toaster]

"I cherish peace with all of my heart. I don't care how many men, women and children I need to kill to get it.”

[Mosey]

Originally posted by superlloyd:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

For sure. Just let the other 3 in your group do the killing. All you have to do is heal and buff them. Or do nothing.

But in reality, I would not call that being a pacifist. If you are doing a evil play run, you are just as guilty as the ones doing the murders.

And.. that is your first reaction?
Interesting....

Mine was simply to assume they didn't kill anyone. Running away is always a possibility when all else fail, most of the time. The other time a good barrel of smoke powder can help. But there ain't that many around...

You're gonna kill someone by the end of the game due to the plot either way.