Lockpicking, disarming, spell-learning

[Feist]

Hi, I had a question that I wonder if someone can answer.

I just started playing the game (beta version 2.5) and I noticed after a while that my thief gets no experience from lockpicking or disarming traps, and my mage earns no experience from learning spells.

Is this the way it should be, or is this a bug? It's been so long since I played Icewind Dale that I can't remember.

If this is correct, then it's pretty weird. In the "Vale of Shadows" for example, there is a trap in a crypt, if my thief detects & disarms it she gets nothing, but if I trigger the trap 4 lesser shadows appear and gives me hundreds of XP points.

[Armanz]

All of what you described is correct. You do not earn XP for disarming traps or learning spells and the Shadow trap works as it should.

[Feist]

Originally posted by Armanz:

All of what you described is correct. You do not earn XP for disarming traps or learning spells and the Shadow trap works as it should.

Thanks! I still had such clear memories of the BG-games and earning xp by doing such tasks, that I became quite uncertain about how it was supposed to work in IWD.

It's a little dissapointing, yet also gratifying that I haven't missed out on lots of little xp-gains.