Hey!
My girlfriend and I recently picked up the Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition and Baldurs Gate 1 Enhanced Edition in the Sale. We would like to start playing one of these in Co-Op Mode. We have zero experience with D&D games, so we wanted to ask you, which one of both you would recommend to play first. How do these games play in Co-Op mode? Do we play the campaign and each of us control some characters or do we play just on the world-map but without the main quests available? Are they easy to set-up? I searched the forum for Co-Op/Mulltiplayer, but mostly found topics of 2010

Thank you in advance!

Best Regards!!

I find IWD is more suited for multiplayer. Its story resolves around a group of characters and not Player One. I would recommend to only use one character each, to keep the pause to a minimum. Pausing easily annoys the other player.

True but wouldnt the game become too hard with only 2 characters? I remember both can use 3 characters each with total of 6.

Yes. Definitely have a full party. It lets each player get a feel for the different classes and also always have something to do.

Hey, thank you for your answer! We definitly considered your information. I also posted in the Icewind Dale Forum. We did go with Icewind Dale, because we thought that the more combat intensive style of Icewind Dale would fit the Co-Op Mode more. Because of our total lack of D&D Knowledge, some of the earlier fights were very messy, but after like about one and a half week we are now @the start of the six chapter.

Just if you are interested which party we took, allthough this is kind of OFFTOPIC here, because its with Icewind Dale, maybe it is interesting for you:

Barbarian (me)
Skald(Bard Kit) (me)
Clreic (me)

totemic druid (she)
Ranger (she)
Dragon-Breath Mage (she) (dont know the english name for it, we play on german :>')

After the second chapter we were so frustrated because of all the traps and chest we could not loot. We researched a bit and the result was: Our Humans could not Dual/Multi Class into a Thief because our only Human was the Totemic Druid...
Well we decided to kick the Skald(we felt like he had the least impact and i kinda screw up his stats and gave him only 13 intelligence) and created a new LVL1 Thief/Mage Multi Class Character. In the beginning of the third chapter it was funny, because he run arround with 7 HP and for the first few hours his job was to hide as best as possible :D
He catch up very nice on the experience and i put all the Thief Points into Lockpick and Disarm Traps and so far he has done a very good job. So i guess, if anyone of you is a new player and kind of screwed his start party, dont be scared to just delete one character and add a new one to your party. It definitly is worth it! (Dont know, if this is possible in Soloplay).

About the multiplayer-mode in Generel in the Enhanced Edition: If you play in Local Area Network, it kind of works fine, sometimes you have random drops, but it was not frustrating and you can easily drop and just rejoin. Nothing Lost! (Just mid-fight it kind of sucks..). But trying to play over the internet is just ... no. It doesnt work at all. :(


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Like 2 years ago i started to play Baldurs Gate and very early in the beginning you come to a town with a big castle. There is a mage who wants to kill you. And he is very effective in it. I had/have no idea about the D&D system and this mage just single handily killed me all over again. I had absolulty no clue what to do (maybe just run away?) and yeah... i just stoped playing it. Guess i will restart it soon i singleplayer with the new "combatknowledge" of Icewind Dale :)

The wacko on the stepps of the friendly arms inn? Pick up some group members before going there if it's too difficult, but I usually just swarm him. Are you playing on Bhaal mode or something? Also, I'm pretty sure in all D&D games you need a thief type for traps.

If you're having trouble with the Mage () waiting to attack your PC that is in front of the entrance of the [url=http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Friendly_Arm_Inn]Friendly Arm Inn; then the next time you play, right after Imoen joins you on the Coastway/Lion's Way there are 2 NPCs (Xzar and Montaron) on the road heading to the northeast. Recruit these 2 NPCs (at least temporarily) for the encounter with Tarnesh at the Friendly Arm Inn, you can always remove them from your party later if you don't want them long term.

Your girlfriend sounds awesome.

Watch the guards' randomwalk. Once you understand it, it is easy to arrange to have at least 2 guards close by when you trigger Tarnesh. They can chop him up a whole lot faster than you can.

But if you are playing good, you can always think of getting Xzar and Montaron killed as improving the Sword Coast...