mrmike49: So what's the trick - did a search and can't find it (^&(%^ Bioware old forum only lets you search 2010 and 2011, and their new forum is almost empty)
It's a lot of work. The trick is to not let the game run while you're in the exit area.with the items in your inventory :
1. Immediately pause the game when you gain control of the
party after leaving the underdark, before the drow equipment
decays. Transfer ALL the drow stuff you want to keep on to
one person and have that person drop it all into a pile on
the ground. You can then unpause it. Adamantine dust will
appear in your inventory just like if the items decayed, but
they will still be on the ground. Also, opening the bag of
holding seems to decay items as well even if paused, so do
not put anything you want to keep in there.
2. Next, string your characters to the edge of the map, and
have one of them as close as you can get without trying to
exit the screen. The trick here is to have the people
close enough together that they may pass items still. Keep
the character that dropped the items in the same spot so
that he can pass them all to the next person.
3. Now, repause the game, and have the character over the
stack of items pick them up and pass them down the line of
characters until the person near the edge has them. Have
that person drop them all in a pile on the ground again.
(Since the game is paused here, you are in effect, moving
the items to the edge of the map before any time can pass,
so they do not decay.)
4. Move your whole party close enough to the edge of the map so
that you can leave the area with just a single click and no
one will have to walk. Leave the guy on the stack of items
again.
5. Pause again, and pick up all the equipment, passing some of
it to other people if you need to again. Leave the
inventory screen, and click where the party will leave the
area. Then unpause, and the party will leave before the
items decay.
