The most Dwarfiest Dwarf in all the land Yeah? Who would've thought I'd still be doing these? I'm sorry it's taken me almost a week to get anywhere, but a long weekend and a misguided attempt to finish Resident Evil 5 on Professional (I'm on chapter 6-1, so I'm in the home stretch) are enough for anyone to not play an RPG that hasn't especially drawn them in yet. I wrote a list about my worst impulse buys, if you're interested. But hey, here I am. Here to tell you about the continuing adventures of Fire Dude the Swashbuckler through the world of Faerun and the weird glitches he encounters therein. 
 
So, we left off with me being at some fort, where I was tasked with doing some sidequests. Doing these sidequests, which included "Kill some bandits" and "Kill some undead" has gotten my party up to a level where they can consistently kill things as long as they aren't ravaged by disease or fighting undead. Basically, I already have to give a tentative non-recommendation to making your main character a swashbucker, as undead happen to have damage reduction from the items that class is proficient in (light weapons. I'm rocking a +1 Rapier and a +1 Kukri in an attempt to crit dudes all the time. Which works poorly since Undead are immune to crits) and I am to understand that there are a lot of undead in the Original Campaign. Khelgar on the other hand, has proven his stereotypical Dwarf self (seriously. He and Oghren from Dragon Age should have a "Who is more of a stereotypical Dwarf" contest) to be well worth using in combat, mostly due to the fact that he has 18 strength and constitution as well as great cleave. 
 
So anyways, after doing all that fort nonsense, I set out for Highcliff and on the way I encountered Elanee, a druid who is good and caring. Obviously, I've started losing influence from her pretty fast with my violent and selfish ways (Unsurprisingly, Neeshka and Khelgar seem to be into one or the other of those things) and the only class I think is more dumb than Druids are Monks. If I encounter an actual honest to goodness Cleric, I will be dumping her and her nature loving self ASAP. It's not like healing is especially vital when you can rest practically anywhere. There was corruption in the grove, Elanee may be the only druid left (hooray!) and we finally got to Highcliff, where yet another obstacle got in our way. This time, the Lizardmen are sinking all the ships. Thus, after agreeing to do some sidequests in the same areas as where the main quest is, I went to a farm where a lady named Shandra is, only to watch said Lizardmen burn down her farm. Because she is voiced, I have a suspicion that I haven't seen the last of her.  That's around where I stopped for today, realizing that I will probably just be doing some more dude killing for a while.
 
So, so far I still don't know who the villain is other than a vague reference to "The King of Shadows" and the plot has yet to advance in any reasonable manner for the past 3 hours. Yep. Nonetheless, I can't say I hate this game. The dialog isn't totally amazing, but there's a nice party dynamic to my choices (basically, they all hate each other) that will no doubt go away once I get more party members and therefore more variables that they don't want to pay the writers for. The combat is alright, but not especially complex so far. Spellcasting AI unsurprisingly sucks, as Elanee dumps all her offensive spells on the first thing that moves. I guess I'll have to turn it off and play the game Infinity Engine style, even if the camera is still kind of ass. And with that, I think I'm done.  See you eventually?