Tips for a starting adventurer?

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Okay...
So I recently got this game called Neverwinter Nights and spent some (not too much) time generating my character. Now times of slaughter shall come, and I want your advice. If possible...

Things I like to know:
1. Easy money...
2. Quests to start with (as an Archer-like Elven Ranger) Means: Not too difficult.
3. Nice weaponcombo
4. Nothing about Henchmen. There are several posts concerning these.
5. Things you found worth for advice

First 2 questions are most important to me
Thanks

 

Money is not that important because most of the good stuff is the stuff you find. Just play through the game, do quests and you'll get plenty of cash.

 

1. There is no such things as 'Easy' Cash, so don't fool yourself. You should amount a fair deal of gems and trinkets (such as weapons you have no use for) that should net you up with a fair deal of coin.

2. As soon as the prelude is done and you've accepted the main plot assignment, you'll notice a Druid as soon as you exit, this starts a Ranger/Druid class quest.

3. As you're an elf, I hope you picked High Dex with Weapon Finesse feat. Yes? Good! AS you're an elf, take the Rapier and Rapier combo, because you Dual-Wield without severe penalties. Then you could quickly change to Longbow (composite if possible) at the click of a button.
Don't bother with Short Swords or Daggers because Rapiers are better. Alt. you could choose Longswords, but they would not be applicable with the Weapon Finesse.

4. Nothing

5. (mostly above)

All this is true, I played a ranger for a while too, until i switched to bards! Hope this helps.

-goph

 

1.Money is really hard to get a chapter one.
One way, is to restrain from buying a holding bag early in the game, because you can buy a nice one (with 100% weight deduction) at one of the shop in the port.
2. I'm an archer, elven-ranger too. I found out that you should clear out all the surroundings first, before going to specific quests. I found out that the jail is the easiest, undead second, port third and the hardest is the rich-man area.
3. End of quest one, when restoring helm, ask for the bow. Before that, one longbow is enough.
Get 5 quiver of arrows, everytime.
If you want to kick ass, use normal attack(not rapid-draw) with piercing arrows against bosses. This arrows are on hell of a price. Never use them against undead.

Level 7 ranger, level3 cleric.

 

Listen to Aribeth (I always get the names wrong). Her suggestions on where to go next (found through the "do you have any ideas where the westavian creatures can be found) will walk you through Ch.1 in the order it was intended to be played. (ie. hardest last).

Talk to everyone with a real name, and you'll uncover quests. Its worth it to spend a few skill points on Persuade, so that you can get non-class specific quests that way. (I found three quests in the whore house).

On the dual weild thing ... I like the rapiers, but use whatever "falls into your hand" in terms of magic items. Weapon finess in Rapier is a great idea, but for your off hand, there are some cool hand axes that might be worthwhile.

Mostly... enjoy; set the difficulty slider all the way to the right (or 1 set from the right depending on your preference), and kill some bad-guys for me!

 

I agree with Tal in that the best items are either bought, or built using the blacksmiths. Even so, I still have more than 80,000 gold in the middle of Chapter Three. I never found money to be a problem.

Explore every area you find. Use the tab key a lot of highlight treasure. Never give up.

About the bag of holding: I never bought one, and I have four or five in my inventory that I found.

 

I guess money depends on which class you play then because for my Ranger/Rouge I didn't need anything, but if you're a different class you might need to buy more things.

 

Well, thanks for everything so far!
If there's something else, please post...

 

I need to know something:

I'm a archer now, and I discovered that piercing arrows give an extra attack bonus or something like that because the arrows are very accurate compared to normal ones. Is that true?
(Because in baldur's gate, piercing arrows has a +4 hit modifier)

And then when I used rapid-draw, the attack rolls seemed to become back to normal,(more like a waste of this precious arrows). This is what I feel, I wonder anyone else out there feels like this or not.

And then what are your comments on the other arrows? I'm thinking of wasting all my collected money in buying lethal arrows.

And poison arrows: If I shoot more than one arrow at an opponent, will the effect be cumulative?

Is called shots usefull? (And the skill after that?)

 

Hehe! Yeah, lot of things I would like to know too.

If you mean Rapid Shot-Feat: You gain an extra attack per round, though all shots in that round suffer a -2 penalty...

An other thing (2 even):
What does the Maximum Dexterity Bonus of armor do?
And what is an Armor check penalty?

2 things that may seem very simple to you, but I'm afraid I mix things up...

 

Another newbie question...

I'm sitting around, waiting for my new computer with it's none-Voodoo graphics card to arrive. In the meantime, I'm planning my character. How are your skill points affected at first level? The manual's not entirely clear on what is * 4. Is it the intelligence modifier, or the skill points as a whole? Does this mean rogues can start with 30+ skill points?

And hi everybody.