Baldur's Gate problems

[Seonaid]

So, I'm playing Interplay's BG for PC and I have Coran in my party, and he gets sick of us wasting time and decides to leave the party. All well and good except that he showed up again. When I asked him to join the party he did. However, he immediately initiated conversation to leave the party (as if I asked him to, not as if he got tired of waiting again). And then, he immediately asks to rejoin (again, as if I asked him)! The only way to stop the loop is to tell him NOT to join. Is there any way to fix this? I haven't completed the wyvern quest yet, and I'm hoping that will fix it. He's good for my party and I don't want to lose him if I don't have to.

 

[Endur]

I think his leaving has to do with him being impatient about his quest. The easy way to stop that stuff is to do the quest.

Most of the NPCs are rather impatient to get started on their own personal missions.

 

[KenM]

IIRC, Minsc was the same way. If you did not do his quest to get his girlfriend from the gnolls after a set ammount of time after you get him in your party, he goes berserk and starts attacking the party members.

 

[Seonaid]

Yeah, so should I do the quest and then ask him to rejoin? It seems like there's a bug in his script. He's not leaving me these times because he's upset about his quest.

 

[Greylock]

Compare your respective alignments. Could be an issue, although it's been ages since I played BG.

 

[KenM]

I think with the orginal BG, the first couple of guys that ask to join you right after the opening are evil alignment, and this makes it harder to get some of the better NPC's in the party.
Word of advice, the elf magic user you find at the bottom of the mines, DON'T take him. The most useless character in the game, IMO.
When I played and we ran into Drizzit, I had my thief pick pocket him. The thief got one of Drizzit's magic scimitars. You'd think he'd notice something like that.

 

[Greylock]

YOU PICK-POCKETED DRIZZ'T!

Bad man.

And yes, the two NPCs on the road out of town are not only Evil, they are useless. Two years ain't too long to remember that.

 

[KenM]

YOU PICK-POCKETED DRIZZ'T!

And got away with it. He did not notice one of his magic scimitars was missing. Minor bug with the game. I think the pickpoket sytem gives you a random item that the person has, thats what I got.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Most of the NPCs are rather impatient to get started on their own personal missions.

Way impatient...

For me a serial connection (2 player game) was the way to go... You can make every member of your party and they got nothing but love for you and each other.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Way impatient...

For me a serial connection (2 player game) was the way to go... You can make every member of your party and they got nothing but love for you and each other.

That worked well in BG II also. Although I played a 2-player game by myself, I got to make all sorts of crazy characters that literally tore apart (well at least the Kensai literally tore apart) the enemies. The Avariel girl was pretty cool though, so I dropped one of my less-interesting characters for her.