You have to admit, it was a damn fine rock. As for selling...I found out the hard way that you need to click the button above "barter". If you don't, you'll just give stuff away for free. I lost a lot of gold this way.

if you barter there is a scale icon just above where you can try to talk them into giving you more... the point is this system is a total pain to use and clearly wasn't play tested because its very hard to move items into the trade slots

p.s, yes the trade option is much simpler to use

That sounds more reasonable than the BG2 approach, if I understand it correctly.

In other words, it sounds like your companions only talk when either:
* You initiate dialogue after the exclamation point appears.
* You try to do something the character doesn't like.

In other words, the dialogue only starts in response to the player's action. That sounds a lot better than how BG2 handles it.

Let me remind you that the version you're playing is not a final, fully polished, build of the game. Hence, there will be aspects of the game that haven't been playtested well, and if enough people comment to Larian on how poor the system is currently, hopefully Larian will tweak it before the game's full release.

(Also, for anyone reading this in the future, it's possible that the system may have been changed significantly since this post.)

yes i'm 25 hours in so far and thats how it works

p.s, you have to gather your party... [see map]