Someone told me that you can do something with gems and scrolls to trick the game and then it gives you 64,000 or so of whatever item you confused the game, because you had actually used a scroll. This a myth or how do you do this? Will it crash the game??

I don't know if it's a myth or not (I heard it with potion rather than scroll). But it honestly seems like it must be, because you can't put a gem in the quick item slot. At least, I've never been able to...

Well, I remember a trick with scrolls and potions, you make click in a potion in quickslot, make a pause inmediatly, and put the scroll in quickslot. Inclusive the no-magic clases can read scrolls, but I never try it.
Maybe the multiplication gem trick is something for the style, but again I never try it too.
But you can get enough money with robbery and steal without tricks.

If you are going to cheat, you might as well cheat. Using the console is much quicker than resorting to game engine cheesery.

in the inventory (pause if you play multi) you rightclick on a potion and choose drink potion, then you put a gem or a scroll in the space where the potion were and you either get like 65555 something gems or you cast the scroll on your self, dont use spells like magic missile but spells like invisibility and stoneskin

[ June 10, 2006, 13:47: Message edited by: Gastong ]

The trick is actually from BG1. In the unpatched BG1 game, you can put Gems into the quick item slots. If you put a potion in Quick Item slot and use it from the game screen and use it, Pause the game and quickly switch a 1 item gem into the slot, you can sometimes get it to register as 65,000 someodd uses (the same number as the number of uses of Algernon's charm spell).

It can also happen in BG2 though it is more difficult (I used a potion once, but switched it with Celestial Fury and when I unpaused the game I got electrocuted). Same method as Gastong said though doing it Drew's way is so much easier.

How can you do that if you can't switch things in your quick slots in the game screen and the game automatically unpauses in the inventory screen?

Because you can only do one action per round. So if you time it right, there is a slight pause from you instructing a character to use an item and them actually using it. Which, if you go quickly, is plenty of time to move items.

It wont crash the game, but the games engine has something in it that will check all the items in your pack every so often. So if you have a slower system and several million items, you may get a 'stutter' bug, this can be remedied by dropping those items on the ground. The trick has always worked for me fine - it will work with all items that are given a numerical value (can be stacked) and is probably most easily done in just the inventory screen (quickslot was only neccesary for BG1).