Janggut: Actually, I've never had lag in LH. It's fairly bug-free for me. Amazing, eh? About talking the final boss out of a fight -- whee! Then my investment in speech skill hasn't been in vain! (And it did, after all, get me out of a fight with a daeva.)

Kiya said:

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I avoided those random encounters and I'm playing with 8 - eats up XP.


Heh, I went out of my way to engage random encounters.

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I play because of the quests not the fights (errh, though I love to loot my NPC afterwards)


I'm the exact opposite. The quests are (IMO, mind) so very, very dull. The dialogue is so very, very unengaging. Hence, I'm killing everything that walks outside Hommlet and Nulb. (Actually, I've already killed Otis the blacksmith. He has interesting loot. Someone told me that he's got a CR of 10, but he sure doesn't look it. Oh, he had lots of HP, but he died rather quickly, and none of my characters was even remotely hurt. Disappointing.)

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Are you playing with NPC?


No. They all suck to some degree, and half the bugs I've heard about are associated with them.