Day 1-1

Day 1-1

On Rancors and Bait:
 
There's some sort of corpse near the doorway you have to rig with both bait and explosives. To do this, you need a stealth-capable character, otherwise the Rancor quickly recognizes your presence and devours you without giving you a chance to retaliate. 
 
The corpse is literally thirty feet from the doorway you use to enter the Rancor's lair. Should be pretty easy to spot.

Also, this blog makes me want to go back and play through the game again. 
 
Though, I'd have to go backwards via the 360, and the framerate isn't the greatest. :-(

Based on the way you keep writing about what you're going to do, it makes me think that you're reading a guide or reading what you should do ahead of time. Like you say, later I'll do the pod races and save Bastila. I think that's still a bit further ahead than you are, and I don't think you'd know about all that until you reached it. Anyway, If that's the case and you're reading ahead, I'd suggest you stop and just keep pushing things forward on your own. There's too much at stake here, man. No need to spoil the game. Also, you won't really need the game to hold your hand. It's not like Zelda where you'll always be getting lost and just running around mindlessly without a guide. So go on now without one, and may the force be with you.

Kinolo Moon :/

" @Mikemcn: It's pretty hard for me to come back to KotOR, mostly because after playing through it once, I find the beginning incredibly tedious.   Don't get me wrong, that slow beginning is necessary for the whole "hey-I'm-a-Jedi" part to feel rewarding, but after rising to such high heights and then starting again with petty blasters and vibroblades, things just aren't as enjoyable. "

Ah KOTOR, if only I could go back. I think I finished that game about six times. Good on you for playing it, I'll enjoy reliving it vicariously.
 
I'll never forget that one droid, that's as specific as I can be without spoiling things

" @Mikemcn: Follow along then! You'll get a warm feeling every day :)  I think I'm using Mission's Viroblade right now, just threw out the prototype from the ship. "

Oddly enough I started playing KOTOR a couple of weeks ago. I got about 10 hours into it (I'd just got off Dantooine and decided to go to Tatooine) and just didn't go back to it. I do that with a lot of RPG's. I get to a new area & for whatever reason I stop playing. I should really go back to it before too much time has passed.

Man this blog makes me want to go back and play it soon! Thanks for the memories! :-) Haven't played it for about two years I think, guess I should go back and do it!

As for the playing, just go through and enjoy it. Its a fabulous experience and is much, much fun.

For me the first planet had the best and worst parts of Kotor, some of the quests were tedious and the places were very far apart, but on the other hand it  had some of the best quests too. 
 
I think this game had a much more interesting starting than Mass Effect. But i would rate it starting wise as kotor 2 > kotor > mass effect (and i love mass effect)