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Air Skwirl posted:Why not? I mean, I know there's no in game mechanic for it (thank god), but why would the child of Bhaal be barren? they aren't. you just make a little baby slayer. "awww isn't it so cute OH GOD IT ATE MY FACE"
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Arivia posted:In Thay. What? It doesn't all have to be weird or gross poo poo you know. People can just be happy to live where they are used to, just like the pigs in mud. Isn't Thay a gross and weird slaver culture?
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May 13, 2023 19:32
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Theres a mod where you can just disable reputation mechanics, correct? I'd like to do an evil party but I dont want the game to hate me for it.
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May 13, 2023 19:49
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Vargatron posted:Theres a mod where you can just disable reputation mechanics, correct? I'd like to do an evil party but I dont want the game to hate me for it. Tweak pack as a thing where party members won't leave for too high or too low reputation, and another one where low reputation either doesn't affect prices in stores or makes it so a low reputation also makes prices cheaper (normally shop prices are lower with a higher reputation and vice versa). I don't think there's a mod that stops the Flaming Fist/Amnish Guard from attacking you if your reputation gets truly bottom barrel.
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May 13, 2023 19:56
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I think they implement low reputation well tbh, it's just the game showers you with good reputation and gives no incentive or reason to choose a different path, so every playthrough with evil characters ends with you having to murder a random NPC to keep your rep below 18
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May 13, 2023 20:35
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Having a great time with Xzar dual classed into Cleric was a compelling reason for me to watch my reputation level for a long time, I only had enough Helms of Opposite Alignment for Dorn  I messed up in every possible way planning my party this playthrough, I love it. I dual classed Imoen and Safana and then realized they were literally the only available thieves for Siege of Dragonspear for the first two chapters
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May 13, 2023 20:58
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Air Skwirl posted:Why not? I mean, I know there's no in game mechanic for it (thank god), but why would the child of Bhaal be barren? I would be shocked, but overjoyed, if there wasn't a mod that enabled lady bhaalspawn PCs to have a baby.
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Dr. Quarex posted:It has always struck me as exceptionally unusual when the characters that designers allow you to have romantic interactions with are actually the characters you like and want to spend more time interacting with. I think literally the only overlap for me was Jack in Mass Effect 2, even if this was a little outside my general preference to not date mass murderers (then again, all game protagonists are mass killers of some sort). I can fix her Might I suggest: Hexxat. What is not to love about a lesbian vampire?
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May 13, 2023 22:44
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Ginette Reno posted:Reputation is one of the dumber components in BG and I don't mind modding that out, (the good/evil leaving over rep limits part) even during Ironman runs. Don't know if it's possible but the only thing I'd mod out are the NPC reactions to reputation completely. Like mechanically the same, just not a peep from anyone high or low, good or evil. Because good want high rep because they're benevolent. Evil want high rep to cover for their nefarious activities.
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May 14, 2023 00:03
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The Silver Horn of Valhalla is missing in my game for some reason. It is not in the chest at the foot of the bed in the two story house in the Bridge district, the one that is next to Reedle. I don't have a single mod installed and I definitely haven't picked up the thing and sold it. What could have happened to it? Did the Enhanced Edition change something about it? I can not find anything about the EE moving or removing the thing.
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Flowing Thot posted:Might I suggest: Hexxat. What is not to love about a lesbian vampire?
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Node posted:The Silver Horn of Valhalla is missing in my game for some reason. It is not in the chest at the foot of the bed in the two story house in the Bridge district, the one that is next to Reedle. I went and looked in my ancient EE version, but it's right there.
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Can you even have a good team of Evil characters? I remember trying to play a Evil Game and just failing miserably because of the reputation thing and also not having a more balanced team with abilities.
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Hollismason posted:Can you even have a good team of Evil characters? I remember trying to play a Evil Game and just failing miserably because of the reputation thing and also not having a more balanced team with abilities. The EE added the missing piece in Hexxat; before there was no evil NPC with thieving abilities. Dorn/Korgan/Viconia/Hexxat/Edwin is not bad at all. Arivia fucked around with this message at 01:08 on May 14, 2023 |
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May 14, 2023 00:57
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Arivia posted:The EE added the missing piece in Hexxat; before there was no evil NPC with thieving abilities. I can't remember if I played the EE as a evil party. Its been a while since I posted in this thread. I can't even remember when I last played Baldur's Gate. I know its recent enough that I had all the EE's in my GOG account that I just recently regained access to. According to the thread I played Baldur's Gate and those games in 2016. It will be interesting to play them again since I remember jack poo poo from them. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 01:08 on May 14, 2023 |
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May 14, 2023 01:01
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Also if I remember correctly the Tweak Pack has an option to "donate" at a tavern to reduce reputation so you don't have to kill random people to manage it. Prices are similar to the temple, I believe. That would make an evil game much easier as well.
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Rappaport posted:I went and looked in my ancient EE version, but it's right there. I wonder what the hell happened. Can I add it back if I enabled the console?
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Node posted:I wonder what the hell happened. Can I add it back if I enabled the console? Yeah, or you can use EEKeeper to add items as well.
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May 14, 2023 01:15
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Arivia posted:The EE added the missing piece in Hexxat; before there was no evil NPC with thieving abilities. Evil PC thief/mage is the real solution, single class thieves like Hexxat are just not very fun mechanically, and she's not well enough written to make up for it imo.
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bike tory posted:Evil PC thief/mage is the real solution, single class thieves like Hexxat are just not very fun mechanically, and she's not well enough written to make up for it imo. Possible to dual or multiclass Hexxat or is Hexxat not human edit: I just looked it up and she's a vampire even though she used to be human. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 01:56 on May 14, 2023 |
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Jan is perfectly happy to be in an evil party even if he isn’t evil himself. I’m sure the same is true of Nalia and Imoen. I’d rather take anyone other than Dorn however. His personal quest is terrible.
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Fun fact, you can dual class Sarevok into a thief for Throne of Bhaal, and there's enough XP for him to get Use Any Item, so he can use Carssomyr
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Air Skwirl posted:Fun fact, you can dual class Sarevok into a thief for Throne of Bhaal, and there's enough XP for him to get Use Any Item, so he can use Carssomyr yeah i was trying to leave his name out in case we had anyone who was still spoilable (i know it's literally 20+ years old but still), but i'd absolutely replace korgath with him when i got to tob
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Suspicious posted:Don't know if it's possible but the only thing I'd mod out are the NPC reactions to reputation completely. Like mechanically the same, just not a peep from anyone high or low, good or evil. Tweak Pack has this or something close to it iirc. I guess you could say that if you're allowing yourself to just sit at 20 rep all the time then you're also getting the best store prices but who cares honestly like good characters already get disproportionately the best benefits from quests (aside from a few notable exceptions like the Man Coat) so it doesn't feel to me like it changes game balance much to eliminate rep as a mechanic. Just lets you run more interesting parties and not deal with an irritating game mechanic.
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Just make your PC a Fighter/Thief
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goblin week posted:And really, can you imagine a Thayvian being happy I really can't
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Is Jaheira's companion quest stuck, or does it trigger after Spellhold? I'm at "Return to Harper's Hold" where she said she will think about attending the hearing. It's been a few weeks in game and the quest hasn't progressed since.
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Ace Transmuter posted:I really can't It's as easy as imagining a Thayvian hurting someone needlessly
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Node posted:Is Jaheira's companion quest stuck, or does it trigger after Spellhold? I'm at "Return to Harper's Hold" where she said she will think about attending the hearing. It's been a few weeks in game and the quest hasn't progressed since. This is probably the step that only triggers when you rest outside (inns won't work).
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Nostalgamus posted:This is probably the step that only triggers when you rest outside (inns won't work). That was it, thank you. I have two mages in my group, Neera and Aerie. I've never had two mages at once before and it's pretty cool how flexible they are with each encounter. The only problem I have is when battling very strong encounters like dragons and liches. They seem immune to everything and their always succeed their saves. What spells should I be casting on those kinds of enemies? I try to Lower Resistance and Greater Malison targets like that, but it doesn't seem to do much. How can I make my mages more useful against big targets, other than casting buffs before the fight?
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Lower Resistance stacks, you need multiple of them to make things reliable on dragons. Liches are immune to spells of levels 1-5.
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Node posted:That was it, thank you. Are you playing with ANY mods? (Not a bad thing just mods often touch mage power in bg2 so people need to know)
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Arivia posted:Are you playing with ANY mods? (Not a bad thing just mods often touch mage power in bg2 so people need to know) Nope, no mods. MrL_JaKiri posted:Lower Resistance stacks, you need multiple of them to make things reliable on dragons. Good to know that it stacks, I've tried casting multiple Lower Resistances before and the combat log doesn't say "Lowered resistance of monster by 22%" each time, so I thought it didn't. What spells would you recommend casting, after landing a few lower resistances?
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Skull Trap
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Dragons: greater malison and unload with chromatic orb and finger of death and just bore it to death with saving throw statistics. Mages are kind stalemated against lichs. Best case after the standard array of prebuffing is you can Ruby Ray or Khelben's Warding Whip enough spell protections for someone to cast Sunfire. Alternately death fog or power word silence for a more direct approach but your basic lich job is to open them up to weapon and/or cleric BS. e. it looks like Mage dispel is also turned into a universal swiss army knife at least in EE? So its an earlier way for mages to Do Things during a lich fight despite its spell level being lower. zedprime fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 15, 2023 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Skull Trap Don't think I ever used this one in BG, but boy did I go to town with it in Icewind Dale...
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You don’t really need to dispel protections from a lich to do Sunfire just send in 2 clerics and have them both cast it and that lich is dead* *does not apply to modded games or demi-liches.
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e: apparently Sunray inflicts magic damage, not fire damage.
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My options were all reset for some reason, including max hp on level up. I'm curious how long that has been going on. How many hp should Jaheira, with standard 17 constitution, have at levels 13/13? She has 90 for me which seems low.
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