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chaosapiant posted:So in all my years of playing Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, there are still some companions I've never used or taken anywhere. I'm just now figuring out that Keldorn is a busted rear end "i win" button and I'm not sure how I ever got along without him. That said, is there a more amicable solution to his "family problems" than "murder the dude who looked after his kids and imprison his wife?" I picked the dialogue options that I thought would lead to some kind of understanding, went and met Keldorn some hours later in his temple, and he's like "well that's done, back to your quest." You have to tell him his wife is important and go meet the guy she's "cheating" Keldorn with. Push Keldorn to forgive the guy, he goes back to talk with his wife, and if you tell him "WE GOTTA SAVE IMOEN DUDE!" he will join back with you in a day's time. Or you could not be a total selfish dick-wad and let him retire with his wife and kids   Nah, take him with you and swap him for big bro, leave him to rot in a planar prison for all eternity
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Rappaport posted:You have to tell him his wife is important and go meet the guy she's "cheating" Keldorn with. Push Keldorn to forgive the guy, he goes back to talk with his wife, and if you tell him "WE GOTTA SAVE IMOEN DUDE!" he will join back with you in a day's time. Or you could not be a total selfish dick-wad and let him retire with his wife and kids I guess that makes sense. I avoided the dialogue choices that made it look like he would murder the interloper and told him he should talk to his wife, but I guess that's not enough? So if i'd gone and "talked" to the other dude it wouldn't have ended in bloodshed?
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Mar 16, 2024 16:27
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Yeah, the dude confesses they didn't do the dirty and Keldorn sees the situation for what it is. No one needs to die, chaosapiant 
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Mar 16, 2024 16:41
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Rappaport posted:Yeah, the dude confesses they didn't do the dirty and Keldorn sees the situation for what it is. No one needs to die, chaosapiant Ah well, at least my dispel and invisibility purge button is back in my party and all is right with the world.
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Mar 16, 2024 16:44
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chaosapiant posted:Ah well, at least my dispel and invisibility purge button is back in my party and all is right with the world. That button is called Haer Dalis who needs Keldorn At least that's what i'm telling myself this time around on my current playthrough. Lets see how it goes!
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Mar 16, 2024 19:00
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Considering getting back into BG1/2 after finishing BG3, what mods are available that use EEEx aside from the modules that come with it? The description of it made me excited there might be QoL mods like displaying AoEs when casting a spell or the like, but I haven't seen any EEEx mods besides the included sample ones.
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chaosapiant posted:I guess that makes sense. I avoided the dialogue choices that made it look like he would murder the interloper and told him he should talk to his wife, but I guess that's not enough? So if i'd gone and "talked" to the other dude it wouldn't have ended in bloodshed? Keldorn is surprisingly normal and doesn't really go murder people
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Woolie Wool posted:Considering getting back into BG1/2 after finishing BG3, what mods are available that use EEEx aside from the modules that come with it? The description of it made me excited there might be QoL mods like displaying AoEs when casting a spell or the like, but I haven't seen any EEEx mods besides the included sample ones. https://github.com/Bubb13/Bubbs-Spell-Menu-Extended If you're using SCS, EEEx's Shift+mouse over to see what buffs are active on an enemy is very useful.
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v1ld posted:https://github.com/Bubb13/Bubbs-Spell-Menu-Extended This mod doesn’t work on an unmodded UI right? Just with UI mods? When I tried installing it I get all kinds of errors when booting the game and I’m using EEex w/ Infinity Loader.
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Mar 16, 2024 22:06
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goblin week posted:Keldorn is surprisingly normal and doesn't really go murder people He will threaten and kill Viconia basically completely unprovoked. You could argue that his overreaction is actually heroic because Viconia is essentially a polite Hitler who just wants to do some torture and slavery, but bro. She hasn't actually done anything to you. Plus he'll bro down with chaotic evil Korgan. All I'm saying is he probably bought a house next to the witch burning platform for a reason. Randallteal fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Mar 16, 2024 |
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Mar 16, 2024 22:46
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Randallteal posted:He will threaten and kill Viconia basically completely unprovoked. You could argue that his overreaction is actually heroic because Viconia is essentially a polite Hitler who just wants to do some torture and slavery, but bro. She hasn't actually done anything to you. Plus he'll bro down with chaotic evil Korgan. All I'm saying is he probably bought a house next to the witch burning platform for a reason. It's because paladins are cops
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Woolie Wool posted:Considering getting back into BG1/2 after finishing BG3, what mods are available that use EEEx aside from the modules that come with it? The description of it made me excited there might be QoL mods like displaying AoEs when casting a spell or the like, but I haven't seen any EEEx mods besides the included sample ones. For displayed AoE quote:SetPrivateProfileString('Game Options','Show AOE','1'
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chaosapiant posted:This mod doesn’t work on an unmodded UI right? Just with UI mods? When I tried installing it I get all kinds of errors when booting the game and I’m using EEex w/ Infinity Loader. It shouldn't have any dependencies on any other mods afaik. The page I linked says the author tested it with base EET which doesn't have any UI mods. IIIRC it worked for me too in EET with just EEUITweaks and no actual UI mod. What kind of errors are you seeing? What does your infinity loader config file have in it?
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Randallteal posted:He will threaten and kill Viconia basically completely unprovoked. You could argue that his overreaction is actually heroic because Viconia is essentially a polite Hitler who just wants to do some torture and slavery, but bro. She hasn't actually done anything to you. Plus he'll bro down with chaotic evil Korgan. All I'm saying is he probably bought a house next to the witch burning platform for a reason. IIRC he respects Korgan for being totally honest and forthcoming about being an evil prick. And to be fair, Korgan is totally upfront about murdering his last party. You know where you stand with that guy. Aggroing on Viconia is messed up though and seems more like something Anomen would do, if he wasn’t such a dingus Anyways Keldorn is absurdly good and only gets better with Carsomyr, if you can stomach turning him into a delinquent dad Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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The Shame Boy posted:That button is called Haer Dalis who needs Keldorn I really hated Haer'Dalis as a kid because I thought the character was a fae, gay, dramatic queen whose dialogue didn't make sense to me half the time. As an adult that's why he's maybe my favorite new party member in BG2. A planes-jumping thespian who has Seen Some poo poo is probably the most plausible new character to join the group, whereas a Bhaalspawn adopting Aerie feels like child abuse.
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I used level one npc to turn Aerie into a Kensai/Assassin and it made her moppiness a lot more tolerable when she was popping an invisibility potion then exploding a dude with one hit.
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I always found Haer'Dalis to be a boring nihilist. His kit is so drat good, though...
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Fruits of the sea posted:IIRC he respects Korgan for being totally honest and forthcoming about being an evil prick. And to be fair, Korgan is totally upfront about murdering his last party. You know where you stand with that guy. Anomen is too horny for Vicky to think about hurting her
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I always let Keldorn go be with his family (and I like to think that I discreetly slip some pamphlets for an anger management seminar into his backpack when I do)
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Air Skwirl posted:For displayed AoE  Why isn't this exposed in the UI?
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Are there any UI mods that are good, aside from Dragonspear UI++?
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Depends on what you like. Lefreut's UI restores the games' original UI to the EEs and significantly improves on it if you like that look - it also lets you pick the color theming from each of the 3 games to use across all of them (I like BG1s yellow/golden colors best for eg). Infinity UI is by the DUI++ author and more in the same vein, looks cool but I've never tried it. I recently tried out Lefreut's EEUITweaks instead of running an actual UI mod and have come to like it. It's a modular set of tweaks that doesn't take over the whole UI. My biggest beef with the native UI is the big bars used as background on the left and right sides. This mod lets me get rid of the left bar and its icons entirely, while retaining only the character cards from the right side - which I find perfect. I use a couple more of its tweaks. The feature unique to DUI++ is the single combined inventory scheme where you can drag and drop items across the whole party. That is a very cool feature to have.
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Woolie Wool posted:
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v1ld posted:Depends on what you like. Lefreut's UI restores the games' original UI to the EEs and significantly improves on it if you like that look - it also lets you pick the color theming from each of the 3 games to use across all of them (I like BG1s yellow/golden colors best for eg). Regarding the UI sidebars, you can already get rid of either side by pressing Y or U, or the buttons at the top. That said, the Original UI mod you mentioned sounds pretty cool, I might give that a go. Thank you!
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chaosapiant posted:Regarding the UI sidebars, you can already get rid of either side by pressing Y or U, or the buttons at the top. Sure but that also loses the character portraits which I do want, along with status effects and any decorations that mods like EEEx add to it. The existing options are too binary.
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v1ld posted:Sure but that also loses the character portraits which I do want, along with status effects and any decorations that mods like EEEx add to it. The existing options are too binary. Right, but you can get rid of just one side at a time already? You can drop the left bar and keep the right one. That's in the base EE games.
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chaosapiant posted:Right, but you can get rid of just one side at a time already? You can drop the left bar and keep the right one. That's in the base EE games. But then you get the full right bar, with background and icons for actions that are already on keyboard. With EEUITweaks, I can get only the character portraits with no (imo) ugly big bar stretching across the right side of the screen. It may not be clear: I want only the character portraits, floating free of any bar. It's what you see in DUI++ too, just the team's portraits on the right side, no bar or icons for actions. Unlike DUI++, I can even completely get rid of icons for things like the priest or mage books with EEUITweaks - they're already bound to the keyboard and I don't need UI elements on screen to get to them. What the game gives via those two keys is not the same thing, just the option to hide all of the bar or none of the bar, no modularity to what is hidden or shown.
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v1ld posted:But then you get the full right bar, with background and icons for actions that are already on keyboard. Ah, got it! That makes more sense, thank you for explaining. I may check those out. I like DS UI++ but it makes my game super crash happy and didn’t work at all with EEex. Edit: do spells like Doom and other saving throw conditions effect the Mace of Disruption’s chance to destroy undead? chaosapiant fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Mar 17, 2024 |
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chaosapiant posted:Edit: do spells like Doom and other saving throw conditions effect the Mace of Disruption’s chance to destroy undead? Yes they will, the instakill is a saving throw effect.
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yall ever read any good bg fanfiction? And not mods lol
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Shard posted:yall ever read any good bg fanfiction? And not mods lol yeah it's called "elminster: the making of a mage" by ed greenwood
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Elminster is one of the protagonists of the Sandrah mod, and Shard specifically requested no mods
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Shard posted:yall ever read any good bg fanfiction? And not mods lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Forgotten_Realms_novels
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I gave the drizzt novels a shot since I had some audible credits and boy does the author like to use the term "females" a lot Passable disposable fantasy otherwise
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Ok going that route what is the best d&d books? And if you want to give more recommendations what are the best high fantasy books for that matter
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Plenty of bg let’s plays
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Shard posted:Ok going that route what is the best d&d books? And if you want to give more recommendations what are the best high fantasy books for that matter Just read Pratchett
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Books are for nerds.
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Mr. Lobe posted:I gave the drizzt novels a shot since I had some audible credits and boy does the author like to use the term "females" a lot This is A Thing with drow, they also call men "males", it is really dumb
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Woolie Wool posted:This is A Thing with drow, they also call men "males", it is really dumb No the author calls catty brie, a human, a female a lot too
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