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Zeniel posted:The firewine ruins is the most baffling place to me. It's a giant maze inside of a bridge? That also has an Egyptian tomb aesthetic? And there's next to no reward for going in there? There's a good bit of Baldurs Gate that really feels half finished, or feels as though the developers builts the areas first and then mashed a narrative into them second. rope kid posted:I can't remember exactly, but I think he was going to have Maiden Ilmadia and the fire giants ride them somewhere and burst out + murder everyone. Skwirl posted:Edwin's not that Evil he's just a selfish rear end in a top hat.
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netcat posted:He's actually just a fighter but some mod makes him a fighter/mage That's odd. This is a fresh BGEE install from steam. Nothing should be there.
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I am playing BGEE and I just got to Baldur's Gate. I caught some flack for having an evil character (Dorn) in my party so I want to replace him. Should I just kick him to the curb and try to go find Minsc, then try to level him up a bit? Without Dorn, my party is charname Ranger, DJ Khalid feat. Jaheira, Xan, and Imoen. Is there a good way to go about swapping a party member out? I've pretty much stuck with my original crew and I'm thinking I probably waited way too long to get rid of Dorn since my party is all good. Gooch181 fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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Hughlander posted:That's odd. This is a fresh BGEE install from steam. Nothing should be there. If you didn't delete the folder completely last time you uninstalled, there might have been stuff left over in the Override folder, that's where mods install their stuff usually.
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Gooch181 posted:I am playing BGEE and I just got to Baldur's Gate. I caught some flack for having an evil character (Dorn) in my party so I want to replace him. Should I just kick him to the curb and try to go find Minsc, then try to level him up a bit? Without Dorn, my party is charname Ranger, DJ Khalid feat. Jaheira, Xan, and Imoen. If you pick up Minsc you'll need to also grab Dyneihner or however it's spelled. I'd grab Coran or Ajantis instead if you want a fighter type.
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Factor_VIII posted:I think the point of going through it was to get to the Ogre Magus. All the kobolds in there are his minions. However presumably they realized how tedious it was and included the shortcut straight to him through the evil halfling's house. That's most certainly the point of going in there and I knew about the short cuts, but the reward for completing that quest is the princely sum of 250 gold. No experience except whatever piddling amount you get off of killing the Ogre Mage, his flunkys and whatever the ghosts give you. I guess the scroll of Cloudkill that ogre and friends has on him is supposed to be the main reward maybe? There's just so little there. I don't even mind the fact that its a cramped series of corridors because it forces you to readjust your tactics accordingly its just a strange out of the way place that loads of people in the game talk about, telling you to stay away and all the adventurers that died looking for wealth in there. You'd think there would be more to it. Actually what's with the ruins near the bandit camp too? Faerun seems to be packed with vague nondescript ruins. Factor_VIII posted:Indeed. If you ask her about it, Maiden Ilmadia tells you her plan about breaking the wall in the cavern with the magma lake and having it all pour into a nearby drow city with the fire giants riding into the iron boat on the magma flow to go in and exterminate all of the drow. That was because Poquelin expected the drow to betray him and attack his rear the moment his armies set out to conquer Icewind Dale.. Ah I never realized you could talk to Ilmadia, I just got dog piled by fire giants by the map entrance and she just jumped in at some point without any fan fare.
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netcat posted:He's actually just a fighter but some mod makes him a fighter/mage When the Ironmad thread gets posted, I hope it adds a list of suggested mods to run.
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Skwirl posted:If you didn't delete the folder completely last time you uninstalled, there might have been stuff left over in the Override folder, that's where mods install their stuff usually. Nope. First time on OSX. Didn't even know it was Steamplay until yesterday. Will check that steam didn't install something from Steam workshop. I cod see that because 2 years ago I installed a mod via workshop it's now autoinstalled on new machines.
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Comstar posted:When the Ironmad thread gets posted, I hope it adds a list of suggested mods to run. Imoen romance.
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cheesetriangles posted:Imoen romance. You're a monster.
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Have a Saerilith endurance run. Try to obtain the title of the god of murder without committing justifiable homicide.
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Zeniel posted:Have a Saerilith endurance run. Try to FTFY
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Has anyone tried BG2 since the patch? I just loaded it up to try out the new pathfinding and it seems... Better? A little. Still get that thing where one person will wander off into the corner because of a jam at a doorway, except now they'll turn around and go the right way once the path is clear. You'll also still get your party splitting up if there are two fairly equivalent paths. Those are my impressions after like 2 minutes of testing it, has anyone played more with it?
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Comstar posted:When the Ironmad thread gets posted, I hope it adds a list of suggested mods to run. cheesetriangles posted:Imoen romance. Zeniel posted:Have a Saerilith endurance run. Try to obtain the title of the god of murder without committing justifiable homicide. Stop trolling him. Just use Big World Mod and say yes to every single option.
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Hughlander posted:Nope. First time on OSX. Didn't even know it was Steamplay until yesterday. Will check that steam didn't install something from Steam workshop. I cod see that because 2 years ago I installed a mod via workshop it's now autoinstalled on new machines. Yeah, that's really weird, I know for a fact he wasn't a fighter/mage at release, and he shouldn't be one in base BG:EE. Have you literally installed no mods? because I think it's an option in a couple different ones, including the tweak pack and maybe SCS.
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Yeah he definitely shouldn't be a Fighter/Mage. I just finished a game with Khalid as one of my main tanks and he was nothing but fighter. Even did a double check just to make sure there was a sneaky patch or something and nope still a fighter. Then I murdered everyone in the Friendly Arm Inn and K&J got all uppity and left and I got ganked by the local militia.
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Skwirl posted:Stop trolling him. Just use Big World Mod and say yes to every single option. Does it work with the Enhanced Editions of BG 1 and 2?
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Make Khalid a Fighter/Mage is one of the components of BG2 Tweaks that can affect BG:EE, so it's probably that.
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Comstar posted:Does it work with the Enhanced Editions of BG 1 and 2? No. Just look at the Big World Project LP.
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Comstar posted:Does it work with the Enhanced Editions of BG 1 and 2? Just use the fixpack and the tweakpack, there are no other recommended mods, everything else is very much "your mileage may vary."
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Ilyich posted:Make Khalid a Fighter/Mage is one of the components of BG2 Tweaks that can affect BG:EE, so it's probably that. First install on OS X never had bg2 on it. Override folder had one 2k file in it but Google turned up nothing on its name. Windows is mounted as boot camp but can't believe it's search for a windows steam install.
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Skwirl posted:Just use the fixpack and the tweakpack, there are no other recommended mods, everything else is very much "your mileage may vary." I'm not sure you can install the fixpack on the Enhanced Edition games, and if you can it will probably break things. The EE versions contain most, if not all, of the fixes in the fixpack. The tweakpack is all that's needed.
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fong posted:Has anyone tried BG2 since the patch? I just loaded it up to try out the new pathfinding and it seems... Better? A little. Still get that thing where one person will wander off into the corner because of a jam at a doorway, except now they'll turn around and go the right way once the path is clear. You'll also still get your party splitting up if there are two fairly equivalent paths. Same for me. I haven't had anyone get stuck, but the party still splits onto different paths constantly. Lots of other nice fixes, though. My favorite is the most boring.. resizable fonts.
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Got BG:EE for a Christmas gift...played BG and BG2 for years, always as a good character... Dorn Monty Xzar Edwin Viconia What would be the best class/multi-class to make my PC?
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CobiWann posted:Got BG:EE for a Christmas gift...played BG and BG2 for years, always as a good character... You've got 2 mages, a thief and a cleric, so probably some fighter type. If you've installed the tweak that let's druids only be half evil, I'd go with a neutral evil fighter/druid, otherwise a berserker or barbarian.
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CobiWann posted:Got BG:EE for a Christmas gift...played BG and BG2 for years, always as a good character... Tank or DPS. My favorite types are usually ranger based (Archer, Cleric/Ranger) so maybe go with Fighter/Mage, or Fighter/Illusionist(Gnome only) or if wanting to be really odd try a dwarven defender. I had a lot of fun with F/I in the last year (And C/R too but can't due to evil.) If you go F/I make sure to go Chaotic Evil for the best familiar in the game and free mid-game robes of evil-archmagi from killing the Drow Sorcerer.
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Fighter/Mage - dual class or multi class?
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CobiWann posted:Got BG:EE for a Christmas gift...played BG and BG2 for years, always as a good character... CobiWann posted:Fighter/Mage - dual class or multi class? I like multi class where the spells are just buff debuff before wading in with 2 weapon style.
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dual if you want more power by endgame, multi if you want to play a fighter / mage the whole game. imo multi classes are overall more fun.
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What was the decision on Iron Man? Are we waiting for a new thread after Christmas, or getting stuck in now? I've got the itch, and I'm not talking about Summon Insects.
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sebzilla posted:What was the decision on Iron Man? Are we waiting for a new thread after Christmas, or getting stuck in now? I've got the itch, and I'm not talking about Summon Insects. I started mine taking notes and screenshots. Dragon disciple with party members I nice take.
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sebzilla posted:What was the decision on Iron Man? Are we waiting for a new thread after Christmas, or getting stuck in now? I've got the itch, and I'm not talking about Summon Insects. There were just enough people who wanted a bit of a delay that I'll start the official thread sometime around the first weekend of 2015. (Also I realised that I wanted to do a wipe and reinstall myself to join in and I'm away from my discs for the holidays.) In the meantime, people who've got stuff ready for when it does go up would be great, to give it a bit of initial momentum. So doing like Hughlander and starting on your character/notes for first update/first few updates right now would be cool.
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Every day I hope the thread gets posted so I can get started. If the thread doesn't go up if we could at least agree on some rules ahead of time would be nice.
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Knowing some of the rules in advance would be great. When the last thread started I was starting my first full BG playthrough ever, so I did a BG2-ToB solo wizard slayer instead. This time I will try the full trilogy run, is BG2:EE bug-free enough to try an ironman game?
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Angry Lobster posted:Knowing some of the rules in advance would be great. When the last thread started I was starting my first full BG playthrough ever, so I did a BG2-ToB solo wizard slayer instead. It was when I did it. I kind of stopped playing during ToB, but that was because the thread died.
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Every time you die and reload you have to say "I survived with 1 hitpoint!"
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You can reload if you run into a game stopping bug, but that's it. If Edwin gets gibbed he stays in pieces. You can, however, use any revival available in the game like raise dead or resurrection.
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If you've got archives, I'll be stealing 90% of the OP from the last thread, which in turn stole its OP from the thread before and so on. It's a fine tradition that I'm proud to carry on.  For the basic rules, it's what you'd expect: No reloads except for picking back up exactly where you left off, or for bugs and crashes. You die, you're out. You get an unfavourable outcome from a fight, like a party member being chunked, live with it. Start in whatever BG game you want, with whatever version you want, on whatever difficulty you want. Hell, we'll probably take any of the other IE games too. Mods are welcome. If they make you OP, try to make it look hilarious instead of boring. If you don't want to mod, that's fine too. We aren't going to check you. There are no rewards except nerd cred. Write your updates basically however you want. Screenshots and descriptions of the highlights are cool. Narrative is cool. Videos are cool. A checklist of poo poo you did this session is cool. We'd like you to try to make it entertaining, but that's not exactly enforceable.
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The spirit of ironman is "no reloads". In addition to the obvious "if you get a game over you don't reload and try that fight again", it also encompasses things like " don't save-scum when turning in quests so that you get the best reward ", and "if you attacked the wrong NPC and now Gorion is hostile, too bad". Everything else is basically up to you. It's all about having fun, not about e-honor or anything. Some people resurrect dead party members, while others leave them dead and find some other way to carry on.
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