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Fantasy characters with a last name are always off-putting to me, for no good reason.
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tyler "drizzit in da hizzit" dourden
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Mar 11, 2016 13:09
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Dyna Soar posted:tyler "drizzit in da hizzit" dourden sorry for this post
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Mar 11, 2016 13:12
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I can't believe they actually made abdel Adrian the canon bhaalspawn does this mean jaheira ripping her blouse off because of spiders is canon? And that khalid is a lecherous scumbag?
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Mar 11, 2016 13:41
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The novels are canon*, so yes. *And said canon can take a long walk off a short pier. My personal theory is that the novels are in-universe books written by Abdel, who is just some opportunistic survivor of Amelyssan's purge who impersonated the hero of Baldur's Gate years after everyone had forgotten his/her name. The actual canon protagonist and outcome is whatever the gently caress you want it to be.
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Mar 11, 2016 13:57
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Oh god I had no idea there was a novel. Very excited to read it. Very excited to hate on it. Edit: got it for $4.23 on amazon, very excited. bongwizzard fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Mar 11, 2016 |
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Mar 11, 2016 14:26
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Kavak posted:The novels are canon*, so yes. Yeah that's not how canon works in the Realms. gently caress off. @bongwizzard: If you don't like last names the Realms may not be the place for you then. They're home to Elminster Aumar aka Elminster of Shadowdale aka Elminster of Mystra aka Elminster the Sage.
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My memories of FR stuff is all the used 1st ED stuff I had as a teen and I am increasingly aware that I want to keep it that way. I am that thinking of rebuying a bunch of the supplements, mainly for the amazing maps. I was and am a map freak and and spent hours just laying in my bed pouring over them, imagination racing. Imho all rpg setting books should be 80% maps, detailed and vague, full color and sketches, real and fake, gimme all dem maps. God, I just remembered this thing I would do where I would cut up yellow craft paper, then weave it back together, draw maps on them, and like burn holes and poo poo to age them, all as player handouts for 15yo dudes who just wanted to kill orcs and get loot.
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Mar 11, 2016 16:30
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Lemon-Lime posted:What were you expecting was going to happen when you imported a level 8 character into BG1? That the game would bust him down to level 1?
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Mar 11, 2016 17:02
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Arivia posted:Yeah that's not how canon works in the Realms. gently caress off. Fuckin lol get a load of this guy
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Mar 11, 2016 17:09
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Woolie Wool posted:That the game would bust him down to level 1? It doesn't do that, same way it won't bust down your level 6 or whatever character you just finished BG1 with when you export/reimport him so you can replay the game and reach cap. 
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Woolie Wool posted:That the game would bust him down to level 1? it is weird to expect that but i guess if you're playing them for the first time recently or gotten back into it after many many years of playing modern poo poo it's hard not to expect. then again most games have new game plus these days and it's basically almost the same. basically. fun fact, you can import original 90's bg characters into the EE's though. same with your original IWD characters but i think the IWD EE does some preventing of that. you can also copy over your original bg2 save games and have them work fine in bg2 EE which is pretty cool. mods get hosed up though of course. i haven't tried the reverse but i expect it to be similar just with the new content getting treated as missing mods and broken strings.
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Mar 11, 2016 22:25
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Yeah, this would be my first time playing it. I just hosed around with it a bit, I'm not going to start in earnest until I complete Pillars of Eternity (I'm in the final dungeon).
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Mar 12, 2016 03:13
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Woolie Wool posted:until I complete Pillars of Eternity (I'm in the final dungeon). I should probably play it again with a different class and do the game in order.
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Mar 12, 2016 05:33
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It looks like achievements were added to Baldur's Gate EE 1 & 2 on Steam recently (I don't recall seeing them before), but looking at the global achievements stats, nobody's earned any of them. Are they bugged or something?
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Mar 12, 2016 06:42
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bongwizzard posted:Oh god I had no idea there was a novel. Very excited to read it. Very excited to hate on it. As someone who read the entire series in my youth, you have my condolences.
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Mar 12, 2016 07:09
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Max Wilco posted:It looks like achievements were added to Baldur's Gate EE 1 & 2 on Steam recently (I don't recall seeing them before), but looking at the global achievements stats, nobody's earned any of them. Are they bugged or something? from what I understand they've been activated steam-side but the flags to trigger them haven't been patched into the game yet
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Max Wilco posted:It looks like achievements were added to Baldur's Gate EE 1 & 2 on Steam recently (I don't recall seeing them before), but looking at the global achievements stats, nobody's earned any of them. Are they bugged or something? i have 3 of them. they are only working with the 2.0 patch and it's not out yet cept for the public beta, the codes are one the last page if you want them. i would wait, unless you really wanna see the SoD tech "improvements" or gently caress around with the shaman class. i got two when i loaded a savegame i made years ago when ee first came out, for killing carbos and shank in candlekeep and for siding with mercs against silkie. then i loaded my black pits save and got hit by bug which turned on Story mode which puts everyones str up to 25, so i got the godlike "raise a stat to 25" achievement.  they are aiming for the patch to be out very soon, before SoD is released. Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 17:26
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I got the "leave Candlekeep" achievement for starting the tutorial. Maybe it's because I imported my BG2 character.
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Mar 12, 2016 17:41
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You should get an achievement for dying to Carbos or Shank, not for killing them.
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Mar 12, 2016 18:08
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If I tell my starting party members that I created to leave to make room for new ones, can I get them back later?
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Mar 12, 2016 20:00
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Woolie Wool posted:If I tell my starting party members that I created to leave to make room for new ones, can I get them back later? yeah by default in the first game they'll just stand around eternally in the place where you left them with the exception of the new dudes from the ee, who go to the friendly arm inn
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So I guess I should go to the Friendly Arm Inn to dump off two of my characters before picking up those two weirdos on the road because I dislike them immediately (lol Chaotic Evil, that necromancer and I are going to have problems) and I will probably throw them out and get my roll-your-own characters back as soon as I do their quest. Also Pillars of Eternity portraits work perfectly in Baldur's Gate so I made Thaos my cleric.  Is there a mod that replaces that stupid Ye Olde Calligraphie font with something smaller and more legible? Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 20:17
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Party members that are unhappy with your reputation will leave permanently if you remove them from the party, which can be annoying. As is the reputation system in its entirety, really. Luckily, it's the easiest thing to mod; just one .2da file needs to be changed, although I don't remember what it's called.
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You can also install the G3 tweak pack and change party reputation behaviour, among many other things.
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Mar 12, 2016 21:43
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Wizard Styles posted:You should get an achievement for dying to Carbos or Shank, not for killing them. Nah you should get an achievement for dying to your own Wild Magic that ends up summoning a Death Tyrant or something e; Now that I mention it I think I remember reading about something almost exactly like that in the Hardcore BG LP thread.
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Mister Adequate posted:Nah you should get an achievement for dying to your own Wild Magic that ends up summoning a Death Tyrant or something All achievements should involve silly poo poo. You killed Kangaxx? Yeah, cool, big deal, but did you pickpocket him for a second ring? Because that's an achievement. e: Cat Burglar achievement for letting your familiar steal wands and potions from temporary party members in Candlekeep. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 23:08
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Wizard Styles posted:You killed Kangaxx? Yeah, cool, big deal, but did you pickpocket him for a second ring? Because that's an achievement.
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Mar 12, 2016 23:33
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can you switch from a bow to sword&board with one click yet?
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The Little Kielbasa posted:can you switch from a bow to sword&board with one click yet? oh poo poo yeah, that's in the new patch but i forgot to try it out. edit: there are a ton of little things the new patch does, you now see town and wilderness names on always on the map along with the hours to travel without having to tab over them. you can now esc out of the starting cutscene in bg2, not sure if it's all cutscenes yet but they are working on it. all the bg1 water titles now use bg2's water tiles. you dont need to copy save games over to bg2 to continue the character, game does it for you. the switch back the original way of the weapons you get from the genie and the cambion, the weapon from the genie has a new icon presumably because it's part of SoD. they finally "fix" ioun stones giving you protection from critical hits like all helmets do. npcs now come close to matching your level like those mods for the original. Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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Somehow this is the one thing I'm legit excited about. Now if they could somehow add scripts for prebuffing/summoning queues everything would be good.Sleep of Bronze posted:jfc, did the EE not put in the fix for that? It's been around since Baldurdash.
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How are you supposed to raise a stat to 25 without cheating? Unless this includes temporary buffs, in which case the achievement is trivial to get.
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Yeah, I don't think inherent 25s are possible. 24 Wisdom is as high as a stat can get as far as I know, mostly thanks to the three books in BG1, unless they added some permanent bonuses. e: 24 Strength is also possible for a Half-Orc, I think, but again, not 25. So yeah, this is probably the "drink two Potions of Genius" cheevo. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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Mar 13, 2016 00:45
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18 WIS, +3 BG Tomes, +1 Lum the Mad, +1 Hell Trial, +1 Deck of Many Things, +1 Silver Ioun Stone?
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What is the typical goon opinion of the removing identification option in BG2 Tweaks? I know it's technically cheating but it seems like removing pointless busywork from what should be a reward (finding a cool item).
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^ Identifying is so trivial in BG2 that I don't see the point in removing it. It's such a nonissue. The ioun stone doesn't raise your base score though, it's a permanent buff until removed. Otherwise you could just equip crom faeyr on anyone for the cheevo.
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Mar 13, 2016 00:55
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There's also 24 constitution for evil Dragon Disciples
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Suspicious posted:How are you supposed to raise a stat to 25 without cheating? Unless this includes temporary buffs, in which case the achievement is trivial to get. I guess you could also run one character through BG1 multiple times for all the stat books. Although if you are going to do that you might as well edit the character file.
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Woolie Wool posted:What is the typical goon opinion of the removing identification option in BG2 Tweaks? I know it's technically cheating but it seems like removing pointless busywork from what should be a reward (finding a cool item). I do it because I've played through the game so many times I know what everything is anyways.
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Woolie Wool posted:What is the typical goon opinion of the removing identification option in BG2 Tweaks? I know it's technically cheating but it seems like removing pointless busywork from what should be a reward (finding a cool item). I remove it because it's a pain in the rear end when you have to re-memorize spells after a fight when you still have a ton of damage spells left.
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