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I for one would love to see the process of mod making, as it is something I know zero about.
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Just finished the expansion after 24 and a half hours according to Steam. Am sure there are probably some bits I missed too. Had a couple of little issues, but nothing really major and nothing unfixable. I will probably replay it for different NPCs Totally flabbergasted by the reaction to the "SJW" bits though. Seems like a couple of reasonable innocent comments that've been blown completely out of proportion. As far as "spoiling a classic game series", Baldur's Gate was my first gaming fandom and I don't know where all these asshats have suddenly popped up from. Holy crap I am such an idiot for believing "Awww yay we're getting David Warner back to do a player voice set, of course there isn't any other reason!". Dude's voice was the thing that hooked me on the whole series, so I was delighted with that, but even more with what we got (and yes, I went and rolled an all new character just so I could use that voice set. Which got a bit confusing at a couple of points as a result)
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Apr 9, 2016 02:46
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Bout to fight Aec'Letec for the first time, any advice? 
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Acaila posted:Just finished the expansion after 24 and a half hours according to Steam. Am sure there are probably some bits I missed too. Had a couple of little issues, but nothing really major and nothing unfixable. I will probably replay it for different NPCs But but but aren't you outraged that they RUINED, RUINED I SAY the characterization that fan favorite Safana and canonly wrong Jaheira got The David Warner voice pack is so, so good.
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Apr 9, 2016 04:35
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Is it explained at all what exactly Caelar's crusade was about? I get her end goal, I don't understand how her rampaging through the Sword Coast helped that though.
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Luisfe posted:But but but aren't you outraged that they RUINED, RUINED I SAY the characterization that fan favorite Safana and canonly wrong Jaheira got To be honest, I don't remember Safana having much characterisation in the first place. That's the case for most of the first game NPCs imo, they're simply not as developed as in the second one. She still uses her sexuality to get what she wants, which is most of what I do remember, and was certainly up for manipulating my PC to dance to her tune like she did with Coran in 2. Fair enough and in character I'd say that she tells some guys who don't offer anything useful to her (in my party, Voghiln the derpy skald and Baeloth the squirrel tamer) to gently caress off and stop trying it on with her. Jaheira I felt suffered in prominence due to the lack of VA, but that's hardly the writers' fault. It's just not the same if the nags aren't voiced! But, I dunno about others, but I think it's effectively poignant for her to actually show a slightly more tender side considering we all know what's coming up soon. It's dramatic irony in my eyes. David Warner is just perfection. And now I have a cranky sorceror that sounds like him wahey!
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Apr 9, 2016 05:08
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chaosapiant posted:Is it explained at all what exactly Caelar's crusade was about? I get her end goal, I don't understand how her rampaging through the Sword Coast helped that though. She took Dragonspear Castle and then attempted to get more crusaders/resources for the job, is my understanding of it. Don't see anything obviously wrong with that, though it lacks punch compared to other grandiose fantasy plans, so I can see why it might be confusing at first.
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Apr 9, 2016 05:15
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Has anyone ported Tomb of Horrors to the Infinity Engine or Neverwinter Nights?
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Apr 9, 2016 05:25
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chaosapiant posted:Is it explained at all what exactly Caelar's crusade was about? I get her end goal, I don't understand how her rampaging through the Sword Coast helped that though. She needed an army and resources.
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Apr 9, 2016 05:30
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:She took Dragonspear Castle and then attempted to get more crusaders/resources for the job, is my understanding of it. Don't see anything obviously wrong with that, though it lacks punch compared to other grandiose fantasy plans, so I can see why it might be confusing at first. So what was all the looting and pillaging about? Edit: Finished! A very fun expansion. I truly hope this isn't the end of Baldur's Gate content.
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Apr 9, 2016 06:00
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chaosapiant posted:So what was all the looting and pillaging about? I mean... as they explain in the game, she *asks* for the stuff first, but if not given willingly she takes it?
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Apr 9, 2016 07:33
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Woolie Wool posted:Has anyone ported Tomb of Horrors to the Infinity Engine or Neverwinter Nights? Haven't played it but I know there's one for NWN: ftp://neverwintervault.org/rolovault/projects/nwn1/modules/3826/index.html
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Apr 9, 2016 07:59
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LowellDND posted:Bout to fight Aec'Letec for the first time, any advice? Kite him and do whatever you can to boost your save vs. death. If a party member gets his gaze debuff (even after the fight is over), kill them yourself or they'll explode and become a ghoul and be permanently dead. Also take out all the cultists before you kill him.
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Apr 9, 2016 08:13
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Icewind Dale: The Beetle Days I'd say "gently caress Bombardier Beetles.", but they're also amazing as summons. Cirosan posted:Very good. To avoid cluttering up the thread, I'd recommend corresponding either over PMs or using Steam (my username is the same there). I've read about the Branwen mod being pretty much a tutorial, yeah. Going to check that out and try to reproduce the important parts (as in, add a basic recruitable NPC and make an installer for it). Shouldn't be too hard for two weeks. bongwizzard posted:I for one would love to see the process of mod making, as it is something I know zero about.
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Apr 9, 2016 11:55
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That's, hm, quite a senior party you have there! (I love reading about custom party concepts)
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Apr 9, 2016 12:02
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Someone at Black Isle/Obsidian has some kind of beetle obsession.
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Apr 9, 2016 12:18
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Nycticeius posted:That's, hm, quite a senior party you have there! The Half-Orc Dragon Disciple is easily my favorite, not only because that picture is just really cool, but also because the IWD Sorcerer voice set is just perfect for him:  Side note, it's surprisingly hard to find decent pictures of old fantasy witches, it's either green-skinned Oz/fairy tale crones or, well, sexy girls with pointy hats. Pwnstar posted:Someone at Black Isle/Obsidian has some kind of beetle obsession. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Apr 9, 2016 12:26
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Beetles and spiders were the go-to monstrous vermin for D&D video games. No centipedes, no scorpions, and I don't think any ants.
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Apr 9, 2016 12:41
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Wizard Styles posted:Side note, it's surprisingly hard to find decent pictures of old fantasy witches, it's either green-skinned Oz/fairy tale crones or, well, sexy girls with pointy hats. I had that exact problem when trying to find a suitable picture to represent a player's character in MapTool a while back. I found googling "crone" actually got much better results than googling "witch", although it still took a bit of sifting.
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Apr 9, 2016 12:54
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Pwnstar posted:Someone at Black Isle/Obsidian has some kind of beetle obsession. It has to be someone who also worked on Pillars of Eternity as that has beetles as the goto bug monster aswell. I always wanted a druid kit that was based around summoning bugs.
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Apr 9, 2016 14:05
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Pwnstar posted:Someone at Black Isle/Obsidian has some kind of beetle obsession. Which I can understand because beetles are pretty awesome. My only complaint is that the games don't go far enough. What we need are even bigger insects. 
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Apr 9, 2016 14:51
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Just picked up Baldur's Gate 2 EE and Baldur's Gate EE on Gog for 15 bucks total. What mods do I install? I am unclear if they're for the Enhanced Edition or not.
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Apr 9, 2016 17:59
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If it's your first playthrough the BG2 Tweak Pack should be all you need, maybe More Style for Mages if you want to give wizards some way to contribute when they're low on spells.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:26
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Hollismason posted:Just picked up Baldur's Gate 2 EE and Baldur's Gate EE on Gog for 15 bucks total. What mods do I install? I am unclear if they're for the Enhanced Edition or not. It''ll say on the title screen. No fixmods are necessary, SCS is the way to go for difficultymods, and i'd stay away from the additional NPC mods  Also I get why recruiting Viconia reduces your reputation. I also get why generally speaking, good aligned party members don't like most of the things you do that would reduce your reputation. But man, the two together really does paint all the good aligned party members are insufferable racists, especially since the dialogue options that lead to her recruitment seem like they would be the typical "good" choice in any normal rpg. "Gorion would have none of this." Really Khalid? Gorion would disapprove of my preventing a woman from being summarily executed and at the very least escorting her out of the bandit infested wilderness? So you and Gorion were both terrible people?
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Apr 9, 2016 18:27
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There's a mod for BGII, maybe also BGI, that creates a seperate Virtue system, so you can have an evil character who maintains good PR and a good character dragging around reputation wrecking NPCs without the rest of the party getting too worked up. On that note, why are Viconia, Baeloth, and M'kinn being allowed to just hang around the Flaming Fist camp? For all the party grumbles about them and the reputation drop, they don't seem to be treated that different. Maybe there's stuff in dialogue I haven't seen.
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Woolie Wool posted:If it's your first playthrough the BG2 Tweak Pack should be all you need, maybe More Style for Mages if you want to give wizards some way to contribute when they're low on spells. Okay, the BG2 Tweak Pack it is. Shouldn't I though start with Baldur's Gate 1, loaded up 2 and it was like " Welp , hope you know who these characters are" So gonna go with Baldur's Gate 1.
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Hollismason posted:Okay, the BG2 Tweak Pack it is. Shouldn't I though start with Baldur's Gate 1, loaded up 2 and it was like " Welp , hope you know who these characters are" The BG2 Tweak Pack works with BGEE since the Enhanced edition is based in BG2's engine.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:57
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It won't break my game though will it?
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BG2 Tweak Pack works with any Enhanced Edition game, including Icewind Dale. Did you install Siege of Dragonspear (this is important, it adds another step to installing mods!)?
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Woolie Wool posted:If it's your first playthrough the BG2 Tweak Pack should be all you need, maybe More Style for Mages if you want to give wizards some way to contribute when they're low on spells. I cannot play anymore without this mod. http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/961-iispellsystemadjustments/ having to take a nap every fight gets very old, very fast.
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Are the romances in BG1NPC representative of/based on those in BG2? If so I will deliberately avoid them if I take this character through BG2 because I ended up on Branwen's romance path and it's incredibly tedious and annoying. Last playthrough they never triggered because I had no compatible characters after I dismissed Jaheira.
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Woolie Wool posted:BG2 Tweak Pack works with any Enhanced Edition game, including Icewind Dale. Did you install Siege of Dragonspear (this is important, it adds another step to installing mods!)? No I haven't I was going to play BG1 and BG2 first , plus it looks like it's really buggy right now so I'll wait. What's a good not overpowered but not underpowered class that I'm going to really enjoy? I am not particular to mages or clerics. Is ranger poo poo? I remember trying Baldur's Gate many years ago but this will be the very first play through of either game. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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Any recommendations of mods for BG1 EE? Already played the EE once so I want to try something different.
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Hollismason posted:No I haven't I was going to play BG1 and BG2 first , plus it looks like it's really buggy right now so I'll wait. If you don't want to be a spell caster, Beserker, Barbarian, Cavalier and Inquisitor are all solid. I haven't used Dwarven Defendor but I imagine they're pretty good too.
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radlum posted:Any recommendations of mods for BG1 EE? Already played the EE once so I want to try something different. Item randomizer changes up how you play quite a bit.
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Lure of Sirine's Call is a good quest mod. Sword Coast Stratagems if you want to make the game more difficult. I'd read what each component of SCS does, though, there are some that just add tedium imo. Hollismason posted:Is ranger poo poo? The only things you should absolutely stay away from are Beastmasters and Wizard Slayers. Single-classed Thieves are also pretty bad, but multi-classed ones are fine. Monks are kinda terrible for at least the first half of Baldur's Gate 1, which is a long time. If you play an Archer or Kensai, you'll need to consider some equipment choices.
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Woolie Wool posted:Are the romances in BG1NPC representative of/based on those in BG2? If so I will deliberately avoid them if I take this character through BG2 because I ended up on Branwen's romance path and it's incredibly tedious and annoying. Last playthrough they never triggered because I had no compatible characters after I dismissed Jaheira. Branwen's is one of the better ones as far as I remember, so if you don't like hers, you probably won't like the rest, either.
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I think I'm going to mod in a dialogue option for the parlay bit after infiltrating the castle. "Hey Caelar? I saw your lieutenant talking to a loving archfiend earlier. Also I found this book which I'm pretty sure belonged to one of his underlings, detailing how you need my blood to open the portal to Avernus, but by it's tone I'm pretty sure those souls you're trying to rescue don't actually exist and your just going to unleash a horde of devils." Dragonspear has inherited BG1's bad habit of putting hints about the plot in diaries and such and then not letting the player use them to affect the story. The original game has its age as an excuse, this does not.
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insanityv2 posted:"Gorion would have none of this." Really Khalid? Gorion would disapprove of my preventing a woman from being summarily executed and at the very least escorting her out of the bandit infested wilderness? So you and Gorion were both terrible people? It's Viconia, who beyond being a drow is just a nasty piece of work in general and a devout priestess to one of the setting's most powerful and malicious evil gods. Odds are good that if the local law enforcement was trying to kill her, she did something to deserve it.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Also I'd like a Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition. On Windows 8 onwards the desktop keeps flickering through while playing the game and the only fix I know of it is to kill Explorer.exe before loading the game up which is a pain. This is pretty common with older games, and there's a good chance you already know this, but just in case it might help anyone, there's an easy fix to save you the trouble of having to manually end/restart explorer.exe every time you want to play a game with this issue. Open Notepad and copy and paste the following: code:
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