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I reloaded to avoid burning a Rod of Resurrection charge on you Minsc, stop making me regret it by decided Anomen and Jaheira are better targets to berserk on than Umber Hulks and Mummies.
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Washout posted:Lets see if you can beat Severok SCS without cheese, I sure can't.
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Apr 27, 2016 11:44
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Yes. SCS adds another guy to the fight and everyone but Sarevok comes back as a Skeleton Warrior. IIRC Sarevok can't be killed as long as the acolytes are still alive, but the Skeleton Warriors can actually be ignored. e: By this I mean I'm sure you can't kill him while one of his acolytes is still standing, but I'm not entirely certain about the skeletons right now. I think they're just distractions. Wizard Styles fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Noooope, ToB just cannot sustain my interest another time through. What a trashy expansion pack. Well, since I'm not finishing that playthrough, it's yearly reinstall and mod update time! When I've refreshed the Tutu install, might start up another Ironman too. While all that's happening, weeks-dead posts which I only just read, arise! e X posted:I genuinely wonder what the point of the Athkatla magic ban and the Cowled Wizards actually is. Or what purpose Spellhold served originally. Seriously, you'd think an organization that has their own torture prison on a remote island would be worth a quest. Do they have some complicated Forgotten realms backstory, like the Harpers or the Red Mages? As for Spellhold, there are some minor differences between tabletop and the game, probably thanks to development times and the changes in the Cowlies which have already been touched upon. Still, the backstory of what BG calls Spellhold is that the island stands at a strategic point which makes it contested by the Nelanther pirates, and the navies of both Amn and Tethyr. For a long time, they all conspired to avoid any of the others managing to secure the place. Someone unknown, somehow, built the heavily fortified keep there in such a short period of time that no one could stop them and then just abandoned it, upon which a gang of slavers promptly took it over. The local pirates, when they caught wind of a competitor, generously relayed this news to the Amnish navy, along with shocking tales about how they were definitely preying on wealthy Amnish nobles. The Amnians stormed in, took over the place, and certain pirates mysteriously acquired some very nice ships. In exchange for not getting locked up in the island prison there, and getting to use the harbour, the pirates haven't bothered to contest the mainland's ownership. The Council used it to house slavers and political enemies for a while, until at some point it was turned into the "Reformatory for the Magically Afflicted" - which still means the Council's political enemies, just of a specific type. Kavak posted:I would never have pegged Amn for Spain, minus the colonialism. I think they got confused with Calmishan's Arabian theme- Athkatla being Cordoba I can buy, though. Sleep of Bronze posted:The Amnish natives, making up the vast majority of BG2's NPCs, are technically from fantasy Iberia, but it's a fantasy Iberia which never had a Reconquista, Amn having just quietly split away into independence when the foreign empire ruling it collapsed. The Calishites and Tethyrans have ended up being the primary ethnic group in Amn too: turbans, scimitars, and all those trappings are thus still very much in fashion. Woolie Wool posted:
Bizarrely almost true. From straight BG1: IF NumTimesTalkedTo(30) THEN RESPONSE #100 SetNumTimesTalkedTo(31) GiveGoldForce(300) END His Beregost .cre file even has 300 gold less than his Candlekeep one. Kavak posted:*This accidentally restored all the spells I'd cast- I think doing anything in EEKeeper with a save causes that, so the party has only had to sleep once since the start of the game. I imagine everyone is wired on Maztican coffee. Sleep of Bronze fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Apr 27, 2016 12:48
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The SCS Sarevok fight is still highly cheesable: Sarevok does not appear to have a wander AI so you can lead him to the north corner of the room and then turn invisible and he will stand there with his thumb up his butt. Even better, it appears that the way his acolytes are scripted means they will gravitate towards Sarevok - though I think Angelo might be an exception. Once you've got them bunched up you can take them out one by one. I made a badly edited video a while ago showing how to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfzlZiSZu0
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Apr 27, 2016 12:53
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Sleep of Bronze posted:Noooope, ToB just cannot sustain my interest another time through. What a trashy expansion pack. It'd have been wonderful to see Throne of Bhaal become a full-blown Baldur's Gate III, but I have the feeling it would've fallen into some of the same pitfalls as Mass Effect 3- the culmination of your epic, personal journey still needs to consider if the player is new to the series and be written accordingly, bringing the whole thing down. They could've given each of the Five their own chapter, or made them the Seven or something. quote:As for Spellhold, there are some minor differences between tabletop and the game, (SNIP) Interesting, I didn't know Spellhold wasn't invented by Bioware. That explains where the giant dungeon really came from. Where was it detailed? quote:Amn = Iberia stuff Yeah the guards literally wearing morion helmets and breastplates makes the Spain thing a little more obvious. I'm kind of embarrassed I didn't get it before it was spelled out to me.
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Mortimer posted:But it doesn't tell you the threshold Check the BG2 manual, I don't have the BG1 manual to hand to see if it's in there Mortimer posted:-Reading the combat log for 99% of the game is "x hits for 4 damage" I guess I have to comb through that to find out if my character is hosed, haha Turn on hit rolls too, they're important.
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Apr 27, 2016 13:22
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Yeah, this game is from an era where things came with a physical manual that included information not provided in-game. I'm pretty sure both the cost of rising reputation and at least some basic info about falling rangers and paladins is in there. It's still AD&D and thus often obtuse and odd. I remember starting an archer game in BG1 and then having to restart because in order to use the composite long bow you can buy in any store you need to be an olympic strongman.
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Apr 27, 2016 13:30
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Page 10: https://cdn.baldursgate.com/files/baldurs-gate-mastering-melee-magic.pdf
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Apr 27, 2016 13:37
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Mordaedil posted:It's not weird at all considering how talktables work pre-NWN2. Most of the mods developed for Baldur's Gate assume a strict hierarchy of references and add their own to said talktable when producing their content and that's why it'll produce those weird message errors when the information is no longer in the same sequence as expected. The mods will work just fine if you just use this first: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50441/modmerge-merge-your-steam-gog-zip-based-dlc-into-something-weidu-nearinfinity-dltcep-can-use/p1
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Kavak posted:Interesting, I didn't know Spellhold wasn't invented by Bioware. That explains where the giant dungeon really came from. Where was it detailed? At any rate, it retained the tabletop Cowled Wizards in their revolutionary cells, called Brynnlaw 'Grimgates', and described the exact opposite end of Tethyr from where ToB actually takes place, amongst other elements which clearly signal it as separate from the game's version of the Realms.
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So, I have another SoD question. Is it possible to use console commands to gather party members that turn up in later chapters before you leave for the march North? I'm impatient and I spent a lot of time and gear making my party absurdly strong. Edit: Good lord, in BG1 Dorn is a loving one man wrecking crew. It's fantastic. Rahzmataz fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Are the "waylaid by enemy" locations in SoD random or set? Part of the reason I restarted my game was because I really liked the fire sling I found at the first one. I probably should try and go through Durlags at least once though. There's a sling +3 there. Sephiroth_IRA fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Apr 27, 2016 16:49
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They didn't seem random to me. It seems that where you travel from and to matters. Like Dead man's pass to the Coalition camp will have a set encounter that is random if you get it ,but you'll have a different encounter from like Dead man's pass to Underground river. There's also the troll cave encounter which has a hidden extra level in it for races that have infravision.. Actually there's a lot of infravision able to find stuff.
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Has anyone had any success getting Wild Mage Additions to work on the gog version of bgee+sod or bg2ee? No matter what I do, the text strings are all screwed up. It hasn't been updated in forever, so I guess it might just not with ee period, but I don't know how any of this poo poo works, so I figured I'd ask
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Yeah I was so happy about that infravision check. Finally. I hope the game is filled to the brim with stuff like that.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:24
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As a I have been doing Rashaad's quest with Viconia in the group I looked up a bit more about Shar. I must say she looks way different then I though she would. 
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For Shar! Indeed. 
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lovely artwork aside, something else often forgotten is that Shar is one of the two primordial deities of the Realms. She's been there from the very beginning, and was the very personification of darkness and entropy originally.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:37
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No, but there is a Cyric one.
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So has anyone else got this thing where Neera's been turned into an endlessly rotating ball of flesh that can't be interacted with in Siege of Dragonspear?
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Yeah I was so happy about that infravision check. Finally. I've only found two. The troll cave and the hidden torch that lights up a chest. I don't know if there are more. I' ll be happy when they add more SoD to BG2. BG2 is really good so far.
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jng2058 posted:So has anyone else got this thing where Neera's been turned into an endlessly rotating ball of flesh that can't be interacted with in Siege of Dragonspear? Ummmm
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This: 
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jng2058 posted:So has anyone else got this thing where Neera's been turned into an endlessly rotating ball of flesh that can't be interacted with in Siege of Dragonspear? 
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Did they ever explain why the sprites are so blurry all of a sudden?
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Wizard Styles posted:In my games, Sarevok's last stand always enters the history books as the event that decimated the Gnoll, Ogre and Hobgoblin populations of the Sword Coast, as untold numbers of their kind were teleported away from their families by Charname's party's Wands of Monster Summoning just to slow him down a little while the party took care of his acolytes (and then their skeletons). My problem is the huge amounts of confusion and other crowd control spells managing to just screw everything up. As soon as one of your back line wizards gets nailed then it's just game over for me. Eventually I get frustrated and then cheese it.
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Kavak posted:If any of Baldur's Gate's dukes die it's game over. They kind of deserve it for trusting someone wearing that armor, which I think is implied to literally be based off Bhaal's own appearance. If both dukes die it's over. One can die and you'll still be fine. It will almost assuredly be the mage since she isn't scripted to do any spellcasting, so she'll just happily stab away with her little dagger completely unbuffed while surrounded by hasted greater doppelgangers.
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jng2058 posted:So has anyone else got this thing where Neera's been turned into an endlessly rotating ball of flesh that can't be interacted with in Siege of Dragonspear? Did she get chunked in the main campaign? If so she will remain chunked until you fix her in EEKeeper by setting her avatar back.
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Washout posted:My problem is the huge amounts of confusion and other crowd control spells managing to just screw everything up. As soon as one of your back line wizards gets nailed then it's just game over for me. Eventually I get frustrated and then cheese it. And yeah, Semaj has to die quickly, followed by Angelo. And Angelo needs to be contained before that. Softening them up with Cloudkill has always worked for me, Semaj doesn't have a lot of HP. Diarmid and Tazok aren't that problematic in comparison imo, once it's down to them and Sarevok it's mostly about controlling Sarevok's rampage by sending waves of summons in against him in my experience.
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Woolie Wool posted:Did she get chunked in the main campaign? If so she will remain chunked until you fix her in EEKeeper by setting her avatar back. Yup, that's the problem. Thanks.
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Maybe not the right place, but does anyone have the link to the NWN2/Obsidian thread? I want to play NWN2 again but I remembered there are a ton of almost essential mods to fix problems with the game and a bunch of ease of use mods that drastically improve the UI.
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Just purchased IWD2 for the first time, is there anything I should know before I jump in? I basically know two things: * Unique class powers in 3e scale to the class's core stat * I am going to die a lot Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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Woolie Wool posted:Just purchased IWD2 for the first time, is there anything I should know before I jump in? Do you know 3rd edition D&D? The ruleset is significantly different from the other infinity engine games, which are 2nd-ed based. Going over all the details would take this post over the character limit, so here's a (very) short rundown on things to know ahead of time. - Multiclassing is more flexible and balanced. In 3rd edition, each time you level up, you choose what class you want to put your level into. You can be a level 15 fighter, a level 10 fighter + level 5 bard, a level 5 fighter, level 5 wizard, and level 5 bard, ore you can be a level 1 paladin/rogue/monk/fighter/wizard/sorcerer/cleric/druid. If you want to. And you probably don't. Each class you invest levels in after your first one imposes a penalty on your gained xp UNLESS you keep the two classes at equivalent levels, OR if one of your classes is a "favored" class. Each race has a different favored class. Halflings favor rogue for instance, so if you're playing a hobbit, you can be a level 2 rogue and level 10 fighter with no xp penalty. Likewise you can be a level 10 rogue and a level 2 fighter. You WILL get the penalty if you're a level 2 fighter and a level 10 bard though. Make sense? Humans consider the first class they pick to be their favored class, no matter what it is, so they can multiclass pretty freely. - There's a lot more races to choose from. Some of these races, like Drow or Aasimar, have special perks that make them objectively stronger than the normal races. They pay for this by taking an xp penalty. This means those overpowered races tend to be weaker than the normal races in the endgame, because they won't be as high level. - The game is very stingy with spell scrolls. Don't have more than one wizard in your party (wizards are the new name for mages). If you want more arcane magic (and you should, arcane is awesome!) take a sorcerer. - Saving throws are now based on three stats. Fortitude saves resist things like poison and death magic, and get a bonus from high constitution. Reflex saves reduce damage from AoE magic, and get a bonus from high dexterity. Will saves resist brain-affecting magic, and get a bonus from Wisdom. You won't be able to make every character buff in all these stats, but think twice about giving any character very low stat in any of these areas. Wisdom is not a dump stat anymore! - While paladins benefit from good charisma, don't have a paladin be your party diplomat. The self-sacrificing buggers will automatically refuse monetary compensation from most quests. Use a sorcerer instead, charisma is their prime stat anyway. - Backstabs are different. Rogues now get a skill called Sneak Attack, which is similar, but not identical, to the old backstab. Sneak Attacks add a flat damage bonus instead of a multiplier (the bonus improves with level), and you can sneak attack by either attacking unaware targets just like the old backstabs, OR by attacking someone that another ally is fighting. Rogues are squishy, but if you can get them meleeing the same target as your fighter/paladin/barbarian/summoned monster, the rogue will put out massive damage. - Bards are actually really good now. They get an array of songs to choose from, and some of them are pretty ridiculous. - Clerics of Lathander rule. Lathander got super hardcore since Baldur's Gate, and taught all his clerics how to cast giant nuclear fireballs everywhere. Bring a Lathander cleric, give them Spell focus: Evocation and Spirit of Flame, and watch them compete with your arcane casters to see who can carbonize the most enemies.
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It appears the available attribute points are much more restricted than in BG or IWD1. Is it really necessary for a fighter to put 18 in STR, a wizard to put 18 in INT, or a priest to put 18 in WIS like in 2e games?
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At full power (Thac0 was between 1 and 2 during the fight) slingbarb was able to get Drizzt down to 25% before the Gnolls were dead. After that I had to kite him around. Is it possible to beat him melee only?
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Nope. He has 5 attacks per round (or was it 10?) and a THAC0 of 0. Anything in his way is chop suey.
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Suspicious posted:Nope. He has 5 attacks per round (or was it 10?) and a THAC0 of 0. Anything in his way is chop suey. And he doesn't stick around to help you with Sarevok or later Irenicus even though he could shred them like tissue paper because...?
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