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If you want Minsc in the party you need Dynaheir, they're a package deal .
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You have a bit of time get the quest done, eventually Minsc will complain at you to hurry up and then a few days later he'll just drop group if you still haven't done it yet. You wanna go essentially to the bottom left corner of the map to get there
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Apr 10, 2023 04:59
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It takes loving weeks of travel time to get there so you can't leave it too late or you'll literally be en route when Minsc gets frustrated and leaves. If you want to separate minsc and dynaheir you can just boot one of them from the party when you're inside a building and the other is outside and leave before they start their "you want me to go?" dialogue. Or just kill one and dump the body.
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Apr 10, 2023 05:20
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I mean, part of me is liking the idea of running the canonical party for my first time, but IDK. Spoiled by choice Neera was quite disappointed when I dismissed her, made me feel bad for her pixelated rear end, so much rejection 
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Apr 10, 2023 05:27
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Xan’s special sword is cool flavor but he’s still a squishy wizard who can’t wear armor so you really don’t want him actually fighting with it. The fire resistance on it is nice though.
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Apr 10, 2023 06:10
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Mzbundifund posted:Xan’s special sword is cool flavor but he’s still a squishy wizard who can’t wear armor so you really don’t want him actually fighting with it. The fire resistance on it is nice though. He’s whiny too
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Apr 10, 2023 06:13
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are there places that are better to sell off surplus gear and gems and stuff or is the price you get the same from most vendors?
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Apr 10, 2023 06:17
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There is depreciation, I don’t know the formula but an individual thing is worth less if the merchant already has some in their inventory.
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Apr 10, 2023 06:19
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Jay Rust posted:There is depreciation, I don’t know the formula but an individual thing is worth less if the merchant already has some in their inventory. most vendors sell things for about the same. what does affect prices is your reputation stat, which you want around 16. (any higher and neutral or evil characters start grumbling, but 16 still has an effect on good prices. At 18 evil and maybe neutral characters will leave your party.)
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Apr 10, 2023 06:53
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I’m 90% sure that rep and charisma do not affect the prices of items you sell
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Apr 10, 2023 06:54
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bike tory posted:This comes up periodically. Khalid shares morale break point with a bunch of other NPCs who dont have the same reputation for running away constantly including Kagain who is a fantastic tank. It could be that perception is because a) he was written to be a stuttering coward, and/or b) because as someone else has pointed out he tends to be on the frontline early in the game and thus prone to taking damage enough to trigger the morale check more frequently than NPCs you pick up later. I usually end up leaving him in the Nashkel merchant's shop if he survives that long.
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Apr 10, 2023 07:05
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Mzbundifund posted:Xan’s special sword is cool flavor but he’s still a squishy wizard who can’t wear armor so you really don’t want him actually fighting with it. The fire resistance on it is nice though. What is this Xan denialism? He does okay with his sword, the plus 3 to hit rolls means he's about as good as any fighter at early levels. But you want him for casting Sleep, and then whacking people over the head.
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Apr 10, 2023 07:34
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Xan's specialisation sucks too imo. He misses out on invocation spells which are really useful: web, stinking cloud, magic missiles, melfs minute meteors and probably others I can't think of off the top of my head.
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Apr 10, 2023 08:07
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bike tory posted:Xan's specialisation sucks too imo. He misses out on invocation spells which are really useful: web, stinking cloud, magic missiles, melfs minute meteors and probably others I can't think of off the top of my head. Getting a bonus to sleep, confusion, and chaos is really strong. Xan's specialization means that enemies save at minus 2 vs sleep, minus 4 vs confusion, and minus 6(!) vs chaos. God forbid you have another mage in your party (or Xan himself) cast a greater malison before he casts one of those spells. Enemies will almost never save. Imo his specialization is great. It doesn't scale super well in bg2 or tob because there's not any high level enchantment spells, but honestly it's still fine even then because chaos and confusion remain good spells even into TOB.
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Apr 10, 2023 08:12
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Bilirubin posted:I mean, part of me is liking the idea of running the canonical party for my first time, but IDK. Spoiled by choice If you're planning on the playing through the whole saga, she gets over it for the rest of the series and has enough of her own problems to worry about in SoD that being dumped in favor of Xan isn't the biggest deal in the world.
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Apr 10, 2023 08:48
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Arivia posted:most vendors sell things for about the same. what does affect prices is your reputation stat, which you want around 16. (any higher and neutral or evil characters start grumbling, but 16 still has an effect on good prices. At 18 evil and maybe neutral characters will leave your party.) Evils will leave, Neutrals will only ever complain (they will leave at super low rep though)
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Apr 10, 2023 10:46
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Jay Rust posted:I’m 90% sure that rep and charisma do not affect the prices of items you sell The other 10% of you is the correct part.
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Apr 10, 2023 11:38
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bike tory posted:Xan's specialisation sucks too imo. He misses out on invocation spells which are really useful: web, stinking cloud, magic missiles, melfs minute meteors and probably others I can't think of off the top of my head. I think enchanters are real good in BG1. The way I play the game, of the other specialist wizard NPCs in BG1 only Edwin has a better specialization, but I think everyone already knows that. Xzar lose out on powerful "oh poo poo" defensive and utility spells, and Dynaheir loses out on Greater Malison, which is a lot more valuable to me than web and stinking cloud. The damage spells are kinda... whatever to me. Even MM and Melf's. They're certainly not bad or anything. They're real good, but not irreplaceable, if you know what I mean. BG2 is a whole different ball game. And ultimately even for BG1 this is all splitting hairs anyway. If you can cast arcane spells, you're fine. Doesn't really matter in the end if it's Xan, Dynaheir or Xzar or even Garrick or Eldoth. They're all good lol.
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High charisma and reputation both make buying items cheaper. There's a whole multiplication formula between the two, and the vendors existing markup. Details here: https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Reputation#Shop_prices (some spoilers on other areas of that page)
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Air Skwirl posted:The other 10% of you is the correct part. Rythian posted:High charisma and reputation both make buying items cheaper. There's a whole multiplication formula between the two, and the vendors existing markup. Details here: https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Reputation#Shop_prices (some spoilers on other areas of that page) Worth noting that the original poster wasn't talking about buying items, but rather selling them. Quick testing in BG2 (admittedly with mods) is showing no difference in the sale price of Short Sword of Mask to Ribald from my 9 cha MC with and without the Ring of Human Influence Edit: reading the wiki more closely BG fandom wiki posted:When it comes to buying items from the party, shopkeepers don't let charisma or reputation affect the price they offer. But they do have their own store buy markdown: They will usually buy at 50% of the initial price in Baldur's Gate I, and 30% in Baldur's Gate II. Snicker-Snack fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Apr 10, 2023 12:28
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Correct! All that matters there is deprecation. Which I find pretty dumb, making sure you haul 10 longswords +1 to sell at the same time for max money, rather then 1 at a time giving you much less. I tend to mod it out, or just set a baseline average for shop's buying price.
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Since I always end up with more money than I need, I never bother gaming the depreciation system.
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I'm having troubles deciding on a weapon for my swashbuckler that I'm going to play through the trilogy with. I know that much later there is Kuldane/Belm/Scarlet +3 Ninja-to for my offhand, but what should I put points into for my primary? I figure it is between long swords, which are always good, katanas, which suck in BG1, or scimitar/wakizashi/ninja-to? Belm is a very good off hand weapon, but I kinda wanted to save that for Jaheira once she gets enough specialty points for two weapon fighting.
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Node posted:I'm having troubles deciding on a weapon for my swashbuckler that I'm going to play through the trilogy with. I know that much later there is Kuldane/Belm/Scarlet +3 Ninja-to for my offhand, but what should I put points into for my primary? I figure it is between long swords, which are always good, katanas, which suck in BG1, or scimitar/wakizashi/ninja-to? Belm is a very good off hand weapon, but I kinda wanted to save that for Jaheira once she gets enough specialty points for two weapon fighting. swashbucklers get to go up to specialization right? get longswords for now, then put points in the other ones as you level up. you'll get more than enough points over the course of the trilogy.
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how do I dual weapon? Its a thing I have as a ranger but IDK gently caress all
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Put a one-handed weapon in the shield slot.
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Bilirubin posted:how do I dual weapon? Its a thing I have as a ranger but IDK gently caress all Just put a one handed weapon in the main hand and another in the shield slot. There's penalties associated with dual wielding, but as a ranger your main hand weapon should have no penalties.
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Why can’t you dual wield slings?
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thanks, seems simple enough Thinking long sword and dagger, could go long sword and hammer too I guess but I have a pip in dagger so makes sense
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Jay Rust posted:Why can’t you dual wield slings? How would you load them
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Mr. Lobe posted:How would you load them The same way you would load them while carrying a tower shield
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Mr. Lobe posted:How would you load them You would just lower your hands beneath your field of vision and when you'd raise them back up the slings would be loaded.
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Jay Rust posted:The same way you would load them while carrying a tower shield Shields are strapped to arms you don't carry them in your hand.
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Then why can't you dual wield with a small shield or buckler?
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sweet geek swag posted:Shields are strapped to arms you don't carry them in your hand. I’m holding a sling so I can’t grab something out of a pouch?
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DisgracelandUSA posted:I read the serpentwar saga before I knew about the games or anything. 13 year old me thought they were great and awesome and I loved them, but they also contained a fair amount of gratuitous sex scenes and people boobing about boobily. JustJeff88 posted:I've read the early Feist books many times, and I can't remember anything too sallacious. Prince Erland in Prince of the Blood is about 19 and a total hormone case, but I wouldn't call the descriptions explicit. I mean, either way, it's fine. I don't really have a problem with it. Admittedly, I've not read that many fantasy novels, so I don't have a great frame of reference, but for novels based on BG, smutty scenes feel out of place (and they're not really helped by the rest of the writing) And as it so happens, we have some of that with today's update! So when we last left off, Abdel had managed to kill Aran Linvail. Chapter 7 opens with Bodhi waiting for Abdel to return to the Copper Coronet, and she's getting antsy because it's getting close to dawn, and obviously that would not be good for her. Just as she's about to contact Irenicus, Abdel arrives, and... quote:Well,” he said, “I’m back. In more ways than one.” ABDEL HAS SEX WITH BODHI! And we get a full description of it! quote:Abdel never made the conscious decision to betray Jaheira and take Bodhi—still a stranger—as his lover. Like most things over the last few days, it just happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtjFsQBuJWw Anyway, if you were able to read all that, you probably saw that Bodhi bit Abdel, and the blood seems to give her something of a high: quote:To the blunt sensitivity of her tongue, Abdel was the strong young man he appeared to be. When it seemed like her head was going to explode in a shower of frenzied light, the simple taste stopped being important. When her whole body pressed into the experience then burst into flowers and starbursts and every explosion of red, whirling hell, she stopped being the predator and became a sort of worshiper, begging for the favor of a fickle but generous god. Anyway, Abdel wakes up, not noticing Bodhi's feeding (it reads like the bite was small and quick enough to not register). He presents Linvail's head to her, and she tells him he need to go to Spellhold. quote:“Where is this place?” he asked Bodhi. Oh, I guess that's how Irenicus ended up in Spellhold. Bodhi says that Captain Havarian can get him to the island, and there'll be a mark on one of the towers where if he recites a phrase, it'll let him inside. Chapter 8 begins with a brief section of Bodhi, in bat form, flying into Spellhold just as the sun's starting to rise. We then switch back to the Copper Coronet, and get another scene with Minsc. quote:In the days since Minsc started working at the Copper Coronet, the place had never been so clean. After a full night of working, the red-haired madman always stayed through the morning to clean up and wouldn’t go to sleep until the miniature giant space hamster he carried with him told him it was all right. No one was happier about this than Abdel, who returned to the tavern exhausted, still crammed into his borrowed trousers, and in need of a boat. Captain Havarian is described as being a 'grizzled old man' who's been drunk in the Copper Coronet up to now. Abdel wakes him up by throwing a bucket of water onto the Captain, and asks him about a ship. quote:“I need a ship,” the sellsword said, close in to Havarian’s face. So then we...wait, what? Didn't Bodhi pay him? Wasn't that the whole point of killing Aran Linvail? I looked back to the previous chapter, and all she does is tell him about Spellhold. Abdel realizes that Bodhi's manipulating him, but he's just kind of exhausted by everything, so he just goes along with what she says. Either that, or he just forgot to ask for the payment, which...again, if you replace the word 'sellsword' with 'dumbfuck', this book not only becomes much more entertaining, but also makes more sense. Now, he's got to borrow money from Minsc. So Havarian does indeed have a boat, except said boat is a dinghy. Despite this, they make it to the island fine, and Abdel is able to find and open the passage Bodhi described. Inside, he runs into an obstacle: quote:The man was missing both his legs, but that wasn’t his most obvious handicap. Abdel took another small step toward him, the big sellsword biting his bottom lip in puzzled indecision. The madman with no legs was weeping inconsolably and occasionally barking out a strangled, desperate, “Where are you going?” One of the inmates, a sailor named Mal Cheirar, tells Abdel about the coordinator, and he agrees to take Abdel to him. quote:Mal Cheirar stopped smiling and nodded curtly. He sized up Abdel quickly, then smiled again. “Ye’ll ’ave to move that one after all, mate.” Mal Cheirar then leads Abdel to the coordinator, aka Irenicus. Chapter 9 begins with Abdel dead, looking... Wait, huh?! quote:The man on the floor was limp—dead. The man’s face came into view, and the features were as recognizable as the body. Abdel was looking at himself. We flashback to where Abdel's fighting with Mal Cheirar and Irenicus (still just identified as 'the coordinator' to Abdel). Abdel manages to knock Mal out of the fight early on when he slashes out one of his eyes by chance, but he's unable to land a hit on Irenicus, who's using magic to block and avoid strikes from Abdel. He chases Irenicus into a room where Imoen and Jaheira are being held via iron maidens hanging from the ceiling. quote:Still smiling, the coordinator backed up, replanted his feet, almost danced backward across the smooth stone floor of the huge room, managing to keep his body always half an inch from the blade. Abdel had never seen anyone move that fast. A flash of yellow passed in front of Abdel’s vision, and by sheer force of will alone, he made the sword move faster, until there was nothing but a vaguely gray fog in front of him. I can only picture this as Irenicus teleporting around the room with Instant Transmission sound from DBZ. Eventually, Abdel gets hit with a Blind spell, and while stumbling around, Irenicus reveals that Imoen is also a Bhaalspawn. Irenicus then hits Abdel with another spell, and we cut back to the present, where Abdel's soul is watching Mal Cheirar is loading his body into an iron maiden. quote:The hands shifted to a chain and began hauling on it slowly, obviously struggling with the weight. The iron maiden was being drawn up. Thus ends Chapter 9.
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Welp I just cringed out my skin
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I could never eat enough to vomit as much as this deserves.
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Mr. Lobe posted:How would you load them 
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And that's why you don't install the Bodhi Romance mod.
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