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How are you supposed to roleplay as evil in Baldur’s Gate, are you expected to pick the lovely jerk dialogue choices with poo poo rewards, and also randomly kill a commoner once your reputation reaches eighteen, because that’s what I’ve been doing and it’s dumb
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Better than no-kit Paladin, also it rules in IWD
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queeb posted:i just got him and his stuttering/nervousness and whatever is grating, does he have a story moment where he toughens up or anything? Without mods, no NPC companion has any story moment
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Jan 10, 2019 01:08
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bike tory posted:Coran is another really strong character, and like Kagain he has illegal stats - 20 dex and 3 points in longbows. He's a better archer than Kivan, with the added utility of his thief skills. Look, there’s nothing illegal about my 21 wisdom cleric, I earned those tomes
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Jan 10, 2019 08:39
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Is SoD actually any good? The EE NPCs are weak imo, so a whole game filled with them doesn't sound too fun
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Jan 12, 2019 22:47
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Are Cleric/rangers, without that one .ini fix to add Druid spells, worth using over fighter/clerics?
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Jun 12, 2020 05:19
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Reputation is so busted in these games. I wish Kagain didn’t act so offended because we cleared the Nashkel Mines: we got paid for it, you idiot! I wish I didn’t have to kill some random bystander every now and again to quell Viconia’s apparent bloodlust. I wish the evil companions weren’t so insistent that we pay nearly double on every item we buy in shops because god forbid we ingratiate ourselves with the locals for pragmatic reasons, clearly we should make sure everyone hates us, that’ll advance our goals for sure, guys
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Jun 13, 2020 10:41
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I installed the tweak that sets prices to 100% regardless of rep, and the one that makes it so that companions won’t leave due to high/low reputation. Now rep is just for flavour, aside from that nebulous “reaction check” stuff, and I couldn’t be happier
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Jun 14, 2020 00:11
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Just do whatever. There are companions who’ll fill in the gaps
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Jun 14, 2020 12:52
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You need a trap-finder
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Jun 17, 2020 16:06
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I guarantee that’s it
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Jun 18, 2020 07:03
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Just a minor point, you should put helmets on your fighter/thief and druid, it might save a life one day
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Jun 18, 2020 21:17
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Iwd2 was the worst of all worlds
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Jun 19, 2020 20:17
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Gooch181 posted:Yeah I'm pretty certain I told Edwin to take a hike. I kind of have the feeling Xan isn't the best candidate for primary mage, so ditching him for a non-evil character would be good. Do most of the characters just go chill at the inn or someplace so you can change your mind later? I know Neera said she'd be waiting someplace, but haven't been sure about others. No, the vanilla BG NPCs will wait in place for the rest of time when you dismiss them from your party. There are some who run off forever if you refuse them the first time you meet them, but, again, if you let them into your party and immediately dismiss them, they’ll default to their “stand in place” behaviour
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Jun 27, 2020 01:30
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First time I hear anyone criticize BG’s dialogue
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Jun 27, 2020 19:38
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I really have to disagree, I think it does a great job injecting flavour and personality into what has become an otherwise generic fantasy setting. Even the randomized one-liners you get the out of commoners are entertaining  
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Jun 27, 2020 20:02
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The trouble with darts is their lower range. In BG1 I outfit everyone with ranged weapons, and having a few of my guys break rank (and it will invariably be the weaker party members) and move closer to the enemy is a big problem
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Aug 15, 2020 19:10
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Like what?
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Sep 19, 2020 14:17
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Doesn’t pickpocketing require save scumming? I never do it
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Sep 21, 2020 01:00
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I wish the EE changed how detect traps worked so that it worked consistently instead of doing a check every six seconds or whatever
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Nov 1, 2020 19:10
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Not gonna lie, I mod out the traps and just simulate them by forcing myself to have a thief with 100 in detect traps in my party at all times
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Nov 1, 2020 19:15
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Trouble is that, as I understand it, the game checks once every six seconds for traps while your thief is detecting traps. So that means inching forward and waiting six seconds if you want to be absolutely sure there’s no trap up ahead, and with traps potentially being super deadly, it kinda sucks if you’re not quicksaving every room
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Nov 1, 2020 19:53
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I could never get into NWN2 precisely because of the UI, I hadn’t considered there’d be mods for it but that’s good to hear, I might give it another shot now!
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Nov 7, 2020 07:27
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 Little “What am I?” riddles presented with a list of the possible answers? Hell yes
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Nov 15, 2020 02:13
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Always found it weird that in the OG, 640x480 Baldur’s Gate, going into your inventory unpaused the game
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Nov 21, 2020 07:56
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Garrick with the bg1 NPC mod becomes a “well THAT just happened!” guy
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Dec 2, 2020 13:34
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What does it mean to "not be able to use a sword", anyway. Burns your hands?
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Dec 4, 2020 00:43
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Xan is lawful neutral, the worst alignment
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Dec 4, 2020 15:24
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I never got why people had so much trouble with Tarnesh, one charge from imoen’s magic missile wand to interrupt his first cast and he becomes putty
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Arivia posted:I use any number of mods to turn Mazzy into a Paladin (Cavalier, to distinguish her from Keldorn), there's literally no reason for her not to be one besides it being an illegal combination in the BG2 character creation rules (which get broken for other NPCs already). But she’s has a Shortbow!!!
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Dec 18, 2020 21:18
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I’m absolutely delighting in these dialogue screenshots, please keep sharing them!
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Jan 16, 2021 05:22
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Kagain is my friend
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Jan 17, 2021 01:23
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I got an idea for a cool new NPC, named ray just, he’s a paladin (unique kit “shadowchampion”, main drawback of the kit is that he’s forced to be lawful lawful good good) with 20 strength (he has ogre blood) and 20 charisma (I thought about leaving it at 19 but really he has a very strong personality). Only romanceable for Elf females with 18+ charisma
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Jan 17, 2021 09:46
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The race restrictions are either  or fall into the common fantasy trap of assuming that race and culture are the exact same thing
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Jan 17, 2021 17:58
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Considering the PC in baldur’s gate will always have been raised by Gordon, it’s strange that it goes “oops sorry you were born a halfling, you can’t be trained as a mage”
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Jan 18, 2021 00:16
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I don’t know how you can play a squishy main character who keeps to the back line, it takes forever to talk to NPCs as your guy or girl squeezes through your party
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Jan 27, 2021 00:44
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I’m trying a sorcerer playthrough of bg1, and I’m wondering, does Spook just like not do anything? I used it on a wolf in the first wilderness area, its circle turned yellow, but it went ahead and chased my girl around anyway and ate me
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Feb 10, 2021 01:02
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idk this is what Spook does https://imgur.com/a/RwFWbeo
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Feb 10, 2021 14:52
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Psycho Landlord posted:Yeah that's not right. You running mods? Sword coast stratagems and the tweaks anthology. Further experimentation shows that humans and the like are cowering properly, it really is just animals (or at least wolves) who are handling fear in their own wolfy way
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Just found out there's an option in baldur.ini to enable area-of-effect markers!! ('Show AOE') This is Color Spray: 
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