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There's a NWN2 version of BG? With 3rd edition rules and classes?
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Wow. I got the steam key for Dragonspear and it has completely broken the conversations...well ah...it's insane.  That's all said by everyone in a high pitched Gnomes voice. And that Hill Giant is the guy next to the sunken house south of Berghost. Who is not a hill giant. He IS mad though, but, err...what? The update for the full DLC (as opposed to 2.0 patch) has swapped every single conversation around that anyone says with what looks like a random line from the expansion instead. I think it's because the Steam version dosn't work with any mods at all, because Beamdog never tested it with the Steam or GOG version. This says to not install Steam or GOG version of SOD until you finish BG:EE. Looks like I need to uninstall SOD, delete local game content, redownload BG:EE, reinstall mods (the ones that work), finish BG:EE (ha!) and then install SOD.
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Cathode Raymond posted:There's a NWN2 version of BG? With 3rd edition rules and classes? Yes* The same team is currently porting BG2 to the NWN2 engine *Having played the mod, the trailer makes it look a lot more stuttery than it actually is mauman fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Apr 3, 2016 13:46
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Comstar posted:Wow. I got the steam key for Dragonspear and it has completely broken the conversations...well ah...it's insane. That hill giant is correct though about night time being the right time for sneaking. mauman posted:Yes* This looks so cool. Is it actually stuttery at all? I can't imagine an NWN2 mod running poorly on modern computers. Cathode Raymond fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Floog the Beastmaster Floods the Cloakwood Mines Oh hey, Yeslick. Beat it Viconia, your HP sucks.  ...note to self, resting down here is *not* a good idea.  Baeloth clears rooms with blind fired fireballs...  Natasha dies, but Yeslick gets confused/spelled to death first. Sigh. Baeloth ran out of spells too, and as noted resting just isn't an option down here.  A two day trip of lugging a dead dwarf to town later...  gently caress off Yeslick, we're only here because of you to begin with!  The Battle Horrors slowly get whittled down and killed with Magic Missiles. Davaeorn dies after inexplicably deciding it would be a good idea to chase after Baeloth hitting him with a stick rather than cast things. Okay then.  Fwoosh.
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Cathode Raymond posted:This looks so cool. Is it actually stuttery at all? I can't imagine an NWN2 mod running poorly on modern computers. With an average modern computer, no it won't stutter at all. I have no idea why the trailer looks that bad when the actual product looks stupidly good.
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 For this I shadowkeeper'd an Elven mage/thief to Dwarf, adjusted the saves and stats, and summoned a familiar. Mods in play are: bg1 unfinished business bg1 npc project sc stratagems bg1 romantic encounters bg tweak anthology house of sim tweak pack super ultimate portrait pack bg randomizer edit: bleh, apparently my screenshot thing wasnt working. cleared candlekeep got diamond and gorion's notes got chased by multiple wolves and 2 dozen gibberlings stripped imeon, montaron, xzar, jaheria, khalid, tiax, and kagain of all their stuff and sold it bought some new spells and a gem bag, grabbed the pantallons robbed a bunch of houses in beregost (and got chased by a Flaming Fist for half the map) ran from a pack of gnolls at the temple had the neat idea of going to mutamin's garden (with 3 prot v petr spells loaded) forgot about the gnolls. most recent screenshot was running from 3 gnolls, 2 lesser basilisk, and 1 greater  still level 1/1 M/T edit 2: went north, grabbed joia's flamedance ring. I think Im getting better at understanding how to run a solo mage/thief, its sleep/coupdegrace/sling for the most part. stealthed my past the ankhegs and got the loot pile, turned in the farmers son. then grabbed the bowl for the priestess of umberlee. I attempted to do the zombie mission, but the questgiver 'didnt like the look of me' I've found melicamp the chicken, but havent been able to kill a skelly yet. mostly its fleeing in terror from multiple packs of gnolls and skellies, they even followed me into high hedge. 2/3 M/T edit3: okay, got some screen shots decided to start farming at the crossroads  Sleep!  Run out of sleep, sword broke  Running around using a sling for 20 minutes  Seriously, the whole map is like this. Maybe I can handle High Hedge?  RUN AWAY edit: Taking a break to kill an assassin. 'blindness' is hilarious, even if I could only hit him on a 20.  can I take High Hedge yet?  nope  SERIOUSLY? bwhahha, leveled up and got glitterdust. Now I just need to run around and  oh  Thus Kina dies to spiders, a 3/4 M/T
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Kina SecondStrangler. I added a new mod (iispellsystemadjustments) to make the game a bit more tolerable. Otherwise same plan.  flamedance     sleep  running very quickly     and Beregost.  Know whats funny?  Fireball  and a magic missile. this gets me sling +1  killing ogrillions  ... which gives me ring prot +1  farming hobgobs  TOO MANY HOBGOBS  fireball  which gives me boots of stealth  elite hobgobs are dicks, I used all my potions on this fight  and finally, some zombie hunting.  one cloak of nondetection cest vous plais  looks like I can handle high hedge!   ghasts take forever though  you know what you signed up for. -1 melicamp buy every spell in high hedge? I think I will. also, a scroll case. kina is MT 4/5 Loel fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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mauman posted:With an average modern computer, no it won't stutter at all. I have no idea why the trailer looks that bad when the actual product looks stupidly good. They must do their trailers reverse-E3 style.
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Treading lightly in the Temple zone   Cleared Temple, explored a bit of Ulcaster. Check out the welcoming comittee  And their friends  Fireball One  Fireball Two  I didn't get screen shots of the next bit, found a squad of elite Hobgobs. Immune to sleep and with poison arrows. I fled the map with ~5 hp. Still 4/5 MT
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Joe Average's back with a vengeance!  Whatever chump, your buddy in the Underdark said the same thing. "Oh you might have cleared on your own an entire loving mind flayer city that we cowardly fled from but that doesn't mean you can beat us!!" Yes, yes it does. Thanks for the silver sword, by the way.   The De'Arnise Keep area is one of two places I can reliably trigger the Dermin ambush. This is my first time through the EE though, maybe they made it easier to get. Dermin and his buddies are pushovers by chapter 6.  After having to kill her old friend and mentor, Joe successfully cheered Jaheira up a little!  Almost forgot to pawn Yoshimo's heart. Nice chunk of exp.  You got your wish, Mzbundifund. Joe swung the equalizer around for a while! Until I realized he has 0 pips in long swords.  I never did finish the Umar Hill quest so back to the decreipt Amaunator temple I went. There was a lich there, had to duck out and wait for its protection from magical weapons to wear out before going back in with true seeing and beating it to death.   Just after the Shade Lord got destroyed in like, 2 rounds, *someone* decided to show up.  What did he give Jaheira? Oh, just this little thing. It gives +5 to saves vs spells, no biggie.  The shadow dragon only had time to cast stoneskin before immediately dying.  On the way back to turn the quest in, Joe decided to check up on the kids he gave booze and swords to.  On the way to collect the final piece of Crom Faeyr, a little accident happened. Minsc got crit twice in a row and died to brain drain. No big deal, I just rod of rez'ed him and reequipped everything except his armor. What I forgot to do is recast chaotic commands on him, so he, uh, succumbed to enemy influence. Fortunately, Minsc and mind flayers are too stupid to open doors, so it was only a matter of waiting a minute of so for the domination to wear off.  Joe's dual wielding the equalizer and Crom Faeyr now! (still haven't realized yet that he has no proficiency in long swords)  The last major quest to wrap up was the planar prison. I freed to thralls to soften the warden up (and more importantly make him waste his dangerous spells on them), buffed up and bum rushed him.  Minsc took a bit of a beating but otherwise Bodhi went down without incident.  I almost skipped the twisted rune but decided to go for it. The lich didn't have time to get a single spell off other than its 2 contingencies, and the beholder almost immediately petrified itself off Jaheira's shield of Balduran. The flying chunks are the third guy, I forgot what he even does. He dies so fast.  Now that the mage was alone and somehow not aggroed, she'd go down fast. There was a 5th enemy, a vampire? I don't remember that. Doesn't really matter though. She kissed Minsc's improved mace of disruption.  I gotta say I dig the new look of the staff of the magi.  Next up, Suldanesselar!
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Didnt realize ogres were affected by sleep. That makes the Lonely Peaks considerably easier. First time I actually saved the cow  I gave bears double speed for some reason I thought was hilarious at the time. Pictured: me fleeing in terror  Never noticed the tree guy before  3 souped up bandits and their 2 pet dreadwolves  Actually had to flee from the arrows. (did kill them later, just needed to heal first)  And finally, killed Greywolf for his delicious sword.  Kina is 5/6 MT. Current gear: Sling +1 from Silke Sword +2 from Greywolf Cloak of Nondetection from Tasloi Ring of Prot +1 from Marianne Ring of Human Influence from random NPC dialogue Ring of Freedom of Action pickpocketed from Dushai Edwin's Necklace, Shadowkeeper Boots of Stealth from Hobgoblin Wand of Fire from Ankheg Nest Wand of Magic Missiles from Imoen Scroll Case/Gem Case edit: Man, level 5M is fun. See a group of trash mobs, fireball Goddamn but Winter Wolves are awful. I had to break line of sight whenever they held still, then pop out and magic missile them.  Let's try out all the new buffs. Woo! I seperated the slimes and then just sworded them to death.  Oh no He hit me with emotion, summoned dogs, and that was that. RIP Kina II, 5/6 MT
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Kina Three. Just did a gear rush to get where I was prior.  3/4 MT edit: Okay, some bears followed me in  STOP IT BEARS  Funnily enough, while they let the skellies in, they also kept them in, so when I got out I only had to fight 1-2 at a time. MELICAMP LIVES  And, leveled. 5/6 MT  Edit 2: bwhahahahahha, level 5 is so ridiculously OP. step 1: enter map step 2: cast protection from fire step 3: fireball everything I've gotten more XP in an hour than in the previous ten. It'd reduced double and triple pulls into something trivial. edit 3: gnoll fortress cleared, 6/7 MT edit 4: Swordcoast cleared, 7/8 MT   Hm. May need to buy potions. edit 5: K, bought a bunch of potions. Invisibility, magic shielding, mind focusing, power, and scrolls of prevent poison.  Super-buff. Costs like 5-10kgp each time though   I remember you...  That involved a certain amount of satisfaction I will say  And level. 8/8 Loel fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Joe Average charges headfirst into Suldanesselar!  I cleared the temple first so the leaf dude won't steal mah XP's.  Seriously though how the hell are you supposed to fight adamantite golems without cheesing them?  Priestess rescued, girdle of 20 strength acquired.  Welp Joe's about to die to the dragon. I remembered him being a total pushover, I guess I confused him with the shadow dragon?  Nevermind, saved by the rod of resurrection (for like the 30th time).  Yeesh, that was too close.  Leaf dude summoned.  Unlike the dragon, I remember Irenicus perfectly. Chaotic commands for maze. Death ward for wail of the banshee and power word kill. Protection from magical energy for horrid wilting. Cast breach twice to get past his spell shield.  Yep, Joe sure did.  Hmm, Hell. It can't be -that- bad. The prime material plane is full of lunatics.  *sigh* The fear trial. Normally you can just use resist fear and take the path that isn't filled with beholders to the tear, but I guess that was a "bug" that was "fixed". Now my party is running around like headless chickens in the middle of 3 elder orbs. GG.  Or not? Imoen regained control very quickly and kept everyone alive with the rod of rez. I miraculously avoided losing anyone to petrification/imprisonment/death ray/what have you. Now that's lucky.  You still suck bro.  Slayer Irenicus and his posse showed up.  His demon buddies died very quickly so he started teleporting around.  And around.  About time. He stayed at near death for several hundred points worth of damage.  Too bad Joe can't stay in the Abyss. At least the creatures there don't pretend to be sane.  Look dad, I have high level abilities now! Honors earned: Ironman, Purist, Gaxkang's a Wuss, Legendary Arms, Roleplayer, Honorable Trader (disregard if pickpocketing the ring of regeneration counts as stealing wares from merchants)
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Apr 14, 2016 19:15
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 Cloudkill  Turns out cloudkill on Tavok provokes the whole village  Clearing the patrols around the Cloakwood Mines  Nother Patrol  Yup  Leveled  Pulling the bounty hunters  Dire charm and spiders to distract them  Cloudkil  Web  One to go  (I left the map and recharged spells here)  The ol lightning rebound trick  yup  Off map cloudkill  I did a second cloudkill, he approached and minor sequenced a web/stinking cloud on himself. I finished the room with a fireball.  Lignting bolt!  10/11 MT
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BG1 gets pretty easy if you leave it uncapped
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theshim posted:BG1 gets pretty easy if you leave it uncapped Never played it uncapped, this is still fun to me And, Ive still died occasionally
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 surprise motherfucker  web, cloudkill one survivor  lightning bolt buy every spell? I think I will  I just love killin  and fireball finishes them off. lets go find some more mages!  yup, that did it. had to pay 500 gp for the dead nymph though  went in full buffed, did a sequence magic missile. ended up not needing the buffs    I pulled like 6 mages at once, it was pretty wild  this guy got a spook and enfeeble on me, but waited outside the web/cloudkill and I recovered  this one got a spook spell off on me, but didnt follow up. half this series is just being lucky  and then he helpfully stood with no buffs in the next hallway!  lightning bolt  got blinded in this fight  lightning bolt. Im out of mages to kill... onto Durlag's!  easier than I remember. lightning bolt, 2 magic missiles.  'your time is at an end, primate....! aughghhhh'  lol I got a poison trap after I cleared the level of ghasts  doppels are fun  lol zombies. fireball!  guess how long it took to sword two slimes. guess. No leveling this time, still 10/11 MT
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 Preparing the battlefield  Probably should leave the battlefield  you are doing great guys! keep it up!  Fear chased me all the way to the drawbridge  webs  and skulltraps  ready  this isnt going well at all  stair trick, rest and recharge  fireshield is my new favorite spell. all I had to do was keep my buffs up and he did the rest  and the occasional magic missile  killed Avarice with a firebreath potion, oddly enough  Leveled  and ... killed Avarice again? that's weird. been getting the odd double spawns like that, the exploding ogre did it too.  get the doppels all in a line, hit them with AoEs  this guy decided the deathtraps were better odds than me  fireshield earning its pay again  I found a friend!   stinking cloud is always courteous enough to knock me out after I kill all the enemies  know whats hilarious? making invisible assassins fight you in the exploding fireball room.  level  and so it begins  me using an invisibility potion to rethink my options  activate ALL the lightning traps! (turns out they resist them all)  attempted a fireball, and when they rushed me I went invisible again  turns out you can just walk down the stairs without needing to kill the king. this rook even followed me!  it didn't go well for him  what is it with these loving spiders  I just liked this image, honestly. its aesthetically pleasing. 11/12 MT, just have chess and demonking left. I looted the treasure room and killed all the ghasts. Loel fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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Joe Average ventures into Tethyr. Oh boy, cryptic prophecies. Never have enough of those.  You want to kill Joe? Take a number.  This is the first time I play ToB without Ascension installed in over a decade. Wow, Illasera is a pushover.  Bro, seriously, please look up the definition of "dead" already.  The sensible answer would be "hell no", but since Joe has had terrible luck with being rational, let's try the opposite. Welcome aboard!  Saradush, more violence. Sword coast inhabitants must be loving like bunnies to counterbalance the ridiculous mortality rate.  You don't want to kill me? Really? Hello new best friend!  Oh hey, the ever respawning fire giant is still there in the EE. I farmed a few levels for Sarevok, whom I dualed to thief, and Imoen, so she can finally cast level 8 spells.   How Gromnir is holding back an army of loving fire giants with these scrubs, I have no idea. Nice unenchanted weapons. Joe's immune to those, by the way.  Hey Gromnir.  Bye Gromnir. Too bad your posse had a very violent allergic reaction to storm of vengeance and horrid wilting, leaving you alone vs. 3 improved hasted melee warriors.  Joe wasn't supposed to kill him? Well make up your mind, new best friend! It's almost like you're manipulating Joe into killing bhaalspawns for you.  Joe wants loot. Watcher's Keep next. Suspicious fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Apr 17, 2016 |
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Ive never done ToB, Ill be curious to see what you do  I was working in the lab, late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab, began to rise And suddenly to my surprise  He did the mash, he did the monster mash The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash He did the mash, it caught on in a flash He did the mash, he did the monster mash  From my laboratory in the castle east To the master bedroom where the vampires feast The ghouls all came from their humble abodes To get a jolt from my electrodes  They did the mash, they did the monster mash The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash They did the mash, it caught on in a flash They did the mash, they did the monster mash  The zombies were having fun The party had just begun The guests included Wolfman, Dracula, and his son  The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds The coffin-bangers were about to arrive With their vocal group, 'The Crypt-Kicker Five'  They played the mash, they played the monster mash The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash They played the mash, it caught on in a flash They played the mash, they played the monster mash  Then you can mash, then you can monster mash The monster mash, and do my graveyard smash Then you can mash, you'll catch on in a flash Then you can mash, then you can monster mash  From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.  and now for something completely different! invisibility potion!  ducking in to get my buffs  pew pew  A WIZARD DUEL  ran into a house and cast web he followed  even managed to keep the commoner alive   this is my absolute favorite NPC  I didnt know the doorman called for backup, did you know the doorman called for backup?  you have fallen into my cunning web trap!  explosions  ducked in here to recharge, found two archers doing the same thing. they uh ... didnt make it.  this one was pretty wild  pulled a few outside  web/cloudkill/fireball is just the best  came back to finish them off  and done  so uh. I didn't expect Aec'letec to follow me up the stairs  but he didn't follow me back down  fireballs took care of the cultists  so uh. it turns out greater daemons can't walk through narrow aisles. so I just plinked him with meteors until he died.  then I blew up the counting house  top floor  merchant league, top floor  ground floor  seven suns ground floor  second floor  thieves guild  and oberon's daughters. all in one night  bar fight to celebrate  turns out this fight is hella easy when he loses out to hold monster  I just want to point out that there is an infinite army of woofs attacking me here. SCS gets a bit silly  twin Bareshs, again.  walked into the room with two people and left four bodies 
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Joe Average delves into Watcher's Keep. First floor was quick since it was already half done. The final fight didn't take long. Joe was targeted because I wasn't paying attention.  Second floor! Is that a rational demon that sees the mutual benefit of cooperation?  I guess not.  There are less painful ways to return to the Abyss but I guess you were nice enough not to deal any damage to anyone, so huh, whatever floats your boat.    Third floor! Joe Average, M.D.  One of the benefits of not being good aligned is this quest. You can help these fellas kill other fellas and you get...  this little thing. Sarevok is now the 4th party member that can cast true sight. Who needs Keldorn?!  The maze isn't too painful but no magic zones are bullshit.  Oh poo poo, I forgot that the Helm symbol on the floor of the last room of the maze is trapped and I permanently lost Minsc.. wait, no, he's just petrified! I have scrolls of stone to flesh! Small disaster averted!  Will this fellow be nice, I wonder?  drat. I thought that by immediately mentioning you have a way out, you could skip the deck of many things game, but nope, he still wants to play. Well Minsc ol buddy, you're the most expendable character in the party. Go draw a card! Go on... Oh hey, Minsc won the draw and got a weapon that I'll never use. drat, now he has to draw a second card.  He got a card that summoned cannon fodder to kill. Whew. Demon guy won so the game is over. Double whew (I don't care about the scroll of wish and I'm certainly not going to kill him to use the deck myself.)  He.. was true to his word? Demons are more trustworthy than the people of the Sword coast, it seems.  Fourth floor! To avoid having the rear end in a top hat in the machine summon mind flayers on you, ask about his apprentices. He'll cast a weak lightning spell instead.  Magic golems! ... are very easily killed by normal weapons.  Vampiric illithids? Sure, why not.  Well this is new. I assume this was added for Dorn?  Are all githyanki gigantic assholes? All signs point to yes. Dak'kon was right.  Joe kills his 3rd dragon and Jaheira gets the staff of the ram +6.  OK so demiliches are now apparently immune to HLA spells, which makes sense and was probably an oversight in the original game to begin with, but they also don't seem to die to the improved mace of disruption's instant undead slaying ability, so no quick and easy kill for me. I didn't feel like reconfiguring Aerie for melee combat to give her a chance of killing it before spell immunity: abjuration expires, so I'm skipping it for now (don't really care about the dagger of stars).  Hey, the rear end in a top hat in the machine is a lot nicer now that Joe destroyed his protective bubble.  Fifth floor! The final seal is in sight but eh this update is long enough. I'll do the rest later.
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 this seemed the best way of dealing with the fisherman quest  and then this guy came up and attacked me for no reason. didn't even have a bounty notice. as an aside, do you know that at reputation 4, you dont get penalized for killing civilians?  decided to clear the way so my friend Tenya.  at this point Im just killing people if they look like adventurers  I gave you a chance to accept the baldfaced lie, cmon now  and now for the main event  I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!  Silence, dog. Your only purpose is to die by my hand.  time for the ol potion of invisibility  gettin my buffs  cloudkill, web, fireball  i suddenly had the urge to kill everyone in this room  like you do  look upon my works ye mighty and despair  -sings- going to the chapel  gunna get married...
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Apr 18, 2016 16:20
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Joe Average with a super quick update. Joe killed his fourth dragon!  And permanently lost Jaheira to a bunch of loving golems I forgot were even there. I cleaned them up just fine but I refuse to continue without Jaheira, so gently caress this, see you next year.
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 Guess who's back  Back again  Ravel's back  Tell a friend.  Hi there  I let her live  Found the assassins, opened with cloudkill  Guy died quick, then it was just us ladies   shes throwing fireballs, Im throwing fireballs  Its a madhouse! (seriously, we killed like half the NPCs in the undercellars)  She even had contingency!  Trapped her in the room and kept throwing fireballs  aww yiss look at that reputation  then they tried to arrest me!  everyone is a doppleganger! Im beginning to see where Durlag was coming from  I heard guards being summoned  cloudkill  they started sending in the SWAT teams  dont mind me, just leaving  its the fuzz! and their informant!  fireball  hey bill, even though Ive killed literally 50 cops today, and a dozen civilians, can I come into the meeting chamber of the Grand Dukes?  sweet. who's up for a party?  I knew you'd agree  Ding  someone wearing my face started robbing everything!  and they were a magic user!  so many dopplegangers murdering people tonite. its terrible  yes, I seem like just the gal to go into the death trap after the madman. either way you win, right? funny story, I activated the traps and they took all the damage  hah...ahahaha... hahahahahahah... hAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA  when you turn they will be gone...  whispering their hidden song  right, Im not fighting four skeleton warriors by myself  you guys do it  WHO'S RUNNING NOW??  walk it off, you're fine  time for the main event  -sings- gotta have a mimic...  face the new lord of murder, indeed  cloudkill  I ended up backstabbing this guy a hilarious amount of times  just keep stabbing, just keep stabbing  and then he turned into a skeleton warrior!  oh gently caress the mislead ran out  save me minions!  make another mislead  angelo falls for the bait  hammer time  drat, thats a sweet xp pile  annnnd the skelly  yes, my army, go forth!  they are just standing on a mountain of meat at this point  falling back  keep it up guys, you are amazing  okay, lets press em  you guys keep it up, Im heading back to my corner  both wands empty, working through my pots  potion of invis, seeing how the battle is going  decided to take an invisible nap  made another mislead, walked into the middle of them, flameburst. took out the caster  pulled one skelly  and the other skelly  Brother. It is Time.  One last dance  cloudkill. my fireshield is doing most of the work  grabbing my healin potions  and, there. Ironling. Strategist. Librarian. Trap Dodger. Honorable Trader. Iron Party. Loel fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Apr 18, 2016 23:55
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Suspicious posted:Joe Average with a super quick update. Noooo Joe Average
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 And so it begins....  and then Korlasz fell in a dreadful despair and died as an aside, eekeeper doesnt understand SoD items, so I cant have my notes of Sarevok, or Bhaal research  just want to take a moment to point out how pretty this is.  sure, Ill give you enough rope to hang yourself. most likely kill you in the morning  why on earth would you think stealing 600,000 gold from me was a good idea? THUS BEGINS THE QUEST TO GET MY loving GOLD BACK  1/6 of the way there  wow. police line up and strip search  hey guys, remember me? last time I was here I killed literally fifty of you, and looted their corpses before they cooled. now Im going to talk to an insane priest of cyric so we can go on adventures together!  I could listen to John Warner for hours   Crowd: Yay! The hero of Baldurs Gate! Ravel Bhaalspawn! Crowd: Yay! Noble: Wait! I think Ravel Bhaalspawn might be a child of Bhaal! Crowd: Is this true?? Ravel Bhaalspawn: ... Really? I killed like 300 people the first night I arrived here. Thieves guild, three different mage houses, the temple of Umberlee, literally every cop I could find, three merchant houses, and several rooms full of random people. Crowd: She might be a child of Bhaal Crowd: Boooo! Boooo! Never change, public opinion  lol they charge for tents  menhirs keep shooting me with lightning and summoning wraiths  I love the little details here. wolves attacked a deer  MOOSE  sure, a sidequest dungeon. itll pass the time  OH HAI THAR  FIGHT FOR ME MINIONS (seriously, I use like 10 wand charges here)  oh great, level drain. now I need to look up these mechanics too  gently caress  okay, if I keep doing the stair trick and a wand of fireballs...  oh thank jesus. and a thief level - As an aside, Ive started doing things from a roleplaying perspective Im keeping heirlooms from the best fights (slythe's dagger, all the bounty hunter notices, all of Balduran's items, all of Durlag's family's items), along with my research (book of dead three, sarevok's journal, the bhaal research from Korlasz, the journals of a lich and archmage )
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 Im actually surprised to see this guy.  heh. I might actually let you live.  and behind door number two... door number three  man, and all my spells are firebased. had to use a sword and ice shield.   hey brah, nice digs thanks. who are you? ravel bhaalspawn. you? nice. Im Coldheart, Im a lich. nice. I grabbed your notes on lichifying on the way in, that cool? sure, I dont need them anymore. awesome. so what are you going to do now? well, I need some medallions for magical research. its always something, right? and it turns out the medallions on my former friends, and they are protected by my former god oh. the dwarves who hired me to find you? the same want me to take care of them? if you'd be so kind. Ill hook you up. sounds good! mislead  yeah, your friend is a lich oh no! want me to kill him? yes. heres some items.  yeah, turns out I got a better offer  cloudkill, web, stir occasionally Loel fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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Apr 20, 2016 04:39
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 mwhahahahaha! you seem happy I am. what kind of thing you want? well, Im fighting this super paladin oh, her. tell you what. when you do your face off, Ill help. awesome , you are the best. wanna help me become a lich later? sure, no problem. pleasure doing business with you likewise! my contingency worked!  see, this is another person I can work with. bring two people to her for petrification, and she gives me 3 charges on her golem.  okay, sure, I would totally walk up to them and let them do a wall of force and buffs as opposed to mislead/cloudkill/web/fireball  which I go ahead and do  I dont like any of these dialogue options. None are 'sure, why not.' like, why give a dialogue tree if you dont account for the most obvious one?  like, invade hell? Im game. but instead we all just go back to our separate camps, even though we could still ford the river, or use the clerics in our party to do any number of earth/water/stone spells, or use our wizards to teleport, or ... Im really enjoying the game so far, but this feels like the one weak moment Ive encountered. ... actually, you know what? its that moment when the DM pauses the game, doesnt let you act, and lets his DMPC do a monologue that you dont have any real input on. cant do the boss battle now, cant join her, just listening to her exposition. I get that its for character development, but why not leave some notes in a chest? Loel fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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Apr 20, 2016 04:46
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Yeah the bridge won't be good for any kind of cart or horse traffic for a while, but a messenger could totally jump that or you could set up some wooden planks or whatever. You could send skirmishers and scouts after Caelar no problem. I think they messed up the scale- the river and bridge should both be larger, the one you're heading for now is like twice that size, but they wanted this conversation to happen. Siding with Caelar is a really obvious cut path, and there's a later moment where it's even more blatant. Shadows of Amn kind of ties their hands, but I have a thing for alternate game overs and non-standard endings, so they should've done it anyway. I wanted to ask her if souls being dragged into the Hells was even a thing, because unless you're physically carried there (Maybe that's what she meant) I don't think your soul can be trapped that easily in D&D. As for the monologue, I get kind of tired of notes and diaries. There's sort of an excuse as to why you can't confront her, and at least they don't have a fight where you beat her and she pauses things to teleport out in a cutscene like a certain smug, torturing, soul-stealing sonnuva
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Apr 20, 2016 04:57
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Kavak posted:Yeah the bridge won't be good for any kind of cart or horse traffic for a while, but a messenger could totally jump that or you could set up some wooden planks or whatever. You could send skirmishers and scouts after Caelar no problem. I think they messed up the scale- the river and bridge should both be larger, the one you're heading for now is like twice that size, but they wanted this conversation to happen. Like, use the Firewine Bridge or something that size A river that big would be a problem.Assuming the Flaming Fist has access to 5th level spells, we have ... control water, mud to stone, wall of stone (use it for bridges!) TELEPORT (which is my justification for ctrl-J ), summon elemental (earth or water), wall of force (more bridges), overland flight, or passwall (to go underground). We have some options here As for giving her more characterization... maybe cutscenes of her but not us? It worked for Star Wars
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LowellDND posted:Like, use the Firewine Bridge or something that size A river that big would be a problem. Make the river the size of the Mississippi, blow up the WHOLE bridge so that rerouting the army is the faster option, and have Caelar appear to you in spectral form or something. Bam, plot fixed. There are cutscenes of her later, but they clearly wanted to have her lay out her cause to the player and try to sway them- and you can sort of aid them or at least try to keep mutual casualties to a minimum. Like I said, there's a really obvious cut route. Baldur's Gate has a bad track record with porting tabletop spells- Whoever wrote Aerie seemed to have deliberately ignored the spell called "Fly". I don't want to grog too hard, but the more often it happens the more it seems like they don't actually want to work with the setting they've been given. Like if you make a Star Trek game, you can't just have people start beaming through shields without at least some :technobabble: excuse. Are there going to be achievements for SoD Ironman runs from now on?
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Kavak posted:Make the river the size of the Mississippi, blow up the WHOLE bridge so that rerouting the army is the faster option, and have Caelar appear to you in spectral form or something. Bam, plot fixed. We should make some K, here are the ones that transfer easily: Mountaineer posted:
Maybe have Ironsiege for completing SoD, and then IronSiegeman and IronSeigeGod if you've done the expansion. quote:
I'm... not actually sure if BGEE allows SCS. Input welcome. quote:
I havent actually played any further, so any specific boss fights or interesting tricks are up to you
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Ironling: Complete Baldur's Gate 1
Ironman: Complete Baldur's Gate 2 (requires Ironling)
Irongod: Complete Throne of Bhaal (requires Ironman)
Strategist: Complete Baldur's Gate 1 with the Sword Coast Stratagems mod.
Born Hero: Do not reroll your stats during character creation, take the first set given to you (redistribution is ok).
Purist: Do not use any mods that add/modify content (except Tutu, Ascension, SCS, or Tactics), do not create extra characters for your party, do not modify existing NPCs (convenience mods like infinite stacks ok).
Double Damage: Complete the game on the highest difficulty.
Overcoming Adversity: Complete the game as a Wizard Slayer, Shapeshifter, Beastmaster, or non-Blade Bard (requires Purist).
Melee Champion: Complete Baldur's Gate 1 without using any missile weapons.
Conan the Bhaalspawn: Complete the game without ever having an arcane spellcaster in the party
Honorable Trader: Do not steal any wares from merchants.
Iron Party: Do not resurrect any dead party members (stone to flesh and freedom allowed) OR never have a party member fall in battle.
Swiss Valor Award: Complete the game with only neutral aligned characters in the party (lawful, true, or chaotic, must have at least 4 characters, requires purist).
Roleplayer: Do not have a good aligned character and an evil aligned character in the party at the same time (includes PC, requires purist).
Leader of the Underdogs: Complete Baldur's Gate 2 or Throne of Bhaal with a full party of six without using Aerie, Keldorn, Edwin, or Haer'Dalis. {requires purist).
A God Among Men: Complete the game alone. Do not remove or modify the level cap (requires purist).
OP-ium Addict: Play as a Kensai/mage, Kensai/thief, or Cleric/mage
Scroll of Wuss: Use a scroll of Protection from Undead or Magic when fighting a lich, demi-lich or vampire.
Don't Hurt Me!: Play the game on a difficulty lower than Core Rules.
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SCS is compatible with BGEE, or at least it was before the new patch. If I was still doing a run, I probably wouldn't use it on SoD just yet, it might cause some weird bugs. Berserker/Cleric is definitely going in OP-ium Addict next year. We could have an honour for beating the SoD expansion without having played it before, the Pillars of Eternity version of this thread has something similar for its expansions. biscuits and crazy fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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