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covidstomper58 posted:My uncle worked for Bioware and you could get Drizzt in your party if you rolled a female Drow Lawful Evil Chaos Mage. Drizzt was a playable character in Menzoberranzan way before Baldur's Gate. 
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SRQ posted:death isn't an end in these games and you shouldn't treat it as one It's not really. According to AD&D rules, you still have to make resurrection survival rolls, and you lose a point of constitution permanently if you come back to life. In addition, there are ways to kill someone or take them out of action effectively permanently that can't easily be sorted out. In addition, the soul has to be willing to come back to life (which may not be the case if they prefer to remain in the afterlife) and shouldn't be trapped somewhere, in which case raising the dead won't work.
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Aug 12, 2023 12:45
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matti posted:sorry if I am being obtuse, it's not on purpose. but I really think it's a bug and not something done on purpose. OK, if this is an elaborate troll, then consider me owned. This is from the EE version, I don't have easy access to the original CD installation right now and I'm not about to dig out an old PC out of mothballs to test your fever dream. But.  Assuming this is the encounter we are talking about, here is a character in "hide in shadows" mode, you can see the little icon out-lined in red there, and the character sprite being translucent. She is not trying to talk to the character.  Here is a party of people, not in stealth mode, standing next to the nereid. She does not initiate conversation. I can just point anyone I want at her, as I suggested in a previous post. Just walking up to her, in stealth or not, does not initiate dialogue, the player gets to choose who kisses her. If you are talking about a different encounter, then we've been cross-purposes all along and I'm sorry.
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Aug 12, 2023 13:04
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i really did not think my very specific frustration about Baldur's Gate 1 would garner this much attention, but i'll try dig up the old laptop i then played it on
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Aug 12, 2023 13:14
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Rappaport posted:OK, if this is an elaborate troll, then consider me owned. This is from the EE version, I don't have easy access to the original CD installation right now and I'm not about to dig out an old PC out of mothballs to test your fever dream. But. I appreciate this post
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Aug 12, 2023 13:16
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matti posted:i really did not think my very specific frustration about Baldur's Gate 1 would garner this much attention, but GBS is a community, we're here to heal your 20-year-running trauma 
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Aug 12, 2023 13:16
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Gologle posted:Hang on, in BG1 wasn't Imoen always considered your little sister? She and the main character grew up together in Candlekeep, right? Or was it more like best friends? Her adopted dad was the fat inn keeper instead of the scrub wizard who doesn't even have 3 wands of paralysis on his quickbar to just ruin any single class fighter's day.
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Aug 12, 2023 13:26
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Real Imoen spoiler: in wilderness AR5500 there is a small loot able crack where you can find the lost G from her name.
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Aug 12, 2023 13:32
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Why is Drizzt's hair so fabulous
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Aug 12, 2023 14:52
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Aug 12, 2023 15:24
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I made up a fake spoiler for a famous series that had a new book drop unexpectedly. Turns out it happened to be accurate and for weeks an FB group was convinced I was close friends with the author.
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Aug 12, 2023 15:27
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Is it just Drizzt or is the whole Icewind Dale crew present? I’m talking Catti-Brie, Wulfgar, even that little twerp Regis. I bet if you kill Regis he drops hella loot.
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Aug 12, 2023 15:28
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Is it just Drizzt or is the whole Icewind Dale crew present? I’m talking Catti-Brie, Wulfgar, even that little twerp Regis. I bet if you kill Regis he drops hella loot. Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 2 (which are not the thread topic!!!  ) You meet them all and can kill them, but there's a hard-coded invincible dude who takes their loot away from you no matter what
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Aug 12, 2023 15:33
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Rappaport posted:Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 2 (which are not the thread topic!!! Reported for spoilers
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Rappaport posted:Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 2 (which are not the thread topic!!! Well that’s dumb.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:15
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I played through baldurs gate 1+2 and throne of baal and what I remember most was how to fight enemy wizards and dragons in 2E DnD.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:19
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Rags to Liches posted:still is popular judging from Salvatore continuing to write more drizzt stuff and making a ton of money for it I liked when he was hired by baseball’s Curt Schilling to create a fictional universe with 10,000 years of history for a new MMO meant to rival World of Warcraft but the project collapsed and cost Rhode Island millions & Curt had to sell his bloody sock.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:34
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well i regret to say this  but  i was wrong 
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Aug 12, 2023 16:38
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it was fun though, firing up the ol' BG1 again, no regrets
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Dial A For Awesome posted:Spoiler: in Baldur’s Gate 1 you can’t sleep with any of your party members. In Candlekeep, Fuller asks you to bring him 20 crossbow bolts. If you have 18 Charisma, he will reward you an unidentified +1 dagger. You can then proceed to Nashkel as per normal, then head to the coordinates 183, 2745, and dig up some Ankheg Plate Mail. Now youre more than all set to take on the Vampiric Wolf outside the Temple at Beregost! From there, you can procure a Potion of Mirror Eyes from Thalantyr at High Hedge, kill the Basilisks at Mutamen's Garden with the help of your temporary ghoul ally Korax, and 
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satanic splash-back posted:I played through baldurs gate 1+2 and throne of baal and what I remember most was how to fight enemy wizards and dragons in 2E DnD. I did the same but could NEVER beat the very last boss in ToB. I still have the game on my laptop, and still cant do it.
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matti posted:it was fun though, firing up the ol' BG1 again, no regrets  The clock in the OG BG1 interface is wonderful. And the sound track, which is at least the same in the EE, is also great.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:42
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My buddy and I were huge nerds back in the day and R.A. Salvatore used to do regular book signings at the local Waldenbooks because he lived nearby and we met him a bunch of times. One time there wasn’t really anyone else there so we hung around and chatted with him for a bit. Anyway the conversation ended on a weird note because my friend insisted that the new Drizzt book was coming out in November and Bob was like “Look, I think I know when my own drat book is coming out.” Anyway a few weeks later I saw him and his family walking around that same mall and he gave me a “‘sup” nod as he walked by. Welp that’s my R.A. Salvatore story, hope you enjoyed.
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Aug 12, 2023 16:42
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satanic splash-back posted:I played through baldurs gate 1+2 and throne of baal and what I remember most was how to fight enemy wizards and dragons in 2E DnD. You gonna tell us or just leave us hanging
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Aug 12, 2023 16:45
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:my friend insisted that the new Drizzt book was coming out in November and Bob was like “Look, I think I know when my own drat book is coming out.” lmao
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Aug 12, 2023 16:49
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Smugworth posted:You gonna tell us or just leave us hanging Breach.
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Smugworth posted:You gonna tell us or just leave us hanging You just have to find their master.
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zedprime posted:Real Imoen spoiler: in wilderness AR5500 there is a small loot able crack where you can find the lost G from her name. Heya, I'm Gimoen
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Aug 12, 2023 16:55
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Trying to remember was it in Icewind Dale 2 that it let you have excessively low stats? I recall trying to have a wizard with maximum possible INT & like one in CON with the idea he’d be unstoppable but his hp of 2 meant goblins with wooden spoons could one shot him in the opening tavern. Also in BG1 late in the game you could recruit a bard but I had no room so told him to wait at the bottom of a mineshaft, then soon after in the story the mine floods with no way to re-enter so my characters just walked away hoping he wasn’t plot essential.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Trying to remember was it in Icewind Dale 2 that it let you have excessively low stats? I recall trying to have a wizard with maximum possible INT & like one in CON with the idea he’d be unstoppable but his hp of 2 meant goblins with wooden spoons could one shot him in the opening tavern. I think the first question, the answer was IWD2. The second question: That was Yeslick, a dwarven fighter/cleric you meet in the cloakwood mines. Notable as being the one companion dumber than Minsc with intelligence 7.
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i beat the final boss in bg1 once by using all the summoning wands i had hoarded. pretty lovely that bg2 put a limit on that
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Nosfereefer posted:i beat the final boss in bg1 once by using all the summoning wands i had hoarded. pretty lovely that bg2 put a limit on that Nice! I beat him by giving five party members bows and having one member get his attention then run in a circle as he was made into a pin cushion. I was surprised it worked so well.
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Remember that time audible paid Ice T to read a Drizzt story? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AszM1WPwOWg
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Aug 12, 2023 17:48
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I loved the voice that used to go "A waste of my talents!" Super funny, I still say it sometimes.
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was it baldurs gate that had the voice that would say "heh, toime for a bit o' rough and tumble" on entering a fight, or was that neverwinter nights
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Caesar Saladin posted:I loved the voice that used to go "A waste of my talents!" Super funny, I still say it sometimes. "Armored, sharpened and raring to go!"
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:was it baldurs gate that had the voice that would say "heh, toime for a bit o' rough and tumble" on entering a fight, or was that neverwinter nights Yes, Baldur's Gate. Other hits: "So I kicked 'im in the 'ead 'til 'e was dead, nyahahaha!" "You mess with me, you mess with... YOU!"
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Anyone else go after dragons way too early and cowardly try to get them with cloud kill wands? It sometimes worked on the 20th try. Also remember in BG2 there was a back room of a tavern with a high level lich that wasn’t a danger unless you chose to bother him, and he had super dangerous spells that could TPK fast. Except it took a few seconds for each spell to cast & if you left the room then re-entered the spell would be cancelled but he couldn’t cast it again, repeat until he’s out of spells & can be beaten to death for quality loot. What a fun game.
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Was that the one that would wake up if you happened to have the right combination of gems in your bag?
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Both of those memories are fuzzy, I'm afraid. There's a lich in the back room of the inn at the city gates map, he will always aggro you when you walk in there, and he's guarding a sword that is good against undead and evil creatures. You are right that walking in and out of the room makes his spells worthless, and this is a thing you can abuse with mages in general. The gem thing is for a hidden area in the bridge district, which only eats up one specific gem.
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