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Themed all-PC party builds

December 6, 2013, 4:01 am
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Ok, a confession... I probably spend more time on RPG's creating character concepts than I do actually playing the game. This leaves me with lots of low-mid level saves and very few complete runs.
In that vein, and just for fun, here are a few themed parties from non-D&D media translated into BG:

The classic:
Aragorn - Paladin
Gandalf - Sorcerer
Legolas - Archer
Gimli - Dw.Defender
Frodo - Shadow Dancer
Boromir - Fighter

Discworld all-stars:
Vetinari - Assassin
Vimes - Berserker
Cohen the Barbarian
Lu-Tze - Monk
Rincewind - Wild Mage
Carrot - Paladin

Firefly:
Mal - Thief>Fighter
Jayne - Barbarian
River - Sorceress
Simon - Priest
Book - Monk
Inara - Blade

Batman Villains:
Joker - Jester
Bane - Berserker
Ra's al Ghul - Blackguard
Ivy - Avenger
Catwoman - Thief
Scarecrow - Enchanter

Skyrim:
Dragonborn - Dragon Disciple
Karliah - Thief
Cicero - Jester
Farkas - Fighter
Faralda - Invoker
Delphine - Cavalier

Anyone else play around with these sorts of builds?
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appropriate Mage spells for a Priest of Lathander/Mage

September 4, 2014, 8:37 pm
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I'm playing a dual-classed Cleric of Lathander dualed to Mage. And from a RP perspective it got me thinking about what wizard spells a Dawnbringer would learn/use. I'm seeking feedback. But off the top of my head, here's my thinking:

Level 1

Armor - yes
Blindness - no
Burning Hands - yes (fire magic being associated with the sun)
Charm Person - yes
Chill Touch - no
Chromatic Orb - probably not
Color Spray - yes (multicolored light; akin to sunlight through a prism, etc.)
Find Familiar - yes
Friends - yes
Grease - ?
Identify - yes
Infravision - yes
Larloch's Minor Drain - no
Magic Missile - ?
Protection from Evil - yes
Protection from Petrification - yes
Reflected Image - yes
Shield - yes
Shocking grasp - probably not (?)
Spook - no

Level 2

Agannazar's Scorcher - yes
Blur - yes
Deafness - no
Detect Invisibility - yes
Ghoul Touch - no
Glitterdust - yes
Horror - no
Invisibility - ?
Knock - yes
Know Alignment - yes
Luck - yes
Melf's Acid Arrow - no
Mirror Image - yes
Power Word Sleep - no
Ray of Enfeeblement - no
Resist Fear - yes
Stinking Cloud - no
Strength - yes
Vocalize - yes
Web - no

Level 3

Clairvoyance - yes
Detect Illusion - yes
Dire Charm - yes
Dispel Magic - yes
Fireball - yes
Flame Arrow - yes
Ghost Armor - yes
Haste - yes
Hold Person - no
Hold Undead - yes
Invisibility 10' Radius- ?
Lightning Bolt - probably not
Melf's Minute Meteors - yes
Minor Spell Deflection - yes
Monster Summoning I - no
Non-Detection - ?
Protection from Cold - yes
Protection from Fire - yes
Protection from Normal Missiles - yes
Remove Magic - yes
Skull Trap - no
Slow - no
Spell Thrust - yes
Vampiric Touch - no

Level 4

Confusion - no
Contagion - no
Enchanted Weapon - yes
Farsight - yes
Fireshield (Blue) - yes
Fireshield (Red) - yes
Greater Malison - probably
Ice Storm - no
Improved Invisibility - ?
Minor Globe of Invulnerability - yes
Minor Sequencer - yes
Monster Summoning II - no
Otiluke's Resilient Sphere- yes
Polymorph Other - ?
Polymorph Self - ?
Remove Curse - yes
Secret Word - yes
Spider Spawn - no
Spirit Armor - no
Stoneskin - yes
Teleport Field - ?
Wizard Eye - yes

And since I probably won't get higher than this in my game I'll stop here.

Anyway, thoughts?
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Dungeons & Dragons Legends of Baldur's Gate

July 15, 2014, 4:26 pm
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Quick loot?

September 5, 2014, 9:39 am
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Was the quick loot feature not supposed to be implemented in this patch in bgee? Think I read that somewhere....
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De'Arnise keep upper level.

September 4, 2014, 5:12 pm
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I can't find my way to the upper level of the keep. I think I've been out every door to the roof, and I can see two more doors at higher levels but I can't get there. Anybody remember ? Also, is there a way to make the coordinates show on the map?
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A cave entrance? For Unfinished Business mod?

September 5, 2014, 5:26 am
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Has someone noticed this before in the south area between Beregost and Nashkel (it's a cave entrance)?
Cut from the original game?
I'm sure there should be a travel trigger and a simple cave area.
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What do you think?

P.S.:
I wish that someone could continue the UB mod work.
It would be really great to see such stuff like:
Ajantis and the monks quest
Nim Furlwing and the hunting dogs quest
Llindellyn and the lucky arrow quest
Welt and Pooch and the rats quest

or even the dreamsequence...
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Keldorn's armor dealing 5 magic damage to any enemy that hits him?

September 5, 2014, 12:03 pm
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Does anyone else remember this? When I first played BG I could've SWORN that Keldorn's armor did this.
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Favorite/Unorthodox Battle Strategies?

September 5, 2014, 12:59 pm
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I particularly love teleport field+incendiary cloud or cloudkill for large groups of melee enemies.
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Experience cap question

September 5, 2014, 10:13 pm
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I am playing the original 1999 BG:TotSC, with no mods (because my computer always spazzes out when I install mods). I have always soloed BG, but now I am deciding to play with a party of 3 or 4 NPCs.

The experience cap is at 161,000 exp. So if I have a party of 5 single-class people, does this mean that each person will only be able to reach 32,200 exp? Or will each individual be able to accumulate 161,000 exp?
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Here's MY BG2 beginning!! (**UPDATED**)

April 19, 2014, 6:00 am
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Like many people here, I'd always been frustrated by the piss-poor continuity between BG1 and BG2, mainly because the so-called "canon" party is one that I would never willingly choose to finish BG1 with. The only one of that party that I genuinely like is Dynaheir, and she's long dead and gone before the game even begins! (at least Khalid gets to have his body shown). Not only that, but other of my favorite BG1 NPCs, like Kivan, don't even get a mention in BG2.

Then came @Vasculio's thread here,
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/457132
...and it turned my whole world upside down - or should I say, right side up!

I'm nearing the end of my current BG1 run, with a party that includes Kivan, Dynaheir, Branwen, and Coran, which I intend to complete the game with. Minsc had briefly been in my party long ago, but took a fatal stroll into a kobold arrow in the Naskel mines and was never raised. Although I won't actually finish the game with Khalid and Jaheira in my party, they had previously spent a fair amount of time in my party and were still alive when I dismissed them.

So I decided to create my own "canon" beginning for BG2, using Vasculio's method for importing BG1 NPCs into BG2, as well as a few other tricks up my own sleeve.


Assembling my BG2 party, starting the game in multiplayer. Recognize any familiar faces?

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Be sure NOT to choose this dialogue option - or else they'll be a reference to a certain BG1 ranger who is no longer above ground.

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The NPCs are released from their respective cells. Dynaheir's boots are still made for walking.

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Valkur's buttocks are still strapping.

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Kivan's soul still aches for his lost Deheriana.

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Kivan still retains the 19 strength that he gained from a tome in BG1.

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Better yet, Branwen retains the 19 wisdom that she gained from the 3 tomes in BG1. Look at all those bonus spells!

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Branwen also retains her innate spiritual hammer ability (for anyone who ever actually uses this).

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Dynaheir can still cure poison.

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Branwen, what are you doing?!? Poor Dynaheir does not feel well inside.

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Go swing that hammer somewhere else, Branwen! Should she stay here, or head off to the Copper Coronet?

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Of course Jaheira doesn't recognize Branwen. They were never in my BG1 party at the same time.

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What's in this cage? Oh nevermind - it's just a rat.

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Pantaloons, shmantaloons! How about the Big-Fisted Belt instead!

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Erm, the description seems to be a bit off. (Does anyone possibly know how this could be corrected?)

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But hey, it still works!

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What you see above actually required only a very minimal amount of EE-keepering - which is ideal for me, since I don't really like to hack games because I don't want to be perceived as "cheating," and also for fear that I'll break them. Most of the work involved exporting, renaming, and overriding existing files.

Obviously, this still isn't a perfect transition, but it's still a helluva lot better than what the original game offered.

I didn't want to mess around altering the game-generated NPCs, so Imoen is still a thief/mage dual (whereas I always keep her as a thief in BG1), and I didn't import Coran because he appears later in the game with an associated quest. I decided to allow the game-generated Jaheira to remain as a recruitable option too - even though I don't intend to finish BG1 with her, she at least will still be alive when the game ends, and she's associated with some of the best quests/subplots in BG2 IMO.

Thoughts?

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You know you're playing too much Baldur's Gate when...

March 6, 2014, 9:13 pm
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1. You complain to your family about having to live in "such a pissant town"
2. You search for objects at the base of every tree you see.
3. You walk into a complete stranger's house and start rummaging through his drawers.
4. You go into your basement to kill spiders.
5. You buy an Irish wolfhound and name him 'Ruffie'.
6. You tell your boss, "I don't like the way this company is working out. Perhaps better leadership would help."
7. You try to pawn severed heads.
8. All your friends have green circles around their feet.
9. You have a collection of odd-looking sticks which you believe contain magic, but haven't been identified yet.
10. On your resume, your education is listed as 'lore'
11. You demand discounts on the grounds that you are a hero for getting a cat out of a tree.
12. You rest for exactly 8 hours every night.
13. You refer to your luxury car as an 'automobile +1'
14. You divorce your wife for 'incompatible alignments'
15. You find a ring and carry it with you for your entire life in the hopes
that you will meet the person to whom it belongs and return it.
16. You've been wearing a cloak around the office lately.
17. You scan every square inch of the ground looking for hidden objects when on the way to the store.
18. Your wife says, "Something smells. Have you been hanging around in the sewer again?"
19. You're fired from your job for 'laying hands' on the other employees.
20. You are deathly afraid to kiss women you meet at the beach, especially ones with bluish skin.
21. You have nightmares about your 4th grade teacher screaming, "You WILL Learn!!!"
22. You have bite marks all over you from trying to charm squirrels.
23. Your playing sessions end when you say, "Ooops" as you notice the sun coming in the window.
24. You now hesitate or are paranoid about putting on a belt.
25. When you leave your house and want to get back in you need to give a book worth 50 USD.
26. When you're going to the basement you refer to "The Naskel mines."
27. You feel like being controlled by an omnipresent authority figure.
28. Your boss gives you a new assignment and you reply disdainfully, "A waste of my talent..."
29. You order a large steak in a resturaunt, then grab your knife and cry out "My blade will cut you down to size!"
30. Everytime you see a huskie you cry "vampire wolf!" and run.
31. You are trying to change your appearance, but you cant find the "customize" button any where.
32. You buy a hamster for the sole purpose of naming it Boo.
33. When it starts to snow/rain/thunder&lightning out, you complain that you can't find the gameplay menu to disable weather.
34. When something catches the corner of your eyes and you frantically try to hit the .
35. Everytime you dream you wonder why you didn't get a special ability.
36. You start talking to chickens to see if they can talk.
37. You leave a friend at the mall and, upon returning there the next day on another errand, are confused and annoyed he isn't standing right where you left him waiting for you.
38. On your way to school/work you get waylaid by enemies and have to defend yourself.
39. You stand up in the middle of a meeting and start yelling "Less talk and more fight".
40. You are in your car looking at a street map and you can't figure out where to go, because no other sections are highlighted.
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2nd Robe of Neutral Archmagi

September 6, 2014, 4:21 am
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We all know we can buy one from Thalantyr, but did you know there is another one in game?
Well Ghost of Ulcaster wears it!!!! Surround him with your party so he cant move, and kill poor old ghost.
How?
I am not sure is it against rules or not, but Dagger of Venom procs (if no saves) damage it, same as Arrows of Biting. DoV makes his 15x1dmg, arrows do 20x1.
There is no way to land any other blow (at least my archer with -3 thac0 couldn't do it), unless you roll 20. Even then u receive message "Ulcaster was immune to my weapon".
Upon killing you ll receive only 175exp only and your reputation will suffer -10 (if u are heroic20 as i was). He has no other items except that valuable robe.
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Was always wondering why the different intallation pathways

September 6, 2014, 11:14 am
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I mean why didn't I get to choose what folder I install BG2EE in while getting that option for BGEE. Why is there a startup screen for BGEE that allows for updating, but to update BG2EE I need to update with beamdog?
(Both were got and downloaded via beamdog)

Questions, questions...
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Why I Won't Be Buying Future Overhaul Games

September 6, 2014, 3:11 pm
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I bought both games, and I posted a criticism of BG2:EE today of the gay content in BG2:EE, which was removed by Dee, the forum administrator. I was told that criticism of gay content is hate speech and offensive (despite the fact that I was offended by the gay content), and that I'm simply in the wrong place. Conservative dollars don't matter here, despite the fact that a lot more of us are buying their games than gays buying their games. I am a paying customer being accused of falsehoods, threatened, and being told that what I think doesn't matter and isn't worthy of expression.

Overhaul, good luck, your editions are too "enhanced" for me.

Sieur de La Cornbread
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mook docks

September 6, 2014, 5:26 pm
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Where is Mook? I've got the quest, and I've been around and around the docks, but I can't find her.
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Respawning Creatures in BG:EE - What's your preference?

September 6, 2014, 3:22 pm
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(Note well: This poll is not official, nor a promise to change any of the game's current behavior.)

In Baldur's Gate's original release in 1998, creatures in most wilderness and dungeon areas would respawn almost immediately after being slain. You walk into a room, kill the kobold in there, walk out of the room, and then a minute later that same kobold is back again shooting your party from behind.

In Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, most - if not all- of these spawn points were changed to only fire once when encountered; so that once you clear an area of the dungeon, that area is cleared for good. No more painful backtracking on your way back to town to buy more arrows or revive dead companions, but also no more resident creatures once you've completed Firewine Ruins.

Some people preferred the original, more aggressive method, while others enjoy the less punishing style in the Enhanced Edition. Obviously, the people who prefer the current method are less likely to complain, since the current behavior works best for them. For those who prefer the old ways, it may seem like a bug.

I should note right now that the results of this poll will not change what we do in the Enhanced Edition - or I should say, will not necessarily change what we do. I just want to get a broader perspective.

The third option in the poll is to make it so that creatures respawn after an hour of game-time, rather than immediately. This would allow players to backtrack through a cleared area if need be, but would also allow areas to repopulate when the player rests or travels (or simply spends too long in one spot). There's a small sampling of what this would look like here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/543193/#Comment_543193

Tell us what you think.
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Is Alora's rabbit's foot bugged?

September 6, 2014, 9:34 pm
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I've installed the component of the NPC Project mod that makes Alora available in Gullykin. Although I've taken a look at her in prior games just to check out her new and improved rabbit's foot, this will likely be the first time that I use her in earnest. However, I've read on another site that her rabbit's foot is actually bugged.

http://playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index.php?title=Baldur's_Gate:_NPC_Rundown#Alora
"It's worth noting her lucky charm is supposed to keep her under the effects of luck but is bugged. There's probably some mod out there that fixes it if you want to hunt one down. (If you do, feel free to edit where it is and what it does here!)"

Is this accurate? In what way is/was the foot bugged, and was it ever corrected in a subsequent patch?

I should note that I haven't downloaded the latest patch yet - did that patch address anything related to Alora's foot?
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The Black Pits 2 : The Gladiators of Thay - 5th battle, the drow party from he house of Aiel´for

September 6, 2014, 5:52 am
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Greetings!

My party personnel keeps on dying to the drow battle in the arena.

What can I do?

My party personnel consists of blackguard, dwarven defender, priest of talos, skald, shadowdancer and a wild mage. My party´s theme is "we´re evil, hail & kill!".

Should I roll a new party?
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And you make it sound like it's good news?

September 1, 2014, 7:14 pm
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I know I will get fireballed for this, but: for me this is bad news. It only means even less resources for the BGII patch which we're waiting for since November 2013 where we still have different versions on all platforms and glaring to gamebreaking bugs. I was an evangelist and had bought four EE versions of BG and BGII. My son is still waiting for the multiplayer I had promised him last Christmas.

No more.

A company that so blatently disregards its existing customers, continously overstretches their resources and is deaf to any argument will ot get any more money from me, at least until they have shown a change of heart and at least three patches for IWD are out (2020 I'd assume going by past performance).

It really pains me to say this but it's time to put my wallet to where my mouth is. I really really loved the company and that they support mac but there is no learning from past mistakes visible at all.
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Stealing Everything That's Not Nailed Down

September 5, 2014, 10:38 pm
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With the help of pharmaceuticals (i.e. Thieving Pots), you can almost deprive whole cities of their wealth. Almost like robbing every house in Manhattan and never getting caught. My question is, is there some role-playing caveats or restrictions that you impose on yourself or your thief in the group (whether it's alignment, need, or something else)?

In my experience, the rush of accumulating so much wealth is fun and all - making sure I nick that last piece of gold from that haughty noble or rude merchant, or selling a pompous merchant an item them stealing it back to sell to a fence. I never rob fences though - it's just bad business, even in real life. At the end of it all, I kinda feel guilty doing it since I like playing the Chaotic Good alignment. There are some instances where I can justify it - the ransom for Imoen at the start of SoA for instance, or maybe buying that item that I really, really want early on in the game. I make sure not to go overboard though.
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