RP decision: what would you do (here as Coran)? (spoilers)
In my "Let the Fates Decide" game I now have Coran burgling Ramazith's tower. I'm in a spot where I'm just curious how others might handle it.First a quick bit of setup: With this gaming method I use...
View Article#ConfessionsofaBhaalspawn
As I learn more from this forum, I realize how much about the game I didn't know about. There were items, strategies and spells that could have made my life a lot easier against various monsters. There...
View ArticleDifficulty and Challenge
Hello everyone,I wanted to get some feedback on this. I see a lot of people say that they only play on core rules because it is the same as its pnp dnd counterpart. This always bothered me because a...
View ArticleConfig Utility for Enhanced Edition
Is there any way to bring up the Configuration Utility that the original games had for the Enhanced Editions? Specifically, I was looking to change the setting which allowed you to increase the...
View ArticleBards/Blades Pick Pockets and Lore
So I'm considering the possibility of running a bard once again. I won the original BG2 with a blade like 10+ years ago, and had no where near the grasp of the game as I do now. Does anyone know what...
View ArticleShag, Marry, Kill: The Baldur's Gate Version
Okay, classic game. You choose among the romance interests in the Baldur's Gate Trilogy one to spend a single, memorable, steamy night with, one to spend the rest of your life with till death do you...
View ArticleSkeleton Haiku Challenge
The only real rules are: 1) ~That the word "skeleton" or "skeletons" must appear in either line 2 or 3. 2) ~The first line must have 4-6 syllables 3) ~The second line must have 7-9 syllables 4) ~The...
View ArticleRandom Loot
I'm not sure if this has been posted before but...I'm doing a playthrough of Icewind Dale (though, I'm sure this is still relevant to the Baldur's Gate saga) and I want to get a specific item. I've...
View ArticleLife lessons from Baldur's Gate
What life lessons do you think can be learned from the Baldur's Gate games/saga? Not just from the perspective of the CHARNAME and storyline but from some of the other joinable characters.Obviously not...
View Article"better part of valor" series [now doing improved Ulcaster]
((This is an SCS, no-reload, trilogy run, technically, speaking. I have yet to complete one of these after a decade of trying.))I figure, I should try and record my glorious escapes and close shaves...
View ArticleFirewine is hard *chills*
My no-reload run almost came to an end there after a certain mage proceeded to Minor Globe -> Web -> Lighting Bolt -> Stinking Cloud -> Fireball his way to almost obliterate my party in...
View ArticleBuild a power party...
Ok, so I was pondering what the most powerful party (Charname + 5 NPCs) would be… but, as has been well argued elsewhere on here, with enough meta-knowledge ANY combo can be game beating.So the...
View ArticleIf the Realms had Twitter...
So seeing a hashtag in the post #ConfessionsOfABhaalspawn got me thinking, what if CHARNAME and the various NPCs had access to social media and obsessively tweeted every major and minor highlight of...
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Oh, sure, that's an invasion...
Wendric tells you that there is zombie invasion going on in his farm, but there are only 20 freaking zombies actually, and it looks like most of the times, that you have to search in the map for the...
View ArticleHow can I get best sale value for unwanted magic items. [Captain Bragg's...
Does it make any difference whether it has been Identified? It just seems wrong to sell Mage Robes, etc. for 1 GP and then later find the very same robe for sale at a very high price.
View Articlesolo cleric of Ilmater? (spoilers)
In a thread on life lessons from Baldur's Gate, MonaCanalla posted -Capitalism wins. The more you adventure out there, the more coins you posses. Also, the game is full of beggars and other people with...
View Articlemonk as tank? - 1. ioun stones vs criticals; 2. dual wielding
Basically, can the Ioun stones block critical hits in BG2EE? (Otherwise a monk has x2 damage vulnerability even with the best AC.)Also, can it gain +++ in dual wielding?If yes to both, a monk dual...
View ArticleHow much cheese can you tolerate?
Cheeeeeeeeese.Anyways title and poll.Examples of the different degrees of cheese.1. I use cheese whenever possible - Abuse the engine whenever possible. Fake talk, metagaming, offscreen nuking, etc. If...
View ArticleMy take on Rasaad's epilogue (non-canon) (Spoilers)
I wasn't particularly satisfied with Rasaad's fate in two out of three of his endings, as I felt that a man like him deserved at least a little more. I'm not one to believe that every character should...
View ArticleCan't open game with Steam?
When I click play nothing happens. But when I go to the game folder and try to open it there I get an error message saying OpenAL32.dll Is missing. Any idea how to fix this?Just in case it matters I...
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