Baldur's Gate Thread

Why did Bioware trace portraits again?

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>>3891467
I realized the other day while doing my first evil run in bg1 that there is a way to help thieves beat sarevok or whoever if they really want to do it themselves

At the fair in nashkel, you can get the red and violet potions that raise str to 25 and dex/con to 3, and Int to 25 and wis/cha to 3. Use the strength one on your thief, then use a potions of agility and endurance, and a potion of mind focusing: str 25, dex 24, con 21, for some real bonuses to stealth skills and a ginormous backstab (x4, with say varscona for 4d8+64)

could just use draw upon holy might for backstabs in general

If we can manage to have less 100+ post arguments about 3rd edition D&D class balance this time around, that'd be sweet.

>>3891493
Because it looks realistic and it's cheap? Unless you get threatened with a lawsuit like they did with NWN.

>>3891504
I wonder if it was even intended that you could use other stat setting potions to overwrite the stat penalties from "cursed" ones.

>>3891509
dont know, dont care, i think its awesome

>>3891504
>>3891509
I remember back in teh day i'd use the strength one to deliver an inventory full of ankheg shells to taerom

>>3891509
I think we can all agree that 3rd edition D&D had perfect class balance. Except maybe the casters being a little too underpowered. There just wasn't a reason to play anything but the stronger classes like Ranger or Paladin.

Does Baldur's Gate have control over areas beyond just the city?

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>>3891493
>>3891509
don't sue me bro

>>3891646
The Sword Coast mostly has independent city states, however Baldur's Gate's Flaming Fist polices the region.
For example Beregost has its own rulers and something like a government and is politically independent of BG, but the Flaming Fist is the one upholding the law.

So the Flaming Fist is kind of like NATO, but on paper Baldur's Gate doesn't own the region (but of course it has some influence in practice).

>>3891661
So pretty much all BG1 areas (barring Amn ones) are subject to (if only in name/officially) the law of Baldur's Gate/the Fist?

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So this is the power of the Enhanced Edition.

>>3891685
>Neera
You deserve it.

>>3891670
They are fully subject to the Flaming Fist and the laws of Baldur's Gate, but they only uphold the law and otherwise don't interfere with the government of the towns.

Naskhel officially belongs to Amn, but it's not a very strong tie because the Cloud Peaks cuts them off so they are also somewhat independent. I think it has Amnish soldiers garrisoning it in the game, so most likely the Flaming Fist completely stays out of Amn territory.

>>3891685
good thing you aren't playing a good party, right anon?

>>3891685
Did you not talk to the foreman of the mine and somehow glitched through the guards?

>>3891693
Nah, talked to him and the soldiers where gone when I entered. Could be worse though, at least there's a second exit.

>>3891687
>>3891691
Just taking whatever fills the slots atm. Can thing about a proper party config a bit later.

>>3891698
You can always just ctrl+j

>BG mods

>BG1 specific
BG1 NPC Project
BG1 Unfinished Business
Baldur's Gate Mini Quests & Encounters

>BG2 specific
IEP Extended Banters
PPG Banter Pack
Unfinished Business
Imoen Romance mod
Weimar Item Upgrade
Weimar Tactics
Romantic Encounters

>Both
Tweak Anthology
Stratagems (SCS)
eSeries scripts
gMinion script

>>3891616
3rd edition, 3.5 edition, 4th edition, 5th edition are all false editions.

Those editions published by TSR or its imprint, through summer of 2000, are True AD&D™ and as such True Editions. All forms of D&D from this period, 30 years of content, are True. All from after are false. If there's a problem with your "true editions" causing 3E to be superior, then it's caused by your false rules being introduced through blasphemous "house rules."

>>3891698
>compromising on party composition

>>3891710
The founding statement of True AD&D™ was rendered on the first of May, 1980, by the Author of the Game.

"Do not fall into the error of regarding it as a supplement. It is integral to Dungeon Mastering a True AD&D™ campaign."

E. Gary Gygax
1 May 1980
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

So too are all materials produced for the game by TSR, Inc. integral to Dungeon Mastering a True AD&D™ campaign. Only the True rules. Never house rules. Never false rules.

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Best portrait.

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>Casting Failure

Is the Sirene mod any good?

>>3891812
Never heard of it, but if it's an NPC mod the answer is most likely "no".

>>3891812
It's relatively small. No NPC either. I usually install it.

>>3891710
this meme will never be funny

>>3891509
There shouldn't have even been an argument in the first place, the tier list has been settled for ages now.

>>3891932
the funny thing is, no one bothered to post the actual tier list the entire time.

>>3891934
Why bother when people should already know it?

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>>3891467
Is the city of Baldur's Gate a good place to live?

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Why not make this a general D&D thread that includes Gold Box games and Eye of the Beholder?

>>3891939
next thread, friendo.

>>3891938
>try to leave the city
>get killed by ankhegs

>>3891958
>leave the city
>encounter drizzt
>filthy drow bandit attacks you

>>3891958
>enter home
>some retarded ogre magi broke into your house and were using it as an ambush point
>they kill you for no reason

>lose Rep in the vanilla game if you kill Sarevok's wizard mentor
Fucking really?

>>3891973
sarevok was a good boy, he dindu nuffin

If anyone is familiar with the mod Tower of Deception, is there any reason to keep Ustrain's spellbook? The description text indicates you could open it if you were more powerful, but I'm not sure if that part was ever implemented. Is there any benefit for telling the quest-giver to fuck off? Ustrain confronts me (with his useful loot) even if I give up the book to the other guy.

>>3891970
You'd need a pretty big door if an ogre can fit through without you noticing it hanging off its hinges.

>>3891710
>AD&D
I take it you still light your house with torches and get on the internet with dial-up?

>>3892067
Nice meme-themed response, bro.

Reinstalling for the first time in a long time. Are there any mods that are essential for BG1?

Is this list >>3891709 legit, or just a meme?

>>3892109
Tweak Anthology is the only essential mod.

>>3891709
>no BG1 Romantic Encounters

>>3892121
you start out as a scrub and scrubs don't get bitches

>>3892109

Installing both Tactics mod and SCS is essential.

>>3892138
>SCS
>"It is not compatible with the original BG1"

anyone have portraits of aerie that make her look less of an ayy lmao?

>>3891916
And your meme editions aren't retro, never will be. Get back to /v/ with them. Here we rock True AD&D™ computer games that utilize proper rules.

>>3892173
none of this shit belongs on /v/ or /vr/
keep your memes on >>>/tg/

>>3892109
The game is perfectly playable without any mods. There is nothing mechanically broken about vanilla and there is plenty of content to keep you occupied for some time.

Most of those mods there are just giving you more stuff to do in a game that already has a reasonable amount of stuff in vanilla.
Tweak anthology isn't bad (especially making shapeshifters viable) but most of the stuff there are minor cosmetic changes, awfully specific changes for people who went "why isn't this how I think it should be" or they're alterations to make some aspects of the game easier for lazy people who can't be bothered manage to their inventories or search for traps.
SCS and tactics mostly just make the game harder.
The scripts are useless if you are managing your party properly.

>>3892180
fun isn't allowed on /tg/. where have you been?

>>3892109
BG1 NPC Project
BG1 Unfinished business

>>3891739
Laetitia Casta?

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>>3892161

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Is it possible to fail timed-quests in bg2? Such as guild's quests or Mazzy's one.
>>3892161
But she's sort of ayyy.

>>3892287
To my knowledge, the only timed quests in BG2 are some of the drow quests in the underdark where they will state something like "be back here within 3 days". The times tend to be pretty generous especially if you clear out the ilithid, beholder and kuotoa dungeons before visiting Adalon but if you fail to meet the timer, I'm pretty sure you fail the quest and the drow go hostile.

http://www.ironworksforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14668
Is there more elaborated game?

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Does anyone have any good, or at least entertaining, recommendations for NPC mods? I've already played through the more famous and infamous ones (Saerileth, Chloe, Kelsey, Tsujatha, Solaufein and so on) as well as original NPC romance mods

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Damn, I wasn't expected anything after that lovetalk about Candlekeep, but Imoen has stolen a bracelet from a merchant near Ribald's store.
Are there more events like that?

>>3891938
the dukes are good people and the flaming fist is pretty competent, the weather is temperate leaning warm, but it storms all the time

That said, hell no. Fuck living in some seedy D&D world city that smells like shit all the time (even though it has sewers). Killers, thieves, sailors, Iron throne assholes, calishite merchants, amn for a neighbor, giant-spider infested forest next door, trollwood not far away, battle of the bones not far away....fuck all that.

If I had a choice and I wasn't an elf, I'd pick silverymoon. I don't mind the winters, and I don't mind the danger of orc hordes and dragons.

>>3891973
yeah it's gay, but at least it doesn't matter one bit that late in the game, unless you're a pally or a ranger

>>3892161
she's an avariel, bro
they're even more ayy looking than regular elves, because they're even more lightly built and sorta avian

>>3892615
Don't forget those meddling adventurers and their stupid dwarf.

>>3892154
you need BGtutu ot BGT is what it means because of the spell selection and whatnot

>>3892287

Yes, there are some quests you can fail by running out of time. Jan's personal subquest, or Anomen's sister's murder. Was there one in particular you wanted to know about? Many ostensibly "time pressured" quests can actually be paused indefinitely. For example, you don't ever have to visit Keldorn's family if you don't want to.

FR autists, how do other planes even have arcane magic and wizards if the Weave is a Toril thing?

I've never used thief in melee fight, now trying to backstab someone with Valygar. And it's not working always, he's supposed to attack from invisibility AND from behind?

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>>3892346
Imoen

>>3892809
use 3rd edition rules for backstabs if you're bad
>>3892161

>>3892809
you need to be hidden, not invisible, and attack from behind, and successfully hit

>>3892845
"Hide in shadows" is just a form of invisibility. Both work.

>>3892808
Not really an expert, but you don't need the Weave to access magic, it's just harder without it. You only run into consistency issues if you're looking at things from a Planescape or Spelljammer perspective (which is actually the version we get in BG2, what with the Dragonlance knights in the Planar Sphere and the Spelljammer ship in Ust Natha) because then you have other worlds in the prime material plane who don't have a Weave but do seem to have similar access to magic.

The actual planes are mostly inherently magical themselves, like the elemental planes, or are the fiefdoms of active deities, who can do as they please, including how easy magic is to access within their realms. I'm not sure if it's ever stated how easy it would be to access magic if you had some normal human civilization - unnoticed by the powers that be - within the various planes, because you don't really have much of that going on in the first place. It's mostly powerful or magical creatures, petitioners and already accomplished primes.

>>3892856
Did you miss the Dark Sun cannibal halflings in the sphere too?

>>3892845
Thanks, it was a matter of angle as I thought.

>>3892809
Melee attack from stealth or invisibility, from behind, and with Thief-compatible weapons(longsword, short sword, dagger, club, scimitar/wakizashi/ninja-to, katana or quarterstaff).

>>3892808
Because the Weave is only relevant in Toril. Nobody in Greyhawk or Mystara or Eberron cares because it doesn't exist anywhere else.

>>3892856
>you don't need the Weave to access magic, it's just harder without it.
Oh. So wizards from Toril that travel to other planes/worlds just end up accessing magic "manually", for lack of a better word?

>>3892868
I forgot about those guys entirely when making that post, but I did know they were Athassian halflings.

>>3892916
Presumably, yeah. I'm not sure if they ever published rules for Toril-born mages traveling to a non-Weave world and being weaker as a result, meaning you could argue that Realms wizards are infused with it even on other planets. Or they were too lazy to make rules for it. Or they did and I don't know about it.

I have 2 blades of searing +3 in bag of holding for some reason. Did i duplicate it somehow?

>>3893381
There have been a lot of bugs with containers generally, including accidental duping, so probably. It's also possible you could have picked up another one if you're using content mods. I did a playthrough with most of the non-megamod extra content and ended up with about 30 copies Ring of Protection +2/The Guard's Ring, because modders can't be bothered to add generic versions of magic items.

>>3893424
The only mod I'm using is Imoen romance.

>>3893381
It's possible to kill certain NPCs twice, which is what you did most likely.

Should I drop Minsc for le 9 dex man? Minsc is a useful meat shield but the other guy seems to have way more utility. Only problem is that I already have Amomen so I'd have two party members with shit dex.

>>3894172
I'd left Keldorn to his family.

>>3894172
Keldorn is pretty useful to have around. He comes with the innate ability to dispel magic at double level and cast true seeing as abilities which will make fights against mages much easier. Also during the seeing eye quest that you meet him near the beginning of, you can pick up the bracers of dexterity that will turn him into "le 18 dex man that can also wield Carsomyr".
Minsc has less anti-mage utility than Keldorn but has excellent physical stats in fact, possibly the best until you get to Sarevok in TOB and his berserk skill is very useful at times especially against dragons and demiliches as it makes him immune to fear and imprisonment.
In my first playthrough of the game I took both and though Keldorn was much more effective against enemy spellcasters, Minsc ended up taking a greater share of the overall killcount. I'd say it mostly comes down to if you'd prefer a mentally retarded berserker with a pet hamster or one of the best depictions of a paladin in video games.

As a third option, if you don't already have him and are willing and able to keep your reputation under 19, Korgan is an excellent fighter who becomes very hard to kill thanks to his excellent constitution and dwarven saving throws while being able to dish out a lot of damage by the end of the game and also having berserker rage to temporarily become even more powerful.

>Aerie starts fighting with Jaheira because muh wings
>Talks shit about Khalid
>Only dialogue option where I can properly reprimand her result in her leaving the party
holy shit Aerie really is worst girl.

>>3894279
She's just a literal girl. Jaheira and Viconia are real women.

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>third playthough
>still have no idea how to fight liches properly, they are still immune to melee weapons even if I use breaches, pierce shield, etc
>just destroy them with mace of disruption through all of their defensive spells
>>3894236
Minsc is not immune to imprisonment, his rage is not the same as Korgan's one.

>>3894285
Yeah but I should be able to tell her she's out of line while keeping her in my party. I feel like I'm having the same conversation with her everytime with her pity party bullshit.At this point, if she wasn't a cleric/mage I'd kick her out of my party in a heartbeat

>playing through bg2 for the first time and having heaps of fun
>realize that after I finish this game I'll never play it for the first time again and the genre is dead so I don't have any similar games to look forward to.
I tried IWD but the fact that its pure dungeon crawling puts me off. Why do people say planescapes combat is bad? Isn't the same as bg?

>>3894343
It's very simplified, just 3 basic classes for PC, no combat log, you're just watching kewl anime spell animations and damage numbers.

>>3894290
Your breach probably got absorbed by the lich's spell trap. Dispell that first with a ruby ray of reversal

>>3894343
Planescape torment is the polar opposite of iwd. More focus on story and less on combat. Baldurs gate sits in between the 2.

In fact if I remember correctly, there's only 2 mandatory combat encounters in the game. Everything else can be snuck around or talked to.

What are your favorite areas in BG1?

What about BG2?

>>3894582
BG1: Outdoor areas around Beregost and Naskhel that you do at the beginning of the game. Since you just started the playthrough all that exploration didn't yet get boring so the feeling of adventuring is the strongest there.

BG2: Strongholds, especially Nalia's Keep and the Planar Sphere are comfy.

>>3894608
>Planar Sphere are comfy
that one fucking star trek room with the lizardmen that aren't otherwise in the game

>>3894290

You need +3 weapons to hit a lich. The daystar can hit liches through their protection spells. Or simply learn how to remove protection spells.

>>3894780
I know, but they tend to use pfmw. I noticed that in my EE2.3 version they're using improved mantle though, so I can hit them with +4 weapons in theory.
>>3894582
Mutamin's garden
Waukeen's promenade

>>3894582
BG1: Baldur's Gate itself, loads of stuff to do, I remember being amazed at having a city as big as it when I first played. Athkatla was even bigger and had even more content, but in a vanilla game I think it probably sucked up slightly too much development time, you can easily spend half your total playtime in the starting city.

Durlag's Tower - an interesting story, used mechanics that we hadn't seen before in the engine like the door puzzles, with some great locales like the huge dragon skeleton and the chess room. Some of the fights were balls-hard in the BG1 (no EE/BGT) format. Suffers from the trap detection mechanic being slow, though.

BG2: Windspear Dungeon - really neat dungeon crawl, wide variety of enemies and interesting but not ridiculous loot. It's got vampires, it's got rakshasa, it's got golems, it's got wolfweres, it's got an evil adventurer party, it's got djinn, it's got Tazok and it's got a dragon. Something for everybody.

The Underdark - D&D original aberrations are all really cool, I just wish the engine had given us an aboleth dungeon instead of a kuo-toa one, but modelling swimming enemies in an IE game isn't really possible.

Why is IW2 so fucking boring?

>>3895062
It tried to use the worst edition in an engine not designed for it.

>Ascension has you fight Illasera, Yaga-Shura, Abazigal, Sendai, Balthazar, Jon Irenicus, Bodhi, and Amelyssan in one battle
What the fuck. Besides a god, who else in the Forgotten Realms could win that fight? Larloch?

>>3895062
Same reason why IWD is boring.
D&D combat is shit, you only play them for the story and characters, and IWD barely has either of those.

>>3895065
Tiax

I forgot, is it possible to get info from TorGal about his employers?

>>3895065
Elminster wearing a coat of plot armour.

>>3895118
I don't think you can get him to specify who it is, no. I assumed it was the Roenals.

>>3892543
Yeh a fair amount.

>>3895161
>Elminster wearing a coat of plot armour.
>wearing a coat of plot armour
A bit redundant.

>>3895170
Such as?

>>3894290
they were probably using immunity: abjuration

read your combat log and pack a pure mage in the party

Why is Athkatla so damn dangerous? What's in the water there?

>>3895161
I thought it was firkraag

>>3895204
Well, he died at least once. But then he got better, so I suppose the plot armour wasn't really broken.

>>3895227
Could be, he'd certainly have an easier time making a bunch of trolls do his bidding. The issue is he doesn't really have any reason to target the de'Arnises unless he got pissed off at Nalia hanging around the Copper Coronet giving out money to homeless people or something like that. He mostly seems to like deceiving and manipulating people, rather than just causing destruction, which is all that TorGal and his minions are good for.

>>3895225
The water blocks the magic scrying of the Cowled Wizard police, so all the illegal mages are doing their research underwater to avoid detection with water breathing spells. Because of this a ton of magic is mixed into the water.

>>3895291
honestly as a sadistic megalomaniac looking for entertainment he seems capable of anything

>>3894291
kick her out anyways and get edwin my main man

>>3895225
probably a lot less dangerous than dubai is irl

>>3894291
Aerie grows out of it, if you actually help her.

>>3894786
have in mind that in ee v2.3, weapons like daystar only hit as +4 vs the creatures they get the +4 bonus to dmg/thac0 against. otherwise they hit as +2

shit change desu

>>3895354
she's still worst girl

>>3895394
did someone make a tweak to revert all the balance changes yet?

>>3895412
there is one for the Poison Weapon nerf, dunno about the weapons enchantment. I could make the code for one if you want (you'll have to install it with weidu because i'm lazy as fuck to upload shit)

>>3895394
So in the original they are bugged and hit as +4 to every target?

>>3895430
yes. I wouldn't say bugged because it is what feels right to me, but I doubt it was intended anyway

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>>3895434
>sword+2, +4 vs undead
>hits any enemy as +4
>feels right to me

>>3895438
honestly, it's what I'm used to. I play this fucking game since 2005, and it's always been like that, so idk, it might sound dumb but whatever, it still makes more sense than Imoen lol

>>3895438
if changes were made in the spirit of the original game, then the item's description would be changed to match its mechanics, which have been the same for nearly two decades.

is a Fighter/Mage/Thief using quarterstaff and longbow the best option for soloing the trilogy?

>>3895475
Thief is completely redundant. Fighter/Mage can already do everything.

>>3895475
Removing exp cap is cheating anyway and without it you can't cast 9lvl spells.

>>3895475
have fun getting past level 2 as a F/M/T, if you're going solo right off the bat.

>>3895062
fuck you it was awesome

>>3895526
soloing bg1 is especially easy, because you level up so fast, you'll hit the exp cap before baldurs gate with just a wee bit of off the rails exploring, and f/m/t is a great class

bit of advice; get the robe of good archmagi asap; that'll be your general armor

be an elf, be good at longswords and longbows for bg1, then shortbows for bg2, then quarterstaffs

Why is killing other adventurers so much more satisfying than slaying monsters?

>>3895590
most dangerous game

>>3895590
>>3895603
there's the whole rivalry issue, their shit-talking beforehand, their loot, and to a lesser extent they are each a bit different from each other rather than like 8 of the same thing

>>3895394
Daystar is still one of the most useful weapons in the game. You can get it as soon as you step out of irenicus' dungeon in chapter 2 and its better than any other 1 handed sword in the base game other than thunderfury and vs undead it's still does more damage. most things you fight are evil anyway so it's almost always a plus 4 and absolutely annihilated any undead you fight. My improve hasted fighter with daystar and belm in offhand ripped kangaxx a new one before he could get a single imprisonment off.

>>3895438
I thought daystar was plus vs evil not just undead. It does double damage vs undead though.

>>3895590
They (mostly) have to fight using the same rules that you do and have the same sized party as you (probably) do, so it's a fair fight. And they're one of the best sources of loot and cash.

>>3895581
>bit of advice; get the robe of good archmagi asap; that'll be your general armor
You can get more AC than that with a Shield spell.

>>3891790
dumb frogposter
smart wojak poster

>amazon encounter near the back entrance to Nashkel mines
>drops +2 leather armor and a shitload of gold

what did they mean by this
am I seriously supposed to have +2 leather armor when nobody in the party's even 3rd level yet

>>3895867
Well, they might not have planned for people to beat that party at level 2, since they're level 6, 5, and 4/4 x2, but yeah, pretty much. It's not like leather armour +2 is particularly useful anyway, it's still worse than mundane studded leather except for the weight. The +2 dagger in the same area is the greater treasure.

>>3895876
>it's still worse than mundane studded leather
How so?
Isn't a studded leather only 1 AC better than a leather?

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>>3895880
Because armour types don't just have an armour class, they also have modifiers based on the incoming damage type, and leather is really, really bad in that regard.

Studded Leather / Leather +2
Slashing 5 / 6
Crushing 7 / 6
Piercing 6 / 8
Missile 6 / 8

This same thing is why full plate is even better in comparison to regular plate mail than you'd think: http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Full_Plate_Mail vs http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Plate_Mail. You're getting 2 flat AC, but also an additional bonus of 1 against slashing, 3 against piercing and 3 against missile. Only against crushing damage are you "only" 2 points of AC better.

>>3895903
Is this an EE-only contrivance, or does this apply to vanilla BG as well?

>>3895910
EE just adds it to the description so you don't need to look it up in the manual.

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>>3891790
>Arrows of dispelling

>>3895916
on vanilla you can check it on the record screen (at least in BG2/BGT, don't play vBG1 desu).

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>Davaeorn fireballed his own apprentice
I wanted to talk to him.

>>3896015
>Not using stealth or Invisibility to get past Davaeorn and talk to him first.
Shiggydiggy.

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Fuck that werewolf on the Lycanthrope Island.

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>using heavy crossbow spam, comp bow spam, and wands of magic missile to infinitely interrupt enemy spellcasting and troll any other enemy that isn't also an archer
Is BG1 supposed to be this easy?

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>>3896043
And with that I mean greater werewolf. Faggot is immune against all my weapons and regenerates like crazy.

>>3896045
There isn't much that survives 6 guys with ranged weapons and kiting, no. Default mage AI isn't smart and doesn't protect itself as well as it should. Enemy parties and indoor encounters where you can't backpeddle away are more challenging.

>>3896048
You should have the Silver Dagger: Werebane, Balduran's bastard sword, maybe Kondar, and maybe the flaming sword from Durlag's that can hurt him. You can also try Slow, Blind and Hold Monster (if you have it,) though his saves are pretty good so you might want to cast Greater Malison before hand. Or just get lucky.

>>3895629
You're right, I'm just trying to say that weapon description should match its actual attributes.

>>3896075
Eventually brute forced my way through with lots of buffs, offensive spells and Khalid landing a crit with the Balduran sword without having any weapon proficiency in bastard swords.

Back at Ulgoth's Beard. Somehow I think I missed a thing or two. There was not even a real reward.

I've seen a link here or in one of /v/ bg threads about spell protections and which spells can dispel them. Can you provide it?

>>3896219
Ruby Ray of Reversal

>>3894415
I think they are immune to lvl5 spells including breach in vanilla. Is there another spell which can remove PfMW?

>>3896219
Can't you just look at the spell descriptions?

Basically, everything is removed by dispel magic, remove magic and breach except for a few "protection from spells" style spells which are removed by khelbens warding whip, pierce magic (both with the noteworthy exception of spell trap), pierce shield, ruby ray of reversal and spellstrike.

I've probably missed something but that should give you the gist of it.

>>3896048
>>3896043
I just killed him with Doom + Greater Malision + Paralyze + Feeblemind and for some reason he didn't regenerate at all. Is this a bug?
I'm kinda disappointed because I was ready for this fight.

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>>3894769
You rang, Bitchboy?

>>3895062
3e without a fun DM

>>3895224
It was Spell Shield, stoneskin and improved mantle.

What class should I use when I do an evil play through? Are there any important classes that are underrepresented among the evil npcs?

>>3896425
Assassin?

>>3896425
There's a good range of everything in BG1 iirc. A couple of mages, a couple of clerics, some fighters, a couple of multiclassed thieves, even a bard so you can pretty much choose whatever you like and find teammates to fill in the gaps.
On the other hand, in BG2, ignoring the EE additions and NPC mods there is only an evil fighter, cleric and mage in SOA plus an extra evil fighter in TOB so a thief of some sort (assassin again?) would be the obvious choice if you wanted an entirely evil party. If you wanted a full 6 man party though, there is a very good chaotic neutral mage/thief to fill that thief role for you (and EE will give you a blackguard and an evil thief if you can put up with them) so the advice I'd give then becomes pretty similar to that of the first game.

>>3895706
if you want to use one or more of your few spell slots, sure
amulet of shield if you really want it

>>3896425
if you're not using EE, and you want a well-rounded, evil-only party, you need some kind of thief
straight thief is a waste, personally, so I'd go with
>>3896428
or a fighter/thief
considering that the evil guys in bg2 are a dwarf fighter, an elf cleric, and a human wizard, you should be a halfling
but then you can't romance viconia and your str wont be good
personally I'd play an elf assassin

if you're going with EE, however, the game changes
in bg2 you'll get a halforc blackguard and a vampire thief, leaving you with the bard slot
I'm doing my first evil run right now, as a female half-elf blade
im still in bg1, about to go to candlekeep
my party is kagain, dorn, baeloth, viconia, and skie (never used her or baeloth before, figured I would this time)

>>3896456
Elf can't romance Viconia either. Half elf can.

>>3896228
Inquistor dispell will make anything naked

>>3896240
Normal dispells will fail more often then not when you really need it. Inquisitor dispells at twice their level and at instant speed. Lets you rape mages before they know what happened

>>3896470
well shit
i wouldnt want to give up elf benefits to be a halfelf just to romance her
i know halforcs can

>>3896228

PfMW only lasts for four rounds. Your best bet is to sit it out. Call your fighters back and send one or two skeleton warriors to the lich. Liches have big problems killing them.

>>3896492

Just get that mod that disables romance restrictions.

They told me I've got a personal room in the Order of Radian Heart building, but I can't find it.

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Rate my party, fresh outta the dungeon. Those dual wield fighters kept throwing themselves at me.

>>3896634
Poor little halfling boy.

>>3896638
>hey, boy, wanna /ss/ with us?

Is it possible to steel boots of haste from Renal or I have to kill him?

>>3896705
Considering that if he becomes hostile a shadow thief that is immune to all forms of damage besides stat drain armed with a weapon that instakills on hit appears I'm pretty sure pickpocketing is the expected way to get the boots off him.
You'll need to have very good stats to do it successfully though.

>>3896739
I can't steal it even with 250 pickpocket skill.
Also that guy doesn't appear for some reason. Maybe it's because I'm in chapter 5.

>>3896881
>Smoke Mephit: Dies
>420 exp

>>3896765
>>3896739
Arkanis Gath only exists (or rather, the version with the death-touch sword and invincibility only exists) to ensure you don't break the plot by killing - or attacking then running away from - key Shadow Thief NPCs. Once you're back from Spellhold he doesn't need to end your game, so you can kill Renal unless you need him for the thief stronghold, and maybe if you want Linvail to send a squad of assassins to help you with Bodhi; I'm not sure if that's actually scripted to make Linvail hostile or break the script that spawns your friendly assassins once you've talked to him.

Does anyone know what makes some NPCs harder to steal from than others? I know there's some factor of the weight and value of whatever it is you're stealing, but it does seem like some NPCs are harder in and of themselves, even if all you're taking is a potion of extra healing or something like that. Maybe Renal is hard to steal from because he's got 130 pickpocket himself? Stores have their pickpocket modifier in the .sto file, but I can't find anything indicating difficulty in .cre files.

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first reply gets to answer

>>3896980
You'll fail the quest in this case, won't you?

>>3896980
3

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>>3896985
oh shit

Anyone played Dark Side of the Sword Coast or Northern Tales of the Sword Coast?

Are they worthwhile?

>>3896705
>>3896765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kfBOWax2yk&t=7m30s

>>3896994
May Helm bless his poor heart.

>>3897013
Played it a long time ago when there was no Big Picture mod and dropped the game because the items were hilariously OP and dropped like crazy. So if you want to give it a shot, be sure to install balancing mods like Big Picture.

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>>3897026
Just polymorf and kill him?

>>3895062
Nothing in that game was noteworthy. 3E gives you lots of choices to individualize your characters but they all feel samey anyway after a few levels because you want to get into dual class shenanigans with everyone. The locations weren't as beautiful and interesting as in IWD1, the encounters were boring (goblin trash mobs anywhere), the music sucks compared to IWD1, the story was meh yeah, so was IWD1's story but it still gave you a sense of epicness and adventuring despite that. The general presentation just feels half-assed and lacks passion and a clear direction.

I play IWD1 every year because it's a damn comfy winter game but I have yet to beat IWD2.

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>>3897027
What, you're saying this isn't a fair and balanced item to have in BG1?

>>3897058
More like Robe of Drow

>>3897058
Well those are pretty powerful abilities, but it's cursed so it's alright I guess.

>>3897086
what's the curse though

>>3897118
You can't remove the item.

>>3897120
oh. that doesn't seem like much of a curse. if anything it seems like it would make it harder for someone to steal it.
a good curse for that robe would be "you can't cast spells"

>>3897026
Don't work for me, maybe it was fixed.

>>3897130
Think about it, maybe the mod offers you an even better robe and you have to travel to the next temple. Inconvenient as fuck.

>>3897136
What's your order of actions?

>>3897147
I initiate a talking with him, pause the game, then cast polymorf other spell.

Did they raise the level cap for BG1 EE? My main char sorcerer is currently at level 7 and still gains XP.

>>3897073
This.

>>3897160
No, it's still 161k

>>3897149
how many posts is it going to take to get a full answer of events.

>>3897168
What? Am I doing something wrong?

>>3896705

Install quest mod. You now have the possibility to side with Mae'Var and betray Renal.

>>3897229
Nevermind, I'll just kill him in old fashioned way right before going into elven city.

What does a god do if a mortal has pissed it off?

>>3897328
rape

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>tfw Duke Entar Silvershield's wife wants my D
>tfw you steal a level 20 Fighter's wife

>>3897508
And his daughter

>>3897328
I think FR has "rules" against gods fucking with mortals.

Why do people hate Anomen?

>>3897537
Does Ao kick them out of "heaven" again?

Anyone have a good link for me so I can pirate baldurs gate (and I heard there are expansions too)
Really just looking for some old games to play on my shitstation

>>3897613
try KAT

>>3897637
No thank you I'm a dog person myself

>>3897613
PCGames-Download.com is good for lots of games that are on GOG.

>>3897613
https://pastebin.com/3abaKH5Y
https://pastebin.com/pdQnUgdy

>>3897668
>v1.3
Using outdated buggy versions is a bad meme.

>>3897674
Do you have a link to a more reliable patch then?

>>3897668
Is it ok to play the 2nd before the first

>>3897674
1.3 isn't buggy at all, played through twice 100%, and have yet to encounter something game breaking.
sure as hell beats the shit fest that is 2.3+

>>3897723

What's wrong with 2.3?

>>3897785
beamdog shill go away. tablet faggots don't come here.

>>3897581
1. Arrogant
2. Self-righteous
3. Bad facial hair

He's becomes a total bro if he doesn't fail his knighthood, though.

>>3897803
The context is pirating the game... do you think Beamdog pays that guy not just to shill on 4chins but also to recommend people make sure they play the most recent version of their game when they aren't even paying for it?

>>3897843
why would you willingly play on the bastardized "updated" version of baldur's gate, with a fucking tablet GUI that doesn't fit the theme of the game at all? especially since 1.3 was already almost perfect, instead they heaped on balance changes and fixed bugs that may as well have been features, since everyone used them at some point in the past two decades.

>>3897803

It was a legitimate question, you fucking retard. I haven't played EE at all, so I was curious as to why you'd recommend an older version over a newer one.

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>>3897941
You rang?

>guy that will reluctantly give you a hint to find Balduran's Helm also reveals where Balduran's Cloak is in the note he gives you
Is he retarded?

>>3897843
>total bro

You mean a smug and boring wanker? Nah, I prefer his old personality. Fits way better the knight archetype.

>>3897959
His quest is actually pretty great desu. Every decision you make is valid and there is really no clear solution.

God, I forgot how insufferable Minsc becomes in BG2.

>>3898062
Explain

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>can't dual wear Evermemory in EE

No longer podracing

>>3898225
He starts actively talking with everyone, screaming, being annoying in general and there is no hot chocolate witch to outweigh his presence.
Seriously, Minsc was much more enjoyable in BG1 NPC project.

>>3898062
Why are you acting as if he wasn't insufferable in BG1?

>My inn is open to all who behave themselves

What did he mean by this?

Do you recommend BG1: EE?

I have an install of the original BG1 (not BGT or Tutu) with some mods based on a guide from GOG, but it's an install based on BG1: EE better?

>>3898319
if you don't behave yourself he won't be able to cover the cost of repairs and will have to close it down

>>3898342
>Do you recommend BG1: EE?
Depends on the version. v2.3 is meme-tier garbage. v1.3 is solid.

>>3898342
EE adds some pretty useful features like area loot, zooming in and various containers so I'd say it's worth playing as long as you ignore the new companions and don't play SoD.

>>3898387

The best thing about EE is the removal of load times.

>>3897687
Of course not.
>>3897785
They've changed interface in benefit of tablets, lots of scrolling.

>>3897965
Just petrified.
>>3897843
Even if arrogant sometimes, he gets mocked way harder than he deserves it.

>>3897785
I haven't seen this in bugreports, but when after the first boot there's no selection circles, no selection box and no fog of war. I'm restarting the game every time to fix this.
1.3 was fine in this regard.

Do you bother to interact with Husam (the Shadow Thief guy that hangs out in the Baldur's Gate Thieves' Guild and can help you out) in BG1 or do you just purge him with the rest of the guild?

Do you even use fighter's ability "guard"? What is it for?

>>3896045
If you're playing Tutu or EE the game is automatically easier.

>>3898846
You either click on someone or drag it a bit like an RTS selection circle, then your character will defend that area/character. It's only an AI thing, and is pretty pointless.

>>3898904
>vanilla BG archers
>vanilla BG summoning wands

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2.3 is great, guys, i s-swear.

>>3898989
>EE
>Fighter/Mage/Thief
>Solo
>Female
>Chaotic Neutral
Are you gay, son?

>>3894343
Go another aligment party route, intall patch and do all class specific dweling's quests and finally do playthrought with only your handcrafted characters.
And save a lot.

>>3898989
That looks like it was designed for 1920x1200, did you pick a wrong option somewhere?

>>3898989
That's SoD, though.

>>3899063
that's cloakwood. looks like that in bg1, bg2, and sod in v2.3+

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>>3899069
This is from BG1EE 2.3.67.3, without SoD installed.

>>3899097
default isn't blue, you're using a mod.

>>3899102
I'm using BWS with recommended settings. But I have a separate install with SoD and I also ran BWS on it with the same settings and that has the black UI that you posted.

>>3899105
tablet shit regardless.

>>3899112
This argument still makes literally no sense.
Tell me exactly how does the UI make playing on PC worse while favoring tablets?

>>3899114
don't fall for autist bait, anon

>>3899114
>>3899121
there's no arguing with beamdog employees.

>>3898987
vanilla BG has no archer kit

>>3897058
I still love the weapons dropped by Tristan and Isolde. Tristan's sword is just fucking hilarious.

>>3899164
Do you have a screenshot? I've not played with those mods installed, just grabbed that from a Let's Play of it.

>>3899151
It doesn't need an archer kit. Bows are already overpowered enough in vanilla BG1.

What are prerequisites for triggering the banters?

>>3899698
Which banters? It's mostly just based on real time and having someone in your party, or having the characters in your party if it's with each other rather than you. Sometimes they (and love talks) require something like being in an outside, non-city area or whatever.

>>3899706
>tfw the first time viconia wants to bang it's in an egyptian tomb recently cleared of mummies

>>3899706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axqw0hn1Dw
Regular party banters. It seems that I missed a lot of them despite having certain character in the party.

>trying to play BG1 for the first time
>don't want sjw shit shoved down my throat with the EE
>try to set up BG TuTu
>the cutscenes don't scale to aspect ratio and stay at 640x480
>try to play without it but can't handle having to use my mouse to pan the screen
>Okay I'll try this Big World Trilogy thing
>taking literal hours to install, isn't working properly, have no fucking idea what I'm doing, I don't even want additional content

What do I do?

>>3899698

There are different triggers for different types of banter

1. Party members talk to each other after having been together in the party for a certain amount of real time. Example: If you have Keldorn and Anomen together for a while. Keldorn tries to lecture Anomen.

2. Your party talks to an NPC and your party members react, sometimes talking to each other. Example: you accept the Umar Hills quest from the boy and Jaheira and Korgan will bicker about it.

3. Some NPCs will talk to one another when one of them gets critically injured. Example: if Aerie drops to 5 or so HP, after a fight, and Nalia is in the party, Nalia will ask someone to heal Aerie, prompting a short conversation

4. Entering a new area or triggering a scripted event may trigger party dialogue. Example: when Aerie and Mazzy enter Lathander Temple for the first time, they will have a short conversation.

Different combinations of NPC produce different banters. You can occasionally get proper five-way discussions depending on who is in your party.

>>3899750
>don't want sjw shit shoved down my throat with the EE
>What do I do?

Just play EE and don't let dorn, neera, or rasaad into your party. When you encounter them, you can just turn them down and that's that. Let neera into your party to get the gem bag first. Dorn and Rasaad's quests each have a really good item though.

>>3899758
I heard they nerfed the dialogue of a fan favourite as well, though?

>>3899756

And since I've done a lot of research on the subject... The most fruitful area of the game for banter is Bridge District. Walk around and talk to everyone (especially beggars!) and in the taverns, too, for lots of humorous dialogue.

Worst character for dialogue is Cernd. He's got little to say that isn't also said by another NPC instead, and he's shit to boot, so you can comfortably leave him with his baby after completing his subquest.

Viconia has lots of dialogue in the Underdark.

Party members tend to react to situations appropriate to their class. For example, mages may comment on magical matters, clerics on divine topics.

>>3899760
Probably someone mixing it with the interquel/expansion they made, Siege of Dragonspear, in which various BG1 NPCs appear but without their original writers, with mixed to poor results.

In BGEE the closest thing I think they did to altering the original writing is that the new NPCs can interact a bit with the vanilla ones, like Dorn and Ajantis hating each other and getting into a fight.

>>3899030
>>Female
>gay

Explain this meme.

>>3899750
just use v1.3 BGEE and BG2EE. minimal amount of changes, almost all bug fixes from the EE port. no major changes from the base game. pick up the mods from the list in the thread, otherwise they're trash and not worth using.
use the ee companion removal mod if they bother you that much, otherwise kill them for experience, or let them die and loot them in the case of neera. also, dorn's quest in bg2 gives a super op item.

>>3899716
>Viconia trying to seduce Aerie
l-lewd

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>>3891467

JRPG thread again?

fuck off , there is only three type of rpg exist

CRPG - Ultima
D&D Implementation - Wizardry
there will be rule - Wasteland

fuck your Interactive Movie ,
Japs game and modern game is Interactive Movie

>>3899847
>Baldur's Gate
>JRPG
??????????

>>3899760
no idea about that

who are you referring to?

>>3899815
exactly, just because you're a girl with a penis doesn't make you gay, unless you like girls, you filthy transbian.

>>3899867
???

>>3899847
I think a better term for "CRPG" would be "Muder-Hobo Simulator"

>>3899858
>Baldur's Gate
>>JRPG

Yes , you dumb fuck

there is no freedom of plot , straight Story line only

>no puzzle
>just Move A to B
>no interaction other object
>no such thing like nonlinear structure quest

Are you fucking retard something ?
did you ever play dos-game before?

>>3899872
do you even know what JRPG stands for

>>3899756
Keldorn will have a short conversation with Minsc when he witnesses Minsc leave his berserker rage.
I'm not sure if there are any other cases of abilities/status effects triggering dialogue though.

>>3899872
Almost all CRPGs just have you dancing around doing inconsequential morality choices while the ultimate decision is just to make one of 3 choices that are available to every character anyway, like the end of Human Revolution. I'm not sure of any CRPGs that don't railroad you with "you have to solve this crisis and defeat the main villain even if you're a bad dude cause you're gonna die and this is the only way to survive in the confines of our plot"

>>3899875

yes, when I was kid palyed Ultima and japs game

JRPG is something about senseless and rubbish philosophy

I don't want japs fucked up まもるmamoru shit

when you play ultima or wasteland

there is no auto map or auto journal
there is no some fuck come out say "From A To B asshole"

you must figure out yourself

>>3899885
you talk like some third-world spic nigger.

>>3899885
>>3899887
he sounds german in which case we should pity him

>>3899881

>game purpose literally being Buddha or jesus
>Gnosticism put in the game
>character making is genius , player values are represent to character
>conversation with NPC , player inference is key point of gameplay
>keyword system - talk like real person
>ethical action scoring

did you ever play Ultima IV ?

>>3899907
Ultima IV is an exception among all games and doesn't really count for genre comparisons because it doesn't represent the genre it falls into, if it really falls into any.

>>3899901
Germans don't omit stuff like this. Sounds like a Slav.

>>3899907
>>3899917
shut the fuck up about ultima

>>3899925
post content instead of bitching.

>>3899750
>Okay I'll try this Big World Trilogy thing
>taking literal hours to install, isn't working properly, have no fucking idea what I'm doing, I don't even want additional content

Wtf, BWS is nothing but an attempt to mash together a 100+mods. Why on earth would you try to use it if you don't want additional content?

>>3900254
I thought it had a setup to just be some fixes + turn it into one long game without fucking with stuff.

>>3900257
but that's what TUTU is for

>>3900257
>>3899750
Don't use the batch install method. It's broken and they never fixed it. Use "Baldur's Gate 2 / Baldur's Gate Trilogy (BWP)" instead.

>>3899756
Real time then, thanks.

>>3899750
https://www.gog.com/forum/baldurs_gate_series/a_conservative_modders_gui/page1

Is there a way to install a working BG2 Ascension mod on EE? I would love to play this game the last time.

>>3899758
if you bought EE off gog they give you access to the original version.

>>3900657
It's included in the Big Picture mod, just skip the non-Ascension components when installing.
http://www.shsforums.net/files/file/546-the-big-picture-v181/

What version of bg2 is just before they changed the ui? I'm playing on the gog version if that matters.

>>3900771
1.3

>>3900802
How come I can only roll back as far as the 2.1.63.2 patch? Am I missing something or will I have to pirate the game just so I don't have to put up with those awful menus?

>>3900810
Don't know, I'm playing 2.3 right now despite shitty menus.

Can you give me a quick rundown on SoA part of Imoen mod? I thought that event with a bracelet was last, but now I discovered another non-regular lovetalk during night at De'Arnise keep(where she's afraid something from the west), which unlocked more flirt options.
I almost finished soa and don't want to miss stuff.

>>3901109
That's a normal thing when you try to flirt with her at night.

>>3901126
So there's nothing more until tob?

>>3900810
yes they removed the feature shortly after it was being openly recommended across the internet. beamdog employees can never admit when they are wrong. take note, that you can't downgrade below v2.0, if you want to play dragon spear.
see >>3897668

>>3901257
>they removed the feature shortly after it was being openly recommended across the internet.

What the fuck. I know Beamdog is spiteful but that's just retarded.

>>3901185
campfire scene unlocks the rest. there's 10 major romance events after the campfire unlock.
which is why it's best to run through the game solo until you're out of the underdark, then do the rest, if you want to 100% imoen, so there's no backtracking.

>>3901410
>there's 10 major romance events after the campfire unlock
Where can I see them?
>which is why it's best to run through the game solo until you're out of the underdark, then do the rest
That's exactly what I did.

>>3901421
there used to be a pastebin floating around with the locations and time of day required, but unfortunately it's largely been lost to time. never found all ten myself, and plan on doing a solo playthrough after i slog through dragonspear, where i'll try and recreate the pastebin.

>>3901430
I've seen only one with endings.

>>3901454
that was from one of the contributors popping in one of the many bg /v/ threads. unfortunately /vr/ serves to contain this thread, and we rarely get new people popping in.

>>3901410
What makes it better to play solo? Not having other NPC banter take place instead of Imoen's stuff?

Created a strawpoll for /vr/'s recommendation for newbies on where to start playing Baldur's Gate, curious to hear posters thoughts.

https://www.strawpoll.me/12669581

>>3901482
No, strawpolls are pointless and shit.

If you're not tech illiterate, install BGT. If not, go with EE 1.3 and ignore the Beamdog content.

>>3901482
EE with Big World Setup recommended mods.

>>3901479
Imoen has content in all the chapters, including 1,2, and 3.

>get to about 2m exp in SoA
>suddenly feel a strong urge to start over and play a F/M/T solo game through BG1 again
why can't I just be happy with the classes I pick?
:(

>>3901537
solo powergaming in bg1 is fun. you can rack up over 100k experience in under an hour without cheating. basilisk hunting with the ghoul, siren hunting, and can kill drizzt for 12k experience once you get a few levels.
F/M/T with 2 pips in bows. ez.

>>3901463
Ok, I was able to open these dialogue .d files in wordpad.
APPEND IMOEN2J //// Changes: Basic punctuation

IF ~Global("MRDragonKillTalk","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN BEGIN MRDragonSlayer
SAY ~Holy-! WOW! <CHARNAME>! We just killed a DRAGON! (Imoen bounces where she stands, clapping her hands together in excitement.)~
= ~I feel so awesome right now! Imoen the DragonSlayer! Wait... no, no 'Slayer' stuff. The Dragonstomper! Oooh! Imoen the Dragonfryer! But that sounds like I'm cooking it... hmm.~
= ~The Dragonkiller? Nah, too plain... (She wanders off, tapping a fingertip against her chin, muttering to herself) Dragonsmasher? Dragonlady?~
IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("MRDragonKillTalk","GLOBAL",2)~ EXIT
END

IF ~Global("MRDragonKillTalk","GLOBAL",3)~ THEN BEGIN MRDragonSlayer2
SAY ~Y'know, after the third or fourth dragon, this whole 'dragon-slayer' thing is a lot less impressive.~
IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("MRDragonKillTalk","GLOBAL",4)~ EXIT
END

>>3901585
those are just quest related dialogue, there' s actually 10 romantic events you can find.

>>3901596
qualitytimes.d?

>>3901585
that's pretty insufferable to read

is it all like that

>>3901650
Yeah.
>Cernd
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN MRCerReact
SAY ~Many animals will take mates among their own family, if other mates are not available.~
= ~People look at you and see a <PRO_RACE>, but that is not what you are. You are Bhaalspawn, and it is your nature to seek out your own kind, just as all Nature's creatures do.~
= ~That you have taken Imoen as your mate is anything but unnatural.~
++ ~Why haven't you spoken of this before now?~ GOTO MRCerReactSpeak
++ ~You are a wise man, my friend. Thank you.~ GOTO MRCerReactEnd
++ ~What a bunch of troll turds!~ GOTO MRCerReactTroll

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>>3901650

>>3901664
I'm kinda disappointed that stuff like this was cut.

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>this guy used both GWW and Time Stop during the fight
holy shit thank god for shenanigans

>>3901664
>>3901669
does she like getting raped tho

>>3901482
gotta go Vanilla
mods are too subject to personal preference
EE is infested by meme-tablet GUI and S.Jewish writing

gotta play the game it was meant to be played first; if you want mods, add them later, but that's your call.

Damn, I just can't ditch Jaheira from the party.

>>3901528
So by solo you meant just go straight to Spellhold, rather than not recruiting other NPCs? Or is there a reason not to recruit them either?

>>3901774
I think he's implying just to leave all the quests for chapter 6 so you can see Imoen's reaction.

Why does every single female Baldur's Gate NPC looks like a rape victim in original portraits? Just asking.

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>>3901790
>rape
>victim

>>3901790
What do you mean?

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>>3901631
>give her the qualitytimes.d

It's been more than ten years since I last played the series - never anything but vanilla - and I was severely let down by ToB, but those threads kinda make me wanna waste a few days with a playthrough again. are the games' version on the old CDs still laying around and then patched compatible with the standard mods or do I need newer versions of bg altogether?

>>3899750
play the original FAG

With SCS, did you have a harder time with Sarevok and co. or that demon boss at Ulgoth's Beard?

>>3901806
Your version is fine.

>>3901882
I don't even remember the vanilla fights, but probably yes.

From my last SCS playthrough,
Sarevok had 4 allies with him and he was invulnerable until you killed all 4 of them. Frankly it was annoying so I just cheesed the adds with cloudkill and web and then zerged down Sarevok with every melee buff in the game.

The demon at Ulgoth's Beard had a party of 6-8 cultists as a start, and then the demon had two lives so you had to kill him twice. But he was pretty weak and died quickly to melee zerg with Dorn and co.

>>3901772
Why would you?

>>3901790
I think their BG1 portraits look way better than their BG2 portraits to be honest, lad.

>>3901882
unless SCS removes the traps from the encounter, you just drink a potion of magic immunity and trigger them over and over, making for a joke of an encounter.