u/PickingPies

Sadly I don't have much time to play. I started a Enhanced Edition Trilogy about one year ago. I added plenty of mods to have a very different experience and slowly but steadily managed to finish the first game including Durlag's Tower, siege of dragonspear and the begonning of act 2.

I was in middle of the Haer Dalis quest, which is one of my least favourite parts of the game, so I didn't play for q few months.

Yesterday I had some time because a d&d game I had got cancelled and I wanted to kill something, so I went to the computer, noticed an update, and suddenly all the mods were broken.

I tried to fix it by going to the previous version but then my savegames got erased. I don't even remember what mods I had installed, but I do remember some like Khalid surviving instead of Jaheira, a mod for Imoen to stay in the party for the whole saga and a Branwen romance that spans both games. Although I didn't like it much, but I was aiming for making the run as different as possible, so it's good.

But now I am simply demotivated. I was at the beginning of BG2, but it feels disconnected now. I don't even remember what mods I have or all the magic items and quests that were new. I don't feel like starting all over. Specially since I didn't enjoy many of the mods. It was okay as a first time experience to refresh the game but I don't plan to play like that again.

So, I just vent here my frustration. Maybe I start a clean BG2 game and leave it there.

Hello! I remember that I listened to some of the original game's soundtrack as it was in a beta state or a tape. I remember that, on top of having a worse and simpler instrumentation, some notes sounded odd.

I am trying to find that music, but everything is pointing me to the modern rough sketches.

Does anyone here know where can I find those?

Now, what.

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For context, my paladin fell into the trap of the yuanti in tomb of annihilation and now he changes his race to yuanti. Previously I had a VH with resilient (con), expecting to get STR 20 by level 8 and GWM by level 12. Then, at level 16 and 19 level up charisma to 20, although I was evaluating getting some sorcerer levels leaving charisma at 18.

Yet, I my DM determined that I lost my feat when I swapped race. He allowed me to rebuild the character from scratch, but without the free feat it doesn't add up. Without the feat I would need to either give up in resilient (con) which will cripple my concentration saves, or keep my charisma bonus to +3.

So, I though, since I can rebuild the character from scratch to start as sorcerer to get CON proficiency. That would give me 4 ASI, 2 to rise STR to 20, one for GWM and the last one to rise charisma to 18. But then I lose heavy armor. I can give it a +1 to dex so with the defense fighting style the character's AC becomes 17. I use no shield but I can cast the shield spell. It feels insufficient.

I am out of ideas. I gain precious magic resistance, but I feel crippled. Any ideas?

Notes:

- the decision of the DM is final

- no warlock or additional multiclassing.

I consider myself a solo dev because I am working basically myself. My project is in my PC and my wife's because she has a wacom.

But I have some savings that I am using for music, sfx and some art, because I cannot create cool looking characters.

Am I considered a solo dev in these spaces?