I also removed exp cap, I enjoy solo play a lot. I'm aware it's a single player game and it doesn't matter that much, I'm however curious about peoples opinions.
I just finished BG1 SCS hardcore no double dmg with my Skald Charname. I’m set on trying Korgan and Mazzy in my party BG2 ToB run. Am I right to be worried about there contribution in high level mage encounters?
I would like to have assistance in knowledge about figter useable items with utility spells and abilities like Namara (silence), Book of Infinity Spells, Skull of Death (death spell), Albruin (detect invis) etc.?
And here is my Lego Version of Minsc and Boo, a non negotiable party member of any of my playthroughs!
What is he doing in dead man's pass anyway? Just when I thought I got rid of him.
Whether it's storm-swept Ruathym, the winter-whipped lakes of Icewind Dale, the northern reaches of Rashemen, land of Berserkers —or the harsh and unforgiving lands beyond the great glacier...
Long nights, illuminated by the aurora borealis. Fierce frost, deep snow, piercing winds—these lands create a unique and distinct breed of people.
On the fringes of civilization, where monsters don't hide from humans, where ancient magic and old gods are still present in memory and blood—dwell warriors and pioneers, quick to anger—but also willing to open their homes and hearts to guests in need... at least until they break the sacred laws of hospitality.
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^(Variant 1: Human offerings)
^(Your party member/favourite NPC was chosen as an offering to long-forgotten demon, kidnapped and shackled to the monolith. Would you stop the ritual and slay the beast?)
^(Variant 2: Odin's sacrifice)
^(To gain wisdom or knowledge you have to endure the fasting and shackles for days - piercing by a spear optional. Useful in grim-themed campaign or just to set the mood for harsh and unforgiving north...)
We Were Bears... or how the people change
In the far north, danger lurks around every corner – so people gather in larger groups, and solitary farms are inhabited by those brave enough to dare – or... Surprise your players, exhausted by their journey through the icy wilderness, with hospitality and a feast that changes slightly in the moonlight...
VARIANT: Lycanthropes does not attack first, bound by rules of hospitability.
Looted and Found
The party searches for an artifact lost in a raid of axe- and shield-wielding sea raiders. The trail leads to the Jarl's residence – will they choose negotiations or take the treasure by force?
Mead, poetry and a path to forgotten world...
Yearly festival gathers the best and most ambitious minstrels, skalds and bards. Only here the tale of Myrkviðr, an enchanted forest is being told - and you yearn to find it's location...
The catch is - only recognized skalds and heroes are allowed to enter. Would you get acces through poetry - or through the trials of steel?
VARIANT: you can use any place/location/artifact as a bait.... err, reward
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Hi guys, wanting to do a shapeshifter run on BGEE and BG2EE, but it just irks me that the greater werewolf form gets left behind with having only +3 enchantment and basically the player is forced to either have a tank that can do no damage or have a caster that can't wear armor and lose those bonuses. I understand the balance logic. By then HLAs are a thing and cover the loss with fire or earth elemental forms, or just straight being a caster with a armor deficit on the few +4 fights, but it just seems completely antithetical to the kit fantasy. Basically requiring the player to meta game and plan a new strategy and party for a character right at the climax of the game to get around this deficiency. Beamdog made strides with offhand weapon traits applying to attacks and natural regeneration bonuses, but its still a tough pill to swallow that your shapeshifter is basically more or less gimped other than being a damage-less wall, a armorless caster, or falling to HLA abilities
Honestly the only thing I feel needs to be done to correct this but still be pretty balanced, is change the GWW paw weapon to +5. It will still have natural hybrid taxes of preist Thac0, so it won't be as accurate of an attacker compared to a fully trained grandmaster proficiency fighter. It still deals with not being able to cast in form, and it still has the no armor disadvantage out of form. All that is gained is a very slight damage and accuracy increase and the ability do damage properly in every fight and play the kit as it feels it should be intended without having to make a late game paradigm shift to a different playstyle.
I want to make a simple override for this, but I am not super savvy with making mods. I am told it would be a pretty easy override to make for an experienced modder. Is there anyone who could help me make an override for this?
I know SCS and Atweaks make changes to werewolf too that help with this, but they go further than I want with changes they make.
I'm playing BG 2 EE with an imported sorcerer from BG 1 EE. Everything was fine , I've played BG 2 EE for maybe ten hours or so. All of a sudden, the level 4 spells disappeared and when I went to see the mage book, it had 0/0 spells can cast. And I've cast both these spells, especially stoneskin I always had it on.
Not sure what happened, I tried quicksaving and quickloading, changing the UI size, loading from a previous save. Is this a bug or?
Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Thank you to all, I was vampire drained by a character that I don't want to spoil, I was so focused on an item I get soon after, I didn't even check the status of my character. Thank you for helping me, I used restoration and it's now back to normal.
I just finished main story on BG1 for the first time about a week ago and I'm considering doing an Evil character on Legacy of Baal next. Any tips or advice on what I should expect going in? I was hoping to play a mage of some sort since in my other playthrough I was a fighter but that's about all I've got planned out right now.
I’ve played BG1 and BG2 when they were first released (still have all of those CDs). I’ve also painted minis for war games for years as well. I got rid of my ancient pentium processor PC so had to do a finale memoir using the two minis I painted representing my very first PC, a necromancer who I took from Candlekeep all the way through the Throne of Bhaal, joined by my interpretation of Viconia 😊. Lots of good times back in the late 90’s and early 00’s. (Background is one of the BioWare wallpapers)
Someone more versed in the game care to explain to me how this works? Did it proc backstab multiplier?
It was sunburst with daystar
Never had this problem in the OG version of the game, but I'm playing enhanced edition of BG2 and have encountered these issues:
- sometimes Jaheira gets stuck in an infinite casting of conjure fire elemental - she'll just stand there and do all the hand gestures, couple of minutes will pass, nothing will change, spell wasted; must load a save or rest; luckily it's extremely rare
- the other problem is way more annoying: missing messengers - if they'll spawn too far from you, you'll miss them and you'll be locked out of a quest... This happened in Anomen's quest (disclaimer: nothing has changed, I dislike him greatly - but he is useful early on to grab the exp for his quest; swapped him later for Valygar), but at that point I never left Athkatla and was able to track him down. The bigger problem is with the messenger from the d'Arnise Keep. Did two quests for the stronghold, kept returning every now and then, but nothing happened. Went to Spellhold, Sahuagin City, Underdark and still nothing after the party returned to the surface. I know there's some workaround with console commands... But that requires messing with the ini (or it's equivalent) file?
BLUF: install EEEX, SET FPS limit to 120, and enjoy super smooth scrolling.
So I saw a post here a week ago highlighting eeex v1 release and thought it was finally time to install and try out artisans eeex monk kits. Got everything up and running with a full fresh bg1 and bg2 installation and kept noticing my laptop fans starting to burn a hole in our atmosphere 🙃 and after some playing around I realized the fps rate 360 was the cause in eeex settings. Lowered it the original 30 locked cap of the EEs.. and wow I never realized how blurry everything got while scrolling around maps with 30 fps. I found 120 fps looks really amazing and is the sweet spot / my laptop easily handles it and the game looks amazing. Its really just a huge QoL improvement to a 25+ year old game, can't recommend enough.
I love this game, it’s my first IE ever, but nowadays it’s hard for me to come up with fun parties. So I thought about trying multiclassing this time and smaller party, maybe 3 or 4 persons. What are some fun combos you come up with?
My current idea is classic Rogue(1)/Mage. What about Monk(1)/Druid? What benefits are there really? Better combat during shapeshifting?
Would Ranger(1)/Barbarian work? Free dual wielding, high DEX, weapon finesse, Rage covering STR&CON.
Anything else worth trying or is this trio more than enough?
First time baldurs gate player. Nearly level 3 on my party members.
I had xzar and montaron, but kicked them out for minsc and then picked up dynaheir.
I have imoen, jaheira, Khalid, minsc, and dynaheir.
I have purposely avoided neera in betegost, because when I first recruited her it forced her into my party and so I just reloaded and continued on.
I spoke to the mayor of nashkel and now I’m just exploring and completing quests.
ATM I see kivan and neera but avoided them because I like my party as it is now. What should I do?
I'd like to make some adjustments to my EET+SCS+Ascension setup. Mainly I want to change some SCS features. Do I first uninstall EET-End, then reinstall SCS with different settings, and then re-install EET-End?
Or can I just run SCS install?
First time playing the game, was getting pretty into it, and then 5-10 minutes in (actually during character creation) the game starts stuttering and lagging until it crashes. I pushed through a few times, rushing through each element of the tutorial that I had already done until enough was enough. I looked online of course first, and did a few minor things (installing OAL, reinstalling the game completely fresh, rebooting my PC) and nothing worked.
Finally decided to look at event viewer since there don't seem to be crash logs created by the game and what do you know, baldur.exe 64-bit OpenGL drivers crashed because they ran out of memory.
I have a 4080 Super which has 16GB of VRAM, so I highly doubt that lol
Anyway I switched to DirectX using the alternate renderer setting in the options and it seems to have fixed the issue, though I only played out the rest of the tutorial (around 30 minutes total in the session) before logging off for the night; really hope the issue is fixed but I'm just curious if anyone else has had that issue as of late. It doesn't seem like Beamdog or Aspyr or whoever really has a location for submitting bugs (unless I missed it; I did post in the Steam Discussions for the game, for whatever that's worth) so I figured this is probably the best Hail Mary I have? I know there's a new patch in beta so maybe by some miracle... who knows.
Anyway, howdy y'all. Hope this is of some use to somebody.
EDIT: It's an OpenGL memory leak directly related to Discord streaming; I feel like a bit of a fool but if you are streaming the game on Discord while in OpenGL it has the leak. Streaming on DirectX or playing on OpenGL regularly without streaming does not cause a memory leak, so this is a fairly niche problem. I'll still leave this here just in case anyone comes across the same issue.
